Davide Costa
Biographic Data
| ID | 6884587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Davide Costa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Davide |
| FAMILY NAME | Costa |
| SIGNATURE | COSTA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Magna Graecia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9199-8755 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Healing beyond the wound
Background: Chronic vascular wounds are increasingly recognized as complex conditions shaped not only by vascular pathology but also by social determinants of health (SDHs). While research has focused primarily on patient outcomes, limited attention has been paid to how providers experience socially contextualized wound chronicity. Objective: To explore how wound care professionals understand, experience, and respond to SDHs influencing chronic v…
The ecological footprint of healthcare
Introduction: Climate change is widely recognized as the greatest global health threat of the twenty-first century, yet the healthcare sector paradoxically contributes around 4-5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Although health professionals are well positioned to mitigate this impact, sustainability education remains insufficient in medical curricula. This study aimed to assess the awareness, knowledge, and attitudes of medical students and …
The Cultural “Blood Ties” Between Medical Anthropology and Cardiovascular Disease
Background: Medical anthropology is a subfield that examines the various factors influencing health, disease, illness, and sickness. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) encompasses a range of disorders affecting the heart, arteries, and veins. Patients with CVD face significant, unique health challenges, including functional decline, repeated hospitalizations, and psychological and social issues, which contribute to a global decline in health and escala…
Herbal medicine in chronic wounds in Calabria region of Italy
In this Calabrian context, herbal medicine functions not as an alternative, but as a parallel and coexisting system of care. It offers cultural affirmation, therapeutic autonomy, and practical solutions amid healthcare challenges. Documenting such practices deepens our understanding of medical pluralism and highlights the need to integrate local voices into ethnobotanical research
A Qualitative Study on the Role of Social Determinants of Health in Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease
Background: Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a growing public health problem due to its high and increasing prevalence worldwide. PAD is responsible for several severe complications that affect the quality of life (QoL) of affected patients. Social determinants of health (SDHs) cover five areas: economic stability, education access, and quality, health care access and quality, neighborhood and built environment, and social and community conte…
What Role Does Medical Anthropology Play in Medical Education? A Scoping Review
Background: The medical humanities (MH) are important in medical education, and one of the most relevant is medical anthropology. This discipline constitutes the bridge between the biomedical world and the human sciences because it can detect social, cultural, and psychological variables that can act as barriers to the provision of medical services in epidemic contexts, combining knowledge of pathologies in different cultures and epidemiology. Ba…
Socio-Cultural Aspects of Diabetic Foot
Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is an ongoing and growing health problem worldwide, with a series of important complications such as diabetic foot that can significatively reduce the quality of life of affected patients. This study aims to explore the socio-cultural aspects of patients with diabetic foot, analyzing the following research question: “What are the socio-cultural aspects experienced by patients with diabetic foot?” Methods: A qual…
Social Determinants of Health and Vascular Diseases
Several factors that underlie health inequality have been studied and defined as the social determinants of health (SDHs). The main SDHs are gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and ethnicity. In this study, disparity was analyzed in the context of vascular diseases (VDs) such as Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD), Chronic Venous Disease (CVD), Abdominal Arterial Aneurysm (AAA), and Carotid Stenosis (CS). This article aims to provide a comprehensive …
Transgender Health between Barriers
Transgender people have garnered attention in recent years. They have different health problems; the fact, however, that they belong to a minority means that this is characterized by complex mechanisms of stigmatization. This paper aims to analyze the current literature on the barriers to health services encountered by transgender people. This scoping review is based on the following research questions: (1) What are the main barriers to health ca…
Rhoticity in English, a Journey Over Time Through Social Class
Rhoticity in English refers to the pronunciation of the consonant /r/ in all r position contexts, while non-rhoticity refers to the dropping of the /r/ sound in particular r positions. In this context, the two English varieties, classified as rhotic and non-rhotic can be found both in British and American English-speaking people, but also in other English-speaking countries. The most updated information about rhoticity, related history of classes…
Social Aspects of Diabetic Foot
Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a severe complication of diabetes mellitus (DM). Patients with DFU have increased mortality and morbidity as well as decreased quality of life (QoL). The present scoping review aims to study the social issues of diabetic foot. Following PRISMA guidelines, the review was conducted in two databases (Scopus and Pubmed) with the use of the following keywords: “social aspects and diabetic foot”, “social characteristics and…
Eating in a Total Institution Considering History, Nutrition, and Gender Issues
To the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first to explore the dietary regime provided in a total institution. Specifically, the aim of this study is to highlight gender differences in the dietary regimes of mental health patients. Using archival and documentary evidence, the study uses an unobtrusive research approach to explore the diets of mental health patients living in the Girifalco asylum, in southern Italy, during the second half of th…
A Qualitative Study on the Role of Social Determinants of Health in Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease
Background: Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a growing public health problem due to its high and increasing prevalence worldwide. PAD is responsible for several severe complications that affect the quality of life (QoL) of affected patients. Social determinants of health (SDHs) cover five areas: economic stability, education access, and quality, health care access and quality, neighborhood and built environment, and social and community conte…
