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Table 1 Overview of the structure of the four Israeli health maintenance organizations and the Danish regions [23, 24]

From: Similarities and differences between two well-performing healthcare systems: a comparison between the Israeli and the Danish healthcare systems

Organizations

Family doctors total

Family medicine specialists (%)

Specialists of family medicine and/or internal medicine (%)

Non specialists working as GPs (%)

Employment method

Current political leadership

Israeli HMO Clalit

2707

39

55

41

Mostly salary

Apolitical, Socialist Trade union origin

Israeli HMO Maccabi

1276

37

65

31

Mostly independent GPs*

Apolitical, Independent, origin

Israeli HMO Meuchedet

810

15

35

58

Mostly independent GPs*

Apolitical, Independent, origin

Israeli HMO Leumit

528

9

9

67

Mixed

Apolitical, Nationalist trade union, origin

The Danish Regions

3.326**

100

100

0

Independent GPs*

political democratic elected council

  1. *Independent GPs refers to GPs who are private contractors, and are renumerated by the public system
  2. **The breakdown of the Family doctors in Denmark by Region is: Hovedstaden 1033; Midtjylland 798; Syddanmark 775; Sjælland 435; Nordjylland 285