Mounir Jarraya

University of Sfax | US · Departement of Geography

Characterized by its high heat and humidity, the autumnal bioclimatic atmosphere influences the ocular health of individuals in Sfax. The analysis of the effect of the thermo-hygrometric potentials of this atmosphere on the morbidity linked to conjunctivitis recorded by the Basic Health sector shows meteopathological aspects, since the degradation...

The morbidity related to conjunctivitis is influenced by the climatic conditions in Sfax. In fact, the frequency of consultations for conjunctivitis - recorded by Primary Health Care Centers-, during the winter-spring period, correlates with the evolution of the thermal situation. The analysis of the increase in the morbidity rate during this perio...

This paper analyses the emergence of transnational care through the case study of Libyan patients seeking care in the Tunisian city of Sfax as a result of changes triggered by the 2011 Arab uprisings. Deconstructing categories of ‘medical tourist’ and ‘medical traveller’, we examine how the evolving geopolitical context produced specific migratory...

Winter upsurge of influenza morbidity is a major topic of concern in the field of Public Health. Several studies have focused on the supporting role of the winter cold at this time of the epidemic season. In Sfax, morbidity is variable within the winter season. The frequency of cold episodes influences the ILI consultation recorded by the Centers o...

This work deals with the relationship between health and socio-environmental context through the analysis of health disparities in asthma-related morbidity in the Sfax agglomeration. This analysis is based on data obtained from the Basic Health Sector, which is the first line of recourse offering primary care services to the population in the vario...

The fungal infections are a major public health problem in Sfax (Central-East of Tunisia) because it affects a vulnerable population. The study of the temporal distribution of consultations for mycosis over the period 2009-2013 allowed detecting both spring and falling peaks. The analyzes show a relationship between on the one hand, climate charact...

This paper focuses on the triptych “health-tourism-territory” analyzing the logics of the development of private health services in the Tunisian city of Sfax and the modes of utilization of care by Libyan patients since the Arab revolutions in 2011. This phenomenon is based on geographical proximity and started during the 1990s, whereby a combinati...

RESUME : Cet article s'intéresse au triptyque « santé-tourisme-territoire » en examinant conjointement les logiques du développement des services sanitaires privés dans la ville tunisienne de Sfax et les modes de recours aux soins des patients libyens depuis la révolution arabe de 2011. Phénomène fondé sur des logiques de voisinage (réouverture de...

Installed in the town of Sfax, the university hospital structures exert a pull on the device space. This is in the flow of patients attending the agglomeration for various specialty care services offered by these structures. Through the levels of care consultation and hospitalization, we analyze the aspects of the EPS’s space power of the agglomera...

This work focuses on the relationship between the cold environments and the pulmonary consultation in Sfax over the period 1995-2005. The winter cold environments are expressed by the index of Thom bioclimatic discomfort and the wind chill used in seasonal, monthly and daily scale. The increase of pulmonary consultation is due to winter cold enviro...

Prospects for sustainable tourism development in a vulnerable insular territory : The case of the islands of Kerkennah The islands of Kerkennah are characterized by climatic characteristics that allow them to develop a tourism product that extends throughout the year. However, physical constraints that are combined with environmental problems are n...

This work focuses on the relationship between the cold environments and the pulmonary consultation in Sfax over the period 1995-2005. The winter cold environments are expressed by the index of Thom bioclimatic discomfort and the wind chill used in seasonal, monthly and daily scale. The increase of pulmonary consultation is due to winter cold enviro...