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Open Democracy

Iran, Israel, and the risk of war , Paul Rogers 18 hours 3 min old
Europe’s other legitimacy crisis, Ivan Krastev 1 day 15 hours old
Ethiopia: the tears and the rains , Lyndall Stein 1 day 17 hours old

Health (Eldis)

An active ageing policy offers a strategy for the prevention of falls in older age 21 hours 10 min old
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Writing for equity in health 2 days 16 hours old

Annals of General Psychiatry

BMC Health Services Research

Supported housing programs form person with serious mental illnesses in rural northern communities: A mixed method evaluation 1 day 9 hours old
Physicians' perception of childhood asthma in Turkey: More appropriate practice among female physicians 2 days 9 hours old
A predictive score to identify hospitalized patients' risk of discharge to a post-acute care facility 3 days 9 hours old

BMC Medical Education

Validating the effectiveness of Clinically Oriented Physiology Teaching (COPT) in undergraduate physiology curriculum 1 day 9 hours old
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BMC Public Health

Use of traditional complementary and alternative medicine for HIV patients in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 1 day 9 hours old
Socio-economic factors explain differences in public health-related variables among women in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study 2 days 9 hours old
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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

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Human Resources for Health

Empowering primary care workers to improve health services: results from Mozambique's leadership and management development program 2 days 9 hours old
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Conflict (Eldis

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Aid and Development (Eldis)

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How older people's association can participate in disaster preparedness and mitigation in Asia and the Pacific 2 days 16 hours old

HIV/AIDS (Eldis)

Project cycle management for community-based organisations responding to HIV/AIDS 2 days 16 hours old
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AIDS (AIDS Research and Policy)

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Education (Eldis)

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Children (Eldis)

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BMC Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

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BMC Medical Research Methodology

Advantages of the nested case-control design in diagnostic research 4 days 9 hours old
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BMC International Health and Human Rights

Awareness of health effects of cooking smoke among women in the Gondar Region of Ethiopia: a pilot survey 1 week 9 hours old
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Influencing Policy (Eldis)

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International Journal for Equity in Health

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Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

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World Health Organisation: Disease Outbreaks

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Asking the right questions: scoping studies in the commissioning of research on the organisation and delivery of health services 2 weeks 2 days old
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Reproductive Health

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Organisation Profiles

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