CHI study: protocol for an observational cohort study on ageing and mental health in community-dwelling older adults by Lei Feng, Lieng Hsi Ling, Qiushi Feng, Rachael Zhi Yi Lee, Junhong Yu, Iris Rawtaer, Patrick Finbarr Allen, Zhiming Bao, Jeong Kyu Lee, Chin Tat Lim, Leng Leng Thang, Thet Naing, D Y Wang, Kai Zhen Yap, EH Kua, Rathi Mahendran

“…Introduction Ageing is associated with a multitude of healthcare issues including dementia, depression, frailty, morbidity associated with chronic disease and high healthcare utilisation. …”
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Telenursing on primary family caregivers and children with disabilities: a scoping review by Kaori Nishigaki, Noyuri Yamaji, Noyuri Yamaji, Naho Adachi, Tomoko Kamei, Kyoko Kobayashi, Shota Kakazu, Yuki Yonekura

“…Although there were various types of telecommunications technology interventions, they were categorized as consultation, healthcare provision, monitoring, and education. Most studies have examined telecommunication technology interventions by healthcare professionals, including nurses. …”
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Association between different modalities of opioid use disorder-related care delivery and opioid use disorder-related patient outcomes: A retrospective cohort study by Nahiyan Bin Noor, George Pro, Mahip Acharya, Hari Eswaran, Corey J. Hayes

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Counting the cost of hospitalised injury using administrative data in Australia: three considerations from a retrospective cohort data linkage study by Jacelle Warren, Kirsten Vallmuur, Victoria McCreanor, Steven M McPhail, Shahera Banu, Michael Schuetz, Clifford Afoakwah

“…Care funded by compulsory third-party injury insurers, however, incurred the highest cost for the most expensive AR-DRGs.Conclusion There were considerable discrepancies in cost estimates for common injury-related hospitalisations depending on type of costing method used, inflation metrics applied and healthcare funder’s perspective adopted. These factors need to be considered when evaluating hospital cost in Australia’s health system using administrative data.…”
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Association of HIV infection and hospitalization among mpox cases: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Muhammed Shabil, Shilpa Gaidhane, R. Roopashree, Mandeep Kaur, Manish Srivastava, Amit Barwal, G. V. Siva Prasad, Pranchal Rajput, Rukshar Syed, Anoop Dev, Danish Kundra, Ambanna Yappalparvi, Prakasini Satapathy, Quazi Syed Zahiruddin, Harish Kumar, Renu Sah, Ganesh Bushi

“…Future studies should focus on long-term outcomes and the effectiveness of various management strategies across different healthcare settings.…”
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Understanding, anticipating and managing health risks linked to climate migration by François Gemenne

“…Health, associated with push factors that encourage people to leave, such as the appearance of new diseases, and pull factors that draw refugees toward certain locations, such as access to healthcare, is embedded in a complex web of factors behind the decision to leave. …”
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New “clinical pearls” on medical practice by Alfredo Espinosa Brito

“…The “original” clinical pearls are transmitted “orally”, from person to person regarding various situations that arise during the exercise of the profession in different scenarios, especially healthcare. Although some clinical pearls could serve as starting points for future full-fledged researches, it must be remembered that in medicine not everything is knowledge, it is also art and ethics. …”
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A Threefold Association Between Vitiligo and Alopecia Areata: Results from a Nationwide Case-control Observational Study by Yonit Wohl, Amir Bentov, Yarden Drutin, Annabel Maruani, Jacob Mashiah

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Genome rearrangements in neurodevelopmental disorders of the central nervous system: origins, genomic mechanisms, functional and clinical consequences. Review article by V. Kučinskas, E. Preikšaitienė, L. Ambrozaitytė, L. Cimbalistienė, A. Utkus

“… Intellectual disability affects about 1-2% of the general population worldwide, and this is the leading socio-economic problem of the healthcare system. Reasearch into the genetic causes of intellectual disability is challenging because these conditions are genetically heterogeneous with many different genetic alterations resulting in clinically indistinguishable phenotypes. …”
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ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE OF EXPORT AND IMPORT OF GOODS BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND AND THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION by V. A. Kardanov, V. N. Kulik, T. A. Petrova, V. V. Vulshonok

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Social Spending and Poverty Reduction in Mexico from 2000 to 2022: Have States Contributed to It? by Anahely Medrano, Brisna Beltrán

“…However, extreme income poverty and healthcare and education spending showed a negative relationship. …”
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Who am I—Teacher or practitioner? Teacher‐practitioners’ experience of identity in higher education—A phenomenological view by Elina Peri, Larissa Jõgi, Marvi Remmik

“…This article is based on ongoing research and aims to understand the phenomenon of experiencing teacher identity in teacher‐practitioners who have interrupted their academic careers in the field of healthcare and social sciences in Estonian higher education institutions. …”
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A WeChat-Based Mobile Platform for Perioperative Health Education for Gastrointestinal Surgery by Ying Li, Xiao-hui Cheng, Wen-ting Xu, Li-ping Tan, Xiao-jun Gou

“…In recent years, however, the development of the enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocol has restricted the opportunity for healthcare professionals to spend time with their patients before and after surgery because of efficiency-driven, shortened hospital stay. …”
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Utilizing Entropy to Systematically Quantify the Resting-Condition Baroreflex Regulation Function by Bo-Yuan Li, Xiao-Yang Li, Xia Lu, Rui Kang, Zhao-Xing Tian, Feng Ling

“…Baroreflex is critical to maintain blood pressure homeostasis, and the quantification of baroreflex regulation function (BRF) can provide guidance for disease diagnosis, treatment, and healthcare. Current quantification of BRF such as baroreflex sensitivity cannot represent BRF systematically. …”
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A practical guide for choosing an optimal spatial transcriptomics technology from seven major commercially available options by Hyun Ju Lim, Ye Wang, Anton Buzdin, Xinmin Li

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Human Activity Recognition Using Graph Structures and Deep Neural Networks by Abed Al Raoof K. Bsoul

“…Human activity recognition (HAR) systems are essential in healthcare, surveillance, and sports analytics, enabling automated movement analysis. …”
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From business to caring: the conceptualisation of holistic coaching for cancer patients by Andrew Marren, Yi-Ling Lai, Caroline Strevens, Darren van Laar, Natalie Silverdale

“…Coaching in healthcare is a growing topic within research and practise but there has been little exploration of its theoretical underpinnings for cancer patients. …”
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Entangled evidence: epistemic injustice, and systemic neglect in the assessment of menstrual disorders following COVID-19 vaccines by Maurizia Mezza

“…This paper emphasizes that structural bias in healthcare, health research, and policy accumulates at different stages of pharmacovigilance, shaping the evidence about vaccine safety. …”
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Silent Struggles: Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs) in Female Athletes by Veronica Szygalowicz

“…Obtaining an official diagnosis is often a complex and lengthy process, with many healthcare professionals working together to exclude other potential medical conditions. …”
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Barriers to health equity in the United States of America: can they be overcome? by Allen M. Chen

“…Yet nearly a century later, it is arguable how much progress society has made in achieving health equity, particularly in the United States of America where numerous factors at both the level of the individual and population contribute to significant complexity with respect to healthcare access and delivery. The purpose of this review is to thus outline the barriers to health equity so that thoughtful discourse can be promoted to create a more even playing field for the lives of the disadvantaged and underserved in the future.…”
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