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Commentary
As coverage is expanded in health systems that rely on consumers to choose health insurance plans that best meet their needs, interest in whether consumers possess sufficient understanding of health insurance ...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:40
Published on: 13 July 2017
The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:12
Original research article
Prioritization of medical technologies requires a multi-dimensional view. Often, conflicting equity and efficiency criteria should be reconciled. The most dramatic manifestation of such conflict is in the prio...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:20
Published on: 30 April 2017
Original research article
There is a traditional tension in public policy between the maximization of welfare from given resources (efficiency) and considerations related to the distribution of welfare among the population and to socia...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:18
Published on: 1 April 2017
Original research article
Medical practice variation refers to differences in health service utilization among regions in the same country. It is used as a tool for studying health inequities.
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:4
Published on: 16 January 2017
Original research article
Consumption of sugar causes tooth decay, overweight and obesity related morbidities. This paper in response to the Minister of Health’s request, provides estimates of the mortality, morbidity and health care c...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:1
Published on: 10 January 2017
The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:32
Commentary
In an article recently published in the IJHPR, Ginsberg and colleagues from Israel’s Public Health Services estimate the disease burden from airborne particulate matter in Israel. Using national data on the co...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:63
Published on: 16 December 2016
The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:51
Original research article
Worldwide, ambient air pollution accounts for around 3.7 million deaths annually. Measuring the burden of disease is important not just for advocacy but also is a first step towards carrying out a full cost-ut...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:51
Published on: 15 November 2016
The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:63
Commentary
Cancer drug expenditures have been increasing significantly in countries around the world. A recent paper in the IJHPR provides new knowledge and insights into this global phenomenon by analyzing how it is pla...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:40
Published on: 22 September 2016
Original research article
Modern drug therapy accounts for a major share of health expenditure and challenges public provider resources. The objective of our study was to compare drug expenditure trends for ten major drug classes over ...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:37
Published on: 15 September 2016
Commentary
As a frequent visitor to Israel, I am keenly aware of the concerns of many Israelis that limits in government funding is forcing a high proportion of the country’s medical care to be paid by private sources. F...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:11
Published on: 15 March 2016
Commentary
In a recent article in this journal Simon-Tuval, Horev and Kaplan argue that in order to improve the protection of consumers there might be a need to impose a threshold on the medical loss ratio (MLR) for volu...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:3
Published on: 4 March 2016
The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:21
Original research article
Private health expenditure in systems of national health insurance has raised concern in many countries. The concern is mainly about the accessibility of care to the poor and the sick, and inequality in use an...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:45
Published on: 28 December 2015
Original research article
Concern is growing over serious shortages in the nursing workforce and imbalance between supply and demand. Projections indicate that the demand for the nursing workforce will increase due to the aging populat...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:46
Published on: 15 December 2015
Commentary
Amir Shmueli assessed income-related disparities in healthcare and health in Israel, extending earlier studies that focused primarily on education, ethnic or geographic differences. The new analysis finds that...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:39
Published on: 11 August 2015
Original research article
The growth of the private health insurance sector in Western countries, which is characterized by information deficiencies and limited competition, necessitates the implementation of effective regulatory tools...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:21
Published on: 1 May 2015
The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:3
Commentary
A collaboration of medical professionals with economists and computer scientists involved in “market design” had led to the redesign of the clearinghouse assigning medical students to internships in Israel. Th...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:11
Published on: 25 March 2015
Original research article
Physicians in Israel are required to do an internship in an accredited hospital upon completion of the medical studies, and prior to receiving the medical license. For most students, the assignment is determin...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:6
Published on: 20 March 2015
Commentary
Much like waiting times for health services, the shortage of physicians and other health professionals poses a major health policy issue in many OECD countries. In this short commentary, I present indications ...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:2
Published on: 26 January 2015
Commentary
The ageing of the population across developed countries and beyond has increased the importance of examining multi-morbidity. The recent paper by Arbelle et al. [Isr J of Health Policy Res. 2014;3:29] on multi...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:1
Published on: 26 January 2015
Original research article
Income-related inequalities in health and in health services use pose a disturbing and challenging issue in health systems, which are based on social health insurance such as Israel.
