


Patients with limited health literacy experience significant delays in lung cancer diagnosis. This ultimately exacerbates existing health inequities and burdens the healthcare system.

A protocol for a scoping review highlights the increasing role of digital health technologies in rural primary care, driven by factors like telehealth adoption and physician shortages. The review's findings could shape future strategies for sustainable rura...

Patients with low health literacy and chronic conditions face significant delays in lung cancer diagnosis, impacting survival. Health systems must address these disparities through targeted interventions and policy changes to improve early detection and out...

Patients with lower health literacy and multiple comorbidities face significant delays in lung cancer diagnosis. Clinicians should proactively identify at-risk individuals and tailor communication strategies to improve diagnostic timeliness.

For clinicians working in rural primary care, understanding the methodology behind research is crucial. This scoping review protocol emphasizes transparency and rigor in evaluating digital health technologies.

Croatia's 2013 primary care payment reforms, transitioning to a mixed capitation and fee-for-service model, significantly impacted rural family practices. Understanding these shifts can help practices optimize patient panel sizes, preventative care strategi...

In preventive health services, a quasi-experimental analysis from India examines how health insurance shifts cardiometabolic risk through financial access to screening and treatment . Effect estimates appear modest and heterogeneous, with several 95% CIs ov...

In India, quasi-experimental analyses of health insurance expansion and cardiometabolic risk examined blood pressure, glycemia, and adiposity. Coverage improved financial protection but showed limited and heterogeneous shifts in risk-factor levels over shor...

Elderly refugees with multimorbidity present high primary care demand, medication continuity challenges, and language barriers. Evidence from Ukrainian arrivals in Israel highlights heavy use of primary and urgent services, frequent chronic disease follow-u...

Elderly refugee health service utilization was examined using a retrospective cohort within an integrated Israeli health system. Refugee status functioned as the exposure, and utilization metrics spanned primary care, specialty, emergency, and inpatient dom...