Overview
Healthcare is the organised provision of services to maintain or restore health, encompassing the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illness together with the systems, personnel, and infrastructure through which care is delivered. As a field of study it integrates clinical practice with public health, health policy, quality improvement, and health-systems research. The work assembled here concentrates on how care is organised, governed, and improved. Quality and safety feature prominently, including evaluation of quality-improvement strategies in private facilities using a structure-process-outcome framework and evidence-based examination of health-information systems and high-reliability practice. Infection prevention and control is a recurring theme, with studies of biomedical waste management, infection-control knowledge and practice among healthcare workers, and the strengthening of tuberculosis control and screening during a pandemic. Workforce well-being is addressed through the prevalence of burnout, traumatic stress, and depression among maternal and neonatal staff. Access and equity emerge in work on barriers to reproductive healthcare for marginalised groups and on primary-care services and quality of life for older people with non-communicable diseases. Methodological contributions include qualitative interviewing in healthcare research. Together these themes present healthcare as a system-level discipline concerned with the quality, safety, equity, and resilience of service delivery and with the people who provide it.
Research published in this journal
12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
EPIC® and High Reliability in Healthcare: An Evidence Based Commentary
Reaching the In(Invisible): Addressing Barriers to Sexual Reproductive Healthcare of Lesbians, Bisexual Women and Sex Workers in Rivers State, Nigeria
Knowledge and Practice for Bio-Medical Waste Management among Healthcare Personnel at Kabgayi District Hospital, Rwanda
Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Healthcare Workers Towards Availability of Antiretroviral Pre-Exposure Prohylaxis in Nigeria
A Comprehensive Research Study Literature Review of EPIC© in Terms of Enabling Healthcare Agility: A Report Card
Interviews in Healthcare: A Phenomenological Approach A Qualitative Research Methodology
Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices towards Infection Prevention Control among Healthcare Workers in Selected Hospitals Located in Karongi district, Rwanda
Infection Prevention and Control in Healthcare Facilities During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Ghana
How this research is being cited
The 12 articles above have been cited 76 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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2026 · Primary Health Care Research & Development
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2026 · Advances in Medical Education and Practice
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2026 · Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health
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2026 · Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning
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2026 · SSM - Health Systems
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2026 · Discover Public Health
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2026 · Health Science Reports
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2026 · Cureus
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