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  1. Israel is experiencing a shortage of both physicians and nurses in a number of specialties, including neonatal intensive care. Inadequate hospital staffing and high patient demand contribute to the blurring of...

    Authors: Sunny G. Hallowell and Barbara Medoff-Cooper

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:24

    Content type: Commentary

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  3. Many stakeholders have little or no confidence in the ability of the public to express their opinions on health policy issues. The claim often arises that lay people prioritize according to their own personal ...

    Authors: Giora Kaplan and Orna Baron-Epel

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:15

    Content type: Original research article

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  4. The growth of the private health insurance sector in Western countries, which is characterized by information deficiencies and limited competition, necessitates the implementation of effective regulatory tools...

    Authors: Tzahit Simon-Tuval, Tuvia Horev and Giora Kaplan

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:21

    Content type: Original research article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:3

  5. Tobacco is the only consumer product known to kill half of its users, and is a significant cause of death and disability to exposed nonsmokers. This presents a unique conundrum for modern democracies, which em...

    Authors: Laura J Rosen and Maya Peled-Raz

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:12

    Content type: Integrative article

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  7. An intersectionality approach that addresses the non-additive influences of social categories and power structures, such as gender and ethnicity, is used as a research paradigm to further understanding the com...

    Authors: Yael Keshet, Ariela Popper-Giveon and Ido Liberman

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:18

    Content type: Original research article

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  8. EMR use during medical visits has been found to distract physicians and negatively influence their ability to deliver patient-centered care. In this issue, Assis-Hassid and colleagues propose a redress of this...

    Authors: Debra L Roter

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:17

    Content type: Commentary

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  9. A collaboration of medical professionals with economists and computer scientists involved in “market design” had led to the redesign of the clearinghouse assigning medical students to internships in Israel. Th...

    Authors: Alvin E Roth and Ran I Shorrer

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:11

    Content type: Commentary

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  10. Physicians in Israel are required to do an internship in an accredited hospital upon completion of the medical studies, and prior to receiving the medical license. For most students, the assignment is determin...

    Authors: Slava Bronfman, Avinatan Hassidim, Arnon Afek, Assaf Romm, Rony Shreberk, Ayal Hassidim and Anda Massler

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:6

    Content type: Original research article

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  11. While there is a strong case for primary prevention of mental health problems, relatively little mental health scholarship has been devoted to it in the last decade. Efforts to accelerate prevention scholarshi...

    Authors: Lawrence S Wissow

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:10

    Content type: Commentary

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  13. The traditional dyadic dynamics of the medical encounter has been altered into a triadic relationship by introducing the computer into the examination room. This study defines Patient-Doctor-Computer Communica...

    Authors: Shiri Assis-Hassid, Iris Reychav, Tsipi Heart, Joseph S Pliskin and Shmuel Reis

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:4

    Content type: Original research article

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  14. The World Health Organization Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan (CMHAP) 2013–2020 proposes the implementation of primary prevention strategies to reduce the mental health burden of disease. The extent to...

    Authors: Ora Nakash, Liat Razon and Itzhak Levav

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:3

    Content type: Original research article

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  16. The Editors of Israel Journal of Health Policy Research would like to thank all reviewers, both external and Editorial Board Members, who have contributed to the journal in 2014, and whose valuable support contin...

    Authors: Bruce Rosen and Avi Israeli

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:7

    Content type: Reviewer acknowledgement

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  18. The ageing of the population across developed countries and beyond has increased the importance of examining multi-morbidity. The recent paper by Arbelle et al. [Isr J of Health Policy Res. 2014;3:29] on multi...

    Authors: Raphael Wittenberg

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:1

    Content type: Commentary

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  19. The Israel Journal of Health Policy Research (IJHPR) is about to complete its third year of publication. Over the past year, the journal received its first impact factor, three of its articles crossed the 10,000 ...

    Authors: Bruce Rosen and Avi Israeli

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:45

    Content type: Editorial

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  21. Medical and technological developments, financial constraints and a shortage of physicians have made it necessary to re-examine professional boundaries between physicians and nurses. Israel’s manpower shortage...

    Authors: Orly Toren, Nurit Nirel, Yehuda Tsur, Michal Lipschuetz and Asaf Toker

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:43

    Content type: Original research article

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  23. The aim of this study is to examine the joint impact of preventive health behavior (PHB) and social and demographic factors on the utilization of primary and secondary medical care under a universal health car...

    Authors: Gregory Yom Din, Zinaida Zugman and Alla Khashper

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:41

    Content type: Original research article

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  26. Waiting times for elective care are a major health policy issue in many developed countries. Recent empirical studies suggest that inequalities in waiting times by socioeconomic status are present within publi...

    Authors: Luigi Siciliani

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:38

    Content type: Commentary

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  28. Tobacco use causes a tremendous amount of morbidity and mortality globally, with a staggering level of financial costs. In many countries, public health interventions have been able to reduce the prevalence of...

    Authors: Michael Chaiton and Robert Schwartz

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:36

    Content type: Commentary

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  30. Over a period of three decades, medical personnel working in our emergency room observed that fewer severe cases presented to the emergency department. The objective of this study is to assess whether a genuin...

