Lebanon is a small country located in the Middle East region which is undergoing rapid demographic transition. Among Arabic countries Lebanon has the fastest growing elderly population, and by the year 2025, older adults above 65 years are expected to represent more than 10% of the population. Nutrition is a key factor during the aging process and may help to prevent age-related diseases. Howev...

BACKGROUND The international migration of physicians is a global public health problem. Lebanon is a source country with the highest emigration factor in the Middle East and North Africa and the 7th highest in the World. Given that residency training abroad is a critical step in the migration of physicians, the objective of this study was to survey students of Lebanese medical schools about the...

Phytochemical Screening and Cytotoxic Activity of Two Extracts from Seeds of Lebanese Annona squamosa L Abbas Sabbah , Mohamad Nasser, Akram Hijazi, Hassan Rammal 1, , Ghassan Nasser 1 Basic Sciences department, Faculty of Agronomy, Lebanese University, Lebanon 2 Doctoral School of Science and Technology, Platform for Research and Analysis in Environmental Sciences (PRASE), Lebanese University,...

Today 1 per 5 people in Lebanon is a Syrian refugee. Lebanon, largely impacted by the Syrian-refugee crisis, followed “non-policy” and later confining policy for refugees-management. Based on EU Global Strategy of 2016, migration identified as principal threat European security. Recently, has exerted its external governance refugee-hosting countries like Lebanon. Having Union implemented resili...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Therefore, as part of the Dyslipidemia International Study (DYSIS), we have analyzed the prevalence of lipid abnormalities and risk factors for dyslipidemia in statin-treated patients in Lebanon and Jordan. METHODS This cross-sectional, multicenter study enrolled 617 patients at 13 hospitals in Lebanon a...

The civil war in Lebanon from 1975 to 1992 had a significant negative impact on the public health care system. This paper describes the health care system in Lebanon and its financing as of 2001. The efforts that have been made and are being made to rehabilitate and reform this sector since the end of the war are outlined.

Lyubomir Zagorchev1,3,4; Mary Jo Mulligan-Kehoe2 1Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA; 2Department of Surgery, Vascular Section, Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA; 3Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA; 4Philips Research North America, Briarcliff,...

1Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, 35 Centerra Parkway, Suite 300, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA; 2Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, Lebanon, NH, USA ; 3 Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden ; 4Rare Diseases Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden ; 5Genia, Stockholm, Sweden ; 6Hansen Law, Stockho...

This study examines and analyzes the Influence of Discipline Workplace Spirituality on success tasks Indonesian Army Personnel in U.N. peacekeeping mission Lebanon, with motivation as an Intervening Variable. The respondents used are 136 members Lebanon taken using Census sampling method. data analysis method is Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) AMOS 21. results indicate that discipline workpl...

This article takes the autofictional trauma cinema created by Lebanese artists and film-makers Joana Hadjithomas Khalil Joreige in their Je veux voir [‘I want to see’] (2008) as a case study that demonstrates potential value of film-analytical methodology grounded concept cinéma-monde. A Franco-Lebanese co-production starring Catherine Deneuve, occupies hybrid generic position between documenta...