Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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Diabetes and COVID-19: IDF perspective in the Western Pacific Region
Published 2020The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic, the highest risk level in the infectious disease alert phase, on 11 March 2020. In the Western Pacific Region (WPR), 192,016 confirmed cases with 7125 deaths had ...Article -
Prevalence and Correlates of Psychological Reactions Among Jordanian Nurses During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic
Published 2020We aimed to assess the prevalence of psychological reactions (depression, anxiety, and stress) and their correlates among Jordanian nurses. This study was conducted using an online survey from March 22, 2020, to March 27, ...Preprint -
How risk communication could have reduced controversy about school closures in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published 2020Although there has been consistent evidence indicating that school closures have only limited efficacy in reducing community transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the question of whether children should be ...Article -
Integrating sustainability into postgraduate medical education
Published 2020The delivery of healthcare is a major contributor to the climate crisis, with the NHS being the largest public sector contributor of carbon emissions in the UK. Physicians have an important role to play in the fight against ...Article -
COVID-19 and immunosuppression: a review of current clinical experiences and implications for ophthalmology patients taking immunosuppressive drugs
Published 2020"The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in December 2019 in Wuhan city, Hubei province, China. This is the third and largest coronavirus outbreak since the new millennium after SARS in ...Article