The latest issue of Global Health & Medicine (GHM) (Vol. 8. No. 2, April 2026) is available online

The latest issue (Vol. 8. No. 2, April 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%2C2
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. 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)

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.