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Original research article
‘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...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:27
Published on: 15 July 2017
Commentary
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 ...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:40
Published on: 13 July 2017
The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:12
Commentary
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...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:41
Published on: 13 July 2017
The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:34
Commentary
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...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:38
Published on: 10 July 2017
Original research article
Alcohol use is a major preventable public health problem with serious health and social consequences especially among youth. In Israel, alcohol use has become an emerging problem during the last decade, and it...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:34
Published on: 1 July 2017
The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:41
Original research article
Two vaccines against sexually transmitted infections are included in many national vaccination programs: Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) vaccine and Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine. The trajectories of the impleme...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:30
Published on: 1 July 2017
Commentary
In a recently published IJHPR article, Cohen and Horev ask whether an individual who holds rightful governmental power is able to effectively “challenge the equilibrium” in ways that might “clash with the goal...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:37
Published on: 30 June 2017
The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:24
Commentary
Out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The survival rates are poor and even more frustrating are the rates of neurologically favorable outcomes at hospital disc...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:36
Published on: 28 June 2017
The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:22
Original research article
Patients experiencing pre-arrest symptoms may first refer to their primary care physician. The study's aim was to determine the likelihood that a patient undergoing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest will receive ...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:22
Published on: 10 June 2017
The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:36
Commentary
Bash and colleagues, using data from Maccabi Healthcare Services, have documented increased cost and utilization attributable to patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). The CHF patients were older than t...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:25
Published on: 7 June 2017
Commentary
Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) as a consultative service for older adults with complex medical and psychosocial challenges has existed for decades. However, studies have often showed inconsistent acc...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:33
Published on: 6 June 2017
The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:7
Original research article
Congestive heart failure (CHF) is among the most common causes of hospital admissions and readmissions in the Western world. However, the burden of ambulatory care has not been as well investigated. The object...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:26
Published on: 5 June 2017
Commentary
In Israel today, there are 420,200 Israelis diagnosed with diabetes, and every year, Israelis sustain thousands of diabetes-related deaths and tens of thousands of diabetes-related amputations. As such, in Isr...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:32
Published on: 31 May 2017
The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:1
Original research article
Israeli policymakers have expressed serious concerns about being able to meet the growing demand for physician services. For this reason, the Israel Ministry of Health (MoH) undertook studies based on 2008 and...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:31
Published on: 30 May 2017
Commentary
The recent IJHPR article by Schwartzberg and colleagues presents new data on the growing problem of prescription drug shortages. Resolving shortages typically involves many participants: government, industry, ...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:28
Published on: 10 May 2017
The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:17
Original research article
Prioritization of medical technologies requires a multi-dimensional view. Often, conflicting equity and efficiency criteria should be reconciled. The most dramatic manifestation of such conflict is in the prio...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:20
Published on: 30 April 2017
Original research article
The overall implementation rate for outpatient comprehensive geriatric assessment (OCGAU) recommendations ranges from 48.6 to 71%.
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:7
Published on: 25 April 2017
Original research article
Can the entry of a policy entrepreneur challenge the equilibrium of a policy network and promote changes that might clash with the goals of powerful civil-servants and/or interest groups and, if so, why and ho...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:24
Published on: 21 April 2017
The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:37
Integrative article
There is on ongoing debate in the literature regarding the real burden of STIs (sexually transmitted infections) in Western countries and the proper strategies needed to estimate and to prevent them. Our purpo...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:23
Published on: 19 April 2017
Commentary
This commentary, in response to the paper by Boas et al [IJPHR December 2016], considers some of the wider ethical, cultural and practical factors that may influence the official response of a polio-free natio...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:21
Published on: 6 April 2017
The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:64
Meeting report
Medical professionalism refers to attributes, values, behaviors, responsibilities and commitments of physicians that are congruent with the public’s expectations. An international workshop on medical professio...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:19
Published on: 3 April 2017
Original research article
Pharmaceutical drug shortages (DSs) are a global problem which presents challenges to countries around the world. Shortages of pharmaceutical products may have a direct detrimental impact on public health and ...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:17
Published on: 3 April 2017
The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:28
Original research article
There is a traditional tension in public policy between the maximization of welfare from given resources (efficiency) and considerations related to the distribution of welfare among the population and to socia...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:18
Published on: 1 April 2017
Original research article
Patient non-attendance is an expensive and persistent problem worldwide with rates between 5–39% reported in the literature. The objective of the study was to assess whether there is a higher incidence of non-...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:11
Published on: 31 March 2017
Commentary
Many types of organisation are difficult to change, mainly due to structural, cultural and contextual barriers. Change in public hospitals is arguably even more problematic than in other types of hospitals, du...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:16
Published on: 24 March 2017
The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:8
