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An important new health policy voice
AbstractIn the 10  years since its founding, the Israel Journal of Health Policy Research has established itself as an important voice in Israeli and international health policy. The Journal’s ability to combine national and international perspectives on key issues in health services delivery and health systems an alysis has developed a valuable new arena for academic research about the increasingly complex post-COVID future of health care systems. (Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research)
Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research - December 15, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Involvement and skepticism towards the JCI Accreditation process among hospital ’s four sectors employees: suggestions for cultural change
ConclusionsMore efforts should be made to increase involvement among physicians and paramedical teams in the accreditation process. Each sector leadership involvement is essential for their involvement too. Early involvement of the Israeli Medical Association in the process might have achieved better physicians ’ collaboration. Frontal education and video demonstrations may help decrease skepticism and increase positive attitudes. (Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research)
Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research - December 14, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

A management model for admission and treatment of pediatric trauma cases
ConclusionsOur analysis suggests that the optimal ED for pediatric trauma cases is one with available operating rooms, intensive care beds, an imaging unit, laboratories and equipment suitable for treating children as well as with staff trained to treat children with trauma. To achieve optimal outcomes, medical centers in Israel should be classified according to their trauma treatment capabilities and their ability to treat varied severities of pediatric trauma cases. (Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research)
Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research - December 13, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Clinical pharmacy in Israel versus the US, can we & quot;compare apples to apples & quot;? —commentary
AbstractClinical pharmacy is an umbrella of pharmaceutical services that is practiced by clinical pharmacists. Clinical pharmacists improve the quality of drug therapy, minimize the risk for drug related problems, reduce the risk of morbidity and mortality associated with polypharmacy and decrease the overall healthcare expenditure. Consequently, clinical pharmacy is focused on both the needs of the individual patient, as well as of the healthcare system. Clinical pharmacy is now well-established and practiced worldwide and in the last two decades has been implemented successfully in Israel. This commentary maintains that ...
Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research - December 13, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Knowledge of and willingness to take pre-exposure prophylaxis among men who have sex with men in Israel
ConclusionsPrEP awareness was high, and 44.8% indicated willingness to take PrEP, especially those who reported high-risk sexual behaviors. This supports the current policy in Israel to allow PrEP to MSM who are at high-risk. In order to maintain a high level of PrEP-adherence, physicians should consider structural barriers, such as negative stigma of being promiscuous, lack of perceived HIV-risk, difficulties in accessing clinics or paying for PrEP, inability to follow-up or low tolerability of the medication. (Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research)
Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research - December 6, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

The surfacing portion of the Iceberg of the Domestic Violence Phenomenon —data from the Israeli National Trauma Registry
ConclusionsDomestic violence prevention should pay special attention to populations at risk, such as Arab women and new immigrants, as those women are especially vulnerable and often without sufficient family support and lack of economic resources to exit the trap of domestic violence. The collaboration between social and health services, the police, and the local authorities is crucial. (Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research)
Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research - December 2, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

It ’s time to eliminate the mismatch between pediatric training and practice
AbstractThe quality of pediatric clinical practice is dependent on the training received during residency. It is assumed that the content of the training will adequately prepare pediatricians for the sorts of problems and issues they will be asked to manage in community settings. While over the past several decades there have been major changes in pediatric morbidity, there is evidence that training and service delivery models have not evolved; there is a significant mismatch between training and evidence-based clinical practice. A recent paper published in this journal (1) drew attention to the inadequacy of pediatricians...
Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research - December 2, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Adapting to change: Clalit's response to the COVID-19 pandemic
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic is the most significant global health event of the past century. The profound and unexpected changes that it brought about have forced healthcare organizations to make far-reaching adjustments to accommodate the new reality. With the outbreak of the pandemic in Israel and the understanding of its consequences, Clalit Health Services (Clalit), the largest healthcare organization in Israel, rapidly mobilized in order to provide the best response possible from the perspective of both its patients and its employees. In the short term, four designated workgroups were established just days into the ...
Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research - November 30, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

What if health care worked like everything else?
AbstractDoctors use up-to-date communication technology in their personal lives, but the tools they use to communicate with professional colleagues are much more limited. In light of new research exploring the use of WhatsApp in Israel, this commentary explores the barriers to such use and the technological, legal, and cultural factors that enable adoption of such technologies for medical communication. Common tools can be used for professional collaboration but must be adapted for that use as well as culturally acceptable for broad implementation. (Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research)
Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research - November 25, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Improving compliance with physical distancing across religious cultures in Israel
ConclusionsMindset-assignment reflects how people think rather than their religious affiliation. A personal viewpoint identifier was developed to predict mindset-assignment and enable health authorities to enhance compliance through mindset-tailored messages for members of each mindset segment. We recommend that health authorities and policy makers consider these different personality types, which range across religious minorities and emphasize the messages that each type responds to in developing and implementing a communication plan to improve physical distancing as an important public health measure. (Source: Israel Jou...
Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research - November 24, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on patient visits to the emergency department and hospitalizations in medical wards in an Israeli medical center
ConclusionsThe Covid-19 crisis emphasizes the role of medical wards in the care of complex patients. Medical wards in Israel were at the frontline of Israel's battle against this pandemic, while continuing to treat very complex non-Covid patients. To avoid burnout of the medical staff who treat very intensively complex patients, we believe these wards should be strengthen with specialists having expertise in treating these patients. Due to our insights, the Sheba medical Center is now redesigning the concept of how intensive care beds should be managed in a big tertiary center. (Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research)
Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research - November 1, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Lessons from Israel's COVID-19 Green Pass program
AbstractAs of the beginning of March 2021, Israeli law requires the presentation of a Green Pass as a precondition for entering certain businesses and public spheres. Entitlement for a Green Pass is granted to Israelis who have been vaccinated with two doses of COVID-19 vaccine, who have recovered from COVID-19, or who are participating in a clinical trial for vaccine development in Israel. The Green Pass is essential for retaining immune individuals' freedom of movement and for promoting the public interest in reopening the economic, educational, and cultural spheres of activity. Nonetheless, and as the Green Pass imposes...
Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research - October 29, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Correction to: Ethnic and minority group differences in engagement with COVID-19 vaccination programmes – at Pandemic Pace; when vaccine confidence in mass rollout meets local vaccine hesitancy
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Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research - October 28, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Mixed effect of increasing outflow of medical patients from an emergency department
ConclusionWe describe a quality improvement intervention to improve outflow of medical patients from the ED in the morning hours. The new ED practices had mixed effects. They led to less ED crowding in the morning hours but increased dissatisfaction among the IM department medical and nursing staff due to an increased number of admissions in a limited number of hours. The present governmental reimbursement policy needs to address hospital overcrowding as it relates to limited community healthcare beds and an aging population. (Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research)
Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research - October 27, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Oral health of the 65+ age group in Israel-2020
Conclusions and recommendationsThe perceived status of oral health among the 65+ age group is currently better than it was 22  years ago. However, despite the improvement in oral health and health behavior, there are still barriers to the utilization of dental services. The main barriers are a lack of awareness of the importance of proper health behavior, and the cost of care for people with financial difficulty. This stu dy provides decision-makers with data on the status of oral health, the utilization of dental services and the geographical disparities. The findings will help policy makers evaluate the effectiveness of...
Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research - October 25, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research