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  1. In 2008, responding to a widening gap between need and availability of transplant organs, Israel’s Ministry of Health adopted a program of incentivized cadaveric organ donation. The Organ Transplant Law reward...

    Authors: Corinne Berzon
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:11
    Content type: Integrative article Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:45

  2. A recent study of patient violence toward hospital physicians and nurses offers a welcome perspective in its classifying of aggressive behaviors as workplace violence. While patients and families are widely re...

    Authors: Sharone Bar-David
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:15
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:43

  3. Health disparities are a persistent problem in many high-income countries. Health policymakers recognize the need to develop systematic methods for documenting and tracking these disparities in order to reduce...

    Authors: Kathleen Abu-Saad, Shlomit Avni and Ofra Kalter-Leibovici
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:14
    Content type: Integrative article Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:37

  4. There is increasing agreement among medical educators regarding the importance of improving the integration between public health and clinical education, understanding and implementation of epidemiological met...

    Authors: Rachel Dankner, Uri Gabbay, Leonard Leibovici, Maya Sadeh and Siegal Sadetzki
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:13
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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:30

  5. In Israel, there is a shortage of family medicine (FM) specialists that is occasioned by a shortage of students pursuing a FM career.

    Authors: Sody Naimer, Yan Press, Charles Weissman, Rachel Yaffa Zisk-Rony, Yoram G. Weiss and Howard Tandeter
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:1
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:52

  6. Israel is one of the few countries that have a national program for quality assessment of community healthcare. We aimed to evaluate whether improved performance in diabetes care was associated with improved h...

    Authors: Ronit Calderon-Margalit, Michal Cohen-Dadi, Dana Opas, Dena H. Jaffe, Jacob Levine, Arie Ben-Yehuda, Ora Paltiel and Orly Manor
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:10
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:22

  7. Telecare is increasingly recognized as an essential tool for a contemporary twenty-first century health care system even though the evidence is still emerging on its effectiveness. The need to find delivery mo...

    Authors: Karen B. DeSalvo and Christine Petrin
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:9
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:68

  8. Red blood cell (RBC) transfusions save lives and improve health; however, unnecessary transfusion practice exposes patients to immediate and long-term negative consequences. Indirect consequences of unnecessar...

    Authors: Shoshana Revel-Vilk and Mira Naamad
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:8
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:49

  9. International comparisons of health systems are frequently used to inform national health policy debates. These comparisons can be used to gauge areas of strength and weakness in a health system, and to find p...

    Authors: Peter S. Hussey and Maria O. Edelen
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:5
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:2

  10. This commentary on the paper by Gottlieb et al. [IJPHR November 2017] expands the discussion of the community-based participatory research approach, which is based on equal partnership between researchers and ...

    Authors: Ifat Vainer and Tamy Shohat
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:7
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:61

  11. Studies on hospital violence have emphasized the importance of staff- service recipient interaction in leading to violent incidents. These incidents are the extreme result of service recipients’ frustration an...

    Authors: Simha F. Landau, Judy Bendalak, Gila Amitay and Ohad Marcus
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:6
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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:39

  12. Avisar et al. present an exemplary model for outreach aimed at ensuring that a maximum of patients eligible for expensive Hepatitis C (HPC) drugs receive treatment. We enlarge the picture to put their model in...

    Authors: Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot and David Chinitz
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:3
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:46

  13. The detection of wild poliovirus in Israeli sewage in May 2013 led the health authorities to vaccinate children with OPV (Oral Polio Vaccine). Shelly Kamin-Friedman explored the legal and ethical dimensions of...

    Authors: Lawrence O. Gostin
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:4
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:58

  14. As in much of the world, mental health law in Israel has evolved over the past half-century toward greater protection of patients’ liberty and an increased emphasis on due process. Part of that process in Isra...

    Authors: Abhishek Jain and Paul S. Appelbaum
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:2
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:57

  16. In Israel, approximately one-third of the country’s nurses work in community settings – primarily as salaried employees in Israel’s four non-profit health plans. Many health system leaders believe that the rol...

    Authors: Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot, Bruce Rosen and Miriam Hirschfeld
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:69
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:64

  17. A significant percentage of red blood cell transfusions are inappropriately overused. This study investigated physicians from the western Galilee in terms of their knowledge of transfusion medicine as a potent...

    Authors: Roni Rahav Koren, Celia Suriu, Orly Yakir, Luiza Akria, Masad Barhoum and Andrei Braester
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:49
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:8

  18. In 2012, Maccabi Healthcare Services founded Maccabi Telecare Center (MTC), a multi-disciplinary healthcare service providing telemedical care to complex chronic patients. The current paper describes the estab...

