Background Citizens depend on high-quality healthcare; however, significant disparities in quality persist among healthcare organisations. Healthcare services are complex organisations, making it ...

Introduction In the past five decades, Afghanistan has experienced one of the world’s largest and most protracted displacement crises. Stressors experienced during the pre-migration, transit and ...

Objectives To evaluate knowledge, attitudes and practices towards routine vaccination in the Lebanese population in the post-COVID-19 period, and to examine differences between COVID-19 vaccinated and ...

Introduction In 2021, globally, cardiometabolic diseases (CMDs) accounted for 35% of the 1.73 billion disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) attributed to non-communicable diseases. The Healthy Life ...

Introduction Interest in cold-stored platelets (CSP) has seen a resurgence over the last 20 years, having not been clinically used since the 1980s. A multitude of in vitro studies have reported ...

Background Problem gambling among sexual and gender diversity (SGD) populations has received increasing attention in research. While the literature shows that these populations are more likely than ...

Introduction Low-income and-middle-income countries (LMICs) contribute to the maximum burden of stillbirth globally, which ...

4 INFANT: Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research, Cork University Maternity Hospital, Cork, Ireland Introduction Caesarean section (CS) rates have increased globally during the ...

Introduction The way men are socialised into their masculine roles has been shown to contribute to male-perpetrated sexual violence (SV) against women students in higher education institutions (HEIs).

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Original research: Outcomes of open abdominal surgery at a single-centre tertiary referral hospital in Tanzania: a prospective, observational, single-arm cohort study (29 June, 2026) ...

Background General practitioners (GPs) manage the drug therapies of people with chronic diseases, and poor adherence to medication remains a major challenge. Objective This qualitative study examined ...