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Elderly Patients Knowledge And Attitudes Regarding Influenza Vaccination In Bekaa, Ahmad Tassi
Elderly Patients Knowledge And Attitudes Regarding Influenza Vaccination In Bekaa, Ahmad Tassi
BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing
Elderly are among the main targets of influenza which is a common preventable infectious disease associated with high mortality and morbidity. The most cost-effective measure to prevent influenza is Vaccination, yet the vaccine uptake is known to be low. In Lebanon, there are no national surveillance programs or awareness campaigns for influenza in the country. There is a lack in the Data of the uptake of the influenza vaccine knowledge and attitudes of the Lebanese population towards. Aim: This study aims to assess the impact of educational program implementation on recognizing of influenza and adhering to vaccination. Method: Pre-Posttest research …
Safe Aging In Place; The Criticality Of Buildingapproaches For Better Lives, Randa Boukhari Phd Candidate, Faculty Of Architecture - Design & Built Environment
Safe Aging In Place; The Criticality Of Buildingapproaches For Better Lives, Randa Boukhari Phd Candidate, Faculty Of Architecture - Design & Built Environment
BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing
Safe aging in place became an important topic in today’s residential architecture, especially after defining the home environment and its surrounding as an environment that threaten the wellbeing of the elderly by exposing one third to two third of this collective to falling accidents. This fact oriented this work to develop checklist of international and national design guidelines (n=2), to highlight first, the design standards according to the elderly with sensory, physical, and cognitive age-related impairments and, to categorize them as (informative and/ or safe) elements; second, to quantifies the architectural shortage in Lebanese buildings and houses approaches for their …