Department of Public Health

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Department overview

Aims and Scope

The Department of Public Health of The Gazette of Medical Sciences (The GMS) aims to advance scientific understanding of population health, disease prevention, health promotion and the factors influencing health outcomes across communities and nations. The Department welcomes original research, systematic reviews, epidemiological investigations, policy analyses and interdisciplinary contributions addressing major public health challenges. Its primary objective is to support evidence-based knowledge that informs effective public health practice, strengthens healthcare systems and improves health outcomes across diverse populations.

The Department encourages investigations into the epidemiology, prevention and control of communicable and noncommunicable diseases. Areas of particular interest include infectious disease surveillance, outbreak investigation, chronic disease epidemiology, vaccination programmes, maternal and child health, mental health, nutritional health, injury prevention and the health consequences of environmental and occupational exposures. Studies examining disease distribution, risk factors, population vulnerability and preventive interventions are welcomed, particularly where findings have implications for clinical practice, community health or public health decision-making.

An important focus of the Department is the relationship between health and its social, economic, environmental, behavioural and institutional determinants. Research may examine healthcare inequalities, poverty, education, housing, employment, environmental pollution, climate change, health literacy and access to essential healthcare services. The Department also welcomes studies exploring health behaviours, community engagement, health communication, cultural influences and the effectiveness of interventions designed to improve health and reduce preventable disparities.

The Department supports research into public health systems, healthcare policy, health economics, programme implementation and the evaluation of population-level interventions. Relevant contributions include assessments of healthcare delivery, emergency preparedness, disaster response, digital health, public health informatics, global health governance and the performance of preventive healthcare programmes. Interdisciplinary investigations involving medicine, epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental sciences, behavioural sciences, sociology, economics and health policy are encouraged where they provide meaningful insights into public health challenges and practical approaches to addressing them.

The Department seeks scholarly contributions that demonstrate methodological rigour, ethical responsibility, transparent reporting and clear relevance to population health. Quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods studies, systematic reviews, implementation research and carefully reasoned public health perspectives may be considered within the journal's applicable article categories. Authors are encouraged to distinguish empirical findings from interpretation, acknowledge limitations and communicate the implications of their work for public health research, policy and practice. Through independent editorial assessment and peer review, the Department aims to encourage constructive scientific discussion and the responsible dissemination of public health knowledge.

  • Chronic Disease Epidemiology
  • Dental Public Health
  • Digital Health
  • Disaster and Emergency Preparedness
  • Education and Training in Public Health
  • Environmental Health
  • Global Health and Human Rights
  • Health Behaviour and Health Promotion
  • Health Communication
  • Infectious Disease Epidemiology
  • Injury and Violence Prevention
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • Mental Health
  • Nutritional Health and Epidemiology
  • Occupational Health
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Public Health Informatics
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Biostatistics and Population Health
  • Public Health Surveillance
  • Health Systems Research
  • Health Policy and Governance
  • Health Economics
  • Healthcare Access and Equity
  • Implementation Science
  • Community-Based Public Health
  • Primary Healthcare
  • Vaccination and Immunization
  • Antimicrobial Resistance
  • One Health
  • Climate Change and Health
  • Urban and Rural Health
  • Ageing and Population Health
  • Adolescent Health
  • Reproductive Health
  • Substance Use Prevention
  • Health Services Evaluation
  • Qualitative Public Health Research
  • Outbreak Investigation
  • Public Health Emergency Response
  • Health Technology Assessment
  • Public Health Ethics
Research & Reviews

Published Articles

Global Health Report

Hackett Hemwall Patterson Foundation & World Health Access Team Medical Mission, Honduras

This report illustrates the role of Hackett Hemwall Patterson Foundation (HHPF) in delivering compassionate healthcare to global communities. Through the International Service-Learning trips to resource-poor countries, specifically Honduras and Mexico, teams of dedicated healthcare professionals administer a range of treatments, including treatment of advanced venous disease, wound care and hemodialysis access for patients with renal failure.

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.46766/thegms.pubheal.26220101
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Review

Evidence – Budesonide Is Safe, Effective Early and Late Treatment for COVID-19

This paper examines the safety and efficacy of budesonide, an inhaled corticosteroid, as both an early and late-stage treatment for COVID-19. Drawing on a comprehensive review of global research, including the U.K. STOIC and PRINCIPLE trials, the Brazil TOGETHER trial, and additional studies from Saudi Arabia, Australia, and India, we provide robust evidence supporting budesonide’s therapeutic potential.

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.46766/thegms.pubheal.24090601
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Research

Comparative Risks Cardiovascular Adverse Events of COVID-19 and other Vaccines

This population-based study reviewed rates of adverse events (AE’s) involving cardiac disease after COVID-19 vaccines. Data were reviewed from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) from January 1, 1990 through May 5, 2023. The proportional risk ratio (PRR) compares AEs after COVID-19 vaccines with those reported after Influenza vaccines and all other vaccines except COVID-19

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.46766/thegms.pubheal.24160201
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Review

The COVID-19 Vaccines & Beyond: What the Medical Industrial Complex is NOT Telling Us – Part 4

This last part pulls back the cover from the “big picture” that COVID fits into, and why there has been such an unrelenting push for everyone in the world to get vaccinated. It also addresses some of the most controversial issues about what is actually in the COVID shots, whether or not these shots can change DNA, reports of undisclosed substances in the vaccines, and whether there are other non-health purposes these shots may be serving. That brings us to the third reason why many in the medical community have not been told this information before.

