Top Research Papers on Health Care

This review outlines the most promising healthcare technologies and devices, their strengths, drawbacks, and scopes for clinical adoption, and highlights the 3D printers being investigated for the concept of personalised medicine.

Emerging digital technologies continues to evolve posing unprecedented opportunities in health systems globally to improve healthcare services delivery. There has been significant progress in healthcare. However, the lack of emotive recognition coupled with a dearth of personalized and pervasive health applications and emotive smart devices calls for the integration of intelligent sensors health systems through emerging technologies. Although there has been significant progress in smart and connected health care, more research innovation, dissemination and technologies are needed to unbundle n...

The effects on staff is detailed, some of the organisational, team and individual considerations for supporting staff (pragmatically) during this pandemic are addressed and leaders at all levels of health care organisations will find this resource valuable.

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook, providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory, empirical evidence, and public policy. The ninth edition offers updated material throughout, including two new chapters: Disparities in Health and Health Care (Chapter 7) examines issues of race, ethnicity, income, gender, and geography with respect to health care access, health inputs, and health outcomes; Pandemic Economics (Chapter 9) introduces a new and simplified economic treatment of epidemics and pandemics within...

All the medical IoT devices experimented with in this work are interconnected using a potential 5G network for optimal data transmission and would not only facilitate but also educate medical professionals to handle unseen and typical cases in the future confidently.

The effects of mobile technologies versus usual care for supporting communication and consultations between healthcare providers on healthcare providers' performance, acceptability and satisfaction, healthcare use, patient health outcomes, acceptability and satisfaction, costs, and technical difficulties are assessed.

The results indicate that chronic conditions are strongly associated with food insecurity and higher health care spending, and efforts to alleviate food insecurity should consider the dual burden of chronic conditions.

This paper proposes creating a service-oriented middleware framework to offers the common services to the applications developers and facilitate the integration of different services to build applications under the Health 4.0 umbrella.

This work discusses major empirical findings and theoretical implications of health care utilization, barriers to care, health behaviors, and health outcomes, which demonstrate how SGMs continue to experience structural- and interactional-level inequalities across health and medicine.

A synopsis of racial disparities across a broad scope of clinical pathology interests addressed in emergency departments is provided, and through a race-conscious analysis, EM practice recommendations for advancing a culture of equity with the potential for measurable impact on healthcare quality and health outcomes are developed.

The research found that triggers of mental health problems among frontline health workers in private care homes and domiciliary care agencies are fear of infection and infecting others, lack of recognition/disparity between National Health Service (NHS) and social care, Lack of guidance, unsafe hospital discharge, death and loss of professionals and residents, unreliable testing and delayed results and shortage of staff.

The biology, epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of CO VID-19 are the main focus of these reports, and it will become increasingly important to study and address the health care needs of clinicians and other health care workers responding to the unprecedented demands of caring for patients with COVID-19.

A toolkit of illustrations and scientific information that healthcare professionals can use for knowledge translation, educating patients about the importance of identifying and treating low muscle mass and malnutrition, and the emerging evidence of mitochondrial dysfunction in the context of aging and disease are provided.

Adverse events were identified in nearly one in four admissions, and approximately one fourth of the events were preventable, underscore the importance of patient safety and the need for continuing improvement.

It is observed that the institutional support strategy generated and strengthened socio-technical networks articulated in function of the National Policy of Primary Health Care, however, the necessity of implementation of priority programs demands it to be better considered in the design of this management strategy.

It is discussed that collaborations between health systems and social services are needed to improve health and well-being in this population of homeless people.

There are multiple ways that international support and national commitment could help safeguard healthcare workers in Africa, essential for limiting the pandemic’s potentially devastating heath, socio-economic and security impacts on the continent.

A commentary on challenges and dilemmas identified in the response to COVID-19 for care homes and their residents, highlighting the low sensitivity of PCR testing and the difficulties this poses for blanket screening and isolation of residents.

The readers will find a wealth of knowledge and new insight concerning sharing concepts, and implications of health promotion particularly in health care, and an updated summary of significant salutogenic notions that serve as resources for well-being and health enhancement in this book.