    Authors: Avi Porath, Angela Irony, Avital Segal Borobick, Shuruk Nasser, Ateret Malachi, Naama Fund and Galit Kaufman
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:68
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:9

  19. Seeking a second-opinion (SO) is a common clinical practice that can optimize treatment and reduce unnecessary procedures and risks. We aim to characterize the composition of the population of SO seekers, thei...

    Authors: Liora Shmueli, Nadav Davidovitch, Joseph S. Pliskin, Ran D. Balicer, Igal Hekselman and Geva Greenfield
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:67
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:12

  20. There is extensive evidence that the role of nurse coordinators is beneficial for patients. Nurse coordinators are more available to patients compared to general registered nurses, know better to control sympt...

    Authors: Liza Monas, Orly Toren, Beatrice Uziely and David Chinitz
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:66
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  21. New ways of thinking about medicine and health care demand new methods in medical education. Over the past two decades, as both the practice and the study of medicine have become increasingly concerned with de...

    Authors: Raymond H. Curry
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:65
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:42

  22. Quality measures are widely used globally in order to measure clinical performance and organizational efficiency of the healthcare systems. However, in a race to achieve certain numerically defined goal, the m...

    Authors: Kobi Peleg, Michael Rozenfeld and Avi Israeli
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:64
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:27

  23. Non-adherence to medication regimens is a major issue that can negatively impact patient health and wastes health care system resources. This commentary considers whether approaches to strategies undertaken in...

    Authors: Nigel S. B. Rawson
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:63
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:50

  24. Care at the end-of-life has attracted global attention, as health care workers struggle with balancing cure based care with end-of-life care, and knowing when to transition from the former to the latter. Simul...

    Authors: Jane M. Gannon
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:62
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:48

  25. Israel hosts approximately 50,000 asylum seekers, most of them from Eritrea. Exclusive policies restrict their access to healthcare. In 2013, local activists partnered with Eritrean asylum seekers to assess he...

    Authors: Nora Gottlieb, Tomer Weinstein, Jonah Mink, Habtom M. Ghebrezghiabher, Zebib Sultan and Rachel Reichlin
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:61
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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:7

  26. The purpose of this study was to assess ethnic differences in Emergency Department (ED) waiting times between Jewish and Arab children in a tertiary childrens’ hospital in Israel.

    Authors: Oren Feldman, Raviv Allon, Ronit Leiba and Itai Shavit
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:60
    Content type: Short communication Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:26

  27. By 2020, the World Health Organization predicts that two-thirds of all diseases worldwide will be the result of lifestyle choices. Physicians often do not counsel patients about healthy behaviors, and lack of ...

    Authors: Rani Polak, Adi Finkelstein, Tom Axelrod, Marie Dacey, Matan Cohen, Dennis Muscato, Avi Shariv, Naama W Constantini and Mayer Brezis
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:42
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:65

  28. Simulation-based training improves residents’ skills for end-of-life (EOL) care. In the field, staff providers play a significant role in handling those situations and in shaping practice by role modeling. We ...

    Authors: Mayer Brezis, Yael Lahat, Meir Frankel, Alan Rubinov, Davina Bohm, Matan J Cohen, Meni Koslowsky, Orit Shalomson, Charles L Sprung, Henia Perry-Mezare, Rina Yahalom and Amitai Ziv
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:48
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:62

  29. Violence against medical personnel is unexpected in hospitals which are devoted to healing, and yet, it is frequent and of concern in the health system. Little is known about the factors that lead to hospital ...

    Authors: Sigal Shafran-Tikva, David Chinitz, Zvi Stern and Paula Feder-Bubis
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:59
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  30. The detection of wild poliovirus in Israeli sewage in May 2013 led the health authorities to decide that children who had been vaccinated with IPV would also be vaccinated with OPV. The decision sought to prot...

    Authors: Shelly Kamin-Friedman
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:58
    Content type: Integrative article Published on:

  31. The Israel Mental Health Act of 1991 stipulates a process for involuntary psychiatric hospitalization (IPH). A patient thus hospitalized may be discharged by either the treating psychiatrist (TP) or the distri...

    Authors: Daniel Argo, Igor Barash, Gadi Lubin and Moshe Z. Abramowitz
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:57
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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:2

  32. Studies have shown health care disparities among persons of minority status, including in countries with universal health care. Yet, a dearth of studies have addressed disparities resulting from the combined e...

    Authors: Gilad Gal, Hanan Munitz and Itzhak Levav
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:47
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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:26

  33. Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination holds great promise for drastically reducing the incidence of HPV-associated cancers of the genital tract, and possibly also certain head and neck cancers. Unfortunately,...

