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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

Digital prevention of depression for farmers? A qualitative study on participants' experiences regarding determinants of acceptance and satisfaction with a tailored guided internet intervention program

Johanna Freund, Claudia Buntrock, Lina Braun, Janika Thielecke et al. • Internet Interventions (2022)

Introduction: Farmers, forest workers and gardeners have a higher risk of developing depression compared to other occupational populations. As part of the German pilot project “With us in balance”, the potential of six guided internet- and ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.invent.2022.100566

“Their Bodies Were Made to Move and Wriggle Right from the Word Go”: A Qualitative Exploration of Family Engagement with Fundamental Movement Skills in Early Childhood

Robert J. Flynn, Andy Pringle, Clare M. P. Roscoe • Children (2026)

Background: Fundamental movement skills (FMS) underpin lifelong physical activity (PA) and health, yet many children are failing to meet age-appropriate standards. Caregivers hold a critical influence over children’s motor development, but ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/children13040563

Adjunctive antimicrobial photodynamic therapy in the nonsurgical treatment of periodontitis: an umbrella review

Vini Mehta, Santosh Patil, Kabir Suman Dash, Ankita Mathur • BDJ Open (2026)

Abstract Aim Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) has been proposed as a locally acting adjunct to subgingival instrumentation for periodontitis. This umbrella review aimed to synthesize and critically appraise systematic reviews of ad...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41405-026-00503-3

Advanced Digital Health Technologies for COVID-19 and Future Emergencies

Benjamin K. Scott, Geoffrey T Miller, Stephanie Jo Fonda, Ronald E. Yeaw et al. • Telemedicine Journal and e-Health (2020)

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to a national health care emergency in the United States and exposed resource shortages, particularly of health care providers trained to provide critical or intensive care. This artic...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2020.0140

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

Understanding Design Tradeoffs for Health Technologies

Katie O’Leary, Jordan Eschler, Logan Kendall, Lisa M. Vizer et al. • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2015)

We introduce a mixed-methods approach for determining how people weigh tradeoffs in values related to health and technologies for health self-management. Our approach combines interviews with Q-methodology, a method from psychology uniquely...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702576 PMC: 5554065

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

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

Steven H. Woolf, Chris Henshall • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2000)

The National Health Service (NHS) provides universal health coverage for all British citizens. Most services are free of charge, although modest copayments are sometimes applied. About 11% of the population also has private insurance. Gener...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462300101175

Simulators with Haptic Feedback in Neurosurgery: Are We Reaching the “Aviator” Type of Training? Narrative Review and Future Perspectives

Davide Luglietto, Alessandro De Benedictis, Alessandra Marasi, Maria Camilla Rossi-Espagnet et al. • Life (2025)

Over the last decade, the quality of neurosurgical procedures dramatically improved, also thanks to the development and increased accessibility of several technological recourses (e.g., imaging, neuronavigation, neurophysiology, microscopy)...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/life15050777

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN DENMARK

Torben Jørgensen, Anne Hvenegaard, Finn Børlum Kristensen • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2000)

The Danish healthcare services are mainly provided by public sector institutions. The system is highly decentralized. The state has little direct influence on the provision of healthcare services. State influence is exercised through legisl...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462300101047

Antimicrobial topical polymeric films loaded with Acetyl-11-keto-β-boswellic acid (AKBA), boswellic acid and silver nanoparticles: Optimization, characterization, and biological activity

Muhammad Jawad, Saurabh Bhatia, Ahmed Al-Harrasi, Sana Ullah et al. • Heliyon (2024)

The study examined the antimicrobial and antioxidant potential of pure Acetyl-11-keto-β-boswellic acid (AKBA), boswellic acid (70%) and AKBA loaded nanoparticles as topical polymeric films. The optimized concentration (0.05 % w/v) of pure A...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e31671

Should I walk, cycle or drive? Active-to-passive travel directness and mode choice across 15 months of GPS-traced trips

Karl Samuelsson, Torvid Kreisler, Noah Linder, Elena Farahbakhsh Touli et al. • Journal of Urban Mobility (2026)

Improving active travel infrastructure may not substantially increase cycling and walking if motorised transport continues to be largely perceived as the easier and more convenient option. Here, we develop a measure of comparative directnes...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.urbmob.2026.100313

Geometric nonlinear analysis of Timoshenko beams with variable cross-section using co-rotational formulation

X. Guo, X. Guo, X. Guo, H. Feng et al. • Wind Energy Science (2026)

The geometrically nonlinear analysis of Timoshenko beams with variable cross-sections remains a challenging task in engineering practice, particularly for structures subjected to large deformations. While co-rotational (CR) formulations hav...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5194/wes-11-3137-2026

Non-metallic iodine single-atom catalysts with optimized electronic structures for efficient Fenton-like reactions

Junjun Pei, Jianbin Liu, Kaixing Fu, Yukui Fu et al. • Nature Communications (2025)

Abstract In this study, we introduce a highly effective non-metallic iodine single-atom catalyst (SAC), referred to as I-NC, which is strategically confined within a nitrogen-doped carbon (NC) scaffold. This configuration features a distinc...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56246-6