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EMHJ – Vol. 24 No. 5 – 2018 Eastern Mediterranean La Revue de Santé de la Editorial Health Journal Méditerranée orientale World No Tobacco Day 2018: towards a sustainable campaign involving the cardiovascular community Fatimah El-Awa, Nizal Sarrafzadegan, Slim Slama and Asmus Hammerich .............................................................................................409 Research articles Smoking behaviour among male students in a Saudi University Guoping Jiang, Shafi Aldamer and Ahmed Bendania .........................................................................................................................................411 Tobacco cessation: attitude and practice of dentists in Northern United Arab Emirates Danavanthi Bangera, Mohamed Takana and Jayakumary Muttappallymyalil .........................................................................................419 Comparative analysis of essential medicines for cardiovascular diseases in countries of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region Hedieh Mehrtash, Richard Laing and Veronika J. Wirtz ...................................................................................................................................427 Hypertension and associated cardiovascular risk factors among urban slum dwellers in Egypt: a population-based survey Mohsen Gadallah, Soad Abdel Megid, Amira Mohsen and Sahar Kandil ...................................................................................................435 Practice and enforcement of national Hospital Waste Management 2005 rules in Pakistan Journal Health Mediterranean Eastern Muhammad Fazal Zeeshan, Ahmad Al Ibad, Abdul Aziz, Aftab Subhani, Asif Shah, Tahir Khan, Hidayat Ullah and Umair Qazi ................................................................................................................................................................................................................443 Parental vaccine knowledge and behaviours: a survey of Turkish families Soner Sertan Kara, Meltem Polat, Burcu Ceylan Yayla, Tugba Bedir Demirdag, Anil Tapisiz, Hasan Tezer and Aysu Duyan Camurdan ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................451 Effects of parental intervention on behavioural and psychological outcomes for Kurdish parents and their children Hoshiar Sangawi, John Adams and Nadja Reissland ..........................................................................................................................................459 Population and mortality profile in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2006–2035 Saeide Aghamohamadi, Kamran Hajinabi, Katayoun Jahangiri, Iravan Masoudi Asl and Reza Dehnavieh ...................................469 Vol. 24 No. 5 24 No. Vol. Analysis of Joint External Evaluations in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region Dalia Samhouri, Arash Rashidian, Stella Chungong, Antione Flahault, Suzanne Babich and Jaouad Mahjour ............................477 Reviews – Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection among Iranian pregnant women: a systematic review and meta- 2018 analysis Mina Malary, Zeinab Hamzehgardeshi, Mahmood Moosazadeh, Mahdi Afshari, Imaneh Ahmadi, Iman Moghaddasifar and Motahareh Kheradmand .....................................................................................................................................................................................488 WHO events addressing public health priorities Annual regional meeting on implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control ...............488 News Important notes for clinical trials funded or sponsored by WHO ...................................................................................................500 Cardiovascular disease is still the main cause of death in almost all countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, where tobacco use ranks one of the highest globally. To help tackle the tobacco use epidemic, the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control rallies countries to the cause of reducing tobacco use, as highlighted by World No Tobacco Day on 31 May. املجلد الرابع والعرشون / عدد Volume 24 / No. 5 2018 5 مايو/أيار May/Mai Cover 24-05.indd 1-3 7/8/2018 2:08:32 PM Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal Members of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean IS the official health journal published by the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office of the World Health Organization. It is a forum for Afghanistan . Bahrain . Djibouti . Egypt . Islamic Republic of Iran . Iraq . Jordan . Kuwait . Lebanon the presentation and promotion of new policies and initiatives in public health and health services; and for the exchange of ideas, concepts, Libya . Morocco . Oman . Pakistan . Palestine . Qatar . Saudi Arabia . Somalia . Sudan . Syrian Arab Republic epidemiological data, research findings and other information, with special reference to the Eastern Mediterranean Region. It addresses Tunisia . United Arab Emirates . Yemen all members of the health profession, medical and other health educational institutes, interested NGOs, WHO Collaborating Centres and individuals within and outside the Region. البلدان أعضاء اللجنة اﻹقليمية ملنظمة الصحة العاملية لرشق املتوسط املجلة الصحية لرشق املتوسط اﻷردن . أفغانستان . اﻹمارات العربية املتحدة . باكستان . البحرين . تونس . ليبيا . مجهورية إيران اﻹسﻻمية هى املجلة الرسمية التى تصدر عن املكتب اﻹقليمى لرشق املتوسط بمنظمة الصحة العاملية. وهى منرب لتقديم السياسات واملبادرات اجلديدة يف الصحة العامة . اجلمهورية العربية السورية جيبويت السودان الصومال العراق عُ امن فلسطني قطر الكويت لبنان مرص املغرب واخلدمات الصحية والرتويج هلا، ولتبادل اﻵراء واملفاهيم واملعطيات الوبائية ونتائج اﻷبحاث وغري ذلك من املعلومات، وخاصة ما يتعلق منها بإقليم رشق اململكة العربية السعودية . اليمن املتوسط. وهى موجهة إىل كل أعضاء املهن الصحية، والكليات الطبية وسائر املعاهد التعليمية، وكذا املنظامت غري احلكومية املعنية، واملراكز املتعاونة مع منظمة الصحة العاملية واﻷفراد املهتمني بالصحة ىف اﻹقليم وخارجه. Membres du Comité régional de l’OMS pour la Méditerranée orientale La Revue de Santé de la Méditerranée Orientale Afghanistan . Arabie saoudite . Bahreïn . Djibouti . Égypte . Émirats arabes unis . République islamique d’Iran EST une revue de santé officielle publiée par le Bureau régional de l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé pour la Méditerranée orientale. Elle Iraq . Libye . Jordanie . Koweït . Liban . Maroc . Oman . Pakistan . Palestine . Qatar . République arabe syrienne offre une tribune pour la présentation et la promotion de nouvelles politiques et initiatives dans le domaine de la santé publique et des Somalie . Soudan . Tunisie . Yémen services de santé ainsi qu’à l’échange d’idées, de concepts, de données épidémiologiques, de résultats de recherches et d’autres informa- tions, se rapportant plus particulièrement à la Région de la Méditerranée orientale. Elle s’adresse à tous les professionnels de la santé, aux membres des instituts médicaux et autres instituts de formation médico-sanitaire, aux ONG, Centres collaborateurs de l’OMS et personnes concernés au sein et hors de la Région. EMHJ is a trilingual, peer reviewed, open access journal and the full contents are freely available at its website: http://www/emro.who.int/emhj.htm EMHJ information for authors is available at its website: http://www.emro.who.int/emh-journal/authors/ EMHJ is abstracted/indexed in the Index Medicus and MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval Systems on Line), ISI Web Correspondence of knowledge, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Embase, Lexis Nexis, Scopus and the Index Editor-in-chief Medicus for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (IMEMR). Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean P.O. Box 7608 © World Health Organization (WHO) 2018. Some rights reserved. 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