Challenges faced by Arab women who are interested in becoming physicians

Understanding the underlying reasons for the under-representation of Arab women within the health care system in Israel is crucial for creating future strategies for intervention, in order to minimize the gaps in the health care system and thus improve the medical services and health status. Our com...

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Autores principales: Bisharat, Bishara, Bowirrat, Abdalla
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4487062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26137217
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-015-0029-4
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description Understanding the underlying reasons for the under-representation of Arab women within the health care system in Israel is crucial for creating future strategies for intervention, in order to minimize the gaps in the health care system and thus improve the medical services and health status. Our commentary tries to shed light on the underrepresentation and the marginalization of the Arab women in society in general and in the medical field in specific.
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spelling pubmed-44870622015-07-02 Challenges faced by Arab women who are interested in becoming physicians Bisharat, Bishara Bowirrat, Abdalla Isr J Health Policy Res Commentary Understanding the underlying reasons for the under-representation of Arab women within the health care system in Israel is crucial for creating future strategies for intervention, in order to minimize the gaps in the health care system and thus improve the medical services and health status. Our commentary tries to shed light on the underrepresentation and the marginalization of the Arab women in society in general and in the medical field in specific. BioMed Central 2015-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4487062/ /pubmed/26137217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-015-0029-4 Text en © Bishara and Abdalla. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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