Asia

Cold-related excess deaths in China are significantly higher than heat-related deaths, with substantial economic losses, and colder regions experience more heat-related mortality, underscoring the importance of targeted climate adaptation.
This is the first large-scale empirical study examining the impact of sea-level rise induced by climate change on mental health outcomes among coastal communities.

This study investigates how critical literacy teaching enables Grade 6 indigenous students in rural Taiwan to critically analyze EFL textbooks.

It is at the crossover of good health and wellbeing and innovation in industry. Depression is now a prevalent mental illness and multimodal data-based depression detection is an essential topic of research.
This cohort study found that decreasing the consumption of overall and healthful plant-based di was associated with a higher risk of total mortality, whereas decreasing the consumption of an unhealthful plant-based diet was associated with a lower risk of total mortality in older adults.
This article examines the association between the Chinese version of the MIND diet (cMIND) and cognitive impairment in older Chinese adults. The study found that higher adherence to the cMIND diet was associated with a lower risk of cognitive impairment.
Presentation of a data-driven, personalized nutrition risk assessment algorithm that utilizes food frequency questionnaires to identify dietary diversity clusters and examine their associations with health outcomes among middle-aged and older individuals in Taiwan. The study identified four dietary diversity clusters and found that the "most diverse" cluster had lower risks of developing hypertension, diabetes, and mortality compared to the "least diverse".

Using a collaborative ethnographic action-oriented approach, we researched the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of three vulnerable groups of female labour migrants in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Our goal was to understand the health challenges faced by these women and work towards effective interventions and services. Their issues often emanate from deep-seated structural inequalities, as well as legal, socio-cultural, political, and economic factors. In this article, we highlight the interconnected and overlapping - tangible and intangible - societal impacts that arose both as a consequence of our study and as inherent components of the research process in both the short and long term.

Divorce remains illegal in the Philippines, and this Comment considers the legal situation around divorce and the risk of abuse and other mental health implications of this situation for women. It calls for legal changes to advance gender equity.
Proper regulation is essential to ensure that such a system benefited those in need, and that those who provided organs are properly compensated. Without significant policy changes, however, far too many patients will continue to languish on waiting lists until they run out of time. The goal of SDG3 is that everyone should have a good health and well-being.

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