Browsing Qatar University Institutional Repository by Publisher "European Publishing"

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    • Association between waterpipe smoking and obesity: Population-based study in Qatar 

      Alkeilani, Abdulla A.; Khalil, Abdelrahman A.; Azzan, Afaf M.; Al-Khal, Noof A.; Al-Nabit, Noora H.; ... more authors ( European Publishing , 2022 , Article)
      Introduction: Over the past decade obesity prevalence has been increasing rapidly in the Gulf region (GR) including Qatar, becoming one of the major health issues in the region. Concomitantly, waterpipe (WP) smoking is ...

    • Staff and student experiences and attitudes towards smoking and smoking cessation, University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 

      Tobaiqy, Mansour; Thomas, Dennis; MacLure, Andrew; Stewart, Derek; MacLure, Katie ( European Publishing , 2021 , Article)
      Introduction: Tobacco smoking causes an estimated 7 million deaths per annum with 70 thousand of those occurring in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) where the National Transformation Program highlights the need to ...

    • The political determinants of health: a local perspective 

      Sendall, Marguerite C. ( European Publishing , 2023 , Conference Paper)
      The relationship between our environment, the prevailing political context and policy landscape, and health outcomes from a planetary perspective is not linear. There is no straight forward to understand the links between ...

    • Use of child restraint systems in the Gulf region: a systematic review. 

      Sendall, Marguerite C.; Nasher, Nejood; Baker, Shouq; Almotawa, Huda ( European Publishing , 2023 , Conference Paper)
      Background: The United Nations General Assembly has a target to half the number of worldwide deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents by 2030. Globally, road traffic injuries and deaths are the leading cause of death ...

    • Water-pipe smoking and serum testosterone levels in adult males in Qatar. 

      Haik, Mahmoud Y; Ashour, Anas A; Alahmad, Yaman F M; Al-Ishaq, Fajer A; Saad, Mona M; ... more authors ( European Publishing , 2019 , Article)
      Water-pipe (WP) smoking is the most common method of tobacco consumption in the Middle-East and is rapidly spreading on a global scale. Although, water-pipe smoking is linked to various diseases, such as emphysema and ...