Over the past decade, it has become clear that the health sector is not only at risk from
climate change but also a major polluter of greenhouse gases. In November 2021, the World …

Background Physical activity referral schemes (PARS) are complex multicomponent
interventions that represent a promising healthcare-based concept for physical activity (PA) …

Background Frail individuals often face a high medical burden, and household solid fuel use
is associated with a range of functional declines or diseases, but evidence on the …

Access to health care is key to well-being, and it is increasingly clear that aggregated
accessibility analysis is hard to reflect people's actual healthcare behaviour. This paper …

Excessive noise has become a significant problem in hospitals around the world, as
revealed by a number of studies. This study aimed to investigate the acoustic conditions in …

Objective Healthcare for adolescents receives little attention in low-income countries
globally despite their large population share in these settings, the importance of disease …

Background: Bipolar disorders (BD) are significant debilitating mental problems. Here, we
introduced a novel index as a representative of the quality of care delivered to BD patients …

Objective To evaluate the incidence and trend of catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) in
China over the past 20 years and explore the socioeconomic factors affecting China's CHE …

Abstract Background Inequality of opportunity (IOp) stemming from social circumstances
exists in outpatient service utilization for the multimorbid elderly in China. However, little is …

How does FDA regulation impact innovation, market structure, and product safety in
established product categories? I examine this question by exploiting FDA deregulation …