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Knowledge, Attitude, and the Practice in Nosocomial Infection Control Among Afghan Healthcare Workers in Herat Afghanistan: A Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]
Health Sci RepABSTRACT Background Hospital‐acquired infections (HIAs) remain a major threat to patient and healthcare worker (HCW) safety globally, with higher burden in low‐resource settings. Despite moderate knowledge among HCWs in many low‐income contexts, actual adherence to infection prevention practices is often poor.
Masudi M +6 more
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Afghanistan's Silent Epidemic: The Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling a Public Health Crisis. [PDF]
Public Health ChallPublic Health Challenges, Volume 4, Issue 4, December 2025.
Masudi M, Rahimi A, Shayan NA.
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A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF EPILEPTIC PATIENTS IN HERAT CITY OF AFGHANISTAN
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Medicine, 2022 Epilepsy is one of the most common and serious neurological disorders which is characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures. Its prevalence ranges from 0.5% to 1% of the population in developed countries, and even higher in developing countries ...
A. Haidery, R. Kakar
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Hypertension among adult population of Herat city of Afghanistan: A cross-sectional study
Razi International Medical Journal, 2023 Background: Hypertension as a major health problem around the world which is responsible for 7.5 million or 12.8% of all deaths yearly around the world. To date, there is a scarcity of data concerning prevalence and risk factors of hypertension in Herat ...
Laleh Sahadat +5 more
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Knowledge, and practice of women on breast cancer in Herat, Afghanistan: A cross-sectional study
Razi International Medical Journal, 2023 Background: Breast cancer prevalence is observed to be higher in developed economies, but the mortality rates due to the said disease tend to be similar or even higher among lower-income countries. Afghanistan is among these countries where breast cancer
Fariba Baha +8 more
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Epidemiology of Drug Use in Herat – Afghanistan [PDF]
Addiction and Health, 2022 Background: Drug addiction is one of the alarming public health and social problems in Afghanistan and around the world. Addiction denotes the habitual use or the physical or mental dependence on narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances.Methods: Drug ...
Nasar Ahmad Shayan +6 more
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Second Language Communication and Interference from L1 [PDF]
Journal of Business, Communication and Technology, 2022 A vast body of available literature presents controversial perspectives on the role of L1 in learning and communicating an L2. The current exploratory qualitative study attempted to investigate the reported experiences of ten Afghan EFL learners ...
Ahmad Fawad Kakar, Kawita Sarwari
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Assessment of Unfermented Beverages Intake by Adult Population in Herat City
Food ScienTech Journal, 2023 Beverages play a prominent role in regulating body activities, such as regulating body temperature, helping to absorb food, protecting tissues, disposal of waste materials, refreshing the body, and increasing body performance.
Abdullah Masoumi +4 more
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RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH MORTALITY AMONG PATIENTS WITH COVID-19 IN ALMATY (KAZAKHSTAN)
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Medicine, 2021 SARS-CoV-2 caused by beta-coronavirus RNA spread from the Chinese city of Wuhan in Decem-ber 2019 and it had been a global pandemic. Today, more than sixty-six million cases of infection are registered in the world, moreover above one and half million ...
Shafiq Ahmad Joya
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Bezmiâlem Science, 2021 Objective:This study aimed to assess the validity and reliability of Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scales-42 (DASS-42) in Dari, in adult population of Herat province of Afghanistan.Methods:The Dari-translated version of DASS-42 questionnaire was ...
Nasar Ahmad SHAYAN +3 more
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