Publications by authors named "Eman A Aly"

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) was one of the earliest healthcare systems globally to implement the International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11) across its 140 clinics serving 5.9 million Palestine refugees. This paper discusses the integration of ICD-11 into UNRWA's cloud-based electronic medical record (EMR) system, identifying both the barriers and facilitators involved and analyzing trends in clinical documentation and healthcare utilization.

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  • Routine assessments of health facilities for abortion and post-abortion care can enhance policy and program development, improving access and quality of services.
  • Since 2018, WHO has integrated abortion care into its health facility assessment tools, showcasing successful implementation across various legal environments.
  • Key factors for successful integration include collaboration, localized language use, and careful tool design to ensure high-quality data collection and consistent analysis.
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Access to reliable and timely information is key for healthcare decision-making at the regional, national and sub-national levels. However, lack of access to such information hampers to progress towards achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR), as indicated in the Regional Progress Report on Health-Related Sustainable Development Goals.

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The World Health Organization's Unity Studies global initiative provides a generic preparedness and readiness framework for conducting detailed investigations and epidemiological studies critical for the early and ongoing assessment of emerging respiratory pathogens of pandemic potential. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the initiative produced standardized investigation protocols and supported Member States to generate robust and comparable data to inform public health decision making. The subsequent iteration of the initiative is being implemented to develop revised and new investigation protocols, implementation toolkits and work to build a sustainable global network of sites, enabling the global community to be better prepared for the next emerging respiratory pathogen with epidemic or pandemic potential.

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Background: Population-based surveys are the main data source to generate health-related indicators required to monitor progress toward national, regional and global goals effectively. Although the Eastern Mediterranean Region of World Health Organization (WHO) member states conduct many population-based surveys, they are not led regularly and fail to provide relevant indicators appropriately. Therefore, this study aims two-fold: to map out population-based surveys to be conducted data for the health-related indicators in the Region and propose a timetable for conducting national population-based surveys in the Region.

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  • The study focused on estimating the household secondary infection attack rate (hSAR) of SARS-CoV-2 using data from WHO protocols and involved a systematic review and meta-analysis of relevant articles published from December 2019 to July 2021.
  • Out of nearly 10,000 records, 80 articles were selected, with 62 included in the main analysis, revealing hSAR estimates that varied widely from 2% to 90%, indicating significant heterogeneity in the results.
  • The findings highlight the importance of standardizing methodologies in future investigations to improve pandemic preparedness and response for COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses.
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Background: In Yemen, initial surveillance of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) focused primarily on patients with symptoms or severe disease. The full spectrum of the disease remains unclear. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first seroprevalence study performed in Yemen.

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