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    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.

    2022 Research Themes

    • Processes of reform and efficiency in the health care system
    • Advancement of disadvantaged populations
    • Quality of care
    • Workforce planning
    • COVID-19 pandemic
    • Development of big-data methods in research on health care policy and services and the relationship between the urban spatial environment and the health behaviors of residents
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    2022 Research Themes

    Processes of reform and efficiency in the health care system
    Advancement of disadvantaged populations
    Quality of care
    Workforce planning
    COVID-19 pandemic
    Development of big-data methods in research on health care policy and services and the relationship between the urban spatial environment and the health behaviors of residents

    Research Staff

    Danit Sobol-Sarag

    Research Analyst

    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. Tamar Medina Artom

    Researcher

    Hadar Samuel

    Research Scholar

    Nadav Penn

    Research Associate

    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 Analyst

    Shlomit Kagya

    Research Associate

    Recent Publications

    Estimating the Impact of Maccabi’s Transitional Care Program
    Prof. Bruce Rosen, Shlomit Kagya, Chaled Abou-Hussein, Jack Zwanziger, Avi Porath, Bruce E. Landon
    2022

    The objectives of the study were to assess the impact of MTCP on promptness of post-discharge access to primary care physicians, the number of re-admissions over the ensuing 30 days, emergency department visits, the use of community-based health services, and health care expenditures.
    Young Specialists in the Periphery and Center: The Transition from Resident to Board-Certified Specialist
    Hadar Samuel, , Yael Ashkenazi, Rina Maoz Breuer, Adam Rose
    2022

    The objectives of the research were : 1. To map the employment characteristics and work patterns of physicians in the transition from resident to board-certified specialist. 2. To identify the factors affecting the choice of work region (center or periphery) and workplace at the end of their residency. 3. To examine which variables affect the choice of working in the periphery, and the degree to which grant recipients have remained in the periphery after completing their residency training there. Method
    Examination of Medical Residents’ Working Hours – Literature Review and International Comparison
    Rina Maoz Breuer, Dr. Ruth Waitzberg, Adam Rose
    2021

    The objectives of this study were (1) to review the evidence regarding the maximum work hours of medical residents and their impact on the quality of care and the quality of work life for the trainees; (2) to present up-to-date data on the regulations and work hours in practice of residents in OECD countries; and (3) to identify successful models of relevance to Israel.
    Regulatory Mechanisms for the Purchase and Use of Expensive Imaging Technologies: An International Comparison
    Dr. Ruth Waitzberg
    2021

    The goals of this study were: (1) to review the mechanisms used by various countries to regulate the purchase and use of expensive imaging technologies and to examine the effect of these mechanisms on the expenditure on health care, the quality of care, and the access to imaging services; (2) to offer the Ministry of Health recommendations on regulatory mechanisms that would enable the purchase of expensive imaging technologies constraining the growth of expenditure on health care and without undermining the quality of care or access to services; (3) to reevaluate the suitability of the Certificate of Need (CoN) mechanism currently used in Israel.

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