Occupation, settlement, and the social determinants of health for West Bank Palestinians.

This article aims to review the literature on the social determinants of health for West Bank Palestinians and understand how settlement construction and policy influence these determinants. To accomplish these aims, the article first includes an analysis of how military infrastructure, resource allocation, land appropriation and house demolition related to the settlements influence the lives of West Bank Palestinians. The article then proceeds to review available literature on the social determinants of health in the West Bank, most notably: access to healthcare, exposure to political violence, economic conditions and water contamination, with the goal of understanding how settlement-related policies are related to these social determinants of health. PMID: 31550919 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Medicine, Conflict and Survival - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Med Confl Surviv Source Type: research