As with all research journals, EMHJ has encountered cases of suspected infringement of ethical research conduct and publication, including lack of ethical clearance and/or informed consent of participants when needed and instances of plagiarism and duplicate publication. Our experience in addressing such incidents suggested that in some cases the authors were genuinely unaware of or unfamiliar ...

Syria: More than 5 years of conflict have taken a toll on the health of the Syrian people and the health system that serves them, with almost 13.5 million people requiring humanitarian assistance. More than half of the country’s public hospitals and primary health care centres have either closed or are only partially functioning, hundreds of thousands of children under 5 have missed out on rout...

This study aimed to assess the pattern of sentinel events reported to Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia from January 2012 to June 2015. Sentinel event reports were examined for patient characteristics, type of event, outcome, cause and preventability. There were 433 sentinel events: 58.2% were deaths, 14.8% were unexpected loss of a limb or a function, 7.4% major medication errors and 7.4% ret...

This descriptive–analytical study used data envelopment analysis to evaluated the technical efficiency (TE) of health systems in Member States of the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region during 2004–2011. Life expectancy and infant mortality were used as outputs. Per capita total expenditure on health, and number of physicians, nurses and midwives and hospital beds per 1000 pe...

As with all research journals, EMHJ has encountered cases of suspected infringement of ethical research conduct and publication, including lack of ethical clearance and/or informed consent of participants when needed and instances of plagiarism and duplicate publication. Our experience in addressing such incidents suggested that in some cases the authors were genuinely unaware of or unfamiliar ...

Universal health coverage – defined as all people being able to use needed health services with sufficient quality to be effective without financial hardship (1) – is a shared vision of health system development for Member States in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR), and a major element of the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda, which came into force on 1 January 2016 (2). The S...

The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms among school children in Jordan and the probable associated risk factors. This was a cross-sectional descriptive study and simple random sampling was used to select 480 students, aged 6–12 years, from government primary schools in Mafraq City, Jordan. Data were collected using t...

As with all research journals, EMHJ has encountered cases of suspected infringement of ethical research conduct and publication, including lack of ethical clearance and/or informed consent of participants when needed and instances of plagiarism and duplicate publication. Our experience in addressing such incidents suggested that in some cases the authors were genuinely unaware of or unfamiliar ...

Background: Probiotics are reported to have a role for improving health conditions and reduce the risk of diseases associated with inflammation. However, how they affect inflammation has not been well studied. The occurs during progression chronic could damage normal function cells, tissues, organs. Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is recognized as cytokine playing key in process. I...