2008

• Nguyen-Gillham V, Giacaman R, Naser G, Boyce W. Normalizing the abnormal: Palestinian youth and the contradictions of resilience in protracted conflict.   Health and Social Care in the Community. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2524-2008.00767.x. (not yet in print).
   
• Mataria A, Giacaman R, Stefanini A, Chatterji S.  The quality of life of Palestinians under a chronic political conflict: assessment and determinants. European Journal of Health Economics. (Accepted 4 April 2008).
   
• Giacaman R, Abu-Rmeileh N, Mataria A, Wick L.  Palestinian women’s pregnancy intentions: analysis and critique of the demographic and health survey 2004. Health Policy. 2008; 85 (1): 83-93.

2007

• Halileh S.  Field visits: a tool for public health education. The Network: towards unity for health. 2007; 26(1):21.

• Giacaman R, Abu Rmeileh NM, Wick L. The limitations on choice: Palestinian women’s childbirth location, dissatisfaction with the place of birth and determinants. European Journal of Public Health. 2007;17(1):86-91.

• Giacaman R, Abu-Rmeileh N, Husseini A, Saab H, Boyce W. Humiliation: the invisible trauma of war for Palestinian youth. Public Health. 2007;121(8):563-571

• Giacaman R, Abu-Rmeileh N, Husseini A, Saab H, Boyce W. Response to commentary. Public Health. 2007;121(8):576-577.

• Giacaman R. Disturbing distortions. British Medical Journal; May 1 2007.

• Giacaman R, Mataria A,  Nguyen-Gillham, V, Abu Safieh R,  Stefanini A, Chatterji S.  Quality of life in the Palestinian context: An inquiry in war-like conditions. Health Policy. 2007; 81(1):68-84.

• Giacaman R, Shannon HS, Saab H Arya N, Boyce W. Individual and collective exposure to political violence: Palestinian adolescents coping with conflict. European Journal of Public Health. 2007; 17(4):361-368.

• Giacaman R, Shannon HS, Saab H, Arya N, Boyce W. Individual and collective exposure to political violence: Palestinian adolescents coping with conflict. The European Journal of Public Health.  2007;17(4):361-368.

• Mikki, N, Wick, L, Abu-Asab, N, Abu-Rmeileh NME. A trial of amniotomy in a Palestinian hospital. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2007; 27(4):368-373.

• Husseini A, Abu-Rmeileh NME.  HIV/AIDS-related knowledge and attitudes of Palestinian women in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. American Journal of Health Behavior.  2007; 31(3):323-334.

• Al-Khatib I. Medical waste management in healthcare centers in the Occupied Palestinian territory. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. 2007;13(3):694-705.  (Arabic)

• Mataria A, Luchini S, Daoud Y, Moatti J-P. Demand assessment and price-elasticity estimation: some responses from the contingent valuation method. Health Economics. 2007; 16(10):1051-68.

• Hassan-Bitar S and Wick L. Evoking the guardian angel: childbirth care in a Palestinian hospital. Reproductive Health Matters Journal. 2007; 15(30):103-113.

• Halileh S, Abu-Rmeileh NME, Watt G, Gorden N, Spencer N. Determinants of birthweight; gender based analysis. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 2007. (Accepted April 2007)

• Al-Khatib IA and Al-Mitwalli S.  Restaurant Environment and its possible effects on food safety: a case study of restaurants in a Palestinian district. Jordan Medical Journal. 2007; 41(3): 145-152.

• Al-Khatib IA and Al-Mitwalli SM.  Food sanitation and practices in the restaurants of Ramallah and Al-Bireh district in Palestine. World Health Organization. 2007. (Accepted February 25, 2007)

• Halileh S and Abdullah A. Child abuse and neglect services in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. (Accepted May 8, 2007)
   

• Abu-Rmeileh NME, Husseini, A, Abu-Arquop O, Hamad M, Giacaman R. An Overview of Mortality Patterns in the West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territory 1999-2003. Preventing Chronic Diseases. (Accepted  October 2007).
   

• Abu-Zaineh M, Mataria A, Luchini S, and Moatti J-P.  Equity in health care financing in Palestine: the value-Added of the Disaggregate Approach. Social Science and Medicine. (Accepted 7 December 2007).

2006

2005

• Halileh S, Gordon N. Determinant for anemia in pre-school children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics. 2005:52(1)12:18.
   

• Al-Khatib I, Miqdadi R, Habash R, Ailyan G, Khofash F, Garyseh S. Work injuries in building construction, metal shaping, and food production sector in Jericho district in the Palestinian territory. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. 2005;11;(5/6):1018-1028. (A)
   

• Husseini A, Akawi M. Maternal serum screening of Palestinian women in the West Bank. East Med Health J. 2005;11(4):219-20.
   

• Al-Khatib IA, Arafat RN and Musmar M. Housing environment and women’s health in a Palestinian refugee camp. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, U K; 15 (3): 181-191.
   
• Fujiya R, Jimba M, Giacaman R, Nakahara S, Ichikawa M and Wakai S. The influence of economics on the location of birth among Palestinian women in Bethlehem during the Second Palestinian Uprising. Tropical Doctor. (accepted)
   
•  Giacaman R, Wick L, Abdul-Rahim H, Wick LC. The politics of childbirth in the context of conflict: policies or de facto practices? Health Policy; 72: 129-139.
   
•  Giacaman R, Arya N, Summerfield. Establishing a mental Health System in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. International Psychiatry; (9): 16-18.
   
