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Eksplorasi Trends dalam Work Engagement dan Work Family Conflict dengan Metode Bibliometrik

The purpose of the study is a comprehensive picture of work engagement and work family conflict for the criteria of key authors, documents, and keywords and mapping the development of research through a bibliometric approach with computational mapping analysis using VOSviewer. This research used bibliometric analisis with VOSviewer sofware. This study used the Scopus database using A comma separated value (CSV) format consisting of 440 reference metadata used for analysis in VOSviewer in the period 1993-2023. Clustering of the network visualisation map was done using 2 keywords, namely, work engagement and work family conflict. The analysis showed that most of the publications were done in 2022 with 69 articles with a high number of citations in this field from researchers in the United States and China. A total of 11 articles were published in the International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health and the documents referenced or heavily cited came from the Journal Of Occupational And Environmental Medicine with 469 articles.

One hundred years of the Pan American Journal of Public Health: visualizing its contentCem anos da Revista Pan-Americana de Saúde Pública: visualização do seu conteúdo

Explore how the content of the articles published by the Pan American Journal of Public Health during its 100 years of existence has aligned with the key health issues of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). A bibliometric analysis was carried out, with visualization of its results. Information on articles published in the Journal was retrieved from PAHO's Institutional Repository for Information Sharing (IRIS) for the first 75 years and Scopus for the last 25 years, until February 2022; References to Governing Bodies documents and statements by the directors were used to establish PAHO's key themes. Initially, 12 573 publications were obtained and 9 289 were considered for analysis for the period 1922 to 1996, and 3 208 for the period 1997 to 2022. For the bibliometric analysis of the Scopus information, indicators such as the authors and their origin, language of publication, and number and origin of citations were considered. For the visualizations, publications were divided into five periods so that they coincided with the periods established for the analysis of PAHO's priority themes. Keyword co-occurrence maps were made to observe the evolution of published topics and relate them to public health approaches in each period. The topics published in the Pan American Journal of Public Health and its precursor bulletins reflect the history of regional public health and its evolution over time, as well as the key health issues of the Pan American Health Organization.

THE RELATIONSHIP OF MOTIVATION ON THE INTEREST OF THE COMMUNITY VISITING THE DENTIST DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN SUNGAI MIAI VILLAGE

THE RELATIONSHIP OF MOTIVATION ON THE INTEREST OF THE COMMUNITY VISITING THE DENTIST DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN SUNGAI MIAI VILLAGE

Smoking is good. Why and how?

Dear editor, The potential of virtual reality in health1,2 is an exciting topic of discussion in the Journal of Public Health. We intend to highlight smoking behavior in the global community and relate it to virtual reality. Generally, we support research on the harmful effects of substances contained in cigarettes, whether filtered cigarettes3–5 or electronic cigarettes6–8, that could endanger the body. According to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) report in 2021, the percentage of adult smokers worldwide is trending downward. However, due to the increasing global population, the actual number of adult smokers is still on the rise. In 2020, it was estimated that there were around 1.1 billion adult smokers worldwide. Although this number has decreased from the previous year, it is still huge. Additionally, according to the WHO, the use of e-cigarettes among adolescents is continuing to increase and has become a serious global public health issue.

Presenteeism Reloaded – We Need a Revised Presenteeism Approach

Presenteeism Reloaded – We Need a Revised Presenteeism Approach

CDC: 50‐fold increase in methamphetamine deaths in past decade

During the last decade, unprecedented increases in methamphetamine‐related deaths have occurred, with a mounting proportion of these deaths involving heroin or fentanyl as well, according to a study published in the current issue of the American Journal of Public Health. In “Methamphetamine‐Related Mortality in the United States: Co‐Involvement of Heroin and Fentanyl, 1999‐2021,” researchers look at data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to examine trends in deaths from 1999 to 2021. They found a 50‐fold increase in the methamphetamine mortality rate, which was accompanied by an increasing proportion of deaths that co‐involved heroin or fentanyl, peaking at 61.2% in 2021. The researchers conclude that harm reduction efforts should be made towards polysubstance users in particular.

Response to Ofcom letter (1)-15/07/2022 & response to Ofcom letter (2)-27/02/2023.

Dear Professor Premila Webster MBE, Professor Keith Neal Editors, Journal of Public Health 15th July 2022 We write in response to Ofcom’s letter regarding our article ‘Exposure to tobacco, alcohol and “Junk food” content in reality TV programmes broadcast in the UK between August 2019–2020’. Ofcom have expressed a wish to correct inaccuracies in the paper and we would like to respond to their points. First, Ofcom state that the article incorrectly states that ‘ there are currently no rules in Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code restricting references to HFSS products in TV programmes (p.6), describing such references as ‘as-yet unregulated’ (p.6), and stating specifically that product placement of HFSS products is ‘not currently prohibited’ (p.6).’ In regards to the point around HFSS references in programmes, in our introduction section, we state that; ‘Similarly, in 2007, Ofcom and the Advertising Standards Agency introduced regulations prohibiting HFSS foods (junk food), which are a strong risk factor for the development of obesity,34 advertising during or adjacent to programmes commissioned for, principally directed at, or likely to appeal particularly to audiences below the age of 16 in the UK. Further, the 2018 update to the UK Government Childhood Obesity plan proposes to extend the Ofcom prohibition to include programmes broadcast before the 9 pm watershed.’ (p. 1–2).

