All articles published in the International Journal of Health Concord (IHC) are fully open access and freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication, in full compliance with the principles and definition of open access.

IHC publishes all content under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), where the copyright remains with the authors.

This license permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any lawful purpose, provided that proper attribution is given to the original author(s) and source.

The full text of all articles is available immediately without any embargo period and without registration requirements. Each article clearly displays its open access and licensing information on both the webpage and PDF.

This open access policy ensures transparency, widespread dissemination, and global visibility of high-quality health research.