Rana Khatib

Rana Khatib
Birzeit University · Institute of Community and Public Health

PhD

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Publications (26)
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Governments across Europe are required to make decisions about how best to allocate scarce health care resources. There are legitimate arguments for eliciting societal vales in relation to health care resource allocation given the roles of the general public as payers and potential patients. However, relatively little is known about the views of th...
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Objectives: To explore the feasibility of using a simple multi-criteria decision analysis method with policy makers/key stakeholders to prioritize cardiovascular disease (CVD) policies in four Mediterranean countries: Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. Methods: A simple multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) method was piloted. A mixed metho...
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Background Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is rising in middle income countries. Population based strategies to reduce specific CHD risk factors have an important role to play in reducing overall CHD mortality. Reducing dietary salt consumption is a potentially cost-effective way to reduce CHD events. This paper presents an economic evaluation of popu...
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Background The incidence of coronary heart diseases is increasing in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and hence poses a growing challenge for treatment. Reduction in the intake of dietary salt is a potentially cost-effective approach to reduce the burden of coronary heart diseases. Here, we report the results of an economic assessment of th...
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This paper presents evidence from research into health system challenges of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes in four Eastern Mediterranean countries: the occupied Palestinian territory, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. We address two questions. How has the health system in each country been conceptualised and organised to manage the provision of...
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Background The appropriate thresholds for decisions on the cost-effectiveness of medical interventions remain controversial, especially in ‘end-of-life’ situations. Evidence of the values placed on different types of health gain by the general public is limited. Methods Across nine European countries, 17 657 people were presented with different hy...
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Public policy plays a key role in improving population health and in the control of diseases, including non-communicable diseases. However, an evidence-based approach to formulating healthy public policy has been difficult to implement, partly on account of barriers that hinder integrated work between researchers and policy-makers. This paper descr...
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Background Diabetes mellitus is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Few reliable data about its management and complication rates have been reported in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). Services are offered to patients with diabetes by four main providers: Ministry of Health (MoH), UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine...
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Background Cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus present an increasing challenge for health care in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). Effective access to health care is a core prerequisite to the effective management of the two diseases. A main goal for policy makers is to improve access for patients to the services they need. Howev...
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Attempts to establish a health plan for the occupied Palestinian territory were made before the 1993 Oslo Accords. However, the first official national health plan was published in 1994 and aimed to regulate the health sector and integrate the activities of the four main health-care providers: the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Palestinian non-gov...
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We describe the demographic characteristics, health status, and health services of the Palestinian population living in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory, and the way they have been modified by 60 years of continuing war conditions and 40 years of Israeli military occupation. Although health, literacy, and education currently have a higher sta...
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In early life, patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) can have acute, life-threatening emergencies related to splenic hypofunction (overwhelming bacterial sepsis), as well as anemic crises from acute splenic sequestration because of sudden pooling of blood in the spleen. The landmark penicillin prophylaxis study in 1985 showed a remarkable decreas...
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Background Information on prescribing practices in Palestine is lacking, however, still essential for strategic planning.PurposeTo characterise prescribing patterns and specific medicine use indicators in selected non-governmental organisations' (NGO) primary healthcare clinics/centres (PHC) in the West Bank (WB) in Palestine.MethodologyA prospecti...
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Objective To characterise the use of antibiotics in outpatients treated for infection in the Ramallah district of Palestine. Setting A purposive sample of general and specialist outpatient clinics in the public and private sector in Ramallah. Method A prospective, cross-sectional survey over 3 months (February-May 2000) of patients diagnosed with...
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We studied medical waste management in a Palestinian hospital in the West Bank and the role of municipality in this management. In general, "good management practices" were inadequate; there was insufficient separation between hazardous and non-hazardous wastes, an absence of necessary rules and regulations for the collection of wastes from the hos...
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This paper examines the impact of impoverishment on patients' preferences with respect to improving the quality of health care, by focusing on the sudden impoverishment experience that affected the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) since the beginning of the second Palestinian Uprising of September 2000. Two random samples of patients (352 and 3...
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This article describes the nature and extent of non-fatal injuries sustained by Palestinians during the first three months of the second intifada in late 2000 by looking at two sets of data. 10,279 cases were obtained from the records of the Red Crescent Organization, which provides first level emergency care via ambulance crews in the West Bank an...

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