Issue 1/2019
Content (87 Articles)
Self-reported influence of monetary grants in the choice of a medical residency in remote or under-served areas
Yishay Wasserstrum, Racheli Magnezi, Ofer Tamir, Stav Koren, Dor Lotan, Arnon Afek
Burnout and intentions to quit the practice among community pediatricians: associations with specific professional activities
Zachi Grossman, Gabriel Chodick, Talma Kushnir, Herman Avner Cohen, Gil Chapnick, Shai Ashkenazi
Ethnic disparity in Israel impacts long-term results after heart transplantation
Yael Peled, Ron Loewenthal, Yigal Kassif, Eugenia Raichlin, Arwa Younis, Anan Younis, Eyal Nachum, Dov Freimark, Jacob Lavee
Integration of the first physician assistants into Israeli emergency departments – the physician assistants’ perspective
Rina Maoz-Breuer, Oren Berkowitz, Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot
The nurse coordinator role: fulfillment of the nursing profession's compact with society
Anne H. Gross, Jessica Driscoll, Laura Ma
Information and communication technologies: where are persons with intellectual disabilities?
Shirli Werner, Carmit-Noa Shpigelman
The epidemiology of wrist and hand injury in two hospitals in Jerusalem: substantial differences between population subgroups
Shai Luria, Daniel Talmud, Ido Volk, Meir Liebergall, Ronit Calderon-Margalit
Structural effects of the information revolution on tax-funded European health systems and some potential policy responses
Richard B. Saltman
Clinical and demographic characteristics of secluded and mechanically restrained mentally ill patients: a retrospective study
Chanoch Miodownik, Michael D. Friger, Eyal Orev, Yisroel Gansburg, Nadav Reis, Vladimir Lerner
Knowledge and risk perceptions of Israelis towards combustible cigarettes: the need for immediate remedial action
Laura J. Rosen, David A. Rier, Robert Schwartz, Michal Talitman, Lior Zwanziger
IQOS point-of-sale marketing strategies in Israel: a pilot study
Yael Bar-Zeev, Hagai Levine, Gil Rubinstein, Ihab Khateb, Carla J. Berg
Obtaining a second opinion is a neglected source of health care inequalities
Jochanan Benbassat
Health policy regulations pertaining to advanced surgical devices—their socio-economic effects on ophthalmology practice
Dana Barequet, Aviad Tur-Sinai, Irit Barequet
Correlates of mental disorders among minority Arab adolescents in Israel: results from the Galilee Study
Raida Daeem, Ivonne Mansbach-Kleinfeld, Ilana Farbstein, Robert Goodman, Rasha Elias, Anneke Ifrah, Gabriel Chodick, Rassem Khamaisi, Silvana Fennig, Alan Apter
Patient equity and respiratory syncytial virus Immunoprophylaxis
H. Cody Meissner
Clinical pharmacist led hospital-wide direct oral anticoagulant stewardship program
Amichai Perlman, Ehud Horwitz, Bruria Hirsh-Raccah, Gefen Aldouby-Bier, Tamar Fisher Negev, Sarit Hochberg-Klein, Yosef Kalish, Mordechai Muszkat
Mechanical ventilation patterns and trends over 20 years in an Israeli hospital system: policy ramifications
Rachel Yaffa Zisk-Rony, Charles Weissman, Yoram G. Weiss
Policy for reducing unplanned pregnancies and repeat unplanned pregnancies rates in Israeli Defense Force
Adi Kuperman-Shani, Tarif Bader, Elon Glassberg, Vered Klaitman
Dementia care in Israel: top down and bottom up processes
Netta Bentur, Shelley A. Sternberg
Preventive health services for young children in Israel: historical development and current challenges
Deena R. Zimmerman, Gina Verbov, Naomi Edelstein, Chen Stein-Zamir
Data integration of electronic medical record under administrative decentralization of medical insurance and healthcare in China: a case study
Zhong Wang
Achieving ethnic equality in the Israel trauma healthcare system: the case of the elderly population
Nura Abdel-Rahman, Nechemia Yoffe, 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
More staff = better quality of life for people with dementia? results of a secondary data analysis in German shared-housing arrangements
Johannes Gräske, Annika Schmidt, Karin Wolf-Ostermann
Optimal continuous support accompanying labor - the midwives’ and laboring women’s point of view
