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Where there is a will, there is a way
How one woman’s determination changed her life and the lives around her Umm Mubarak is a 65-year-old woman from the village of Bayouda, in the Balqa governorate in the middle of Jordan. Like many women her age her life has been, at times, exceptionally tough. For years her and her husband, Abu Mubarak, had struggled to make ends meet. They...
WHO Representative visits leading Jordanian health centres
WHO Representative in Jordan Dr Akram Eltom visits the AlHashmi community mental health centre in Amman On 26 September 2012, WHO representative to Jordan Dr Akram Eltom conducted a field visit to two of Jordan’s leading mental health centres. Dr Akram first visited the Al Hashmi community mental health centre in Amman. The Al Hashmi centre was...
WHO conducts training in emergency management
The main aim of the training is to build the capacity of health care workers in the prevention, surveillance and control of communicable disease in Al Zaatari campAs the Syrian refugee crisis continues to force thousands of refugees across the border to Jordan, WHO, in partnership with epidemiologists from the Moroccan and French field hospitals...
Jordan committed to implementing the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
On 31 May 2011 Jordan marked the celebration of World No Tobacco Day in a somewhat unique way. For the first time since the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) entred into force over six years ago, Jordan witnessed the launch of Jordan's Tobacco Control Alliance. The Alliance comprises a unique consortium of civil society and...
Mental health in Jordan
World Mental Health Day posterGlobally, more than 450 million people suffer from mental disorders. Yet historically, mental health problems have been misunderstood. Mental health refers to a broad array of activities directly or indirectly related to the mental well-being component included in the World Health Organization (WHO)'s definition of...
