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Open AccessKnowledge and perceptions about Zika virus in a Middle East country
Zika virus, an emerging serious infectious disease, is a threat to persons living or travelling to regions where it is currently endemic, and also to contacts of infected individuals. The aim of this study was...
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Open AccessGray literature in systematic reviews on population health in the Middle East and North Africa: protocol of an overview of systematic reviews and evidence map**
Systematic review (SR) guidelines recommend extending literature search to gray literature in order to identify all available data related to the review topic. We aim to conduct an overview of SRs on populatio...
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Individual differences in educational attainment (EA) and physical health, as indexed by body mass index (BMI), are correlated within persons and across generations. The present aim was to assess these associa...
