TI: Kamp mot diarre. 100,000 barn i Jemen kan raddas til livet.
[Campaign against diarrhea. 100,000 children in Yemen can be saved to live]
AU: Helleberg,-L
SO: Omvardaren. 1983; 30(4): 4-5
IS: 0280-4123
LA: Swedish; Non-English
AN: 6560637
TI: Additional information on the cultural background of drugs and medicinal plants of Yemen.
AU: Fleurentin,-J; Mazars,-G; Pelt,-J-M
SO: J-Ethnopharmacol. 1983 Sep; 8(3): 335-44
IS: 0378-8741
LA: English
AN: 6645582
TI: Additional information for a repertory of drugs and medicinal plants of Yemen.
AU: Fleurentin,-J; Pelt,-J-M
SO: J-Ethnopharmacol. 1983 Aug; 8(2): 237-43
IS: 0378-8741
LA: English
AN: 6645573
TI: The chewing of khat in Somalia.
AU: Elmi,-A-S
SO: J-Ethnopharmacol. 1983 Aug; 8(2): 163-76
IS: 0378-8741
LA: English
AB: Khat (Catha edulis Forsk.), known in Somalia as "qaad" or "jaad", is a plant whose leaves and stem tips are chewed for their stimulating effect. From the Harar area, khat has been introduced at different times into the present day territories of Somalia, Djibouti, South and North Yemen, Kenya, Madagascar, Tanzania and down to south eastern Africa. The plant, which belongs to the Celestraceae family, grows wild at altitudes of 1500-2000 m above sea level. Among the various compounds present in the plant (more than forty alkaloids, glycosides, tannins, terpenoids, etc.), two phenylalkylamines, namely cathine [+)-norpseudoephedrine) and cathinone [-)S-o-aminopropiophenone) seem to account mostly for the effect. The consumers get a feeling of well-being, mental alertness and excitement. The after effects are usually insomnia, numbness and lack of concentration. The excessive use of khat may create considerable problems of social, health and economic nature. These problems have been summarily reviewed. Khat chewing started at different times in different parts of Somalia. Since World War II, the prevalence of the practice has continuously increased and no social group is excluded. An epidemiological research to compare Northern and Southern regions of Somalia and to obtain a rough estimate of prevalence, definition of social characteristics of the groups of consumers, specification of the motivations, patterns of use and effects during and after consumption has been conducted. Consumers and non-consumers (7485 people) were randomly interviewed in the two regions. Khat consumption in relation to sex, age, occupation and grade of education is presented.
AN: 6139513
TI: Schizophrenia in a Yemenite immigrant town in Israel.
AU: Weingarten,-M-A; Orron,-D-E
SO: Int-J-Soc-Psychiatry. 1983 Winter; 29(4): 249-54
IS: 0020-7640
LA: English
AB: A high prevalence of schizophrenia was noted in an Israeli Yemenite immigrant town. In order to throw light on the aetiology all the schizophrenic patients in the care of one family doctor were investigated with respect to various social factors--age at diagnosis, interval since immigration, family status, geographic area of origin. In a practice population of 1185 adults, thirty schizophrenic patients were identified (2.5%). The patients fall into two groups--those diagnosed at a relatively advanced age, born in the Yemen, and parents to an adolescent child; and those Israeli-born diagnosed at the younger age more typical of the disease. The social history of this immigrant community is described and a correlation is suggested between their socio-cultural disintegration and schizophreniform breakdown in the parental generation.
AN: 6642917
TI: Bertielloz: opisanie zavoznogo v SSSR sluchaia.
[Bertielliasis: a description of a case brought into the USSR]
AU: Imamkuliev,-K-D; Alekseeva,-M-I; Gorbunova,-IuP; Belikova,-G-G
SO: Med-Parazitol-(Mosk). 1983 Jul-Aug; (4): 77-8
IS: 0025-8326
LA: Russian; Non-English
AN: 6685222
TI: Hemoglobinopathies in Israel.
AU: Eliakim,-R; Rachmilewitz,-E-A
SO: Hemoglobin. 1983; 7(5): 479-85
IS: 0363-0269
LA: English
AB: A survey of the various hemoglobinopathies in Israel is reported. The information was supplied from 13 hematology services throughout the country and from the Ministry of Health. The common hemoglobinopathies encountered were the thalassemias and sickle cell anemia. In addition, hemoglobin C and O Arab were found in isolated communities. Sporadic cases of hemoglobin Hasharon, hemoglobin D, hemoglobin NYU were also found. The thalassemic patients originated mainly from Kurdistan, Yemen and Iraq, while the sickle cell patients were mainly Moslem Arabs or Bedouins.
