Issue 1/2020
Content (77 Articles)
Paramedics and Physician Assistants in Israel
Roderick S. Hooker
Socio-economic status, self-rated health and mental health: the mediation effect of social participation on early-late midlife and older adults
Netta Achdut, Orly Sarid
Improved meals service and reduced food waste and costs in medical institutions resulting from employment of a food service dietitian – a case study
Orit Yona, Rebecca Goldsmith, Ronit Endevelt
Temporal trends in healthcare resource utilization and costs following acute myocardial infarction
Arthur Shiyovich, Harel Gilutz, Jonathan Eli Arbelle, Dan Greenberg, Ygal Plakht
Trust in the referring physician reduces anxiety in an integrated community-to-hospital care system
Moshe Y. Flugelman, Ronen Jaffe, Gil Luria, Dana Yagil
Sex for seniors: how physicians discuss older adult’s sexuality
Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan, Inbar Levkovich, Moshe Mock, Uri Gur, Khaled Karkabi, Liat Ayalon
Low intake of iodized salt and iodine containing supplements among pregnant women with apparently insufficient iodine status - time to change policy?
Shani R. Rosen, Yaniv S. Ovadia, Eyal Y. Anteby, Shlomo Fytlovich, Dorit Aharoni, Doron Zamir, Dov Gefel, Simon Shenhav
Community Vs. hospital HIV testing sites in Jerusalem, Israel - who’s tested and who’s at risk?
Dor Atias, Hagai Levine, Hila Elinav, Michele Haouzi-Bashan, Yotam Lior, Zohar Mor
Motivation of emergency medical services volunteers: a study of organized Good Samaritans
Michael Khalemsky, David G. Schwartz, Raphael Herbst, Eli Jaffe
Enhancing primary care and preventive services through Interprofessional practice and education
Terri Fowler, David Garr, Natalie Di Pietro Mager, Joan Stanley
Patient satisfaction with primary care physician performance in a multicultural population
Samah Hayek, Shany Derhy, Mathew Lee Smith, Samuel D. Towne Jr, Shira Zelber-Sagi
Evaluation of performance-enhancing drugs seized by Israeli enforcement agencies 2012–2017: implications for policy and regulatory change
Hagit Bonny-Noach, Ronny Berkovitz, Barak Shapira
Depressive symptoms and use of health services among older adults in Israel
Netta Bentur, Anthony David Heymann
Toward risk adjustment in mental health in Israel: calculation of risk adjustment rates from large outpatient and inpatient databases
Yoav Kohn, Amir Shmueli
Inequality in in-hospital mortality due to road traffic accident between ethnic populations in specified groups living in the same country
Abebe Tiruneh, Maya Siman-Tov, Irina Radomislensky, H. Bahouth, A. Becker, A. Hadary, I. Jeroukhimov, M. Karawani, B. Kessel, Y. Klein, G. Lin, O. Merin, B. Miklush, Y. Mnouskin, A. Rivkind, G. Shaked, G. Sibak, D. Soffer, M. Stein, M. Wais, H. Pharan, I. Garbetzev, Kobi Peleg
Lessons learned from an evaluation of referrals to the emergency department
Roee Gorodetzer, Evan Avraham Alpert, Zvika Orr, Shifra Unger, Todd Zalut
Iodine deficiency in Israeli pregnant women – a time for action
John H. Lazarus
Elderly bedridden patients with dementia use over one quarter of resources in internal medicine wards in an Israeli hospital
Inbal Weiss Salz, Yehuda Carmeli, Avi Levin, Noga Fallach, Tali Braun, Sharon Amit
Historic tobacco legislation in Israel: a moment to celebrate
L. Rosen, S. Kislev, Y. Bar-Zeev, H. Levine
Characteristics and outcome of elderly patients admitted for acute Cholecystitis to medical or surgical wards
Itamar Feldman, Lena Feldman, Dvorah S. Shapiro, Gabriel Munter, Amos M. Yinnon, Reuven Friedman
Older adults and the disparity in oral health status; the problem and innovative ways to address it
Elaine O. C. Cardoso, Howard C. Tenenbaum
Attitudes, knowledge, and preferences of the Israeli public regarding the allocation of donor organs for transplantation
