Environmental effects on health are associated with several factors: absent or inadequate environmental health services, such as water supply, sanitation, solid and hazardous waste management and shelter; environmental degradation, such as pollution of air, water and soil, and food contamination; global environmental problems, such as reduction of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystems thro...

Background: COVID-19, as an emerging disease, is characterized by acute respiratory syndrome and caused a coronavirus. The disease was first seen in China gradually spread across other parts of the world. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate COVID-19 characteristics Eastern Mediterranean Region. Methods: data confirmed cases related deaths different countries were extracted from reports ...

This study investigates the variations of surface Moho inverted from Bouguer gravity data beneath northwestern Arabian plate. The results were obtained by applying 3DINVER program developed in a MATLAB environment using Parker–Oldenburg method. calculation show that maximum depth observed western shield approaches more than 40 km, while minimum values 16–20 km are mainly concentrated Mediterran...

Abstract Study question What is the current understanding of relationship between air pollution and perinatal health in EMR? Summary answer The literature on exposure to pollutants EMR scarce, limited scope, using simply study designs methods. known already Air a significant public concern Eastern Mediterranean Region, due many factors such as arid nature region, rapid urbanization, oil product...

BACKGROUND Local and regional scientific journals are important factors in bridging gaps in health knowledge translation in low-and middle-income countries. We assessed indexing, citations and publishing standards of journals from the Eastern Mediterranean region. METHODS For journals from 22 countries in the collection of the Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region (IMEMR), we ana...