University of Toronto Scarborough

Women’s Health & Urban Life:
An International and Interdisciplinary Journal (1)
(Vol. 2, Issue 2, December 2003)

Contents:
General Editor’s Introduction (link not working)
Aysan Sev’er (University of Toronto)

Articles:

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)
Rustem Erkan (Dicle University, Turkey)

The Authors of the Current Issue:

Samir Al-Adawi (Ph.D.) Is an Associate Professor of BehaviouralSciences 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.