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EDITORIAL

Global health surveillance
Joav Merrick, Ariel Tenenbaum, and Mohammed Morad

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Childhood asthma in Georgia: Comparison against the nation
Hani M Samawi, James H Stephens, Gerald R Ledlow, and Ren Chunfeng

Forced sex among female adults in Zambia: Results from the Zambian Sexual Behavioural Survey, 2009
Seter Siziya, Adamson S Muula, Aseel Mansour, Emmanuel Rudatsikira, Selestine H Nzala, Cosmas Zyaambo, Peter Songolo, and Olusegun Babaniyi

The social and economic patterning of sleeping pill use among working age Canadians: Identifying vulnerable subgroups
William H Laverty, Ivan W Kelly, and Bonnie L Janzen

Needs assessment of medical care for rural Jamaicans that require assistance fromshort-term medical missions
Marko Popovic, Milos Prica, Milan Minic, Beatrice Steele, Edward Chow, and Jelena Popovic

Spectrum of hemoglobinopathies and evaluation of beta-thalassemia traitin tribal land of Middle India
Ranbir S Balgir

Ranking countries by their magnitude of disease: A reliability analysis
Tilahun Nigatu

Integration of graduates of a healthcare management program in public and private healthcare services in Israel from an interdisciplinary perspective
Nitza Davidovitch

Halting and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015: The case in Ethiopia
Mulu Abraha

CASE REPORTS

A rare family afflicted with multiple hemoglobin disorders from Rewa District of Madhya Pradesh in Central India
Ranbir S Balgir