Latest issue of Global Health & Medicine (GHM), JIHS’s official English-language academic journal, now available (Vol. 8, No. 5, October 2026)

The latest issue of Global Health & Medicine (GHM) (Vol. 8, No. 5, October 2026), the official English-language academic journal of the Japan Institute for Health Security (JIHS), has been published and is now available online.

GHM Vol. 8. No. 5, October 2026
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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:

• Clinical research on emerging medical technologies in Japan: Implementation, evaluation, and evidence generation (Japan)
• Why do patients bypass primary care? Trust, resource concentration, and risk in China's tiered healthcare system: A comparative policy perspective (China)
• Assessing an educational strategy to improve community health provider-led provision of cervical cancer screening services in western Kenya: A secondary analysis of the Elimisha-HPV cluster-randomized controlled trial (U.S.)
• Association between maternal dysglycaemia and adverse perinatal outcomes: A retrospective cohort study using a Japanese mother–infant-linked claims database (Japan)
• Association of NCCRP1 expression with T category and in vitro growth-related characteristics of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma FaDu cells (Japan)
• Association of steatotic liver disease with long-term oncological outcomes after hepatic resection for hepatocellular carcinoma (Japan)
• First reported clinical implementation of pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy in Japan: Program development and 30-day outcomes in two patients (Japan)
• First clinical implementation of histotripsy for liver tumors in Japan (Japan)
• Infectious disease communication for international students: A survey of association-accredited Japanese language schools in Japan (Japan)
• ACCESS Japan Registry: Toward a nationwide evidence platform for foreign visitors requiring emergency hospitalization in Japan—Rationale, design, and governance of a multicenter registry (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.