Slim Slama
World Health Organization
46 Papers
59 Citations
Slim Slama is an academic researcher from World Health Organization. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Health care. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 30 publications. Previous affiliations of Slim Slama include Geneva College & University of Geneva.
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Papers
Care of non-communicable diseases in emergencies
Slim Slama,Hyo-Jeong Kim,Gojka Roglic,Philippa Boulle,Heiko Hering,Cherian Varghese,S. Rasheed,S. Rasheed,Marcello Tonelli +8 more
TL;DR: This Viewpoint proposes actions organised by phase of the humanitarian response to noncommunicable diseases, as well as some potential indicators for assessment of progress, and selected actions for inclusion based on their potential to reduce morbidity and mortality while minimising administrative and logistical burden for humanitarian responders.
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Health and cancer risks associated with low levels of alcohol consumption
Benjamin O Anderson,Nino Berdzuli,André Ilbawi,Devora Kestel,Hans P Kluge,Rüdiger Krech,Bente Mikkelsen,Maria Neufeld,Vladimir Poznyak,Dag Rekve,Slim Slama,J. Tello,Carina Ferreira-Borges +12 more
TL;DR: According to the latest WHO estimates, alcohol consumption contributed to 3 million deaths in 2016 globally and was responsible for 5·1% of the global burden of disease and injury as discussed by the authors .
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Prevalence of orthostatic hypotension among patients presenting with syncope in the ED.
François Sarasin,Martine Louis-Simonet,David Carballo,Slim Slama,Alain-Francois Junod,Pierre-François Unger +5 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that standardized blood pressure measurement in the ED enabled to strongly implicate orthostatic hypotension as a cause of syncope in 24% of patients with this symptom.
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Improving health outcomes of people with diabetes: target setting for the WHO Global Diabetes Compact
Edward W. Gregg,J. Buckley,Mohammed K. Ali,Justine Davies,David Flood,Roopa Mehta,Ben Griffiths,Lee Ling Lim,Jennifer Manne-Goehler,Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard,Nikhil Tandon,Gojka Roglić,Slim Slama,Jonathan E. Shaw,Kokou Agoudavi,Krishna K. Aryal,Rifat Atun,Silver Bahendeka,Brice Wilfried Bicaba,Pascal Bovet,Garry Brian,Albertino Damasceno,Maria Dorobantu,Farshad Farzadfar,Pascal Geldsetzer,Mongal Singh Gurung,David Guwatudde,Corine Houehanou,Dismand Houinato,Nahla Hwalla,Lindsay M. Jaacks,Bahadur Khem Karki,Demetre Labadarios,Nuno Lunet,Maja E Marcus,João Martins,Theodory Mary Mayige,Bolormaa Norov,Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam,Sarah Quesnel-Crooks,Abla M. Sibai,Lela Sturua,Michaela Theilmann,Lindiwe Tsabedze,Sebastian Vollmer,Zhaxybay Zhumadilov +45 more
TL;DR: The development and scientific basis for key health metrics, coverage, and treatment targets accompanying the Global Diabetes Compact are described and several complementary metrics that currently have limited global coverage, but warrant scale-up in population-based surveillance systems are proposed.
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School-Based Intervention as a Component of a Comprehensive Community Program for Overweight and Obesity Prevention, Sousse, Tunisia, 2009–2014
Jihene Maatoug,Zineb Msakni,Nawel Zammit,Sana Bhiri,Imed Harrabi,Lamia Boughammoura,Slim Slama,Chaieb Larbi,Hassen Ghannem +8 more
TL;DR: This study showed that a school-based intervention is successful in increasing healthy dietary habits and in reducing risk of excess weight, and showed the importance of a multisectoral approach to provide an environment conducive to healthy behaviors for adolescents.