COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary health care workers in a district of Istanbul: A cross-sectional study from Turkey

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. doi: 10.1136/fmch-2021-001430 INTRODUCTION Vaccination is an important weapon in the fight against the pandemic and is one of the most […]

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Paediatric primary care in Germany during the early COVID-19 pandemic: the calm before the storm

By Malte Kohns Vasconcelos, MD MSc on behalf of the authors Reference: Kohns Vasconcelos M, Weil K, Vesterling-Hörner D, et al, Paediatric primary care in Germany during the early COVID-19 pandemic: the calm before the storm, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021;9:e000919. doi: 10.1136/fmch-2021-000919 In our report, we describe the perspective of paediatric primary care providers in a densely populated area in Germany […]

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Medical use and misuse of psychoactive prescription medications among US youth and young adults: An Introduction

By: Israel Agaku, PhD Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston MA iagaku@post.harvard.edu Our interest in the issue of prescription medication misuse1 is underpinned by the large number of preventable deaths each year from drug overdose; in 2018, there were 67,367 drug overdose deaths in the United States, making this, along with other unintentional injuries such […]

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