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Validity and reliability of a food frequency questionnaire to estimate dietary intake among Lebanese children

Moghames, Patricia; Hammami, Nour; Hwalla, Nahla C.; Yazbeck, Nadine H.; Shoaib, Hikma A.; Nasreddine, Lara M.; Naja, Farah A. (BioMed Central Ltd., 2016)

Background: Nutritional status during childhood is critical given its effect on growth and development as well as its association with disease risk later in life. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is experiencing ...
Validity and reproducibility of a culture-specific food frequency questionnaire in Lebanon

Ahmad, Raeda El Sayed; Baroudi, Mariam; Shatila, Hiba; Nasreddine, Lara M.; Chokor, Fatima Al Zahraa; Chehab, Rana F.; Forman, Michéle R.; Naja, Farah A. (MDPI AG, 2020)

This study aims to assess the validity and reproducibility of a culture-specific semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) for Lebanese adults. The 94-item FFQ captures intake of traditional Mediterranean dishes ...
Valuation of preference-based measures: Can existing preference data be used to generate better estimates?

Kharroubi, Samer A. (BioMed Central Ltd., 2018)

Background: Experimental studies to develop valuations of health state descriptive systems like EQ-5D or SF-6D need to be conducted in different countries, because social and cultural differences are likely to lead to ...
Valuation of preference-based measures: can existing preference data be used to select a smaller sample of health states?

Kharroubi, Samer A.; Rowen, Donna Louise (Springer Verlag, 2019)

Background: Different countries have different preferences regarding health, and there are different value sets for popular preference-based measures across different countries. However, the cost of collecting data to ...
Valuations of EQ-5D health states: could United Kingdom results be used as informative priors for the United States

Kharroubi, Samer A. (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2018)

Valuations of health state descriptors such as the generic EuroQol five-dimensional (EQ-5D) or the six-dimensional short form (SF-6D) have been conducted in different countries. There is a scope to make use of the results ...
Valuing water and wastewater service improvements via impact-weighted numbers of service failures

Chalak, Ali; Metcalfe, Paul James (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2022)

Stated preference valuations of water and wastewater service improvements in Great Britain have been found to be highly variable across studies for similar units of service, driven primarily by a substantive dependence on ...
Viruses of foodborne origin: A review

Todd, E. Cameron David; Greig, Judy D. (Dove Medical Press Ltd, 2015)

Enteric viruses are major contributors to foodborne disease, and include adenovirus, astrovirus, rotavirus, sapovirus, hepatitis A and E viruses, and norovirus. From a foodborne transmission perspective, norovirus is the ...
Voices of the vulnerable: Exploring the livelihood strategies, coping mechanisms and their impact on food insecurity, health and access to health care among Syrian refugees in the Beqaa region of Lebanon

Nabulsi, Dana; Ismail, Hussein; Hassan, Fida Abou; Sacca, Lea; Honein-AbouHaidar, Gladys N.; Jomaa, Lamis H. (Public Library of Science, 2020)

Lebanon has approximately one million Syrian refugees (SR) registered with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) and an unknown number of unregistered SR, who cannot benefit from formal assistance. This ...
Warming effects on the structure of bacterial and fungal communities in diverse soils

Habtewold, Jemaneh Z.; Helgason, Bobbi L.; Yanni, Sandra F.; Janzen, H. Henry Henry; Ellert, Benjamin H.; Gregorich, Edward G. (Elsevier B.V., 2021)

Soil temperature affects the rate of C-cycle processes by influencing the activities of microbial communities but little is known about whether the effects on these communities are consistent in different soils. We studied ...
Water footprint for Korean rice products and virtual water trade in a water-energy-food nexus

Lee, Sanghyun; Choi, Jinyong Young; Yoo, Seung-hwan; Mohtar, Rabi H. (Routledge, 2018)

One possible approach for addressing water and food insecurity involves food production, trade, and water used elsewhere. In this study, we introduce a water footprint for Korean rice products and focus on the impacts of ...
Water poverty index (WPI) evaluation in borujerd-dorood watershed (Iran) to reinforce land management plans

Goodarzi, Mohammad Reza; Mohtar, Rabi H.; Kiani-Harchegani, Mahboobeh; Faraji, Alireza; Mankavi, Faeze; Rodrigo-Comino, Jesús (CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 2021)

Water poverty index (WPI) is widely considered a simple and clear tool to evaluate the effects of combined factors on water shortage and resources stress. In this research, we tried to focus on water tensions in the upstream ...
What made Lebanese emigrant nurses leave and what would bring them back? A cross-sectional survey

Alameddine, Mohamad S.; Kharroubi, Samer A.; Dumit, Nuhad Yazbik; Kassas, Sara; Diab El-Harakeh, Marwa H.; Richa, Nathalie (Elsevier Ltd, 2020)

Background: The nursing workforce is critical for the provision of quality health-care and positive patient outcomes. There is a global trend of migration of nurses from under-developed to developed countries due to ...
WILD PLANTS COULD PLAY A ROLE IN THE SPREAD OF DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH PHYTOPLASMAS OF PIGEON PEA WITCHES'-BROOM GROUP (16SrIX)

Casati, Paola; Quaglino, Fabio; Abou-Jawdah, Yusuf A.; Picciau, Luca; Cominetti, A.; Tedeschi, Rosemarie; Jawhari, Maan; Choueiri, Elia; Sobh, Hana; Molino Lova, M.; El Beyrouthy, Marc; Alma, Alberto; Bianco, Piero Attilio (Edizioni ETS, 2016)

Phytoplasmas are cell wall-less prokaryotic parasites associated with diseases affecting hundreds of plant species. In the Middle East, phytoplasmas of taxonomic subgroups 16SrIX-B and -C are the etiological agents of ...
Willingness to pay for energy efficient appliances: The case of Lebanese consumers

Harajli, Hassan A.; Chalak, Ali (MDPI, 2019)

A contingent valuation study was conducted to elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) of Lebanese citizens for five types of energy-efficient home appliances: washing machines, air conditioners, televisions, light bulbs, and ...
Worsening of the Cardiovascular Profile in a Developing Country: The Greater Beirut Area Cardiovascular Cohort

Isma’eel, Hussain A.; Almedawar, Mohamad Musbah; Breidy, Juliana; Nasrallah, Mona P.; Nakhoul, Nancy F.; Mouneimne, Youssef; Nasreddine, Lara M.; Khoueiry-Zgheib, Nathalie; Abiad, Mohamad G.; Tamim, Hani Mohammed (Elsevier B.V., 2018)

Background: Lebanon has no established governmental noncommunicable diseases surveillance and monitoring system to permit reporting on noncommunicable diseases rates. The last World Health Organization-supported surveillance ...

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