Aims: The specific aims of the study were (1) to explore perceptions of health care workers and administrators at different levels about analysis and utilizations of anemia screening data, (2) describe and analyze the chain ...

Background: Diarrhea is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality among children in the developing countries. Each year 1.6 million children under 5 years old die as a result of diarrheal diseases. Based on the ...

Background: Currently health care systems face significant challenges related to the need to harness an ever increasing flow of information, which, if done correctly, can bring to many benefits including improved quality ...

Introduction: Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. Trafficked women and men are exploited in the service of illicit and criminal services and labor, including sex work and labor in the garment industry and domestic ...

Introduction: Tobacco use is one of the major preventable causes of death. Smoking rates among men in Armenia have been consistently high, being one of the highest rates among men. In India tobacco smoke is responsible for ...

Background: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the most commonly studied and central psychopathologies in the aftermath of disasters. Depression in its turn is another significant contributor to the global ...

Background: Leukemia is the most common blood cancer. Worldwide, leukemia accounts for 2.8% of all new cancer cases and 222,000 deaths each year. It accounts for 30% of all cancers diagnosed in children aged less than 15 ...

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a genetic disease predominantly affecting ethnic groups such as Armenians, Jews, Arabs and Turks. Signs of the disease are recurrent self-limited attacks of fever and polyserositis, ...

Background: Armenia implemented several major health care reforms in the last 20 years. The main reform efforts aimed to establish a balance between hospital and primary care and to make those services accessible and reduce ...

Background: Privatization is an act of transferring a public hospital to private ownership. Although the privatization of Armenian hospitals began in 1994, no study was found evaluating the differences between private and ...