Izet Masic
Biographic Data
| ID | 10273580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Izet Masic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Izet |
| FAMILY NAME | Masic |
| SIGNATURE | MASIC I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sarajevo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9080-5456 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Liver Injury During New Epidemic Occurrence of Covid-19
Background: SARS-CoV-2, though primarily a respiratory pathogen, exhibits multi-organ tropism, with the liver among the commonly affected organs. Elevations in liver enzymes are frequent in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, yet acute and pronounced hepatocellular injury in young, clinically stable individuals is uncommon. The underlying mechanisms may include direct viral cytopathic effects mediated by ACE2 receptors, immune-mediated injury, system…
Anthropometric Data by Using Bioelectrical Analysis as a Parameters for New Classification and Definition of Obesity
Background: The prevalence of obesity and obesity-related clinical conditions, including metabolic-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), sarcopenia, and a wide spectrum of pathological manifestations, is rising globally. According to WHO, BMI is the only anthropometric measure currently used to classify obesity, overweight, and underweight. However, emerging research suggests that obesity is a complex pathological state influenced by multip…
Professor Viktorija Cucic, MD, PhD (1938-2023)
Urgent Ultrasonography of the Eye
Public Health Dimensions of Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) Prevention and Control – Global Perspectives and Current Situation in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the cause of 17 million deaths a year worldwide, of which 25% are sudden cardiac deaths (SCD). In Europe cardiovascular diseases (CVD) remains a leading cause of death in Europe accounting for 3.9 million deaths each year. Even with well-known risk factors and the current standards of health care, improvement of health and quality of life of CVD patients are still remains one of the biggest public hea…
Operation of Medical Journal Citation Databases Without Control. Dilemma: Are They What They Want to Be in the Eyes of Scientific Community
The decision of the citation database to include or not include a journal is not subject to the control of another entity, or the professional public, and there are no internationally established ethical standards that the citation database would have to apply. As a consequence of the absence of control, the already mentioned offensive reviews and arbitrary interpretation of the criteria for journal inclusion appear. Given that a journal’s entry …
Historical Developments of Bosnia and Herzegovina Pharmaceutical Industry – the Past and the Future Perspectives of Domestic Manufacturing
Background: History of pharmaceutical industry in Bosnia and Herzegovina has its roots from 1951. Importance of domestic industry not just from economical aspect but also from public health perspective and as scientific base has not been evaluated previously. Objective: The aim of this article was to provide the review of the pharmaceutical industry developments in Bosnia and Herzegovina, its roots, current position and future perspectives.. Meth…
Academician Professor Suad Efendic, MD, PhD (1937-2022)
Traditional Healing in Treatment of Diseasses in the Past in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Academician Professor Slobodan Loga, MD, PhD (1936-2022)
Intrafamilial Spread of Covid-19 Infection Within Population in Bosnia and Herzegovina
BACKGROUND: The corona virus is transmitted in three ways: by direct contact with an infected person, by droplets, and by air. Transmission control according to official guidelines can be prevented by keeping a distance, wearing a mask and washing hands. Sharing a space with several members of the immediate or extended family increases the risk of transmission in all three ways. In Traditional Bosnian families two or three generations live in one…
Mobile Pharmacies Throughout History
BACKGROUND: Mobile pharmacies are special organizational units or infrastructures that serve to supply medicines to remote communities or are stationed on ships or as such exist during war conflicts on the battlefields to provide first aid to the wounded and to provide the necessary medicines. The establishment of mobile pharmacies is regulated by the law of each state and only preparations approved by law can be found in it. There are also regul…
Why Not Lose Faith in Science in the Fight Against Coronavirus
BACKGROUND: One of the most vulnerable group to cope with the consequences of COVID-19 pandemic are women, particularly pregnant ones. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this article was to make review of the scientific literature to show clearly that pandemic is not so dangerous neither for mother nor her unborn and newborn children. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: It should be stated that most of the scientific papers on COVID-19 are currently being conducted in a …
Public Health Aspects of Covid19 Infection with Focus on Cardiovascular Diseases
INTRODUCTION: COVID-19 is the disease caused by an infection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, first identified in the city of Wuhan, in China's Hubei province in December 2019. COVID-19 was previously known as 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) respiratory disease before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the official name as COVID-19 in February 2020. AIM: The aim of this study is to search scientific literature in the biomedicine and analyzed…
Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs) in Covid-19 Pandemic Era
INTRODUCTION: 2020, over 7 million cases registered in the world, recovered 3.4 million and death over 402.000. AIM: The aim of this study is to retreive published papers about COVID-19 infection deposited in PubMed data base and analyzed current results of investigations regarding morbidity and mortality rates as consequences of COVID-19 infection and opinions of experts about treatment of afected patients with COVID-19 who have Cardiovascular d…
Academician Ljubomir Berberovic, PhD (1933-2019)
On February 12th, 2019 passed away academician Ljubomir Berberovic. He was born in Sarajevo in 1933. He studied medicine, biology and philosophy at the universities in Ljubljana and Sarajevo. Graduated in Biology at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Sarajevo, in biology in 1958 from the Natural-Mathematics Department. In the same department he was elected assistant in 1959. Since 1961 he has been employed by the Department of Biology…
The Most Influential Scientists in the Development of Public Health (4): Andrija Stampar (1888-1958)
Andrija Stampar (Drenovac, September 1, 1888–Zagreb, June 26, 1958) was a distinguished scholar in the field of Social medicine from Croatia. He enrolled at the Medical School in Vienna in 1906, which was at the time the most important medical center in the world. As a medical student, he initiated the editing of medical papers and wrote pamphlets and articles with the intention of educating people in health matters. In 1909 in Nova Gradiska he s…
Redesign of Work Space in Order to Reduce Noise Health Effects
INTRODUCTION: Noise represent an unwanted sound that endangers human health in multiple manners and in work setting causes reduction of productivity on one side, and increased waste on the other. Noise pollution occurs when the ear is exposed to the volume of sound that is disturbing, stressful or directly damaging hearing, but also acting on the organism as a whole. AIM: The aim of the article is to examine the vulnerability of workers working o…
The Most Influential Scientists in the Development of Public Health (1): Jules Rene Guerin (1801-1886)
Jules Rene Guerin (Boussu, Belgium, 1801–Hyres, 1886) commenced his medical studies at Paris in 1821, obtaining his doctorate at that university in 1826 (1-3). He was early attracted to journalism, and two years later he founded the medical journal Gazette de sante, of which he was both editor and publisher, and for which he also wrote articles
The Most Influential Scientists in the Development of Public Health (2): Rudolf Ludwig Virchow (1821-1902)
Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (1821-1902) was a German doctor, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician, known for his advancement of public health (1-4). He is known as “the father of modern pathology” because his work helped to discredit humourism, bringing more science to medicine (1). He is also known as the founder of Social medicine and Veterinary pathology, and to his colleagues, the “Pope of medici…
Academician Ljubomir Berberovic, PhD (1933-2019)
The Most Influential Scientists in the Development of Public Health (3): Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko (1874-1949)
Prof Zelimir Jaksic, MD, PhD (1930-2017)
Bosnian Franciscans and the Monasteries in Kresevo and Fojnica as Source of Scientific Bibliography
All of these centuries-old records contain enormous treasures, and the modern medicine is increasingly searching for the sources of natural remedies. The Franciscans should be credited for carefully collecting the methods folk treatment and passed them on to future generations. In the words of Br. Marko Karamatić: "The fact that the Friars were engaged in healthcare, that they became the first graduate doctors in Bosnia and Herzegovina, that they…
Ten Steps to Improve Quality of the Journal Materia Socio-Medica
INTRODUCTION AND AIM: Materia Socio-Medica is one of the oldest public health journals in Europe, established in 1978, and among the most important journals for public health in South-Eastern Europe. The Journal covers all important public health professional, academic and research areas in this field. The aim of the paper is to analyze the journal articles and statistical facts in 2016 and to point out the directions for action and planned furth…
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Health Level Seven (hl 7): Short Overview
Health care systems today require some important changes. Many patients, doctors and other health professionals with right have suspicions that the health care system are managing available resources and information of interest in an optimal way, and as a result of that, health care that we receive isn’t of best possible quality. Considering the large investment in health systems, and the population with an increasing life expectancy, the mobilit…
Dental Office Waste - Public Health and Ecological Risk
The Most Frequent Psychiatric Disorders Registered at Day Hospital of Psychiatric Clinic in Sarajevo During 2006-2007
CONFLICT OF INTEREST: NONE DECLARED Day Hospital is an alternative to inpatient treatment as a transition from hospital to outpatient type of treatment, especially for those patients who cannot quickly return to the family, and patients who are unable to leave the usual social contacts so to them the hospitalization will pose a great mental risk. The aim of the research is to determine the structure of psychiatric morbidity, as well as demographi…
