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A sustainable localised air distribution system for enhancing thermal environment and indoor air quality of poultry house for semiarid region

Al-Assaad, Douaa K.; Orabi, Mohamad S.; Ghaddar, Nesreen K.; Ghali, Kamel Abou; Salam, Darine A.; Ouahrani, Djamel; Farran, Mohammad Talal; Habib, Rima R. (Academic Press, 2021)

This work compares the performance of three passive cooling systems in meeting thermal and indoor air quality requirements in a poultry house located in semi-arid climate. The first two systems are a direct evaporative ...
Assessing the environmental risk and pollution status of soil and water resources in the vicinity of municipal solid waste dumpsites

Soubra, Ghida; Massoud, May A.; Alameddine, Ibrahim M.; Al-Hindi, Mahmoud; Sukhn, Carol M.S. (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021)

Municipal solid waste management remains a major challenge for many developing countries where unsanitary and environmentally damaging practices, such as open dumping and burning of wastes, are consistently utilized as ...
Central vein sign: A putative diagnostic marker for multiple sclerosis

Chaaban, Lara; Safwan, Nancy; Moussa, Hussein; El-Sammak, Sally; Khoury, Samia J.; Hannoun, S. (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2022)

The presence of a “central vein sign” (CVS) has been introduced as a biomarker for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) and shown to have the ability to accurately differentiate MS from other white matter diseases (MS ...
Child deprivation among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Palestinian refugees from Syria living in Lebanon: a cross-sectional analysis of co-occurrence of deprivation indicators

Jamaluddine, Zeina; Irani, Alexandra; Salti, Nisreen I.; Abdulrahim, Sawsan; Chaaban, Jad M.; El-Asmar, Khalil; Ghattas, Hala (NLM (Medline), 2021)

BACKGROUND: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon (PRL) and Palestinian refugees from Syria (PRS) living in Lebanon have high poverty rates. As the social, economic, and physical environment in which a child develops is a strong ...
Decentralization of solid waste management services in rural Lebanon: Barriers and opportunities

Abed Al Ahad, Mary; Chalak, Ali; Fares, Souha A.; Mardigian, Patil; Habib, Rima R. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020)

Rapid urbanization, closure of dumps, and insufficient infrastructure funding in Lebanon have resulted in improper municipal solid waste management (MSWM), creating a continuing trash crisis in recent years. In Beirut and ...
Does Income Class Affect Life Satisfaction? New Evidence from Cross-Country Microdata

Haddad, Joanne; Chaaban, Jad M.; Chalak, Ali; Ghattas, Hala (MDPI, 2022)

This paper analyzes the impact of income class on subjective wellbeing. Using rich data from the Gallup World Poll, we investigate whether belonging to locally (both country-and timespecific) defined income classes influences ...
Does knowing about the long-term health effects of alcohol matter? Evidence from a university sample in Lebanon

Khauli, Nicole; Ghandour, Lilian A.; Anouti, Sirine; Afifi, Rima A.; Nakkash, Rima T.; Chalak, Ali; Yassin, Nasser; Martins, Silvia S. (World Health Organization, 2021)

Background: Research linking awareness of health effects of alcohol and harmful alcohol drinking status is limited. Aims: To investigate the association between awareness of long-term alcohol effects and alcohol use ...
Economic research in waterpipe tobacco smoking: Reflections on data, demand, taxes, equity and health modelling

Bteddini, Dima S.; Nakkash, Rima T.; Chalak, Ali; Jawad, Mohammed; Khader, Yousef Saleh; Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M.E.; Mostafa, Aya; Abla, Ruba; Awawda, Sameera; Salloum, Ramzi George (BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)

Economic evaluation of tobacco control policies is common in high-income settings and mainly focuses on cigarette smoking. Evidence suggests that increasing the excise tax of tobacco products is a consistently effective ...
“Everyone Has the Right to Drink Beer”: A Stakeholder Analysis of Challenges to Youth Alcohol Harm-Reduction Policies in Lebanon

Nakkash, Rima T.; Ghandour, Lilian A.; Yassin, Nasser; Anouti, Sirine; Chalak, Ali; Chehab, Sara; El-Aily, Aida; Afifi, Rima A. (MDPI AG, 2019)

Background: Alcohol use is a major risk factor in premature death and disability, especially among youth. Evidence-based policies to prevent and control the detrimental effect of alcohol use have been recommended. In ...
Gender differences in the price elasticity of demand for waterpipe and cigarette smoking in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine: a volumetric choice experiment

Awawda, Sameera; Chalak, Ali; Khader, Yousef Saleh; Mostafa, Aya; Abla, Ruba; Nakkash, Rima T.; Jawad, Mohammed; Salloum, Ramzi George; Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M.E. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)

Objectives This study assessed the extent to which the elasticity of cigarette and waterpipe tobacco products differs between men and women. We also explored the levels of substitution and complementarity in tobacco products ...
Health and economic impacts of introducing specific excise tax to waterpipe tobacco in Egypt: A simulation model of simple and mixed tax policy approaches

