Issue 1/2021
Content (75 Articles)
Adapting the Israeli national health insurance law to the 21st century– a report from the 19th Dead Sea Conference
Yoel Angel, Adi Niv-Yagoda, Ronni Gamzu
Utilization of the Public Health Ordinance to prevent nosocomial spread in a case of acute measles-associated psychosis
Chen Stein-Zamir, Nitza Abramson, Hagit Sonnenfeld-Alroey, Jacob Charnes, Dana Eckstein, Aryeh Dienstag, Dana Wolf, Allon E. Moses, Yoram G. Weiss
Correlates of psychological distress and self-rated health among Palestinian citizens of Israel: findings from the health and environment survey (HESPI)
Mohammad Khatib, Ivonne Mansbach-Kleinfeld, Sarah Abu-Kaf, Anneke Ifrah, Ahmad Sheikh-Muhammad
Cost containment by peer prior authorization program for second line treatment in patients with retinal disease
Amir Rosenblatt, Igal Hekselman, Irit Rosenblatt, Idan Hekselman, Dan Gaton
What can we learn from Israel’s rapid roll out of COVID 19 vaccination?
Martin McKee, Selina Rajan
Israel’s rapid rollout of vaccinations for COVID-19
Bruce Rosen, Ruth Waitzberg, Avi Israeli
The National Immunization Technical Advisory Group in Israel
Chen Stein-Zamir, Shmuel Rishpon
The association between hallway boarding in internal wards, readmission and mortality rates: a comparative, retrospective analysis, following a policy change
Assaf Ben Shoham, Gabriel Munter
Survey of faculty development in four Israeli medical schools: clinical faculty development is inadequate and clinical teaching is undervalued in Israeli faculties of medicine
Simon Nothman, Michael Kaffman, Rachel Nave, Moshe Y. Flugelman
Barriers to completing colonoscopy after a positive fecal occult blood test
Revital Azulay, Liora Valinsky, Fabienne Hershkowitz, Einat Elran, Natan Lederman, Revital Kariv, Benjamin Braunstein, Anthony Heymann
The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination: what can Canada learn from Israel?
Gregory P. Marchildon
Health behaviors of medical students decline towards residency: how could we maintain and enhance these behaviors throughout their training
Rachel Wilf-Miron, Ilya Kagan, Mor Saban
Actionable lessons for the US COVID vaccine program
Gary L. Freed
Who should be vaccinated first? Comparing vaccine prioritization strategies in Israel and European countries using the Covid-19 Health System Response Monitor
Jonathan Cylus, Dimitra Panteli, Ewout van Ginneken
Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel, March–November 2020: when, where, and for whom?
Ziona Haklai, Miriam Aburbeh, Nehama Goldberger, Ethel-Sherry Gordon
Availability, timeliness, documentation and quality of consultations among hospital departments: a prospective, comparative study
Amir Jarjou’i, Joseph Mendlovic, Ziv Dadon, Marwan Abu Sneineh, Meir Tabi, George Kalak, Yousef R. Jarallah, Amos M. Yinnon, Gabriel Munter
Patient-centered care: achieving higher quality by designing care through the patient’s eyes
Susan Edgman-Levitan, Stephen C. Schoenbaum
Correction to: The quality of primary care provided to the elderly in Israel
Rachel Podell, Vered Kaufman-Shriqui, Yael Wolff Sagy, Orly Manor, Arie Ben-Yehuda
Changes in the activity levels and financing sources of Israel’s private for-profit hospitals in the wake of reforms to the public-private divide
Royi Barnea, Adi Niv-Yagoda, Yossi Weiss
Obstetric anesthesia services in Israel snapshot (OASIS) study: a 72 hour cross-sectional observational study of workforce supply and demand
Gal Schtrechman-Levi, Alexander Ioscovich, Jacob Hart, Jacob Bar, Ronit Calderon-Margalit, Eshel A. Nir, Yehuda Ginosar
A study of ethnic, gender and educational differences in attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines in Israel – implications for vaccination implementation policies
Manfred S. Green, Rania Abdullah, Shiraz Vered, Dorit Nitzan
Suicide rates and risk factors for suicide among Israeli immigrants from Ethiopia (1985–2017)
Rafael Youngmann, Nelly Zilber, Ziona Haklai, Nehama Goldberger
Multinational dietary changes and anxiety during the coronavirus pandemic-findings from Israel
