Health in Saudi Arabia Volume Two: Second Edition

Health in Saudi Arabia Vol. One, published in 1985, presented and introduction to health problems, health manpower and medical education in Saudi Arabia. This book Vol. two discusses the epidemiology of certain health problems and the development of health services and health manpower. The material is based upon a two year project supported by King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology under Grant No. At-5-26. The book has been published in the year 2008. Still it would be of interest for those who would like to study health and health services development in the country.

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.