AUB ScholarWorks Home
→
Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS)
→
Browsing Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) by Issue Date

Browsing Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) by Issue Date

Now showing items 1-20 of 963

The role and limitations of the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development

DeJong, Jocelyn (Elsevier Ltd, 2000-09-15)

Population questions have always aroused controversy, but the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) which took place in Cairo in September 1994 was particularly contentious. Yet a consensus emerged ...
The safety and quality of childbirth in the context of health systems: Mapping maternal health provision in Lebanon

DeJong, Jocelyn; Akik C.; El Kak F.; Osman H.; El-Jardali F. (Oxford, 2010)

Objective: to provide basic information on the distribution (public-private and geographically) and the nature of maternity health provision in Lebanon, including relevant health outcome data at the hospital level in order ...
HIV/AIDS among female sex workers, injecting drug users and men who have sex with men in Lebanon: results of the first biobehavioral surveys

Mahfoud, Ziyad; Afifi, Rema; Ramia, Sami; Kassak, Kassem; Ghanem, Maguy; El-Nakib, Mostafa; DeJong, Jocelyn; El Barbir, Farah; El Khoury, Danielle (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2010-07)

The aim of this article is to measure HIV prevalence and associated risk factors among female sex workers, injecting drug users (IDUs) and men who have sex with men (MSM) in Lebanon and the prevalence of hepatitis B virus ...
The Struggle for Recognition by People Living With HIV/AIDS in Sudan

DeJong, Jocelyn; Mortagy, Iman (SAGE Publications, 2013-03-20)

In settings with high HIV/AIDS-related stigma and where HIV is at low prevalence, the political space is often not conducive to making the epidemic more visible to public debate. In the Middle East and North Africa people ...
Measuring the job stickiness of community nurses in Ontario (2004-2010): implications for policy and practice

Alameddine, Mohamad S.; Baumann, Andrea O.; Laporte, Audrey; Mourad, Yara; Oñate, Känecy; Deber, Raisa Berlin (2014)

OBJECTIVE: Utilize the concept of stickiness to examine the retention of community nurses across time and draw comparisons by subsector, nurse group and work status. METHODS: Secondary analysis of College of Nurses of ...
Community campaigns to promote HIV testing in West Africa: Perceptions of users in Burkina Faso

Desclaux, Alice; Ky-Zerbo, Odette; Somé, Jean François; Makhlouf-Obermeyer, Carla Makhlouf (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2014)
HIV/AIDS stigma in Africa: Analysis of its forms and manifestations in Burkina Faso

Ky-Zerbo, Odette; Desclaux, Alice; Somé, Jean François; El-Asmar, Khalil; Msellati, Philippe; Makhlouf-Obermeyer, Carla Makhlouf (Societe Francaise de Sante Publique, 2014)

Introduction: Negative impact of stigma on HIV care and prevention is documented. Qualitative approaches were used to describe its importance in Burkina Faso (1% of HIV prevalence) and need to be completed by quantitative ...
Validation of the 10/66 dementia research group diagnostic assessment for dementia in Arabic: A study in Lebanon

Phung, Thien Kieu Thi; Shaya, Monique; Waldemar, Gunhild; Atweh, Samir F.; El-Asmar, Khalil; Ghusn, Husam F.; Karam, Georges Elie; Sawaya, Raja A.; Khoury, Rosemary G.; Zeinaty, Ibrahim; Salman, Sandrine; Hammoud, Salem; Radwan, Wael; Bassil, Nazem K.; Prince, Martin J. (SAGE Publications Inc., 2014)

Methods: A total of 244 participants older than 65 years were included, 100 with normal cognition and 144 with mild to moderate dementia. Dementia was diagnosed by clinicians according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ...
Surviving testicular cancer: The lebanese lived experience

Saab, Mohamad M.; Noureddine, Samar Nayef; Abu Saad Huijer, Huda Huijer; DeJong, Jocelyn (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2014)

Background: Testicular cancer is thought to have a great impact on its survivors, yet there has been limited literature on the topic globally and no literature on the topic in Lebanon and the Arab region. Objective: The ...
Beyond accreditation: A multi-track quality-enhancing strategy for primary health care in low- and middle-income countries

Saleh, Shadi S.; Alameddine, Mohamad S.; Natafgi, Nabil Maher (Baywood Publishing Co. Inc., 2014)

Many define an equitable health care system as one that provides logistical and financial access to quality care to the population. Realizing that fact, many low- and middle-income countries started investing in enhancing ...
Health after childbirth: Patterns of reported postpartum morbidity from Lebanon

Kabakian-Khasholian, Tamar; Shayboub, Rawan; Ataya, Alexandra (Elsevier, 2014)

Problem and background: The postpartum period is under-researched in low and middle income countries. The scarce literature reveals heavy burden of ill health experienced in that period and under utilisation of health ...
Tobacco in the Arab world: Old and new epidemics amidst policy paralysis