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:37
Published on: 27 November 2014
Commentary
Waiting times for elective care are a major health policy issue in many developed countries. Recent empirical studies suggest that inequalities in waiting times by socioeconomic status are present within publi...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:38
Published on: 27 November 2014
Original research article
Waiting time to receive medical care is a disturbing phenomenon in many healthcare systems. Furthermore, waiting times are usually distributed in the population in an inequitable way.
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:30
Published on: 29 September 2014
Original research article
Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of death, incurring huge resource costs in terms of treating morbidity and lost productivity. This paper estimates smoking attributable mortality (SAM) as healt...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:28
Published on: 29 August 2014
The Erratum to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:5
Commentary
Health care rationing has always been seen as a wicked problem, somehow special and not subject to the same rules of engagement as other policy areas. The article by Philip Sax makes a strong contribution by p...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:23
Published on: 24 June 2014
Commentary
Israel has a low density of professional nurses. New evidence suggests less than optimal hospital work environments may undermine efficient and effective delivery of nursing care and contribute to job dissatis...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:10
Published on: 25 March 2014
Commentary
Breech presentation is encountered in 3 to 4% of term pregnancies and has been a significant driver of the increased rate of cesarean deliveries over the last 4 decades. External cephalic version (ECV) is reco...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:6
Published on: 24 February 2014
Commentary
Factors which contribute to hospitalization of nursing home residents are multiple and complex. They include dimensions of the policy setting as well as patient management practices. In seeking interventions t...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:3
Published on: 23 January 2014
Commentary
Health policies tend to focus on improving the access to health care of persons of low-socioeconomic status to improve their health. This commentary argues that health policies directly directed at health and ...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2013 2:50
Published on: 19 December 2013
Original research article
This paper examines whether individuals facing the threat of poverty are curtailing their consumption of various goods and services in a given order and, if among the expenditures that are cut back, there are ...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2013 2:49
Published on: 19 December 2013
Original research article
Previous studies suggest that cancer-related interventions are valued by policy makers more favorably than interventions for other medical conditions, but the views of practicing physicians have not yet been a...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2013 2:44
Published on: 18 November 2013
Meeting report
The private health insurance (commercial and supplementary health insurance) sector has undergone a revolutionary transformation in recent years, both in the number of individuals who own private plans, and in...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2013 2:25
Published on: 27 June 2013
Commentary
The well-designed, model-based cost-utility analysis by Ginsberg and colleagues provides useful information on the value for money of universal GBS screening in Israel. An extended application of the model-bas...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2013 2:15
Published on: 22 April 2013
Commentary
Does high defence spending limit the growth of public health investment? Using comparative data from 31 OECD countries between 1980 and 2010, we find little evidence that defence crowds out public health spend...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2013 2:14
Published on: 22 April 2013
Original research article
Compared to OECD countries, Israel has a remarkably low percentage of GDP and of government expenditure spent on health, which are not reflected in worse national outcomes. Israel is also characterized by a re...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2013 2:5
Published on: 20 February 2013
Original research article
In Israel, an average of 37 children are born each year with sepsis and another four with meningitis as a result of Group B Streptococcal (GBS) disease. Israel currently only screens mothers with defined risk ...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2013 2:6
Published on: 20 February 2013
Commentary
As populations age, most industrialized nations are seeking to review the structure for their long term care programs with the goal of allocating better limited public resources to meet expanding needs. In thi...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2013 2:4
Published on: 23 January 2013
Commentary
This article is a comment on Ofra Golan and Paul Hansen’s framework for health technology prioritization that they suggest could be developed and used by the committee selecting new technologies for Israel’s h...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2012 1:45
Published on: 26 November 2012
Original research article
Deciding which health technologies to fund involves confronting some of the most difficult choices in medicine. As for other countries, the Israeli health system is faced each year with having to make these di...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2012 1:44
Published on: 26 November 2012
Original research article
Obesity is a major risk factor for many diseases. The paper calculates the economic impact and the cost per Quality-Adjusted Life Year (QALY) resulting from the adoption of eight interventions comprising the c...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2012 1:17
Published on: 18 April 2012
Original research article
Surveys of nursing supplies around the world have furnished a better understanding of the structure of the workforce, helped identify shortages, and plan professional training. This study aimed to examine the ...
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2012 1:11
Published on: 12 March 2012
