Dissertation Research: Use of Services and Political Identity on the West Bank

本项目涉及一位来自埃默里大学的学生的论文研究。该学生将研究生活在西岸的巴勒斯坦人如何使用哈马斯、巴解组织和巴勒斯坦民族解放阵线等政治组织向他们提供的保健设施。该项目将检验人们的政治身份影响他们选择使用的卫生设施的假设。将对4家诊所的患者、管理人员、医生和卫生保健提供者进行访谈，观察诊所的做法和动态，并跟踪个别家庭的健康决定。这项研究很重要，因为中东是世界上重要的政治紧张和变化的来源。该项目将促进我们对民族主义、政治意识形态和健康之间关系的理解。通过研究平衡健康需求、经济和社会约束以及政治意识形态和身份的人们的复杂决策和行为，这项研究将促进我们对该地区政治重要性的理解。该项目的一个实际好处是，中东以及发展中国家类似地区的规划人员将可以获得有关卫生保健的见解。

This project involves the dissertation research of a student from Emory University. The student will study how Palestinian people living in the West Bank use the health care facilities made available to them by political organizations such as Hamas, the PLO, and the PFLP. The project will test the hypothesis that people's political identities influence their selection of health facility to use. Patients, administrators, doctors and health care providers in 4 clinics will be interviewed, clinic practices and dynamics will be observed and health decisions of individual families will be followed. This research is important because the middle east is a source of significant political tension and change in the world. The project will advance our understanding of the relation between nationalism, political ideology and health. By studying the complex decisions and behavior of people who are balancing health needs, economic and social constraints and political ideology and identity, the study will advance our understanding of the importance of politics in this region. A practical benefit of the project is that the insights learned about health care will be available to planners in the middle east as well as in similar regions of developing countries.