Quality Assessment of Family Medicine Teams Based on Accreditation Standards
CONFLICT OF INTEREST: NONE DECLARED In order to speed up and simplify the self assessment and external assessment process, provide better overview and access to Accreditation Standards for Family Medicine Teams and better assessment documents archiving, Agency for Healthcare Quality and Accreditation in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (AKAZ) has developed self assessment and externals assessment software for family medicine teams. This artic…
How to Use Rationally Information Diagnostic Technologies in the Family and General Medicine Practice
New discoveries in technology indeed enabled significant improvement of health care in the last three decades. Only during the last few years a significant breakthrough is achieved in the field of antiviral drugs, biotechnology, digital diagnostic technology, molecular diagnosis, tissues and organs transplantation as well as surgical and information technologies, which all contributed to the improvement of health care. Rapid growth of medical tec…
The Jubilee of Medical Informatics in Bosnia and Herzegovina - 20 Years Anniversary
CONFLICT OF INTEREST: NONE DECLARED LAST TWO YEARS, THE HEALTH INFORMATICS PROFESSION CELEBRATED FIVE JUBILEES IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: thirty years from the introduction of the first automatic manipulation of data, twenty years from the establishment of Society for Medical Informatics BiH, fifteen years from the establishment of the Scientific and Professional Journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia and Herzegovina "Acta Infor…
Impact of Psychoeducation on Professional Stress Reduction Within Prison Guards
Medical Law - Challenges in Bosnia and Herzegovina
THERE ARE FOUR TYPES OF RESPONSIBILITIES THAT ARISE ON THE BASIS OF MEDICAL ERRORS: a) Disciplinary (Punishment of the competent Association for restriction or revocation of the license); b) Civil liability (compensation); c) Criminal responsibility (protection of individual interests to protect the interests of the society); d) Violation (fine for minor damage) To increase the number of criminal proceedings mostly influenced the lack of compensa…
Medicine, Media Communication and Ethical Aspects
On World Press Freedom Day (3rd of May 2009) details of the Frida Haus ranking list of press freedom in countries around the world were officially disclosed. Bosnia and Herzegovina is ranked at 98 place, and in the region better ranked is only Montenegro, which is located between 78 and 80 place along with Botswana and Eastern Timor. Top rated is Iceland with 9 points and on the last place is North Korea, with 98 points. Almost every profession h…
Physical Health After Trauma
Family medicine physicians in their daily practice meet with a number of diseases and conditions that are the result of stress and physical trauma. One of the most frequent is post-traumatic stress disorder syndrome, which in our terms is a result of the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina and in total morbidity occupies more than 30% of all mental illnesses. This paper describes one such case in our practice. Timely diagnosis means the establis…
Medicine and Media
In Mostar, at the Hotel Ero, on December 4th 2009 by the Medical Chamber of Herzegovina - Neretva Canton, was organized the symposium on “Medicine and Media.” At the symposium was presented 13 papers divided into two sessions. Papers were multidisciplinary in character and exhibitors were from several faculties of the University in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is the first time in Bosnia and Herzegovina that on one place meet and exchange their o…
International Public Health
Controversy and Concerns in the Relationship of Medicine and the Media in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Medicine and the media are two areas important in the life of every man, which are in almost daily contact with each other and in dependence. Their relations in BiH are currently elemental, focused on direct, immediate needs, without defined rules, with a lot of disorientation, incompetence and irresponsibility, often without respect for at least the minimum rules of conduct and respect, often with a lot of conflict and hostility. The goal of our…
Rate of Bipolar Affective Disorder Registered According to Total Pattern of Morbidity at Psychiatry Clinic in Sarajevo from 2006-2008
INTRODUCTION: Affective disorders were known even in ancient times. Today is the official name of the ICD-10 bipolar affective disorder (F31) and represent sub category of mood disorders (affective disorders) with code F30-F39. GOAL: The aim of this study was to examine and display the frequency of bipolar disorders in the total number of patients at the Psychiatric Clinic in the period 2006-2008, in order to examine the demographic profile of pa…
Nursing Information Systems
Computer technology is a reality of our modern world. It gives us a tool which can be used to help us cope with the complexity and efficiency which is often required in many areas of work. It is an erroneous assumption that it robs a situation of its human qualities. No one would deny that the use of a word processor denies the possibility of highly creative writing being produced or that computerized checkouts make the interaction skills of the …