AN: 6629831
TI: Studies on schistosomiasis in Taiz Province, Yemen Arab Republic.
AU: Hazza,-Y-A; Arfaa,-F; Haggar,-M
SO: Am-J-Trop-Med-Hyg. 1983 Sep; 32(5): 1023-8
IS: 0002-9637
LA: English
AB: Infection with both urinary and intestinal schistosomiasis is prevalent with patchy distribution in TaizProvince, southwest YemenArabRepublic. Schistosoma haematobium with a prevalence as high as 90% was found in the western, southern, and northern parts of the province. Among school children the overall prevalence was 37%. Infection rates did not differ significantly among various age and sex groups. Three species of Bulinus--B. beccarii, B. truncatus, and B. wrighti--have been found in the province, B. beccarii having the widest distribution and highest density. S. mansoni was found in most parts of the province. A 100% prevalence was found in some schools. The overall prevalence was 64% among school children and 68% among inhabitants of villages surveyed. Highest prevalence was found in the age group 10-20 years. Hepatosplenomegaly was prevalent among children in highly endemic areas. Biomphalaria pfeifferi, the intermediate host of S. mansoni, was found in most valleys.
AN: 6625057
TI: Nekotorye osobennosti kliniki lepry v tropicheskikh stranakh.
[Various features of the clinical picture of leprosy in tropical countries]
AU: Lavrik,-A-U
SO: Vestn-Dermatol-Venerol. 1983 Jul; (7): 66-70
IS: 0042-4609
LA: Russian; Non-English
AN: 6624243
TI: O zavoznykh ekzoticheskikh bolezniakh, vstrechaiushchiksia v praktike terapevta i parazitologa.
[Imported exotic diseases encountered in the practice of general practitioners and parasitologists]
AU: Karnaukhov,-V-K
SO: Ter-Arkh. 1983; 55(5): 128-30
IS: 0040-3660
LA: Russian; Non-English
AN: 6612594
TI: Pregnancy-induced leukocytosis in Yemenite Jews.
AU: Shoenfeld,-Y; Shindel,-D; Neri,-A; Berliner,-S; Lusky,-A; Kaufman,-C; Pinkhas,-J
SO: Acta-Haematol. 1983; 70(3): 170-4
IS: 0001-5792
LA: English
AB: Benign neutropenia is often found among healthy Yemenite Jews. An assessment was made of the magnitude of labor-induced leukocytosis in 44 Yemenite Jewish women, by comparing their hematological values during labor with those of 27 non-Yemenite women. A statistically significant difference was found in the absolute counts of the white blood cells (WBC) during delivery between the two groups, the values being lower among Yemenite Jews [10,291 +/- 422] vs. [11,759 +/- 630] X 10(9)/1) and similar findings were detected among their infants. The low WBC counts in the Yemenite group at parturition were also associated with significantly lower plasma cortisol levels (Yemenite group: 33.7 +/- 3.5 micrograms/dl; controls: 49.3 X 2.9 micrograms/dl). A correlation was found between serum cortisol levels and the magnitude of leukocytosis in both groups of women and their infants. These results suggest that a low basal corticosteroid output may contribute to the low white blood cell counts detected in some ethnic groups like the Yemenite Jews.
AN: 6410643
TI: Macro- and microfilariae in nodules from onchocerciasis patients in the YemenArabRepublic.
AU: Buttner,-D-W; Racz,-P
SO: Tropenmed-Parasitol. 1983 Jun; 34(2): 113-21
IS: 0303-4208
LA: English
AB: Fourteen subcutaneous nodules from five patients with severe localized onchocerciasis, from one person with a mild dermatitis and from two men with the generalized form of the disease were studied. Ten nodules contained adult parasites with an average sex ratio of 1.6 for female to male worms. The median worm burden was two filariae per person. The onchocercomata of two patients with severe localized onchocerciasis comprised one or two pairs of microfilariae producing worms whereas the microfilaria load in the skin of these patients was estimated to have been less than 100 000 microfilariae. One nodule contained no intact microfilariae but more than 10 000 small granulomas with all stages of degenerating microfilariae whereas the density of 0.08 live microfilariae per milligram in the skin near to the nodule was very low. None of the patients had received antifilarial drugs before nodulectomy. It is concluded, therefore, that these patients with severe localized onchocerciasis possessed the capacity naturally to kill microfilariae. In the nodules of these patients many degenerating microfilariae were observed which were surrounded by eosinophils or macrophages or which lay in small abscesses with neutrophil leucocytes or in small granulomas. The adherence of eosinophil leucocytes to only slightly altered microfilariae could be observed as a first stage.
