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Temporal trends in the incidence and demographics of cancers, communicable diseases, and non-communicable diseases in Saudi Arabia over the last decade

Hatem K. Herzallah, Belavendra R. Antonisamy, Mohammed H. Shafee and Sultan T. Al-Otaibi
Saudi Medical Journal March 2019, 40 (3) 277-286; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.3.23585
Hatem K. Herzallah
From the Department of Public Health, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MBBS, PhD
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  • For correspondence: [email protected]
Belavendra R. Antonisamy
From the Department of Public Health, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MSc, PhD
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Mohammed H. Shafee
From the Department of Public Health, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MBBS, MD
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Sultan T. Al-Otaibi
From the Department of Public Health, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MBBS, FRCPC
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vol. 40 no. 3 277-286
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.3.23585
PubMed 
30834424

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received September 15, 2018
  • Accepted January 23, 2019
  • Published online March 1, 2019.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Hatem K. Herzallah, MBBS, PhD⇑,
  2. Belavendra R. Antonisamy, MSc, PhD,
  3. Mohammed H. Shafee, MBBS, MD and
  4. Sultan T. Al-Otaibi, MBBS, FRCPC
  1. From the Department of Public Health, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Hatem K. Herzallah, Department of Public Health, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: hkherzallah{at}iau.edu.sa ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-1860-1261
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