Health in Israeli occupied territories

Correction: Women's health in the occupied Palestinian territories: Contextual influences on subjective and objective health measures

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186610.].

Women’s health in the occupied Palestinian territories: Contextual influences on subjective and objective health measures

The links between two commonly used measures of health-self-rated health (SRH) and self-reported illness (SRI)-and socio-economic and contextual factors are poorly understood in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) and more specifically among women in conflict areas. This study assesses the socioeconomic determinants of three self-reported measures of health among women in the occupied Pales...

Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

BACKGROUND There are no recent data on the prevalence and causes of blindness in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The aim of our study was to estimate the prevalence and causes of blindness and visual impairment in the population aged 50 years and above in the Occupied Palestinian Territories using the Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB) survey method. METHODS AND FINDINGS Clu...

Health in the occupied Palestinian territory.

The use of the word “eternal” in the title of Richard Horton's piece “Occupied Palestine, an eternal alliance for health” (March 30, p 1084)1 is apt. It fits with his evangelical intentions “to put science in the service of social justice and selfdetermination.”2 However, Horton omits important data, leading to the spurious conclusion that President Obama, by disappointing the Palestinians, is ...

Perspectives on Elective Abortion Among Palestinian Women: Religion, Culture and Access in the Occupied Palestinian Territories