The latest issue of Global Health & Medicine (GHM) (GHM Vol. 8. No. 4, 2026) is available online

The latest issue (Vol. 8. No. 4, August 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.

GHM Vol. 8. No. 4, August 2026
Current Issue: https://www.globalhealthmedicine.com/?issues=2026%2C4
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:

• Current status and actions needed for disseminating medical information to the public at National Centers in Japan (Japan)
• Rethinking responses to over-the-counter drug overdose among young people in Japan: Toward a low-threshold support architecture (Japan)
• Late release of World Health Organization governing body documents: Trends in documentation timing at the World Health Assembly and Executive Board and considerations for Member State engagement (Japan)
• Effectiveness of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived β-like cell/islet transplantation in animal models of diabetes: A meta-analysis of preclinical studies (China)
• Multidisciplinary interventions for the prevention of aspiration pneumonia in super-aged societies: A scoping review (Japan)
• Factors associated with digital health literacy among community-dwelling older adults in Japan: An in-person cross-sectional study (Japan)
• Factors associated with control of arterial hypertension in Francisco Morazán, Honduras (Japan)
• Reforming World Health Organization governance in a changing global health architecture: An integrated governance analysis informed by field observation, interviews data, and policy mapping (Japan)
• Laparoscopic liver resection for patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma using data from the Japanese National Database: A nationwide observational study (Japan)
• Practical application of indocyanine green fluorescence imaging in left hepatopancreatoduodenectomy for cholangiocarcinoma with right-sided ligamentum teres (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 2.3 and a CiteScore of 2.2.

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.