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Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:25
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Trust in public health policy in the time of the COVID-19 epidemic in Israel
The government of Israel provides universal health care through four health care organizations (“sick funds”) that enjoy general public trust. In hindsight, the response of the government to the COVID-19 epide...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:24 -
Pfizer COVID19 vaccine is not associated with acute cardiovascular events excluding myocarditis– a national self-controlled case series study
Despite publications assuring no increased risk for acute cardiovascular events (excluding myocarditis) and sudden death following administration of COVID19 vaccines, these issues still stir much public ado. W...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:23 -
Association of quality of nursing care with violence load, burnout, and listening climate
Violence against nurses is common. Previous research has recommended further development of the measurement of violence against nurses and integration of the individual and ward-related factors that contribute...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:22 -
Meeting the challenges of the 21st century: the fundamental importance of trust for transformation
This paper is one of a collection on challenges facing health systems in the future. One obvious challenge is how to transform to meet changing health needs and take advantage of emerging treatment opportuniti...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:21 -
Severity of gambling behaviors: exploring associations with venues, legality, and substance use
The COVID-19 pandemic has been linked to an increase in gambling behaviors, potentially leading to Gambling Disorder (GD) and adverse health and social consequences. Problematic gambling has received little re...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:20 -
The Hamas massacre of Oct 7, 2023, and its aftermath, medical crimes, and the Lancet commission report on medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust
The report of the Lancet Commission on medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust, released in November 2023, calls for this history to be required for all health professions education, to foster morally courageous heal...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:19 -
Risks for re-hospitalization of persons with severe mental illness living in rehabilitation care settings
The high rates of psychiatric re-hospitalizations (also termed “revolving door”) presents a “wicked problem” which requires a systematic and holistic approach to its resolution. Israel’s mental-health rehabili...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:18 -
Receipt of prescription opioid medication is associated with increased mortality in an Israeli population
Despite Israel’s increased use of prescription opioids, reported deaths resulting or associated with opioids have decreased, in fact dramatically, since 2005. This contrast is unique and difficult to explain. ...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:17 -
Delirium screening in the emergency department: evaluation and intervention
Between 8–17% of older adults, and up to 40% of those arriving from nursing homes, present with delirium upon admission to the Emergency Department (ED). However, this condition often remains undiagnosed by ED...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:16 -
Arab male physicians’ perceptions about their own smoking behaviors: a qualitative study
Smoking remains the leading preventable cause of disease, disability, and death worldwide. Although physicians have high levels of health literacy with awareness of the consequences of smoking and their essent...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:15 -
Exploring pre-MRI imaging tests: patient survey reveals potential implications for healthcare efficiency in Israel
Medical imaging tests are vital in healthcare but can be costly, impacting national health expenditures. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a crucial diagnostic tool for assessing medical conditions. However,...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:7 -
Drug shortages in Israel, revisited: a bitter pill to swallow
In 2017, we published an article addressing drug shortages (DS) in Israel, exploring regulatory perspectives, challenges, and potential solutions. Since then, DS remain a significant concern for patients, heal...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:14 -
Disclosure following a medical error: lessons learned from a national initiative of workshops with patients, healthcare teams, and executives
Despite the increase in disclosures of medical errors, transparency remains a challenge. Recognized barriers include shame, fear of litigation, disciplinary actions, and loss of patient trust. In 2018, the Isr...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:13 -
Use of prescription opioids in Israel and socio-economic correlations between 2010 and 2020
The use of opioids has increased dramatically over the past several years in Israel. The aim of this study was to explore the trends of opioid consumption in Israel over a decade (2010–2020) stratified by soci...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:12 -
The Israeli health system’s rapid responses during the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic posed numerous challenges to health systems around the world. In addressing many of those challenges, Israel responded quite rapidly. While quick action is not an end in it itself, it can...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:11 -
“When everyone is responsible, no one takes responsibility”: exploring pediatric physiotherapy services in Israel
According to Israel's National Health Insurance Law (1994), the Ministry of Health is responsible for the provision of health services in the country including physiotherapy services; moreover, the Special Edu...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:10 -