Mostafa, Aya; Chalak, Ali; Nakkash, Rima T.; Abla, Ruba; Khader, Yousef Saleh; Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M.E.; Salloum, Ramzi George; Jawad, Mohammed (BMJ Publishing Group, 2023)

Introduction Waterpipe tobacco is taxed at half the rate of cigarettes in Egypt and, unlike cigarettes, does not have a specific excise component. We aimed to simulate the introduction of a specific excise tax on waterpipe ...
Impact of minimum unit pricing on youth alcohol consumption: insights from Lebanon

Chaaban, Jad M.; Haddad, Joanne; Ghandour, Lilian A.; Chalak, Ali (Oxford University Press, 2022)

This paper analyses the impact of introducing an alcohol minimum unit pricing policy on youth's off-premise alcohol consumption. We rely on price elasticities derived using stated preference alcohol purchase data from a ...
Impact of waterpipe tobacco taxation on consumption, government revenue and premature deaths averted in Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine: a simulation study

Jawad, Mohammed; Awawda, Sameera; Abla, Ruba; Chalak, Ali; Khader, Yousef Saleh; Nakkash, Rima T.; Mostafa, Aya; Salloum, Ramzi George; Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M.E. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)

Introduction: Despite the high prevalence of waterpipe tobacco smoking in the Eastern Mediterranean region, evidence supporting its fiscal measures is limited. We modelled the impact of waterpipe tobacco-specific excise ...
Impacts of Climate Change and Heat Stress on Farmworkers' Health: A Scoping Review

El Khayat, Moussa; Halwani, Dana A.; Hneiny, Layal; Alameddine, Ibrahim M.; Haidar, Mustapha A.; Habib, Rima R. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2022)

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, ...
Inequalities in Wellbeing in Lebanese Children and Different Refugee Subpopulations: A Multidimensional Child Deprivation Analysis

Jamaluddine, Zeina; Safadi, Gloria; Irani, Alexandra; Salti, Nisreen I.; Chaaban, Jad M.; Abdulrahim, Sawsan; Thomas, Alban; Ghattas, Hala (Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2023)

Background and Objectives: This study constitutes the first attempt to describe the overlapping deprivations faced by Lebanese children (Lebanese) and that of the three sub-populations of refugees living in Lebanon: ...
Monitoring and Combating Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking Through Surveillance and Taxation

Saad, Randa K.; Maiteh, Adna; Nakkash, Rima T.; Salloum, Ramzi George; Chalak, Ali; Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M.E.; Khader, Yousef Saleh; Al-Nsour, Mohannad Abed Alfattah (JMIR Publications Inc., 2023)

Waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS) is a traditional tobacco use method that originated in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) and has resurged in recent decades. WTS rates in the EMR are the highest worldwide, especially ...
Own-price and cross-price elasticities of demand for cigarettes and waterpipe tobacco in three Eastern Mediterranean countries: a volumetric choice experiment

Chalak, Ali; Nakkash, Rima T.; Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M.E.; Khader, Yousef Saleh; Jawad, Mohammed; Mostafa, Aya; Abla, Ruba; Louviere, Jordan J.; Salloum, Ramzi George (BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)

Background Waterpipe tobacco smoking rates in the Eastern Mediterranean region are among the highest worldwide, yet little evidence exists on its economics. Estimates of demand elasticities for tobacco products are largely ...
Pesticide practices in coastal agricultural farms of Lebanon

Mardigian, Patil; Chalak, Ali; Fares, Souha A.; Parpia, Alyssa S.; El-Asmar, Khalil; Habib, Rima R. (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2021)

The agricultural sector in Lebanon relies heavily on agrochemicals for crop protection; thus exposing humans and the environment to the harmful effects of pesticides. This study investigated Lebanese farmers’ pesticide use ...
Prevalence of cigarette and waterpipe tobacco smoking among adults in three Eastern Mediterranean countries: a cross-sectional household survey

Nakkash, Rima T.; Khader, Yousef Saleh; Chalak, Ali; Abla, Ruba; Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M.E.; Mostafa, Aya; Jawad, Mohammed; Lee, Ji Hyun; Salloum, Ramzi George (NLM (Medline), 2022)

OBJECTIVES: Tobacco smoking is on the rise in the Eastern Mediterranean region. In light of limited surveillance of smoking in the region, this study sought to understand the prevalence of cigarette and waterpipe smoking ...
Radiation levels following the Beirut seaport explosion: environmental survey and public dose exposure

Sukhn, Carol M.S.; Abiad, Mohamad G.; Haidar, Mohamad; Merhebi, Farouk (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021)

On August 4, 2020, an explosion at the Port of Beirut, Lebanon, ripped the city to shreds, killing more than 200 people, wounding 6500 others, and leaving about 300,000 residents temporarily homeless. The explosion raised ...

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