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  1. Suicide rates among Ethiopian immigrants to Israel (EI) are relatively high. This study sought to identify suicide-risk factors in this population in order to suggest some potentially preventive measures to me...

    Authors: Rafael Youngmann, Nelly Zilber, Ziona Haklai and Nehama Goldberger
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2021 10:27
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  2. Psychological distress is a problem strongly associated with socio-economic conditions. This study aims to assess rates of psychological distress and ‘poor’ self-rated health among Palestinian citizens of Isra...

    Authors: Mohammad Khatib, Ivonne Mansbach-Kleinfeld, Sarah Abu-Kaf, Anneke Ifrah and Ahmad Sheikh-Muhammad
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2021 10:3
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  3. Despite relatively high rates of Postpartum Depression (PPD), little is known about the granting of social security benefits to women who are disabled as a result of PPD or of other postpartum mood and anxiety...

    Authors: Bella Savitsky, Irina Radomislensky, Zhanna Frid, Natalia Gitelson, Saralee Glasser and Tova Hendel
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2020 9:63
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  4. The current study examines self-reported professional practices and attitudes of Israeli neuropsychologists, in an attempt to understand how they contribute to funding of neuropsychological assessment (NPA) th...

    Authors: Gitit Kavé, Ayala Bloch, Adi Shabi and Sari Maril
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2020 9:46
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  6. Until 1960, hundreds of thousands of children worldwide had been treated for scalp ringworm by epilation via irradiation. The discovery of late health effects in adulthood prompted investigation of the medical...

    Authors: Liat Hoffer, Shifra Shvarts and Dorit Segal-Engelchin
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2020 9:34
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2020 9:72

  8. In 2015, mental health services were added to the Israeli National Health Insurance package of services. As such, these services are financed by the budget which is allocated to the Health Plans according to a...

    Authors: Yoav Kohn and Amir Shmueli
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2020 9:16
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  9. The prevalence rate of postpartum depression (PPD) is 9 to 17% among mothers, with higher rates among low income and immigrant populations. Due to the negative effects of PPD symptoms on both the mother and baby,...

    Authors: Meital Simhi, Orly Sarid and Julie Cwikel
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:84
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  10. The public Educational Psychology Services provide mental health services for children and youth in Israel, alongside the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Services. The Psychological a...

    Authors: Sarit Alkalay and Avivit Dolev
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:31
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  11. Restraint or seclusion measures in acute psychiatric care are used as a last resort when all other methods for removal of physical threat have failed. The purpose of this study is to find a correlation between...

    Authors: Chanoch Miodownik, Michael D. Friger, Eyal Orev, Yisroel Gansburg, Nadav Reis and Vladimir Lerner
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:9
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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:71

  12. The Galilee Study is the first large epidemiological study to compare correlates of mental disorders between two Arab Palestinian minority groups of adolescents in Israel.

    Authors: Raida Daeem, Ivonne Mansbach-Kleinfeld, Ilana Farbstein, Robert Goodman, Rasha Elias, Anneke Ifrah, Gabriel Chodick, Rassem Khamaisi, Silvana Fennig and Alan Apter
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:14
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  13. Epidemiological studies show disparities in the provision of physical health-care for people with severe mental illness. This observation includes countries with universal health insurance. However, there is l...

    Authors: Maya Lavie-Ajayi, Galia S. Moran, Itzhak Levav, Rotem Porat, Tal Reches, Margalit Goldfracht and Gilad Gal
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:49
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  14. Postpartum suicidality, a result of extreme distress or depression, is a tragedy for the woman, infant, and family. Screening for postpartum depression (PPD) is mandatory in Israel, including a question on sui...

    Authors: Saralee Glasser, Daphna Levinson, Ethel-Sherry Gordon, Tali Braun, Ziona Haklai and Nehama Goldberger
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:34
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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2019 8:77

  15. Studies have shown health care disparities among persons of minority status, including in countries with universal health care. Yet, a dearth of studies have addressed disparities resulting from the combined e...

    Authors: Gilad Gal, Hanan Munitz and Itzhak Levav
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:47
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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:26

  16. Many distressed minority adolescents with little access to professional mental health services use teachers and school counselors as their main consultation sources. This paper presents data from the Galilee s...

    Authors: Raida Daeem, Ivonne Mansbach-Kleinfeld, Ilana Farbstein, Raseem Khamaisi, Anneke Ifrah, Ahmad Sheikh Muhammad, Sylvana Fennig and Alan Apter
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:49
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  18. To date, studies on the outcomes of a shared war reality among mental health professionals (MHPs) in southern Israel have focused only on those residing and working in Otef Gaza. The aim of this study is to de...

    Authors: Itay Pruginin, Dorit Segal-Engelchin, Richard Isralowitz and Alexander Reznik
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:17
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  19. Although serious mental illneses are treated with both typical and atypical antipsychotic grugs, trends in their use in psychiatric inpatient population in Israel are unrecognized. The aim of this study was to...

    Authors: Alexander M. Ponizovsky, Eli Marom, Michal Ben-Laish, Igor Barash, Abraham Weizman and Eyal Schwartzberg
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:16
    Content type: Research Published on:

  21. Emergency and disaster situations such as war or terrorism can leave a devastating impact on the mental well-being of victimized populations. In Israel, the civilian aspects of trauma-related mental distress w...

    Authors: Moran Bodas, Bella Ben-Gershon, Zohar Rubinstein, Tal Bergman-Levy and Kobi Peleg
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:25
    Content type: Integrative article Published on:

  22. While there is a strong case for primary prevention of mental health problems, relatively little mental health scholarship has been devoted to it in the last decade. Efforts to accelerate prevention scholarshi...

    Authors: Lawrence S Wissow
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:10
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  23. The World Health Organization Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan (CMHAP) 2013–2020 proposes the implementation of primary prevention strategies to reduce the mental health burden of disease. The extent to...

    Authors: Ora Nakash, Liat Razon and Itzhak Levav
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:3
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  25. The State of Israel is preparing to transfer legal responsibility for mental- health care from the government to the country’s four competing, nonprofit health-plans. A prominent feature of this reform is the ...

    Authors: Nurit Nirel and Hadar Samuel
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:25
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  27. In the last decade (2001–2010) the Ministry of Health implemented two major inter-related reforms: a ’structural reform’ to reduce the number of psychiatric beds and the ’Rehabilitation of the Mentally Disable...

    Authors: Daphna Levinson and Yaacov Lerner
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2013 2:29
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  29. In 2001, the Rehabilitation of the Mentally Disabled Law was implemented, defining a basket of rehabilitation services to which people with mental disabilities are entitled.

    Authors: Tzipi Hornik-Lurie, Nelly Zilber and Yaacov Lerner
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2012 1:24
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