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Directory of Open Access Journals

This page lists open access journals, here for health sciences.

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Governments have a legal obligation to make healthcare knowledge available to health workers & citiz

Please read this Plos online blog in which Neil Pakenham-Walsh and Molly Land discuss their newly published white paper, Access to Health Information Under International Human Rights Law.

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Bookmarked by The Editorial Team on 1 Feb 2013
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Call for Papers: Social Networks, Health, and Mental Health

From the page: Call for Papers: Social Networks, Health, and Mental Health
Guest Editors: Andrew V. Papachristos, PhD and Alexander C. Tsai, MD, PhD

Social scientists have long observed that the social environment and inter-personal relationships exert substantive influences on health and health-related behaviors. In particular, the past decade has seen a growing interest in the how social networks influence health behaviors including: smoking, obesity, suicide, interpersonal violence, drug use, and communicable diseases and pathogens. For this Special Issue, Social Science & Medicine will assemble a collection of empirical, conceptual, and systematic review articles that will make novel contributions to advancing social science inquiry into how social networks affect health and mental health.

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Bookmarked by The Editorial Team on 1 Feb 2013
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WHO SAFE CHILDBIRTH COLLABORATION

WHO is pleased to launch a collaborative field-testing exercise to explore implementation and usability of their Pilot Safe Childbirth Checklist in multiple settings. WHO encourages the participation of health-care institutions, research organizations, nongovernmental organizations and others who are interested in improving maternal and newborn health. Participants from around the world are invited to conduct implementation research and generate information on the most effective ways of implementing and using the checklist, in a range of settings.

Follow this link to take part in the collaboration.

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Bookmarked by Nicola McHugh on 26 Nov 2012
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Second Round of Mass General Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech)

The Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech) is a global consortium of academic, clinical, corporate and implementation partners working to expedite and improve affordable medical technology development for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). CAMTech’s mission is to co-create, test and deploy innovative, high-quality and affordable health technologies to improve health outcomes in the poorest regions of the world. CAMTech’s first priority area will focus on maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH).

Please follow this link to access the second round of innovation awards announcement.

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Bookmarked by The Editorial Team on 6 Nov 2012
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