Overview
- Covers adolescent health in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region
- Aids in the identification of evidence informed adolescent health care practices
- Focuses on mental health in the MENA region
Part of the book series: Global Perspectives on Health Geography (GPHG)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Mental Health in the MENA
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Policy and Programs Needs That Target Adolescent Mental Health in the MENA
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Back Matter
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About this book
Volume 1 focuses on mental health in the MENA region, the development and implementation of youth friendly public policies, and how to strategize in the age of COVID-19. The study will aid health care professionals, policy makers, government organizations and health program planners to assess current policies and practices related to adolescent health in the MENA region, and to identify the best courses of action moving forward.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Caroline Barakat is an Assistant Professor in Environmental/Occupational Health at Ontario Tech University. She was previously an Assistant Professor and Discipline Representative for Health Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and an Assistant Professor in Health Sciences at Zayed University, Dubai. Her research interests and expertise include the links between environments and health, health across the life course, child and adolescent health, spatial patterns of health and health care, environmental epidemiology, population health, and health inequities. Her research experience focuses on air pollution and health, particularly the long-term health effects of childhood exposure to ambient air quality. She has designed and developed a large database on environmental exposures, health behaviours, and health measures for a sample of approximately 60,000 residents of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The goal was to examine differences in health status and environmentalexposures across the seven emirates and among nationals and expatriates that reside in the UAE. She was also involved in a national Canadian project that systematically reviews the literature on risk factors related to the progression of 14 priority neurological conditions. She is currently involved in a number of research projects including examining constraints to physical activity among female adolescents, exploring transitioning thalassemia patients from adolescence to adulthood, and parental influence of children with asthma in relation to their physical activity practices.
Dr. Fatme Al Anouti is an Associate Professor at Zayed University, United Arab Emirates.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adolescent Mental Health in The Middle East and North Africa
Editors: Caroline Barakat, Fatme Al Anouti
Series Title: Global Perspectives on Health Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91790-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91789-0Published: 15 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91792-0Published: 16 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-91790-6Published: 14 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2522-8005
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 121
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geography, general, Human Geography, Health Care Management