Current WHO methods were employed to estimate the prevalence of toothbrush possession, tea drinking, tobacco habits, fluorosis, dentofacial anomalies, periodontal diseases, dental caries as well as treatment needs in schoolchildren in Tunisia, the smallest country in North Africa. Fluorosis was endemic in some regions. Dentofacial anomalies were more frequent than in the other countries of the ...

BACKGROUND The Eastern Mediterranean region has the second highest number of road traffic injury mortality rates after the African region based on 2013 data, with road traffic injuries accounting for 27% of the total injury mortality in the region. Globally the number of road traffic deaths has plateaued despite an increase in motorization, but it is uncertain whether this applies to the Region...

Citation: Larrasoaña JC, Roberts AP, Liu Q, Lyons R, Oldfield F, Rohling EJ and Heslop D (2015) Source-to-sink magnetic properties of NE Saharan dust in Eastern Mediterranean marine sediments: review and paleoenvironmental implications. Front. Earth Sci. 3:19. doi: 10.3389/feart.2015.00019 Source-to-sink magnetic properties of NE Saharan dust in Eastern Mediterranean marine sediments: review an...

As a follow up of a short communication that the Eastern Mediterranean Health journal published in December 2011, this article reports on highlights and conclusions from scientific abstracts, methodology workshops and plenary sessions that were presented as part of the Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network (EMPHNET) conference held from 6 to 9 December 2011 in Sharm Al Sheikh, Egypt.

A dynamically motivated statistical forecasting scheme for eastern Mediterranean winter rainfall is presented. The scheme is based on North Atlantic sea level pressure precursors. The resulting forecasts are robust and statistically significant at ;13 months lead time, and improve at ;7 months lead. It is suggested that these forecasts form a foundation for an operational early-warning system f...

Citation: Hazan O, Silverman J, Sisma-Ventura G, Ozer T, Gertman I, Shoham-Frider E, Kress N and Rahav E (2018) Mesopelagic Prokaryotes Alter Surface Phytoplankton Production during Simulated Deep Mixing Experiments in Eastern Mediterranean Sea Waters. Front. Mar. Sci. 5:1. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00001 Mesopelagic Prokaryotes Alter Surface Phytoplankton Production during Simulated Deep Mixing ...

BACKGROUND Diphtheria (D), tetanus (T), pertussis (P), hepatitis B (HepB), invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease, and measles cause substantial global morbidity and mortality. METHODS This unique review highlights geographic differences in disease burden across certain countries in the African, Americas, Mediterranean, South-East Asian, and Western Pacific World Health Organiza...

Yes, cardiovascular disease remains the primary cause of mortality worldwide. But the situation has dramatically changed for the better in recent decades, with a major decrease beginning with Western countries and now reaching Eastern European countries as well. The general trend to decreased cardiovascular mortality is observed both in countries having initially a high cardiovascular disease b...

Thirty microsatellite markers were analysed in 1426 goats from 45 traditional or rare breeds in 15 European and Middle Eastern countries. In all populations inbreeding was indicated by heterozygosity deficiency (mean FIS = 0.10). Genetic differentiation between breeds was moderate with a mean FST value of 0.07, but for most (c. 71%) northern and central European breeds, individuals could be ass...

The variable domain 1 (VD1) domain of the control region and a small segment of the rrnaL gene of the F mtDNA type were sequenced and analyzed in 174 specimens of Mytilus galloprovincialis. Samples were collected from eight locations in four Central-Eastern (CE) Mediterranean countries (Italy, Croatia, Greece and Turkey). A new primer, specific for the F mtDNA type, was designed for the sequenc...