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  1. The Israeli Newborn Hearing Screening Program (NHSP) began operating nationally in January 2010. The program includes the Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) test for all newborns and Automated Auditory Brainstem Resp...

    Authors: Janice Wasser, Daphne Ari-Even Roth, Orly Herzberg, Liat Lerner-Geva and Lisa Rubin

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:30

    Content type: Original research article

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  2. Populations of different ethnicity and country of origin living in the same country may possess particular features of violence-related injuries. This study aims to compare violence-related injury characterist...

    Authors: Abebe Tiruneh, Irina Radomislensky, Kobi Peleg and Maya Siman-Tov

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:29

    Content type: Original research article

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  4. Women who have continuous intrapartum support are more likely to have a shorter labor and spontaneous vaginal birth, and are less likely to need intrapartum analgesia than women who receive usual care without ...

    Authors: Maya Frank Wolf, Oleg Shnaider, Limor Sharabi, Sari Nahir Biderman, Reut Elon and Jacob Bornstein

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:27

    Content type: Original research article

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  5. Shared-housing arrangements (SHAs) in Germany are an alternative care arrangement for people with dementia. They are disconnected from traditional nursing homes and are often situated in ordinary apartment bui...

    Authors: Johannes Gräske, Annika Schmidt and Karin Wolf-Ostermann

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:26

    Content type: Original research article

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  6. Dementia is one of the main causes of disability among older adults and is viewed as one of the most distressing and devastating of conditions. Dementia has a profound impact on those who suffer from the disea...

    Authors: Netta Bentur and Shelley A. Sternberg

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:22

    Content type: Integrative article

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  8. Conduct of research is an essential tool for the evaluation and improvement of health services. In Israel, research on persons with dementia is very limited, with the largest portion of such research involving...

    Authors: Jiska Cohen-Mansfield

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:17

    Content type: Integrative article

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  10. A new role of Physician Assistant (PA) was introduced into Emergency Departments (ED) in Israel in 2016, as part of a larger effort to improve the quality of service in the EDs. When the new role was introduce...

    Authors: Rina Maoz-Breuer, Oren Berkowitz and Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:4

    Content type: Original research article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2020 9:2

  11. To evaluate the effect of monetary grants on young physicians’ choice of remote or rural hospital-based practice.

    Authors: Yishay Wasserstrum, Racheli Magnezi, Ofer Tamir, Stav Koren, Dor Lotan and Arnon Afek

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:1

    Content type: Original research article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:74

  12. To determine if ethnic disparities exist with regard to the risk of injury and injury outcomes among elderly hospitalized casualties in Israel.

    Authors: Nura Abdel-Rahman, Nechemia Yoffe, Maya Siman-Tov, Irina Radomislensky and Kobi Peleg

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:25

    Content type: Original research article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:39

  13. Pediatric preventive health services are delivered in many different formats throughout the world. In Israel, these services for young children are provided in designated Maternal Child Health Clinics (MCHC). ...

    Authors: Deena R. Zimmerman, Gina Verbov, Naomi Edelstein and Chen Stein-Zamir

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:23

    Content type: Integrative article

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  14. Israel has compulsory military service, beginning at the age of 18. Women serve about two years and men for about three years. However, de facto only some of the potential service entrants are recruited. Among...

    Authors: Adi Kuperman-Shani, Tarif Bader, Elon Glassberg and Vered Klaitman

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:21

    Content type: Commentary

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    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:42

  15. Mechanical ventilation is a life supporting modality increasingly utilized when caring for severely ill patients. Its increasing use has extended the survival of the critically ill leading to increasing health...

    Authors: Rachel Yaffa Zisk-Rony, Charles Weissman and Yoram G. Weiss

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:20

    Content type: Original research article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:48

  16. In the past decade, direct-acting oral anticoagulants (DOAC) have been introduced to medical practice for several indications, with a wide range of dosing regimens. As both over- and under-dosing might lead to...

    Authors: Amichai Perlman, Ehud Horwitz, Bruria Hirsh-Raccah, Gefen Aldouby-Bier, Tamar Fisher Negev, Sarit Hochberg-Klein, Yosef Kalish and Mordechai Muszkat

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:19

    Content type: Original research article

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  17. Restraint or seclusion measures in acute psychiatric care are used as a last resort when all other methods for removal of physical threat have failed. The purpose of this study is to find a correlation between...

    Authors: Chanoch Miodownik, Michael D. Friger, Eyal Orev, Yisroel Gansburg, Nadav Reis and Vladimir Lerner

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:9

    Content type: Original research article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:71

  18. An analysis of benefit and cost is critical for independent advisory groups that provide evidence-based recommendations. In many countries, the role of RSV immunoprophylaxis for infants at increased risk of ho...

    Authors: H. Cody Meissner

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:15

    Content type: Commentary

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    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:63

  19. The Galilee Study is the first large epidemiological study to compare correlates of mental disorders between two Arab Palestinian minority groups of adolescents in Israel.

    Authors: Raida Daeem, Ivonne Mansbach-Kleinfeld, Ilana Farbstein, Robert Goodman, Rasha Elias, Anneke Ifrah, Gabriel Chodick, Rassem Khamaisi, Silvana Fennig and Alan Apter

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:14

    Content type: Original research article

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  20. The Israel Ministry of Health enacted regulations that aim to reduce private expenditure on healthcare services and mitigate social inequality. According to the modified rules, which went into effect in the se...

    Authors: Dana Barequet, Aviad Tur-Sinai and Irit Barequet

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:13

    Content type: Perspective

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  21. Observational studies have detected discrepancies between two expert interpreters of imaging and histopathological studies. Furthermore, in a substantial proportion of patients, an independent second opinion d...

    Authors: Jochanan Benbassat

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:12

    Content type: Commentary

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    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:67

  22. Philip Morris International’s IQOS (“I Quit Ordinary Smoking”) device has increasingly penetrated the global tobacco market. In Israel, among the first countries with IQOS in its market, the IQOS device is sol...

    Authors: Yael Bar-Zeev, Hagai Levine, Gil Rubinstein, Ihab Khateb and Carla J. Berg

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:11

    Content type: Short communication

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:47

  23. Devastation from the tobacco epidemic continues, with strong government tobacco control policy absent in most countries. Knowledge of the full scope of tobacco harm in populations may form the basis for health...

    Authors: Laura J. Rosen, David A. Rier, Robert Schwartz, Michal Talitman and Lior Zwanziger

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:10

    Content type: Original research article

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  24. Ethnicity may affect graft longevity and recipient mortality after heart transplantation (HTx). We hypothesized that differences in ethnic origin between Arabs and Jews undergoing HTx in Israel may contribute ...

    Authors: Yael Peled, Ron Loewenthal, Yigal Kassif, Eugenia Raichlin, Arwa Younis, Anan Younis, Eyal Nachum, Dov Freimark and Jacob Lavee

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:3

    Content type: Original research article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:53

  25. The ongoing information revolution has re-configured the policymaking arena for tax-funded health systems in Europe. A combination of constrained public revenues with rapid technological and clinical change ha...

    Authors: Richard B. Saltman

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:8

    Content type: Integrative article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:36

  26. Wrist and hand injuries are common and constitute a major economic burden. General injury prevention programs have failed to demonstrate a decrease in injury rates. We hypothesized that there are differences i...

    Authors: Shai Luria, Daniel Talmud, Ido Volk, Meir Liebergall and Ronit Calderon-Margalit

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:7

    Content type: Original research article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:49

  27. Individuals with disabilities are entitled to equal access to information and communication technologies (ICT), including the Internet. The study to which this commentary refers has shown that over time (betwe...

    Authors: Shirli Werner and Carmit-Noa Shpigelman

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:6

    Content type: Commentary

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    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:66

  29. Burnout is an occupational disease expressed by loss of mental and physical energy due to prolonged and unsuccessful coping with stressors at work. A prior survey among Israeli pediatricians published in 2006 ...

    Authors: Zachi Grossman, Gabriel Chodick, Talma Kushnir, Herman Avner Cohen, Gil Chapnick and Shai Ashkenazi

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:2

    Content type: Original research article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:34

  30. Unintended pregnancy is a major public health problem with known risk factors, however, little is known about the prevalence of variables associated with recurrent unintended pregnancy (RUP) among young, unmar...

    Authors: Misgav Rottenstreich, Hen Y. Sela, Limor Loitner, Noam Smorgick and Zvi Vaknin

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:42

    Content type: Original research article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:21

  31. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, but these can be reduced significantly with population screening using annual fecal occult blood tests (FOBT)A positive FOBT requi...

    Authors: Revital Azulay, Liora Valinsky, Fabienne Hershkowitz and Racheli Magnezi

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:74

    Content type: Original research article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:38

  32. Professional skills and academic records of the highest degree are essential requirements for the chairmanship of internal medicine departments. Whether the new generation and future successors of Israeli chai...

    Authors: Dana Zelnik Yovel, Orna Tal, Dror Dicker, Avishay Elis and Micha Rapoport

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:73

    Content type: Original research article

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  33. Passive immunization against RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) is given in most western countries (including Israel) to infants of high risk groups such as premature babies, and infants with Congenital Heart D...

    Authors: Gary M. Ginsberg, Eli Somekh and Yechiel Schlesinger

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:63

    Content type: Original research article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:15

  34. Physiotherapy has a vital role in helping patients manage and overcome musculoskeletal pain. Healthcare providers’ beliefs about pain are associated with the beliefs of their patients. This study evaluated the...