Six vital directions to improve the care and quality of life for all older Americans are identified as part of the National Academy of Medicine's Vital Directions for Health and Health Care: Priorities for 2021 initiative.

This scoping review synthesizes evidence on different levels of care coordination of primary health care (PHC) and primary care using a thematic analysis approach and explained themes adopting a multilevel (individual, organizational, and system) analytical framework.

Probability and nonprobability‐based studies of US transgender persons identify different disparities in health and health care access.

This Consensus Statement outlines the changes required in health professions education, approaches to achieve these changes and a timeline for action linked to the internationally agreed SDGs.

A two-phased conceptual model is presented that shows healthcare professionals' acts of correcting health misinformation on social media (e.g., Twitter and Facebook) and can guide health authorities when developing campaigns against health misinformation.

It was showed that infrastructure and technical issues, psychological barriers, and workload-related concerns are relevant barriers to comprehensively and holistically adopting digital health technologies by HPs.

Key DHC domains and statements that may be used to guide on the development of a set of DHCs for PC are identified, and critical knowledge gaps and needs to be considered.

Evidence from previous outbreaks, along with early evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic, suggests that these events have significant short- and long-term effects on the mental health of healthcare workers.

This systematic review searched CINAHL, Embase, MEDLINE, and PsycINFO with no language restrictions for primary research articles published between database inception and Dec 11, 2019 to identify the barriers and facilitators to implementing assessment, care, referral, and treatment for perinatal mental health into health and social care services.

Introduction As a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, health care professionals (HDPs) are facing immense strain due to the heavy load of cases. In many cases, they work increasingly long hours, often with limited resources and a dubious infrastructure. Thus, it is important to check on the mental health of caregivers. Methods and materials This cross-sectional study was conducted in May 2020, at various hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan. All HCPs posted in the COVID-19 isolation wards were invited to participate and a total of 112 completed this study. A carefully structured form was create...

Seven Latin American countries, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Peru (LAC-7) have made great efforts to strengthen their primary health care systems over the past decades.This contributed to some important health outcomes.Life expectancy at birth has increased in LAC-7 countries, reaching 78.5 years on average in 2019 (a gain of 3 years since 2000 compared to 3.6 years across other OECD countries).Infant mortality has been halved over the past two decades, going from 21 deaths per 1 000 live births in 2000 to 10.8 in 2020.However, the COVID-19 pandemic inflected a la...

The review shows that the wearable medical devices developed so far have been designed for use on all parts of the human body, including the head, limbs, and torso, and predicts that with the development of science and technology and the popularization of personalized health concepts, wearable devices will play a greater role in the field of health care and become better integrated into people’s daily lives.

Evidence demonstrating that trans adults in the USA are affected by disparities in physical and mental health and in access to health care, relative to cisgender (nontrans) persons is synthesized.

This Comment sets out a practical approach to protecting the mental health of health-care workers based on contemporary evidence.

The future resilience of healthcare services will depend on having sufficient numbers of nurses who are adequately resourced to face the coming challenges, including pan‐national infections such as the new coronavirus COVID‐19.

An evidence-based overview of the adverse mental health impacts on healthcare workers during times of crisis and other challenging working conditions and the importance of prioritizing and protecting the mental health and well-being of the healthcare workforce, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic is provided.

The authors must continue to utilize new technology in health care to improve outcomes, but they must also be wary to ensure those outcomes are equitable across different populations.

The characteristics of various types of TENG-based applications and their corresponding technologies are introduced and analyzed, under the comparison of their structure and performance.

Efforts to integrate oral health and primary health care, incorporate interventions at multiple levels to improve access to and quality of services, and create health care teams that provide patient-centered care in both safety net clinics and community settings may narrow the gaps in access to oral health care across the life course.

It is estimated that ensuring health-care access for all Americans would save more than 68 000 lives and 1·73 million life-years every year compared with the status quo, and would provide the greatest relief to lower-income households.

Significant disparities in vision health and eye care exist. To achieve health equity, we must understand the root causes and drivers of health disparities and inequities, including social determinants of health and systemic racism.