Reassembling the Pieces: Settler Colonialism and the Reconception of Palestinian Health

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. 2022 Dec;24(2):229-235.

Reassembling the Pieces: Settler Colonialism and the Reconception of Palestinian Health

Yara M Asi¹, Weeam Hammoudeh², David Mills³, Osama Tanous⁴, Bram Wispelwey⁵

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¹ An assistant professor at the School of Global Health Management and Informatics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, United States.
² An assistant professor at the Institute for Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Palestine.
³ An instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and faculty affiliate at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, Boston, United States.
⁴ A pediatrician and public health scholar, a board member of Physicians for Human Rights Israel and B'Tselem, and a policy analyst for Al Shabaka, Palestine.
⁵ An instructor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States, and co-founder of Health for Palestine, Palestine.

PMID: 36579318
PMCID: PMC9790940

Editorial

Reassembling the Pieces: Settler Colonialism and the Reconception of Palestinian Health

Yara M Asi et al. Health Hum Rights. 2022 Dec.

. 2022 Dec;24(2):229-235.

Authors

Yara M Asi¹, Weeam Hammoudeh², David Mills³, Osama Tanous⁴, Bram Wispelwey⁵

Affiliations

¹ An assistant professor at the School of Global Health Management and Informatics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, United States.
² An assistant professor at the Institute for Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Palestine.
³ An instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and faculty affiliate at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, Boston, United States.
⁴ A pediatrician and public health scholar, a board member of Physicians for Human Rights Israel and B'Tselem, and a policy analyst for Al Shabaka, Palestine.
⁵ An instructor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States, and co-founder of Health for Palestine, Palestine.

PMID: 36579318
PMCID: PMC9790940

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[1] Simpson L. “Anticolonial Strategies for the Recovery and Maintenance of Indigenous Knowledge,”. American Indian Quarterly. 2004;28(3/4)

[2] Simpson L. “Anticolonial Strategies for the Recovery and Maintenance of Indigenous Knowledge,”. American Indian Quarterly. 2004;28(3/4)

[3] Khalidi R. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and resistance, 1917–2017. New York: Metropolitan Books; 2020.

[4] Khalidi R. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and resistance, 1917–2017. New York: Metropolitan Books; 2020.

[5] Chernichovsky D., Bisharat B., Bowers L. The Health of the Arab Israeli Population: State of the Nation Report 2017. Jerusalem: Taub Center; 2017.

Muhsen K., Green M. S., Soskolne V. et al. “Inequalities in Non-communicable Diseases between the Major Population Groups in Israel: Achievements and Challenges,”. Lancet. 2017;389(10088) - PubMed

[6] Chernichovsky D., Bisharat B., Bowers L. The Health of the Arab Israeli Population: State of the Nation Report 2017. Jerusalem: Taub Center; 2017.

[7] Muhsen K., Green M. S., Soskolne V. et al. “Inequalities in Non-communicable Diseases between the Major Population Groups in Israel: Achievements and Challenges,”. Lancet. 2017;389(10088) - PubMed

[8] Yacobi H., Milner E. L. “Beyond ‘Causes of Causes’: Health, Stigma and the Settler Colonial Urban Territory in the Negev/Naqab,”. Urban Studies. 2022;59(3)

[9] Yacobi H., Milner E. L. “Beyond ‘Causes of Causes’: Health, Stigma and the Settler Colonial Urban Territory in the Negev/Naqab,”. Urban Studies. 2022;59(3)

[10] Manor O., Skorecki K., Clarfield A. M. “Palestinian and Israeli Health Professionals, Let Us Work Together!,”. Lancet Global Health. 2020;8(9) - PMC - PubMed

Hagay Z. “Israeli Aid to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during the COVID-19 Pandemic,”. Lancet. 2020;396(10255) - PMC - PubMed

[11] Manor O., Skorecki K., Clarfield A. M. “Palestinian and Israeli Health Professionals, Let Us Work Together!,”. Lancet Global Health. 2020;8(9) - PMC - PubMed

[12] Hagay Z. “Israeli Aid to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during the COVID-19 Pandemic,”. Lancet. 2020;396(10255) - PMC - PubMed

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