Publications by authors named "Hovav Boaz"
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.
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- Israel is facing challenges with an aging workforce and rising retirement age, leading to increased illness and reduced work capacity among older workers.
- Occupational health practitioners help organizations manage these challenges, but a lack of evidence on effective practices and age management tools hinders solutions.
- A qualitative study revealed that organizations need to address challenges at multiple levels while implementing accommodations like time adjustments and job modifications to maintain productivity and job satisfaction for aging employees.
Involvement levels of breast cancer patients-Seeking trusted hospital and physician.
J Health Psychol
September 2022
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%).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: 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.
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- The study explored how well helical CT can detect mitral annulus calcification (MAC) and its link to coronary artery disease (CAD) in elderly patients.
- Out of 329 patients, 60 had MAC, and findings showed older age, male gender, and presence of MAC were significantly associated with CAD.
- Despite detecting MAC as a potential marker for CAD, its diagnostic significance is relatively minor compared to other risk factors.
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- Aortic valve calcium (AVC) is commonly found in older adults and is linked to higher risks of cardiovascular death and heart attacks.
- The study analyzed 376 hypertensive patients to see if there’s a connection between AVC and coronary calcium (CC) using spiral computed tomography.
- Results indicated that patients with AVC had significantly higher CC scores and were more likely to have advanced CC compared to those without AVC, highlighting a notable relationship between these factors in high-risk individuals.