Weeam Hammoudeh

Dados Biográficos

ID169310
NOMEWeeam Hammoudeh
PRENOMESWeeam
SOBRENOMEHammoudeh
ASSINATURAHAMMOUDEH W
AFILIAÇÕESBirzeit University
ORCID0000-0001-9733-3087
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS26
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES11
TOTAL COMO AUTOR26
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2013
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Hospital functionality in the Gaza Strip

    Open AccessDavid Mills, Yara Asi et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2026

    This study provides additional evidence that the Gaza Strip's hospital system was directly affected by the first year of the conflict, greatly impacting the ability to provide critical health services

  • Interrogating the role of sociopolitical determinants of health in Palestine

    Open AccessYara Asi, Yara M Asi et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2026

    For decades, Palestinians have faced significant barriers to developing and accessing basic health services, leading to poor health outcomes. These issues are often characterized as mere 'humanitarian issues,' ignoring the broader sociopolitical context. This study aims to explore the discourse surrounding the structural and sociopolitical determinants shaping Palestinian health. We conducted in-depth interviews with experts ( N = 15) on Palestin…

  • Framing Gaza

    Open AccessOsama Tanous, Yara Asi et al.ARTICLECommunication Culture and Critique2026Referências: 12

    A main feature of the Israeli genocide in Gaza has been the systematic destruction of the healthcare system. The Israeli military has methodically generated conditions that drive disease, disability, and death, while simultaneously dismantling the capability of the health system to respond. Despite a purported emphasis on issues such as health equity and social determinants of health, many influential medical bodies across the world have failed t…

  • Measuring human rights violations from an ecological perspective using a locally generated instrument

    Open AccessRita Giacaman, Rula Ghandour et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction: This study presents findings from a cross-sectional household survey conducted among Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to assess the reported prevalence of human rights violations committed by various potential perpetrators. Methods: We used a context-specific tool developed from the ground up using qualitative methods to enhance our understanding of what Palestinians consider to be human rights violations. This tool al…

  • Uncertainty and mental health

    Open AccessHanna Kienzler, Alessandro Massazza et al.ARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2025

    Reports highlight that the ‘golden age of stability and predictability’ in the latter half of the twentieth century has abruptly drawn to a close and been replaced by a phase of great uncertainty. Quantitative research has established an association between high levels of uncertainty with worsening mental health problems such as depression, anxiety and psychological distress. Important research gaps remain including how people experience and unde…

  • Experiences of pain among Palestinian advanced cancer patients

    Open AccessRita Giacaman, Weeam Hammoudeh et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2025

    This social support/social solidarity, is generally regarded as a wajib (واجب), or obligation and duty people must fulfill and cannot be neglected. Dependence on God ( Allah ) and Tawwakul , that is, the reliance on Allah , which they drew upon for support and endurance, was also emphasized. The notion of Tawwakul and reliance on Allah is of particular importance in assisting patients and their families in coming to terms with their sickness and …

  • Responding to the covid-19 in West Bank Palestine refugee camps

    Open AccessLama Shakhshir, Weeam HammoudehARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Covid-19 impacts were particularly pronounced for refugees where response efforts did not fulfil their needs. The study highlights the importance of preparedness, working with community organisations and designing interventions in a human-centred/community-centred way to increase the effectiveness of health interventions and responses

  • Exploring the association of household location and sociodemographic profile on dietary diversity in occupied Palestine

    Open AccessChesa Cox, Weeam Hammoudeh et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    The findings elucidate the long-term impact of conflict on household food diversity, highlight a significant and worsening issue of food insecurity amongst Palestinians residing in the occupied Palestinian territory, and underline urgent need to address this critical issue and further protect vulnerable populations in conflict-affected regions

  • Participatory action research in partnership with young people with disability

    Open AccessSuzan Mitwalli, Lama Shakhshir et al.ARTICLEDisability & Society2025Citada por: 1Referências: 2

    This article focuses on the process of the participatory action research (PAR) approach of working with a group of Palestinian young people with disabilities to explore their experiences in the Palestinian setting, highlighting education, employment, and social participation. It describes the PAR methodology and the co-researcher involvement in the different study components. It also includes the reflections of our co-researchers (the PAR group m…

  • Structural racism and diminished health returns on education among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

    Open AccessSawsan Abdulrahim, Dennis Kunichoff et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2025Citada por: 1Referências: 48

  • Civilian mortality and damage to medical facilities in Gaza

    Open AccessBram Wispelwey, David Mills et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

  • Unbearable suffering

    Open AccessHanna Kienzler, Gwyn Daniel et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BOX The onslaught on Gaza is leading to catastrophic psychological consequences which will not be limited to the short term and to those directly affected, but will have long-term, intergenerational effects

  • Inverting the deficit model in global mental health

    Open AccessKaaren Mathias, Noah Bunkley et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Global mental health [GMH] scholarship and practice has typically focused on the unmet needs and barriers to mental health in communities, developing biomedical and psychosocial interventions for integration into formal health care platforms in response. In this article, we analyse four diverse settings to disrupt the emphasises on health system weaknesses, treatment gaps and barriers which can perpetuate harmful hierarchies and colonial and medi…

