Fekri Dureab

Biographic Data

ID7772935
NAMEFekri Dureab
GIVEN NAMESFekri
FAMILY NAMEDureab
SIGNATUREDUREAB F
AFFILIATIONSHeidelberg University
ORCID0000-0002-8414-4129
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Strategic health policy and health system resilience in protracted crisis settings

    Open AccessDalia Hyzam, Taha Al-Mahbashi et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2026

    BACKGROUND: Health system resilience is often described through the World Health Organization building blocks, yet in protracted crises it depends on whether governance, financing, workforce, information systems, service delivery, and accountability can convert crisis response into institutional reform. OBJECTIVE(S): This study examines how far Yemen's health system responses to prolonged conflict, economic decline, disease outbreaks, and COVID-1…

  • Knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward Covid-19 prevention in Yemen

    Open AccessOla El Hajj Hassan, Ahmed Asa’ad Al-Aghbari et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background Pandemics, especially in fragile war-torn countries like Yemen, challenge their already strained health systems. Community adherence to pandemic prevention measures is necessary to curb the severity and spread of emerging pandemics – which is influenced by factors, such as people’s knowledge and attitudes toward the pandemic. No studies in Aden have been published on the communities’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) toward COV…

  • The National Health Cluster in Yemen

    Open AccessSameh Al-Awlaqi, Fekri Dureab et al.ARTICLEJournal of International…2022

    Yemen has been facing political, economic and social challenges since 1990. The fragility of Yemen’s situation has led to a widespread conflict in 2015, resulting in the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. Amid the humanitarian catastrophe and the collapsing health system, a platform for coordinating humanitarian health response, called the National Health Cluster, has expanded its operations across the country. The study aims to evaluate the pe…

  • Clinical and Epidemiological Presentation of Covid-19 among Children in Conflict Setting

    Open AccessMaureen Dar Iang, Ola El Hajj Hassan et al.ARTICLEChildren2022

    Background: This study aims to describe the observable symptoms of children with COVID-19 infection and analyze access to real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing among children seeking care in Yemen. Method: In the period of March 2020−February 2022, data were obtained from 495 children suspected to have been infected with COVID-19 (from a larger register of 5634 patients) from the Diseases Surveillance and Infection Control Departme…

  • Forms of Health System Fragmentation During Conflict

    Open AccessFekri Dureab, Taha Hussain et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    The continuous and protracted conflict in Yemen has evolved into the worst humanitarian situation in modern history. All public structures in the country, including the health system and its basic functions, have been under tremendous pressures. One of the key obstacles to improve the health outcomes in Yemen is fragmentation of the health system. This study aims at exploring and documenting the forms of health system fragmentation in humanitaria…

  • Nutrition Assessment of Under-Five Children in Sudan

    Open AccessMohamed Abu-Manga, Ayoub Al‐Jawaldeh et al.ARTICLEChildren2021

    Global stunting prevalence was at 36.35 percent including moderate stunting prevalence and severe stunting prevalence (21.25 percent and 15.06 percent respectively). Global wasting prevalence was 13.6 percent including moderate wasting prevalence and severe wasting prevalence (10.8 percent and 2.7 percent respectively). Sudan has made great progress in achieving the target of increasing exclusive breastfeeding. However, despite the welcome commit…

  • Assessment of electronic disease early warning system for improved disease surveillance and outbreak response in Yemen

    Open AccessFekri Dureab, Kamran Ahmed et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    The quality and timeliness of responses are major challenges to eDEWS' functionality, the eDEWS remains the only system that provides regular data on communicable diseases in Yemen. In particular, public health response timeliness needs improvement

  • Overall Care-Seeking Pattern and Gender Disparity at a Specialized Mental Hospital in Bangladesh

    Open AccessNazmun Nahar Nuri, Nazmun Nuri et al.ARTICLEMateria Socio Medica2019

    INTRODUCTION: The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the only national level mental health institution in Bangladesh, with both academic and clinical functions, thus playing a crucial role in delivering specialized mental health care for the entire population. AIM: This study examined the overall pattern of mental health care seeking, age and sex distribution of patients and mental health problems diagnosed in the facility. METHODS: Us…

  • An Overview on Acute Malnutrition and Food Insecurity among Children during the Conflict in Yemen

    Open AccessFekri Dureab, Eshraq Al-Falahi et al.ARTICLEChildren2019

    Malnutrition is a serious public health problem. The humanitarian community needs to adopt alternative strategies to improve food security and the nutrition status in Yemen

  • Diphtheria outbreak in Yemen

    Open AccessFekri Dureab, Maysoon Al-Sakkaf et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2019

    The conflict is continuously devastating the health system in Yemen with serious consequences on morbidity and mortality. Therefore, the humanitarian response should focus on strengthening health services including routine immunization procedures to avoid further outbreaks of life-threatening infectious diseases, such as diphtheria