There is still an alarming gap in neonatal healthcare and outcome between Western and Eastern European countries and the former USSR countries in particular. Most of the causes of neonatal mortality and morbidity can be prevented or managed by simple cost-effective interventions aimed at improving quality of healthcare, health system organisation and family and community participation. Training...

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Background As the under-representation of women in management positions continues to persist globally, little is known about the experiences of women in the healthcare sector in the context of the developing Middle Eastern nations. In an attempt to address this knowledge gap, the current study explores some of the barriers that hinder and the enablers that foster women’s career advancement in t...

The NSF-funded Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program has committed itself to examining the linkages between ecosystems and human society, particularly through ecosystem services: naturally-occurring processes and provisions that benefit humankind. Natural scientists have pointed to ecosystem services valuation as being a key tool for drawing societal attention to natural capital, and, in...

Independent studies by both the World Health Organisation and the World Bank in 1990 have estimated that about 500,000 people lose their lives each year as a result of road accidents and over 15 million suffer injuries. A recent TRL study has reported a realistic estimate for the year 1999 for global road deaths to be between 750,000 and 880,000 (Jacobs et al, 1999). The majority of these, abou...

Aims: Identifying the factors affecting the older adultchr('39')s quality of life can be effective in finding ways to improve their quality of life. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the factors affecting older adultschr('39') quality of life in Middle Eastern countries. Information & Methods: This systematic review study was conducted in March and April 2020. According to the World H...

Let us start with an example of health policy analysis in action. Within that category of countries loosely known as ‘the West’, quite basic differences exist in attitudes to health policy and also actual health policy. Comparing the US with mainland Europe and indeed Canada, for example, one perceives a difference in attitude on the part of the majority towards collectivism and individualism i...