Health Status and Health Determinants of Older Immigrant Women in Canada: A Scoping Review by Sepali Guruge, Birpreet Birpreet, Joan A. Samuels-Dennis

“…These articles were divided into six areas of focus: physical health; mental health; abuse; health promotion and chronic disease prevention; barriers to healthcare access and utilization; and health beliefs, behaviours, and practices. …”
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The Documentation Status Continuum and the Impact of Categories on Healthcare Stratification by Tiffany Denise Joseph

“…Using the 2006 Massachusetts Health Reform and national 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Reform as policy examples and interviews conducted with 207 immigrants, healthcare professionals, and immigrant organization employees in Boston, this article demonstrates how healthcare access is stratified along the DSC between citizens and noncitizens. …”
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Contested and nervous spaces: exploring the environment of healthcare provision for international migrants in the Gauteng province of South Africa by Janine A. White, Laetitia C. Rispel

“…Background Notwithstanding the global goal of inclusive universal health coverage, and the notion of migrant-sensitive health systems, limited healthcare access or the exclusion of migrants from national health systems persists. …”
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ChatGPT in orthodontics: limitations and possibilities by Lima Nara Grazieli Martins, Costa Lavínia, Santos Patrícia Bittencourt

“…Patients benefit from its help in finding providers, scheduling initial appointments, accessing health information, improving healthcare access and service effectiveness. However, there are limitations. …”
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A Critical Need for Advanced Practice Nurse Education in Sub‐Saharan Africa and Lessons Learned From the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Discursive Review by Jacqueline Itambo, Brenda Owusu, Danielle McCamey, Diana‐Lyn Baptiste

“…Discussion The COVID‐19 pandemic served as a barrier to healthcare access and disrupted routine immunizations and care, reduced facility‐based healthcare services, increased disease burden and mortality, strain and is expected to worsen the healthcare workforce shortage in Sub‐Saharan Africa. …”
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Parallel systems in healthcare: Addressing Indigenous health equity in Canada by Anika Sehgal, Andrea Kennedy, Katharine McGowan, Lynden (Lindsay) Crowshoe

“…Systems mapping of Indigenous PHC in Alberta revealed numerous entities providing healthcare access, highlighting the importance of adequately funding and integrating these parallel systems to advance health equity.…”
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Orthoplastic surgery research: Three decades of growth and future directions by Alexander F. Dagi, Michael B. Amrami, Nikhil A. Gangoli, Dylan K. Kim, Jarrod T. Bogue

“…Key opportunities to strengthen the field include conducting prospective studies, expanding research beyond lower extremity trauma to areas such as upper extremity reconstruction, oncologic applications, and paediatric care, addressing healthcare access disparities, evaluating cost-effectiveness across different healthcare systems, and developing standardized guidelines beyond the UK.…”
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on intra-household gender disparities in the Middle East and North Africa region: A scoping review protocol. by Malak Ghezzawi, Sasha Fahme, Salpy Naalbandian, Jocelyn DeJong, WOMENA Study Group

“…<h4>Discussion</h4>This review is expected to shed light on gender disparities in healthcare accessibility, mobility, and decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic across low- and middle-income countries in the MENA region, adding to the global literature.…”
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Distances to emergency departments and non-urgent utilization of medical services: a systematic review by Uma Kelekar, Debasree Das Gupta, Nicole Theis-Mahon, Emily Fashingbauer, Boyen Huang

“…Objectives A systematic review, guided by a registered protocol (PROSPERO: CRD42023398674), was conducted to interpret the association between distance as a measure of healthcare access and the utilization of EDs for non-urgent care in high- and middle-income countries. …”
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Use of Population Weighted Density Index for Coronavirus Spread in the United States by Huseyin Yuce, Hannah Stauss, Adrienne Persad

“…If the spread is successfully contained early, there will be less stress placed upon the healthcare system, resulting in better healthcare access for those who are sick. **Conclusions:** Our analysis suggests that population-weighted density can be a useful tool to control and manage outbreaks, especially within the early stage of the spread. …”
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Exploring barriers to accessing health care services by young women in rural settings: a qualitative study in Australia, Canada, and Sweden by Reyhaneh Golestani, Farideh Khalajabadi Farahani, Paul Peters

