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

Introduction Bedouin in Lebanon Migration, Settlement, Health Care and Policy Open access credit: European Commission, Directorate General Research, FW6 INCO DEV, Project no. 015362, Bedouin Health Introduction: Bedouin in Lebanon: Migration, Settlement, Health Care and Policy Dawn Chatty University Reader in Anthropology and Forced Migration, and Deputy Director, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK Basic health care for pastoral peoples and other Nadia Abu Zahra and Ms Nisrine Mansour served marginal rural populations has been difficult to as research assistants to Dr Chatty, who supervised provide in the Middle East. In part this is due to the project from the University of Oxford. The their relative remoteness from urban centres and team gathered quantitative data from the rural the inaccessibility of their camps and informal health centres in the central Bekaa Valley relating settlements; in some cases it is due to their to Bedouin primary health care delivery and mobility. These marginal, sometimes mobile and immunisation campaigns. Preliminary qualitative generally remote populations have largely been data was also collected during this first year by excluded, or have excluded themselves, from interviewing key personnel and health staff in government health care provision because of government and in the international aid sector, their lifestyle. In 2006 the European Commission both http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care Emerald Publishing

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1747-9894
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10.5042/ijmhsc.2011.0060
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Open access credit: European Commission, Directorate General Research, FW6 INCO DEV, Project no. 015362, Bedouin Health Introduction: Bedouin in Lebanon: Migration, Settlement, Health Care and Policy Dawn Chatty University Reader in Anthropology and Forced Migration, and Deputy Director, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK Basic health care for pastoral peoples and other Nadia Abu Zahra and Ms Nisrine Mansour served marginal rural populations has been difficult to as research assistants to Dr Chatty, who supervised provide in the Middle East. In part this is due to the project from the University of Oxford. The their relative remoteness from urban centres and team gathered quantitative data from the rural the inaccessibility of their camps and informal health centres in the central Bekaa Valley relating settlements; in some cases it is due to their to Bedouin primary health care delivery and mobility. These marginal, sometimes mobile and immunisation campaigns. Preliminary qualitative generally remote populations have largely been data was also collected during this first year by excluded, or have excluded themselves, from interviewing key personnel and health staff in government health care provision because of government and in the international aid sector, their lifestyle. In 2006 the European Commission both

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International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care – Emerald Publishing

Published: Feb 7, 2011

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