•   Giacaman R. Coping with Conflict, Editorial. Education for Health; 18(1): 2-4.
   
• Mataria A, Giacaman R, Khatib R and Moatti JP. Impoverishment and patients’ “willingness” and “ability” to pay for improving the quality of health care in Palestine: an assessment using the contingent valuation method. Health Policy 2005; in press. (available online at www.sciencedirect.com)
   
• Research Network (joint paper with Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian and Egyptian teams). Choices and Challenges in Changing Childbirth. Routines in facility-based maternity care: Evidence from the Arab world. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. (accepted)
   
• Wick L, Mikki N, Giacaman R, Abdul-Rahim H. Childbirth in Palestine.  International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics; 89: 174-178.

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2004

• Abaza A, Ashur SA and Al-Khatib I. Integrated pavement management system with a markovian prediction model. Journal of Transportation Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineering, ASCE, 2004;130(1), 24-33.
   
• Al-Khatib IA and Darwish R. Assessment of waste amalgam management in dental clinics in Ramallah and al-Bireh cities in Palestine. International Journal of Environmental Health Research 2004;14(3),179-183.
   
• Al-Khatib IA, Daoud F, Rasmawi F, Wa’rra S, and Kassabry M. (2004). Seasonal variation of bacteriological and chemical quality of drinking water: a case study in a Palestinian District. The Journal of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, UK. (accepted)
   
• Al-Khatib IA, Giacaman R, Husseini A, Ramlawi A, Attiya I and Salem I. Microbiological quality of food samples from restaurants and sweet shops in developing countries: a case study from from the Occupied Palestinian Territory. International Journal of Environmental Health Research; 14(6), 443-452).
   
• Al-Khatib IA and Orabi M. Causes of drinking water contamination in rain fed cisterns in three villages  in Ramallah and Al-Bireh District in Palestine. The World Health Organization, Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. vol. 10, no. 3, pp:429-436.
   
• Giacaman R, Husseini A, Gordon NH and Awartani F. Imprints on the consciousness: the impact on Palestinian civilians of the Israeli Army invasion of West Bank towns. European Journal of Public Health; 14(3),Ix-I286-290x.
   
• Giacaman R, Wick Laura, Abdul-Rahim H and Wick Livia. The politics of childbirth in the context of conflict: policies or de facto practices. Health Policy. (accepted)
   
• Husseini AS and Ramlawi AM. Brucellosis in the West Bank - Palestine. Saudi Med J; 25(11),447-450.
   
• Mataria A, Donaldson C, Luchini S and Moatti J-P. A stated preference approach to assessing health care-quality improvements in Palestine: from theoretical validity to policy implications. Journal of Health Economics; 23(6), 1261-1283.

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2003

• Al-Khatib IA, Ju'ba A, Kamal N, Hamed N, Hmeidan N and Massad S. "Impact of housing conditions on the health of  people at al-Ama'ri refugee camp in the West Bank of Palestine". International Journal of Environmental Health Research; 13 (4), 315-326. English  (Abstract)
   
• Abdul-Rahim HF, Holmboe-Ottesen G, Stene LCM, Husseini A, Giacaman R, Jervell J and Bjertness E. Obesity in a rural and an urban Palestinian West Bank population, in Int J Obesity; 27 (1): 140-146.
   
• Al-Khatib IA and Salah S. Bacteriological and chemical quality of swimming pools water in developing countries: a case study in the West Bank of Palestine, in International Journal on Environmental Health Research; 13: 17-22.
   
• Al-Khatib IA, Kamal S, Taha B, Al Hamad J and Jaber H. Water-health relationships in developing countries: a case study in Tulkarem district in Palestine, in Int J Env Hlth Research; 13: 199-206 (June).
   
• Giacaman R, Abdul-Rahim HF and Wick L.  Health Sector Reform in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT): Targeting the Forest or the Trees? in Health Policy and Planning; 18 (1): 59-67.
   
• Giacaman R and Halileh S. Maintaining public health education in the West Bank, in The Lancet; vol.361 (April 5).
   
• Husseini A, Abdul-Rahim HF, Giacaman R, Jervell J and Bjertness E. Selected factors associated with diabetes mellitus in a rural Palestinian community, in Med Sci Monit; 9(5): CR181-185 (May 22).
   

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2002

• Giacaman R. Scientific links support an unjust peace process (Correspondence), in Nature 417/6890, 689-690 (13 June).
   
• Halileh S, Daoud A, Khatib R, and Mikki N. 'The Impact of the Intifada on the Health of a Nation', in Medicine, Conflict and Survival. 18/3.

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2001

• Abdul-Rahim H, Husseini A, Bjertness E, Giacaman R, Gordon NH, and J Jervell. The metabolic syndrome in the West Bank population: an urban-rural comparison, in Diabetes Care; 24: 275-279. 
   
• Abdul-Rahim HF, Husseini A, Giacaman R, Jervell J and Bjertness E. Diabetes mellitus in an urban Palestinian population: prevalence and associated factors, in Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal; Vol.7, Nos 1/2.
   
• Giacaman R. 'A Community of Citizens: Disability rehabilitation in the Palestinian transition to statehood', in Disability and Rehabilitation; vol.23/14, 639-644.
   
• Stene LCM, Giacaman R, Abdul-Rahim HF, Husseini A, Norum KR and Holmboe-Ottesen G. Obesity and associated factors in a Palestinian West Bank village population, in Eur J Clin Nutr; 55, 805-811.

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