Women's Health and Urban Life

Vol 1, Issue 1, 2002

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Vol 2, Issue 2, 2003

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WOMEN'S HEALTH & URBAN LIFE:

AN INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL⁽¹⁾

(Vol. 2, Issue 2, December 2003)

CONTENTS:

General Editor’s Introduction (download full-text pdf file)
AYSAN SEV’ER (University of Toronto)

Work and Home Physical Activity Profile of Women Workers in an Electronics Factory in the Klang Valley, Malaysia (download full-text pdf file)
NOR ANITA MEGAT MOHD NORDIN
(University of Kebangsaan, Malaysia)
KHADIJAH SHAMSUDDIN (University of Kebangsaan, Malaysia)
JAMILAH JAMALUDIN (University of Kebangsaan, Malaysia)
Noor Hanizah Zulkafli (University of Kebangsaan, Malaysia)

Relationships Among Women’s Menopausal Life-Cycle Stages, Occupational Experiences & Health (download full-text pdf file)
JEANNETTE BARSKY (Chinook Health Region, Lethbridge)
KARRAN THORPE (University of Lethbridge)

Urbanization, Culture & Hyperactivity: An Exploratory Study of Omani Schoolgirls.(download full-text pdf file)
MARWAN M. AL-SHARBATI (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman)
SALWAAL-LAWATIYA (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman)
SAMIR AL-ADAWI (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman)
RODGER G. MARTIN (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman)
ALA’ ALDIN AL-HUSSAINI (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman)

Reserach Note:
A Small Trail out of Patriarchy: A Progressive NGO & Abused Women in South-Eastern Turkey (download full-text pdf file)
RÜSTEM ERKAN (Dicle University, Turkey)

The Authors Of The Current Issue:

Samir Al-Adawi (Ph.D.) Is an Associate Professor of Behavioural
Sciences at the College of Medicine & Health Sciences in Sultan Qaboos
University, Oman. He received his doctorate training at the Institute of
Psychiatry, London, U.K. He is a recipient of J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Award (Harvard University).

Ala’ Aldin Al-Hussaini (M.B.Ch.B., D.P.M., F.R.C. Psychiatry) Is
Professor and Head of Behavioural Medicine at the College of Medicine & Health Sciences in Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. His current
research interests include medical education in psychiatry.

Salwa Al-Lawatiya (B.A.) Is a psychiatric social worker at the
department of Behavioural Medicine in Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. Her research interests include intellectual development of Omani
children.

Marwan M. Al-Sharbati (M.D., Ph.D.) Is Assistant Professor of
Behavioural Medicine at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences in Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. He received his medical degree
M.B.Ch.B. from Bagdat Medical School, Diploma in Child Health from Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ireland, M.Sc. Special
Licence in pediatric neurology and Ph.D. from Louvain Catholic
University (Belgium). Previously, he has been appointed as the head of
the Department of Community Medicine (Al-Mustansiriya University,
Baghdat), Head of the Department of Health Education and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Public Health (Al Arab Medical University (Bengazi, Libya). He has many ongoing research projects and published works on children’s behaviour.

Jeannette Barsky (RN, MSc, NCA) is Coordinator, Cervical Health
Program, Chinook Health Region, Lethbridge Alberta. Jeannette’s
research interests include cervical and breast health, continence
promotion, menopause and addressing women’s health and research
through a menopausal life-cycle perspective. Jeannette is also a Nurse
Continence Advisor.

Rüstem Erkan (Ph.D.) Is Assistant Professor of Sociology in Dicle
University, Diyarbakir, Turkey. He has numerous published works on
class and ethnic inequalities.

Jamilah Jamaludin (M.B.B.S., Ph.D.) Is teaching at the Department
of Physiology in University of Kebangsaan, Malaysia. She was involved in research on working women’s health status and lifestyles within the
electronics and textile industries with particular focus on the evaluation
of factors contributing to acute morbidities among the workers.

Rodger G. Martin (M.B.B.S., M.R.C. Psychiatry) Is a Senior
Consultant Psychiatrist at the Department of Behavioural Medicine in
Sultan Qaboos University Hospital. His research interests include social and community aspects of psychiatry.

Nor Anita Megat Mohd Nordin (M.M.N., MSc). Is a lecturer in
physiology at the University of Kebangsaan, Malaysia. She received her BSc in pharmacology from Manchester University, U.K. and her MSc in physiology from the University College, Swansea, U.K. Her research
interests are in women’s health and quality of life in relation to exercise
and physical activity. She is currently working on predictors of health in Malaysian women.

Aysan Sev’er (Ph.D.) Is a Professor of Sociology at the University of
Toronto. She teaches sociology of gender and family and writes
extensively on sexual harassment, intimate partner abuse of women,
link between separation and violence, cross-cultural forms of wife abuse and extreme violence against women such as “honour killings”. Her
latest book on women who have left their abusive partners (Fleeing the
House of Horrors, University of Toronto Press) is nominated for Canadian Women’s Studies Book Award. She is also the founder and the general editor of Women’s Health & Urban Life journal.

Khadijah Shamsuddin (Ph.D.) Is an Associate Professor and a
Senior Lecturer in Family Health at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kebangsaan, Malaysia. She has conducted several government funded
studies on working women’s health status and lifestyles, particularly in the electronics and textile industries.

Karran Thorpe (RN, Ph.D) is an Associate Professor and Associate
Dean in the School of Health Sciences, University of Lethbridge. Her
research interests include: nursing leadership and management as well
as teaching and learning topics such as critical thinking, values, attitudes
toward women and reflective learning journals.

Noor Hanizah Zulkafli is a Master of Community Health student in
University of Kebangsaan, Malaysia, focusing on health and stress
amongst female electronics workers in Malaysia.

1. The Women's Health & Urban Life: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal is generously funded by the Wellesley Central Health Corporation and is permanently housed at the Sociology Department, University of Toronto. The founder and the first general editor is Aysan Sev'er, University of Toronto.

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