Amela Jusic is from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Population Health, Luxembourg Institute of Health.

Since April 1992, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is internationally recognized as a new independent country and became a member of the United Nations, which triggered a brutal war that lasted four years. In December 1995, the Dayton Peace agreement established Bosnia and Herzegovina as a country of two entities and one district—the Federation of BiH, Republika Srpska and District Brcko.

The long post-war transition had a strong impact and caused a poor socioeconomic situation with unemployment, unhealthy and unsafe food and unhealthy lifestyles, common among the population which is mirrored in high prevalence of hypertension (42% of adult population) and one of the highest morbidity and mortality in Europe due to cardiovascular diseases.