Marian Abouzeid

Biographic Data

ID6683796
NAMEMarian Abouzeid
GIVEN NAMESMarian
FAMILY NAMEAbouzeid
SIGNATUREABOUZEID M
AFFILIATIONSDeakin University
ORCID0000-0001-9673-5252
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Growing risk of child labor in the Middle East and North Africa amid cascading crises

    Open AccessRima R Habib, Reem S Katrib et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Child labor is a global health problem and is associated with a range of adverse health outcomes. 1 Globally, 160 million children between 5-17 years are engaged in child labor, of whom 79 million are performing hazardous work. 2 By definition, hazardous work is likely to harm the health, safety or morals of children and may result in death, disability, or longstanding physical or psychological damage. 3 Child labor is intertwined with developmen…

  • A Generation at Risk

    Open AccessMarian Abouzeid, Dana A Halwani et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Lebanon is in the midst of a rapidly escalating, unprecedented humanitarian crisis that is plunging the country deep into poverty and threatens population well-being, economic development, social welfare and national and regional stability. The dire situation is due to the compounding effects of the August 2020 Beirut blast, massive economic collapse and the COVID-19 pandemic, in a setting of longstanding entrenched political corruption and a dys…

  • Time to tackle rheumatic heart disease

    Open AccessMarian Abouzeid, Rosemary Wyber et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2018

    Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is an avoidable disease of poverty that persists predominantly in low resource settings and among Indigenous and other high-risk populations in some high-income nations. Following a period of relative global policy inertia on RHD, recent years have seen a resurgence of research, policy and civil society activity to tackle RHD; this has culminated in growing momentum at the highest levels of global health diplomacy to…

  • Type 2 diabetes prevalence varies by socio-economic status within and between migrant groups

    Open AccessMarian Abouzeid, Benjamin Philpot et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2013

    Large socio-cultural differences exist in the distribution of T2DM. Across all socio-economic strata, all migrant groups have higher prevalence of T2DM than the Australian-born population. With increasing migration, this health gap potentially has implications for health service planning and delivery, policy and preventive efforts in Australia

  • The potential for measuring ethnicity and health in a multicultural milieu – the case of type 2 diabetes in Australia

    Marian Abouzeid, Raj S Bhopal et al.ARTICLEEthnicity and Health2013Cited by: 1References: 6

    Considerable variation exists in the measurement of ethnicity in Australian health data-sets. While various markers of ethnicity provide complementary information about the ethnic profile within a data-set, non-uniform measurement renders comparison between data-sets difficult. A standardised approach is necessary, and identifying the ethnicity variables that are particularly relevant to the health sector is warranted. Including self-identified e…