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.46766/thegms.pubheal.22092204
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Review

The COVID-19 Vaccines & Beyond: What the Medical Industrial Complex is NOT Telling Us – Part 3

This Part 3 provides an overview of several issues relating to the effectiveness of the COVID vaccines. It discusses ways in which the data and definitions have been manipulated to misrepresent and hide the vaccines’ true effectiveness. It addresses the high number of breakthrough cases, a comparison of natural vs. vaccine immunity, and risk/benefit analyses. It also briefly addresses the issue of whether the vaccines are causing the variants, and reports from other sources showing serious adverse impacts, including autopsy and embalmers’ findings, and unprecedented increases in life insurance and disability claims.

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.46766/thegms.pubheal.22092203
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Review

The COVID-19 Vaccines & Beyond: What the Medical Industrial Complex is NOT Telling Us – Part 2

In Part 2 we present more extensive data, expert analyses and other information showing that the COVID vaccines are not only not safe and effective, but are actually dangerous and potentially extremely harmful, as the alleged “misinformation spreaders” have been warning about. We also summarize and provide information about the mechanisms of injury caused by the shots; a comparison with the response to adverse reactions to the 1976 Swine flu vaccine; and the effects of the vaccines on pregnant women, the military, and those over 65.

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.46766/thegms.pubheal.22092202
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Review

The COVID-19 Vaccines & Beyond: What the Medical Industrial Complex is NOT Telling Us – Part 1

This series presents an overview of evidence on several key issues involved in the “safe and effective” debate. Part 1 sets up the controversy, and presents clear evidence that the COVID shots are not true “vaccines,” and that a vaccine was not even necessary in the first place. It also raises issues about whether the requirements of Emergency Use Authorization were met.

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.46766/thegms.pubheal.22092201
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Research

Intravenous high dose vitamin C and ozonated saline effective treatment for Covid -19: The Evolution of Local Standard of Care

An effective protocol for COVID-19 treatment was started at an internal medicine clinic in Gulf Breeze, FL and began with a local group of physicians using best practices from review of all the literature including the Sars CoV-1 at the turn of this century.

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.46766/thegms.pubheal.22120905
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Review

COVID-19 and the Unraveling of Experimental Medicine – Part III

In this third part we examine the path not taken: a handful of cheap, widely available, home-based therapies—ozone preconditioning, hydroxychloroquine, and light/vitamin treatment—which, had they been implemented early in the pandemic could have reduced morbidity and mortality by 80% or more. We estimate these interventions could have prevented about 4.8 million deaths globally and 768,000 in the US and in the process put an early end to the pandemic.

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.46766/thegms.pubheal.22042302
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Research

COVID-19 and the surge in Decidual Cast Shedding

The purpose of this study is to report on the unprecedented rise in decidual cast shedding (DCS) that occurred in 2021. DCS is historically a rare gynecological event, with less than 40 cases reported in the medical literature over the last 109 years. Previous journal articles on DCS were usually case studies; population prevalence data is non-existent.

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.46766/thegms.pubheal.22041401
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Review

COVID-19 and the Unraveling of Experimental Medicine – Part II

In the second part of our trilogy, we begin by examining social policies sponsored by the science community and enacted by policy-makers to curtail the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic. Containment /mitigation strategies such as lockdowns came at great social and economic costs and yet failed to meaningfully impact the spread and evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.46766/thegms.pubheal.22022804
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Review

COVID-19 and the Unraveling of Experimental Medicine – Part I

Two years into the pandemic, with the number of deaths over five million globally and vaccine-resistant variants continuing to multiply, scientists are in the midst of the most dangerous and ill-conceived experiment in the history of medicine.

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.46766/thegms.pubheal.22012306
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Research

Attitude towards wearing face mask increases vulnerability of men over women and the risk of Covid-19 pandemic spread in Jos-South metropolis, Plateau State, Nigeria

Covid-19 pandemic has hit many countries and put the majority of the public health system to test globally. Mandatory use of facemask was among policies set by the government to contain the spread of the novel disease. But citizens’ attitudes and compliance with these policies are important in controlling the pandemic.

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.46766/thegms.pubheal.21090901
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Response: Letter to the editor

Science, Skepticism & Reality

We appreciate the attention and interest in our manuscript. The letter raises a handful of issues that pertain not simply to our description of the previously unrecognized phenomenon of magnetic attraction/attachment but regarding the scientific method itself and the generation of new scientific knowledge.

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.46766/thegms.pubheal.21081005
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Letter to the Editor

Strange title for a flawed study

I was fascinated by the study by Thorp et al. on the magnetic effects of Covid-19 vaccination – or rather the lack of the same [1]. The paper’s title is in no way supported by the data. A static magnetic field is a force. The investigators did not do any tests for energy, and even their tests for magnetism were seriously flawed.

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.46766/thegms.pubheal.21080204
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Prospective Observational Study

Unexpected magnetic attraction: Evidence for an organized energy field in the human body

In recent months unexpected reports have surfaced claiming the presence of magnetic attraction in the shoulder regions of subjects who had recently received the COVID-19 vaccination. To determine if such claims are legitimate or spurious, a prospective observational study was performed utilizing standard neodymium magnets and non-magnetized paper clips in a rigorously standardized application protocol.

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.46766/thegms.pubheal.21071202
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Review article

An integrated literature review on cultural management systems and patient safety

The aim of this study was to assess, identify and have a better understanding of the importance of patient safety culture within the healthcare organization and to create insights on the impact of cultural management systems regarding patient safety.

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.46766/thegms.pubheal.21032104
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Review article

Death and Dying: A reflection on how mourning changed during the pandemic

The pandemic scenario created by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome – Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) brought physical and psychological distress among people who found themselves under a situation which unabled most of them to proceed with their usual routine or rites of passing to cope with losses of lifestyle, relatives, and friends.

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.46766/thegms.pubheal.21020302
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