AN: 6879705
TI: Acid phosphatase patterns in microfilariae of Onchocerca volvulus s.l. from the Upper Orinoco Basin, Venezuela.
AU: Yarzabal,-L; Petralanda,-I; Arango,-M; Lobo,-L; Botto,-C
SO: Tropenmed-Parasitol. 1983 Jun; 34(2): 109-12
IS: 0303-4208
LA: English
AB: The patterns of acid phosphatase in strains of Onchocerca volvulus s.l. which parasitize an Amerindian population (Yanomami) in Venezuela's UpperOrinocoBasin were examined by using the naphthol AS-TR phosphate method. The study sample consisted of 40 Yanomami inhabiting a savannah area at 950 m above sea level and 21 Yanomami residents of a tropical rainforest area at an altitude of 250 m. Stained intrauterine microfilariae, still within the egg case, exhibited a diffuse distribution of the enzyme in the early stages of embryonic development and a negative reaction at a more developed stage. Four of the five enzyme staining patterns described by Omar (1978) were found in the 3157 microfilariae examined from skin snips. Their distribution was: Type I--17.2%, Type III--0.5%, Type IV--75.6% and Type V--6.6%. No examples of Type II were observed. The results indicate that acid phosphatase patterns of the Upper Orinoco Onchocerca strain most resemble those of strains from Guatemala and Yemen, and are different from the African strains found in Upper Volta and Liberia. The relative frequency of acid phosphatase patterns was modified by cryopreservation of microfilariae.
AN: 6879704
TI: A medical evaluation of the use of qat in North Yemen.
AU: Kennedy,-J-G; Teague,-J; Rokaw,-W; Cooney,-E
SO: Soc-Sci-Med. 1983; 17(12): 783-93
IS: 0277-9536
LA: English
AB: The data presented in this paper examine the frequent statements that the regular use of the drug qat by the people of North Yemen is harmful to their health. The research strategy employed performance of blind physical examinations as well as extensive interviews with 335 females and 371 males in and around the cities of Sanaa, Taiz and Hodeida who had been selected using a quota sample. The sample was classified into heavy, light and non-chewers of the qat plant, and systematic comparisons were made. In general, few diseases or conditions occurred with enough frequency to permit detailed analysis and fewer yet were associated with qat-use. Where associations occurred, differences by sex were often strong. Conditions most strongly associated with use by both sexes were histories of gastritis and insomnia, and the general body system groupings of gastrointestinal disorders. In males the strongest associations were with the histories of anorexia, constipation, insomnia and headaches, as well as the general history of respiratory difficulties. In females strong associations were seen between qat-use and the diagnosis of acute gastritis, and histories of jaundice, bronchitis and hepatic diseases. When effects of age and residence were corrected for by Mantel-Haenszel odds ratios on these items, some of the associations were diminished even further. In general, remarkably few of the allegations regarding the direct effects of qat-use on health by Western visitors to Yemen were supported by this study.
AN: 6879237
TI: Osobennosti epidemiologii lepry v Iemenskoi Arabskoi Respublike.
[Characteristics of leprosy epidemiology in the YemenArabRepublic]
AU: Lavrik,-A-U
SO: Vestn-Dermatol-Venerol. 1983 Apr; (4): 46-9
IS: 0042-4609
LA: Russian; Non-English
AN: 6868815
TI: Cultural background of the medicinal plants of Yemen.
AU: Fleurentin,-J; Mazars,-G; Pelt,-J-M
SO: J-Ethnopharmacol. 1983 Mar; 7(2): 183-203
IS: 0378-8741
LA: English
AB: The study of the traditional use of medicinal plants of Yemen in the old pre-islamic and islamic pharmacopoeia has shown that: (1) the traditional medicine actually used in this country belongs to the old arabic medicine, itself similar to Greek and Indian medicines; (2) this medicine is highly original according to the great number of plants, indigenous or specific, of the Yemenite pharmacopoeia, which are not recorded in the literature, and to the high percentage of therapeutic indications belonging to Yemen which are unknown elsewhere.
AN: 6345941
TI: Prevalence, incidence, and epidemiological features of poliomyelitis in the YemenArabRepublic.
