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Prioritization

Israel Journal of Health Policy Research considers articles on prioritization in health care. Priority setting in health care has become more explicit worldwide over the last two decades. Israel provides an important laboratory for international learning, having one of the most explicit and accountable systems for priority setting. The country also provides relevant lessons regarding resource allocation among health and other sectors such as defence. This thematic series in IJHPR takes advantage of these characteristics, featuring articles that analyze the priority setting process in Israel, both within the health system and regarding allocations to health in the overall public budgetary context.

  1. There is a stark disparity between the number of patients awaiting deceased-donor organ transplants and the rate at which organs become available. Though organs for transplantation are assumed to be a communit...

    Authors: Amir Elalouf, Joseph S. Pliskin and Tehila Kogut
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2020 9:25
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  2. The Israeli organ donor law was established in 2008. In the ensuing 10 years there have been some improvements in deceased donation and living donor rates and a reduction in the unethical practice of transplan...

    Authors: Jeffrey Zaltzman
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:45
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:11

  3. Avisar et al. present an exemplary model for outreach aimed at ensuring that a maximum of patients eligible for expensive Hepatitis C (HPC) drugs receive treatment. We enlarge the picture to put their model in...

    Authors: Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot and David Chinitz
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:3
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:46

  4. When making recommendations about the public funding of new health technologies, policy makers typically pay close attention to quantitative evidence about the comparative effectiveness, cost effectiveness and...

    Authors: Richard Cookson and Andrew J. Mirelman
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:38
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  5. 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...

    Authors: Amir Shmueli
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:20
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  6. 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...

    Authors: Amir Shmueli, Ofra Golan, Francesco Paolucci and Emmanouil Mentzakis
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:18
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  8. 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 ...

    Authors: Yossef Lomnicky, Daniel Kurnik, Ronen Loebstein, Itzhak Katzir, Janet Vesterman-Landes and Nava Siegelmann-Danieli
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:37
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  9. 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:

  10. There is growing recognition that critical decisions concerning investments in new health care technologies and services should incorporate society’s values along with the scientific evidence. From a normative...

    Authors: Stuart J Peacock
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:29
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  11. Many stakeholders have little or no confidence in the ability of the public to express their opinions on health policy issues. The claim often arises that lay people prioritize according to their own personal ...

    Authors: Giora Kaplan and Orna Baron-Epel
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:15
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  13. 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...

    Authors: Alvin E Roth and Ran I Shorrer
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:11
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  14. 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...

    Authors: Slava Bronfman, Avinatan Hassidim, Arnon Afek, Assaf Romm, Rony Shreberk, Ayal Hassidim and Anda Massler
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:6
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  15. 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...

    Authors: Raphael Wittenberg
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:1
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  20. 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...

    Authors: Dan Greenberg, Ariel Hammerman, Shlomo Vinker, Adi Shani, Yuval Yermiahu and Peter J Neumann
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2013 2:44
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  22. 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...

    Authors: Amir Shmueli and Avi Israeli
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2013 2:5
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  24. 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...

    Authors: Ofra Golan and Paul Hansen
    Citation: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2012 1:44
    Content type: Original research article Published on: