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January 2009, Vol 99, No. 1 | American Journal of Public Health 32-33
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.139154

IMAGES OF HEALTH

The St John Eye Hospital: A Bridge for Peace

Nava Blum, PhD and Elizabeth Fee, PhD

Nava Blum is with the School of Public Health, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel, and the Department of Health Systems Administration, Max Stern Academic College of Emik Yezreel, Yezreel Valley, Israel. Elizabeth Fee is with the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be addressed to Nava Blum, PhD, School of Public Health, Haifa University, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel (e-mail: navablum@hotmail.com).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

THE ST JOHN EYE HOSPITAL of East Jerusalem is a bridge for peace in a world at war. Located in Sheikh Jarrah, an Arab neighborhood (the political status of which is hotly contested), it serves as the main center for specialized eye care in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. Serious eye diseases are common among Palestinians, who suffer from rates of blindness 10 times greater than that of Western Europeans and North Americans.


Figure 1
Professor Saul Merin examines a Palestinian child at St John Eye Hospital in East Jerusalem, February 2008.

Source. Courtesy of Professor Saul Merin, Jerusalem, . . . [Full Text]






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