Cigarette use and exposure to second-hand smoke and tobacco advertising among Tunisian adolescents.

Background: The Global Youth Tobacco Survey was conducted in Tunisia in 2001, 2007, 2010 and 2017. It is the only national survey that examined exposure to second-hand smoke and tobacco advertising among young people, and there has been no description of the trend.

Aims: To describe cigarette use trends among Tunisian adolescents and their exposure to second-hand smoke and tobacco advertising from 2001 to 2017.

Determinants of Health Inequalities in Iran and Saudi Arabia: A Systematic Review of the Sleep Literature.

Sleep health inequalities represent an increasing public health concern. Among multiple determinants affecting sleep health, there is people's socioeconomic status (SES), and no systematic review on the relationship between SES and sleep health has been previously conducted in Iran and Saudi Arabia. Following the Prisma protocol, ten articles were selected.

A sero-epidemiological investigation of West Nile virus among patients without any records of their symptoms from three different hospitals from Tunisia.

West Nile virus is one of the most known arboviruses around the world, along with Dengue virus, Toscana virus, Chikungunya (CHIK). In Tunisia, many epidemics of WNV had occurred in the past. The last one dated from 2018.

Linking Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) data to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC): The case for Tunisia.

Introduction: The World Health Organization (WHO) had launched the Framework convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in 2003 in order to curve the epidemic of tobacco use worldwide. Since most smokers begin to smoke before the age of 18 years, Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) has been developed in order to monitor tobacco smoking among adolescents. Our aim was to assess smoking among Tunisian youth using GYTS 2017 data.

Characteristics and prognostic factors of COVID-19 among infected cases: a nationwide Tunisian analysis.

Background: The outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues to constitute an international public health concern. Few data are available on the duration and prognostic factors of the disease. We aimed to study the recovery time among a Tunisian cohort of COVID-19 confirmed patients and identify the prognostic factors.

Burden of Healthcare-associated infections in a Tunisian University Hospital in 2019.

Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) represent a real threat to patient safety and their prevention should be a priority for any Health system. Prevalence surveys constitute one of the most common methods of HAI epidemiological surveillance to determine the burden of this problem.

Aim: The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of HAI and its associated risk factors.

Estimating transmission dynamics and serial interval of the first wave of COVID-19 infections under different control measures: a statistical analysis in Tunisia from February 29 to May 5, 2020.

Background: Describing transmission dynamics of the outbreak and impact of intervention measures are critical to planning responses to future outbreaks and providing timely information to guide policy makers decision. We estimate serial interval (SI) and temporal reproduction number (R) of SARS-CoV-2 in Tunisia.

Methods: We collected data of investigations and contact tracing between March 1, 2020 and May 5, 2020 as well as illness onset data during the period February 29-May 5, 2020 from National Observatory of New and Emerging Diseases of Tunisia.