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The Research Seminar

The Research Seminar takes place regularly on the first Thursday every month, during the academic year. The objective of this monthly meeting is to present research in-progress or of final outcomes, of both the Institute's projects and others' and is open to all who take interest in the relevant topics. If you would like to join the seminar's mailing list, please contact us.

Research Seminar 03.06.2010
Health above all?  The importance of Health in the Israeli public, Giora Kaplan

Invited for Discussion:
Avi Israeli, Braun School of Public Health & Community Medicine,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Baruch Velan, The Ness Ziona Chemical and Biological Institute

Abstract (Hebrew)


Topics of previous Research Seminars:

05.11.2009, Residnet physicians' medical errors: The Influence of safety cliamte, learning
processes and autonomy, Prof. Tzvi Stern
07.05.2009, Chronic Disease Model: Not Why, but How and When in Quebec, Prof. Hartley Stern
02.04.2009, The impact of primary care physicians' training in EMR use on competence and patient safety, Shmuel Reis
05.02.2009, Societal Gaps – Economics Involved in the Health System in Israel:
The Extent of the Problem, Explanations, and What Next? Organizers:
Varda Soskolni, Orly Manor
01.01.2009, The Issues Involved in the Treatment of a Femoral Fracture and
the Compensation for such an Injury, Presenters: Ram Moshiuv, Kobi Peleg
06.11.2008, Research Projects in the Field of Women's Health, Organizer: Liat
Lerner- Geva
05.06.2008, Pediatric Medicine in Society: Comparison between Content, Actuality,
Needs, Expectations, and Training for the Task, Organizer: Boaz Porter
01.05.2008, The National Measurements Plan for Community Medicine: Successes,  
Vacillation, and Challenges, Organizer: Gadi Rabinovitz
03.04.2008, Energy, Air Pollution, and Public Health: Experimental Incident of the Power  
Plant in Ashkelon, Organizer: Michael Gadelvitch and Itamar Grotva
06.03.2008, When the Doctor and the Rabbi Meet: The Challenges of Communication    
between Medical and Religious Legal Prophecy and their Implications
on the Welfare of the Patient, Organizer: Menachem Blondheim
07.02.2008, The Effect of Training Methods throughout the Hospitalization of Cardiology
Patients on the Use of Health Services, Quality of Life, and their Health
Behavior Approximately Three Years after their Release from an Internal
Hospital Ward, Organizer: Orly Toran
03.01.2008 Findings from a 2006 national survey of mothers regarding preventive health
services for children in the Tipat Halav framework - Bruce Rosen
01.11.2007, Genetic Counseling in Heredity Breast/Ovarian Cancer in Israel, Eitan
Friedman, The Oncogenetics Unit, Sheba Medical Center
07.06.2007, Health Care utilization and Morbidity among Adults with OSAS (Obstructive
Sleep Apnea Syndrome) different from population sectors - Haim Reuveni
03.05.2007, Cardiovascular Risk Factors among Arabs and Jews in Israel: Knowle and
Awareness, Health-Care Utilization, Prevalence and Control - Ofra Kalter
Leibovich
12.04.2007, Mental Health Policy Trends in Israel - Uri Aviram
01.03.2007,  Health - Between a right and a commodity - Eyal Gross
01.02.2007, The National Health Survey Results 2003-2004 - Ziona Haklai,
Daphna Levinson, Anat Shemesh, Manfred Green
04.01.2007, Selected Aspects of Quality of Community Care: Measurement
from the Consumer's Perspective - Revital Gross
02.08.2006, Israel Census 2008 - Pnina Zadka
08.06.2006, Prospective Payment System for Trauma Patients in Israeli Hospitals -
Kobi Peleg
11.05.2006, Utilization Patterns of CT and MRI in Israel - Osnat Luxenburg and
Gabriel Polliack
06.04.2006, Gender differences in taking health risks – Lora Warshawsky - Livne and
Joseph Pliskin. Response to Professor Pliskin’s Research - Moshe Leshno
02.03.2006, Economic Burden of NSAID Gastropathy - A Cost Effectiveness Analysis
Approach - Moshe Leshno. Response to Moshe Leshno's research - Mayer Brezis
02.02.2006, Issues in constructing questionnaires for health services research:
lessons from the experience at the Brookdale Institute - Revital Gross
02.02.2006, Techniques for questionnaire evaluation: The State of the Art -
Giora Kaplan
05.01.2006, Utilization of Cardio Vascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Program -
Daniel David
01.12.2005, A Model of Clinical Pharmacology in the Hospital and the Community
and its Implications on the Health System - Jacob Atzmon
01.11.2005, Violence Against Medical and Non-Medical Personnel in Hospital
Emergency Wards in Israel - Simha Landau
02.06.2005, RIAS - Roter Introduction Analysis System - Orit Shalmson
05.05.2005, Personal preventive medicine services in Israel health "basket" -
are they EBM? - Leonard Leibovic
07.04.2005, Randomized - Controlled experiments in Health Promotion Research -
Leah Rosen
03.02.2005, Assimilation of New Technologies in the Health System - Dan Greenberg
06.01.2005, Application of Adaptive Conjoint Analysis on Choice of Sick Fund - Zvi Adar
02.12.2004, Utilization of Medical Services in Panic Disorder, Social Phobia, and Normal
Controls - Eva Gilboa-Schechtman, Pablo Jeczmien
22.07.2004, Evaluation of Hospital Efficiency - Dov Tchernichovsky
03.06.2004, International Comparisons of Prescription Drugs - Phil Lee
06.05.2004, Sharap in Jerusalem's Public Hospitals - Gur Ofer and Baruch Rosen
01.04.2004, The Effect of Outsourcing on Health Care Utiltzation in IDF Personnel -
Racheli Megnezi
04.03.2004, The Politics of Drug Reimbursement - Moshe Maor
05.02.2004, Demographic trends in patterns of utilization of health services - Ziona Haklai
01.01.2004, Evaluation of the inclusion of new medical technologies into the Israeli national
list of health services and comparison with similar processes in other Western countries - Miri Ziebzehner
6.11.2003, Ascertaining the cost of discharging psychiatric patients to home care by family
members - Michael Davidson and Zvi Adar
19.6.2003, Did exposure to the polluted water of the Kishon River increase the risk of
cancer? - Gadi Renart
01.05.2003, Performance Assessment of Community Based Physicians - Shmuel Reis
03.04.2003, Do patient's characteristics explain differences in quality of primary medical
care for diabetes? - Shimon Weitzman
06.03.2003, Topics in drug utilization in community pediatrics - Rafael Gorodisher
04.03.2003, Computerized cholesterol community control - Harel Gilutz
06.02.2003, Barriers and risk factors in the O.R. - Yoel Donchin
02.02.2003, Prenatal preventive health services: Determinants of utilization -
Is it time for organizational changes? - Hava Palti
07.11.2002, Analyzing Emergency Department Performance Through Simulation- David
Sinreich
03.10.2002, Barriers to implementing clinical guidelines: physician and patient
perspectives - Revital Gross
06.06.2002, Can national health programs be put into action? Evaluation of the national
breast cancer screening program - Gadi Renart
11.04.2002, The development of the wages and work conditions of doctors in public
hospitals in Israel - Moti Netzer and Shifra Shvartz
07.03.2002, Leadership nursing in the light of health care organizational reform - Dan Benur
and Shoshana Goldberg
07.02.2002, A set of measures for comparative performance evaluation of community 
medical services in Israel - Avi Porat
03.01.2002, Utilization of hospital services and hospitalization expenditures by Sick Funds in
the age of reform in Israel- Bruce Rosen
14.06.2001, Households, Sick Funds (HMOs) and Expenditures for Medications - Shuli
Barmeli - Greenberg
03.05.2001, Multi - center cooperation as the basis for significant clinical trials: the 
effectiveness of sample size on clinical trials - Lawrence Friedman
19.04.2001, Satisfaction and opinions of health services: 2000 vs. 1993 - Amir Shmueli
01.03.2001, Triage in the I.C.U.: Methodology in research - Charles Sprung
01.02.2001, Measuring outcomes in the health system - Yasmin Maor
14.09.2000, Predictors in the decision-making process regarding release from hospital
and the implications for estimating results of repeated care and hospitalization - Noya Galai
13.07.2000, The effectiveness of the pre-hospital emergency medical system in Israel - Kobi
Peleg