Maziak, Wasim; Nakkash, Rima T.; Bahelah, Raed; Husseini, Abdullatif S.; Fanous, Nadia; Eissenberg, Thomas E. (Oxford University Press, 2014)

The Arab world is comprised of 22 countries with a combined population of ∼360 million. The region is still at the initial stages of the tobacco epidemic, where it is expected to witness an increase in smoking levels and ...
Cancer trends in Lebanon: A review of incidence rates for the period of 2003-2008 and projections until 2018

Shamseddine, Ali I.; Saleh, Ahmad; Charafeddine, Maya A.; Seoud, Muhieddine A.F.; Mukherji, Deborah M.; Temraz, Sally N.; Mehio-Sibai, Abla Mehio (BioMed Central Ltd., 2014)

Background: The analysis of cancer incidence trends is essential to health care planning. The aim of this study is to examine variations in cancer incidence rates in Lebanon between 2003 and 2008 and use the observed trends ...
Hepatitis A virus in the Middle East and North Africa region: A new challenge

Melhem, Nada Mohamad; Talhouk, Reem; Rachidi, Hala; Ramia, Sami (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2014)

During the past three decades, a gradual shift in the age of infection with hepatitis A virus (HAV) from early childhood to adulthood has been observed. There is a general lack of updated data on HAV burden of disease, ...
We don't want you to walk the streets we walked: Youth reflections on themselves and relationships that help them grow and thrive

Bteddini, Dima S.; Barazi, Rana; Afifi, Rima A.; Nakkash, Rima T. (A B Academic Publishers, 2014)

Research on adolescent health is emphasising positive youth development. Most research on the Developmental Assets framework has occurred in developed countries using quantitative methods. This paper explores the validity ...
Challenges to obtaining parental permission for child participation in a school-based waterpipe tobacco smoking prevention intervention in Qatar

Nakkash, Rima T.; Al-Mulla, Ahmad A.K.; Torossian, Lena; Karhily, Roubina; Shuayb, Lama; Mahfoud, Ziyad R.; Janahi, Ibrahim Ahmed; Al Ansari, Al Anoud; Afifi, Rima A. (BioMed Central Ltd., 2014)

Methods. A random sample of 40 schools in Doha, Qatar was selected for inclusion in the original intervention. Permission forms were distributed to parents for approval of their child's participation. The permission forms ...
Syria: health in a country undergoing tragic transition

Ben Taleb, Ziyad; Bahelah, Raed; Fouad, Fouad Mohammad; Coutts, Adam P.; Wilcox, Meredith Leigh; Maziak, Wasim (Birkhauser Verlag AG, 2014)

Objectives: To document the ongoing destruction as a result of the tragic events in Syria, to understand the changing health care needs and priorities of Syrians.Methods: A directed examination of the scientific literature ...
The impact of viral evolution and frequency of variant epitopes on primary and memory human immunodeficiency virus type 1-specific CD8+ T cell responses

Melhem, Nada Mohamad; Smith, Kellie N.; Huang, Xiaoli; Colleton, Bonnie A.; Jiang, Weimin; Mailliard, Robbie B.; Mullins, James I.; Rinaldo, Charles R. (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 ...
Observations on the ministry of public health program of support to the hospitalization of patients in Lebanon

Kronfol, Nabil M.; Khalife, Jade; Romanos, Jenny; Makouk, Jihad; Noun, Peter E.; Ammar, Walid S. (Lebanese Order of Physicians, 2014)

Lebanon has a highly fragmented health care system. The Lebanese population receives its health care services through a system dominated by the private sector that is dependent to a large extent on public sector financing. ...
A retrospective health policy analysis of the development and implementation of the voluntary health insurance system in Lebanon: Learning from failure

El-Jardali, Fadi; Bou-Karroum, Lama; Ataya, Nour F.; el-Ghali, Hana Addam; Hammoud, Rawan A. (Elsevier Ltd, 2014)

Public policymaking is complex and suffers from limited uptake of research evidence, particularly in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). In-depth case studies examining health policymaking in the EMR are lacking. This ...

Now showing items 1-20 of 963

Search AUB ScholarWorks

Browse

All of AUB ScholarWorks
This Community
- By Issue Date
- Authors
- Titles
- Subjects

My Account

Copyright Statement

All materials included in the institutional repository are protected by copyright laws and are the property of their respective copyright holders. Materials may be used for non-commercial, educational, or research purposes only, and must be cited or attributed to the original source. Permission for any other use must be obtained from the copyright holder(s) directly. The American University of Beirut Libraries does not assume responsibility for any infringement of copyright laws that may occur as a result of the use of materials in the repository. If you believe that your copyright has been infringed upon in the repository, please contact the AUB Libraries immediately.

For further information, please contact us at scholarworks@aub.edu.lb

Browsing Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) by Issue Date

Browsing Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) by Issue Date

Search AUB ScholarWorks

Browse

All of AUB ScholarWorks

This Community

My Account

Copyright Statement