This study analyzes how healthcare, health, and social factors contribute to high out-of-pocket health expenditures (OOPE) among informally employed Cambodian households without prepayment schemes, finding that healthcare-related factors are the largest drivers of financial hardship. The authors recommend expanding prepayment schemes focused on comprehensive outpatient care, essential medications, and higher-level services, while also addressing noncommunicable diseases and injuries to improve financial protection.

Elsevier,

The Digital Doctor: How Digital Health Can Transform Healthcare, 2025, pp 167-177

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by exploring how digital health can improve personalized oncological care for different populations.
Elsevier,

The Digital Doctor: How Digital Health Can Transform Healthcare, 2025, pp 341-355

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by exploring how digital health can improve personalized kidney disease care for different populations.
This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure by discussing the understudied impacts of the gut microbiome and chronic inflammation that may contribute to neurodegeneration.
Zebra of the Month: Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency

Rare Disease Education: Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency

Editor: Kelsey LaFayette, DNP, RN, FNP-C

Zebra of the Year: Renal Coloboma Syndrome

Rare Disease Education: Renal Coloboma Syndrome

Editor: Kelsey LaFayette, DNP, RN, FNP-C

Zebra of the Year: Ankylosing Spondylitis

Rare Disease Education: Ankylosing Spondylitis

Editor: Kelsey LaFayette, DNP, RN, FNP-C

This chapter aligns with UN SDG goals 2 and 3 by underscoring the vital role of functional foods for promoting health and well-being.
Elsevier,

iScience, Volume 28, Issue 2, 21 February 2025, 111803

This study evaluates eight National One Health Strategic Plans using a mixed analytical approach, revealing varying degrees of alignment with core One Health principles and highlighting strengths and gaps to inform future initiatives. The framework combines qualitative, quantitative, and network analyses to assess content, terminology, and conceptual relationships within the plans.

This review highlights how nurse practitioners can strengthen Alzheimer’s disease care by supporting earlier diagnosis and access to treatment, which is essential for maintaining quality of life. Expanding their role helps reduce barriers in the healthcare system, ensuring people with Alzheimer’s receive timely care that promotes better health and well-being.

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