Amir Elalouf, Joseph S. Pliskin, Tehila Kogut
Emergency department visits at Rambam health care campus, Israel: non-trauma related dental conditions
Leon Bilder, Jacob Horwitz, Hadar Zigdon-Giladi, Zvi Gutmacher
Disordered eating among Arab and Jewish youth in Israel: the role of eating dinner with the family
Roni Elran-Barak, Michal Bromberg, Tal Shimony, Rita Dichtiar, Nisim Mery, Lesley Nitsan, Lital Keinan-Boker
Physicians’ adherence to management guidelines for H. pylori infection and gastroesophageal reflux disease: a cross-sectional study
Wasef Na’amnih, Amir Ben Tov, Amna Bdair-Amsha, Shlomi Cohen, Judith Tsamir, Gabriel Chodick, Khitam Muhsen
Tuberculosis treatment outcomes of non-citizen migrants: Israel compared to other high-income countries
D. Chemtob, E. Ogum
Factors associated with disparities in out-of-pocket expenditure on dental care: results from two cross-sectional national surveys
Liat Orenstein, Angela Chetrit, Bernice Oberman, Michal Benderly, Ofra Kalter-Leibovici
From public vs. private to public/private mix in healthcare: lessons from the Israeli and the Spanish cases
Dani Filc, Alon Rasooly, Nadav Davidovitch
A comprehensive descriptive assessment of obesity related chronic morbidity and estimated annual cost burden from a population-based electronic health record database
Orna Reges, Morton Leibowitz, Avital Hirsch, Dror Dicker, Nick Finer, Christiane Lundegaard Haase, Altynai Satylganova, Maya Leventer-Roberts, Becca Feldman
The patient–physician relationship: an account of the physician’s perspective
Ron Berger, Ben Bulmash, Netanel Drori, Ofir Ben-Assuli, Ram Herstein
Hair loss due to scalp ringworm irradiation in childhood: health and psychosocial risks for women
Liat Hoffer, Shifra Shvarts, Dorit Segal-Engelchin
Socio-economic disparities and returning to work following an injury
Bella Savitsky, Irina Radomislensky, Sharon Goldman, Natalia Gitelson, Zhanna Frid, Kobi Peleg
Associations between ethnicity, place of residence, hearing status of family and habilitation of children with hearing impairment
Ester Goldblat, Dori Rivkin, Viacheslav Konstantinov
Addressing overcrowding in an emergency department: an approach for identifying and treating influential factors and a real-life application
Guy Wachtel, Amir Elalouf
Patient-centered care in Israeli IVF units: divergent perceptions of patients and providers
Tamar R. Medina-Artom, Eli Y. Adashi
The rates of hospital admissions and return visits to a rapidly growing pediatric emergency department as measures of quality of care
Amit Keret, Yakir Shir, Shepard Schwartz, Elihay Berliner, Mattityahu Erlichman, Giora Weiser
Trends and socioeconomic disparities in diabetes prevalence and quality of care among Israeli children; 2011-2018
Yiska Loewenberg Weisband, Michal Krieger, Ronit Calderon-Margalit, Orly Manor
Obstacles to using online health services among adults age 50 and up and the role of family support in overcoming them
Y. Mizrachi, S. Shahrabani, M. Nachmani, A. Hornik
At the crossroads of religion and palliative care in patients with dementia
Kieran L. Quinn, Daphna L. Grossman
Attracting Israeli nursing students to community nursing
Yael Sela-Vilensky, Keren Grinberg, Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot
Caries prevalence among 18 years old, an epidemiological survey in Israel
Nirit Yavnai, Sigal Mazor, Yuval Vered, Idan Shavit, Avraham Zini
Neuropsychological assessment in the Israeli healthcare system: a practitioners’ survey
Gitit Kavé, Ayala Bloch, Adi Shabi, Sari Maril
Promoting patients’ rights through hospital accreditation
Daniel Sperling, Rina B. Pikkel
The role of public-private partnerships in extending public healthcare provision to irregular migrants: stopgap or foot in the door?
