Revital Gross

TL;DR: Attempts have been made to reduce childhood obesity through school‐based programs through systematic review and meta‐analysis, but there is a lack of consistency about effectiveness of such programs.

TL;DR: Data from the evaluation show that the NHI law achieved a considerable number of its goals: to provide insurance coverage for the entire population, to ensure freedom of movement among sick funds, and to standardize the way resources are allocated to sick funds.

TL;DR: Multivariate analysis revealed that patients' beliefs about hypertension management, their knowledge on hypertension and its management, and physician counseling on a healthy lifestyle and self-care, have an independent effect on compliance with recommended lifestyle behaviors.

TL;DR: Comparisons of self-reported health status and health care utilization patterns among immigrant and non-immigrant Israeli Jewish women are presented to explore ways to overcome existing barriers to their care and to design services that will effectively promote immigrant women's health, both in Israel and elsewhere.

TL;DR: The Israeli case suggests that the theory of managed competition contains unrealistic assumptions about the types of competitive behavior that result from exposure to managed competition and the capacity of government and health providers to monitor quality.