Professor Mohamed Soussi Soltani: Leader, Innovator and Researcher in Public Health.

Mohamed Soussi SOLTANI (June 27, 1953 - March 2, 2016) is Professor of Preventive and Community Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Monastir (Tunisia). The objective of this paper is to present, to new generations of the specialty in the Greater Maghreb, this leading teacher from the Center-East of Tunisia (Monastir), through the testimonies of his companions, and his indexed publications. All the colleagues of the late SOLTANI testified to his high human and professional qualities, particularly perseverance, commitment, forward thinking, integrity and professionalism.

[Medical demography in Tunisia: current situation and perspectives].

Background: Health human resources management is one of the important determinants of health care access equity.

Aims: To analyse the trend of Tunisian medical density during 2000-2009 and to predict its situation by 2024.

Methods: Current medical density was calculated using Bar Council of Physicians of Tunisia database.

[Opinion of the Population of Tunis about the physician social image].

Background: The image of the Tunisian doctor seems to have lost some of its aura and social value.

Aim: To evaluate the medical profession's social image and to identify the reasons of a possible dissatisfaction by interviewing a sample of 200 adults in the District of Tunis.

Methods: Population was selected according to the method of quotas depending of sex, age and instruction degree.

[Analysis of antibiotics as a curative measure in four hospital units].

In order to analyse the methods of curative prescription of antibiotics in four units of hospitalization of the hospital Charles Nicolle of Tunis, a descriptive study of prescriptions was carried out during the first five months of year 2001. On the whole, 165 prescriptions delivered to patients were included in the study. The average age of the patients was 44 years, the sex ratio of 1.

[Epidemiological transition and health impact of cardiovascular disease in Tunisia].

Objective: We aim at analysing the increase of CVDs in the Tunisian hospitals in order to assess the burden of NCDs in the transitional context.

Methods: Data are recorded through the Tunisian National Morbidity and Mortality Survey (TNMMS). In order to assess the CVDs (CHDs vs RHDs) trend, two representative samples of Cardiology Departements patients were compared one is selected from the TNMMS and the second from the hospitalisations recorded in 1992.

[Assessment of cancer incidence in Tunisia 1993-1997].

The objective of this study is to estimate in Tunisia on a national scale the incidence of the main cancerous localizations for the period 1993-1997 while taking results of registers of the cancer of the region of the North, Sousse and Sfax as a basis. After having verified the relation of exponential type between the incidence of cancers and the life expectancy at the birth (Evo) in a certain number of country we extrapolated levels of governorates incidence included in registers of the North, Sousse and Sfax to the other governorates while taking the similarity of the Evo level as a basis. The incidence rate of in all localizations are 100.

Tobacco use in Tunisia: behaviour and awareness.

Objective: To assess tobacco use and the awareness of and attitudes towards tobacco and its control in the adult population of Tunisia.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 1996 of a representative national sample of 5696 subjects aged 25 and over. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire in Arabic.