International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care: Volume 6 Issue 3

Editorial Dilemmas of Migration: Diminishing Health Resources and the Complexity of Needs

Charles Watters

Brain Flight: The Exodus of Health Professionals from South Africa

Jonathan Crush, Wade Pendleton

The paper presents the results and discusses the implications of a national survey of South African health professionals which found extraordinarily high levels of dissatisfaction…

Introduction: Bedouin in Lebanon: Migration, Settlement, Health Care and Policy

Dawn Chatty

Bedouin in Lebanon: The Transformation of a Way of Life or an Attitude?

Dawn Chatty

The populations of the Middle East have experienced particularly rapid socio‐economic change over the past 40 years, due largely to the consolidation of the nation‐state after the…

Policy Makers and Bedouin Health Provision

Faysal Kak

Bedouin in Lebanon are estimated to represent two‐three per cent of the population. Most of them benefited from the 1994 Normalisation Law and are domiciled there. Being in rural…

Challenges in Planning and Implementing Community‐Based Health Interventions: Training Female Community Health Volunteers with the Bedouin Communities in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon

Farah Barbir

Community‐based research requires the involvement of both the community and researchers to investigate the influence of existing political, social and structural factors on the…

Gender at the Margins: Bedouin Women's Perceptions of Lebanese Health Provision

Nisrine Mansour

With a history of social and political marginalisation, mobile populations are most deprived of access to adequate health service provision. While they have undergone…