Borders and transit countries: the re-territorialization of Middle East pipelines

Prevalence of hepatitis A across various countries in the Middle East, African and Eastern European countries

Comparative study of nursing education in three Middle East countries

Background & Objective: In the university system, the purpose of education is to make appropriate changes in the graduates. Almost in all societies, educational goals are similar to each other, but planning relate to the traditions and cultures of each society. The aim of this study was to compare and matching the nursing curriculum in three countries: Iran, Jordan and Turkey. Materials and Me...

Burden of Mental Disorders: A Study of the Middle East Countries for the Period 2000- 2017

Background: Mental disorders, as the most important global health challenge these days, have created many concerns for health systems, health professionals and policy makers and are a major contributor to the growth of health complications and disabilities worldwide. The present study was designed and conducted to describe the status of the illness burden of mental disorders in the Middle Easte...

Strategies of Hepatitis B vaccine export to the Middle East and Central Asian countries

Introduction: This paper proposes an appropriate strategy for exporting Hepatitis B vaccine, manufactured by Pasteur Institute of Iran, to other countries. Methods: Eeffectiveness factors and their relative variables were found out by factor analysis method in SPSS software. Results: We could identify 6 main factors which can extremely affect the export of this product. We evaluated manufacture...

Economic Consequences of COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa Region Countries

From the first reported case of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on December 30, 2019 in Wuhan, China, the number of confirmed cases of the disease has been increased continuously and exponentially up to now. The event has emerged as a clear threat to global health such that the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the outbreak of the disease a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The ...