Feasibility Study and Design of a Wearable System-on-a-Chip Pulse Radar for Contactless Cardiopulmonary Monitoring by Domenico Zito, Domenico Pepe, Bruno Neri, Fabio Zito, Danilo De Rossi, Antonio Lanatà

“…A new system-on-a-chip radar sensor for next-generation wearable wireless interface applied to the human health care and safeguard is presented. The system overview is provided and the feasibility study of the radar sensor is presented. …”
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The Direct and Indirect Losses to Ukraine’s Economy Caused by Hostilities by Samborska Oksana Yu., Materynska Olha A.

“…An assessment of direct losses and destruction, damage to public sector facilities, social facilities and institutions, educational, scientific and health care institutions, and administrative buildings was carried out. …”
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Dissociable genetic influences on eye movements during abstract versus naturalistic social scene viewing in infancy by Ana Maria Portugal, Mark J. Taylor, Kristiina Tammimies, Angelica Ronald, Terje Falck-Ytter

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The Role of the Patient Information Leaflet in Patients’Medication Therapy: A Case Study within the Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana by Frederick W. A. Owusu, Genevieve Naana Yeboah, Rahel Adutwiwah Aboagye, Cedric Dzidzor K. Amengor, Philomena Entsie

“…In Ghana, the patient information leaflet is available through various sources including health-care professionals (HCPs) and electronic forms. …”
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The place of work diagnostic instrumental measurements in the protocols of occupational health tasks by Sarolta Nagy

“…ErgoScope) can be well integrated into the protocol of primary and specialised occupational health care tasks. Methodology: The author conducted an online questionnaire survey among occupational health specialists working in Hungary to find out whether they use work diagnostic tools, and if so, which ones, and whether they would be willing to send workers for instrumental work diagnostic tests. 272 second-level medical fitness for work examinations were reviewed for their inclusion in the instrumental work diagnostic tests. …”
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What differentiates adolescents who have attempted suicide from those without suicidal history? A retrospective psychiatric inpatient study by Diana Puzio, Ernest Jan Bobeff, Katarzyna Bliźniewska-Kowalska, Aleksandra Lewandowska, Piotr Gałecki

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Effect of Intervention in Subjects with High Risk of Diabetes Mellitus in Pakistan by Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Hydrie, Abdul Basit, A. Samad Shera, Akhtar Hussain

“…We recommend lifestyle advice and followup should be incorporated in primary health care.…”
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Improving eating disorder care for underserved groups: a lived experience and quality improvement perspective by Alykhan Asaria

“…ED sufferers/caregivers are also an underserved group as a whole in general mental health care, so broader considerations for improving ED care will be explored in a future publication; these include stigma, research biases, inadequate clinical monitoring and diagnosing, poor-quality treatments, disorganised service transitions, systemic problems/inefficiencies, and underfunding/under-resourcing. …”
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Comparing apples with apples: A proposed taxonomy for "Community Health Workers" and other front-line health workers for international comparisons. by Stephen Hodgins, Uta Lehmann, Henry Perry, Nicholas Leydon, Kerry Scott, Smisha Agarwal, Hannah Marcus, Rajani Ved, Elijah Olivas, Madeleine Ballard, Dickson Mbewe, Margaret Odera, Sherlie Petit Homme, Benard Otieno, Pasipano Wutete, Angeline Chikumba, Prossy Muyingo, John Kyakuha, Emmanuel Harcourt, Morseda Chowdhury, David Musoke, Thadee Niyoyitungira, Abimbola Olaniran, John Koku-Awoonor Williams, Lívia Milena Barbosa de Deus E Méllo, Romário Correia Dos Santos, Isabela Cardoso de Matos Pinto, Ram Shrestha, Salim Sadruddin, Melanie Morrow, Eric Sarriot, Maryse Kok, Bhanu Pratap

“…This paper proposes a taxonomy for Community Health Workers (CHWs) and others engaged in front-line community health activities, encompassing formally-employed workers extending government primary health care (PHC) service delivery as well as a range of other actors with roles at the nexus of government PHC and communities. …”
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The Implementation of Therapeutic Alliance in the Rehabilitation of an Elite Pediatric Athlete with Salter-Harris Fracture: A Case Report by Lucas VanEtten, Matthew Briggs, John DeWitt, Cody Mansfield, Christopher Kaeding

