Guide to Arab Culture: Health Care Delivery to the Arab American Community pdf

ACCESS

Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services

Community Health Center

Public Health Education and Research Department

Guide to Arab Culture:

Health Care Delivery to the

Arab American Community

ACCESS Guide to Arab Culture: Health Care Delivery to the Arab American Community

Prepared by:

Adnan Hammad, Ph.D.,

Rashid Kysia, M.P.H.,

Raja Rabah, M.D.,

Rosina Hassoun Ph.D.,

Michael Connelly, B.A., B.S.

April, 1999

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Acknowledgements

The ACCESS Community Health Center is deeply indebted to each participant of this

project, as well as, public and community health organizations and agencies. This Guide to Arab

Culture will, hopefully, lead to more understanding to the Arab and Arab American cultural

needs and how they impact health care delivery to the Arab American Community.

Our sincere gratitude goes to the Michigan Department of Community Health which,

generously funded this project. We extend special thanks to our community agencies who gave

their insight to this project .

ACCESS Community Health Center thanks the project team and colleagues who helped

me to complete this project: Raja Rabah, M.D., Rashid Kysia, M.P.H., Michael Connelly, B.A.,

B.S., and Rosina Hassoun Ph.D..

We believe the present study will be of use for all decision-making, planners, community

members, and all those interested in applied community health in general and the betterment of

medically underserved Arab American health in particular.

Finally, this guide is an evolving project that will likely go through several iterations and

editions in the future. We hope that it will prove useful and that feedback from its users will

enable us to provide improvements.

Adnan Hammad, Ph.D.

Director, ACCESS Community Health Center

April , 22, 1999