Ehsan Mostafavi, Abdolmajid Ghasemian, Abubakar Abdinasir, Seyed Alireza Nematollahi Mahani, Salman Rawaf, Mostafa Salehi Vaziri, Mohammad Mahdi Gouya, Tran Minh Nhu Nguyen, Salah Al Awaidy, Lubna Al Ariqi, Md Mazharul Islam, Elmoubasher Abu Baker Abd Farag, Majdouline Obtel, Peter Omondi Mala, Ghassan M Matar, Rana Jawad Asghar, Amal Barakat, Mohammad Nadir Sahak, Mariam Abdulmonem Mansouri, Alexandra Swaka
BACKGROUND: Countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) are predisposed to highly contagious, severe and fatal, emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), and re-emerging infectious diseases (RIDs). This paper reviews the epidemiological situation of EIDs and RIDs of global concern in the EMR between 2001 and 2018. METHODS: To do a narrative review, a complete list of studies in the field was we prepared following a systematic search approach...
March 6, 2021: International Journal of Health Policy and Management