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In recent years, the intersecting challenges of AIDS, COVID-19, economic instability, and humanitarianism have significantly hindered the advancement of HIV/AIDS mitigation strategies, especially in key popula...
Global policymakers have proposed strengthening midwifery regulation to improve access to and quality of care provided by midwives, thereby enhancing maternal healthcare delivery and outcomes. However, quantif...
In Norway, patients have the right to choose their healthcare provider for elective specialized treatments, including the approximately 20,000 annual hip and knee arthroplasty surgeries. There is considerable ...
Poor access to healthcare and long waiting times are severe challenges in many countries and therefore countries have increasingly adopted teleconsultations such as video, messaging, and phone calls. Patient-r...
In Norway’s welfare system, General Practitioners (GPs) issue sickness certificates (SCs) to document patient’s inability to work. These documents serve a dual role as medical evidence and as a basis for socia...
An understanding of future healthcare needs of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is essential for patients and providers to make informed treatment decisions. Data on the predictors of long-term CRS-r...
Despite significant advances in HIV treatment regimens, adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) report lower rates of viral suppression compared to other age groups, reflecting sub-optimal adherence and lower enga...
Male infertility has played an important role in childbearing in developing countries, including Iran. With the increasing use of mobile health and the need for self-care, this study aimed to design and evalua...
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised concerns about continuity of care for chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia. Although studies have documented declines in healthcare utilization, fe...
Recently, the demand for care has risen, while in contrast, healthcare resources remain limited. These resources include health expenditure, the number of physicians, nurses, and hospital beds. Many studies ha...
Electronic medical record systems (EMRS) have transformed healthcare by improving quality, efficiency, and safety through centralized patient data and streamlined workflows. Challenges such as budget constrain...
Sleep quality is a crucial aspect that can affect the health, job performance, and safety outcomes of operating room employees. However, the social and work-environmental factors that predict sleep quality rem...
This study aims to quantitatively evaluate China’s commercial health insurance (CHI) policies and provide a reference for improving the policy.
Rural areas face unique and interconnected challenges that hinder both access to and quality of health and social services. In response, local communities are increasingly called to proactively engage in ident...
The prevalence of acquired brain injury (ABI) and mental health/substance use (MHSU) disorders is high amongst people experiencing homelessness, yet guidance for addressing these complex comorbidities is lacki...
Hospital at home (HaH), also referred to as virtual wards in the UK, enable patients to get hospital-level care at home with the use of digital technology, multidisciplinary teams, and remote monitoring. Despi...
With population aging and the weakening of traditional family caregiving, home-based care services are becoming more important in China. However, little is known about residents’ service preferences during the...
Clear and precise instructions are essential for high-quality medication management. This study focuses on identifying usability and functionality of instructional materials on medicine handling and use produc...
This study aims to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of Trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd), compared to trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) as second-line treatments for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-pos...
Improving quality of sick child care is the primary aim of Integrated Community Case Management services and implementation fidelity is critical to translating an evidence-based intervention to practice. A com...
Emergency medicine is a highly interdisciplinary field, and emergency nurses and physicians have high rates of burnout compared to other specialties. National and international agencies prioritize investments ...
The role of pharmacists and pharmacies has changed in Poland. Since 2021, a pharmacist can provide health services as part of pharmaceutical care. For this reason, we conducted an analysis of the perception of...
Most medical responders are not adequately trained to recognize and treat maternal medical emergencies, including maternal cardiac arrest, and national credentialing standards do not exist. Obstetric Life Supp...
Completion of maternal health care (MHC) services during pregnancy, childbirth, and postnatal care is crucial for reducing maternal and newborn mortality. However, a low proportion of mothers achieve this cont...
In this analysis we investigated the dynamics of original and generic immunosuppressive therapies prescribed to patients after organ transplantation, which are highly sensitive to generic drug conversion.
Social capital, the resources embedded in social networks, has been identified as a key determinant of sexual and reproductive health outcomes, yet its role in crisis contexts, particularly in shaping access t...
In Togo, community health workers (CHWs) provide primary healthcare to people living more than 5 km from a health centre or who are geographically difficult to reach. This study presents the geographical cover...
Differentiation of HIV services, a client-centered strategy, may improve care outcomes among adolescents and youth living with HIV (AYLHIV). Understanding health provider perceptions of barriers and facilitato...
Outpatient departments of tertiary children’s hospitals in China are often overcrowded. This study used a behavioral experiment to investigate the relationship between expectations and satisfaction levels to i...
Research impact is defined as an effect, change or benefit to the wider society or services beyond academia. Measuring impact demonstrates benefit and value for money of publicly-funded research. This study ev...
Increased use of health data has the potential to improve both health care and health policies. Several recent policy initiatives at the European and German legislative levels aim to increase the primary and s...
To investigate baseline characteristics associated with older citizens calling the medical helpline 1813 (MH1813) in Denmark and how these baseline characteristics were associated with triage outcomes in a sub...
This study aims to identify the dimensions and evolutionary pathways of China’s high-performing national healthcare system, as well as the interaction mechanisms between the digital and traditional healthcare ...
In Germany, type of health insurance is an important aspect of health care inequalities because there is a dual structure of statutory and private health insurance and there are incentives for a preferential t...
Australian governments and the First Nations Coalition of Peaks, through the Closing the Gap reforms, have committed to build the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled sector and increase ...
In January 2023 the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) introduced a diagnostic code for post-COVID-19 condition (PCC). We used this code to estimate the incidence rate of PCC, to compare demographic and clin...
Although Japan has successfully mitigated HIV infections, several issues related to the disease remain to be addressed. As the people living with HIV are aging, their medical care needs are expected to become ...
Breast cancer remains a major global health issue, with millions of cases diagnosed annually and limited diagnostic and treatment options, particularly in developing countries. This study aimed to evaluate the...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a significant impact on health systems worldwide, resulting in disruptions to essential health service delivery, such as routine immunizations, maternal...
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed critical weaknesses within the healthcare sector in many countries, and intensifying pressure on managers and healthcare workers was immediate. Managers were faced with increased ...
South Korea is reported to have higher levels of unmet medical needs (UMN) than other countries, particularly among the middle-aged adult population. Considering that this group constitutes a substantial porti...
Previous studies have shown that health insurance and financial burden affect satisfaction with healthcare. This study aims to examine the relationship between China’s outpatient pooling policies and healthcar...
Health is foundational for climate action, and integrating climate and health policies to achieve health equity is widely recognized. While there is a growing global momentum for collaborative health and clima...
Diabetes self-management education (DSME) has significant clinical benefits on diabetic glycemic control and reduction in the onset of complications. However, the economic benefits of DSME in older Medicare be...
In 2008, the Government of Ghana implemented a free maternal healthcare policy through the National Health Insurance Scheme to increase financial access to maternity care services and reduce perinatal and mate...
Successful complex healthcare interventions require evaluations of acceptability. Acceptability is suggested to impact intervention implementation, uptake, adherence, intended outcomes, and overall effectivene...
Learning Health Systems (LHS), in which continuous and equitable improvements support optimization of healthcare practices, outcomes, experience, and costs, offer enormous potential for health system transform...
This paper identifies provider characteristics, across medical specialties, that facilitate a healing pathway model for patients.
Considering children’s sensitive and developmental needs, pediatricians play a pivotal role in ensuring rational use of medicines (RUM), alongside healthcare systems, pharmacists and patients.
Elderly individuals with chronic conditions or acute illnesses are major drivers of hospitalization, with frail patients frequently utilizing emergency department (ED) services. To ease this burden, many count...
