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Israel Journal of Health Policy Research

Ausgabe 1/2020

Inhalt (77 Artikel)

Open Access Commentary

Paramedics and Physician Assistants in Israel

Roderick S. Hooker

Open Access Original research article

Temporal trends in healthcare resource utilization and costs following acute myocardial infarction

Arthur Shiyovich, Harel Gilutz, Jonathan Eli Arbelle, Dan Greenberg, Ygal Plakht

Open Access Original research article

Trust in the referring physician reduces anxiety in an integrated community-to-hospital care system

Moshe Y. Flugelman, Ronen Jaffe, Gil Luria, Dana Yagil

Open Access Original research article

Sex for seniors: how physicians discuss older adult’s sexuality

Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan, Inbar Levkovich, Moshe Mock, Uri Gur, Khaled Karkabi, Liat Ayalon

Open Access Original research article

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

Open Access Original research article

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

Open Access Original research article

Motivation of emergency medical services volunteers: a study of organized Good Samaritans

Michael Khalemsky, David G. Schwartz, Raphael Herbst, Eli Jaffe

Open Access Commentary

Enhancing primary care and preventive services through Interprofessional practice and education

Terri Fowler, David Garr, Natalie Di Pietro Mager, Joan Stanley

Open Access Original research article

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

Open Access Original research article

Depressive symptoms and use of health services among older adults in Israel

Netta Bentur, Anthony David Heymann

Open Access Original research article

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

Open Access Original research article

Lessons learned from an evaluation of referrals to the emergency department

Roee Gorodetzer, Evan Avraham Alpert, Zvika Orr, Shifra Unger, Todd Zalut

Open Access Commentary

Evaluating the consequences of health policy decisions

Ulrike Nimptsch

Open Access Original research article

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

Open Access Perspective

Historic tobacco legislation in Israel: a moment to celebrate

L. Rosen, S. Kislev, Y. Bar-Zeev, H. Levine

Open Access Original research article

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

Open Access Commentary

Older adults and the disparity in oral health status; the problem and innovative ways to address it

Elaine O. C. Cardoso, Howard C. Tenenbaum

Open Access Original research article

Attitudes, knowledge, and preferences of the Israeli public regarding the allocation of donor organs for transplantation

Amir Elalouf, Joseph S. Pliskin, Tehila Kogut

Open Access Original research article

Emergency department visits at Rambam health care campus, Israel: non-trauma related dental conditions

Leon Bilder, Jacob Horwitz, Hadar Zigdon-Giladi, Zvi Gutmacher

Open Access Original research article

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

Open Access Original research article

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

Open Access Original research article

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

Open Access Integrative article

From public vs. private to public/private mix in healthcare: lessons from the Israeli and the Spanish cases

Dani Filc, Alon Rasooly, Nadav Davidovitch

Open Access Original research article

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

Open Access Original research article

The patient–physician relationship: an account of the physician’s perspective

Ron Berger, Ben Bulmash, Netanel Drori, Ofir Ben-Assuli, Ram Herstein

Open Access Original research article

Hair loss due to scalp ringworm irradiation in childhood: health and psychosocial risks for women

Liat Hoffer, Shifra Shvarts, Dorit Segal-Engelchin

Open Access Original research article

Socio-economic disparities and returning to work following an injury

Bella Savitsky, Irina Radomislensky, Sharon Goldman, Natalia Gitelson, Zhanna Frid, Kobi Peleg

Open Access Original research article

Associations between ethnicity, place of residence, hearing status of family and habilitation of children with hearing impairment

Ester Goldblat, Dori Rivkin, Viacheslav Konstantinov

Open Access Original research article

Patient-centered care in Israeli IVF units: divergent perceptions of patients and providers

Tamar R. Medina-Artom, Eli Y. Adashi

Open Access Original research article

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

Open Access Original research article

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

Open Access Original research article

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

Open Access Commentary

At the crossroads of religion and palliative care in patients with dementia

Kieran L. Quinn, Daphna L. Grossman

Open Access Integrative article

Attracting Israeli nursing students to community nursing

Yael Sela-Vilensky, Keren Grinberg, Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot

Open Access Short communication

Caries prevalence among 18 years old, an epidemiological survey in Israel

Nirit Yavnai, Sigal Mazor, Yuval Vered, Idan Shavit, Avraham Zini

Open Access Original research article

Neuropsychological assessment in the Israeli healthcare system: a practitioners’ survey

Gitit Kavé, Ayala Bloch, Adi Shabi, Sari Maril

Open Access Original research article

Promoting patients’ rights through hospital accreditation

Daniel Sperling, Rina B. Pikkel

Open Access Original research article

Are Israelis becoming healthier? Trends in self-rated health, 2002–2018

Anat Ziv, J. Jona Schellekens

Open Access Commentary

Reflections on the IJHPR’s article collection on dementia

Jill Harrison, Vincent Mor, Susan Mitchell, Ellen P. McCarthy

Open Access Original research article

Differences in substance use by sexual orientation and gender among Jewish young adults in Israel

Hagit Bonny-Noach, Mally Shechory-Bitton

Open Access COVID-19 Original research article

The future of telemedicine visits after COVID-19: perceptions of primary care pediatricians

Zachi Grossman, Gabriel Chodick, Stephen M. Reingold, Gil Chapnick, Shai Ashkenazi

Open Access Original research article

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

Open Access Original research article

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

Open Access COVID-19 Original research article

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

Open Access Original research article

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

Open Access COVID-19 Original research article

A rapid assessment of migrant careworkers’ psychosocial status during Israel’s COVID-19 lockdown

Jordan Hannink Attal, Ido Lurie, Yehuda Neumark

Open Access Perspective

National initiatives to promote quality of care and patient safety: achievements to date and challenges ahead

Dalia Dreiher, Olga Blagorazumnaya, Ran Balicer, Jacob Dreiher

Open Access Original research article

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

Open Access Original research article

Strategic management as adaptation to changes in the ecosystems of public hospitals in Israel

Lior Naamati Schneider

Open Access Original research article

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

Open Access Commentary

The vexing relationship between socioeconomic status and health

J. Travis Donahoe, Thomas G. McGuire

Open Access Perspective

The insurability of innovative pharmaceutical cancer technologies

Shuli Brammli Greenberg, Einat Dotan, Rachel Arazi

Open Access Original research article

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

Open Access Correction

Correction to: Hair loss due to scalp ringworm irradiation in childhood: health and psychosocial risks for women

Liat Hoffer, Shifra Shvarts, Dorit Segal-Engelchin

Open Access COVID-19 Original research article

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

Open Access Editorial

Opportunities for diversifying and enriching our article mix

Bruce Rosen, Stephen C. Schoenbaum, Avi Israeli

Open Access Original research article

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

Open Access COVID-19 Commentary

Sustaining primary care teams in the midst of a pandemic

Erin E. Sullivan, Russell S. Phillips