Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Health Services

Health services are the organised activities through which preventive, curative, and rehabilitative care is delivered to individuals and populations, including the facilities, workforce, and processes that make care accessible. Health services research studies how care is provided, used, and improved, examining acce…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 29× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2641-4538 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Health services are the organised activities through which preventive, curative, and rehabilitative care is delivered to individuals and populations, including the facilities, workforce, and processes that make care accessible. Health services research studies how care is provided, used, and improved, examining access, utilisation, quality, and the barriers and facilitators that shape whether people reach and benefit from services. It draws heavily on qualitative and mixed methods to understand experience and implementation alongside measurable outcomes. Research in this area examines access to health services among migrant populations, the utilisation of antenatal care and the effect of mobile-phone communication on attendance, and reproductive health service use among rural adolescents. Studies also address the implementation of maternal and child healthcare by community health workers, quality-improvement strategies in healthcare facilities, and community health needs assessment. Further work considers the integration of music therapy and spiritual care into services, the impact of pandemics on supply chains, discrimination as a barrier to care, and the scope of qualitative research methodology in health services. By analysing how services are organised, accessed, and experienced, this field identifies where coordination, workforce, and delivery can be strengthened to improve reach, equity, and the effectiveness of care across diverse and resource-varied settings.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2021

The Spiritual Health Services in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Hybrid Study

Asadzandi MinooCorresponding author
PhD. Assistant Professor, Research fellow. Medicine, Quran and Hadith Research Center, Head of the spiritual health workgroup of Baqiyatallah University, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences. Member of the Department of Spiritual Health of the
Exact topic Patient Care and Services

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 29 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Health Services, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Public Health International (ISSN 2641-4538).

Journal editorial board
Javad Javan-Noughabi · United Kingdom Evelyn O Talbott · United States Zainab Taha · United Arab Emirates

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