“…# Background/Purpose Although research on the value of therapeutic alliance is prominent in other areas of health care, physical therapy research is limited. …”
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Peruvian health professionals’ leadership styles by Franklin Jhony Julián Méndez, Cecilia Elizabeth Reyes Alfaro, Ericson Felix Castillo Saavedra, Verónica Yamilet Coronel Vega, Sara Isabel Cabanillas Ñaño, Rosa María Salas Sánchez, Julissa Estmilsinia Vargas Vigo

“…The organizational changes generated in pharmaceutical offices must be assumed through a leadership style that allows achieving the objectives and goals set, in order to ensure and optimize health care.<br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to determine the Chemist-Pharmaceutical professionals’ leadership styles who work in public and private establishments in the city of Trujillo (Peru).…”
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A multidisciplinary evaluation of robotic-assisted surgery effectiveness and its implications for healthcare education and practice - review of literature by Justyna Korus, Natalia Hopej, Aleksandra Grzegorczyk, Nicol Dardzińska, Marta Dziedziak

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Beyond bronchial thermoplasty – where to now? by Peter B. Noble, David Langton, Chuan T. Foo, Bruce R. Thompson, Alvenia Cairncross, Michael J. Hackmann, Francis Thien, Graham M. Donovan

“…It is anticipated that the next iteration of BT (likely in a drug form) will have an overall greater effect on the health care system by virtue of evoking ASM remodelling as a treatable trait, and after appropriately drawing on lessons learned from the ∼fifteen-year BT saga.…”
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Evaluation of Training Family Health Center Practice in Family Medicine Residency Education by Nesibe Derya Bayhan, Abdulkadir Kaya

“…Objective: Tertiary hospitals offer advanced health services, including chronic disease management, whereas primary health care centers focus on services such as pregnancy follow-up, child care, vaccination, and periodic health screenings. …”
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Patient adherence, satisfaction and changes in anthropometric parameters with e-health versus in-person monitoring in metabolic bariatric surgery patients: A study protocol for a s... by Maíra Ribas Goulart, Karine Elisa Schwarzer Schmidt, Gustavo Waclawovsky, Izabele Vian

“…<h4>Discussion and conclusion</h4>Our study can offer evidence that shows the benefits of e-health patient monitoring of individuals undergoing MBS and supports scaling up this care modality to reduce waiting times and health care costs.…”
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The healthcare burden of isolated aortic valve insufficiency by Ibrahim Sultan, Michael Ryan, Candace Gunnarsson, Natalie Heidrich, Prashanth Vallabhajosyula

“…We utilized Optum United Health Care Database for US patients who had an AI claim between 2017 and 2022, with 12 months of continuous enrollment (baseline period) prior to diagnosis. …”
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Alopecia and Iron Deficiency: An Interventional Pilot Study in Primary Care to Improve the Request of Ferritin by Maria Salinas, Maria Leiva-Salinas, Emilio Flores, Maite López-Garrigós, Carlos Leiva-Salinas

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Waiting for Treatment for Chronic Pain – a Survey of Existing Benchmarks: Toward Establishing Evidence-Based Benchmarks for Medically Acceptable Waiting Times by Mary E Lynch, Fiona A Campbell, Alexander J Clark, Michael J Dunbar, David Goldstein, Philip Peng, Jennifer Stinson, Helen Tupper, the Canadian Pain Society Wait Times Task Force

“…As medical costs escalate, health care resources must be prioritized. In this context, there is an increasing need for benchmarks and best practices in wait time management. …”
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The Psychometric Properties of the Original Version of Assessment of Time Management Skills (ATMS) by Afsaneh Roshanay, Gunnel Janeslätt, Kajsa Lidström-Holmqvist, Suzanne White, Marie Holmefur

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Epithelial and immune transcriptomic characteristics and possible regulatory mechanisms in asthma exacerbation: insights from integrated studies by Ye Liu, Yue Li, Ruhao Wu, Yu Wang, Pengfei Li, Tianci Jiang, Ke Wang, Yize Liu, Zhe Cheng

“…BackgroundAsthma exacerbation significantly contribute to disease mortality and result in heightened health care expenditures. This study was aimed at gaining important new insights into the heterogeneity of epithelial and immune cells and elucidating key regulatory genes involved in the pathogenesis of asthma exacerbation.MethodsFunctional enrichment, pseudotime, metabolism and cell-cell communication analyses of epithelial cells and immune cells in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) dataset were applied. …”
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