Cancer care interventions for forcibly displaced populations in low- and middle-income countries of the Middle East and North African region affected by humanitarian crises: Protoc... by Anne Lyon Havlik, Zena Ahmed, Philippa Susan Chadwick, Kate Nyhan, Kaveh Khoshnood

“…PubMed, Global Health, Embase, Scopus, The Lens, Global Index Medicus, and CINAHL Complete will be searched for peer-reviewed articles published from January to until present. …”
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Enablers and barriers for policymaker engagement in health research from the perspective of policymakers: a scoping review by Kabir Sheikh, Anas Ismail, Meike Schleiff, William Savedoff, Lorena Guerrero-Torres

“…This scoping review aimed to identify the enablers and barriers to policymaker engagement across the research process from the perspective of policymakers.Design Scoping review following the Joanna Briggs Institute Methods Manual for scoping reviews.Data sources MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, Social Policy and Practice, Campbell Collaboration, Health Systems Evidence and World Bank e-Library, supplemented by grey literature from Google Scholar, WHO Global Index Medicus and VHL Regional Portal.Eligibility criteria We included English language studies published after 2007 that involved policymakers at national or subnational levels who were actively engaged in research at any stage. …”
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Common mental health outcomes and access to support services among adolescents living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: a protocol for a systematic review by Kwaku Oppong Asante, Emmanuel Nii-Boye Quarshie, Delight Abla Klutsey, Margaret Amankwah-Poku

“…Recognising the specific psychosocial issues that adolescents living with HIV infection are confronted with, this review aims to integrate existing research on the prevalence, risk factors and protective factors related to both positive and negative mental health outcomes in this population.Methods and analysis The following electronic databases will be searched for publications from 1959 up to December 2025: PubMed, PsycINFO, Global Health, Embase, African Journals OnLine and African Index Medicus. The review will focus on both positive and negative mental health outcomes: positive outcomes include resilience, subjective happiness and post-traumatic growth, whereas the negative outcomes include depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance use disorder and suicidality. …”
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Estimating CO2 emissions from international medical electives: a literature review and quantitative analysis by Luke Coakham, Nihal Sogandji, Amy Stuart, Magnus Macleod, Faris Khan, Amina Ali, Christine Agbenu, Yuhui Zhou, Martin Tam, Edward Lau, Arthur Hibble, James N Smith, Anmol Arora, Charlotte Tulinius

“…Methods: A scoping review of MEDLINE, Embase, ERIC, Web of Science SCOPUS, WHO Globus Index Medicus and Scielo was conducted with double-blind screening to identify previous efforts to quantify carbon costs of electives. …”
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