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BEDOUIN RURAL HEALTH PROJECT IN JORDAN
WHAT IS THE BEDOUIN HEALTH
PROJECT?
BEDOUIN HEALTH PROJECT
 Funded by the European Commission
 INCO DEV Framework 6 Programme
 International Co-operation Programme
 Research Project in Jordan and
Lebanon with French and Swedish
partners
AIMS
Government services are designed for fixed, permanently
domiciled populations. In the arena of health care, these
mobile or recently settled populations have had limited
access to government health care provision . This study has
been conducted in the North Eastern Badia of Jordan.
Permission and support for the study was negotiated with
the Ministry of Health. The study sites within each study
area included semi-nomadic, recently settled and long
settled Bedouin. In the first year a needs assessment was
carried out using quantitative & qualitative data collection on
health service utilisation and resourcing, health seeking
behaviour, designed to generate an understanding of
reproductive and child health care needs, provision and
delivery.
The other study site for this project is Lebanon
led by the University of Oxford with a team at the American
University of Beirut.
 Assess current health status, health
seeking behaviour and current health
service provision.
AVAILABILITY OF SERVICES AT
COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTRES IN
NORTH EAST BADIA
CONCERNS
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 Elicit the views of stakeholders-policy
makers, health personnel and Bedouin
 Develop model interventions in partnership
with stakeholders.
 Evaluate and disseminate the interventions
locally, nationally, regionally and
internationally
Centralisation of the health system
Low morale and high turnover
Lack of training opportunities
Distance and transport
Discrimination and Wasta
Gender of staff
Availability of staff
Referrals out of working hours
Waiting time and appiontments
Quality of care –drugs,
Lack of appropraite staffing
Emergency care
Childbirth provision
Immunisation reasonable
Clinic charges limitting access to care
Staff, facilities and equipment shortages
METHODOLOGY
Team members
 an audit review of records of utilization and clinic
facilities and staffing,
 semi structured individual interviews with policymakers
 Individual and group interviews with health practitioners
 Individual interviews with Bedouin women
 Group interviews with Bedouin women and men
Gillian Hundt - gillian.hundt@warwick.ac.uk
Salah Alzaroo – szaroo@gmail.com
Fadia Hasna – fhasna@philadelphia.edu.jo
Mohamed Smeiran – wesam93@yahoo.com