Habib, Rima R.; Katrib, Reem S.; Katrib, Farah S.; Abi Younes, Elio; Ziadee, Micheline; Al Barathie, Josleen(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2022)
Since the Syrian war in 2011, Syrian refugees in Lebanon have continued to experience socioeconomic deprivation, resorting many families to child labour as a form of survival. Adopting a gender-sensitive analysis, this ...
El Khayat, Moussa; Halwani, Dana A.; Hneiny, Layal; Alameddine, Ibrahim; Haidar, Mustapha A.; Habib, Rima R.(Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-02-08)
Due to the continuous rise of global temperatures and heatwaves worldwide as a result of climate change, concerns for the health and safety of working populations have increased. Workers in the food production chain, ...
Ntani, Georgia; Coggon, David; Felli, Vanda E.; Harari, Florencia; Barrero, Lope H.; Felknor, Sarah A.; Rojas, Marianela; Serra, Consol; Bonzini, Matteo; Merisalu, Eda; Habib, Rima R.; Sadeghian, Farideh; Wickremasinghe, A. Rajitha; Matsudaira, Ko; Nyantumbu-Mkhize, Busisiwe; Kelsall, Helen L.; Harcombe, Helen; Walker-Bone, Karen(John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2022-08)
Background: Multisite musculoskeletal pain is common and disabling. This study aimed to prospectively investigate the distribution of musculoskeletal pain anatomically, and explore risk factors for increases/reductions in ...
Background: Displaced populations in fragile settings experience health disparities that are seldom attended to.
Task-shifting, which involves training non-specialized community health workers (CHW) to deliver basic ...
Habib, Rima; Mikati, Diana; Al-Barathie, Josleen; Abi Younes, Elio; Jawad, Mohammed; El Asmar, Khalil; Ziadee, Micheline(PLOS ONE, 2021)
Background
Syrian refugees in Lebanon have endured increasing hardships since the onset of the Syrian war in 2011, with many resorting to child labor. Working refugee children endure socioeconomic deprivation and harsh ...
Bardus, Marco; Awada, Nathalie; Ghandour, Lilian; Fares, Elie-Jacques; Gherbal, Tarek; Al-Zanati, Tasnim; Stoyanov, Stoyan(Journal of Medical Internet Research Publications, 2020-03)
Background: With thousands of health apps in app stores globally, it is crucial to systemically and thoroughly evaluate the quality of these apps due to their potential influence on health decisions and outcomes. The Mobile ...
Myntti, Cynthia(American University in Cairo Press, )
Paris along the Nile captures, in 200 black and white photographs, the architectural jewels of Cairo’s Belle Époque. The book combines architectural and street photography to produce a compelling portrait of the old and the new.
Iraq's healthcare has been on the edge of collapse since the 1990s. Once the leading hub of scientific and medical training in the Middle East, Iraq's political and medical infrastructure has been undermined by decades of ...
The Ras Beirut Well-Being Survey was a research project of the AUB Neighborhood Initiative and a response to the dearth of up-to-date sociological, demographic, and health information about neighborhood residents. The ...
Jabbour, Samer; Nuwayhid, Iman; Khawaja, Marwan(Cambridge University Press, )
The Arab world is a distinct geographic and cultural entity with a complex demographic. Public Health in the Arab World reviews and dissects the public health concerns specific to this region. This volume will interest not ...
Habib, Rima R.(American University of Beirut Press, 2019-06)
This report explores the experiences of child labour among Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley. The report is based on data collected on 12,708 refugees living in 1,902 informal tented settlements. These refugees are among ...
Purpose: Investigation of the injecting drug users (IDUs) population is becoming extremely critical and timely in light of the recent evidence that IDUs now act as the core of hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemics in developed ...
We show that HTLV-1 negative leukemia cells are more sensitive to TQ due to higher levels of drug-induced reactive oxygen species (ROS). PreG1 population in HTLV-1 negative Jurkat and CEM was higher than HTLV-1 transformed ...
Melhem N.M.; Smith K.N.; Huang X.-L.; Colleton B.A.; Jiang W.; Mailliard R.B.; Mullins J.I.; Rinaldo C.R.(SAN DIEGO525 B ST, STE 1900, SAN DIEGO, CA 92101-4495 USA, 2014)
It is unclear if HIV-1 variants lose the ability to prime naïve CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) during progressive, untreated infection. We conducted a comprehensive longitudinal analysis of viral evolution and its ...
Ramia S.; Kobeissi L.; el Kak F.; Shamra S.; Kreidieh K.; Zurayk H.(TRAMANIGLIOJIDC CENT OFF PORTO CONTE RICERCHE RES CTR, S P 55, PORTO CONTE CAPO CACCIA KM 8.400 LOC, TRAMANIGLIO, 07041, ITALY, 2012)
Introduction: This study aimed to identify reproductive tract infections (RTIs) in married, non-pregnant women, aged 18 to 49 years, living in a low-income suburb of Beirut, and to investigate the relationship between ...
Hepatitis D virus (HDV) is a defective RNA virus and its life cycle is dependent on hepatitis B virus (HBV). Worldwide, it is estimated that 15 to 20million individuals are HDV- infected representing approximately 5 percent ...
El-Zaatari M.; Kazma H.; Naboulsi-Majzoub M.; Haidar M.; Ramlawi F.; Mahfoud Z.; Ramia S.(LONDON32 JAMESTOWN RD, LONDON NW1 7BY, ENGLAND, 2007)
Transmission of HBV infection through transfusion of HBsAg-negative blood has been documented. It is evident that low levels of HBV-DNA remain detectable in serum and liver tissue of some patients who clear HbsAg, and that ...