Vered Kaufman-Shriqui, Daniela Abigail Navarro, Olga Raz, Mona Boaz
Falls and fear of falling among Israeli community-dwelling older people: a cross-sectional national survey
Dvora Frankenthal, Mor Saban, Dolev Karolinsky, Miri Lutski, Shelley Sternberg, Iris Rasooly, Irit Laxer, Inbar Zucker
Correction to: Obstetric anesthesia services in Israel snapshot (OASIS) study: a 72 hour cross-sectional observational study of workforce supply and demand
Gal Schtrechman-Levi, Alexander Ioscovich, Jacob Hart, Jacob Bar, Ronit Calderon-Margalit, Eshel A. Nir, Yehuda Ginosar
How, when, and for whom: decisions regarding remote neuropsychological assessment during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Ayala Bloch, Sari Maril, Gitit Kavé
Food allergy safety: a descriptive report of changing policy in a single large medical center
Rivki Harari, Orly Toren, Yuval Tal, Tair Ben-Porat
WhatsApp Tele-Medicine – usage patterns and physicians views on the platform
Edward Barayev, Omri Shental, Dotan Yaari, Elchanan Zloczower, Itai Shemesh, Michael Shapiro, Elon Glassberg, Racheli Magnezi
Heat stroke: knowledge and practices of medical professionals in pediatric emergency medicine departments – a survey study
Noy Cohen-Ronen, Ayelet Rimon, Neta Cohen, Tali Capua
Did the events following the COVID-19 outbreak influence the incidents of violence against hospital staff?
Fuad Basis, Kobi Moskovitz, Shay Tzafrir
Seven key parameters that facilitate clinical pharmacy practice: a comparison between Israel and the United States
Adam J. Rose, Daniel Witt, Carmil Azran, Ran Nissan
Reduction in self-reported influenza-like-illness in school children and household members following influenza vaccine administration – a cohort study, Israel, 2016–7
Noa Shviro Roseman, Natalya Bilenko, Rivka Sheffer, Zohar Mor
Factors associated with medical complications after body art among Israeli adults: a retrospective study
Liat Korn, Hagit Bonny-Noach, Gideon Koren, Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot
National and regional trends in MRI utilization in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
Osnat Luxenburg, Mor Saban, Vicki Myers, Sharona Vaknin, Noga Boldor, Rachel Wilf-Miron
Emergency department impaired adherence to personal protective equipment donning and doffing protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic
Tomer Lamhoot, Noa Ben Shoshan, Hagit Eisenberg, Gilad Fainberg, Mansour Mhiliya, Neta Cohen, Orly Bisker-Kassif, Orly Barak, Carolyn Weiniger, Tali Capua
Dental health of preschool children after two-years of a supervised tooth brushing program in Southern Israel
Lena Natapov, Dan Dekel, Vadim Pikovsky, Shlomo Paul Zusman
Addressing vaccine hesitancy and access barriers to achieve persistent progress in Israel’s COVID-19 vaccination program
Bruce Rosen, Ruth Waitzberg, Avi Israeli, Michael Hartal, Nadav Davidovitch
Failure of Israeli pediatric residency curricula to cover child development and special education issues: results of a national survey on levels of knowledge
Itay Tokatly Latzer, Zachi Grossman, Nimrod Sachs, Orr Yahal, Daniel Even-Zohar, Lior Carmon, Hadar Flor-Hirsch, Amit Ringel, Christopher Fady Farah, Moran Avni-Maskit, Yael Leitner
Substances use between early and later stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel
Hagit Bonny-Noach, Keren Cohen-Louck, Inna Levy
Educational level, ethnicity and mortality rates in Israel: national data linkage study
Nehama Frimit Goldberger, Ziona Haklai
Academic activism on behalf of children during the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel; beyond public health advocacy
Ora Paltiel, Hagit Hochner, David Chinitz, A. Mark Clarfield, Alex Gileles-Hillel, Amnon Lahad, Orly Manor, Ran Nir-Paz, Ari Paltiel, Chen Stein-Zamir, Ekaterina Yazhemsky, Ronit Calderon-Margalit
Prediction of vaccine hesitancy based on social media traffic among Israeli parents using machine learning strategies
Shirly Bar-Lev, Shahar Reichman, Zohar Barnett-Itzhaki
Does a policy that requires adherence to a regular primary care physician improve the actual adherence of patients?
