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Morbidity profile among older people at primary health care centers in Saudi Arabia during the period 2012-2020

Maysoon M. Al-Amoud, Doaa I. Omar, Eman N. Almashjary and Shaker A. Alomary
Saudi Medical Journal January 2023, 44 (1) 45-56; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2023.44.1.20220465
Maysoon M. Al-Amoud
From the General Directorate of Health Programs and Chronic Diseases (Al-Amoud, Omar, Almashjary, Alomary), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Department of Community (Omar), Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Benha University, Benha, Egypt.
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Doaa I. Omar
From the General Directorate of Health Programs and Chronic Diseases (Al-Amoud, Omar, Almashjary, Alomary), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Department of Community (Omar), Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Benha University, Benha, Egypt.
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Eman N. Almashjary
From the General Directorate of Health Programs and Chronic Diseases (Al-Amoud, Omar, Almashjary, Alomary), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Department of Community (Omar), Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Benha University, Benha, Egypt.
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Shaker A. Alomary
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vol. 44 no. 1 45-56
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2023.44.1.20220465
PubMed 
36634948

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received June 13, 2022
  • Accepted December 5, 2022
  • Published online January 12, 2023.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an Open Access journal and articles published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC). Readers may copy, distribute, and display the work for non-commercial purposes with the proper citation of the original work.

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  1. Maysoon M. Al-Amoud, MS⇑,
  2. Doaa I. Omar, PhD,
  3. Eman N. Almashjary, MD and
  4. Shaker A. Alomary, MD
  1. From the General Directorate of Health Programs and Chronic Diseases (Al-Amoud, Omar, Almashjary, Alomary), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Department of Community (Omar), Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Benha University, Benha, Egypt.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Maysoon M. Al-Amoud, General Directorate of Health Programs and Chronic Diseases, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: malamoud{at}moh.gov.sa ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7562-5609
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Maysoon M. Al-Amoud, Doaa I. Omar, Eman N. Almashjary, Shaker A. Alomary
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