scholarly journals A critical review of the infectious diseases surveillance system in the Gaza Strip

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 274-279
Author(s):  
R. Awad ◽  
A. Omer Al Rahman ◽  
N. Abu Shahla
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Surveillance System ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Complete Separation ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Communicable Disease Control ◽  
The Gaza Strip

The development and strengthening of national surveillance systems is a key part of communicable disease control. This review article describes and evaluates the Palestinian surveillance system and discusses the role of the epidemiology departments and other health providers in Gaza Strip in reporting infectious diseases, considers the use of the data collected, and makes recommendations for strengthening infectious diseases surveillance. Underreporting of infectious diseases remains a major problem in communicable diseases surveillance. Recommendations include the unification of the reporting forms between different health providers, increased involvement of health providers in reporting of infectious diseases, and complete separation of surveillance and clinical activities in epidemiology departments.

Health protection

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 725-730
Author(s):  
Emily Stanton ◽  
Anita Bell
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
Communicable Disease Control

Health protection is a key function of Public Health England, encompassing emergency preparedness, resilience and response, environmental health, and communicable disease control. The aim of this article is to discuss the role of health protection, its structure in England, and how GPs are integral to the reporting, surveillance and actions to protect public health. Case studies are included. Finally, the article will highlight knowledge that GPs will find useful when considering notifiable infectious diseases and the role of GP and health protection in the NHS Long Term Plan.

scholarly journals Assessment of the surveillance system for adverse events following immunisation in the Gaza Strip: a cross-sectional study

The Lancet ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 398 ◽  
pp. S27
Author(s):  
Jehad A Awad ◽  
Majdi I Dhair ◽  
Nedal I Ghuneim ◽  
Khaled Abu Ali ◽  
Yousef S Al-Yaqoubi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Events ◽  
Surveillance System ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Gaza Strip

The role of the urban agriculture on food security during armed conflicts in the Gaza Strip

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 493-503
Author(s):  
Hadi Khalil, MA ◽  
Husam Al Najar, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Poverty Level ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Design ◽  
The Gaza Strip

This study aims to assess the potential of urban agriculture to secure daily needs during the armed conflicts, in addition to assess the contribution of urban agriculture in alleviating poverty level and unemployment rate for its practitioners. A combination of both quantitative and qualitative research methods was employed in this study. In the quantitative design, 129 randomly selected urban farmers from the area of the survey completed the self-administered close-ended questionnaires, whereas the statistical analysis presents the socio-demographic, economic, and other aspects of the households. The qualitative data collection included interviews with six governmental and nongovernmental officials.The results show that 89.2 percent of the urban agriculture practitioners are feeling food security. However, a small percentage of the households who practice urban agriculture are still experiencing difficulties with food security. In the meantime, the armed conflict forced most of the urban farmers to evacuate their homes or lands; thus, only 34.9 percent of urban farmers managed to gain food during the 2014 armed conflict.In a nutshell, urban agriculture significantly and positively contributes to alleviating household food insecurity in the study area. However, its role was very limited during the 2014 armed conflict.

scholarly journals The Life of a Gunshot: Space, Sound and The Political Contours of Acoustic Gunshot Detection

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Merrill
Keyword(s):  
Surveillance System ◽  
Black Child ◽  
The Political ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Incident Report ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Surveillance Studies ◽  
Detection Systems ◽  
Nonhuman Agency

This article examines the implications of acoustic gunshot detection systems for the role of sound and nonhuman agencies in Surveillance Studies and their relationship to broader modes of power. This is done by examining the role of a ShotSpotter Flex Incident Report in the case of DeOnté Rawlings, a 14-year old black child shot and killed by an off-duty police officer in Washington, D.C. Through this case, this article traces the diagrams of power that imbricate this surveillance system within structural racism. In focusing on the material particularities of acoustical surveillance systems, like ShotSpotter Flex, this work also reconsiders the role of the visual in surveillance systems and Surveillance Studies. This article argues that these new configurations of sound and nonhuman agency offer a particular value to understanding the contemporary entanglement of surveillant mediums and broader regimes of power.

scholarly journals Trust and prosocial behaviour in a process of state capacity building: the case of the Palestinian territories

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 823-846 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUCA ANDRIANI ◽  
FABIO SABATINI
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Institutional Trust ◽  
Prosocial Behaviour ◽  
Generalized Trust ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
The Gaza Strip

AbstractThis paper contributes to the literature by conducting the first empirical investigation into the determinants of prosocial behaviour in the Palestinian Territories, with a focus on the role of trust and institutions. Drawing on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample of the population of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, we have found that institutional trust is the strongest predictor of prosociality. This result suggests that, in collectivist societies with low levels of generalized trust, the lack of citizens’ confidence in the fairness and efficiency of public institutions may compromise social order. The strengthening of institutional trust may also reinforce prosocial behaviour in individualist societies, where a decline in generalized trust has been documented by empirical studies.

scholarly journals الذكاء الاستراتيجي كمدخل لتطوير الأداء المؤسسي في المنظمات الصحية غير الحكومية بقطاع غزة

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-180
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Senior Management ◽  
Weak Effect ◽  
Institutional Performance ◽  
Health Organizations ◽  
Strategic Intelligence ◽  
Study Population ◽  
The Gaza Strip

