Supportive counseling type interventions are frequently provided to meet the mental health needs of populations in emergency and post-conflicts contexts, but it has seldom been rigorously evaluated. Existing evaluations from low- and middle-income countries provide mixed evidence of effectiveness. While Iraqi Kurdistan experienced relative stability following the fall of Saddam Hussein's govern...

BACKGROUND In recent years, increasing dust storms from western neighboring countries of Iran influenced western and central parts of the country. In this case, level of concentration of atmospheric particulate matter greater than 10 μm (PM10) remained higher for several days compared to the levels before the event. Accordingly, Suspended particulate matters of dust storms in western Iran have ...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND As part of a comprehensive study on the primary health care system in Iraq, we sought to explore primary care providers' perspectives about the main problems influencing the provision of primary care services and opportunities to improve the system. METHODS A qualitative study based on four focus groups involving 40 primary care providers from 12 primary health care c...

s (underlined = graduate student; * = postdoctoral scholar) [128] Anderson, R.B., Long, S.P., Horton, B.K., Calle, A., and Stockli, D.F., 2014, New apatite and zircon (UTh)/He constraints on the timing of thrust-related exhumation in the southern Bolivian (21 ̊S) Andes: AGU Fall Meeting. [127] Barber, D., Stockli, D.F., Koshnaw, R.I., Horton, B.K., and Kendall, J.J., 2014, Detrital zircon U-Pb a...

This commentary seeks to examine the extent which Kurdish liberation projects are free from global colonial continuities. While discussion on colonialism and Kurdistan typically centres Kurds’ relationships with their immediate colonisers, it obscures at least two forms of continuities in projects. A decolonial perspective built coloniality concept enables these Firstly, manifestation politico-...

quercus persica and pistacia mutica are two known and prevalent forest trees of baneh and marivan from kurdistan province (w iran). thirty-five fungal isolates were obtained from 50 bark samples of q. persica collected in sept. and mar. 2010–11. the aim of this study was to identify fungi associated with oak trees of kurdistan province. based on morphological features and authentic keys (ellis ...