    Authors: Sody A Naimer, Moshe Y Prero, Tamar Freud and Carmi Bartal

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:34

    Content type: Original research article

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  31. Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for fetal sex selection raises complex dilemmas. In Israel, PGD is regulated by the Ministry of Health. It is basically prohibited, but exceptions can be made upon appr...

    Authors: Nirit Pessach, Saralee Glasser, Varda Soskolne, Amihai Barash and Liat Lerner-Geva

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:33

    Content type: Original research article

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  32. Spiritual care is a relatively new healthcare discipline in Israel. It has evolved over the past decade through the collaboration of multiple Israeli healthcare professionals, with assistance from interested p...

    Authors: Barry M Kinzbrunner and Bryan D Kinzbrunner

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:32

    Content type: Commentary

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  34. Waiting time to receive medical care is a disturbing phenomenon in many healthcare systems. Furthermore, waiting times are usually distributed in the population in an inequitable way.

    Authors: Amir Shmueli

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:30

    Content type: Original research article

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  35. One of the major challenges health care systems face in modern time is treating chronic disorders. In recent years, the increasing occurrence of multiple chronic disorders (MCC) in single individuals has compo...

    Authors: Jonathan E Arbelle, Gabriel Chodick, Alex Goldstein and Avi Porath

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:29

    Content type: Original research article

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  36. Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of death, incurring huge resource costs in terms of treating morbidity and lost productivity. This paper estimates smoking attributable mortality (SAM) as healt...

    Authors: Gary M Ginsberg and Haim Geva

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:28

    Content type: Original research article

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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:5

  37. In 1995 Clalit Health Services introduced a structured follow-up schedule, by primary care nurses, of diabetic patients. This was supplementary care, given in addition to the family physician’s follow-up care....

    Authors: Michal Shani, Sasson Nakar, Alex Lustman, Amnon Lahad and Shlomo Vinker

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:27

    Content type: Original research article

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  38. Reducing health inequalities and enhancing the social accountability of medical students and physicians is a challenge acknowledged by medical educators and professionals. It is usually perceived as a macro-le...

    Authors: Orit Karnieli-Miller, Yaara Zisman-Ilani, Dafna Meitar and Yoseph Mekori

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:26

    Content type: Commentary

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  39. The State of Israel is preparing to transfer legal responsibility for mental- health care from the government to the country’s four competing, nonprofit health-plans. A prominent feature of this reform is the ...

    Authors: Nurit Nirel and Hadar Samuel

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:25

    Content type: Original research article

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  40. Cultural and language discordance between patients and providers constitutes a significant challenge to provision of quality healthcare. This study aims to evaluate minority patients’ discharge from hospital t...

    Authors: Nosaiba Rayan, Hanna Admi and Efrat Shadmi

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:24

    Content type: Original research article

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  42. In this issue, Keinan-Boker summarises the main studies that have followed up offspring of women exposed to famine during pregnancy and calls for the establishment of a national cohort of Holocaust survivors a...

    Authors: Caroline HD Fall and Kalyanaraman Kumaran

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:22

    Content type: Commentary

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  43. Coping with existential and spiritual concerns is inescapable in end-of-life care although not enough is known about the strategies and mechanisms involved. This pilot study focused on identifying the strategi...

    Authors: Netta Bentur, Daphna Yaira Stark, Shirli Resnizky and Zvi Symon

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:21

    Content type: Original research article

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  44. Implementation of practice guidelines is a beguilingly complex activity that requires attention to the task of clinicians, the constraints they face, and the social practice of medicine. Local clinical opinion...

    Authors: Saul N Weingart

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:20

    Content type: Commentary

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  47. The role of medical schools is in a process of change. The World Health Organization has declared that they can no longer be ivory towers whose primary focus is the production of specialist physicians and cutt...

    Authors: Mary CJ Rudolf, Shmuel Reis, Trevor J Gibbs, Deborah Murdoch Eaton, David Stone, Michael Grady, Anita Berlin, Mitch Blair, Jumanah Essa-Hadad, Sivan Spitzer-Shohat and Michael Weingarten

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:17

    Content type: Integrative article

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  48. This article focuses on governance of the pharmaceutical sector in Israel. It traces the relationships between the state, industry, and sick funds from before the establishment of National Health Insurance (NH...

    Authors: Philip Sax

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:16

    Content type: Integrative article

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  49. A model that combines reactive and anticipatory care within routine consultations has become recognized as a cost-effective means of providing preventive health care, challenging the need of the periodic healt...

    Authors: Dana Rosen, Sasson Nakar, Arnon D Cohen and Shlomo Vinker

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:15

    Content type: Original research article

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  50. Influenza vaccination is the most efficient and cost-effective method to prevent influenza. To increase vaccination coverage, health authorities use various intervention programs (IPs), such as cost subsidies ...

    Authors: Dan Yamin, Arieh Gavious, Nadav Davidovitch and Joseph S Pliskin

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:13

    Content type: Original research article

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Israel Journal of Health Policy Research

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