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On approaching health in the Arab world

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Acknowledgments

I am grateful to Drs Iman Nuwayhid, Samer Jabbour and Rima Afifi for their feedback. I am solely responsible for the opinions in this commentary.

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El-Zein, A. On approaching health in the Arab world. Int J Public Health 54, 359–360 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-009-0063-5

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