Sahatona - Medical Association for Health Promotion

Promoting health and increasing health awareness generally and especially regarding diseases prevalent among the Arab population in Israel; narrowing gaps and deficiencies, improving medical services in the Arab community in cooperation with local authorities, nonprofits, health funds, the Ministry of Health, academic institutions and volunteer physicians in the organization; promoting an active and healthy lifestyle including proper nutrition, physical activity and smoking cessation; improving the status of physicians generally and Arab physicians in particular, improving their working conditions, medical capabilities and knowledge to provide the best medicine to the population; encouraging, planning and conducting health-related research on the Arab population in cooperation with local authorities, health funds and hospitals according to accepted research protocols; distributing scholarships to medical students, research physicians or physicians pursuing overseas fellowships