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Pharmacists have been recognized as the most accessible healthcare professionals, and research has been carried out on expanded pharmacy services they could provide. Additional pharmacy services are a cost-effective way to prevent medication errors,...

Artificial intelligence is increasingly adopted by tourism organisations, yet its relationships with creativity, innovation, and organisational growth intention remain insufficiently understood across national contexts. This study examined relationsh...

Many factors contribute as facilitators of or barriers to adolescents’ use of dental services. Guided by the expanded Andersen model for dental service utilization, the aim of this study was to identify factors associated with the use of dental...

Background: Pharmacists can offer medication expertise to help better control diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) and improve patient outcomes, particularly in rural communities. This project evaluated the impact of an awareness campaign on per...

In this study, we aimed to compare the quantity and quality of publications in health care sciences and services journals from the Chinese mainland, Taiwan, Japan, and India. Journals in this category of the Science Citation Index Expanded were inclu...

This paper aims to make possible the operation of a turbo-expander (TE) as a renewable resource at the Neka power plant in fault condition in the auxiliary service system (ASS), which is considered one of the fundamental problems in network operation...

Canine vehicle restraint systems are multi-material safety products in which polymer structure and condition govern energy absorption, containment, restraint, comfort, hygiene, and durability. This critical scoping review integrates materials-science...

The purpose of this study is to develop a framework that will provide the services marketing manager a systematic, holistic and transparent means of enhancing sustainability performance through the marketing function. We review the literature dealing...

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore perspectives of Whole Health (WH) coaches at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) on meeting the needs of rural Veterans during the COVID-19 pandemic. The evaluation design employed a qualitati...

Pulmonary rehabilitation is a strongly recommended and effective treatment for people with chronic lung disease. However, access to pulmonary rehabilitation is poor. Globally, pulmonary rehabilitation is accessed by less than 3% of people with chroni...

Introduction: Rates of peritoneal dialysis (PD) have been traditionally low in Northern Ireland. With rising numbers of patients reaching end-stage kidney disease, PD is a more cost-effective treatment than haemodialysis and aligns with international...

Farmland fragmentation and continued rural labor outmigration make it difficult for smallholder economies to maintain grain production through land consolidation alone. Using China’s Agricultural Production Service Pilot Program as a quasi-natu...

In a large agrarian country with numerous smallholders, a key issue in food security governance is determining how to overcome the constraints of fragmented smallholder farming through productive service provision and thereby expand the scale of grai...

The airborne relay-based positioning system (ARPS), which employs the relaying of navigation signals, was proposed as an alternative positioning system. However, the ARPS has limitations, such as relatively large vertical error and service restrictio...

Background/Objectives: Health promotion (HPr) is increasingly recognized as an essential component of modern pharmacy practice. In developing countries like Pakistan, pharmacists’ roles are evolving from traditional dispensing toward extended p...

Since the onset of reform and opening up in China, large cities in the nation have been experiencing problems related to limited medical resources. These resource limitations are due to rapid population growth and urban expansion. As the country&rsqu...

This study presents fundamental data on the technology acceptance of kiosks in QSR (Quick Service Restaurants) and the marketing plans for efficient management performance. In this paper, the combined concept model was established through the accepta...

Early debates on the sustainability of food-plating systems in hospitals have concentrated mostly on plate waste food served, but not eaten. This study aims to address the need for more comprehensive studies on sustainable food services systems by ex...

Background/Objectives: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has a history of low coverage (<50%) with all first-year-of-life vaccines for children aged 12–23 months, resulting in frequent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. In r...

In the United States, patients face increasing practical barriers and concerns about stigma when seeking sexual and reproductive healthcare, specifically family planning services involving hormonal contraception, emergency contraception, and abortion...

Research into the bicycle level-of-service (BLOS) has been extensively conducted over the last three decades. This research has mostly focused on user perceptions of comfort to provide guidance for decision-makers and planners. Segments and nodes wer...

Introduction: The WHO Measles and Rubella Strategic Framework 2021–2030 within the Immunization Agenda 2030 includes both measles and rubella elimination goals and provides guidance to countries for planning and implementing the measles and rub...

Background/Objectives: The implementation of advanced practice nursing in Kazakhstan is aimed at improving the accessibility and quality of primary healthcare. One of the key indicators of the effectiveness of this model is patient satisfaction, whic...

The expansion of primary care wound services serves to alleviate secondary and tertiary care utilization. However, patient satisfaction is required to ensure service uptake. In recent years, various community pharmacies in Australia have begun to off...

Since COVID-19, social distancing has become common, and the demand for untact services has increased rapidly, resulting in an economic phenomenon centered on untact worldwide. Due to social distancing, the untact service area is expanding not only t...

