title: Multi-faceted identities and interactions in mixed health teams.
abstract: The literature in the area of the health workforce and societies in conflict encompasses a wide range of studies and potential directions. Lately, Keshet and Popper-Giveon reported on a study based on interviews with 13 Arab Israeli nurses who work in Israeli hospitals. This preliminary study describes how being an Arab nurse in Israel is experienced and perceived by those nurses. The results indicate the need for further studies on the complexity of health workers' experiences in their changing and multi-faceted professional, cultural, gender and national identities. In order to manage health systems, in particular in divided societies that are characterized by inter-group conflicts, special attention should be given to studying the everyday processes in mixed teams.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing & Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Emek Yezreel, Israel.
authors.forename: Daniella
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Arieli
authors.affiliation: Nursing Department, Haifa University, HaRav Herzog St. 22, Tel-Aviv, 62915 Israel.
authors.forename: Miriam J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Hirschfeld