Geographical Locations - Palestine

• (Statistical) Number of Inhabitants per Doctor:
• CIA World Factbook : West Bank and Gaza Strip

Organisations and Networks

UN and Multinational

• WHO
  - WHO EMRO Country Profile - Palestine
  - WHO - Tobacco control: country profile: West bank and Gaza Strip
• WHO - Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO) in Cairo
• WHO Health Action in Crises West Bank and The Gaza Strip
• UNDP Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People
• UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East

Government

• Ministry of Health
  - Health Education and Promotion Directorate
• PYALARA - The Palestinian Youth Association for Leadership and Rights Activation - "established in 1999 especially for Palestinian youth, male and female, of all walks of life and regions"
• USAID West Bank / Gaza Strip

Non-Government

• Across Borders - In late 1998, a group of Palestinian professionals and refugee camp residents in the West Bank initiated a dialogue on the importance of bringing computer and internet technology into Palestinian refugee camps. Across Borders Project (ABP) was launched in February 1999, under the umbrella of Birzeit University (BZU), with the aims of (i) enhancing educational and vocational training opportunities for camp residents and (ii) building, otherwise nonexistent, internet linkages between Palestinian refugees spread around the world
• BADIL Resource Center for Palistinean Residency and Refugee Rights - BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights takes a rights-based approach to the Palestinian refugee issue through research, advocacy and support of community participation in the search for durable solutions. BADIL was established in January 1998 to support the development of a popular refugee lobby for the right of return through professional research and partnership-based community initiatives. The center is registered with the Palestinian Authority.
• CARE : Country Profile
• CSS - Centrale Sanitaire Suisse - Zürich - Palestine
• Gaza Community Mental Health Programme - "a Palestinian non-governmental institution, established in 1990 to serve the poulation of Gaza strip. GCMHP aims to offer comprehensive community-based mental health services. GCMHP's three centers in Gaza, Khan Younis, and Jabalaya extend their services to all sectors of society with emphasis on victims of domestic and political violence particularly women, children, and victims of human rights violations"
• Palestinian Counseling Center - "since its establishment in 1983 and through its team of multi-disciplinary counselors and experts, the PCC has served as a catalyst in promoting community-based development in addition to introducing the concept of mental health in Palestine. The main beneficiaries of the PCC's work have been the geographically, socially and economically marginalized groups, namely children and youth. However, the PCC implements the holistic approach in all its programs, where parents and school administrations as well as community members as a whole are beneficiaries"
• Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank and Gaza Strip - This FMO Research Guide provides an overview of displacement within, and from, the region of the state of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian territories during and since the 1948 Israeli-Arab war. It also provides historical background to the current situation, an overview of the legal status of the Palestinians and the Occupation, and looks at institutional responses to their needs.
• Welfare Association - "a private, non-profit foundation established in 1983 in Geneva to support Palestinian society in sustainable development. Officially registered under the name Welfare Association, it has become better known in the region by its Arabic name, Ta'awoun, meaning cooperation"

Academic Institutions

• Birzeit University's Department of Community and Public Health

National Policy and Related Documents

Reports, Guidelines, and Projects

• Palestinian Displacement: a case apart?
  This September 2006 issue of Forced Migration Review includes a major feature on Palestinian displacement. Twenty-eight articles by UN, Palestinian and international human rights organisations, Palestinian scholars in the diaspora and Jewish and Israeli activist groups examine the root causes of the displacement of Palestinians, the consequences of the failure to apply international humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Palestinian entitlement to protection and compensation.
• Palestine Human Development Report 2004

Educational Resources

• ArabNet: Palestine
• Bridges
  The goal of Bridges, the Israeli-Palestinian Public Health magazine is to promote the exchange of public health information of common interest between the Palestinian and Israeli public health professionals. Each issue of Bridges is guided by principles such as the importance of showing both the adverse impact of the conflict on both sides and the positive cooperative efforts that are taking place; a focus not only on scientific, health issues but also on issues of dialogue/peace, human rights, and the socio-economic determinants of health. resources
• CDC - Travel Information: Middle East
• Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet
• United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine