Human insecurity, chronic economic constraints and health in the occupied Palestinian territory

Autor:	Cairo Arafat, Clea McNeely, Mohammed Abu Mallouh, Mahmoud Daher, Brian K. Barber, Eyad El Sarraj, Rita Giacaman, Carolyn Spellings
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Adult Male Resource (biology) media_common.quotation_subject Violence Interviews as Topic Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic Middle East Politics Depression (economics) Risk Factors Economic constraints medicine Humans Socioeconomics media_common Response rate (survey) Variables Depression Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Middle Aged medicine.disease Socioeconomic Factors Feeling Social Conditions Quality of Life Female Psychology Social psychology Psychological trauma
Zdroj:	Global Public Health. 9:495-515
ISSN:	1744-1706 1744-1692
DOI:	10.1080/17441692.2014.903427
Popis:	Research on the effects of political conflict has focused predominantly on the association between violence exposure and psychological trauma. This paper expands that focus. We broaden the assessment of health beyond the conventional spotlight on trauma-related stress to include culturally derived measures of health, and we assess the association between a broad array of political and economic conditions and health. Household interviews were conducted in 2011 with a representative sample of 508 30-40 year olds in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt; response rate = 97%). The four dependent variables were limits on functioning due to health, feeling broken or destroyed (both culturally derived measures of health), feelings of depression and trauma-related stress. Twenty-four predictor variables assessed multiple dimensions of political conflict and background characteristics. All four measures of health and suffering were associated with human insecurity and resource adequacy. Exposure to political violence was associated only with trauma-related stress. These findings support the increasing recognition that human insecurity and chronic economic constraints in the oPt broadly threaten health, perhaps more so than direct exposure to violence. Ultimately, a political solution is required, but in the meantime, efforts to reduce insecurity and improve economic conditions may improve health and reduce suffering in the oPt.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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