Health counseling for women in the absence of financial barriers: comparing reported counseling rates of women in the United States and Israel.

This study compares rates of health counseling for women in the United States and Israel and identifies factors affecting counseling rates, based on a weighted sample of 2,257 US and 848 Israeli women. In both countries, fewer than half of the women reported speaking with a physician about any of a set of preventive counseling topics (e.g.

Disparities in women's health and health care experiences in the United States and Israel: findings from 1998 National Women's Health Surveys.

Objective And Methods: Using data from bi-national 1998 surveys of adult women in the U.S. and in Israel, this article examines health, access, and care experiences among women in two countries with very different health care systems.

Effect of abuse on health: results of a national survey.

Hypothesis: The magnitude of risk would be highest for those reporting both types of abuse compared with those reporting 1 type or none.

Objective: To examine the independent associations between physical or sexual abuse or both and self-reported health status, mental health, and health-risk behaviors among a national school-based sample of adolescent girls.

Design: A secondary data analysis of a cross-sectional survey.