4. Filfil, M. The Housing Environment and Women’s Health: The case Study of Ramallah Al-Tahta. Birzeit: BZUICPH, 2000: 112pp.

This study examines the perceived relationship between women’s health, well-being, and the housing environment through the voices of women in a poor urban area of Ramallah. The study views women as household members belonging to a different social group than the rest of the household members which have different needs and roles within the housing environment. In this study women relate well-being and ill-health to aspects of their daily lives, and they understand health in a broad context related to physical, mental, social, and economic well-being. Women express different health needs and means of meeting these needs, depending upon their current phase in the life cycle.