Family Physicians Feel Underprepared for Cancer Care Roles, Survey Finds
A survey of 200 Turkish family physicians found limited involvement in cancer control, with perceived competence lowest after diagnosis and ...
Tag: Barriers
Barriers and facilitators to career progression and leadership among internationally educated nurses and midwives in the UK: a mixed methods systematic review
A mixed-methods systematic review of eight studies found that organisational barriers and uneven recognition of prior expertise shape career progression ...
Translational Barriers and AI‐Driven Challenges of Microfluidics‐Enabled Wearables and Implantable Systems in Personalized Medicine
A review finds that AI-enabled microfluidic wearables and implants could support continuous personalized monitoring, but clinical adoption requires stable materials, ...
Interconnected barriers hinder Indonesia’s tiered mental health referrals
A qualitative study of 23 Indonesian health professionals identifies interconnected administrative, medicine-supply, workforce, financial, adherence and stigma-related barriers affecting mental ...
Barriers to Implementing Medical-Legal Partnerships for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Qualitative Perspectives from the Veterans Health Administration
A qualitative study of 25 Veterans Health Administration staff identified five factors shaping medical-legal partnership implementation for patients experiencing intimate ...
Lebanese qualitative study identifies five barriers to workforce inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities
A qualitative analysis of 11 stakeholder interviews identified five barrier categories affecting the workforce inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities ...
Saudi expert survey maps barriers to living-wall implementation
A PLS-SEM analysis of an expert survey identified four statistically significant barrier categories associated with living-wall implementation constraints in Saudi ...
Rural Indonesian health workers reveal how they really talk communities into better health
In-depth focus groups with 18 community health workers in rural Indonesia expose the everyday communication barriers they face, the grassroots ...
Survey Reveals Persistent Gender Barriers in European Geriatric Medicine
An international survey published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine has shed light on the persistent challenges facing women ...
Stigma, Consent Rules and Pill Fatigue Keep Young People Off HIV Prevention Pills
Adolescents and young people carry a disproportionate share of the global HIV burden, yet the most powerful biomedical prevention tool ...
Perceptions, barriers and facilitators of ICDS preschool enrollment among mothers in rural Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
In the dusty villages surrounding Madurai in southern Tamil Nadu, a quiet revolution in early childhood education is unfolding, and ...
Why diabetes patients skip their pills: motivation matters more than medication know-how
More than one-tenth of adults worldwide now live with diabetes mellitus, and the number is projected to exceed 1.31 billion ...
Why Mothers in Argentina and Ethiopia Say They Avoid Maternal Health Care
Every year, roughly 99 percent of the world's maternal deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, a statistic that has ...
Why Patients Ignore Smart Bedside Terminals: Nurses Hold the Key
Walk into a modern smart hospital ward and you will find a curious piece of technology bolted beside nearly every ...
Why Most Bahraini Women Skip Mammograms—and the Simple Fix That Could Change It
A cross-sectional study of 302 Bahraini women aged 40–74 in primary healthcare centres found that while 59.9% had ever had ...
Rwanda’s One Health Gaps: Community Barriers Undermine Outbreak Preparedness
A descriptive qualitative study across six Rwandan districts reveals economic constraints, misinformation, and weak intersectoral collaboration as key barriers to ...
Supporting quantitative skills in biomedical science with smart worksheets: intentions, impact and barriers to engagement
Every year, hundreds of thousands of students arrive at university with one shared weakness: the maths hiding inside their science. ...
The safety case for a deep geological repository in Switzerland: engineered barriers for low- and intermediate-level waste disposal
Deep beneath the rolling hills of northern Switzerland, engineers are planning one of the most ambitious construction projects in human ...
Why Social Support Alone Cannot Break the Toughest Barriers to Diabetes Self-Care
Type 2 diabetes is often described as a disease of daily decisions, and a new cross-sectional study from Istanbul offers ...
Why Leprosy Care Comes Late in Tanzania: Stigma, Witchcraft Beliefs and Failing Clinics
A qualitative study in Tanzania traces how witchcraft beliefs, stigma and health-system failures combine to delay leprosy diagnosis and treatment.