Heat shock proteins as diagnostic and prognostic markers in malignant tumors of the central nervous system

This review overview current epidemiology data of malignant tumors of the central nervous system, and determines the significance of molecular diagnostics and expression of heat shock proteins in tumorigenesis. Particular attention is paid to the description of molecular chaperones as diagnostic and prognostic markers, as well as the prospects for chaperones using in personalized therapy the central nervous system tumors. The search for literature was carried out on the database platforms Medline (via PubMed) and Scopus, Cochrane Library, The Lancet Public Health Journal published between 1988 and 2022. The material was searched for keywords and terms, including “heat shock proteins”, “tumors of the central nervous system”, “brain tumors”, “molecular diagnostics”, “expression of molecular chaperones”, Hsp110, Hsp90, Hsp70, Hsp60, Hsp40, small HSPs. Molecular chaperones, due to their important role in physiological processes in the cell, are highly expressed in brain tumors, and the expression level of HSPs strongly correlates with the degree of malignancy, invasive potential, and resistance to radiochemotherapy. For some HSPs (i.e. HSP10, HSPB1, DNAJC10, HSPA7, HSP90) a direct correlation has been found between the level of protein expression (based on IHC analysis) and a poor overall survival prognosis for patients with glial tumors. This indicates the prognostic value of these markers, which in the future may be included in the diagnostic panel when examining a tumor sample.

The Public Health Effects of Legalizing Marijuana

Thirty-six states have legalized medical marijuana and 18 states have legalized the use of marijuana for recreational purposes. In this paper, we review the literature on the public health consequences of legalizing marijuana, focusing on studies that have appeared in economics journals as well as leading public policy, public health, and medical journals. Among the outcomes considered are: youth marijuana use, alcohol consumption, the abuse of prescription opioids, traffic fatalities, and crime. For some of these outcomes, there is a near consensus in the literature regarding the effects of medical marijuana laws (MMLs). As an example, leveraging geographic and temporal variation in MMLs, researchers have produced little credible evidence to suggest that legalization promotes marijuana use among teenagers. Likewise, there is convincing evidence that young adults consume less alcohol when medical marijuana is legalized. For other public health outcomes such as mortality involving prescription opioids, the effect of legalizing medical marijuana has proven more difficult to gauge and, as a consequence, we are less comfortable drawing firm conclusions. Finally, it is not yet clear how legalizing marijuana for recreational purposes will affect these and other important public health outcomes. We will be able to draw stronger conclusions when more posttreatment data are collected in states that have recently legalized recreational marijuana. (JEL I12, I18, K32, K42, R41)

Antiracism in leading public health universities, journals and funders: commitments, accountability and the decision-makers

IntroductionTwo years since the murder of George Floyd, there has been unprecedented attention to racial justice by global public health organisations. Still, there is scepticism that attention alone will lead...

A Public Health, Whole-of-Government Approach to National Suicide Prevention Strategies

A Public Health, Whole-of-Government Approach to National Suicide Prevention Strategies

Psychological climate: conditioning for student organizational disease

Dear Editor, In an article published in the Journal of Public Health, there is a new issue about how universities prohibit students from effective leadership that must include personal conscience and the value of bad luck itself.1 This is interesting to discuss because students learn to socialize and lead student organizations on campus. Student organizations should be a forum for students to express their aspirations and make changes. For student organizations to run according to their goals, namely, to produce talented student leaders and to avoid organizational diseases, it is necessary to instill a psychological climate in these organizations2,3,4–6 Psychological climate is a psychological climate conditioning within an organization. Illnesses in student organizations have a huge impact on the leadership structure, students’ mentality is formed healthily or not depending on their main environment on campus.7 It is so sad when students who are said to be ‘agents of change’ become embryos of the emergence of an oligarchy disease that kills democracy; when oligarchy develops, there will not be equal opportunities for all students to hold structural positions in student organizations—at the department, faculty, university and even national levels.