  • Are hospitals collateral damage? Assessing geospatial proximity of 2000 lb bomb detonations to hospital facilities in the Gaza Strip from October 7 to November 17, 2023

    Open AccessDennis Kunichoff, David Mills et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    After attacks in Israel led by Hamas militants on October 7, 2023, Israel launched a major military campaign in the Gaza Strip that has featured an unprecedented scale of destruction. This has included the use of highly destructive weapons in a densely populated area. Mark-84 bombs (M-84s) are 2000 lb air-dropped explosive munitions with the capacity to damage infrastructure and kill or cause severe injury hundreds of meters away. This study exam…

  • Nowhere and no one is safe’

    Open AccessYara Asi, David L Mills et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2024

    Spatial statistical analysis suggests widespread damage to critical civilian infrastructure that should have been provided protection under IHL. These findings raise serious allegations about the violation of IHL, especially in light of Israeli officials' statements explicitly inciting violence and displacement and multiple widely reported acts of collective punishment

  • The hidden burden of dysmenorrhea among adolescent girls in Palestine refugee camps

    Open AccessRula Ghandour, Weeam Hammoudeh et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Dysmenorrhea poses significant challenges to the well-being and academic performance of adolescent girls living in Palestine refugee camps. Collaborative efforts and multifaceted approaches are crucial to address dysmenorrhea effectively. This involves research, targeted interventions, culturally sensitive strategies, and fostering a supportive environment that empowers girls to thrive academically and beyond

  • Social medicine education towards structural transformation in Palestine

    Open AccessDavid Mills, Ramya Kumar et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2024Referências: 21

  • Because its power remains naturalized

    Open AccessBram Wispelwey, Osama Tanous et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Indigenous people suffer earlier death and more frequent and severe disease than their settler counterparts, a remarkably persistent reality over time, across settler colonized geographies, and despite their ongoing resistance to elimination. Although these health inequities are well-known, they have been impervious to comprehensive and convincing explication, let alone remediation. Settler colonial studies, a fast-growing multidisciplinary and i…

  • The mental health impact of multiple deprivations under protracted conflict

    Open AccessWeeam Hammoudeh, Suzan Mitwalli et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Building on the literatures examining the impacts of deprivation and war and conflict on mental health, in this study, we investigate the impact of different forms of deprivation on mental health within a context of prolonged conflict in the occupied Palestinian territory(oPt). We expand the operationalization go deprivation while accounting for more acute exposures to conflict and political violence and spatial variations. We use multilevel mode…

  • Pathways to food insecurity in the context of conflict

    Open AccessTracy Kuo Lin, Rawan Kafri et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2022

    The results suggest that broader socio-political conditions in the oPt impact different aspects of food security through augmenting the economic and agricultural hardships that are experienced by the residents. As such, it is important to address these broader political and economic structures in order to have more sustainable interventions in reducing food insecurity

  • Towards decolonising research methods training

    Open AccessNancy Tamimi, Hanna Kienzler et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2021

    Fostering multi-directional learning is key for non-Western knowledge, epistemologies, and languages to gain prominence in Western academia. A social transformation would see local researchers and educators engage with and use local methods and paradigms in mental health in war and conflict

  • Social and political determinants of health in the occupied Palestine territory (oPt) during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessWeeam Hammoudeh, Hanna Kienzler et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    box The Palestinian authority (PA) reacted quickly to the coronavirus outbreak, introducing strict lock down measures to limit community transmission. However, since restriction measures were eased in late May, there has been a massive spike in cases with over 9000 cases by July 18 2020 compared with less than 400 cases at the end of the lockdown. This has created a climate of fear. Since the spike, shorter lockdown measures have been instituted,…

  • On Mental Health Amid Covid-19

    Weeam Hammoudeh, Samah Jabr et al.ARTICLEJournal of Palestine Studies2020

    The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the devastating and disproportionate effects of structures of violence that produce vulnerability in communities of color globally, including with respect to mental health-care provision. While coping and resilience are dominant mainstream frameworks to understand mental health in crisis—both in Palestine and elsewhere—the three contributors to this roundtable were asked to offer a rejoinder to that approach. T…

  • Coping with cancer diagnosis and treatment

    Open AccessAysecan Terzioğlu, Weeam HammoudehARTICLEReproductive Health Matters2017Citada por: 2Referências: 14

    In this article, we explore the illness narratives of women with breast cancer in Turkey and the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), underlining the similarities and differences in the ways in which they make sense of their diagnosis and cope with cancer treatment. The article is based on 30 and 35 semi-structured qualitative interviews conducted in Turkey and the oPt, respectively. We do find some parallels in the two settings. We find that a …

  • From a Death Sentence to a Disrupted Life

    Open AccessWeeam Hammoudeh, Dennis Hogan et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2017Citada por: 7Referências: 33

    This study explores women's experiences of breast cancer in the occupied Palestinian territory. We use an inductive qualitative design with a thematic analytical approach for conducting and analyzing 35 semi-structured interviews with breast cancer patients. The interviews focused on diagnosis, experiences and coping with breast cancer, social support and care needs, and the impact of illness on their families and social relationships. Three them…