Health in Saudi Arabia Vol. One

About the Book

There has been always a pressing need for a book which presents health topics in Saudi Arabia to planners, educators, learners, and medical practitioners. This book tries to fulfill part of this need. Volume I, an introduction and perspective, discusses some features of health problems, health manpower, and medical education in Saudi Arabia. It also provides under- and postgraduate medical students with materials for problem-based learning. Volume II, discusses aspects of health resources, problems, and services in the country. The book, in its two volumes, is far from being complete or comprehensive. It gives baseline information on health in a country that is developing very fast and still a beginner in medical research. Although the two volumes of the book have been initially published between 1985 and 1988, still it would be of value for readers who are interested in the background of health services development in Saudi Arabia —Zohair Sebai (Jeddah, 2014)

About the Author

Professor Zohair Ahmed Sebai has nearly four decades of active community medical service. He graduated from Ain Shams Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, in 1962, studied tropical medicine at the Bernard Nocht Institute, West Germany and obtained his master and doctor degrees in public health from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, USA, in 1969. The author carried out the field work for his doctorate degree in public health in a nomadic community in Saudi Arabia, studying the health of the Bedouins and their family medical care program. During his work in the Ministry of Health (1969–1973) as a director of planning and in King Saud University (1974–1982) as a professor of community medicine and founding dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Abha, he has been occupied with various aspects of public health. This has been expressed in his research and teaching in health planning, health manpower development, and medical education. His main objective is to interrelate medical education with community health problems and needs.