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Changing roles in global health governance following COVID-19
CONCLUSION: The findings position WHO as the current and future top actor in stewardship, production of guidelines and policies, and promoting solidarity and collaboration, and UNICEF as the upcoming most central actor in managing global health challenges. Governments were major actors in all GHG functions except for managing global health challenges. Funding actors were central in all GHG functions, indicating finance as an important factor in obtaining a central role in GHG. Research organizations received a high centrality rating, indicating their importance in GHG.PMID:38491894 | DOI:10.26719/emhj.24.024 (Source: Easte...
Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal - March 16, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Authors: Wafa Abu El Kheir-Mataria Hassan El-Fawal Sungsoo Chun Source Type: research

Situation analysis of the quality of primary health care services in Pakistan
CONCLUSIONS: Several gaps were identified at the primary healthcare level in Punjab that need to be addressed to improve the quality of service delivery.PMID:38491895 | DOI:10.26719/emhj.24.025 (Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal)
Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal - March 16, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Authors: Muhammad Navid Tahir Nauman Ali Ch Muhammad Waqas Farooq Ghazanfar Mubin Jafar Riaz Kataria Source Type: research

Assessment of the impact of integrated disease surveillance and response system on surveillance management at healthcare facilities in Pakistan
CONCLUSION: IDSRS is effective in improving surveillance and response systems, however, its effectiveness appears to depend on locale-specific economies and can be enhanced by modifying the implementation approach. Better empowerment of the local workforce can contribute to such improvement.PMID:38491896 | DOI:10.26719/emhj.24.026 (Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal)
Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal - March 16, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Authors: Zia Ul Haq Sheraz Fazid Basharat Hussain Muhammad Fawad Khan Asif Betanni Bilal Behrawar Shaheen Afridi Source Type: research

Beliefs and practices of physicians in Lebanon regarding promotional gifts and interactions with pharmaceutical companies
CONCLUSION: Although physicians in Lebanon were aware of the effect that gifts from pharmaceutical companies could have on their prescription behaviours, many of them still accepted the gifts. This study provides evidence to policymakers for decision-making regarding ethical guidance on interactions between physicians and pharmaceutical companies in Lebanon.PMID:38491897 | DOI:10.26719/emhj.24.027 (Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal)
Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal - March 16, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Authors: Issam Shaarani Jida Hasbini Reem Farhat Nour Safawi Jamil Sleiman Alaa Kassem Hammoud Tamara Fayad Dana Khazaal Oubaida Elkhatib Hussein Berjaoui Source Type: research

National survey of barriers to colorectal cancer screening in Jordan
CONCLUSION: Lack of information about colorectal cancer screening, misconceptions and embarrassment drive the low uptake of colorectal cancer screening in Jordan. There is a need for nationwide education and awareness on colorectal cancer screening to address the barriers reported in this study and increase screening uptake.PMID:38491898 | DOI:10.26719/emhj.24.028 (Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal)
Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal - March 16, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Authors: Zaid Ali Abdulelah Ahmed Ali Abdulelah Mohammad Alqaisieh Asim N Khanfar Nouran Husam Hammad Eyad Bassam Al Masoud Qusai B Odeh Mohammad Ali Alshrouf Rahaf Maher Abuaisheh Haitham Mohammed Abd-Alrahman Amer Khatib Source Type: research

River water pollution in Lebanon: the country's most underestimated public health challenge
CONCLUSIONS: Polluted water can have a negative impact on human, wildlife and ecosystem health. Most of the assessed rivers in our study contained bacterial colonies, above the maximum recommended internationally. There is therefore an urgent need to address pollution issues in Lebanese waters to make them suitable for irrigation and other uses.PMID:38491899 | DOI:10.26719/emhj.24.029 (Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal)
Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal - March 16, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Authors: Carolla El Chamieh Claudia El Haddad Khaled El Khatib Edmond Jalkh Victoria Al Karaki Jana Zeineddine Antoine Assaf Tania Harb Elie Bou Sanayeh Source Type: research

Emergent spotted fever group Rickettsiae infections among hard ticks in Islamic Republic of Iran
CONCLUSION: Considering the discovery of infected ticks in the Islamic Republic of Iran, there is a need to establish a tick control programme in the country, paying attention to populations at high-risk.PMID:38491900 | DOI:10.26719/emhj.24.030 (Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal)
Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal - March 16, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Authors: Mohammad Bagher Ghavami Zohreh Alibabaei Mohammad Reza Jamavar Behrooz Taghiloo Source Type: research

Evaluation of antibiotic prescription patterns using WHO AWaRe classification
CONCLUSION: The outpatient department of the ENT did not prescribe any reserve or not recommended antibiotics. The use of watch antibiotics was higher than recommended by the WHO AWaRe classification. More efforts should be made to increase prescriptions from the AWaRe access group to achieve the 60% minimum target recommended by WHO for the country.PMID:38491901 | DOI:10.26719/emhj.24.031 (Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal)
Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal - March 16, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Authors: Urooj Sajjad Nauman Afzal Manahil Asif Muhammad Bilal Rehman Arshad Ullah Afridi Tahseen Kazmi Source Type: research

Erratum on "Analysis of prescriptions dispensed at community pharmacies in Nablus, Palestine"
East Mediterr Health J. 2024 Feb 25;30(2):163. doi: 10.26719/2024.30.2.163.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38491902 | DOI:10.26719/2024.30.2.163 (Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal)
Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal - March 16, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Authors: Abdalhakim Rm Shubietah Source Type: research

Increasing access to healthcare in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
East Mediterr Health J. 2024 Feb 25;30(2):91-92. doi: 10.26719/2024.30.2.91.ABSTRACTLessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic have provided an opportunity to intensify efforts towards the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Innovations in digital health and advances in science witnessed during the pandemic can be harnessed to improve equitable access to healthcare and build resilient health systems. We also have stark reminders that without addressing the needs of the most vulnerable groups and societies, a simple expansion of service delivery efforts may even exacerbate existing inequities in healthcare.P...
Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal - March 16, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Authors: Hanan Balkhy Source Type: research