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Issues Causing Girls’ Dropout from Schools in Afghanistan [PDF]

, 2017
The current study is a non-empirical research attempting to explore the key issues contributing to the dropout of girls from schools in Afghanistan. The paper first provides a historical background where the education of girls in the country has always ...
Noori, Abdullah
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Ending Preventable Child Deaths from Pneumonia and Diarrhoea in Afghanistan: An Analysis of Intervention Coverage Scenarios Using the Lives Saved Tool

Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2017
Background. Despite improvements in child health, Afghanistan still has a heavy burden of deaths due to preventable causes: 17% of under-5 deaths are due to pneumonia and 12% are due to diarrhoea. Objective.
Ariel Higgins-Steele, Khaksar Yousufi, Sharmina Sultana, Alawi Sayed Ali, Sherin Varkey   +4 more
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Predictors of Mothers’ Care Seeking Behavior for Common Childhood Illnesses: Findings From the Afghanistan Health Survey 2015 [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2023
Background  Mothers’ care seeking behavior for childhood illness is a key factor of utilizing healthcare for children. We examined predictors of mothers’ care seeking for common childhood illnesses.
Essa Tawfiq, Khwaja Mir Islam Saeed, Sayed Ali Shah Alawi, Jammalluddin Jawaid, Syed Nasir Hashimi   +4 more
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Impact of conflict on maternal and child health service delivery: a country case study of Afghanistan

Conflict and Health, 2020
Introduction Since decades, the health system of Afghanistan has been in disarray due to ongoing conflict. We aimed to explore the direct effects of conflict on provision of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition ...
S. Mirzazada, Z. Padhani, S. Jabeen, Malika Fatima, A. Rizvi, U. Ansari, Jai K. Das, Z. Bhutta   +7 more
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Use of Combat Casualty Care Data to Assess the US Military Trauma System During the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts, 2001-2017.

JAMA Surgery, 2019
Importance Although the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts have the lowest US case-fatality rates in history, no comprehensive assessment of combat casualty care statistics, major interventions, or risk factors has been reported to date after 16 years of ...
Jeffrey T. Howard, Russ S. Kotwal, Caryn A. Turner, J. Janak, E. Mazuchowski, F. Butler, Z. Stockinger, B. Holcomb, R. C. Bono, David J. Smith   +9 more
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Humanitarian and primary healthcare needs of refugee women and children in Afghanistan

BMC Medicine, 2017
This Commentary describes the situation and healthcare needs of Afghans returning to their country of origin. With more than 600,000 Afghans returned from Pakistan and approximately 450,000 Afghans returned from Iran in 2016, the movement of people ...
Ariel Higgins-Steele, David Lai, Paata Chikvaidze, Khaksar Yousufi, Zelaikha Anwari, Richard Peeperkorn, Karen Edmond   +6 more
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Review of The Politics of War: Canada’s Afghanistan Mission, 2001-14 by Jean-Christophe Boucher and Kim Richard Nossal [PDF]

, 2019
Review of The Politics of War: Canada’s Afghanistan Mission, 2001-14 by Jean-Christophe Boucher and Kim Richard ...
Reynolds, Ken
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Seasonal Drought Pattern Changes Due to Climate Variability: Case Study in Afghanistan

Water, 2019
We assessed the changes in meteorological drought severity and drought return periods during cropping seasons in Afghanistan for the period of 1901 to 2010. The droughts in the country were analyzed using the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration
Ishanch Qutbudin, M. Shiru, A. Sharafati, K. Ahmed, N. Al‐Ansari, Z. Yaseen, Shamsuddin Shahid, Xiaojun Wang   +7 more
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Polio in Afghanistan: The Current Situation amid COVID-19

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2020
. Polio is a deadly viral disease that has been paralyzing many children in Afghanistan. Despite fundamental efforts, primarily vaccination, to reduce the number of cases in Afghanistan, there are still many children who are deprived of the vaccine every
Attaullah Ahmadi, M. Y. Essar, Xu Lin, Y. Adebisi, D. Lucero-Prisno   +4 more
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DURING THE FIRST WAVE OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC, TRAUMA WAS THE FIRST LEADING CAUSE OF PERIOPERATIVE MORTALITIES IN ALIABAD TEACHING HOSPITAL

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Medicine, 2023
Perioperative mortality rate is defined as number of deaths following anesthesia and surgery occurring either in the operating theater or within 7 days after surgery. This research seeks to determine perioperative mortality rate in the surgical wards of
Mohammad Sharif Oria, Fahima Negin, Mohammad Faird Rassuli, Hashmatullah Rahimi, Sheba Azim, Omran Omar Amarkhil, Mohammad Ismael Ibrahim, Mohammad Monir Kamran   +7 more
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