• Health Policy

    Israel's health care system is a world leader in delivering quality health care. Still, the system faces major challenges with regard to morbidity, accessibility and availability of services, infrastructure and staffing, and the organization of the health service system. These challenges have become even more acute in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    MJB's Smokler Center for Health Policy Research provides independent and objective research to inform policymaking on crucial national health policy issues through assessments of current challenges and by proposing programmatic directions for addressing these challenges.

    2023 Research Themes

    • Health Care System Reform and Streamlining Processes
    • Supporting Vulnerable Populations
    • Quality of Health Care
    • Workforce Planning
    • Review of the Health System
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    2023 Research Themes

    Health Care System Reform and Streamlining Processes
    Supporting Vulnerable Populations
    Quality of Health Care
    Workforce Planning
    Review of the Health System

    Research Staff

    Danit Sobol-Sarag

    Research associate

    Dr. Ayala Burger

    Researcher

    Dr. Michal Laron

    Senior Research Scholar and Team Leader

    Dr. Nura Abdel-Rahman

    Researcher

    Dr. Ruth Waitzberg

    Research Scholar

    Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg

    Senior Research Scholar

    Dr. Tal Norman

    Researcher

    Ella Katz

    Researcher

    Hadar Samuel

    Research Scholar

    Nitza Wurmbrand

    Administrative Coordinator

    Ori Loren

    Research Analyst

    Prof. Bruce Rosen

    Systems Research Group Leader and Director of the Smokler Center for Health Policy Research

    Prof. Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot

    Research Scholar

    Rina Maoz Breuer

    Research Associate

    Sharvit Fialco

    Research associate

    Shlomit Kagya

    Research Associate

    Tami Brosh

    Researcher

    Yanay Gorelik

    Researcher

    Recent Publications

    Committees on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault: Responsibilities, Procedures, and Challenges – Findings of Interviews with Committee Members and Staff
    Ellen Milshtein, Hadas Shapira, Talia Hasin
    2023

    Interviews were designed to examine the committees’ procedures, achievements, and challenges.
    Israeli Nurse Practitioners in Geriatric and Palliative Care
    Prof. Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot, Dr. Yafit Cohen
    2023

    The study’s main objective is to examine the perceptions of the NPs regarding the contribution of NPs to the health system and the potential development of their role in palliative and geriatric care. The study’s secondary objectives are as follows: Examine the unique contribution of NPs specializing in palliative and geriatric care to the healthcare system and assess their contribution to the community (or the setting where their contribution may be optimal); Examine the state of the art in the world with regard to the work of NPs in these areas, including the settings where they are employed, their roles, and their authorities; Examine how it would be most appropriate to develop the roles of NPs in these areas in community care settings, from the perspectives of both healthcare policymakers and the nurses in the field.
    Digital Press Coverage of Health Plans and Correlations with Transfers Between Plans
    Shlomit Kagya, Danit Sobol-Sarag, Dr. Dan Even
    2023

    The Objectives of the study were: 1. Examine how the health plans are covered in the digital press, and whether there are any differences between them in key aspects of that coverage 2. Examine whether there is a relationship between the mention of a certain health plan in a report and its tone 3. Examine whether there is a relationship between transfer rates and the scope and tone of media coverage of transfer rates, with emphasis on termination rates, and in particular, whether the scope of coverage and the overall tone of the reports can explain trends in these transitions.
    The Reform in the System of Child Development Services: The Situation on the Eve of the Reform and a Survey of Professionals’ Views
    Rachel Goldwag, Dr. Michal Laron
    2023

    The goal of this study was to examine the trends in the use of the system of child development services and in the number of children with autism spectrum disorder or with somatic disability that were diagnosed and treated during the period preceding the reform, with a focus on the situation on the eve of the reform, so as to establish a baseline for monitoring changes in the wake of the reform. An associated goal was to provide insights about the views of senior professionals in the field of child development (hereinafter: directors) regarding the changes that took place in the last decade in the system of child development services and the 2020 reform in the system.
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