هدفت الدراسة التعرف إلى دور الذكاء الاستراتيجي في تطوير الأداء المؤسسي في المنظمات الصحية غير الحكومية بقطاع غزة. وقد استخدم الباحثان المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، وتم اختيار مجتمع الدراسة من موظفي المنظمات الصحية غير الحكومية بقطاع غزة حيث بلغ عددها (52) منظمة بعدد موظفين (936) موظفًا، وتم اختيار عينة عشوائية طبقية، واستخدمت الاستبانة لجمع البيانات، وبلغ حجم عينة الدراسة (246) موظفًا، وتم توزيع استبانات على عدد المبحوثين وفقًا لعينة الدراسة، وتم استرداد (234) استبانة بنسبة استرداد (95.1%). وتوصلت الدراسة إلى مجموعة من النتائج أهمها: وجود علاقة ذات دلالة إحصائية بين عناصر الذكاء الاستراتيجي وتطوير الأداء المؤسسي في المنظمات الصحية غير الحكومية بقطاع غزة، ووجود أثر ذو دلالة إحصائية بين عناصر الذكاء الاستراتيجي (تفكير النظم، الشراكة، الدافعية) وتطوير الأداء المؤسسي في المنظمات الصحية غير الحكومية بقطاع غزة، وتبين أن باقي المتغيرات تأثيرها ضعيف. وأوصت الدراسة بمجموعة من النقاط أهمها: ضرورة اهتمام الإدارة العليا في المنظمات الصحية غير الحكومية بجميع عناصر الذكاء الاستراتيجي، والعناصر التي تساهم في تطوير الأداء المؤسسي التي أظهرت النتائج أهميتها، وأثرها في تطوير الأداء المؤسسي. This study aimed to identify the role of strategic intelligence in developing institutional performance in health NGOs in the Gaza Strip. The researchers used the descriptive analytical method, and the study population was selected from the staff of the non-governmental health organizations in the Gaza Strip, where the number of (52) organizations with the number of employees (936) employees, and a stratified random sample was used, and the questionnaire was used to collect data, and the size of the study sample was (246) Employee, questionnaires were distributed to the number of respondents according to the study sample, and (234) questionnaires were retrieved with a percentage of recovery (95.1%). The study reached a set of results, the most important of which are: a statistically significant relationship between the elements of strategic intelligence and the development of institutional performance in non-governmental health organizations in the Gaza Strip, and a statistically significant effect between the elements of strategic intelligence (systems thinking, partnership, motivation) and the development of institutional performance in organizations Non-governmental health in the Gaza Strip, and it was found that the rest of the variables have a weak effect. The study reached a set of recommendations, the most important of which are: the need for senior management in non-governmental health organizations to pay attention to all elements of strategic intelligence, and the elements that contribute to the development of institutional performance whose results have shown importance, and their impact on developing institutional performance.

scholarly journals Economic and post - disaster in Gaza: الاقتصاد وما بعد الكارثة في غزة

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bissan Rajab Fares, Mohammed M. El Mougher, Mohamed Ramadan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
The State ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Gaza Strip ◽  
Post Disaster

      The Gaza Strip suffers from the economic destruction caused by the wars and siege, which constitutes a disaster for the Palestinian people. In this research, We discuss the role of the economy in the aftermath of the disaster and compare the State of Iraq in the face of its disaster and how it managed to get out of that crisis. There was an interview with Professor Naser Awad in the Ministry of Economy, On how to get out of the economic crisis in Gaza.  

scholarly journals The Role of Human Resources Information Systems in Enforcing Knowledge Management: A field study on the Ministry of Transport in the Gaza Strip

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-49
Author(s):  
Esmail Kassim ◽  
Allaa El Ukosh
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Performance Appraisal ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Human Resources Information Systems ◽  
Statistical Program ◽  
The Gaza Strip

The study aimed to examin the role of human resources information systems in their dimensions (Training Information Systems, Performance Appraisal Information Systems, Employment Information Systems, Incentive Information Systems, HRIS Information Systems), in enforacing knowledge management in its dimensions, (Knowledge generation, knowledge storage, knowledge dissemination, knowledge application) in the Ministry of Transport in the Gaza Strip. The researchers used the descriptive analytical method. The study population consisted of all employees in supervisory positions in the Minstry of Transport. The questionnaire was used to collect the data required data. The number of respondents was of 62 respondents with a recovery rate (82.3%). Data was analyzed using SPSS statistical program. The study showed that there is a statistically significant relationship between the application level of human resources information systems and knowledge management application in the Minstry of Transport. In addition, the application level of human resources information systems impacts the ?application level of knowledge management at a rate of (83.40%).

The Evolution of Islamist Social Institutions in the Gaza Strip: Before and during Oslo (a Sociopolitical History)

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Roy
Keyword(s):  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Grassroots Development ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
The Gaza Strip ◽  
First Intifada

This chapter explores the evolution and role of Islamist social institutions in Gaza, beginning with the reformist work and philosophy of the Muslim Brotherhood and continuing through the first Intifada and the Oslo period. Emphasis is given to the primary role of the social sector (e.g., the Islamist institutions' contribution to community development, order, stability, and civic engagement); the political role and meaning of Islamist social work; and the impact of institutional work on grassroots development, community cohesion, and civism. There is no doubt that the Muslim Brotherhood has long used social institutions to spread its ideas and increase its influence. The Muslim Brotherhood's success was tied in large part to the fact that, until the first Intifada in 1987, the Brethren largely refrained from violent resistance against the occupation.

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