Academic Articles & Research Papers

Participatory action research in rural and vulnerable settings for community health: a systematic literature review.

Carmena Del Viso M, Beni-Abdellah U, Moradell A, Navas-Ferrer C et al. • BMC public health (2026)

PMC PMC Public Access (View-Only) DOI: 10.1186/s12889-026-28651-z PMC: PMC13700319

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Social protection and climate resilience among informal workers in Pakistan: a qualitative study of the Benazir income support programme in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Khattak MI, Khattak SI, Shaukat HS, Bokhari SS et al. • BMC public health (2026)

PMC PMC Public Access (View-Only) DOI: 10.1186/s12889-026-28367-0 PMC: PMC13700232

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Equity in healthcare financing and access to care among vulnerable populations in Africa: a systematic review.

Adebajo GO, Alabi GJ, Atobatele IR, Ayowole DJ • BMC health services research (2026)

PMC PMC Public Access (View-Only) DOI: 10.1186/s12913-026-15159-w PMC: PMC13700297

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'Leading by Leveraging Situations': A Participant Observation Study Exploring How Registered Nurses Lead Close to Older Adults in Municipal Home Healthcare.

Stien T, Herulf Scholander L, Jonasson LL, Josefsson K • International journal of older people nursing (2026)

PMC PMC Public Access (View-Only) DOI: 10.1111/opn.70102 PMC: PMC13696837

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Playing It Differently: Using Performance-Based Interviewing to Engage Children in Healthcare Research.

Treadgold C, Nikolovski J, Eapen V, Koutoulas V et al. • Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy (2026)

PMC PMC Public Access (View-Only) DOI: 10.1111/hex.70922 PMC: PMC13700104

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Oral Health Literacy and Persistent Oral Health Inequalities in Older Adults: A Conceptual Model.

Pallien HM, Alrayes M, Niemuth A, Wahl S et al. • Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) (2026)

PMC PMC Public Access (View-Only) DOI: 10.3390/geriatrics11050146 PMC: PMC13704153

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X-QST: A Wireless Thermal Quantitative Sensory Testing System Integrated into a Ubiquitous Health Platform-Development and Pilot Evaluation in Healthy Adults.

Scorpion JC, Andolfatto A, Paula JLPDS, Marques JLB • Biosensors (2026)

PMC PMC Public Access (View-Only) DOI: 10.3390/bios16100530 PMC: PMC13702497

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Societal and Healthcare Costs of Post-IDFS Events Following Adjuvant Ribociclib Plus an Aromatase Inhibitor (AI) Versus AI Alone in Pre- and Postmenopausal Women with Early HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer in Canada.

Soliman D, Brezden-Masley C, Sehdev S, Sabater Anaya N et al. • Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) (2026)

PMC PMC Public Access (View-Only) DOI: 10.3390/curroncol33100595 PMC: PMC13703256

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Vaccination Inequities Among Foreign-Born Adults in the United States: The Role of Citizenship, Socioeconomic Disadvantage, and Healthcare Access in the 2024 National Health Interview Survey.

Shah G, Karibayeva I • Tropical medicine and infectious disease (2026)

PMC PMC Public Access (View-Only) DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed11100282 PMC: PMC13709679

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Factors associated with socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of chronic NCD risk factors in the DIMAMO surveillance site, South Africa.

Ravhuhali KG, Ntimana CB, Maimela E • PLOS global public health (2026)

PMC PMC Public Access (View-Only) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0007483 PMC: PMC13704811

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Geo-Analytic Decision Support for Federal Behavioral Health Prioritization Among American Indian and Alaska Native Populations: Exploratory Study.

Paschane DM, Ontiveros M, Snyder JE • JMIR public health and surveillance (2026)

PMC PMC Public Access (View-Only) DOI: 10.2196/87265 PMC: PMC13706252

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Equity and spatial effects of hospital accessibility in Sichuan Province: evidence from GA2SFCA-based data.

Song Q, Ge C, Deng J • Frontiers in public health (2026)

PMC PMC Public Access (View-Only) DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1950200 PMC: PMC13696474

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Estimating the Health, Economic, and Social Benefits of Obesity Treatment Using Microsimulation Modeling.

Chen F, Dall TM, Ferguson C, Sapra T et al. • Diabetes, obesity, and cardiometabolic CARE (2026)

PMC PMC Public Access (View-Only) DOI: 10.2337/doci25-0004 PMC: PMC13696540

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Obstetric Fistula in Somalia: A Narrative Review of Burden, Lived Experience, Health-System Gaps, and Pathways to Elimination.

Ali RM • International journal of women's health (2026)

PMC PMC Public Access (View-Only) DOI: 10.2147/IJWH.S647255 PMC: PMC13701090

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Uptake of ≥8 Antenatal Care Contacts Among Multigravida Women in Hard-to-Reach Islands of Buvuma District, Uganda: A Community- Based Study.

Nkoyoyo C, Nekaka R, Lubaale YM, Nteziyaremye J • International journal of women's health (2026)

PMC PMC Public Access (View-Only) DOI: 10.2147/IJWH.S637718 PMC: PMC13701089

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Building capacity in One Health: a case study in developing and sustaining interdisciplinary programs in higher education.

Husband BC, Pollock H, Clow K, Finnis E et al. • Bioscience (2026)

PMC PMC Public Access (View-Only) DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biaf160 PMC: PMC13702824

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Medication data harmonization and utilization patterns during pregnancy across claims, electronic health record, and health information exchange data sources.

Liu J, Chiang C, Liu X, Quinney SK et al. • JAMIA open (2026)

PMC PMC Public Access (View-Only) DOI: 10.1093/jamiaopen/ooag204 PMC: PMC13706625

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Projected Exposure of Canadian Children to Rare, High-Severity Heatwaves Under Continued Warming.

Zaerpour M, Taleghanidoozdoozan S, Steele BJ, Hatami S et al. • GeoHealth (2026)

PMC PMC Public Access (View-Only) DOI: 10.1029/2026GH001873 PMC: PMC13701080

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A sonic One Health framework: characterizing health of the environment, animals, and humans using a soundscape perspective.

Pijanowski BC, Rivas Fuenzalida F, Kang J, Werner C et al. • Bioscience (2026)

PMC PMC Public Access (View-Only) DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biaf109 PMC: PMC13702801

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Endometriosis Burden Among Adolescents and Young Adult Women in China and the Western Pacific Region from 1990 to 2023: A Systematic Analysis for the GBD 2023.

Niu X, Zhang X, Jiang X, Wang L • International journal of women's health (2026)

PMC PMC Public Access (View-Only) DOI: 10.2147/IJWH.S645784 PMC: PMC13701128

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