Table of contents
Brain Flight: The Exodus of Health Professionals from South Africa
Jonathan Crush, Wade PendletonThe paper presents the results and discusses the implications of a national survey of South African health professionals which found extraordinarily high levels of dissatisfaction…
Bedouin in Lebanon: The Transformation of a Way of Life or an Attitude?
Dawn ChattyThe populations of the Middle East have experienced particularly rapid socio‐economic change over the past 40 years, due largely to the consolidation of the nation‐state after the…
Policy Makers and Bedouin Health Provision
Faysal KakBedouin in Lebanon are estimated to represent two‐three per cent of the population. Most of them benefited from the 1994 Normalisation Law and are domiciled there. Being in rural…
Challenges in Planning and Implementing Community‐Based Health Interventions: Training Female Community Health Volunteers with the Bedouin Communities in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon
Farah BarbirCommunity‐based research requires the involvement of both the community and researchers to investigate the influence of existing political, social and structural factors on the…
Gender at the Margins: Bedouin Women's Perceptions of Lebanese Health Provision
Nisrine MansourWith a history of social and political marginalisation, mobile populations are most deprived of access to adequate health service provision. While they have undergone…
ISSN:
1747-9894e-ISSN:
2042-8650ISSN-L:
1747-9894Online date, start – end:
2005Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Prof Charles Watters