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  1. 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...

    Authors: Ligat Shalev, Christian D. Helfrich, Moriah Ellen, Keren Avirame, Renana Eitan and Adam J. Rose
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:36
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  2. 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...

    Authors: Bella Savitsky, Rachel Shvartsur, Yifat Findling, Anat Ereli and Tova Hendel
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:35
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  3. 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...

    Authors: Reuven L. Dressler, Ehud Kaliner and Matan J. Cohen
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:34
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  4. 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...

    Authors: Zongshuan Duan, Hagai Levine, Yael Bar-Zeev, Yuxian Cui, Cassidy R. LoParco, Yan Wang, Lorien C. Abroms, Amal Khayat and Carla J. Berg
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:33
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  5. 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...

    Authors: David E. Katz, Gideon Leibner, Yaakov Esayag, Nechama Kaufman, Shuli Brammli-Greenberg and Adam J. Rose
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:32
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  6. 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...

    Authors: Mohammad Khatib, Yael Ashkenazi, Yoav Loeff, Shlomo Paul Zusman and Lena Natapov
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:31
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  7. 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...

    Authors: Rinat Cohen, Yael Sela and Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:30
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  8. 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...

    Authors: Ilya Kagan, Dana Arad, Riki Aharoni, Yossi Tal and Yaron Niv
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:29
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  9. 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...

    Authors: Yoel Angel and Gil Fire
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:28
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:8

  10. 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 ...

    Authors: Gideon Leibner, Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Joseph Mendlovic and Avi Israeli
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:27
    Content type: Integrative article Published on:

  11. 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...

    Authors: Mitchell Zeller
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:26
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:25

  12. 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...

    Authors: Noa Theitler, Vaughan W. Rees, Maya Peled-Raz, Michal Bitan and Laura J. Rosen
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:25
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:26

  13. 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...

    Authors: Jingxuan Zhao and K. Robin Yabroff
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:24
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  14. Authors: Assaf Ben Shoham, Yechiel Schlesinger, Ian Miskin, Ziva Kalderon, Rachel Michaelson-Cohen and Yonit Wiener-Well
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:23
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:16

  15. 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...

    Authors: Gideon Leibner, Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, David Katz, Yaakov Esayag, Nechama Kaufman and Adam J. Rose
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:22
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  16. 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...

    Authors: Nadav Penn and Michal Laron
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:21
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  17. 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 ...

    Authors: Dorit Nitzan
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:20
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  19. 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...

    Authors: Tali Sarah Berman, Zohar Barnett-Itzhaki, Tamar Berman and Eli Marom
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:18
    Content type: Integrative article Published on:

  21. 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...

    Authors: Assaf Ben Shoham, Yechiel Schlesinger, Ian Miskin, Ziva Kalderon, Rachel Michaelson-Cohen and Yonit Wiener-Well
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:16
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:23

  22. 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...

    Authors: Dan Even and Shifra Shvarts
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:15
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  23. 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...

    Authors: Daniel Argo, Khaled Daibas, Igor Barash and Moshe Z. Abramowitz
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:14
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  24. The COVID-19 pandemic evolved through five phases, beginning with ‘the great threat’, then moving through ‘the emergence of variants', ‘vaccines euphoria’, and ‘the disillusionment’, and culminating in ‘a dise...

    Authors: Nachman Ash, Noa Triki and Ruth Waitzberg
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:13
    Content type: Perspective Published on:

  25. There are ongoing changes around the world in the training and practice of pediatricians who work in the community. These changes are driven by the understanding that pediatricians are required to provide not ...

    Authors: Shulamit Pinchover, Rony Berger-Raanan, Maya Yaari, Mary Rudolf, Lisa Rubin, Dafna Idan-Prusak, Vera Skvirsky, Tirzah Margolin and Hava Gadassi
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:12
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  26. In the paper published recently in this journal, Kumar et al. explained why the key to improved COVID-19 vaccine uptake is to understand societal reactions leading to vaccine hesitancy. They conclude that comm...

    Authors: Manfred S. Green
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:11
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  27. Evidence-informed decision-making is increasingly recognized as a standard for policymaking in many fields, including public health. However, many challenges exist in identifying the appropriate evidence, diss...

    Authors: Alon Rasooly, Eliana Ben-Sheleg, Nadav Davidovitch and Moriah Ellen
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:10
    Content type: Meeting report Published on:

  28. In the last twenty years, there was a documented increase in prescription opioid procurement in Israel. However, there is still little evidence of the association between opioid procurement rates, health servi...

    Authors: Barak Shapira, Ronny Berkovitz, Ziona Haklai, Nehama Goldberger, Irena Lipshitz and Paola Rosca
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:9
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  29. The Israeli physician workforce faces multiple challenges. These include planned policies reducing physician on-call from 26 to 18 h and, from 2026, allowing only graduates of Ministry of Health approved forei...

    Authors: Ariel Wimpfheimer, Charles Weissman, Shai Fein and Yehuda Ginosar
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:8
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:28

  30. There is a decrease in the supply of physicians in Israel resulting from the declining flow of immigrant physicians from the former Soviet Union, a large proportion of whom have reached retirement age in recen...

    Authors: Yulia Treister-Goltzman and Roni Peleg
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:2
    Content type: Integrative article Published on:

  33. Early in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, governments implemented exceptional public health measures (PHMs) in the face of uncertainty. This study aimed to compare mitigation policies implemen...

