BMC Public Health This article aims to find the prevalence of food insecurity among Lebanese children during the COVID-19 pandemic and its correlates. Journal Article
Read MoreFrontiers in Public Health This article assesses the gender-based differentials in food consumption patterns, dietary diversity and the determinants favoring weight change before and amid the COVID-19 pandemic among Arab men and women from 10 Arab countries. Journal Article
Read MoreInternational Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics This article reports the results of a retrospective study of pregnant women in Bahrain Defense Force Hospital, who were vaccinated against COVID-19 with Sinopharm or Pfizer/BioNTech. It studies immune responses to vaccination, association with maternal and fetal factors, and the vertical transmission of antibodies. Journal Article
Read MoreHealth Science Reports This article examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the physical activity (PA) of the Jordanian population and reports that the pandemic had a positive impact on the healthy lifestyle of the Jordanian population which was attributed to their feeling of the importance of sports practice on the immune system and…
Read MorePLOS One This article aims to measure compassion satisfaction (CS) and compassion fatigue (CF) levels and their predictors among Tunisian healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal Article
Read MoreNew England Journal of Medicine This article shows that the protection of a previous COVID-19 infection against reinfection with a BA.4 or BA.5 subvariant was lower than that against reinfection with a BA.1 or BA.2 subvariant because of more waning of immune protection over time and a greater capacity for immune-system evasion with the BA.4…
Read MoreCurrent Research in Nutrition and Food Science This article aims to assess the knowledge, attitude, behavior and dietary patterns of adolescents and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic related restrictions on these behaviors in Saudi Arabia. Journal Article
Read MoreArchives of Community Medicine and Public Health This article aims to identify mortality risk factors among patients in Tunisia at the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Mahdia. Journal Article
Read MoreEconomic Research Forum This article draws on survey evidence of how Sudan’s labor market has fared during the COVID-19 pandemic and makes recommendations for policies to respond to the economic damage to households and firms. Working Paper
Read MoreVaccines This article studies the side effects of COVID-19 booster vaccines self-reported by Algerians who were vaccinated with a booster dose of one of the approved inactivated-virus vaccines or one of the adenoviral-vector-based vaccines, and to determine the eventual risk factors. Journal Article
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