The Maltese Islands are a group of small islands in the central Mediterranean, of which two are inhabited. Malta had a population in 1938 of 242,885, and Gozo then had 25,783 inhabitants. The islands are small: the largest Malta, is 94-87 square miles in area, and Gozo, 26-97 square miles.1 The islands were not occupied during the Second World War, but they were subjected to ferocious bombings ...

BACKGROUND Diabetes type 2 and obesity are well-established global epidemics and contributors to clinical, social and economic health burdens. The prevalence rates of these diseases are still on the rise among countries resulting in a corresponding public health burden. The Mediterranean island of Malta, known for it's high diabetes and obesity rates, provides a good fundamental basis to portra...

Abstract Preface After the success of GIREP Malta Webinar 2020, both Board members and organisers/hosts from University decided to plan for another meeting members, be organised in 2021. Restrictions due COVID-19 pandemic had automatically led organisers first decide favour organising a webinar. There was hope, participants, that 2 nd would held face-to-face Malta. But even this idea abandoned ...

This paper outlines the changes in the water supply system in the Maltese Islands and in fluoride concentration and the impact that this has had on the prevalence of dental caries in 12-year-old schoolchildren. It describes how over the past decades, the Maltese Islands (which comprise two main islands, Malta and Gozo) have seen changes in the water supply system, from one purely dependent on u...

ticks are vectors of some important arthropod-borne diseases in both fields of veterinary and medicine, such as lyme, tularemia, rocky mountain spotted fever, and some types of encephalitis as well as crimean congo hemorrhagic fever (cchf). iran is known as one of the main foci of cchf in west of asia. this study was conducted in darrehshahr county because of the development of animal husbandry...

Ten years ago Malta was deeply divided into two camps: those in favour and those against membership of the European Union (EU). The referendum was a narrow victory for supporters of membership, and the rest is history. At the time of accession, the health sector was not one of the key areas targeted for debate or scrutiny. 1 This may have been due to the fact that European competence in health ...

We document the presence of sizable distributional e¤ects from unexpected price level movements in the Euro Area (EA) using sectoral accounts and newly available data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. The EA as a whole is a net winner of unexpected price level increases, with Italy, Greece, Portugal and Spain being the biggest bene…ciaries, and Belgium and Malta being the large...

This chapter discusses the development of a comprehensive public procurement performance measurement framework in Malta. To support Malta setting such framework, highlights key elements to consider up including i) category indicators (efficiency/effectiveness, compliance, strategic ones), ii) stage, and iii) relevant stakeholders. The also reviews availability data assesses processes.