The Bedouin Health Project: from assessment to intervention
The European Commission funded Bedouin Health Project (BHP) aims to assess access to reproductive and child health among Bedouins of the Western and Central Bekaa.
The marginalization of Bedouins, which stems from broader structural and political factors, has compromised the provision of basic governmental health services and their access to these services.
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CRPH co-hosts a workshop on FCTC policies and their implementation in Arab Countries
The Tobacco Control Research Group - hosted by the CRPH, and the Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies (SCTS) in collaboration with Framework Convention Alliance (FCA) Eastern Mediterranean region and the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT)
are co-hosting a workshop on ‘FCTC policies and their implementation in
Arab Countries’
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Research Projects
Impact of a community based RCT to improve mental health of Palestinian refugee youth
This project focuses on a priority health problem (mental health) in a group of low income urban youth refugees and uses an innovative conceptual framework (positive youth development) with evidence of effectiveness to guide...
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Events
July 2 CRPH Seminar
'Humanitarian crisis and social suffering in Gaza Strip: an
initial analysis of aftermath of latest Israeli war'
by Dr. Niveen Abu Rmeileh
June 28 Seminar
CRPH and the AUB-Tobacco Control Research Group organized a seminar on
the marketing of tobacco to women in line with World No Tobacco
Day
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Latest News National Dissemination Meeting
May 18 at the Heliopolitan Hotel in Raouche
CRPH held a national dissemination meeting entitled “Towards the
Promotion of Youth and Women's Health in Lebanon: A Holistic
Research Approach”
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Recent Publications Afifi, R., Nakkash, R., Khawaja, M.
"Social Capital, women's autonomy and smoking among married women in
low-income urban neighborhoods of Beirut, Lebanon."Women's Health Issues 20(2), March-April 2010, pp.156-167.
Al-Nsour, M., Khawaja, M., Al-Kayyali, G.
"Domestic Violence Against Women in Jordan"
Journal of Family Violence 24(8), November 2009, pp.569-575.
