Global Health & Medicine / GHM Open

Global Health & Medicine（GHM）

GHM is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Japan Institute for Health Security (JIHS). Issued bimonthly in both print and electronic formats (Print ISSN: 2434-9186; Online ISSN: 2434-9194), the journal launched its inaugural issue in October 2019. Articles published in GHM span the fields of global health, public health, and health care delivery, and include seminal and cutting-edge research at the intersection of biomedical science and clinical practice. Articles published in GHM are indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, PubMed/PMC, and Scopus. The journal currently holds an Impact Factor of 1.4 and a CiteScore of 3.1.

【The latest issue (Vol. 8. No. 2, April 2026)】

The article titles (with the countries of the authors’ affiliations) are as follows:

• From fragmentation to integration: Can Japan's JIHS deliver a resilient system to deal with health emergencies? (Japan)　→Figure 1 is also featured on journal cover and provides an overview of the core functional framework of JIHS.
• Japan Pre-Entry Tuberculosis Screening (JPETS): A new phase in tuberculosis control following Japan's transition in a low-incidence era (Japan)
• Integrating medical Mobility as a Service (MaaS) with the doctor-to-patient with nurse (D to P with N) telemedicine model and pharmacist supported medication services: Towards mobility-integrated care for Japan's super-aged population (Japan)
• Strengthening upper gastrointestinal endoscopy service in primary healthcare settings in low- and middle-income countries: Proposals from an implementation study in Vietnam (Japan, Vietnam)
• Pneumococcal vaccination and aspiration pneumonia in super-aged societies: A scoping review of the evidence landscape (Japan)
• Unlocking data elements potential for enhanced urban public health emergency governance: configuration analysis based on 23 megacities in China (China)
• The Japanese version of the European Moral Case Deliberation Outcomes Instrument (Euro-MCD 2.0): Validation and score distribution among nurses, doctors, and other healthcare providers—A cross-sectional study (Japan)
• Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Internet Skills Scale in a Chinese older adult population (China)
• Barriers to advancing global oncology in an NCI-designated cancer center: A cross-sectional survey of faculty perspectives (U.S.)
• Reconsidering Japan's path to universal health insurance: Pre-war origins and the complementarity of occupational and community-based schemes (Japan)

Current Issue:
https://www.globalhealthmedicine.com/?issues=2026%2C1
Whole Issue (PDF):
https://www.globalhealthmedicine.com/site/archives.html
PubMed:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22Glob+Health+Med%22%5Bjour%5D&sort=date

GHM Open

GHM Open (Print ISSN 2436-293X, Online ISSN 2436-2956) is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal originally published by the National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM) in August 2021. As the second international academic journal of NCGM (now the Japan Institute for Health Security, JIHS), the Journal aims to foster a global network for sharing advances in basic and clinical science to inform practice. All articles are fully indexed in PubMed/PMC.

【The latest issue (Vol. 5, No. 1, July 2025)】

• Evaluation frameworks for technology transfer projects: Lessons from Japan's global growth of medical technologies initiatives in low- and middle-income countries (Japan)
• A scoping review on mindfulness-based interventions for families of patients with advanced cancer (Japan)
• The impact of a health education program on cervical cancer screening uptake: A survey among primary school teachers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Japan & Cambodia)
• Factors associated with withholding of invasive mechanical ventilation in the early phase of the COVID-19 response and their ethical analyses (Japan)
• The frequency of peripheral blood eosinophilia and its clinical significance in patients with dermatomyositis (Japan)
• Paraganglioma of the spermatic cord: A rare tumor with unique imaging findings and diagnostic challenges (Japan)
• A fatal case of pyogenic spondylitis rapidly progressing to epidural abscess caused by a novel ST-type methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus ST9378 (Japan)
• From prototype to implementation: Development of the DMIST scoring system for monitoring diabetic foot ulcers (Japan & USA)
• A path analysis of factors influencing life satisfaction among patients with narcolepsy in Japan (Japan)
• Comprehensive multidisciplinary approach in the long-term hospitalization of a child with obsessive – compulsive disorder and autism spectrum disorder: Emphasizing nursing practice (Japan)
• The Academic Research Organization Alliance for Southeast and East Asia (ARISE) in the new era: An international trials network towards pandemic preparedness (Japan)
• Seven-year experience in pathology capacity development project including education for pathology residents and pathology technologists in Cambodia: Challenges and opportunities (Japan & Cambodia)

Current Issue:
https://ghmopen.com/?issues=2025%2C1
Whole Issue (PDF):
https://ghmopen.com/site/archives.html
PubMed:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22GHM+Open%22%5Bjour%5D&sort=pubdate