Induced abortion is one of the most common gynecological interventions. About 44 million abortions take place globally each year. In 2008, six million abortions were performed in developed countries and 38 million in ...
Breast cancer (BC) is the most common type of cancer among women worldwide. It comprised 23% of all new cancer cases and 14% of all cancer deaths worldwide in 2008. The recent increase in morbidity and mortality rates of ...
Background: Medical education can be quite stressful. Studies have shown a high prevalence of depression among medical students. Psychological disorders on a personal level can contribute to substance abuse, broken ...
Background Information: Lead (Pb) pollution is considered to be one of the top ten global environmental pollution problems. Exposure to lead among children, particularly six years old and younger causes lower Intelligence ...
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 ...
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, ...
Executive summary
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the dangerous communicable diseases in the world and is a serious health and social problem for many countries, including Armenia. By the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
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Objectives: In a foreign country student diets often quickly deteriorate leading to unhealthy habits that may have adverse effects on their health. The dietary patterns of foreign students in Armenia whose number ...
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Introduction: The quality of care from patient’s perspective is defined as patient/client
satisfaction. Studies have revealed positive correlations between patient satisfaction and
health care utilization: a ...
This report is devoted to the development of solar energy in Armenia. Here in the form of short separate reports are described the current state of affairs, the principal players and their roles, technical and other ...
The oral health in Armenia is far from being satisfactory. For example, in 2000, the DMFT index among 12-year-old children was estimated to be 4-5 on average. At the age of 35, the DMFT index was approximately 14 and at ...
A vast majority of unintended pregnancies are due to contraceptive nonuse, inconsistent use and reliance on ineffective methods of contraception. Among barriers to contraceptive use worldwide are: lack of a method of choice; ...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Armenia is the sixth in the world for and number one smoking country in Europe: 63.7% of men (the heaviest puffers in Europe) and 3.1% of women in Armenia are smokers. The ...
Objectives: Endometrial cancer is one of the most common gynecologic cancers worldwide. The current study identified the reproductive risk factors of endometrial cancer among 45-75 years old women in Yerevan, Armenia and ...