The latest issue of Global Health & Medicine (GHM) (Vol. 8. No. 1, February 2026) is available online

The latest issue (Vol. 8. No. 1, February 2026) of Global Health & Medicine (GHM) has been officially published online. The articles are now indexed in the PubMed and Web of Science Core Collection databases.

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

This issue presents selected articles by researchers from around the world, spanning diverse scientific fields. Author affiliations (countries) are indicated in brackets:

• Regional health security architecture in ASEAN countries: Lessons from regional CDC models and Japan's strategic partnership for ACPHEED development (Japan)
• Japan's high-quality healthcare system despite physician shortages: Exploring the paradox and pathways toward sustainable healthcare  (Japan)
• Regional and facility-type variations in infectious diseases in childcare and early childhood education facilities in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic: A nationwide cross-sectional questionnaire survey  (Japan)
• Latent classes of frailty and their association with intrinsic capacity in older cancer survivors: A study under the healthy aging paradigm  (China)
• Investigating the link between Japanese Anticholinergic Risk Scale and laxative prescription in older adults: A cross-sectional study of 9,838 patients using dispensing claims from community pharmacies  (Japan)
• Retrospective observational analysis of prasugrel dosage after percutaneous coronary intervention using the Clinical Deep Data Accumulation System database  (Japan)
• Prognostic comparison between osteoblastic and osteolytic metastases in prostate cancer  (Japan)
• Current status and challenges of peer support for young people who engage in over-the-counter medicine overdose in Japan: Practice-oriented perspectives  (Japan)
• Global health systems research symposium in Nagasaki, Japan: Building momentum for health systems strengthening and commitment to core values of global health amid headwinds  (Japan)
• AI in clinical trials: Current status, challenges, and future directions with a focus on emergency infectious diseases — Insights from the 2025 iCROWN Symposium  (Japan)

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.

By engaging a globally diverse and representative community of readers, advisory board members, authors, and reviewers, GHM is committed to maintaining the highest standards of peer review and publication, with the goal of fostering international academic exchange in the field of global health and medicine. For more information, please visit: https://www.globalhealthmedicine.com.