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Reproductive Health and Infectious Disease in the Middle East.

First published in 1998, this book covers a variety of health issues in the contemporary Middle east. Its thirteen chapters, contributed by a total of 23 authors and co-authors, reflect several different disciplines relevant for health studies, including epidemiology, economics and anthropology. In...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barlow, Robin
Otros Autores: Brown, Joseph W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milton : Routledge, 2018.
Colección:Routledge Revivals Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; Preface; About the Authors and Editors; PART I: REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; 1 Introduction to Reproductive Health in the Middle East; 2 Profiling Maternal Health in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria; 3 Contraceptive Use Dynamics and Reproductive Morbidity in Lebanon: Evidence from Family Planning Clinic Data; 4 Evaluation of Factors Influencing the Cost-Effectiveness of Mobile Family Planning Units in Tunisia; 5 Fertility and Family Planning in a West Bank Village; 6 Infertility and the Quest for Conception in Egypt.
  • PART II: INFECTIOUS DISEASE7 Introduction to Infectious Disease in the Middle East; 8 Schistosomiasis in Egypt: A Current Assessment; 9 A New Procedure to Assess Individual Risk of Exposure to Schistosomiasis Cercariae; 10 Knowledge of Risks of HIV Infection and Methods of Prevention among Women in Three Beirut Hospitals; 11 Politics and the Spread of HIV/AIDS in the Middle East; 12 Rift Valley Fever in the Middle East: An Example of Medical Political Cooperation in the Control of Zoonotic and Emerging Infectious Diseases; 13 Hepatitis C Virus Epidemiology in Egypt.