"You Think We are in the Stone Age, but We Have Already Made Progress-Where are You?": A Qualitative Study of Ultra-orthodox Women's Telemedicine Service Usage in Israel.

This study explores Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women's attitudes toward video-consultation usage in Israeli primary care settings. In-depth interviews were conducted with twenty-two women from diverse Ultra-Orthodox communities in Israel, using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Despite traditionally limited digital tool usage, participants showed readiness for video-consultations' adoption through dedicated 'kosher' medical devices.

A country's efforts toward creating an advanced practice nurse in public health.

Aim: The study goal was to inform the creation of a blueprint for an advanced practice nurse (APN) in public health.

Background: No internationally accepted standard for an APN in public health exists. Activities of public health nurses (PHN) traditionally have centered on health promotion and disease prevention, but many have added other population-based activities such as chronic and acute disease treatment.

Changing the current health system's vision for disease prevention and health promotion.

Aim: Using the case of Israel, we examine the confluence of current philosophies of health care along with the historical trends of health promotion/disease prevention services to consider strategies for increasing inclusiveness and for updating and improving their service delivery.

Background: Health services in Israel are at a crossroads. Plans to integrate the historic, nurse-operated, nationwide programme, providing health promotion/disease prevention services to pregnant women and young children for all residents (Tipat Halav) into the National Health Service System's existing Sickness Funds are under discussion.

Organizational commitment and quality of life at work among public health nurses in Israel.

Objective: To test the relationship between job satisfaction, professional self-image, work environment, organizational commitment (OC), and quality of life at work (QoLW) among public health nurses in Israel. To determine which variables can predict OC and QoLW among public health nurses.

Design And Sample: One hundred and thirty-two public health nurses participated in this cross-sectional study with a structured self-administered questionnaire that examined OC, professional self-image, job satisfaction, nursing work environment, and QoLW.

Family Health Clinics as a Source of Social Capital.

Purpose: To examine the extent to which Family Health Clinics (FHCs) contribute to the formation of social capital among mothers, and determine whether it is influenced by socioeconomic factors. In FHCs, social capital can be gained by relationships between mothers (bonding social capital), by relationships between mothers and FHCs team, or between mothers of different origins/culture (bridging social capital) and health services institutional bodies (linking social capital).

Design: This is a mixed method study.