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The author argues for the transformation of mental health care through technological innovations and reorientation of perspective to prioritize the well-being and dignity of every patient. He suggests the adoption of genetic testing for medication metabolism as a solution for a more cost-effective healthcare system. He stresses the potential of personalized medicine to enhance treatment outcomes and calls for policies that facilitate the adoption of evidence-based innovations.

An introduction to articles published within the issue is presented, including one on which examined the concept of value complexity which can lead to mistrust, misunderstanding, and conflict among stakeholders, another which highlighted the need for a national dialogue to achieve consensus regarding a holistic definition of health for health transformation and equity, and another which examined the association between electoral democracy and working-age mortality.

Peer-reviewed journals provide an invaluable but inadequate vehicle for scientific communication. Preprints are now an essential complement to peer-reviewed publications. Eschewing preprints will slow scientific progress and reduce the public health impact of epidemiologic research. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic highlighted long-standing limitations of the peer-review process. Preprint servers, such as bioRxiv and medRxiv, served as crucial venues to rapidly disseminate research and provide detailed backup to sound-bite science that is often communicated through the popular press or social media. The major criticisms of preprints arise from an unjustified optimism about peer review. Peer review provides highly imperfect sorting and curation of research and only modest improvements in research conduct or presentation for most individual papers. The advantages of peer review come at the expense of months to years of delay in sharing research methods or results. For time-sensitive evidence, these delays can lead to important missteps and ill-advised policies. Even with research that is not intrinsically urgent, preprints expedite debate, expand engagement, and accelerate progress. The risk that poor-quality papers will have undue influence because they are posted on a preprint server is low. If epidemiology aims to deliver evidence relevant for public health, we need to embrace strategic uses of preprint servers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the discussion on 16th World Congress of Bioethics (WCB) was successfully held in Basel, Switzerland, from 20–22 July 2022. Topics include outside of academic bioethics, that ethical considerations such as responsibility and transparency must explicitly guide policies that bear on health, lives and livelihoods; and solicitude for and friendship with older persons with cognitive losses from dementia who are at higher risk of being ‘depreciated' as persons.

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses the topics within the issue, including climate justice, the human rights principle of participation, and the challenges to protecting right to health under the climate change regime.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including perfect storm of public health emergency, economic upheaval, and long-simmering racial tensions.

The author reflects on the challenges in pain management amidst the acute global public health crisis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Other topics include the causal comorbidity of pain like suicide, depression, and substance use disorder, the preexisting global public health issues like hunger, chronic pain, and depression, as well as the opioid crisis in the U.S.

An introduction is presented in which the author discusses various topics within the issue, including population health science, U.S. public health, communication infrastructure as social determinants of health, and health policymaking and practice.

An editorial is presented the importance of learning from past public health crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and issues related to racial injustice, and highlights the need for investments in public health to prevent future crises, echoing the ancient lesson that "States need to invest in public health, otherwise public health crises might destroy them."

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses several articles published within issue on topics including the U.S. State Polarization, policymaking power, and population health; and contribution of medical measures to the decline of mortality.

An introduction to the journal's special issue is presented in which the guest editors discuss the use of the system dynamics approach (SD).

The authors reflect on the quality, integrity, and utility of COVID-19 science, as well as the opportunities for public health researchers on the issue. Other topics include the rigorous standards of study design and conduct, the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the side effects of the COVID lockdowns, and the validity of case and mortality national registries.

An introduction to articles in the issue which highlight several novel strategies developed by the Division of Nursing and Public Health (DNPH) grantees to respond to public health emergencies and address health equity during the COVID-19 pandemic is presented including the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic for people with mental health conditions and the use of teledentistry services during the pandemic.

The author discusses the need for environmental health (EH) professionals to push for the field's importance in public health, that was apparent during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, as of 2022. Topics covered include EH's thrust toward clean air, food, and water and a safe and healthy setting for living, and its gold standard status in public health education. Also noted is the National Environmental Health Association's (NEHA) evolving marketing of the profession.

