Middle East North Africa (MENA) Refugee Crisis: Digital Resources in Review

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Burden of Chronic Respiratory Diseases (CRD) in Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Chronic respiratory diseases involve a heterogenous group of diseases, including, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, sleep apnea syndrome, pulmonary hypertension, and many occupational diseases. They affect more than one billion people worldwide. Their medical, social, and economic impacts are heavy, especially in developing countries such as Middle East and North Africa coun...

A systematic review of childhood obesity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: Health impact and management

Childhood obesity has serious consequences both immediately and in adulthood. The rates of obesity in children and adolescents are rising rapidly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. We systematically searched the literature to explore adverse effects associated with childhood obesity in this region and the management efforts for dealing with it. Inclusion criteria were: English-l...

Situating Middle East and and North Africa (MENA) capital markets within the emerging markets universe

The objective of this paper is to situate the MENA area within the emerging markets universe. We first discuss the various components of market emergence and generate four bootstrapped indexes reflecting market size, market activity, market pricing and transparency. We then draw inter-regional and country-level comparisons using a probit model and a hierarchical cluster analysis. Our results su...

Old World Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and Refugee Crises in the Middle East and North Africa

1 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America, 3 James A. Baker III Institute, Rice University, Ho...