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Health Literacy and Health Behavior Among Women in Ghazni, Afghanistan

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Background: Health literacy is a determinant of health and assessed globally to inform the development of health interventions. However, little is known about health literacy in countries with one of the poorest health indicators worldwide, such as ...
S. Harsch, A. Jawid, Ebrahim Jawid, Luís Saboga-Nunes, K. Sørensen, D. Sahrai, Uwe Bittlingmayer   +6 more
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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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Job satisfaction of women employees of the public sector of Afghanistan [PDF]

PSU Research Review
Purpose – This paper focuses on job satisfaction of women employees in the public sector of Afghanistan and identifies factors and challenges influencing women's job satisfaction in their workplace.
Arezo Mehrzad, Pierre Rostan
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Rebel governance, rebel legitimacy, and external intervention: assessing three phases of Taliban rule in Afghanistan

Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2020
This article focuses on rebel governance and rebel legitimacy during civil war. It investigates how external intervention in support of an incumbent government and withdrawal of external forces shape rebel legitimacy dynamics and rebels’ opportunities to
Niels Terpstra
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Anxiety symptoms, sleep disturbance, and academic achievement among Afghan female school students: A cross-sectional study

Sleep Epidemiology
Background: Anxiety is a common psychological disorder in school-aged children and adolescents. The present study aimed to assess the prevalence of anxiety symptoms and sleep disturbances and their relationship with academic achievement among female ...
Ahmad Neyazi, Bilal Ahmad Rahimi, Abdul Qadim Mohammadi, Nosaibah Razaqi, Laila Qanawezi, Shaharah Sarem, Saida Said, Raz Mohammad Tabib, Habibah Afzali, Mehrab Neyazi, Mark D. Griffiths   +10 more
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A Critical Evaluation of the Twelfth Grade English Language Textbook for Afghanistan High Schools

Elsya, 2021
Since textbook evaluation is a prominent task for educational development, hence, the study is motivated to extend the ideas towards the best of English as a foreign language teaching in high schools. Globally, the English language is taught aligned with
Mohammad Naim Rahim, Tawos Mohammadi, Aminuddin Hashemi   +2 more
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Children at risk: A nation-wide, cross-sectional study examining post-traumatic stress symptoms in refugee minors from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan resettled in Sweden between 2014 and 2018

Conflict and Health, 2020
Background The objective of the present study was to assess nation-wide, representative prevalence estimates for symptom-defined posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) within populations of refugee minors from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq resettled in ...
Ø. Solberg, A. Nissen, M. Vaez, Prue Cauley, A. Eriksson, F. Saboonchi   +5 more
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Distinct Systemic Sclerosis Phenotypes Related to Ethnicity: An Opportunity to Personalize Care?

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The objective is to describe and compare demographic, clinical, and serological characteristics of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) according to ethnic background. Methods Participants enrolled in the Canadian Scleroderma Research Group cohort who self‐identified to a single ethnicity group were included.
Danick Goulet, Camille Guertin, Maggie Larché, Isabelle Ferdinand, Marie Hudson, May Y. Choi, Mohammed Osman, Janet Pope, Carter Thorne, Murray Baron, Sasha Bernatsky, Sabrina Hoa   +11 more
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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Antibiotic Use and Antimicrobial Resistance among Students and Staff of Kabul University: A Cross-Sectional Study

Journal of Pharmacy
Introduction: The overuse and misuse of antibiotics have led to rising antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a major global health concern. A primary driver of AMR is excessive and inappropriate antibiotic use, often stemming from insufficient public ...
Mirwais Zazai, Ahmad Tamim Ghafari, Jawid Ahmad Oneeb, Qand Agha Nazari, Lima Saleh, Lima Bakhtyar   +5 more
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Afghan EFL instructors’ perceptions of English textbooks

Heliyon, 2021
The study examined EFL instructors' perceptions of English textbooks. It also investigated whether the instructors' gender and the type of textbooks they used had a significant impact on their responses.
Sayeed Naqibullah Orfan, Abdul Qawi Noori, Sayeed Asif Akramy   +2 more
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