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Background Evidence from several countries suggests increasing mental health problems among children and adolescents, raising ...

In brief: Dr. Jarno Habicht has been heading the WHO Office in Ukraine for seven years. He speaks about the challenges of war and its consequences for the Ukrainian healthcare system, provides ...

After so many years studying procrastination, Joseph Ferrari has some thoughts about why you can’t seem to get anything done — and how to fix that.

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Tasmania needs to act “urgently” to counteract a population exodus that’s on track to leave its ageing population without adequate services, in a grim example of what could happen to other states in ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

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These are some of the ways in which researchers describe the state of affairs for government data in many countries. Do you really know the way the world is heading? Take this quiz on plans to save ...

National statistical systems generate the statistics that underpin policy, economic analysis, and public trust. Yet, despite decades of investment in statistical capacity, two persistent challenges, ...