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The Goals, Roles and Activities of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP): A Continuing Education Article

The International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) is a non-goverment organization dedicated to carry out scientific activities focusing on the prevention of suicidal behavior and universal efforts to achieve goals such as raising awareness of suicide behavior around the world, encouraging individuals to exchange experience, knowledge and skills around countries of the world for more e...

How Can a Global Social Support System Hope to Achieve Fairer Competiveness?; Comment on “A Global Social Support System: What the International Community Could Learn From the United States’ National Basketball Association”

Ooms et al sets out some good general principles for a global social support system to improve fairer global competitiveness as a result of redistribution. This commentary sets out to summarize some of the conditions that would need to be satisfied for it to level up gradients in inequality through such a social support system, using the National Basketball Association (NBA) example as a point ...

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Rural Women’s Experiences with Money and Developmental Intervention: A Case Study in Semnan Province

This article tries to analyze the interaction between the implementation of a microfinance project in a rural area and the social and cultural infrastructure prevailing in the project site. In 2000, 53 women in a small village in central Iran formed an association of beekeepers with the support of a developmental intervention promoting microfinance as a strategy for poverty alleviation. Because...

The Implications of Global Neurosurgery for Low- and Middle-Income Countries. The Case of Cameroon.

The unequal distribution of neurosurgical resources and diseases in the world contributes to inequality. Eight in ten neurosurgical cases needing essential neurosurgical care are found in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs); however, LMICs lack the neurosurgical resources to address these needs. Besides, where neurosurgical care is available, it is not financially accessible to the majorit...

Design of International Transfer Market for Iranian Iranian footballer

The soccer players transfer market is a global market and there is a huge turnover in this market. The aim of this study is to Design of International Transfer Market for Iranian footballer. The current stude methodology was Exploratory mixed method. An questionnaire and  interview was used to collect data. The results showed that six  factors of players technical performance, non-technical fac...