Issue 1/2016
Content (65 Articles)
International publication trends and collaboration performance of China in healthcare science and services research
Kai Chen, Qiang Yao, Ju Sun, Zhi-fei He, Lan Yao, Zhi-yong Liu
Vaccine hesitancy: understanding better to address better
Dewesh Kumar, Rahul Chandra, Medha Mathur, Saurabh Samdariya, Neelesh Kapoor
Improving access to essential health care services: the case of Israel
Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven
Erratum to: The burden of smoking in Israel–attributable mortality and costs (2014)
Gary M. Ginsberg, Haim Geva
Physician-facilitated designation of proxy decision-makers: family physician perceptions
Gideon Lifshitz, Matan J. Cohen, Hila Shmilovitz, Mayer Brezis, Amnon Lahad, Arie Ben-Yehuda
Integration of advanced practice providers into the Israeli healthcare system
Eliana Marcus Aaron, Caryn Scheinberg Andrews
Dealing with ambiguity: Israeli physician’s attitudes and practices regarding pre-exercise certificates: a questionnaire study
Robert D Hoffman, Ron Golan, Shlomo Vinker
Energy drink consumption in Israeli youth: Public health & the perils of energetic marketing
David L. Katz
Annual acknowledgement of manuscript reviewers
Bruce Rosen, Avi Israeli
Should Israel be concerned by the high proportion of medical care paid for privately: comments from a U.S. perspective
Stuart Altman
The impact of facility characteristics on the use of antipsychotic medications in nursing homes: a cross-sectional study
Dvora Frankenthal, Gisele Zandman-Goddard, Yael Ben-Muvhar, Bat Sheva Porat-Katz
In Vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments in Maccabi Healthcare Services 2007-2014
Shahar Kol, Lucia Bergovoy Yellin, Yaakov Segal, Avi Porath
Factors affecting compliance with use of online healthcare services among adults in Israel
Shosh Shahrabani, Yonathan Mizrachi
Trends in the use of antipsychotics in the Israeli inpatient population, 2004–2013
Alexander M. Ponizovsky, Eli Marom, Michal Ben-Laish, Igor Barash, Abraham Weizman, Eyal Schwartzberg
Shared War reality effects on the professional quality of life of mental health professionals
Itay Pruginin, Dorit Segal-Engelchin, Richard Isralowitz, Alexander Reznik
Work experiences of ethnic minority nurses: a qualitative study
Yael Keshet, Ariela Popper-Giveon
Strengthening the capacities of a national health authority in the effort to mitigate health inequity—the Israeli model
Tuvia Horev, Shlomit Avni
A smoke-free medical campus in Jerusalem: data for action
Itamar Feldman, Milka Donchin, Hagai Levine
Expanding clinical roles for nurses to realign the global health workforce with population needs: a commentary
Claudia B. Maier, Linda H. Aiken
Designing online health services for patients
Bradley H. Crotty, Warner V. Slack
Decision making about infertility treatment: does unlimited access lead to inappropriate treatment?
Evan R. Myers
Views of health system policymakers on the role of research in health policymaking in Israel
Moriah E. Ellen, Einav Horowitz, Sharona Vaknin, John N. Lavis
Donation of surplus frozen pre-embryos to research in Israel: underlying motivations
Aviad Raz, Jonia Amer-Alshiek, Mor Goren-Margalit, Gal Jacobi, Alyssa Hochberg, Ami Amit, Foad Azem, Hadar Amir
Does dental health of 6-year-olds reflect the reform of the Israeli dental care system?
Lena Natapov, Avi Sasson, Shlomo P. Zusman
Commentary on a smoke-free medical campus in Jerusalem: data for action
Steven A. Schroeder
Physician-facilitated designation of proxy decision maker
Amit Arora, Laura Cummings, Peter Crome
Pre-exercise screening: role of the primary care physician
Elizabeth A. Joy, Linda S. Pescatello
Introducing a change in hospital policy using FMEA methodology as a tool to reduce patient hazards
Fanny Ofek, Racheli Magnezi, Yaffa Kurzweil, Inbal Gazit, Sofia Berkovitch, Orna Tal
The role of knowledge transfer in health policymaking: the US experience
Sherry Glied
Decision-makers’ acquaintance with the public’s priorities in health services
Giora Kaplan, Orna Baron-Epel
Multi-faceted identities and interactions in mixed health teams
Daniella Arieli, Miriam J. Hirschfeld
Social media as a platform for health-related public debates and discussions: the Polio vaccine on Facebook
Daniela Orr, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari, Keren Landsman
Do women prefer a female breast surgeon?
Asnat Groutz, Hadar Amir, Revital Caspi, Eran Sharon, Yifat Amir Levy, Mordechai Shimonov
Social characteristics associated with disparities in smoking rates in Israel
Ofra Kalter-Leibovici, Angela Chetrit, Shlomit Avni, Emma Averbuch, Ilya Novikov, Nihaya Daoud
Trends in annual drug expenditure – a 16 year perspective of a public healthcare maintenance organization
Yossef Lomnicky, Daniel Kurnik, Ronen Loebstein, Itzhak Katzir, Janet Vesterman-Landes, Nava Siegelmann-Danieli
Maintaining helper wellness and competence in a shared trauma reality
James Halpern
Hyperemesis gravidarum in northern Israel: a retrospective epidemiological study
Tom Konikoff, Tehila Avraham, Ella Ophir, Jacob Bornstein
The cost and value of cancer drugs – are new innovations outpacing our ability to pay?