“…Addressing these multifaceted barriers is crucial to improving healthcare access for rural population. Conclusions Appropriate strategies and policies must be introduced to promote access to healthcare services in rural and remote areas even in most high-`income countries.…”
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The social determinants of migrant domestic worker (MDW) health and well-being in the Western Pacific Region: A Scoping Review. by Jamie Chan, Georgia Dominguez, Antonia Hua, Melissa Garabiles, Carl A Latkin, Brian J Hall

“…Identified social determinants of health were primarily concerned with personal social and financial resources, and health knowledge and behaviors, poor living and working conditions, community resources, experienced stigma and discrimination, poor healthcare access, exploitation within the MDW employment industry, and weak governance. …”
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people living with HIV in Lesotho: a qualitative study by Christian Mallen, Michelle E Robinson, Thomas Shepherd, Maema Ramaema, Moraoetsi Rakuoane, Ntoli Moletsane, Rafiloe Mpholo, Graham Leigh

“…This impact may be worse in low-resource settings, especially those in sub-Saharan Africa, where pandemic impacts may be exacerbated by poverty, limited healthcare access and other health epidemics including HIV. …”
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Analyzing and forecasting under-5 mortality trends in Bangladesh using machine learning techniques. by Shayla Naznin, Md Jamal Uddin, Ishmam Ahmad, Ahmad Kabir

“…The forecasted rates fall short of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target of 25 deaths per 1,000 live births by 2030, underscoring the need for intensified interventions in healthcare access and maternal health to achieve this target.…”
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Information and communication technology-based health interventions for transgender people: A scoping review. by Horas T H Wong, Sujith Kumar Prankumar, Jialiang Cui, Christopher Tumwine, Isaac Yeboah Addo, Wansang Kan, Muhammad Naveed Noor

“…While the range of interventions identified demonstrate the huge potentials of ICT to improve healthcare access for transgender people, the current body of literature is still far from adequate for making comprehensive recommendations on the best practice of ICT-based interventions for transgender people. …”
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Regional variation of risk factors among diabetic retinopathy patients in India: Findings from the INDO EYE study by Gopal S Pillai, Bibhuti Prassan Sinha, C. S. Sheeba, Manabjyoti Barman, Alok Sen, Natarajan Sundaram, Merin Dickson, Ashid Salim, Geethu Paul, Deepthi Geetha KrishnanNair, Manjisa Choudhury, Aniket Kumar, Poonam Jangidm, Anjana Abhilash

“…Conclusions: Regional disparities in DR prevalence and severity highlight the need for targeted public health strategies to address local risk factors and improve diabetes management across India. Enhanced healthcare access and tailored interventions are crucial for reducing DR-related vision loss.…”
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Towards culturally inclusive healthcare in Peru: Mapping epistemic concepts in contemporary Indigenous Amazonian medicine-Traditional healers' perspectives. by Ilana Berlowitz, Maria Amalia Pesantes, Cynthia Cárdenas Palacios, Chantal Martin-Soelch, Ursula Wolf, Caroline Maake

“…Healthcare models that include Indigenous medicine and traditional healers present an important avenue for addressing such inequalities, as they increase cultural adequacy of services, healthcare access, and acknowledge Indigenous Rights for their perspectives to be represented in public healthcare. …”
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A socioeconomic disadvantage index for informing policy, systems, and environmental change interventions for senior nutrition programs by Shadi Maleki, Cassandra M. Johnson, Francis A. Méndez Mediavilla, Ramalingam Shanmugam, Lesli Biediger-Friedman

“…The Older Adult Socioeconomic Disadvantage Index (OASDI) includes 12 variables related to unmet needs for food, housing, healthcare access, and transportation, and others at the census tract level. …”
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Development and validation of a tool to measure telehealth educational environment (THEEM) by Marium Arif, Madiha Sajjad, Rehan Ahmed Khan, Hafiz Rabbi ul Ehsan

“…Abstract Background Telehealth is gaining importance in improving healthcare access and outcomes, particularly in underserved regions. …”
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Prevalence of selected chronic diseases, health seeking behaviour and associated factors among the elderly workers of a selected district of Sri Lanka by Niluka Gunathilaka, Dulani L. Samaranayake, Manuj C. Weerasinghe

“…Conclusions & Recommendations: The findings emphasize the need for policies and interventions that address socio-demographic disparities in healthcare access by promoting family support, insurance schemes, and adopting the health care facility provision according to the workplaces and working patterns. …”
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