Evaluation of Usage of Information Diagnostic Technology in Family and General Medicine
INTRODUCTION: In recent decades, the development and improvement of technology is rapidly advancing. The development of science, new materials, information technology, new procedures and other modern achievements were his first confirmation sought to improve living conditions, particularly in achieving better health conditions. In an effort to improve living conditions, solve the problem of severe diseases and to facilitate treatment, new technol…
Political-conformist Factors in Inefficiency of Consultative Specialist Services at the Area of Zenica-Doboj Canton (zdc )
Caring for the health of people is a potent factor in the development of social values. However, a bad set of health policy framework, without firm control mechanisms, creating the possibility of making politically motivated protectionist decisions that will give the poor outcomes of health services. Following the health needs of patients in the period since 2005 to 2010 in the area of Zenica-Doboj Canton and behavior of specialist consultants, a…
Socio-medical Characteristics of Coronary Disease in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the World
INTRODUCTION: Coronary heart disease and its etiology are complex socio-medical and clinical problem in this century. World Health Organization defined coronary artery disease as acute and chronic heart ailments due to disruption of flow and myocardial blood supply. Diseases of the cardiovascular system in spite of preventable risk factors are responsible for approximately 50% of all deaths in the developed world, and this ratio is higher in deve…
The Scientific Conferences Organized During War Time (1992-1995) in Sarajevo
Author of this paper spent 1479 days in the siege of Sarajevo, during the period of war time in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). This siege, lasting from 1992 to 1995 (e.g. Dayton Piece agreement was signed in November, 1995) represents the longest siege in the history of the world. Besides usual daily work, as the associate professor of Health education, Medical deontology and Medical informatics for the students of the Faculty of medicine, Faculty…
Social Networks in Improvement of Health Care
Social network is a social structure made of individuals or organizations associated with one or more types of interdependence (friendship, common interests, work, knowledge, prestige, etc.) which are the "nodes" of the network. Networks can be organized to exchange information, knowledge or financial assistance under the various interest groups in universities, workplaces and associations of citizens. Today the most popular and widely used netwo…
Management Knowledge and Skills Required in the Health Care System of the Federation Bosnia and Herzegovina
Extremely complex health care organizations, by their structure and organization, operate in a constantly changing business environment, and such situation implies and requires complex and demanding health management. Therefore, in order to manage health organizations in a competent manner, health managers must possess various managerial skills and be familiar with problems in health care. Research, identification, analysis, and assessment of hea…
The Development of Infectology in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with Special Emphasis on the Development and History of Infectious Clinic, Clinical Center of Sarajevo University
CONFLICT OF INTEREST: none declared There is a relatively low amount of historical data about development of infectology in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but that does not mean that these medical disciplines didn't have important events and actors that are important for the development of this medical discipline in B&H. In this review we intent to show your several characteristic events and important persons, which left a lasting impression in the deve…
On the Occasion of the 4th Congress of Infectiologists of Bosnia and Herzegovina with International Participation
The 4th Congress of Infectiologists of Bosnia-Herzegovina with international participation was held in Konjic, on 30. May to 02. June 2012. In addition to the prominent infectious disease experts from almost all university centers in B&H, the teachers at medical schools in Bosnia-Herzegovina, infectious disease specialists who work in health institutions in B&H, this Congress was attended by infectious disease experts from Serbia (12 participants…
Social Networks in Medical Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina
INTRODUCTION: Beginning with the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, the Internet was a significant additional tool in the education of teenagers. Later, it takes more and more significant role in educating students and professionals. GOAL: The aim of this paper is to investigate, to what extent and how effectively the Internet is used today by students of biomedical faculties in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition, more specifically, …
Frequency of Substance Abuse Among Adolescents
INTRODUCTION: Drug addiction is one of the most prominent problems in many countries in transition, including Bosnia and Herzegovina. Age limit of drug addiction is shifted to the younger age groups, especially is troubling the increase in number of injection drug users. Our study was aimed to investigate the habits, attitudes and practices related to drug use among young people from the area of Sarajevo city. We can still feel the effects of the…
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