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BMC Prim Care
January 2025
Centre for Primary Health Care, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Background: Health or illness and social issues cannot be viewed in isolation. Social problems can influence well-being and disease. General Practitioners (GPs) are requested to offer counselling opportunities to respond to the social issues of their patients adequately.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMental Health Literacy and Attitudes Towards Mental Health Problems Among College Students, Nepal.
Behav Sci (Basel)
December 2024
School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
(1) Background: Research on mental health literacy (MHL) and attitudes toward mental health problems (ATMHP) among non-medical college students in Nepal is limited. This study examined the relationship between MHL and ATMHP, considering demographic variables and familiarity with mental health issues; (2) Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey with 385 college students from Chitwan and Kathmandu, Nepal, using opportunity sampling. Descriptive and inferential statistics examined demographic differences, while Pearson's correlation assessed relationships among latent variables; (3) Results: No relationship was found between MHL and ATMHP (r = -0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEfficient and Effective Diabetes Care in the Era of Digitalization and Hypercompetitive Research Culture: A Focused Review in the Western Pacific Region with Malaysia as a Case Study.
Health Syst Reform
December 2025
Kuang Health Clinic, Pekan Kuang, Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia.
There are approximately 220 million (about 12% regional prevalence) adults living with diabetes mellitus (DM) with its related complications, and morbidity knowingly or unconsciously in the Western Pacific Region (WP). The estimated healthcare cost in the WP and Malaysia was 240 billion USD and 1.0 billion USD in 2021 and 2017, respectively, with unmeasurable suffering and loss of health quality and economic productivity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe public health risks of counterfeit pills.
Lancet Public Health
January 2025
Department of Family Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Synthetic illicit drugs, such as nitazenes and fentanyls, are becoming commonplace in countries around the world, including in Europe, Australia, and Latin America, which raises concern for overdose crises like those seen in North America. An important dimension of the risk represented by synthetic drugs is the fact that they are increasingly packaged in counterfeit pill form. These pills-often indistinguishable from authentic pharmaceuticals-have substantially widened the scope of populations susceptible to synthetic drug overdose in North America (eg, among adolescents experimenting with pills or tourists from the USA seeking psychoactive medications from pharmacies in Mexico).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnalysis of User-Generated Posts on Social Media of Adjuvant Analgesics: A Machine Learning Study.
Int J Med Sci
January 2025
Department of Medicine and Medical Specialities. University of Alcala, Alcala de Henares, 28801 Madrid, Spain.
Antiepileptics and antidepressants are frequently prescribed for chronic pain, but their efficacy and potential adverse effects raise concerns, including dependency issues. Increased prescriptions, sometimes fraudulent, prompted reclassification of antiepileptics in some countries. Our aim is to comprehend opinions, perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes towards co-analgesics from online discussions on X (formerly known as Twitter), offering insights closer to reality than conventional surveys.
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