Publications by authors named "M El Houssinie"
Background: Workplace violence (WPV) has been recognized as a major occupational hazard worldwide. Healthcare professions are particularly at a higher risk of WPV. Patients and their relatives are commonly the most common perpetrators for WPV against physicians.
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- The study examined knife-related injuries (KRI) at Ain Shams University Hospital to better understand their incidence and characteristics, as Egypt lacks reliable data on such injuries.
- A cross-sectional analysis of 140 patients revealed that 87.86% of the injuries were accidental, most occurring at home, and the majority of patients experienced complete recovery within an average hospital stay of 3.6 days.
- The findings highlight the need for a national surveillance system to effectively tackle the increasing issue of knife-related injuries.
Introduction: Since 2008, Egypt has four existing generic bi-annually rotating warning labels (WLs) on 50% of the waterpipe tobacco packs (WTPs). The Ministry of Health Tobacco Control Unit proposed increasing WL size to 80%, removing colours and flavour imagery from WTPs, and plain packaging to help curb the rising epidemic of waterpipe tobacco smoking. Therefore, we measured the perceived efficacy of existing against novel enhanced (generic and waterpipe-specific) WTP WLs and the associated factors among Egyptian waterpipe smokers and nonsmokers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Establishing influenza thresholds and transmission intensity can help evaluate seasonal changes in influenza severity and potential pandemics. We aimed to evaluate the moving epidemic method (MEM) for calculating influenza thresholds for season 2016/17 in Egypt using four parameters, to identify the most useful parameter. Also to measure the agreement between both the country-specific statistical empirical method and World Health Organization method to MEM for determining the length and intensity level of activity of the influenza season.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMultiple tobacco use among young adult waterpipe smokers in Egypt.
East Mediterr Health J
April 2018
Background: The use of multiple tobacco products is an emerging trend. Studies on multiple use among waterpipe smokers are limited.
Objectives: We aimed to estimate the proportion of other tobacco products used by current adult waterpipe smokers in Egypt and identify the determinants of multiple tobacco product use.