Willingness to pay for an mRNA-based anti-cancer treatment: results from a contingent valuation study in Israel
mRNA technology is currently being investigated for a range of oncology indications. We assessed the willingness to pay (WTP) of the general population in Israel for a hypothetical novel mRNA-based treatment f...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:9 -
The outcomes of treatment for homebound adults with complex medical conditions in a hospital-at-home unit in the southern district of Israel
A model of hospital-at-home services called the Home Care Unit (“the unit”) has been implemented in the southern region of the Clalit Healthcare Services in Israel. The aim of the present study was to characte...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:8 -
Implications of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures among patients with recently diagnosed type 2 diabetes
For the past two decades, the assessment of the quality of diabetes care has mostly relied on clinical quality indicators. These have not included Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) which provide inform...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:6 -
Burnout among family medicine residents: a cross-sectional nationwide study
In addition to pressures typical of other medical professions, family physicians face additional challenges such as building long-term relationships with patients, dealing with patients' social problems, and w...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:5 -
Expert opinion survey on Israel’s food system: implications for food and health policies
While there has been increasing global recognition and impetus for action to transform food systems towards greater food security, sustainability and better health outcomes, Israel has only recently begun to f...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:4 -
The association of medical, social, and normative factors with the implementation of end-of-life care practices
End-of-life (EoL) care practices (EoLCP) are procedures carried out at the EoL and bear directly on this stage in the patient’s life. Public support of these practices in Israel is far from uniform. Previous s...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:3 -
Association of health behaviors with function and health-related quality of life among patients with Parkinson’s disease
Current evidence on chronic conditions favors promotion of health behaviors as a mean to positively impact health outcomes. In Parkinson’s disease, performing health behaviors is indicated as a means to fight ...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:2 -
Weight stigma in healthcare settings: the experience of Arab and Jewish bariatric surgery candidates in Israel
Weight-related stigma and discrimination are prevalent in our society with adverse biopsychosocial outcomes to people with obesity and morbid obesity. Studies suggest that weight bias in healthcare settings ar...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2024 13:1 -
Increased rates of unattained developmental milestones among Israeli children between 2016 and 2020: a national report
The early years of children’s lives are critical for their healthy development. Although children’s growth and development rates may vary, a significant delay during early childhood could indicate a medical or...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:38 -
Association between parental smoking and child exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in Israel
Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure in children can cause delayed lung development and lifelong cardiovascular damage. The aim of this study was to measure ETS exposure in children in Israel in 2020–202...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:37 -
Bridging language barriers in developing valid health policy research tools: insights from the translation and validation process of the SHEMESH questionnaire
The use of research tools developed and validated in one cultural and linguistic context to another often faces challenges. One major challenge is poor performance of the tool in the new context. This potentia...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:36 -
Components of professional satisfaction among novice nurses
In Israel there are only 6.53 nurses per 1000 citizens, compared to 8.8 nurses per 1000 citizens in the OECD countries. The nursing shortage is even more severe in peripheral areas, especially in southern Isra...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:35 -
Trends in Israeli community-based opioid prescribing, 2010–2020, an observational study of the country’s largest HMO
Prescription opioids are widely used for pain control and palliative care but have been associated with a variety of untoward effects, including opioid use disorder, addiction, and increased mortality. Pattern...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:34 -
Health warning labels on heated tobacco products and their impact on use intentions and risk perceptions: a cross-sectional study of adult tobacco users in the US and Israel
Health warning labels (HWLs) represent an evidence-based tobacco control strategy; however, their application to heated tobacco products (HTPs) and related impacts are understudied. This study examined the imp...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:33 -
Using the Elixhauser risk adjustment model to predict outcomes among patients hospitalized in internal medicine at a large, tertiary-care hospital in Israel
In Israel, internal medicine admissions are currently reimbursed without accounting for patient complexity. This is at odds with most other developed countries and has the potential to lead to market distortio...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:32 -
Factors affecting the use of dental services among Arab children in Israel: a qualitative study
In 2010, Israel reformed its hitherto dominantly privately financed dental services and included preventative and restorative dental care for children in the publicly-funded basket of healthcare services. A su...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:31 -
Addressing the second victim phenomenon in Israeli health care institutions
