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Building evidences in Public Health Emergency Preparedness (“BePHEP” Project)—a systematic review

Michelangelo Mercogliano, Gloria Spatari, Chiara Noviello, Francesca Di Serafino et al. • International Journal for Equity in Health (2025)

Abstract Introduction Humanitarian crises exacerbate the vulnerability of already fragile healthcare systems and significantly increase the risk of infectious disease outbreaks in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This systematic re...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12939-025-02382-w

Robotic Arthroplasty Clinical and cost Effectiveness Randomised controlled trial (RACER-knee): a study protocol

Martin Underwood, Charles E Hutchinson, Helen Parsons, James Mason et al. • BMJ Open (2023)

Introduction Robotic-assisted knee replacement systems have been introduced to healthcare services worldwide in an effort to improve clinical outcomes for people, although high-quality evidence that they are clinically, or cost-effective re...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068255

Clinical features of the course of Hirschsprung’s disease in newborns and infants with consideration of the extent of colonic aganglionosis

V.P. Prytula, O.O. Kurtash, V.F. Rybalchenko, S.F. Hussaini • Український журнал Перинатологія і педіатрія (2024)

The clinical course of Hirschsprung’s disease (HD) in newborns and infants depends on the extent of сolonic aganglionosis, the age of patient, the presence of associated malformations and complications. The aim - to study the peculiariti...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.15574/PP.2024.97.55

Lipid profile in elderly and centenarian subjects in Kazakhstan: a case-control study

Yu. Ganzhula, Zh. Borykbay, V. Tkachev, S. Urazova et al. • Central Asian Journal of Medical Hypotheses and Ethics (2024)

Introduction. The health of centenarians is a major focus in global studies. Dyslipidemia is directly linked to the risk of cardiovascular diseases, which pose a growing burden on healthcare due to the increasing elderly population. Studyin...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.47316/cajmhe.2024.5.3.04

Effect of falls prevention interventions on falls and the risk factors for falls among cancer survivors: protocol for a systematic review

Lynette Mackenzie, Amanda M. Clifford, Eleanor Fallon, Joanna M. Allardyce • BMJ Open (2026)

Introduction Falls are a significant health concern and associated with cancer survivorship. Falls can result in negative psychosocial consequences for cancer survivors and economic sequelae for healthcare delivery. There are cancer-specifi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-110212

A compact model for the home healthcare routing and scheduling problem

Roberto Montemanni, Sara Ceschia, Andrea Schaerf • EURO Journal on Computational Optimization (2025)

Home healthcare has become more and more central in the last decades, due to the advantages it can bring to both healthcare institutions and patients. Planning activities in this context, however, presents significant challenges related to ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.ejco.2024.100101

The application of cosine similarity measures with Laplacian energy to q-rung orthopair fuzzy graphs in decision-making problems

Mohamed Atheeque A., Sharief Basha S., Nune Pratyusha, C. Raghavendra Reddy et al. • AIP Advances (2024)

Q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets (q-ROFS), which are better than the intuitionistic and Pythagorean fuzzy sets, are a significant tool for expressing ambiguous information. Their key feature is that their ability to represent a larger space of u...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1063/5.0202907

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN SWEDEN

Per Carlsson, Egon Jonsson, Lars Werkö, David Banta • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2000)

Sweden has a welfare system that is based on the fundamental principle that all citizens are entitled to good health and medical care, regardless of where they live or what their economic circumstances are. Health and medical care are consi...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462300101151

Professionalising health technology assessment in South Africa

Debjani Mueller, M Poluta, M Brand, N Mutshekwane • Southern African Journal of Public Health (2024)

Health technology encompasses interventions developed to prevent, diagnose or treat medical conditions; promote health; provide rehabilitation or organise healthcare delivery. The intervention can be a test, device, medicine, vaccine, proce...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc DOI: https://doi.org/10.7196/sajph.2024.v7i2.1875

Health Technologies: Transforming Scientific Knowledge into Human Health

Hüseyin Okan Durmuş • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2026)

Health technologies are commonly associated with medical devices, digital health platforms, robotics, and artificial intelligence. However, this perspective captures only the most visible dimension of a much broader concept. This study exam...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21826977

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN THE UNITED STATES

John M. Eisenberg, Deborah A. Zarin • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2002)

Governments may perform health technology assessment (HTA) in their roles as a regulator in the public interest, as a source of information for decision makers in the public and private sectors, and/or as a purchaser or provider of healthca...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s026646230200020x

Key principles for the improved conduct of health technology assessments for resource allocation decisions

Michael Drummond, Jerome Sanford Schwartz, Bengt Jönsson, Bryan R. Luce et al. • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2008)

Health technology assessment (HTA) is a dynamic, rapidly evolving process, embracing different types of assessments that inform real-world decisions about the value (i.e., benefits, risks, and costs) of new and existing technologies. Histor...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462308080343

Deliberative process of health technology reassessment by health technology assessment agency in Korea

Sangjin Shin, Yunjung Kim, Ji Eun Choi, Jung Yul Park • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2024)

In 2019, the National Evidence-based Healthcare Collaborating Agency (NECA) in Korea established a health technology reassessment (HTR) system to manage the life cycle of health technologies and develop operational measures promoting the ef...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s026646232400014x PMC: 11569900

Neurological Manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Protocol for a Sub-analysis of the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium Observational Study

Denise Battaglini, Denise Battaglini, Lavienraj Premraj, Lavienraj Premraj et al. • Frontiers in Medicine (2022)

IntroductionNeurological manifestations and complications in coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) patients are frequent. Prior studies suggested a possible association between neurological complications and fatal outcome, as well as the exis...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2022.930217

Gender, power, and digital health inequities: a narrative review of barriers to digital health access among women in Lesotho

Sharon R.T. Chilunjika, Patrick Ngulube • Cogent Social Sciences (2026)

Digital health technologies are increasingly recognised as tools to enhance healthcare accessibility in resource-constrained settings. However, evidence suggests that not every section of society has benefitted equally. Women in developing ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1080/23311886.2026.2686470

Digital health technologies and major depressive disorder

Roger S. McIntyre, Walter Greenleaf, Grzegorz W. Bulaj, Steven T. Taylor et al. • CNS Spectrums (2023)

There is an urgent need to improve the clinical management of major depressive disorder (MDD), which has become increasingly prevalent over the past two decades. Several gaps and challenges in the awareness, detection, treatment, and monito...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1092852923002225

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN GREECE

Lycurgus L. Liaropoulos, Δάφνη Καϊτελίδου • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2000)

In 1983 a health reform aimed to assure universal coverage and equity in the distribution of services in Greece. The reform implied state responsibility for the financing and delivery of services and a reduction of the private sector. The m...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462300101084