Since the implementation of the National Health Insurance Law in 1995, the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute has been monitoring public opinion on service levels and the performance of the healthcare system based on a series of biennial surveys (hereafter: the Health Insurance Survey). The surveyed population includes Israeli residents aged 22 and older. The sample represents the adult population of Israel according to gender, population group (Jews and others, Arabs), age and insuring health fund. The surveys are conducted by telephone in Hebrew, Arabic and Russian. The research is overseen by a steering committee that includes representatives from all of the health funds, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Finance, the National Insurance Institute, patient organizations and academia.
Data from the Health Insurance Surveys conducted between 1999 and 2021 have been compiled into a central database, which forms the basis for a BI-based interactive report. The report presented here describes the trends in public opinion regarding the performance of the healthcare system in a number of domains: family medicine, specialist care, telemedicine, the health funds, trust in the healthcare system, forgoing health services and seeking care outside the public healthcare system.
The report’s objectives:
- To create a practical tool for generating relevant information from the Health Insurance Survey data in order to examine trends over time.
- To enable a quick response to a wide range of research questions in order to meet a variety of evolving policy needs.
- To provide historical and current data to end-users in an accessible manner and to consolidate them into a single platform.
- To build on the information available in the biannual research reports according to a variety of background characteristics as chosen by the user.
The report allows end-users to:
- View trends in public opinion according to the various metrics examined in the surveys conducted between 1999 and 2021, organized by survey chapters.
- Segment the survey metrics according to a large variety of background characteristics, including: gender, age, population group (Jews and others, Arabs), level of religiosity (ultra-Orthodox, non-ultra-Orthodox Jews), income, chronic illness, people with disabilities, health fund, region and the Central Bureau of Statistics’ Periphery Index.
- Focus on specific population groups according to background characteristics.
Citing suggestion: Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute (2024). Trends in Public Opinion on Service Levels in the Healthcare System and its Performance, according to Background Characteristics – An Interactive Report.