Nora Gottlieb, Dani Filc, Nadav Davidovitch
Are Israelis becoming healthier? Trends in self-rated health, 2002–2018
Anat Ziv, J. Jona Schellekens
Reflections on the IJHPR’s article collection on dementia
Jill Harrison, Vincent Mor, Susan Mitchell, Ellen P. McCarthy
Differences in substance use by sexual orientation and gender among Jewish young adults in Israel
Hagit Bonny-Noach, Mally Shechory-Bitton
The future of telemedicine visits after COVID-19: perceptions of primary care pediatricians
Zachi Grossman, Gabriel Chodick, Stephen M. Reingold, Gil Chapnick, Shai Ashkenazi
Comparison of hospital worker anxiety in COVID-19 treating and non-treating hospitals in the same city during the COVID-19 pandemic
Yael Milgrom, Yuval Tal, Aharon S. Finestone
ACTION-IO as a platform to understand differences in perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors of people with obesity and physicians across countries – the Israeli experience
Dror Dicker, Batya Kornboim, Rakefet Bachrach, Naim Shehadeh, Shani Potesman-Yona, Gabriella Segal-Lieberman
Assisted life termination and truth telling to terminally ill patients – a cross-sectional study of public opinions in Israel
Moran Bodas, Baruch Velan, Giora Kaplan, Arnona Ziv, Carmit Rubin, Kobi Peleg
Numbers, graphs and words – do we really understand the lab test results accessible via the patient portals?
Shirly Bar-Lev, Dizza Beimel
Practices and attitudes of bariatric surgeons in Israel during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic
Nahum Beglaibter, Orly Zelekha, Lital Keinan-Boker, Nasser Sakran, Ahmad Mahajna
Robotic vs. open surgery in obese women with low-grade endometrial cancer: comparison of costs and quality of life measures
Adi Sofer, Racheli Magnezi, Ram Eitan, Oded Raban, Orna Tal, Noam Smorgic, Zvi Vaknin
A rapid assessment of migrant careworkers’ psychosocial status during Israel’s COVID-19 lockdown
Jordan Hannink Attal, Ido Lurie, Yehuda Neumark
National initiatives to promote quality of care and patient safety: achievements to date and challenges ahead
Dalia Dreiher, Olga Blagorazumnaya, Ran Balicer, Jacob Dreiher
Ethnic disparities in receiving benefits for disability following postpartum mental illness during first two years after delivery: an Israeli nationwide study
Bella Savitsky, Irina Radomislensky, Zhanna Frid, Natalia Gitelson, Saralee Glasser, Tova Hendel
Strategic management as adaptation to changes in the ecosystems of public hospitals in Israel
Lior Naamati Schneider
Delayed discharges from a tertiary teaching hospital in Israel- incidence, implications, and solutions
Gidon Berger, Danny Epstein, Meital Rozen, Avigdor Miskin, Michael Halberthal, Michal Mekel
The vexing relationship between socioeconomic status and health
J. Travis Donahoe, Thomas G. McGuire
The insurability of innovative pharmaceutical cancer technologies
Shuli Brammli Greenberg, Einat Dotan, Rachel Arazi
Relationship between patient ethnicity and prevalence of anemia during pregnancy and the puerperium period and compliance with healthcare recommendations - implications for targeted health policy
Enav Yefet, Avishag Yossef, Manal Massalha, Abeer Suleiman, Aliza Hatokay, Moria Kamhine-Yefet, Zohar Nachum
Correction to: Hair loss due to scalp ringworm irradiation in childhood: health and psychosocial risks for women
Liat Hoffer, Shifra Shvarts, Dorit Segal-Engelchin
A COVID-19 call center for healthcare providers: dealing with rapidly evolving health policy guidelines
Aharona Glatman-Freedman, Michal Bromberg, Amit Ram, Miri Lutski, Ravit Bassal, Olga Michailevich, Mor Saban, Dvora Frankental, Rita Dichtiar, Anna Kruglikov-Moldavsky, Violetta Rozani, Dolev Karolinsky, Tali Braun, Inbar Zuker, Lital Keinan-Boker, Barbara G. Silverman
Opportunities for diversifying and enriching our article mix
Bruce Rosen, Stephen C. Schoenbaum, Avi Israeli
Motorcycle-related head and neck injuries: increased risk among ethnic minorities
Irit Cohen-Manheim, Irina Radomislensky, Maya Siman-Tov, A. Acker, N. Aviran, H. Bahouth, A. Bar, A. Becker, M. Ben Ely, D. Fadeev, I. Grevtsev, I. Jeroukhimov, A. Kedar, A. Korin, A. Lerner, M. Qarawany, A. D. Schwarz, W. Shomar, D. Soffer, M. Stein, M. Venturero, M. Weiss, O. Yaslowitz, I. Zoarets, Kobi Peleg
Sustaining primary care teams in the midst of a pandemic
Erin E. Sullivan, Russell S. Phillips