Health Behavior and Education

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Afifi Soweid, R. A., M. Najem, and M. Shediac-Rizkallah. 2002. Preoccupation with weight and disordered eating behaviors of entering students at a university in Lebanon. International Journal of Eating Disorders 32 (1): 52–57.

Afifi Soweid, R., R. Nakkash, N. Nehlawi, M. Khogali (authors), S. Alam, S. Hoeree, N. Najjar, O. Razum, and I. Salit (co-autrhos). 2002. Together for Heart Health: An Initiative for Community-based Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Prevention and Control. Beirut: European Union (Unofficial publisher).

Chaaya, M., O. Campbell, F. El-Kak, D. Shaar, H. Harb, and A. Kaddour. 2002. Postpartum depression: prevalence and determinants in Lebanon. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 5 (2): 65–72.

Deeb M., F. Ghorayeb, T. Kabakian-Khasholian, J. Yeretzian, and N. Aswad. 2003. Measuring gynecological morbidity: Evaluating two different data sources from Beirut. Health Care for Women International 24:254–265.

El-Kak, F., R. A. Soweid, C. Taljeh, M. Kanj, and M. Shediac-Rizkallah. 2001. High school students in postwar Lebanon: Attitudes, information sources and perceived needs related to sexual and reproductive health. Journal of Adolescent Health 29 (3): 153–155.

Heath, R. L., and L.X. Blonder. 2003. Conversational humor among stroke survivors. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 16 (1):91–106.

Makhoul, J. 2003. A structural perspective of poverty and health inequalities in Lebanon. The Bulletin Of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, Special Issue, (Spring/Summer) 5 (1).

Makhoul, J., D. Abi Ghanem, and M. Ghanem. 2003. An ethnographic study of the consequences of social and structural forces on children: The case of two low-income Beirut suburbs. Environment and Urbanization, Spring/Summer Issue.

Makhoul, J., and L. Harrison. 2002. Development perspectives: Views from rural Lebanon. Development in Practice 12 (5): 613–623.

Myntti, C., A. Ballan, O. Dewachi, F. El-Kak, and M. E. Deeb. 2002. Getting beyond the stereotypes: Men, withdrawal and reproductive health in Lebanon. Contraception 65 (2): 165–170.

Shediac-Rizkallah, M. C., R. A. Afifi Soweid , T. M. Farhat, J. Yeretzian, I. Nuwayhid, A. M. Sibai, M. Kanj, F. El-Kak, K. M. Kassak, and N. Kanaan. 2002. Adolescent health-related behaviors in postwar Lebanon: Findings among students at the American University of Beirut. International Quarterly of Community Health Education 20 (2): 115–131.

Abstracts, Conferences, and Proceedings

Afifi Soweid, R. 2002. Promoting physical activity: Strategies for behavior change. The Lebanese Epidemiologic Association Annual Meeting, Beirut, Lebanon.

. 2003. Ecological strategies for nutrition related behavior change. The Nutrition and Optimum Health Conference of the Lebanese Association for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Beirut, Lebanon.

Afifi Soweid, R. A. 2001. School milk in Lebanon: General evaluation and suggestions. The National School Milk Conference. Beirut, Lebanon.

Afifi Soweid, R. A., and J. Makhoul (co-presenters). 2002. The influence of culture on health in an age of genetic theories of disease causation. AUB CS seminar series presentation, Beirut, Lebanon.

Afifi Soweid, R. A., R. Nakkash, M. Nehlawi, I. Salti, S. Alam, and M. Khogali. 2001. The community-based CVD intervention prevention initiative in Beirut-Lebanon. Premières Journées Francophones de Prevention cardio-vasculaire, Beit Mery, Lebanon.

El-Kaka, F. H. 2003. Future contraceptives advanced maternal age. 9^th Jordanian Medical congress. Amman, Jordan.

El-Kak, F. H. 2003. Opportunities in sexuality and sexual health. Sexuality and Bodily Rights, Malta.

El-Kak, F. H., R. Jurdi, A. Kaddur, and H. Zurayk.2003. Gender and gynecologists in sexuality and sexual health in clinical setting in Lebanon. Abstract. 16^th Sexology Congress, Havana, Cuba.

Heath, R. L., A. Rouhana, and D. Abi Ghanem. 2002. Asymmetric bias in perception of facial affect among English and Arabic readers. Abstract. Journal of the International Neuropsychology Society 8 (2): 205.