Maya Frank Wolf, Oleg Shnaider, Limor Sharabi, Sari Nahir Biderman, Reut Elon, Jacob Bornstein
Minorities and foreign born are disproportionately affected by injuries due to violence: an analysis based on a National Trauma Registry 2008–2017
Abebe Tiruneh, 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, Maya Siman-Tov
Assessing and monitoring the impact of the national newborn hearing screening program in Israel
Janice Wasser, Daphne Ari-Even Roth, Orly Herzberg, Liat Lerner-Geva, Lisa Rubin
Public educational psychology services in Israel on the internet
Sarit Alkalay, Avivit Dolev
Is the oral health reform in Israel optimally distributed? - A commentary
Harold Sgan-Cohen, Guy Tobias, Avraham Zini
Optimizing the treatment of pain and anxiety in pediatric emergencies: the role of accreditation
Aaron Brody, Usha Sethuraman
The more health policies change, the more they change the same way
David Chinitz
Disparities, variations, inequalities or inequities: whatever you call them, we need data to monitor them
Jennifer S. Mindell
Prevention, prevention and prevention
Shlomo Paul Zusman
The promise – and pitfalls – of smoke-free policy adoption
Vaughan W. Rees
Home hospice for older people with advanced dementia: a pilot project
Shelley A. Sternberg, Ron Sabar, Glynis Katz, Ronit Segal, Liat Fux-Zach, Valeria Grofman, Gery Roth, Netta Cohen, Zorian Radomyslaski, Netta Bentur
Factors affecting oral examinations and dental treatments among older adults in Israel
Shosh Shahrabani
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Workplace bullying and its preventive measures and productivity among emergency department nurses
Suhair Hussni Al-Ghabeesh, Haya Qattom
Barriers to help-seeking in Israeli Arab minority adolescents with mental health problems: results from the Galilee study
Raida Daeem, Ivonne Mansbach-Kleinfeld, Ilana Farbstein, Alan Apter, Rasha Elias, Anneke Ifrah, Gabriel Chodick, Silvana Fennig
The economic burden of health disparities related to socioeconomic status in Israel
Eran Politzer, Amir Shmueli, Shlomit Avni
Point-of-sale marketing of heated tobacco products in Israel: cause for concern
Bonnie Halpern-Felsher
Mechanical ventilation in medical departments: a necessary evil, or a blessing in bad disguise?
Yuval Schwartz, Amir Jarjoui, Amos M. Yinnon
Applying local epidemiological data to national policy – the case study of the epidemiology of wrist and hand injury in Jerusalem
Moran Bodas, Adi Givon, N. Abbod, H. Bahouth, M. Bala, A. Becker, M. Ben Eli, A. Braslavsky, I. Grevtsev, I. Jeroukhimov, M. Karawani, B. Kessel, Y. Klein, G. Lin, O. Merin, Y. Mnouskin, A. Rivkind, G. Shaked, D. Soffer, M. Stein, M. Weiss, Kobi Peleg
Multidisciplinary work promotes preventive medicine and health education in primary care: a cross-sectional survey
Ayelet Schor, Lucia Bergovoy-Yellin, Daniel Landsberger, Tania Kolobov, Orna Baron-Epel
Cultural competence in a context of ethnic tension
Eliezer Be’eri, Maurit Beeri, Tal Cohen
Geographic variation of hysterectomy rates in the Israeli health care system during the years 2007–2016
Roy Lauterbach, Mendlovic Joseph, Ziona Haklai, Lavie Gil, Lior Lowenstein
Ethnic disparities in cardiac transplantation: opportunities to improve long-term outcomes in all cardiac transplant recipients
Jeremy Kobulnik, Yasbanoo Moayedi, Douglas Greig
The Holocaust, medicine and becoming a physician: the crucial role of education
Shmuel P. Reis, Hedy S. Wald, Paul Weindling
Correction to: home hospice for older people with advanced dementia: a pilot project
Shelley A. Sternberg, Ron Sabar, Glynis Katz, Ronit Segal, Liat Fux-Zach, Valeria Grofman, Gery Roth, Netta Cohen, Zorian Radomyslaski, Netta Bentur
Digital recording and documentation of endoscopic procedures: physicians’ practice and perspectives
Maya Peled-Raz, Nadav Willner, Dan Shteinberg, Keren Or-Chen, Tova Rainis
Language practice and policy in Israeli hospitals: the case of the Hebrew and Arabic languages
Yael Keshet, Ariela Popper-Giveon
