tailieunhanh - Guide to Arab Culture: Health Care Delivery to the Arab American Community

In the development of the ENHPS, the national coordinators have, through a series of workshops, had opportunities for exchanging experiences and refining their aims for the national health promoting-schools programmes. There is a general agreement on these aims despite the diversity in culture and educational settings throughout Europe. This is illustrated by a number of examples of aims as expressed by the national coordinators in a process of mapping the different models of health promoting school programmes used in countries (Jensen & Simovska, 2002) | ACCESS Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services Community Health Center Public Health Education and Research Department Guide to Arab Culture Health Care Delivery to the Arab American Community ACCESS Guide to Arab Culture Health Care Delivery to the Arab American Community Prepared by Adnan Hammad . Rashid Kysia . Raja Rabah . Rosina Hassoun . Michael Connelly . . April 1999 Copyright 1999 ACCESS Community Health Center Health Research Unit 9708 Dix Ave. Dearborn MI 48120 313 842-0700 FAX 313 841-6340 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No portion of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means without permission in writing from ACCESS Community Health Center Acknowledgements The ACCESS Community Health Center is deeply indebted to each participant of this project as well as public and community health organizations and agencies. This Guide to Arab Culture will hopefully lead to more understanding to the Arab and Arab American cultural needs and how they impact health care delivery to the Arab American Community. Our sincere gratitude goes to the Michigan Department of Community Health which generously funded this project. We extend special thanks to our community agencies who gave their insight to this project . ACCESS Community Health Center thanks the project team and colleagues who helped me to complete this project Raja Rabah . Rashid Kysia . Michael Connelly . . and Rosina Hassoun . We believe the present study will be of use for all decision-making planners community members and all those interested in applied community health in general and the betterment of medically underserved Arab American health in particular. Finally this guide is an evolving project that will likely go through several iterations and editions in the future. We hope that it will prove useful and that feedback from its users will enable us to provide improvements. Adnan Hammad . Director ACCESS Community .