Ma-Emton No-Oo<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My family immigrated from Egypt to America in the 90\u2019s. With many family members\u00a0 both then and now working diligently in healthcare, I was constantly exposed to this profession from a\u00a0 young age. I began to hear stories comparing healthcare in America to that in Egypt. These also included \u00a0 immigration stories of many friends and neighbors who sought healthcare in America. By the\u00a0 time I was graduating high school, my aunt, who had lived her entire (let\u2019s just say 65 years of) life in Egypt, made a permanent immigration to the United States to seek medical treatment here.\u00a0 As a public health major myself I became intrigued by the flawed healthcare system that made my aunt move across the world for treatment. In the summer of 2023 I traveled to Egypt, through the help of the MSH Research Fellows grant, to study the state of its healthcare system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My research project investigates and identifies <\/strong>\u00a0the causes of healthcare disparities in Egypt. My primary research subjects included doctors, pharmacists, healthcare practitioners and workers, and the general population. In using the information I gather from my research subjects; my project aims to highlight the role healthcare plays in the lives of Egyptians; its benefits and drawbacks; discrepancies in accessibility and quality of service; and Egyptian perspectives about the government\u2019s progress in the field of healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Research limitations include the religion and profession of the interviewees.\u00a0 Egyptian citizens not working in the healthcare profession were not willing to be formally included as interviewees but were willing to have general conversations with me about healthcare \u2013 so long as their words, thoughts, and opinions were not included in the study. Apart from one interviewee, all interviewees were Copts, as non-Copts were rather hesitant to participate in interviews [ethno-religious Orthodox Christian minority in Egypt] since I am an American-born Copt. Although religious discrimination has decreased immensely under the current administration, it has not been fully eradicated as seen in this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A secondary line of research following this project would be to analyze the efficacy of\u00a0 the Universal Healthcare Law of 2018 on a systematic level. Additionally, interviews with\u00a0 Egyptian immigrants living in America would help to understand how their experience with\u00a0 healthcare in America compares to that in Egypt. The secondary line would help to highlight\u00a0 struggles that common immigrant families experience as they navigate the American healthcare\u00a0 system to propose possible solutions to ameliorate these roadblocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1016,"template":"","profiletype":[87],"class_list":["post-997","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","profiletype-research-fellows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/997\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"profiletype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiletype?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Do you plan on continuing this work? If so, in what way?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n