42. Giacaman, R. Health and Development in the Occupied Territories, the Theoretical Frame. Birzeit Research Bulletin, vol 3, 1-13, 1986, 13 pp.
In Arabic only.

Three viewpoints regarding health and health development in the Occupied Territories are reviewed. The first viewpoint deals with health and illness from a strictly biomedical perspective. The second considers the poor health conditions in the Occupied Territories as strictly arising from occupation. Advocates of this view believe that health conditions in the Occupied Territories may only be improved by purging occupation. The third viewpoint adds economic and social issues to the second.

The report concludes that health and illness patterns are influenced by social and economic variations within the Palestinian population and that if the health of the population is not put within this context, little improvement may be attained.