With almost all of the Sustainable Development Goals not being achieved amid declining global solidarity, countries would be better served by regional development goals.

This Perspective describes the Colombo Call to Action, a roadmap for countries in South-East Asia to accelerate diabetes prevention and care, aiming to close treatment gaps and meet 2030 coverage targ...

Pregnant women exposed to cumulative days of high temperature saw a twofold-increased risk of gestational diabetes in a time-series study of 8,796 such cases in Barcelona between 2011 and 2022.

Including data for more than 125,000 compounds and biological agents, a dataset leverages a variety of sources including trial registries, news and stock prices and artificial intelligence to annotate...

Following a privacy-preserving framework, an open-source platform allows for continuous monitoring of a wide range of smartphone-based signals, including moment-by-moment capture of screenshots, appli...

A generative model is used to simulate a digital twin population based on the records of 1,856 individuals in Singapore, on which different screening programmes for case finding in cognitive impairmen...

Using dietary data from 8,931 participants in the WELL-China cohort, this study identifies a new diet rooted in traditional Chinese food elements associated with better adherence, favourable gut micro...

Generative artificial intelligence is transforming how clinical evidence is generated and applied in clinical care by enabling real-time data integration, dynamic trial design and personalized decisio...

Based on two waves of data collection from 748 households in Hong Kong, this analysis sheds light on the number of transmission events that occurred before manifestation of symptoms in influenza A and...

African countries should invest in homegrown health intervention programmes to withstand external funding shocks.

Canada’s universal healthcare is at a crossroads, requiring ethical reform to realign domestic equity with global leadership.

Young, displaced people face an increased risk of mental health problems but limited access to in-person treatment; digital interventions may help to fill this gap.

Behaviour changes, rather than vaccination or postinfection immunity, best explained the sudden decline of mpox cases among men who have sex with men during an outbreak in the Paris region in 2022, ac...

Nature Health - How Rwanda is preparing its health system for the climate crisis

A large-scale school-based trial in China demonstrates that brief, culturally adapted training equips teachers to act as effective gatekeepers for youth suicide prevention by reducing stigma and enhan...

Large language models (LLMs) are emerging as powerful tools in healthcare, with a growing role in global health, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This Perspective examines the current...

A multimedia e-learning chatbot codesigned with community stakeholders increased health awareness in a randomized trial of 2,113 participants in urban and rural areas across 11 Chinese provinces.

By focusing on large-scale data analysis and population-wide interventions, artificial intelligence in public health offers new strategic approaches to disease surveillance, health promotion and polic...

Metabolite signatures were identified for subtypes of dietary carbohydrate, including added sugar, whole grain and refined grain, and showed different associations with type 2 diabetes, providing an…

Digital surveillance at the national scale, coupled with a spatial model that extends the data to a more granular scale, reveals gaps in MMR vaccination coverage that align with recent measles…

Using a statistical model that incorporates transmission intensity and stratum-specific rates of severe outcomes, either associated with disease or vaccination, a framework is proposed to compare the…

Using survey data from 3,560 hospitals across the USA, AI implementation is shown to be spatially heterogeneous, influenced by the local context and institutional characteristics.

An analysis of heatwaves in 265 Chinese cities found that small accessible parks mitigated heat-related mortality more effectively than a single large park.

Nature Health, the newest journal in the Nature Portfolio, aims to bridge the ‘implementation gap’ from research to policy and practice.

In a retrospective case–control study of electronic health records, patients with bladder cancer and colour vision deficiency (CVD) had a 52% higher 20-year mortality risk than matched controls without CVD.

Large language models (LLMs) are emerging as powerful tools in healthcare, with a growing role in global health, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This Perspective examines the current...

In this Perspective, Gao argues that the air comprises a complex mixture of pollutants and microorganisms that are not adequately measured in human exposome research.

Devastating US aid cuts offer an opportunity to reimagine global health, with African leaders charting a new course of self-reliance.

Wearable data from 7,013 participants in the All of Us Research Program show that park accessibility across 53 US cities is positively associated with daily step counts, providing a mechanism for how ...

In a trial involving 532 participants from 15 high schools and at high risk for opioid misuse, a videogame intervention could not increase perceived risk of harm from opioids with respect to the contr...

In a prospective study involving 579,583 women in multiple sites across the USA, a multistage AI-driven workflow for digital breast tomosynthesis mammograms assisted radiologists in identifying 21.6% ...