AU: Hajar,-M-M; Zeid,-A-S; Saif,-M-A; Parvez,-M-A; Steinglass,-R-C; Crain,-S
SO: Bull-World-Health-Organ. 1983; 61(2): 353-9
IS: 0042-9686
LA: English
AN: 6602665
TI: Health overseas. The course of the North Yemen.
AU: Osborne,-C
SO: Nurs-Mirror. 1983 May 25; 156(21): 24-6
IS: 0029-6511
LA: English
AN: 6552619
TI: Ruckblick und Ausblick auf meine Tatigkeit als Unterrichtsschwester im Jemen.
[Retrospective and perspective on my activities as nurse instructor in Yemen]
AU: Lingenau,-D
SO: Krankenpflege-(Frankf). 1983 Apr; 37(4): 143-4
IS: 0002-1008
LA: German; Non-English
AN: 6406749
TI: The policy of the Peoples Democratic Republic of South Yemen concerning the feeding of boarding school children.
AU: Kassim,-A-A; Auckland,-J-N; Hunt,-C
SO: J-R-Soc-Health. 1983 Feb; 103(1): 33-4, 44
IS: 0264-0325
LA: English
AN: 6854574
TI: Determinants of breastfeeding duration and nutrition in a transition society.
AU: David,-C-B; David,-P-H; el-Lozy,-M
SO: J-Trop-Pediatr. 1983 Feb; 29(1): 45-9
IS: 0142-6338
LA: English
AN: 6834461
TI: Contraception, marital fertility, and breast-feeding in the YemenArabRepublic.
AU: Goldberg,-H-I; Anderson,-J-E; Miller,-D; Dawam,-O
SO: J-Biosoc-Sci. 1983 Jan; 15(1): 67-82
IS: 0021-9320
LA: English
AN: 6826588
TI: Sowda--onchocerciasis in north Yemen: a clinicopathologic study of 18 patients.
AU: Connor,-D-H; Gibson,-D-W; Neafie,-R-C; Merighi,-B; Buck,-A-A
SO: Am-J-Trop-Med-Hyg. 1983 Jan; 32(1): 123-37
IS: 0002-9637
LA: English
AB: Sowda is an unusual form of onchocerciasis in Yemenites that differs from African onchocerciasis. Clinical and pathological studies were performed on 18 patients in YemenArabRepublic (North Yemen). Biopsies of skin and lymph nodes were taken, and then processed at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C. The most striking clinical features were swollen, darkened, pruritic, papular skin changes that were usually limited to one leg, more rarely to one arm, and large soft regional lymph nodes. Dermal changes were deeper and more diffuse than in African onchocerciasis, with many large fibroblasts and plasma cells. Microfilariae of Onchocerca volvulus were much rarer in skin from Yemenites with sowda. When patients were treated with diethylcarbamazine, the dermatitis became suddenly worse as the microfilariae degenerated and provoked acute inflammation. The dermatitis decreased after several days of treatment. Enlarged lymph nodes from sowda have shown follicular hyperplasia, in contrast to follicular atrophy and perivascular fibrosis that are characteristic of lymph nodes from cases of African onchocerciasis. Cell-mediated and humoral immunity may be more active in sowda than in African onchocerciasis.
AN: 6824118
TI: Medical literature on Yemen (north and south). A bibliographic survey from 1841-1978.
AU: Atatur-Rahim,-M
SO: Hamdard-Med. 1989 Jan-Mar; 32(1): 28-35
IS: 0250-7188
PY: 1989
LA: English
CP: ENGLAND
MESH: *Medicine-
MESH: History-of-Medicine,-Modern; Yemen-
PT: Historical-Article; Journal-Article
SB: History-of-Medicine; History-of-Medicine-Subset
UD: 20011030
AN: 11613992
TI: Law No. 3, the Family Code, 8 January 1978.
AU: Yemen
SO: Annu-Rev-Popul-Law. 1989; 16: 60, 414-8
IS: 0364-3417
PY: 1989
LA: English
CP: UNITED-STATES
MESH: *Adoption-; *Child-Care; *Divorce-; *Economics-; *Family-; *Family-Planning-Policy; *Legislation-; *Marriage-; *Women's-Rights
MESH: Asia-; Asia,-Western; Behavior-; Child-Rearing; Developing-Countries; Family-Characteristics; Family-Relations; Middle-East; Public-Policy; Socioeconomic-Factors; Yemen-
PT: Legislation
UD: 20021004
AN: 12344483
TI: Workers with Family Responsibilities Convention (ILO No. 156).