Daniel A. Goldstein, Salomon M. Stemmer, Noa Gordon
Complying with the framework convention for tobacco control: an application of the Abridged SimSmoke model to Israel
David Levy, David B. Abrams, Jeffrey Levy, Laura Rosen
Factors associated with choice of approach for Group B streptococcus screening
H. Sefty, A. Klivitsky, M. Bromberg, R. Dichtiar, M. Ben Ami, T. Shohat, A. Glatman-Freedman, E. Anteby, R. Auslander, I. Ben Schachar, J. Borenstein, B. Chayen, L. Harel, N. Farah, A. Fishman, A. Golan, O. Gonen, Z. Hagay, M. Hakim, M. Hallak, A. Herman, N. Idays, J. Itskovitz, R. Kasrawi, A. E. Kharouf, N. Laufer, J. Lessing, Y. Mamet, M. Mazor, T. Nseir, R. N. Pollack, A. Samueloff, E. Schiff, E. Shalev, A. Wiznitzer, S. Yagel, A. Zabari, H. Amsalem, M. Bardicef, N. Braverman, N. Cohen, A. Cohen-Arazi, A. Eliasy, R. Gur, D. Haim, I. Hendler, D. Ismail, A. Israeli, I. Jahshan, M. Kehat, A. Kharouf, T. Khodak-Be’eri, A. Kopitman, R. Levy, Z. Luria, D. Mankuta, S. Nahir-Biderman, K. Ovadia, Y. Perlitz, O. Reichman, O. Sadan, R. Salim, P. Schwed, Y. Shaham, S. Shahar, E. Vaisbuch, A. Weissman, M. Yosef-Barin, Y. Zakharian, O. Zinger, N. Ziv
Hyperemesis Gravidarum is associated with substantial economic burden in addition to severe physical and psychological suffering
Jone Trovik, Åse Vikanes
A patient-centred approach to embryo donation for research
Catarina Samorinha, Susana Silva
Medical education in Israel 2016: five medical schools in a period of transition
Shmuel Reis, Jacob Urkin, Rachel Nave, Rosalie Ber, Amitai Ziv, Orit Karnieli-Miller, Dafna Meitar, Peter Gilbey, Dror Mevorach
Perception of primary care physicians on the impact of comprehensive geriatric assessment: what is the next step?
Pei Chen, Michael A. Steinman
What health care services does the public want and who should decide? Ask them!
Adele Diederich
Household medical waste disposal policy in Israel
Zohar Barnett-Itzhaki, Tamar Berman, Itamar Grotto, Eyal Schwartzberg
Help seeking in school by Israeli Arab minority adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems: results from the Galilee Study
Raida Daeem, Ivonne Mansbach-Kleinfeld, Ilana Farbstein, Raseem Khamaisi, Anneke Ifrah, Ahmad Sheikh Muhammad, Sylvana Fennig, Alan Apter
A feasibility study to assess the validity of administrative data sources and self-reported information of breast cancer survivors
Rola Hamood, Hatem Hamood, Ilya Merhasin, Lital Keinan-Boker
Mortality, hospital days and expenditures attributable to ambient air pollution from particulate matter in Israel
Gary M. Ginsberg, Ehud Kaliner, Itamar Grotto
Influenza vaccination motivators among healthcare personnel in a large acute care hospital in Israel
Amir Nutman, Naomi Yoeli
Ethical standards for medical research in the Israeli military - review of the changes in the last decade
Ayal Hassidim, Raeed Kayouf, Nirit Yavnai, Naomi Panush, David Dagan, Tarif Bader, Michael Hartal
Dental reform in Israel’s National Health Insurance Law has helped children and their families, but what’s next?
Carlos Quiñonez
Parental regret regarding children’s vaccines—The correlation between anticipated regret, altruism, coping strategies and attitudes toward vaccines
Yaira Hamama-Raz, Eyal Ginossar-David, Menachem Ben-Ezra
Policies to mitigate health inequity: a comparison of Israel and 24 developing countries
Daniel Cotlear
Social media as a platform for science and health engagement: challenges and opportunities
Graham Dixon
Mitigating pharmaceutical waste exposures: policy and program considerations
Eric D. Amster
Ethics and regulation of inter-country medically assisted reproduction: a call for action
Carmel Shalev, Adi Moreno, Hedva Eyal, Michal Leibel, Rhona Schuz, Talia Eldar-Geva
Should Men who have sex with Men be allowed to donate blood in Israel?
Gary Michael Ginsberg, Eilat Shinar, Eran Kopel, Daniel Chemtob
How to improve influenza vaccine coverage of healthcare personnel
David J. Weber, Walter Orenstein, William A. Rutala
Israeli medical education: international perspectives, and reflections on challenges and changes
David R. Katz
The burden of disease from air pollution in Israel: How do we use burden estimates to advance public health?
Jonathan M. Samet
Between individualism and social solidarity in vaccination policy: the case of the 2013 OPV campaign in Israel
Hagai Boas, Anat Rosenthal, Nadav Davidovitch
The IJHPR celebrates five years of quality publication
Bruce Rosen, Avi Israeli