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- Winds of Change: Towards New Ways of Improving Public Health in Europe
- Creating the Healthiest Nation: Health Equity Now
Winds of Change: Towards New Ways of Improving Public Health in Europe

Archives or Public Health
Roadbook for the implementation of next-generation sequencing in clinical practice in oncology and hemato-oncology in Belgium
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BMC International Health and Human Rights
Assessing refugee healthcare needs in Europe and implementing educational interventions in primary care: a focus on methods
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BMC Public Health
Investigating the growing trend of nondrinking among young people; analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys in England 2005–2015
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Parental physical activity is associated with objectively measured physical activity in young children in a sex-specific manner: the GECKO Drenthe cohort
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Conflict and Health
Adaptation and testing of an assessment for mental health and alcohol use problems among conflict-affected adults in Ukraine
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"The needs have clearly evolved as time has gone on.”: A qualitative study to explore stakeholders’ perspectives on the health needs of Syrian refugees in Greece following the 2016 European Union-Turkey agreement
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Globalization and Health
Early evaluation of experiences of health care providers in reception centers with a patient-held personal health record for asylum seekers: a multi-sited qualitative study in a German federal state
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European Union implementation of Article 5.3 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
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Injury Epidemiology
Temporal and regional trends of choking injuries in children in Italy, 2001–2013
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International Journal for Equity in Health
Detecting spatio-temporal mortality clusters of European countries by sex and age
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Towards a more integrated and gender-sensitive care delivery for victims of sexual assault: key findings and recommendations from the Belgian sexual assault care centre feasibility study
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International Journal of Health Geographics
Evaluating the risk for Usutu virus circulation in Europe: comparison of environmental niche models and epidemiological models
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Using Google Location History data to quantify fine-scale human mobility
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Population Health Metrics
Head-to-head comparison between the EQ-5D-5L and the EQ-5D-3L in general population health surveys
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Public Health Reviews
Developing the public health workforce: training and recognizing specialists in public health from backgrounds other than medicine: experience in the UK
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Is blended learning and problem-based learning course design suited to develop future public health leaders? An explorative European study
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Creating the Healthiest Nation: Health Equity Now
Archives of Public Health
Equitable health: let’s stick together as we address global discrimination, prejudice and stigma
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Gender disparity in epidemiological trend of HIV/AIDS infection and treatment in Ethiopia
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BMC International Health and Human Rights
Combining survey data, GIS and qualitative interviews in the analysis of health service access for persons with disabilities
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Scrambling for access: availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of healthcare for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in South Africa
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BMC Public Health
Migration and health: a global public health research priority
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Supporting parenting to address social inequalities in health: a synthesis of systematic reviews
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Conflict and Health
Barriers to cardiovascular disease secondary prevention care in the West Bank, Palestine – a health professional perspective
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Evaluating the communities care program: best practice for rigorous research to evaluate gender based violence prevention and response programs in humanitarian settings
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Globalization and Health
Are health systems interventions gender blind? examining health system reconstruction in conflict affected states
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Oppression, liberation, wellbeing, and ecology: organizing metaphors for understanding health workforce migration and other social determinants of health
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Injury Epidemiology
Workers compensation-reported injuries among security and law enforcement personnel in the private versus public sectors
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International Journal for Equity in Health
Measuring social exclusion in healthcare settings: a scoping review
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Punching above their weight: a network to understand broader determinants of increasing life expectancy
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International Journal of Health Geographics
A multi-modal relative spatial access assessment approach to measure spatial accessibility to primary care providers
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Residential scene classification for gridded population sampling in developing countries using deep convolutional neural networks on satellite imagery
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Population Health Metrics
Life expectancy inequalities in the elderly by socioeconomic status: evidence from Italy
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Public Health Reviews
Issues of accessibility to health services by older Australians: a review
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How do accountability problems lead to maternal health inequities? A review of qualitative literature from Indian public sector
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Reproductive Health
Expanding the agenda for addressing mistreatment in maternity care: a mapping review and gender analysis
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Health and sustainable development; strengthening peri-operative care in low income countries to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes
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