    Authors: Shmuel Springer, Hadas Gleicher and Hila Hababou

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:67

    Content type: Original research article

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  35. The Israel Journal of Health Policy Research (IJHPR) was launched in 2012, with a mission that included fostering intensive intellectual interactions among health policy scholars in Israel and abroad. Now, as ...

    Authors: Bruce Rosen, Stephen C. Schoenbaum and Avi Israeli

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:72

    Content type: Editorial

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  36. Epidemiological studies have shown deterioration in dental health accompanying the ageing process. Tooth loss increases with age. Chewing ability is closely correlated with number of natural teeth present: the...

    Authors: L. Natapov, D. Kushnir, R. Goldsmith, R. Dichtiar and S. P. Zusman

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:58

    Content type: Original research article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:33

  37. The community pharmacy setting is a venue that is readily accessible to the public. In addition, it is staffed by a pharmacist, who is a healthcare provider, trained and capable of delivering comprehensive pha...

    Authors: Eyal Schwartzberg, Joseph P. Nathan, Sivan Avron and Eli Marom

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:59

    Content type: Integrative article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:62

  38. Under structural conditions of non-governability, most players in the policy arena in Israel turn to two main channels that have proven effective in promoting the policies they seek: the submission of petition...

    Authors: Daniel Sperling and Nissim Cohen

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:71

    Content type: Original research article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:32

  39. Ethnic-based separation in public hospitals in Israel is a sensitive issue that was recently brought forward by the media and was recently discussed in the Israel Journal of Health Policy Research.

    Authors: Jonathan Halevy

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:70

    Content type: Commentary

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    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:44

  40. In 2011 the Israeli Ministry of Health (MOH) instructed hospitals to limit occupancy in the internal medicine wards to 120%, which was followed by a nationwide reduction in hospitalization rates. We examined h...

    Authors: Sharon A. Greenberg, Pinchas Halpern, Tomer Ziv-Baran and Ronni Gamzu

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:69

    Content type: Original research article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2020 9:19

  41. The global obesity pandemic has public advocates and policymakers grappling with the question of how best to respond. Among the various policy options, unhealthy food and beverage taxes have gained attention a...

    Authors: Selvi Rajagopal, Anne Barnhill and Joshua M. Sharfstein

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:68

    Content type: Commentary

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    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:43

  42. Cultural competence (CC) in health systems is the ability to provide care to patients with different values, beliefs and behaviors, and to match the care to their social, cultural and linguistic needs. In 2011...

    Authors: Michal Schuster, Irit Elroy and Bruce Rosen

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:61

    Content type: Original research article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:51

  43. Segregation within the healthcare system is commonly associated with disparities in the utilization of health services and in the outcomes of medical care. In Israel, the Jewish majority and the Arab minority ...

    Authors: Yael Keshet and Ariela Popper-Giveon

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:44

    Content type: Original research article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:70

  44. The current research focuses on trends of Internet adoption and digital uses among people with disabilities over a thirteen-year period.

    Authors: Sabina Lissitsa and Galit Madar

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:66

    Content type: Original research article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:6

  45. Hagit Bonny-Noach notes the challenging history of illicit substance use among Israeli backpackers. Few Israeli practices are more normative than the backpacking-trip as a rite of passage. Unsurprisingly, back...

    Authors: Harold A. Pollack

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:65

    Content type: Commentary

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    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:23

  46. The study documents a direct relationship between individuals’ health and patterns of healthcare expenditure by isolating single-person households and creating a new reference group in which household healthca...

    Authors: Aviad Tur-Sinai, Racheli Magnezi and Haya Grinvald-Fogel

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:48

    Content type: Original research article

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:87

  47. Chronic conditions and health inequalities are increasing worldwide. Against this backdrop, several countries, including Israel, have expanded the roles of nurses as one measure to strengthen the primary care ...

    Authors: Claudia B. Maier, Hannah Budde and James Buchan

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:64

    Content type: Commentary

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    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:69

  48. There is keen interest in many jurisdictions in finding ways to improve the way that research evidence informs policy. One possible mechanism for this is to embed academics within government agencies either as...

    Authors: Joshua J. Robinson, Nicholas Mays and Alec Fraser

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:60

    Content type: Commentary

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    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:35

  49. Interactions between government and academia can be an important support to effective policy and they can also ground researchers’ methods and perspectives more strongly in the realities of policy-making and p...

    Authors: Adalsteinn Brown, Greg Marchildon, Stephen Bornstein and Moriah Ellen

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:55

    Content type: Commentary

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    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:35

  50. The emerging science in early childhood development challenges past paradigms of health care. There is consideration within the profession of paediatrics, and health care more broadly, of how to make systems o...

    Authors: Moira Inkelas and Frank Oberklaid

    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:62

    Content type: Commentary

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    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:53

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