National Institute of Health Research Academic Clinical Fellow Psychiatry, Manchester University, Manchester, England, UK,
Psychiatr Danub. 2013 Sep;25 Suppl 2:S345-9.
In this manuscript, a Lebanese trainee psychiatrist qualitatively analyses and discusses the provision of mental healthcare services for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. There are more than 250,000 Palestinian people sporadically dispersed in the refugee camps in Sidon, Beirut and other major cities in the Levant. Displacement, conflict, trauma, unemployment and poverty are but some of the myriad factors that influence Palestinian refugee mental health. This article traces the historical, political and socioeconomic determinants of health for Palestinians exiled in Lebanon and describes the pivotal role that the non-Govenmental Organisation Medical Aid for Palestinians is playing in helping to alleviate the psychiatric distress of Palestinian sufferers of mental illness. The latter half of the manuscript contains an interview with a consultant psychiatrist about his experiences volunteering in the war-torn lands of Libya post Arab Spring. He expounds on how he feels mental healthcare services in Libya are woefully inadequate and broaches on his perception of how the resilience and the 'family-centric' model of the Libyan people has conferred a certain degree of protection towards developing severe psychiatric illness.
在这篇手稿中，一位黎巴嫩实习精神科医生对黎巴嫩境内巴勒斯坦难民的精神保健服务提供情况进行了定性分析和讨论。在西顿、贝鲁特和黎凡特其他主要城市的难民营中，散布着 25 万多巴勒斯坦人。流离失所、冲突、创伤、失业和贫困只是影响巴勒斯坦难民心理健康的众多因素中的一部分。本文追溯了在黎巴嫩流亡的巴勒斯坦人的历史、政治和社会经济健康决定因素，并描述了非政府组织“巴勒斯坦医疗援助”在帮助缓解巴勒斯坦精神病患者的精神痛苦方面所发挥的关键作用。手稿的后半部分包含了对一位顾问精神科医生的采访，内容是他在阿拉伯之春后的利比亚饱受战争蹂躏的土地上志愿服务的经历。他阐述了自己对利比亚精神保健服务严重不足的看法，并谈到了他对利比亚人民的韧性和“以家庭为中心”模式如何为发展严重精神疾病提供一定程度保护的看法。
