Unmet needs and the effect of healthcare system generosity on prevention activity - A multilevel analysis.

Introduction: Maintaining a healthy lifestyle and obtaining preventive care (hereafter, prevention-activity) usually have an inverse association with poverty status and unmet needs. We seek to estimate the extent to which the effect of individual unmet needs status on prevention-activity is moderated by the generosity of the healthcare system.

Materials And Methods: Two datasets were combined: Pre-Covid Wave-8 (2019-2020) of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE, Release 8.

Aging workforce with reduced work capacity: From organizational challenges to successful accommodations sustaining productivity and well-being.

Israel is experiencing accelerated workforce aging and increasing retirement age that began in the last two decades. Aging workers suffer from increased illness and impairment rates, challenging employing organizations with reduced work capacity. Occupational health practitioners often assist employers in accommodating these challenges.

Involvement levels of breast cancer patients-Seeking trusted hospital and physician.

The active involvement levels of breast cancer patients (BCP) in treatment decisions range from 10% to 81%. We investigated the involvement levels of 179 Israeli breast cancer survivors, aged 30 to 81, in the choice of hospital, surgeon, surgical procedure, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. High involvement was documented in location decisions (operating hospital 77%, chemotherapy facility 82%) as opposed to low involvement in treatment decisions (chemotherapy 30%-38%, radiotherapy 25%, surgical procedure 31%).

Online nephrology course replacing a face to face course in nursing schools' bachelor's program: a prospective, controlled trial, in four Israeli nursing schools.

Background: Online learning is growing rapidly worldwide, especially in the health related sectors such as medicine and nursing. Our trial wished to measure the objective (i.e.

Usefulness of helical computed tomography in detection of mitral annular calcification as a marker of coronary artery disease.

Background: Mitral annulus calcification (MAC) may be a form of atherosclerosis. The goal of the present work was to investigate whether helical CT can determine the presence of MAC and to clarify its possible association with coronary artery disease (CAD) in elderly patients.

Design And Methods: Three hundred and twenty-nine consecutive elderly patients (165 men and 164 women, age range 60-79 years) underwent double helical CT of the heart to determine MAC and coronary calcifications (CC) according to a previously described protocol.

Aortic valve calcium on spiral computed tomography (dual slice mode) is associated with advanced coronary calcium in hypertensive patients.

Background: Aortic valve calcium (AVC) is common in the elderly and is associated with an increase risk of death from cardiovascular causes and of myocardial infarction. The goal of the present study was to determine whether an association exists between the presence of AVC and coronary calcium (CC) in high-risk hypertensive patients as detected by spiral computed tomography (dual slice mode) (DHCT).

Design And Methods: Three hundred and seventy-six hypertensive patients participating in the International Nifedipine Gastrointestinal Therapeutic System (GITS) Study of Intervention as a Goal in Hypertension Treatment (INSIGHT) in our region were included (197 men and 179 women, age range 55-79 years).