AU: International Labour Office ILO
SO: Annu-Rev-Popul-Law. 1989; 16: 77
IS: 0364-3417
PY: 1989
LA: English
CP: UNITED-STATES
MESH: *Employment-; *Family-Planning-Policy; *International-Cooperation; *Public-Policy; *United-Nations
MESH: Americas-; Asia-; Asia,-Western; Developed-Countries; Developing-Countries; Economics-; Europe-; France-; Health-Manpower; International-Agencies; Latin-America; Middle-East; Organizations-; Politics-; South-America; Uruguay-; Yemen-
PT: Legislation
UD: 20021004
AN: 12344532
TI: Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention (ILO No. 111).
AU: International Labour Office ILO
SO: Annu-Rev-Popul-Law. 1989; 16: 136
IS: 0364-3417
PY: 1989
LA: English
CP: UNITED-STATES
MESH: *Employment-; *International-Cooperation; *Prejudice-; *United-Nations
MESH: Americas-; Asia-; Asia,-Western; Developing-Countries; Economics-; Health-Manpower; International-Agencies; Latin-America; Middle-East; Organizations-; Politics-; Social-Problems; South-America; Uruguay-; Yemen-
PT: Legislation
UD: 20021004
AN: 12344113
TI: [South] Yemen.
AU: United States. Department of State. Bureau of Public Affairs
SO: Backgr-Notes-Ser. 1989 Dec; 1-4
IS: 1049-5517
PY: 1989
LA: English
CP: UNITED-STATES
MESH: *Agriculture-; *Climate-; *Conservation-of-Natural-Resources; *Culture-; *Ethnic-Groups; *Geography-; *Government-; *Industry-; *Language-; *Politics-; *Population-; *Religion-
MESH: Asia-; Asia,-Western; Communication-; Demography-; Developing-Countries; Economics-; Environment-; Middle-East; Population-Characteristics; Social-Sciences; Yemen-
PT: Journal-Article
UD: 20021004
AN: 12178022
TI: Anthropometric assessment of nutritional status and growth of children in Democratic Yemen.
AU: Haithami,-S-S; Gabal,-M-S; Masher,-A-A; el-Nofely,-A
SO: J-Egypt-Public-Health-Assoc. 1989; 64(5-6): 431-44
IS: 0013-2446
PY: 1989
LA: English
CP: EGYPT
AB: A cross-sectional study of 600 school children aged 7-13 years of both sexes was carried out in Aden city, Democratic yemen. Body weight, body height, mid-arm circumference and triceps skinfold thickness of left side were measured for each child. The results showed that the weights, heights, mid-arm circumference and triceps skinfold thickness are almost linear with increasing age among the studied group. Generally, girls showed significantly higher values of all studied anthropometric measurements than boys above 11 years. Following the approach of waterlow classification, the percentages of wasting, underweight, stunting and concurrent wasting and stunting were found to be 8.9%, 25.8%, 22.2% and 2.9% respectively.
MESH: *Anthropometry-; *Growth-; *Nutritional-Status
MESH: Child-; Cross-Sectional-Studies; Growth-Disorders-physiopathology; Sampling-Studies; Yemen-
TG: Female; Human; Male
PT: Journal-Article
SH: physiopathology
SB: Index-Medicus
UD: 20001218
AN: 2519968
XREC: ABSTRACT (AB)
TI: Ecoepidemiologie des leishmanioses viscerales et cutanees en Republique arabe du Yemen. III. Inventaire et dynamique des phlebotomes.
[Eco-epidemiology of visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Arab Republic of Yemen. III. Inventory and dynamics of Phlebotomus]
AU: Daoud,-W; Rioux,-J-A; Delalbre-Belmonte,-A; Dereure,-J; Rageh,-H-A
AD: Hopital republicain de Taez, Republique Arabe du Yemen.
SO: Bull-Soc-Pathol-Exot-Filiales. 1989; 82(5): 669-77
IS: 0037-9085
PY: 1989
LA: French; Non-English
CP: FRANCE
AB: The systematic inventory and annual following of Phlebotomus population is established by the authors in a transmission area of visceral (human and canine) and cutaneous (human) leishmaniasis in the YemenArabRepublic (province of Taez). Seven species of Phlebotomus and nine species of Sergentomyia are thus identified. Among them, four are considered as potential vectors: on the one hand, P. orientalis (s.g. Larroussius) and, probably P. arabicus (s.g. Adlerius) for L. infantum and L. donovani, in the other, P. sergenti and P. saevus (s.g. Paraphlebotomus) for L. tropica.