Public health in the Arab world / edited by Samer Jabbour, Rita Giacaman, Marwan Khawaja, Iman Nuwayhid ; associate editor, Rouham Yamout
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| | xvii, 502 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm Cambridge medicine. | | Machine generated contents note: Preface; Introduction; Part I. The Context of Public Health -- Public health, the medical profession, and state building: A historical perspective -- The political, economic, and social context -- The demographic transitions: characteristics and public health implications -- Environmental degradation: the challenge of sustaining life; Part II. The Social Determinants of Health -- Health inequities: social determinants and policy implications -- Assets and health: towards a new framework -- Gender disparities in health -- Knowledge gaps: the agenda for research and action; Part III. Health and Disease: A Focus on Avoidable Conditions -- Introduction: health and disease in the regional context -- Nutrition and food security: the Arab World in transition -- Infectious diseases: the unfinished agenda and future needs -- Non-communicable diseases I: burden and approaches to prevention -- Non-communicable diseases II: focus on cardiovascular diseases -- An overview of mental disorders -- Recognising omitted contexts and implicit paradigms: towards a valid mental health discourse; 16. Injury epidemiology and prevention; Part IV. The Health of Population Groups -- Child health: caring for the future -- The health of young people: challenges and opportunities -- Women’s health: progress and unaddressed issues -- The older persons: from veneration to vulnerability? -- The well-being of migrant women: between agency and restraint -- Workers health: a social framework beyond workplace hazards; Part V. Public Health in War and Violent Conflict -- Conflict in health: meeting challenges to insecurity -- Health status and health services in the occupied Palestinian territory -- Public health in crisis: Iraq -- Summer 2006 war on Lebanon: a lesson in community resilience; Part VI. Health Systems: Towards Equity and Accountability -- Introduction: seeing the trees, not missing the forest -- Health system governance -- Health system financing: the bottleneck of the right to health -- The public health workforce and human resource for health -- Health care delivery: the missing links -- Access to essential medicines: impediments and the way forward; Part VII. Public Health and the Social Agenda -- Graduate education in public health: towards a multidisciplinary model -- Participatory community interventions: a case study approach -- Reflections on the de-politicization of health and scholarship; 36. Towards a regional perspective on health and human security Egypt in crisis: politics, health care, and social mobilization for health rights -- Can action on health achieve political and social reform?; Afterword: of public health and revolution. | | ISBN 9780521516747 | | .-ISBN 0521516749. | | | | 1. Public Health - Middle East 2. Arab World - Middle East 3. Health Services - Middle East 4. Healthcare Disparities - Middle East.I. Jabbour, Samer II. Giacaman, Rita III. Khawaja, Marwan IV. Nuwayhid, Iman V. Yamout, Rouham VI. Title VII. Series | | | Library : UiTM Shah Alam |
| | Accn No. | Item Status | Add Id | Location | SMD | Item Category | | 963276 | Shelf | | PERP. PERUBATAN TAR KAMPUS SELAYANG(PPKS) | BOOK | RAK TERBUKA (OPEN SHELVES) | | 963277 | Shelf | | PERP. PERUBATAN TAR KAMPUS TELUK INTAN(PPTI) | BOOK | RAK TERBUKA (OPEN SHELVES) |
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