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Assessment of the psychosocial health status of adolescents 12-18 years old in the occupied Palestinian territory
No full textAdolescents and young people are usually considered a physically healthy group
which does not require much of the attention of policymakers and service providers.
However, this group may suffer from ill being and low levels of psychosocial health.
In the context of the oPt, where young people and the population at large continue
to experience chronic and protracted exposure to political violence, and endure the
social suffering related to war, an interest in the psychosocial and mental health of
adolescents and young people has emerged in recent years. Palestinian adolescents
have, over their life course, chronically experienced direct political violence. They
have also been living in poverty and isolation, the consequences of Israeli military
occupation of Palestinian land. Such a predicament is a main rationale for attempting
to understand and measure the psychosocial health of Palestinian adolescents, in
the hope of working to address some of the determinants of their ill health and ill
being which can realistically be addressed while simultaneously calling for justice to
Palestinians.
Thus the aim of this study is to provide baseline data assessing the psychosocial
health of Palestinian adolescents and associated factors (determinants). The
ultimate aim is to identify high risk groups and the factors associated with their ill
being in order to inform interventions. The study employs instruments which solicit
responses from adolescents themselves (as opposed to clinical assessments) in
rating their own psychosocial health status, which brings the voice of Palestinian
adolescents into discussions of interventions, which we believe is an essential
component informing interventions
تقدير الناتج المحلي الإجمالي الفلسطيني باستخدام نماذج الإنحدار للبيانات ذات الترددات المختلطة
No full textThe political , social and economic challenges encountered by Palestinian Jerusalemite women married to men from the Palestinian Authority areas
No full textموازنة مياه الصرف الصحي في المناطق الحضرية لدراسة مقدار التلوث من الصرف الصحي و تلوث المياه الجوفية في شرق نابلس
No full text" دايما بييجو في نص الليل" : تقرير عن تأثير الأسر على أطفال الأسرى السياسيين الفلسطينيين في السجون الإسرائيلية
No full textResearch capacity and training needs for noncommunicable diseases in the public health arena in Turkey
Get PDFBackground: The aim of this study is to define the research capacity and training needs for professionals working
on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the public health arena in Turkey.
Methods: This study was part of a comparative cross-national research capacity-building project taking place across
Turkey and the Mediterranean Middle East (RESCAP-Med, funded by the EU). Identification of research capacity and
training needs took place in three stages. The first stage involved mapping health institutions engaged in NCD
research, based on a comprehensive literature review. The second stage entailed in-depth interviews with key
informants (KIs) with an overview of research capacity in public health and the training needs of their staff. The third
stage required interviewing junior researchers, identified by KIs in stage two, to evaluate their perceptions of their
own training needs. The approach we have taken was based upon a method devised by Hennessy&Hicks. In total,
55 junior researchers identified by 10 KIs were invited to participate, of whom 46 researchers agreed to take part
(84%). The specific disciplines in public health identified in advance by RESCAP-MED for training were: advanced
epidemiology, health economics, environmental health, medical sociology-anthropology, and health policy.
Results: The initial literature review showed considerable research on NCDs, but concentrated in a few areas of
NCD research. The main problems listed by KIs were inadequate opportunities for specialization due to heavy
teaching workloads, the lack of incentives to pursue research, a lack of financial resources even when interest
existed, and insufficient institutional mechanisms for dialogue between policy makers and researchers over national
research priorities. Among junior researchers, there was widespread competence in basic epidemiological skills, but an
awareness of gaps in knowledge of more advanced epidemiological skills, and the opportunities to acquire these skills
were lacking. Self-assessed competencies in each of the four other disciplines considered revealed greater training
needs, especially regarding familiarity with the qualitative research skills for medical anthropology/sociology.
Conclusions: In Turkey there are considerable strengths to build upon. But a combination of institutional disincentives
for research, and the lack of opportunities for the rising generation of researchers to acquire advanced training skills
Assessment of media development in Palestine: based on UNESCO`s media development indicators
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