The Burden of Malnutrition: A Population Perspective

Malnutrition in childhood interacting with infectious disease contributes to increased morbidity and mortality as well as to other functional consequences, including impaired cognitive development. Pelletier, in this supplement to his work recently published in the American Journal of Public Health, examines the relationship between childhood nutritional status, based upon anthropometry, and mortality. His study methodology is described. The analysis is based upon seven studies from six different countries and yields a consistent pattern of association between malnutrition and mortality among the studies from multiple countries with varying levels of malnutrition and mortality. These observations are particularly important since they are based upon entire populations rather than just upon children who met the conventional criteria for malnutrition or low anthropometry. Pelletier argues that it is not enough to address only severe malnutrition when attempting to reduce infant and child mortality, but to make an important impact upon mortality, one must also address the burden of milder forms of malnutrition.

Designed acute physical activity to benefit primary school children’s cognition: Effects of cognitive challenge, bout duration and positive affect

Designed acute physical activity to benefit primary school children’s cognition: Effects of cognitive challenge, bout duration and positive affect

A Critique of Principlism

A Critique of Principlism

Informing COVID-19 Response and Health Equity Agenda: Collection of Public Health Reports Articles on Emerging Viral Epidemics in the United States, 1878-2021.

Public Health Reports (PHR) is the oldest public health journal in the United States and has reported on viral epidemics since the 19th century. We describe the creation and analysis of a collection of historic PHR articles on emerging viral epidemics in the United States to inform public health response to COVID-19 and future epidemics. We searched databases from 1878 through 2021 using custom search strings and conducted a manual search for articles published under previously used names for PHR. We evaluated all articles based on inclusion/exclusion criteria and coded the final list for virus/disease, article type, public health emergency preparedness and response capabilities from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and PubMed citation count. We identified 349 relevant articles including 130 commentaries/reviews/editorials, 79 epidemiologic reports, 75 research articles, and 65 case study/practice articles. The collection focused on influenza (n = 244), COVID-19 (n = 75), dengue (n = 14), and other emerging viruses, such as Zika and Ebola (n = 25). The collection included 48 articles on health disparities/health of various disadvantaged populations, highlighting such disparities as race and ethnicity (n = 22), socioeconomic status (n = 17), and age (n = 15). When we categorized articles by CDC public health emergency preparedness and response capabilities, we found that 207 addressed surveillance and epidemiologic investigation, 36 addressed community preparedness, and 28 addressed medical countermeasure dispensing and administration. The articles addressing surveillance and epidemiologic investigation, nonpharmaceutical interventions, and community preparedness had the most PubMed citations (799, 334, and 308, respectively). PHR's historic articles on US emerging viral epidemics covered a range of virus/disease types, emergency preparedness and response capabilities, and contribution types and were widely cited in the scholarly literature. This publicly available and continuously updated collection is a valuable resource for pandemic planning and response.

Gunnar Inghe: A founding father of Scandinavian social medicine and still highly relevant.

Gunnar Inghe (1910-1977) was a founding father of Scandinavian social medicine and the first editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine. He worked as a physician for social care clients in Stockholm from 1944 to 1961 and was professor in social medicine from 1961 to 1975. We (F.D. and U.J.) were his last two PhD students. As we were recollecting the 50-year history of the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health in 2022, it became evident to us how relevant Gunnar Inghe's work, 45 years after his death, still is for today's social medicine, population health research and policy in Scandinavia. We shall explain why with five examples of Inghe's work: reproductive health, health of paupers, foundation of the discipline, international solidarity and collaboration between medical and social care.

Retracted: Respiratory symptoms among urban traffic policemen in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study

This article has been retractedThis article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. The authors have published the same manuscript in two journals (South Eastern European Journal of Public Health) and (Journal of public health in africa). The Ediotiral office of SEEJPH have contacted the corresponding author multiple times and failed to hear back on the explanation. As dual publication of a same manuscript is a serious academic misconduct and malpractice, as per the suggestions from the Executive editor (Prof. Genc Burazeri) and founding editor (Prof. Ulrich Laaser) of "South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)", we have retracted this article from the SEEJPH website.

Survey exploring the opinion of corresponding authors of articles published in the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health during 2014-2021

The aim of this survey was to assess the intentions of corresponding authors for publishing again in the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), the aspects that they like most about the jour- nal, and things which can be improved by SEEJPH in order to be more attractive to potential contributors. A three-item questionnaire was sent out by email to all corresponding authors (N=89) who published in the 16 volumes of the SEEJPH journal between 2014 and 2021. Among 84 eligible corresponding authors, we collected 26 answers, or 31%. There were generally favourable and constructive comments, which is encouraging. The wide array of coun- tries of the corresponding authors represents the successful global orientation of SEEJPH. Also, more than half of all related articles are classified as original papers, and the average of four authors per represented paper is satisfying. Furthermore, all corresponding authors would publish again in SEEJPH (“definitely”, or “probably”), and their numbers are almost equally distributed throughout 2014-2021. Acknowledgments: We express our gratitude to our Publisher Dr. Hans Jacobs, Sebastian Wolf, and all our supporters in the University of Bielefeld/Germany, our Boards of Editors, and our authors, friends, and colleagues.

Growing up the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health

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