Measuring progress towards universal health coverage: with an application to 24 developing countries

A Wagstaff, D Cotlear, PHV Eozenou… - Oxford Review of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The last few years have seen a growing commitment worldwide to universal health coverage
(UHC). Yet there is a lack of clarity on how to measure progress towards UHC. We propose …

Early implementation of guidelines for managing young infants with possible serious bacterial infection in Bangladesh

JA Applegate, S Ahmed, MA Khan, S Alam, N Kabir… - BMJ Global …, 2019 - gh.bmj.com
Neonatal infections remain a leading cause of newborn deaths globally. In 2015, WHO
issued guidelines for managing possible serious bacterial infection (PSBI) in young infants …

Depression and anxiety are associated with high health care utilization and mortality among adults with congenital heart disease

M Benderly, O Kalter-Leibovici, D Weitzman… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background The significance of depression/anxiety among ACHD patients in terms of health
care utilization is unknown and data on the association with mortality are scarce. Methods …

Turnover of registered nurses in Israel: characteristics and predictors

O Toren, R Zelker, M Lipschuetz, S Riba, S Reicher… - Health policy, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: In an era of global and local nursing shortages, nursing turnover has
negative consequences in terms of diminished quality of care, increased costs and …

Integrating CAM and biomedicine in primary care settings: Physicians' perspectives on boundaries and boundary work

JT Shuval, R Gross, Y Ashkenazi… - Qualitative Health …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we present the results of a study that was conducted among 15 family
physicians who had incorporated complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) into their …

[HTML][HTML] Delay in diagnosis of primary intradural spinal cord tumors

D Segal, Z Lidar, A Corn… - Surgical neurology …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: It has been our impression in recent years that there is a significant delay in
diagnosis (DID) of patients in Israel harboring intradural spinal cord tumors (IDSCTs). DID …

The backyard: cumulative trauma of children from East Jerusalem who were removed from their homes

M Eissa, A Zeira - Child Abuse & Neglect, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Few studies examined child abuse and neglect and its consequences in the
context of a complex socio-political reality such as East Jerusalem. Additionally, research …

The impact of an integrated hospital-community medical information system on quality and service utilization in hospital departments

N Nirel, B Rosen, A Sharon, O Blondheim… - International journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: In 2005, an innovative system of hospital-community on-line medical records
(OFEK) was implemented at Clalit Health Services (CHS). The goals of the study were to …

Factors affecting the patient journey in scheduling a specialist appointment in a public healthcare system

O Luxenburg, V Myers, A Ziv, I Novikov… - Journal of Patient …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
A questionnaire was developed to evaluate the journey experienced by patients from
identifying a need to see a community specialist in Israel's public healthcare system, through …

Monitoring quality in Israeli primary care: The primary care physicians' perspective

R Nissanholtz-Gannot, B Rosen… - Israel Journal of Health …, 2012 - Springer
Abstract Background Since 2000, Israel has had a national program for ongoing monitoring
of the quality of the primary care services provided by the country's four competing non-profit …