A monument to health providers around the world

The Effects of COVID-19 Epidemic on the Mental Health of Migrants around the World: A Systematic Review

Abdollah Rahmani[1], Mohsen Rezaeian[2] Received: 16/04/22  Sent for Revision: 06/06/22 Received Revised Manuscript: 10/08/22 Accepted: 16/08/22 Background and Objectives: Immigrants are considered as a group at risk of mental health resulting from Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), due to living conditions and less access to health services. Therefore, the present review study was co...

Monument to the discoveries.

A week ago I was standing with my wife by the River Tagus in Lisbon, next to the Monument to the Discoveries. The monument is at the spot where Vasco da Gama set out to discover the southeast passage from Europe to Asia, past the Cape of Good Hope. Vasco’s discovery marked the beginning of the Portuguese maritime empire. At the furthest tip of Europe, Portugal was perfectly situated to found su...

Shaping public health education around the world to address health challenges in the coming decades.

a Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights, World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Correspondence to Ritu Sadana (e-mail: [email protected]). b Human Resources for Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049247 Schools of public health and related training institutions are increasing in number.1 This month’s Bulletin theme issue ...

The fast transmission of infectious diseases around the world - a new concern to the public health.

EHPnet: Health Around the World and the Net

Insertion and deletion (indel) events usually have dramatic effects on genome structure and gene function. Species-specific indels have been demonstrated to be associated with species-unique traits. Currently, indel identifications mainly rely on pairwise sequence alignments (the ‘pair-wise indels’), which suffer lack of discrimination of species specificity and insertion versus deletion. Also,...