Editorial

Investing in building a resilient health workforce for the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Hanan H Balkhy
East Mediterr Health J. 2025;31(12):661– 662. https://doi.org/10.26719/2025.31.12.661

Commentaries

Empowering adolescents through school-based smoking cessation programmes in Pakistan
Fahad Ali Mangrio, Penpaktr Uthis, Suwimon Rojnawee and Alicia K Matthews
East Mediterr Health J. 2025;31(12):663–665. https://doi.org/10.26719/2025.31.12.663

Palliative care in United Arab Emirates: Response to The Lancet Commission on the value of death
Neil Arun Nijhawan, Humaid Al Shamsi, Katie Sweeting, Rasha Mustafa, Aqeela Sheikh, Jamshed Khalid Khan, Mona Tareen, Athar Mahmood Safi and Faeqa Hami
East Mediterr Health J. 2025;31(12):666–668. https://doi.org/10.26719/2025.31.12.666

Research articles

Maintaining essential non-communicable disease services in the Eastern Mediterranean Region during the COVID-19 pandemic
Eman Alkhalawi, Hicham El Berri, Pyi Pyi Phyo, Eiman Hag, Matilda Byström and Asmus Hammerich
East Mediterr Health J. 2025;31(12):669–679. https://doi.org/10.26719/2025.31.12.669

Assessing violence in healthcare in the occupied Palestinian territories
Uma Gupta and Siddhesh Zadey
East Mediterr Health J. 2025;31(12):680–687. https://doi.org/10.26719/2025.31.12.680

Epidemiologic analysis of pedestrian crashes in Türkiye
Murat Ozen and Nihat Can Karabulut
East Mediterr Health J. 2025;31(12):688–697. https://doi.org/10.26719/2025.31.12.688

Agenda-setting analysis for antimicrobial restriction policy in Islamic Republic of Iran
Mojtaba Mehtarpour, Zahra Najafi, Melinda A Taylor and Ebrahim Jaafaripooyan
East Mediterr Health J. 2025;31(12):698–705. https://doi.org/10.26719/2025.31.12.698

Short research communication

Ten-year analysis of the epidemiologic characteristics of whooping cough in Kyrgyzstan
Elena Khalupko, Rahat Kadyrova, Zuura Dzholbunova, Uzma Khan, Miraj Ahmad and Yasir Naseem Khan
East Mediterr Health J. 2025;31(12):706–711. https://doi.org/10.26719/2025.31.12.706