In line with the global trend, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been growing vulnerable to direct indirect health effects of climate change including death tolls due climatological disasters diseases sensitive since industrial revolution. Regarding limited capacity MENA countries adapt respond these effects, also after relative failures previous negotiation in Glasgow, upcoming CO...

This paper investigates the relationship between economic development and female labor force participation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Using a panel data set of 20 countries in the region for the period of 1990-2012, I develop an econometric model that tests the U-shape hypothesis. This study builds upon previous literature examining the U-shape hypothesis in time series studies...

The incidence of road crashes in the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries is rising at an alarming rate and is now the leading cause of death among young adults, as confirmed by recent public health reports1. When comparing socio-economic indicators such as road crash fatality rates, healthy years of life lost due to crashes, and percentage of GDP lost, MENA countries now rank among s...

BACKGROUND Pompe disease is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by a deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme alpha-glucosidase responsible for degrading glycogen. Late-onset Pompe disease has a complex multisystem phenotype characterized by a range of symptoms. METHODS An expert panel from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region met to create consensus-based guidelines for the diagno...

This paper revisits the original natural resource curse study conducted by Sachs and Warner to investigate relationship between dependence per capita growth in recent data consisting of 68 developing countries that includes 14 Middle East & North Africa (MENA) 6 Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) 1994–2014. Using a cross-country modeling we find robust evidence negative association dependence. affe...

There is an urgent need to build Research and Development (R&D) capacity for leishmaniasis and other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in the Middle East and North Africa. The neglected tropical diseases are a group of 17 viral, bacterial, protozoan, and helminthic infections that often have high morbidity but low mortality, causing disabilities through their impact on child development and ed...

context this systematic review and meta-analysis was performed to determine the prevalence (by overall relative frequency) and clinical information of the behcet’s disease in middle east and north africa (mena) and it has an important effect on the health policy and performing complementary studies in future. evidence acquisition we performed this systematic literature review from several datab...

This article analyses the UAE's security-led foreign policy engagement within Middle East and North Africa (MENA). I have interpreted strategy as one that employs Joel Migdal's State in Society model, whereby informal networks communities are primarily utilised for implementation of engagement. In this paper discuss justification hypothesis, then illustrate my argument through case studies with...