Samer Rastam

Dados Biográficos

ID7701280
NOMESamer Rastam
PRENOMESSamer
SOBRENOMERastam
ASSINATURARASTAM S
AFILIAÇÕESSyrian Center for Tobacco Studies
ORCID0000-0002-4004-7773
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS11
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR11
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2004
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2022
ÍNDICE H0

  • Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Associated With Vaccine Inequity Among Healthcare Workers in a Low-Income Fragile Nation

    Open AccessMohammed Noushad, Mohammad Zakaria Nassani et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Objectives Preventing severe disease and acquiring population immunity to COVID-19 requires global immunization coverage through mass vaccination. While high-income countries are battling vaccine hesitancy, low-income and fragile nations are facing the double dilemma of vaccine hesitancy and lack of access to vaccines. There is inadequate information on any correlation between vaccine hesitancy and access to vaccines. Our study in a low-income na…

  • A Global Survey of Covid-19 Vaccine Acceptance Among Healthcare Workers

    Open AccessMohammed Noushad, Samer Rastam et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Objectives: Even though several effective vaccines are available to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, wide disparities in vaccine distribution, and vaccine acceptance rates between high- and low-income countries appear to be major threats toward achieving population immunity. Our global descriptive study aims to inform policymakers on factors affecting COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among healthcare workers (HCWs) in 12 countries, based on income index.…

  • Forecasting future prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Syria

    Open AccessRadwan Al Ali, Fawaz Mzayek et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2013

    The future projections of T2DM in Syria put it amongst countries with the highest levels of T2DM worldwide. It is estimated that by 2022 approximately a fifth of the Syrian population aged 25 years and older will have T2DM

  • A comparative study of systemic carcinogen exposure in waterpipe smokers, cigarette smokers and non-smokers

    Radwan Al Ali, Samer Rastam et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2013

    These results provide the clearest indication to date about systemic exposure to harmful carcinogens associated with long-term waterpipe smoking. Such evidence can support policy and regulatory efforts designed to confront the emerging global waterpipe epidemic, as well as drive interventions aimed at increasing the public awareness about the cancer risk associated with waterpipe smoking

  • OP14 Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Salt Reduction Policies to Reduce Coronary Heart Disease in Syria

    M Wilcox, Meredith L Wilcox et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2013

    Background Coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke account for approximately half of all-deaths in Syria. The country’s CHD mortality rate has escalated by nearly two-thirds between 1996 and 2006, partly reflecting substantial increases in systolic blood pressure (SBP). In high income countries, reduction of dietary salt intake represents a cost effective means of decreasing CHD events via reduced SBP levels. This study aims to assess the potenti…

  • Explaining the increase in coronary heart disease mortality in Syria between 1996 and 2006

    Open AccessSamer Rastam, Radwan Al Ali et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2012

    Most of the recent increase in CHD mortality in Syria is attributable to increases in major cardiovascular risk factors. Treatments for CHD were able to prevent about a quarter of excess CHD deaths, despite suboptimal implementation. These findings stress the importance of population-based primary prevention strategies targeting major risk factors for CHD, as well as policies aimed at improving access and adherence to modern treatments of CHD

  • P1-264 Explaining recent cardiovascular trends in Eastern Mediterranean populations

    NM Abu-Rmeileh, Olfa Saidi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2011

    Introduction Middle income countries are facing an epidemic of non-communicable diseases, especially diabetes, stroke and coronary heart disease (CHD). We analysed population and mortality trends in Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. Methods Populations and timeframes. West Bank Occupied Palestine Territory (2.5 million population, 1998–2009); Turkey (73 million, 1995–2008); Tunisia (10 million, 1997–2009); Syria (20 million, 1996–2006). Data …

  • Self-rated health and its determinants among adults in Syria

    Open AccessTaghrid Asfar, Balsam Ahmad et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2007

    Women were more likely than men to describe their health as poor. The link with age and pre-existing chronic conditions seems universal and likely reflects natural aging process. Determinants of SRH differed between men and women, possibly highlighting underlying cultural norms and gender roles in the society. Understanding the local context of SRH and its determinants within the prevailing culture will be important to tailor intervention program…

  • Injuries in Aleppo, Syria; first population-based estimates and characterization of predominant types

    Open AccessWasim Maziak, Kenneth D Ward et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2006

    This information provides baseline information about the burden of different injuries in Syria, and the sociodemographic factors related to them

  • The tobacco epidemic in Syria

    Kenneth D Ward, Thomas Eissenberg et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2006

    All these data have been used iteratively to adapt smoking cessation interventions from developed countries to suit the local Syrian environment. Research conducted in the SCTS to date has provided a fertile training ground for Syrian researchers, as well as for the building of regional collaborations

  • Estimating the beginning of the waterpipe epidemic in Syria

    Open AccessSamer Rastam, Kenneth D Ward et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2004

    The introduction of new flavored and aromatic waterpipe tobacco (Maassel), and the proliferation of satellite and electronic media during the nineties may have helped spread the new hype all over the Arab World