Editorial - Poiésis v. 17, n. 27, 2016

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Volume 32, Number 1, March 2006 Maternal mortality in Nepal is estimated to be around 540 deaths per 100,000 births.1 One major factor is low use of maternal health care, despite government efforts to improve services, including an expanded network of rural clinics and the training of auxiliary nurse midwives.2 Fewer than 40% of women receive any antenatal care from a trained provider, and fewe...

Editorial: NAR Awards 2016

NMNI editorial report, 2016

New Microbes and New Infections (NMNI) remains a young journal having been launched during the ESCMID Congress in Berlin, April 2013, partly as a companion and referral journal to Clinical Microbiology and Infection (CMI), edited by Didier Raoult and from 2016 by Leonard Leibovici [1,2]. NMNI aims to provide a platform for international authors reporting facts in infectious and primarily tropic...

Editorial – November 2016

The Israeli Journal of Occupation Therapy, November 2016, 25(4) We are pleased to open this special issue of IJOT on the topic of multiculturalism. Most of the theoretical models that underpin the professional occupational therapy literature around the world and in Israel originate from Western countries (particularly the United States, Canada, Britain and Australia). These models reflect perce...

Editorial for Publications March 2016

Welcome to the latest issue of Publications, a journal for studies and opinion on all aspects of scholarly publishing and communication. A specific welcome from me too, as the new Editor-in-Chief. Our journal is fully “peer reviewed” or “refereed”. These expressions are synonymous although, despite modest research, I’ve not discovered the origin of the word “referee” in this context—if any of y...