    Authors: Amanda F. Dempsey
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:56
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:30

  34. Every country struggles with how best to meet the demand for health care services with the available resources. This commentary offers a perspective on the Israeli physician workforce and the analyses of Horow...

    Authors: Lewis G. Sandy
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:55
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:31

  35. The frequency of visiting primary care providers and the duration of those visits varies substantially by patient demographics and across different developed countries. The significance of a cumulative measure...

    Authors: Andrew D. Racine
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:54
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:35

  36. Preventative health services are a pediatric health care cornerstone, which strives to promote health and prevent illness and injury. In Israel, Maternal Child Health Clinics (MCHC) provide these well child se...

    Authors: Chen Stein-Zamir, Hannah Shoob and Deena R. Zimmerman
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:53
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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:62

  37. Using an ecological study design, Gordon et al. (Isr J Health Policy Res 6:39, 2017) demonstrate variations in mortality patterns across districts and sub-districts of Israel during 2008–2013.

    Authors: Yehuda Neumark
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:52
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:39

  38. An article in this journal in 2016 demonstrated that smoking prevalence among Arab men in Israel is greater than among their Jewish counterparts born in Israel, while the reverse is true among Arab and Jewish ...

    Authors: Daniel S. Blumenthal
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:51
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:36

  39. The correct and rational use of medications can have a positive direct impact on disease outcomes, as well on the utilization of the health system resources. Unfortunately, 50% of the patients do not take thei...

    Authors: Eyal Schwartzberg, Zohar Barnett-Itzhaki, Itamar Grotto and Eli Marom
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:50
    Content type: Integrative article Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:63

  40. In January 2015, the first interferon-free direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection was approved for inclusion in Israel’s national basket of health services. During ...

    Authors: Nitzan Avisar, Yael Heller, Clara Weil, Aviva Ben-Baruch, Shani Potesman-Yona, Ran Oren, Gabriel Chodick, Varda Shalev and Nachman Ash
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:46
    Content type: Integrative article Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:3

  41. The Israeli National Health Insurance Law was amended in 2010 to require the disclosure of payments above 2500 NIS from pharmaceutical companies (PCs) to medical personnel and organizations. We examined if the...

    Authors: Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot and Ariel Yankellevich
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:45
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:25

  42. Sexual health is an important global public health concern. Planning effective strategies to improve sexual health requires a high degree of attention to the local epidemiological trends and cultural context w...

    Authors: Charmaine Gauci and Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:44
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:23

  43. Worldwide, there is a widespread and disturbing pattern of violence towards healthcare workers. However, violent occurrences in Israeli hospitals have often been unrecognized and underreported. Moreover, most ...

    Authors: Sigal Shafran-Tikva, Revital Zelker, Zvi Stern and David Chinitz
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:43
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:15

  44. Most of the research on primary care workload has focused on the number of visits or the average duration of visits to a primary care physician (PCP) and their effect on the quality of medical care. However, t...

    Authors: Talya A. Nathan, Arnon D. Cohen and Shlomo Vinker
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:35
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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:54

  45. Regional variations in mortality can be used to study and assess differences in disease prevalence and factors leading to disease and mortality from different causes. To enable this comparison, it is important...

    Authors: Ethel-Sherry Gordon, Ziona Haklai, Jill Meron, Miriam Aburbeh, Inbal Weiss Salz, Yael Applbaum and Nehama F. Goldberger
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:39
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:52

  46. Due to the limited safety data available at the time that a new medication is first marketed, it is essential to continue the collection and monitoring of safety data about adverse drug reactions (ADRs) during...

    Authors: Eyal Schwartzberg, Matitiahu Berkovitch, Dorit Dil Nahlieli, Joseph Nathan and Einat Gorelik
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:29
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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:54

  47. ‘Out of Hours Surgery Service’ (OHSS) was implemented in Israel, amongst other reasons, in order to reduce the time interval between hospital admission and surgery and consequently improve outcomes. The OHSS i...

    Authors: Yaniv Keren, Sybil Sailofsky, Doron Keshet and Michal Barak
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:27
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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:64

  48. Youth drinking is linked with acute harms and Emergency Departments (ED) are places where some of these harms become apparent. This commentary argues that there is a clear case for routinely monitoring alcohol...

    Authors: John Larsen
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:41
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:34

  49. As coverage is expanded in health systems that rely on consumers to choose health insurance plans that best meet their needs, interest in whether consumers possess sufficient understanding of health insurance ...

    Authors: Andrew J. Barnes and Yaniv Hanoch
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:40
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:12

  50. When making recommendations about the public funding of new health technologies, policy makers typically pay close attention to quantitative evidence about the comparative effectiveness, cost effectiveness and...

    Authors: Richard Cookson and Andrew J. Mirelman
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:38
    Content type: Commentary Published on:
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