    Authors: Amit Ginzburg, Deborah Barasche-Berdah, Orly Manor, Ronit Levine-Schnur, Ora Paltiel and Hagai Levine
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:5
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  34. Psychiatric morbidity is frequent in primary care, but a substantial proportion of these psychiatric problems appear to be neither recognized nor adequately treated by GPs. There exists a number of models of i...

    Authors: Neil Laufer, Nelly Zilber, Pablo Jeczmien, Royi Gilad, Shai Gur and Hanan Munitz
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:4
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  35. As opioid prescription in Israel is increasing, there is a growing need for monitoring opioid use disorder and providing opioid agonist therapy. Our goal is to describe, sub-analyze, and identify obstacles in ...

    Authors: Adi Marom, Iris Levy and Paola Rosca
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2023 12:1
    Content type: Original Research Article Published on:

  37. The accurate and timely publication of scientific findings is a key component of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article explores the role of Israeli researchers in the scientific literature...

    Authors: Bruce Rosen, Nadav Davidovitch, Gabriel Chodick and Avi Israeli
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2022 11:39
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  38. The Ecology of medical care was first published in 1961. The graphical square model showed that 75% of the population in the US and England experience a feeling of illness during a given month, 25% seek medica...

    Authors: Yoni Yosef, Alexander Kiderman, David Chinitz and Amnon Lahad
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2022 11:38
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  39. The proportion of persons with severe mental illness (SMI) who are parents has increased in recent decades. Children of parents with SMI are at increased risk for medical, behavioral, emotional, developmental,...

    Authors: Shahar Eliezer, Martin Efron, Shlomo Mendlovic, Gilad Gal and Ido Lurie
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2022 11:37
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  40. Mathematical and statistical models have played an important role in the analysis of data from COVID-19. They are important for tracking the progress of the pandemic, for understanding its spread in the popula...

    Authors: David M. Steinberg, Ran D. Balicer, Yoav Benjamini, Hilla De-Leon, Doron Gazit, Hagai Rossman and Eli Sprecher
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2022 11:36
    Content type: Meeting report Published on:

  41. Medication is a significant component of the cost of mental health care. Studies from different countries indicate that physicians are often not aware of medication costs, despite the impact of such knowledge ...

    Authors: Ido Lurie, Saed Maree, Shlomo Mendlovic and Daphna Shefet
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2022 11:35
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  42. The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on primary care and primary care physicians (PCPs) in Israel and around the world. There is paucity of information regarding treatment of patients with COVID-19 in the ...

    Authors: Limor Adler, Shlomo Vinker, Anthony D. Heymann, Esther Van Poel, Sara Willems and Galia Zacay
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2022 11:34
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  43. SARS-CoV-2 is an infectious virus, which has generated a global pandemic. Israel was one of the first countries to vaccinate its population, inaugurating the program on December 20, 2020. The objective of the ...

    Authors: Yuval Arbel, Yifat Arbel, Amichai Kerner and Miryam Kerner
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2022 11:33
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  44. People with severe mental disorders have higher mortality rates and more chronic physical conditions than the general population. Recent reforms in the Israeli mental health system included reducing the number...

    Authors: Ethel-Sherry Gordon, Rinat Yoffe, Nehama Frimit Goldberger, Jill Meron and Ziona Haklai
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2022 11:32
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  45. The breastfeeding initiation rate in Israel is approximately 90%, yet exclusive breastfeeding drops sharply in the early postnatal period. The study objective was to assess early postpartum professional breast...

    Authors: Deena R. Zimmerman, Michael Kaplan, Hanna Shoob, Marlaina Freisthler, Monique Toledano and Chen Stein-Zamir
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2022 11:31
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  46. Burnout is a common issue among physicians, and the rate among emergency medicine physicians (EPs) appears to be higher than those of other medical specialties. The COVID-19 pandemic presents unprecedented cha...

    Authors: Noaa Shopen, Assaf Schneider, Reut Aviv Mordechai, Malka Katz Shalhav, Efrat Zandberg, Moshe Sharist and Pinchas Halpern
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2022 11:30
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  47. The ever-increasing burden of diabetes and the limited resources highlight the need for prioritization of national action goals for diabetes management. The Israeli National Diabetes Council (INDC) initiated a...

    Authors: Dana Zelnik Yovel, Orly Tamir, Elza Lavon, Tanya Kolobov, Anat Bel-Ange, Michal Julius, Itamar Raz and Micha Rapoport
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2022 11:29
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  48. Psychosocial issues are an integral part of children's health and well-being, and it is widely acknowledged that pediatricians should be involved in their management. We examined the current perception of the ...

    Authors: Hava Gadassi, Inbal Millo David, Maya Yaari, Eitan Kerem, Manuel Katz, Basil Porter, Chen Stein-Zamir and Zachi Grossman
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2022 11:28
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  49. Evidence suggests a gradual decrease in the effectiveness of the anti-COVID-19 vaccines, stressing the potential need for periodical booster shots. However, it is hard to tell whether previously applied polici...

    Authors: Talia Goren, Itai Beeri and Dana Rachel Vashdi
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2022 11:27
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  50. Mental health contact centers (also known as Hotlines) offer crisis intervention and counselling by phone calls and online chats. These mental health helplines have shown great success in improving the mental ...

    Authors: Akiva Kleinerman, Ariel Rosenfeld and Hanan Rosemarin
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2022 11:25
    Content type: Original research article Published on:
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