Background Health care workers (HCWs) are essential for the delivery of health care services in conflict areas and in rebuilding health systems post-conflict. Objective The aim of this study was to systematically identify ...
Background Health Care Workers in Conflict Areas emerged as one of the priority themes for a Lancet Commission addressing health in conflict. The objective of our study was to conduct a scoping review on health workers in ...
Mahboub, Nadine; Honein-AbouHaidar, Gladys N.; Rizk, Rana G.; de Vries, Nanné Karel(Public Library of Science, 2021)
Evidence-based models emphasizing on lifestyle behaviours for the treatment of drug use is still in its infancy. The development of multicomponent effective drug use intervention programs as part of health promotion is ...
Introduction: Substance use among adolescents is on the rise globally. Adolescents rarely seek help for problematic substance use and healthcare professionals can easily fail to identify adolescents with risky substance ...
Background: Conflicts pose new challenges for health systems, requiring rapid and practical approaches to meet emerging needs on the ground. Lebanon has been highly influenced by surrounding conflicts in the Middle East ...
Aim: This is a study protocol to investigate nurses' perspectives on refugee health care in two countries. The aims are to: (a) explore self-reported work environment factors, including work stressors, self-rated leadership, ...
Kobeissi, Elsa; Menassa, Marilyne; Honein-AbouHaidar, Gladys N.; El Achi, Nassim; Abdul-Sater, Zahi; Farhat, Theresa I.; Al Mohtar, Dalia; Hajjar, Marwan S.; Abdul-Khalek, Rima A.; Chaya, Bachar F.; Elamine, Ahmad; Hettiaratchy, Shehan P.; Abu-Sittah, Ghassan S.(Frontiers Media SA, 2023)
Introduction: Lebanon, a country located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, is one of the world’s smaller sovereign states. In the past few decades, Lebanon endured a perpetual political turmoil and several ...
This Viewpoint calls for a greater understanding of the role that water plays in the transmission of anti-microbial resistance and covid-19 in protracted urban armed conflict, in order to develop a ‘pathogen-safe’ practice. ...
Palestine, since 1948, has endured frequent military occupations and uprisings, intifadas, in a limited geographic area that has resulted in one of the worst humanitarian crises. The prolonged nature of this military ...
This essay explores the challenges and opportunities that the Covid-19 pandemic has afforded Israel as it broadens its settler-colonial objectives internally, in Gaza, and elsewhere. In particular, it sheds light on the ...
Abdul-Khalek, Rima A.; Abu-Sittah, Ghassan S.; El Achi, Nassim; Kayyal, Walaa; Elamine, Ahmad; Noubani, Aya; Menassa, Marilyne; Ahmed, Fahad; Sullivan, Richard; Mukherji, Deborah M.(ecancer Global Foundation, 2020)
Background: Breast cancer is a major cause of cancer-related morbidity and mortality among women in the the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Conflict and political instability in the region may affect medical ...
El Achi, Nassim; Papamichail, Andreas; Rizk, Anthony; Lindsay, Helen; Menassa, Marilyne; Abdul-Khalek, Rima A.; Ekzayez, Abdulkarim M.; Dewachi, Omar; Patel, Preeti P.(BioMed Central Ltd., 2019)
Background: In conflict settings, research capacities have often been de-prioritized as resources are diverted to emergency needs, such as addressing elevated morbidity, mortality and health system challenges directly ...
Hernández-Hernández, Rafael; Octavio-Seijas, José Andrés; López-Rivera, Jesus A.; Morr, Igor; Costantini-Olmos, Antonieta P.; Gúzman-Franolic, Mónica L.; Silva, Eglé R.; Duín, Amanda; Marval, José; Méndez-Amaya, Nedina Coromoto; Ruíz-Lugo, José Félix; Vásquez, Dámaso; Ponte-Negrete, Carlos Ignacio; Beaney, Thomas G.P.; Kobeissi, Elsa; Poulter, Neil R.(Instituto de Investigaciones Clinicas, 2019)
The present study had the purpose of evaluating the proportion of subjects with hypertension, treatment, control rates, and the relationship between blood pressure (BP) with body mass index and abdominal circumference in ...
Background: Antibiotic resistance (ABR) is a major global threat. Armed and protracted conflicts act as multipliers of infection and ABR, thus leading to increased healthcare and societal costs. We aimed to understand and ...
Community kitchens (CKs) have been recommended as public health strategies with social and nutritional health benefits for low-income participants and their families in different settings. The benefit of CKs in improving ...
Background: Women and girls are disproportionately affected in times of conflict and forced displacement, with disturbance in access to healthcare services leading to poor sexual and reproductive health outcomes. The minimal ...
Background: The Syrian crisis has resulted in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history. Inadequate access to and use of sexual and reproductive health services is a prevailing issue among adolescent girls ...
Background The Eastern Mediterranean Region continues to face a severe scale of emergencies as a direct result of conflict and political instability in a number of countries. As of 2020, nine countries out of 22 countries ...
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 ...