Retraction Note to: Workplace bullying and its preventive measures and productivity among emergency department nurses
Suhair Hussni Al-Ghabeesh, Haya Qattom
Health literacy in an Israeli elderly population
Michal Hochhauser, Michael Brusovansky, Maria Sirotin, Katerina Bronfman
Specialty services offered by pharmacists in the community
Anthony P. Morreale, Julie A. Groppi, Heather Ourth
Vaccination uptake and income inequalities within a mass vaccination campaign
Aviad Tur-Sinai, Rachel Gur-Arie, Nadav Davidovitch, Eran Kopel, Yael Glazer, Emilia Anis, Itamar Grotto
No-shows in ambulatory clinics and non-utilized appointments for elective operations in selected surgical departments at a tertiary hospital in Israel
Lior Cohen-Yatziv, Matan Joel Cohen, Jonathan Halevy, Ehud Kaliner
Measuring the academic value of academic medical centers: describing a methodology for developing an evaluation model at one Academic Medical Center
Rafael Hod, Oded Maimon, Eyal Zimlichman
Correlates of gastroenterology health-services utilization among patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease: a large database analysis
Wasef Na’amnih, Racheli Katz, Sophy Goren, Amir Ben-Tov, Tomer Ziv-Baran, Gabriel Chodick, Khitam Muhsen
The number of acute cerebrovascular events in Israel: a forecast until 2040
Assaf Ben Shoham, Sigal Liberant-Taub, Mor Sharon, Inbar Zucker
Hierarchy of hair loss stigma: media portrayals of cancer, alopecia areata, and ringworm in Israeli newspapers
Daphna Yeshua-Katz, Shifra Shvarts, Dorit Segal-Engelchin
Evidence-based preschool-age vision screening: health policy considerations
Deena Rachel Zimmerman, Hadas Ben-Eli, Bruce Moore, Monique Toledano, Chen Stein-Zamir, Ariela Gordon-Shaag
Commentary: seclusion and mechanical restraint of psychiatric patients in Israel - an update
Yoav Kohn, Igor Barash, Gadi Lubin
Correction to: Hierarchy of hair loss stigma: media portrayals of cancer, alopecia areata, and ringworm in Israeli Newspapers
Daphna Yeshua-Katz, Shifra Shvarts, Dorit Segal-Engelchin
The Israeli national population program of genetic carrier screening for reproductive purposes. How should it be continued?
Joël Zlotogora
Disruptive behaviors among nurses in Israel – association with listening, wellbeing and feeling as a victim: a cross-sectional study
Sigal Shafran Tikva, Avraham N. Kluger, Yulia Lerman
Factors that affect Israeli paramedics’ decision to quit the profession: a mixed methods study
Keren Dopelt, Oren Wacht, Refael Strugo, Rami Miller, Talma Kushnir
“Death is inevitable – a bad death is not” report from an international workshop
Adir Shaulov, Kassim Baddarni, Nathan Cherny, Dorith Shaham, Pesach Shvartzman, Rotem Tellem, A. Mark Clarfield
Ensuring HIV care to undocumented migrants in Israel: a public-private partnership case study
Daniel Chemtob, Rivka Rich, Neta Harel, Nechama Averick, Eyal Schwartzberg, Israel Yust, Shlomo Maayan, Itamar Grotto, Ronni Gamzu
The prevalence of iron deficiency anemia among African asylum seeking children residing in Tel Aviv
Gideon Koren, Lielle Ross, Oren Zwang, Orel Benari
Factors associated with childhood influenza vaccination in Israel: a cross-sectional evaluation
Aharona Glatman-Freedman, Kanar Amir, Rita Dichtiar, Hila Zadka, Ifat Vainer, Dolev Karolinsky, Teena Enav, Tamy Shohat
Innovation and The Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
Bruce Rosen, Avi Israeli, Stephen Schoenbaum
Preferences for mental health treatment for post-partum depression among new mothers
Meital Simhi, Orly Sarid, Julie Cwikel
International workshop on the future of community child healthcare
Zachi Grossman, Boaz Porter, Joseph Meyerovitch, Lisa Rubin, Jacob Kuint, Efrat Wechsler, Doron Dushnitzky, Shai Ashkenazi
Private expenditures on healthcare: determinants, patterns and progressivity aspects
Leah Achdut
A survey of primary-care pediatricians regarding the management of Helicobacter pylori infection and celiac disease
Amir Ben Tov, Wasef Na’amnih, Amna Bdair-Amsha, Shlomi Cohen, Judith Tzamir, Gabriel Chodick, Khitam Muhsen