title: Organizing health care within political turmoil: the Palestinian case.
abstract: Palestinians were given control over their own health services in late 1994. Since then they have been facing the challenge of reorganizing disordered health services into a cohesive, regulated and sustainable health care system. This paper focuses on the experience of organizing health care during political instability. It considers the ways that health care is currently provided and funded in the Palestinian Territories. The patterns of accessibility to health care services in terms of insurance coverage and provision (physical allocation) of services are discussed. Finally, the major health care policy changes in this transitional period are examined.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research, School of Public Health, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kapucijnenvoer 35, 3000-Leuven, Belgium. motasem.hamdan@med.kuleuven.ac.be
authors.forename: Motasem
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hamdan
authors.forename: Mia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Defever
authors.forename: Ziad
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Abdeen
mesh_terms: D018912:Arabs; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006291:Health Policy; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage; D008877:Middle East; D011057:Politics; D040841:Resource Allocation