Growth reference charts are among the most sensitive and valuable tools for assessing the health and development of children. A questionnaire survey was answered by 16 of the 21 ministries of health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region countries (EMR) about their use of growth charts for children under 5 years. Most of the countries (13/16) used the NCHS/WHO charts and weight-for-age was the mos...

The popularity and acceptance of Traditional/Complementary and Alternative Medicine (TCAM) in the treatment of various ailments has persisted over the millennia. The formulations are so made as to minimize the untoward effects and enhance synergism, thereby increasing the efficacy of the preparation as a whole. The idea was perhaps based on the logic of humoral concept and study of temperaments...

Electronic Medical Records (EMR) provide increased productivity and convenience for patients, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, lab technicians and other medical professionals. The added accessibility to patient information introduces a multitude of security risks at various levels. The communication infrastructure may be breached by intruders from disparate countries. Loosely protected data entry ...

BACKGROUND Electronic medical record (EMR) systems are increasingly being adopted to support the delivery of health care in developing countries and their implementation can help to strengthen pathways of care and close gaps in the HIV treatment cascade by improving access to and use of data to inform clinical and public health decision-making. METHODS This study implemented a novel cloud-bas...

OBJECTIVE Electronic medical record (EMR) systems have the potential of supporting clinical work by providing the right information at the right time to the right people and thus make efficient use of resources. This is especially important in low-resource settings where reliable data are also needed to support public health and local supporting organizations. In this systematic literature revi...

BACKGROND Following MPOWER's 2011 report, a study was conducted to quantify the implementation of MPOWER tobacco control policies in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) in 2013 to assess any possible change during the last two years.  METHODS In this cross sectional study, based on 10 categories mentioned in MPOWER 2013, a checklist was designed and its scoring was agreed upon by Iranian a...

Apparently, any technical device was not introduced in everyday human life so fast and so close as mobile phone. Starting from first commercial mobile phone network in Japan in 1979 the number of active users of mobile telephony increased to over 3 billion all over the world. In developed countries the number of mobile phone users today is close to saturation. The initial age of youngest users ...

Esophageal cancer represents a major clinical challenge because of its poor prognosis. The aim of the SUDCAN collaborative study was to compare the net survival from esophageal cancer between six European Latin countries (Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland) and report the trends in net survival and the dynamics of excess mortality rates (EMRs) up to 5 years after diagnosis...

BACKGROUND Determinants of health or health production function in health economics literature constitute noticeable issues in health promotion. This study aimed at estimating a health production function for East Mediterranean Region (EMR) based on the Grossman theoretical model. METHODS This ecological study was performed using the econometric methods. The panel data model was used in order...

BACKGROUND This article aims at providing an overview of the current epidemiological situation in the heterogeneous Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). It is one in a series of eight articles appointed by the International Epidemiological Association to improve the epidemiological situation. METHODS Several resources were used to extract morbidity, mortality and risk factors data that contrib...