The ‘second victim’ phenomenon (SVP) refers to practitioners who experience a negative physical or emotional response, as well as a professional decline, after participating or witnessing an adverse event. Des...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:30 -
Crisis management for Patient Safety Officers: lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic
There is no consensus for the role definition for Patient Safety Officers (PSOs) in healthcare during pandemics or other crises as opposed to their routine activities. This study aimed to examine the contribut...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:29 -
Healthcare policy changes in an era of health workforce shortage
In their recent IJHPR article, Wimpfheimer and colleagues outline the implications for the field of anesthesia of two major healthcare policy changes in Israel: The Yatziv Reform in licensing foreign medical g...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:28 -
To charge or not to charge: reducing patient no-show
In order to reduce patient no-show, the Israeli government is promoting legislation that will allow Health Plans to require a co-payment from patients when reserving an appointment. It is hoped that this will ...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:27 -
“A picture is worth a thousand words”: smoking in multi-unit housing in Israel
A brief commentary on the need for policy change by the Israeli government to address the problem of tobacco smoke incursion in multi-unit housing. The commentary also includes a call for enhanced products, pr...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:26 -
Tobacco smoke incursion into private residences in Israel: a cross-sectional study examining public perceptions of private rights and support for governmental policies
Tobacco smoke incursion (TSI) into private residences is a widespread problem in many countries. We sought to assess the prevalence of self-reported TSI and public attitudes about TSI in Israel, a country with...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:25 -
High out‑of‑pocket spending and financial hardship at the end of life among cancer survivors and their families
Cancer is one of the most expensive medical conditions to treat worldwide, affecting national and local spending, as well as household budgets for patients and their families. In this commentary about a recent...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:24 -
Correction: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) seroprevalence among women at childbearing age, maternal and congenital CMV infection: policy implications of a descriptive, retrospective, community-based study
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:23 -
Where internal medical patients receive intensive interventions: results from a tertiary-care hospital in Israel
Patients admitted to internal medicine may be moved to more advanced-care settings when their condition deteriorates. In these advanced care settings, there may be higher levels of monitoring and greater abili...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:22 -
Use and barriers to the use of telehealth services in the Arab population in Israel: a cross sectional survey
Studies conducted in Israel and in other countries show that minority populations typically underuse telehealth services notwithstanding the advantages inherent in the use of these services. The goal of this s...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:21 -
A call to readjust the Israeli school feeding program
The COVID-19 pandemic challenged the food and nutrition security status of thousands of children in Israel. This commentary argues that policymakers should urgently readjust the Israeli school feeding program ...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:20 -
Perspective: lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic concerning the resilience of the population
A vital stakeholder in the successful management of the COVID-19 pandemic is the public. The degree of involvement of the population in managing the pandemic, and the leadership perception of the public, had a...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:19 -
Antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals: towards implementing a one health based national action plan in Israel
Development of antimicrobial resistance poses a major threat to human and animal health worldwide. Antimicrobials are frequently used in animal husbandry, making food-producing animals a widespread and importa...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:18 -
The COVID-19 Israeli tapestry: the intersectionality health equity challenge
COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting disadvantaged populations, with greater representation and worse outcomes in low socioeconomic and minority populations, and in persons from marginalized groups. Genera...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:17 -
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) seroprevalence among women at childbearing age, maternal and congenital CMV infection: policy implications of a descriptive, retrospective, community-based study
Maternal CMV infection during pregnancy, either primary or non-primary, may be associated with fetal infection and long-term sequelae. While guidelines recommend against it, screening for CMV in pregnant women...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:16 -
Understanding and addressing populations whose prior experience has led to mistrust in healthcare
Policy makers need to maintain public trust in healthcare systems in order to foster citizen engagement in recommended behaviors and treatments. The importance of such commitment has been highlighted by the re...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:15 -
A 10-year comparison of short versus long-term court-ordered psychiatric hospitalization: a follow-up study
The Israel Mental Health Act of 1991 stipulates a process for court-ordered involuntary psychiatric hospitalization. As in many Western countries, this process is initiated when an individual is deemed “not cr...
Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:14