Aim: The aim of this study is to explore pharmacist perspectives of the implementation of a community pharmacy-based ear health service in rural communities. Method: A community pharmacy-based health service model was designed and developed to provid...

(1) Background: homeless people are characterized by serious social vulnerability and difficulty in accessing health services worldwide. In Brazil, this population is supported by the Street Clinic teams who are challenged to establish intersectoral...

The Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) provides a European framework for assessing the capacity of buildings to optimise operation, respond to occupants and interact with energy grids. Its current catalogue covers nine domains: heating, cooling, domesti...

The provision of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services is an important part of a community pharmacist’s role in many countries. However, such services are not traditionally provided by pharmacists in Japan. We surveyed the practice and attitu...

Recently, California (CA) pharmacists’ scope of practice has expanded to include independently prescribing self-administered hormonal contraceptives, nicotine replacement therapy medications, travel health medications, routine vaccinations, nal...

In spite of their perceived value, the widespread implementation of ecosystem services assessments has been limited because of perceptions of being too technical, too expensive, or requiring special expertise. For example, federal estuary management...

The aim of this paper is to review pharmacy laws and regulations, pharmacist training, clinic considerations, and patient care outcomes regarding pharmacy-based travel health services in the United States. Pharmacists and pharmacies in the United Sta...

Introduction: This repeated cross-sectional study examined community pharmacies in Aotearoa New Zealand and the services they provide, including retail, dispensing, and expanded scope services (e.g., minor ailment management). Methods: Two cross-sect...

With the successful completion of the battle against poverty, after 2020, the focus and difficulty of China’s poverty governance will change from solving absolute poverty to alleviating relative poverty. Analyzing and studying the alleviation o...

This study examines changes in the online food market in South Korea, identifies this market’s potential for sustainable growth, and analyzes the causal relationships between media channels (mobile and PC-based devices) and product groups (fres...

Ecological restoration screening based on aggregate ecosystem service supply may overlook differences in service composition and neighboring functional contexts. This study examined how ecosystem service bundle (ESB) dynamics and spatial organization...

This study highlights the impact of digital financial services as enhancing the capacity of development goals as well as social sustainability. The selected emerging markets are Ghanaian financial service providers (FSP)s and microenterprise customer...

Background: Hungary operated a public health-focused primary care model programme with expanded preventive and community-based services between 2013 and 2017 in four disadvantaged regions. This study aimed at assessing the association of this program...

Accessing essential healthcare services presents a challenge for consumers living in rural and remote communities, leading to higher rates of chronic disease and poorer health outcomes. Community pharmacists are well positioned to address this lack o...

This case study aimed to gain an understanding of the implementation and usage of a telehealth program during the COVID-19 pandemic at a rural healthcare facility. An action research methodology, utilizing cycles of planning, implementation, review a...

Rural communities face significant healthcare access barriers that contribute to persistent health disparities. Mobile health clinics (MHCs) have emerged as a promising strategy for expanding healthcare access, yet their effectiveness in rural settin...

Background: Healthcare and social services aim to ensure health equity for all users. Despite ongoing efforts, marginalized populations remain underserved. The Dutch HOP-TR study intends to expand knowledge on how to enable the recovery of homeless s...

The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to expand its reach. To support the interconnection between moving entities, the Internet of Moving Things (IoMT) has emerged. As IoMT and IoT applications continue to expand in their capability, it is crucial t...

With the growing interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), research on massive machine-type communication (mMTC) services is being actively promoted. Because mMTC services are required to serve a large number of devices simultaneously, a lack of reso...

Financial inclusion efforts have resulted in a rapid increase in access to financial services. However, the usage of these financial services has not expanded at the same pace, especially in rural areas. The paper explores the factors that have cause...

In July 2015, South Korea began applying National Health Insurance reimbursement to inpatient hospice service. It is now appropriate and relevant to evaluate how hospice care is associated with healthcare utilization in terminal lung cancer patients....

For a country to be able to sustain a policy of increasing the use of renewable energy sources to supply electricity, it must be able to continue to provide a reliable electricity supply service to its customers. Typically, electricity reliability is...

Changes in land use patterns, types, and intensities significantly impact ecosystem services. This study follows the time series logic from history to the expected future to investigate the spatial and temporal characteristics of land use changes in...

The accelerating process of global urbanization has substantially reshaped land use patterns, exerting profound influences on the dynamics of ecosystem service provision. Effective and adaptive ecosystem management necessitates the quantitative ident...

This study examined social characteristics and their relations to healthcare service demand among older adults during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. The sample was based on a cohort of 103,955 adults over the age of 65. A general index of needs...