Bridging the Water Gap: Social Movements Are Global Health’s Future

Published on October 17, 2023

In Monterrey, Mexico, a terrible water shortage has families lining up at dry or dirty taps. At the same time, Big Soda is using billions of liters of water each year from public reservoirs to manufacture unhealthy processed drinks.

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Association of globalization with the burden of opioid use disorders 2019. A country-level analysis using targeted maximum likelihood estimation

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