Category: Health Sciences
Goma medicine retailers share common professional features
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Qualitative study examining medicine retailers in Goma as an emerging professional group despite diverse backgrounds, revealing how they integrate commercial and healthcare logics to provide.
SIMG had marginal usability and low uptake among pregnant women
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Pilot study of SIMG, a web-based pregnancy monitoring system in Brazil, reveals marginal usability and suboptimal uptake despite high willingness to use the tool in future pregnancies.
Health justice is shaped by power, institutions, and governance
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Commentary examining health justice as a political project embedded in power relations, institutional constraints, and epistemic authority rather than purely moral or technical achievement.
Participants weighed privacy against potential value of browsing history research
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Qualitative study examines acceptability of sharing internet browsing history for cancer research among diverse populations, identifying trust and transparency as key factors.
Food security indicators gave divergent estimates in South Africa
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Systematic review of food security measurement in South Africa reveals fragmentation across 82 studies using competing indicators, limiting policy coherence and intervention targeting between.
NABH digital health standards align with major international frameworks
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Scoping review mapping NABH Digital Health Standards against international maturity models, identifying convergences and gaps in AI governance, cybersecurity, interoperability, and health equity.
Hungarian Roma perceptions of healthy eating mostly matched dietary guidelines
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Cross-sectional study of dietary perceptions among Hungarian Roma demonstrates alignment with guidelines; self-perceived eating habits strongest predictor of healthy diet perception.
Community partnership improved health and environmental conditions in Salvador
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Community-based participatory research program in Salvador, Brazil addressing health challenges in urban informal settlements through collaborative methodologies and popular health education.
Healthier lifestyles were linked to more TCIM use in Brazil
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Analysis of lifestyle profiles and traditional, complementary and integrative medicine adoption in Brazilian population reveals positive association between healthier behaviors and TCIM use.
Evidence briefs for policy need better evaluation tools
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Evidence briefs for policy lack standardized methodologies and validation frameworks. This research identifies critical gaps in production and utilization, calling for enhanced quality assurance.
