The History of Well-Being in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Tiliouine, Habib; Meziane, Mohammed

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-39101-4_16

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“…Iran and Turkey were included in the study as they are sometimes included in the definition of the MENA region and share cultural and religious characteristics in common with the other countries [ 45. – 47. ].…”

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Patient-centered care in the Middle East and North African region: a systematic literature review

Alkhaibari

Smith‐Merry

Forsyth

et al. 2023

BMC Health Serv Res

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Background The need for patient centered care (PCC) and its subsequent implementation has gained policy maker attention worldwide. Despite the evidence showing the benefits and the challenges associated with practicing PCC in western countries there has been no comprehensive review of the literature on PCC practice in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region, yet there is good reason to think that the practices of PCC in these regions would be different. Objectives This paper summarizes the existing research on the practice of PCC in the MENA region and uses this analysis to consider the key elements of a PCC definition based on MENA cultural contexts. Methods Five electronic databases were searched (EMBASE, Cochrane, Medline, CINAHL and Scopus) using the search terms: patient OR person OR client OR consumer AND centered OR centred AND care. The MENA countries included were Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Djibouti, Pakistan, Sudan, and Turkey. Identified papers were imported to Covidence where they were independently reviewed against the inclusion criteria by two authors. The following data were extracted for each paper: author, year, location (i.e., country), objectives, methodology, study population, and results as they related to patient centred care. Result The electronic search identified 3582 potentially relevant studies. Fifty articles met the inclusion criteria. Across all papers five themes were identified: 1) patient centered care principles; 2) patient and physician perceptions of PCC; 3) facilitators of PCC; 4) implementation and impact of PCC; and 5) barriers to PCC. Conclusion The preliminary findings suggest that the concept of PCC is practiced and supported to a limited extent in the MENA region, and that the implementation of PCC might be impacted by the cultural contexts of the region. Our review therefore highlights the importance of establishing patient-centered care definitions that clearly incorporate cultural practices in the MENA region. The elements and impact of culture in the MENA region should be investigated in future research.

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Patient-centered care in the Middle East and North African region: a systematic literature review

Alkhaibari

Smith‐Merry

Forsyth

et al. 2023

BMC Health Serv Res

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“…The present study is therefore conducted with these two general questions in mind, but focusing specifically on the experience of the youth population in a select number of Middle Eastern countries, covered by the 2018 Program for International Students Assessment (PISA). The emphasis is on youth well-being 1 in general, and Middle Eastern youth in particular, because youth are the bearer of the future being safeguarded by the 2030 SDGs, but also because youth in the Middle East have not received as much attention from the general research community, as their counterparts in the other world regions (Tiliouine & Meziane, 2017).…”

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“…Given the unreconciled views, the present research aims primarily to look into the inner and subjective experiences that is, youth own views and experiences of their well-being (Ignatjeva et al, 2019;Kangas, 2010;Migliorini et al, 2019;Lau, 2019), which necessarily takes into account their perceptions of how such objective conditions as the home, school, society, ICT and media as learning environments affect their well-being (Tiliouine & Meziane, 2017;Schütz et al, 2019;Zeng et al, 2016). Since the focus of promoting well-being in one community may be essentially different from what is required in another community (Navarro et al, 2019;Varela et al, 2019), the present study also seeks to address spatial heterogeneity in ICT availability and effects on youth well-being across nations in the Middle East.…”

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“…Although less so in the Middle East region (Tiliouine & Meziane, 2017), the influence of ICT on youth well-being has received the attention of scholars in the recent past (Crompton et al, 2017;Newland et al, 2018;Loebach et al, 2019;Parry et al, 2020). Overall however, this effect is better understood within the context of the determinants of youth well-being, which can be categorized into internal (subjective) factors, and external (objective) factors (Strelhow et al, 2019).…”

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Youth Access to ICT Resources and Subjective Well-being in the Middle East: A Spatial Bivariate Copula Regression Analysis

Niankara¹

2020

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Target 9.c of the 2015 United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals (SDGs) specifically addresses increasing access to information and communication technology (ICT) resources, and striving for universal access to the internet by 2020. The present study seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of the youth related national strategies implemented in this regard by a select number of countries in the Middle East region. The study does so, by relying on a spatial bivariate copula regression analysis of data on youth respondents from five countries, extracted from the 2018 Program for international students’ assessment (PISA). Focusing specifically on evaluating the availability of ICT resources to the youth population, and also identifying the impact of ICT resources on youth subjective well-being in the region, we find that except for the UAE and Qatar that have above OECD average youth performance on the ICT resource index, youth from the remaining countries reported below OECD level average access to ICT resources. The within region cross-country comparative analysis of ICT resources availability to the youth population at home, also highlighted significant heterogeneity across the five countries, post 2015 SDG adoption by UN country members. Furthermore, looking at the impact of ICT resources on youth well-being, controlling for not only cross-country spatial correlations, and factors such as home educational resources, cultural possessions at home, parental occupation status, youth expected occupation status, economic and socio-cultural status, age, gender, and grade level in school; we found that every standard deviation increase in ICT resources to the youth population in the region raises their self-expressed sense of belonging in school by 1.88% standard deviations. Given the empowering nature of ICT resources to youth, and the potential of both to support national as well as regional economic development initiatives, a concerted effort to ease ICT resources diffusion by member countries in the middle east region could assist not only each country in its own development path, but also the region as a whole to live up to its growth potential by the 2030.

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“…The title of a chapter inMeredith's (2011, p. 162) history of Africa.8 SeeHuntington (1991),Diamond (2008), andDiamond & Plattner (2010).9 For reports on Africa's quality of life and well-being from an historical perspective, seeTiliouine (2015a) andTiliouine & Meziane (2017) on North Africa, and Roberts et al (2015) and Møller & Roberts (2017) on sub-Saharan Africa. 10 See Furlonger (2016) commenting on access to African markets in a South African business daily.…”

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Аspirations and achievements as factors of happiness / satisfaction: mechanisms of formation

Пясковська

2021

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The article is devoted to testing hypotheses related to the mechanism of causing the level of happiness / satisfaction. Happiness is usually measured by looking at the whole process from the other side — that is, the factors of happiness / satisfaction that shape the respondent's well-being at a given point in time are measured. Only achievements are measured, but a person's claims to their achievements are not measured. The mechanism considered in the article can be conditionally represented as a fraction, in the numerator of which — the level of security in the broadest sense or the level of achievement (material security, creative work, loved one, etc.), and in the denominator — the level of claims (for example, the level of material security that a person considers sufficient). At the same time, the level of claims is formed depending on the level of achievements of the reference group of the respondent. Since reference groups generally influence a person's self-identification and worldview, they also form a comparison point for the respondent on how happy and successful his or her life is. The author has developed a method for measuring the level of claims and tested a few hypotheses that follow from these ideas about the mechanism of causing happiness / satisfaction. The following hypotheses are made: 1) the higher the level of claims, the lower the level of happiness 2) the ratio of achievement to the level of claims has a significant positive relationship with the level of happiness, 3) the higher the level of financial security of the immediate social environment, the higher the level of claims. Confirmation of the third hypothesis and partial confirmation of the first are received and directions of further research are outlined.

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The History of Well-Being in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Cited by 9 publications

References 13 publications

Patient-centered care in the Middle East and North African region: a systematic literature review

Patient-centered care in the Middle East and North African region: a systematic literature review

Youth Access to ICT Resources and Subjective Well-being in the Middle East: A Spatial Bivariate Copula Regression Analysis

Аspirations and achievements as factors of happiness / satisfaction: mechanisms of formation

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