Background: When disasters strike, hospitals are among the first units whose efficient and timely services can be crucial and decisive in reducing mortality and rescuing the injured. Non-structural components are among domains that need to be considered in any assessment of hospitals’ readiness tools. Objectives: Given that Azerbaijan, and especially the metropolis of Tabriz, is located in the ...

In the years of independence, the oil industry played great role in the economic development of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The state budget has been enlarged significantly at the expense of revenues gained due to rapid development of oil sector. The development of oil industry has created great potential for non-oil sector and economic development in the country's regions. Since 2003, a number...

Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance System (EIDSS) has been used to strengthen and support monitoring and prevention of dangerous diseases within One Health concept by integrating veterinary and human surveillance, passive and active approaches, case-based records including disease-specific clinical data based on standardised case definitions and aggregated data, laboratory data incl...

BACKGROUND Fascioliasis, caused by Fasciola hepatica and F. gigantica, has medical and economic importance in the world. Molecular approaches comparing traditional methods using for identification and characterization of Fasciola spp. are precise and reliable. The aims of current study were molecular characterization of Fasciola spp. in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran and then comparative analys...

OBJECTIVES Food insecurity has become an important issue in many countries of the former Soviet Union following the transition to a market economy. This study examined three aspects of food security in the Baltic Republics: reasons for choosing foods; level of dependence on home-grown or raised foods; and use of home-grown vegetables. DESIGN Cross-sectional surveys. SETTING Data from survey...

Introduction In 1994, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had been engaged in sixteen countries on behalf of war amputees and other disabled. Among these countries, three new programmes have started in Iraq, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Whereas the programme of Colombia has been completed at the end of the year and handed over to the ICRC counterpart. During the year, 14,986 prosthes...

T he emergency relief operation in the former Yugoslavia was one of the largest, most complex, and riskiest international relief initiatives ever undertaken. UNHCR’s programme was perhaps the most difficult of any mounted by the organization since it was established.While UNHCR had operations in all the republics of the former Yugoslavia during its violent dissolution, the organization faced it...

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