This book describes a study aiming to update Iraqi pediatricians' research productivity in the field of nephrology using bibliometric methods, and analysis of the contribution of Iraqi pediatrician...
This book describes a study aiming to update Iraqi pediatricians' research productivity in the field of nephrology using bibliometric methods, and analysis of the contribution of Iraqi pediatrician...
Since its emergence at an international level in the 1980s, health promotion in Ireland has developed and grown, with significant achievements in the areas of cardiovascular health, healthy public ...
The Health Systems in Transition (HiT) profiles are country-based reports that provide a detailed description of a health system and of reform/ policy initiatives in progress or under development i...
Many avoidable shortcomings in the health sector that result in poor quality health services are due to inaccessible data, information, and knowledge. Lost and unreliable data, poor documentation, ...
The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) is a large-scale, nationally representative study of people aged 50 and over in Ireland. It is the most ambitious study of ageing ever carried out in ...
Cerebral palsy is a heterogeneous condition associated with a non-progressive lesion causing permanent disorder of movement with limited mobility. It is generally associated with gross motor develo...
The New Iraqi Journal of Medicine was founded in 2005 and it became the official journal of the Iraqi Ministry of Health and Iraq headquarter of Copernicus Scientists International Panel. The journ...
Gilles de la Tourette syndrome is a neuro-psychiatric disorder that generally affects children with normal intelligence and can affect also talented children. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome was fir...
If the health of older people is to be addressed appropriately, then it is essential that there be support for older people to live at home by providing appropriate community-based services to meet...
There has been a dramatic increase in the incidence of chronic renal failure during the past decades. Chronic kidney disease has become worldwide public health problem. In the past almost all atte...
Mental retardation has been recently called by the American Psychiatric Association" intellectual disability" despite that World Health Organization is still using the term "Mental retardation" in ...
Each year cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes over 4.3 million deaths in Europe and over 2.0 million deaths in the European Union (EU).CVD causes nearly half of all deaths in Europe (48%) and in th...
Hypoparathyroidism is a rare endocrine disorder that can be congenital or acquired. The congenital disorder can result from aplasia or hypoplasia of parathyroids or occurs as a part of genetic synd...
All children have needs, e.g. physical, safety and security, love and belonging, praise and encouragement. Children with special needs have these same needs together with some additional ones. Spec...
This work presented the findings of a two phase study carried out to address the research objectives. The primary aim of this research was to explore autonomy for older people in residential care. ...
What is Child Protection?Child Protection can be defined as the protection of children from any form of abuses, violence and neglect. It can also be defined as protecting the right of children from...
The aim of this book is to review the available scientific evidence with aim of finding keys to overcome the therapeutic challenge associated with the emerging coronavirus global pandemic in 2020. ...
Hemifacial microsomia is a rare congenital, heterogeneous malformation disorder affecting predominantly unilateral face. The disorder is associated with unusual strange distortion of the face with ...
Non-syndromic agenesis of the corpus callosum is a rare congenital disorder that has not been described or documented in Iraq. In this book, two Iraqi infants with non-syndromic agenesis of the cor...