The authors reflect on the need to strengthen the evidence base for decision making on public health and social measures to effectively fight the COVID-19 pandemic and pandemic influenza. Also cited are some public health and social measures like school and business closures, physical distancing, and travel restrictions, and the study launched by the World Health Organization in June 2021 to measure the effects of said strategies during health emergencies.

An editorial is presented on certainly not been normal but as science journalist Ed Yong wrote ‘Normal led to this' in 2011, the International Health Regulations Review Committee has predicted the world is ill-prepared to respond to a severe influenza pandemic or to any similarly global, and threatening public-health emergency. Topics include the COVID-19 has changed the in unimaginable ways, and the bars has opened for indoor service in England and travel restrictions were partially lifted.

Current researches reveal the intimate link between health and spirituality. Among vulnerable populations, spirituality serves a critical purpose in a person's well-being. One of the many established values of spirituality is that it helps people to deal with major life stressors. This has become more pronounced as the world grapples with the challenges brought by the Covid-19 pandemic. This paper explores the themes and insights from recent scholarly articles on health and spirituality as well as highlights the importance of spiritual care to human well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the article, the author examines the articles published by various scientific journals about the COVID-19 pandemic to determine whether the appropriate topics are being tackled. Also cited are the countries with the highest number of published articles about the pandemic including the U.S., China, and Italy, as well as the recommended topics for the articles like the virus's genetic sequence, the origin of the virus, and whether asymptomatic patients can spread the virus.

The author discusses the possible development of a risk information tool on disease modification provided by vaccination amid the coronavirus pandemic in Great Britain as of November 2021. He states that prompt, expert guidance has saved lives and consolidated the national vaccine programme, and that understanding disease history and trials are valuable for research and clinical implementation beyond the pandemic. Also noted is the importance of patient involvement in research design.

If there ever was a public health problem where we could learn a lot about public health research, practice, policy and communication, it is the COVID-19 pandemic. With increased knowledge about the spread, the prevention measures, treatment and vaccination, a lot of research on COVID-19 has been and is being published. Looking for COVID-19 articles on google scholar leads to over 3.6 million articles found. Nearly all research published on COVID-19 has been made publicly accessible to allow the latest research to be available for politicians, policymakers, practitioners and laymen. The quality of the research is sometimes good, sometimes less good (see our recent viewpoints https://academic.oup.com/ eurpub/issue/30/5?browseBy=volume). But with the increase in research, it becomes more difficult to find which research is old, outdated and which is new. Furthermore, all sorts of media have covered the pandemic extensively, in many journals one can find very good reviews and articles by serious journalists, but in many cases, also rumours, guesses and fake news. On top of becoming tired of information overload, it is also more and more difficult to keep track of the development of the research. EUPHA - therefore - decided to publish a supplement to the European Journal of Public Health looking at specific health issues and specific groups that were affected by the pandemic. The supplement aims to present short summaries and updates on some key issues of public health relevance. Topics included range from environment, mental health, legal and ethical issues, health workforce, health inequalities, accountability, opening up the economy and such. In this Round Table, we will have a number of authors from the EJPH supplement to discuss their findings and find some common grounds on what we have learned from COVID-19 and how to move forward. Speakers/Panelists: Martin McKee LSHTM, London, UK Elena Petelos Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece Julian Mamo Public Health Department, University of Malta, Valletta, Malta Ellen Kuhlmann Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany Els Maeckelberghe Wenckebach Institute for Medical Education and Training, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands Key messages: Learning from this pandemic for future planning is essential. Touching all fields affected by COVID-19 to plan for the future is necessary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in many countries was to preserve the health service and be able to treat patients acutely ill with COVID-19 and other conditions. Topic include Education is one of the predictors of life chances and there is increasing problems of parts of the country in the Great Britain.