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Full Name: Abdel Hamid Afana
Position:
  • Clinical Psychologist and Director of Training and Education Department at the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMPH), Gaza, Palestine
Nationality: Palestine
Work Tel: 972 8 2825700
Work Fax: 972 8 2824072
E-mail:

[email protected]

Geographical Coverage
Palestine
Fields of Application
Psychology
Areas of Specialization
Mental Health
Primary Health Care Management
Youth/Adolescents
Area of Expertise
Teaching (Academic)
Training
Advocacy
Publications
  • Mental health needs in Palestine, with Samir Qouta and Eyad El Sarraj, In: Journal of Public Health Medicine, 4, 2002, pp.27-30 and In: Humanitarian Exchange (Humanitarian Practice Network), November 2004   
  • Gender and other predictors of anxiety and depression in a sample of people visiting primary care clinics in an area of political conflict : Gaza Strip, In: Rahat Medical Journal, Vol.2, no.1, February 2004   
  • Studies of mental disorders in primary health care in the Gaza Strip, Palestine : community mental health perspective, University of Oslo, March 2003 - Ph.D. Thesis   
  • The Assessment of mental disorders in primary health care clinics in the Gaza Strip, with Timraz Nisa, In: Primary Health Care Research and Development, 4 (3):267-274, 2003   
  • A Model for community care in Gaza, In: Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture "Two Traumatized Societies", 10(4), 2003   
  • The Ability of general partitions to detect mental disorders among primary care patients in a stressful environment : Gaza Strip, with Odd Steffen, Espen Bjertness and Berthold Grunfeld, In: Journal of Public Health Medicine, 24(4):326-331,2002   
  • The Prevalence and associated socio-demographic variables of Post traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among patients attending primary health care centres in the Gaza Strip, In: Journal of Refugee studies, 15(3), 2002   
  • The Attitudes of Palestinian primary health care professionals in the Gaza Strip towards mental illness, with O.S. Dalgard, B. Grünfeld and E. Bjertness, 20th Anniversary Seminar. The University of Oslo’s Committee for North-South University Co-operation, Oslo, Norway, 15th December 1999 and In: Egyptian Journal of Psychiatry, 23 January 2000   
  • Tortured past, In: International Health Exchange (IHE), October 1997   
  • A Community based approach to mental health, Bristol University, UK, 1994- M.A. Thesis   

 

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