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The presence of migrants as a phenomenon of globalization forces the various world health sys-tems to face up to the problem of inequality penalising this population. Although new to immigra-tion, Italy has seen an increase in immigrant health inequalities. Access to health services is a cri-tical

Historically, social work education (SWE) has not included formal and indepth training to address substance use in either coursework or fieldwork. Health-care reform offers promise to integrate medical and behavioral health through employment of social work professionals. It is cri-tical

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Abstract Supporting database schema evolution repre-sents a long-standing challenge of practical and theoretical importance for modern information systems. In this paper, we describe techniques and systems for automating the critical tasks of migrating the database and rewriting the legacy