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WHO | Mental-health access to expand in Jordan and Nepal through community, district-hospital and school-based services · 14 Aug 2026 JAMA Health Forum | Real-time prescription benefit tools improved fills for the highest-cost medicines—particularly in lower-income communities—but not overall · 14 Aug 2026 WHO | New HEARTS compendium standardizes hypertension-programme terminology, indicators and continuity-of-care measurement · 13 Aug 2026 JAMA Ophthalmology | In a 160-infant trial, standardized lacrimal sac massage was noninferior to probing for tear-duct obstruction, although resolution was slower · 13 Aug 2026 Nature Medicine | Genomic analysis indicates the 2026 Bundibugyo outbreak arose from a new zoonotic spillover rather than resurgence of earlier variants · 10 Aug 2026 WHO | Ervebo prioritized for Phase 3 research in the Bundibugyo outbreak while a strain-specific vaccine remains unavailable · 7 Aug 2026 Nature Medicine | Multi-turn simulated audits found mental-health chatbot risks can accumulate and vary by psychological vulnerability · 7 Aug 2026 JAMA Health Forum | Mandatory value-based payment participation was associated with more than US$3 billion in additional annual hospital administrative costs · 7 Aug 2026 JAMA Health Forum | More than one-third of 193 high-risk therapeutic devices experienced serious recalls, strengthening the case for robust post-market surveillance · 7 Aug 2026 WHO–UNICEF | Exclusive breastfeeding has risen above 47%; stronger health-system support could prevent almost 400,000 child and 140,000 maternal deaths annually · 31 Jul 2026 BMJ Open Ophthalmology | AI-based diabetic-retinopathy screening showed a lower cost per diagnosed case in a primary-care study · 30 Jul 2026 WHO | Health financing under pressure: urgent action needed to sustain essential services and universal health coverage · 28 Jul 2026 Nature Medicine | Long-COVID fatigue improved across specialist-care pathways; multi-organ MRI added no benefit and later digital-rehabilitation gains were small · 28 Jul 2026 Nature Medicine | Retina4IRD assistance raised top-five genetic-category accuracy from 67.3% to 88.5% in a multicentre randomized trial · 24 Jul 2026 Science Corporation | PRIMA retinal implant receives EU MDR CE mark for form-vision restoration in geographic atrophy due to AMD · 22 Jul 2026 Abu Dhabi Biobank / Bascom Palmer | Middle East’s first eye bank aims to strengthen regional corneal-transplant access and tissue-supply resilience · 2 Jul 2026

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Healthcare Management

Integrated Care Is Strategy: The Executive Operating Model for High-Performance Health Systems

Integrated care is no longer a downstream coordination function. It is an executive operating model connecting governance, population health, clinical pathways, workforce, digital intelligence and value across the patient journey.

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Healthcare ManagementPublic Health

Building Resilient Health Systems in Humanitarian Crises

Humanitarian crises fracture the pathways that make care dependable. This policy analysis presents an adaptive stewardship framework for converting evidence into accountable decisions, protecting continuity of care, and embedding recovery in resilient, locally supportable health systems.

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Eye HealthHealthcare ManagementHealthcare TransformationPublic Health

The Prevention Liability: The Hidden Balance Sheet of Delayed Care

Prevention liability is the hidden clinical, financial and societal burden created when manageable risk remains unresolved until recovery narrows or is lost. A board-level framework for governing time-sensitive prevention across the life course.

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Eye HealthHealthcare TransformationOphthalmologyPublic Health

Retinopathy of Prematurity: A Global Health-Systems Framework for Preventing Childhood Blindness through Neonatal Safety, Screening Governance, and Lifelong Vision Protection

This flagship article presents a global health-systems framework for preventing blindness from retinopathy of prematurity by strengthening neonatal safety, screening governance, timely treatment activation, accountability, and lifelong vision protection across diverse healthcare settings.

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Healthcare Management

Integrated Care Is Strategy: The Executive Operating Model for High-Performance Health Systems

Integrated care is no longer a downstream coordination function. It is an executive operating model...

Healthcare ManagementPublic Health

Building Resilient Health Systems in Humanitarian Crises

Humanitarian crises fracture the pathways that make care dependable. This policy analysis presents...

Eye HealthHealthcare ManagementHealthcare TransformationPublic Health

The Prevention Liability: The Hidden Balance Sheet of Delayed Care

Prevention liability is the hidden clinical, financial and societal burden created when manageable...

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