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LESSONS FROM PSYCHIATRY IN THE ARAB WORLD A Lebanese Trainee Psychiatrist’s Qualitative Views on the Provision of Mental Healthcare Services for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon and an Interview with a Consultant Psychiatrist on the Effects of the Arab Spring on the Mental Health of Libyans
Ahmed Hankir
; National Institute of Health Research Academic Clinical Fellow Psychiatry, Manchester University, Manchester, England, UK
Asad Sadiq
; Fairfield General Hospital, Bury, England, UK
Sažetak
In this manuscript, a Lebanese trainee psychiatrist qualitatively analyses and discusses the provision of mental healthcare
services for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. There are more than 250,000 Palestinian people sporadically dispersed in the refugee
camps in Sidon, Beirut and other major cities in the Levant. Displacement, conflict, trauma, unemployment and poverty are but some
of the myriad factors that influence Palestinian refugee mental health. This article traces the historical, political and socioeconomic
determinants of health for Palestinians exiled in Lebanon and describes the pivotal role that the non-Govenmental Organisation
Medical Aid for Palestinians is playing in helping to alleviate the psychiatric distress of Palestinian sufferers of mental illness. The
latter half of the manuscript contains an interview with a consultant psychiatrist about his experiences volunteering in the war-torn
lands of Libya post Arab Spring. He expounds on how he feels mental healthcare services in Libya are woefully inadequate and
broaches on his perception of how the resilience and the ‘family-centric’ model of the Libyan people has conferred a certain degree
of protection towards developing severe psychiatric illness.
Ključne riječi
refugee; mental health; Lebanon; Libya
Hrčak ID:
266765
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Datum izdavanja:
26.8.2013.
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