Heath, R. L., S. C. Major, O. Mahmassani, and B. A. Khoury. 2002. Individual psychological constructs in the management of headache pain. 44^th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society. Seattle, USA. Abstract: Headache 42 (5): 456.

Kabakian Kasholian, T. 2003. Improving women’s health postpartum: The impact of provision of written information. 16^th Annual Meeting of the Society for Pediatric and Prenatal Epidemiologic Research, Atlanta, USA.

Mahmassani, O., R. L. Heath, S. C. Major, and B. A. Khoury. 2002. The influence of self-efficacy in headache treatment. 37^th Middle East Medical Assembly. Beirut, Lebanon.

Major, S. C., R. L. Heath, O. Mahmassani, and B. A. Khoury. 2002. Role of cognitive constructs in headache treatment using a mechanical intervention. Third Forum of European Neuroscience, Paris, France.

Makhoul, J. 2002. A structural perspective of poverty and health inequalities in Lebanon. Health and Social Justice, Amman, Jordan.

. 2003. Gatekeepers and qualitative research. Association for Qualitative Research Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Makhoul, J., D. Abi Ghanem, and M. Ghanem. 2002. An ethnographic study of the consequences of social and structural forces on children: The case of two low-income Beirut suburbs. Children and the City, Amman, Jordan.

Makhoul, J., M. Aridi, R. Ghosn, R. Shayboub. 2002. Conditions shifting reliance of youth from family to peer support: The case of young girls. Anthropology and the Health of Populations Conference. Brunel University, UK.

other activities

Afifi Soweid, R., R. Nakkash, M. Nehlawi, M. Shediac-Rizkallah, and M. Khogali. 2002. Using triangulation of three data sources for the development of community based cardiovascular disease prevention interventions. Poster (all authors attended) presented at the XXXVIIth Middle East Medical Assembly meeting, Beirut, Lebanon.

Heath, R. L., A. Rouhana, and D. Abi Ghanem. 2002. Asymmetric bias in perception of facial affect among English and Arabic readers. Poster presented at 30^th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Toronto, Canada.

Hoeree, T., M. Nehlawi,  R. Afifi Soweid., R. Nakkash, N. Najjar., R. Mourtada., M. Khogali, and A. Perez-Cueto. 2003. Factors influencing changes in dietary habits at family level in a middle-income neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon. Poster, The International Conference on Health Benefits of Mediterranean Diet: Highlights on Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Crete, Greece.

Kassak, K., R. Dagher, R. Afifi Soweid, S. Alam, I. Salti, and M. Khogali. 2002. Health services utilization and cardiovascular disease risk factors in a Lebanese community. Poster, The XXXVIIth Middle East Medical Assembly Meeting, Beirut, Lebanon.

Major, S., R. Afifi Soweid, M. Shediak-Rizkallah, C. Taljeh, and Z. El-Khatib. 2003. Smoking characteristics among college students entering the American University of Beirut in terms of the Transtheoretical model of change. Poster, The American College Health Association 2003 Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, Florida

Nakkash, R., R. Afifi Soweid, M. Nehlawi, M. Shediac-Rizkallah, S. Alam, I. Salti, and M. Khogali. 2002. The feasibility of community organizing for prevention of cardiovascular disease in Beirut, Lebanon. Poster, The XXXVIIth Middle East Medical Assembly Meeting, Beirut, Lebanon.

Nehlawi, M., T. Hoeree, R. Afifi Soweid, R. Nakkash, N. Najjar, R. Mourtada, and M. Khogali. 2002. A qualitative and behavioral analysis of community based CVD prevention nutrition intervention in Beirut. Poster, The XXXVIIth Middle East Medical Assembly Meeting, Beirut, Lebanon.

Shediac-Rizkallah, M., R. Afifi Soweid, R. Mourtada, M. Nehlawi, M. El Sharif, S. Alam and M. Khogali. 2002. Is health covered in newspapers? An analysis of selected newspapers in Lebanon. Poster, The XVIIth Middle East Medical Assembly Meeting, Beirut, Lebanon.

graduate theses and projects

Faour, T. 2001. Women’s empowerment in Lebanon: Proxies, settings and challenges, AUB. R. Heath.

Jurdi, R. 2002. Female age at first marriage in Yemen: A study of trends, patterns, determinants and preferences. R. Heath.

Merhi, M. 2002. Are female circumcision and its different types associated with fertility? A study based on the analysis of birth intervals and parity progression ratios. R. Heath.