New Insights into Understudied Phenomena in Healthcare

Dear Colleagues,

Healthcare is a complex and dynamic phenomenon. Understanding health as a complete state of well-being has introduced previously unfamiliar challenges to healthcare professionals. Alongside changes in paradigm positions, the emergence of new diseases, the use of new technologies, the research into new therapeutic approaches and the development of new disciplines in healthcare all contribute to emerging understudied phenomena. Unfortunately, understudied phenomena have received little attention in healthcare research. Whether these phenomena have traditionally been irrelevant for healthcare disciplines or have recently emerged as a consequence of the advancements in healthcare, it is clear that they require new insights into how we understand them.

Various research approaches, methodologies and designs can improve our understanding of understudied phenomena in healthcare. Therefore, we invite colleagues from all healthcare disciplines to submit papers using qualitative, quantitative or mixed-methods approaches. As an example, submitted papers could focus, on new insights into our understanding of understudied populations’ healthcare needs, analyzing the characteristics and/or effects of innovative care programmes delivered for understudied populations, or describing ground-breaking educational interventions to improve healthcare professionals’ competence to care for understudied populations.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Healthcare.

Dr. José Manuel Hernández Padilla
Dr. Cayetano Fernández-Sola
Guest Editors

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