PA02.06 Access to Care: Israel

Attitudes and policies regarding access to fertility care and assisted reproductive technologies in Israel.

Despite the high profile of fertility care and assisted reproductive technologies, their social and regulatory contexts remain largely unexplored. Yet, studies reveal a practice of candidate screening on a somewhat arbitrary basis. Examining the above issues is of special importance to Israel, given its high fertility rates. To this end, this study conducted a survey of physicians' attitudes re...

Improving access to essential health care services: the case of Israel.

In a recent article in this journal Simon-Tuval, Horev and Kaplan argue that in order to improve the protection of consumers there might be a need to impose a threshold on the medical loss ratio (MLR) for voluntary health insurance (VHI) in Israel [1]. Their argument is that VHI in Israel covers several essential services that are not covered by the mandatory benefits package due to budget cons...

Survey and Analysis of Ardabil City Suburbs Access to the Health Care Delivery Services (Health Centers)

Background & objectives: Health care centers are among the most important and essential centers that proper and timely access to them is one of the basic goals of social justice. The health of the individual and the community depends on the centers that provide primary health care. Rapid, timely, and inexpensive access to these centers is very important and necessary, in any community, especial...

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY TO FOREIGN WORKERS IN ISRAEL July 1998

Equal access to health care.

Equal access to health care A t the heart of the December editorial on poverty and health is the issue of what we as physicians can do about the problem. Dr McGregor clearly reviews the evidence that poor health is one of the miseries attributable to poverty. While accepting that reducing poverty in this country is beyond the capabilities of doctors, she does urge us to be advocates for tacklin...