A. Golan-Cohen, G. Blumberg, E. Merzon, E. Kitai, Y. Fogelman, A. Shipotovsky, S. Vinker
Game-related injuries in schools: a retrospective nationwide 6-year evaluation and implications for prevention policy
Eli Jaffe, Anna Khalemsky, Michael Khalemsky
Physical activity, resilience, emotions, moods, and weight control, during the COVID-19 global crisis
Sima Zach, Javier Fernandez-Rio, Aviva Zeev, Miki Ophir, Sigal Eilat-Adar
The need for cardiac surgery differential tariffs in Israel at the era of aging population and emerging technology: Importance of procedure type and patient complexity as assessed by EuroSCORE
J. Mendlovic, O. Merin, D. Fink, R. Tauber, E. Jacobzon, S. Tager, F. B. Mimouni, S. Silberman
Vaccine injury compensation: the Israeli case
Shelly Kamin-Friedman, Nadav Davidovitch
Correction to: Physical activity, resilience, emotions, moods, and weight control, during the COVID-19 global crisis
Sima Zach, Javier Fernandez-Rio, Aviva Zeev, Miki Ophir, Sigal Eilat-Adar
The involvement of community pediatricians in the treatment of developmental-behavioral difficulties as perceived by directors of child development centers
Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot, Davidovitch Michael, Yael Ashkenazi, Zachi Grossman
Reforming the MRI system: the Israeli National Program to shorten waiting times and increase efficiency
Noga Boldor, Sharona Vaknin, Vicki Myers, Nina Hakak, Michel Somekh, Rachel Wilf-Miron, Osnat Luxenburg
Oral health of the 65+ age group in Israel-2020
Ayelet Berg-Warman, Ile Kermel Schiffman, Shlomo P. Zusman, Lena Natapov
Mixed effect of increasing outflow of medical patients from an emergency department
Joseph Mendlovic, Todd Zalut, Gabriel Munter, Ofer Merin, Amos M. Yinnon, David E. Katz
Lessons from Israel's COVID-19 Green Pass program
Shelly Kamin-Friedman, Maya Peled Raz
The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on patient visits to the emergency department and hospitalizations in medical wards in an Israeli medical center
Yael Frenkel Nir, Yuval Levy, Amit Gutkind, Ehud Grossman
Sharing reflections and expressing appreciation upon completing a decade as co-editor of the IJHPR
Bruce Rosen
Improving compliance with physical distancing across religious cultures in Israel
Gillie Gabay, Attila Gere, Lior Naamati-Schneider, Howard Moskowitz, Mahdi Tarabieh
Adapting to change: Clalit's response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Gil Lavie, Orly Weinstein, Yoram Segal, Ehud Davidson
The surfacing portion of the Iceberg of the Domestic Violence Phenomenon—data from the Israeli National Trauma Registry
Bella Savitsky, Irina Radomislensky, Sharon Goldman, Arielle Kaim, A. Acker, N. Aviran, H. Bahouth, A. Bar, A. Becker, A. Braslavsky, D. Fadeev, A. L. Goldstein, I. Grevtsev, I. Jeroukhimov, A. Kedar, A. Korin, M. Qarawany, A. D. Schwarz, W. Shomar, D. Soffer, M. Stein, M. Venturero, M. Weiss, O. Yaslowitz, I. Zoarets, Moran Bodas
Knowledge of and willingness to take pre-exposure prophylaxis among men who have sex with men in Israel
Mor Zohar, Shilo Guy, Levy Itzchak
Clinical pharmacy in Israel versus the US, can we "compare apples to apples"?—commentary
Eyal Schwartzberg, Eli Marom
A management model for admission and treatment of pediatric trauma cases
Raya Tashlizky Madar, Avishay Goldberg, Nitza Newman, Yehezkel Waisman, David Greenberg, Bruria Adini
Involvement and skepticism towards the JCI Accreditation process among hospital’s four sectors employees: suggestions for cultural change
Shiran Bord, Inna Sass, Gila Hayms, Kobi Moskowitz, Hagar Baruch, Fuad Basis
Training medical educators to teach: bridging the gap between perception and reality
Alison Trainor, Jeremy B. Richards