Eating in a Total Institution Considering History, Nutrition, and Gender Issues
To the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first to explore the dietary regime provided in a total institution. Specifically, the aim of this study is to highlight gender differences in the dietary regimes of mental health patients. Using archival and documentary evidence, the study uses an unobtrusive research approach to explore the diets of mental health patients living in the Girifalco asylum, in southern Italy, during the second half of th…
Rhoticity in English, a Journey Over Time Through Social Class
Rhoticity in English refers to the pronunciation of the consonant /r/ in all r position contexts, while non-rhoticity refers to the dropping of the /r/ sound in particular r positions. In this context, the two English varieties, classified as rhotic and non-rhotic can be found both in British and American English-speaking people, but also in other English-speaking countries. The most updated information about rhoticity, related history of classes…
Social Aspects of Diabetic Foot
Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a severe complication of diabetes mellitus (DM). Patients with DFU have increased mortality and morbidity as well as decreased quality of life (QoL). The present scoping review aims to study the social issues of diabetic foot. Following PRISMA guidelines, the review was conducted in two databases (Scopus and Pubmed) with the use of the following keywords: “social aspects and diabetic foot”, “social characteristics and…
Eating in a Total Institution Considering History, Nutrition, and Gender Issues
To the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first to explore the dietary regime provided in a total institution. Specifically, the aim of this study is to highlight gender differences in the dietary regimes of mental health patients. Using archival and documentary evidence, the study uses an unobtrusive research approach to explore the diets of mental health patients living in the Girifalco asylum, in southern Italy, during the second half of th…
Social Determinants of Health and Vascular Diseases
Several factors that underlie health inequality have been studied and defined as the social determinants of health (SDHs). The main SDHs are gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and ethnicity. In this study, disparity was analyzed in the context of vascular diseases (VDs) such as Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD), Chronic Venous Disease (CVD), Abdominal Arterial Aneurysm (AAA), and Carotid Stenosis (CS). This article aims to provide a comprehensive …
Transgender Health between Barriers
Transgender people have garnered attention in recent years. They have different health problems; the fact, however, that they belong to a minority means that this is characterized by complex mechanisms of stigmatization. This paper aims to analyze the current literature on the barriers to health services encountered by transgender people. This scoping review is based on the following research questions: (1) What are the main barriers to health ca…
What Role Does Medical Anthropology Play in Medical Education? A Scoping Review
Background: The medical humanities (MH) are important in medical education, and one of the most relevant is medical anthropology. This discipline constitutes the bridge between the biomedical world and the human sciences because it can detect social, cultural, and psychological variables that can act as barriers to the provision of medical services in epidemic contexts, combining knowledge of pathologies in different cultures and epidemiology. Ba…
Socio-Cultural Aspects of Diabetic Foot
Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is an ongoing and growing health problem worldwide, with a series of important complications such as diabetic foot that can significatively reduce the quality of life of affected patients. This study aims to explore the socio-cultural aspects of patients with diabetic foot, analyzing the following research question: “What are the socio-cultural aspects experienced by patients with diabetic foot?” Methods: A qual…
The ecological footprint of healthcare
Introduction: Climate change is widely recognized as the greatest global health threat of the twenty-first century, yet the healthcare sector paradoxically contributes around 4-5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Although health professionals are well positioned to mitigate this impact, sustainability education remains insufficient in medical curricula. This study aimed to assess the awareness, knowledge, and attitudes of medical students and …
The Cultural “Blood Ties” Between Medical Anthropology and Cardiovascular Disease
Background: Medical anthropology is a subfield that examines the various factors influencing health, disease, illness, and sickness. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) encompasses a range of disorders affecting the heart, arteries, and veins. Patients with CVD face significant, unique health challenges, including functional decline, repeated hospitalizations, and psychological and social issues, which contribute to a global decline in health and escala…
Herbal medicine in chronic wounds in Calabria region of Italy
In this Calabrian context, herbal medicine functions not as an alternative, but as a parallel and coexisting system of care. It offers cultural affirmation, therapeutic autonomy, and practical solutions amid healthcare challenges. Documenting such practices deepens our understanding of medical pluralism and highlights the need to integrate local voices into ethnobotanical research
A Qualitative Study on the Role of Social Determinants of Health in Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease
Background: Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a growing public health problem due to its high and increasing prevalence worldwide. PAD is responsible for several severe complications that affect the quality of life (QoL) of affected patients. Social determinants of health (SDHs) cover five areas: economic stability, education access, and quality, health care access and quality, neighborhood and built environment, and social and community conte…
Healing beyond the wound
Background: Chronic vascular wounds are increasingly recognized as complex conditions shaped not only by vascular pathology but also by social determinants of health (SDHs). While research has focused primarily on patient outcomes, limited attention has been paid to how providers experience socially contextualized wound chronicity. Objective: To explore how wound care professionals understand, experience, and respond to SDHs influencing chronic v…
Medicine (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Health care (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Qualitative research (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Wound Healing and Treatments (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Diabetes mellitus (2 works) · Diabetic foot (2 works)