H-SVEST: Validation and Adaptation of the Hebrew Version of the Second Victim Experience and Support Tool.

Background: Adverse medical events not only harm patients and families, but also have a significant negative impact on healthcare providers, with the potential to compromise future professional functioning. These "second victims" may need organizational support and rehabilitation to return to functionality.

Objectives: We analyzed the validity of an adapted tool, the Second Victim Experience and Support Tool (SVEST), on a population in Israel, H-SVEST.

Perceptions of home hospitalization among the public and physicians in Israel: findings from surveys conducted for the Dead Sea Health Policy Conference of 2022.

Background: Hospital at Home (HaH) is an alternative care model that provides acute hospital-level services to patients at their homes. Despite its proven advantages and global experience, HaH did not gain significant traction in Israel until the COVID-19 pandemic. The issue was highlighted at the 2022 Dead Sea Conference on Health Policy.

Trust in public health policy in the time of the COVID-19 epidemic in Israel.

The government of Israel provides universal health care through four health care organizations ("sick funds") that enjoy general public trust. In hindsight, the response of the government to the COVID-19 epidemic seems reasonable. In the first year of the epidemic, tests and vaccines were developed and other measures were taken, including social distancing, focusing on risk factors for infection and disease severity, and improving treatment.

Mitigating the regressivity of private mechanisms of financing healthcare: An Assessment of 29 countries.

Progressive financing of health care can help advance the equity and financial protection goals of health systems. All countries' health systems are financed in part through private mechanisms, including out-of-pocket payments and voluntary health insurance. Yet little is known about how these financing schemes are structured, and the extent to which policies in place mitigate regressivity.

The Israeli health system's rapid responses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic posed numerous challenges to health systems around the world. In addressing many of those challenges, Israel responded quite rapidly. While quick action is not an end in it itself, it can be important in responding to disease outbreaks.

Uptake of dental hygienist services by the Israeli 65+ age group.

Objectives: To learn about the use patterns of dental hygienist services, by the 65+ age group in Israel and to identify the main barriers facing different population groups.

Methods: Telephone interviews with a representative sample of 512 older adults aged 65 and over were conducted from February to April 2020.

Results: About 50% of the older adults aged 65 and over visited a dentist (2.

Glycemic outcomes and patient satisfaction and self-management improves in transition from standard to virtual multidisciplinary care.

Aims: With advances in cloud-based technologies, there has been a rise in remote T1D care. We hypothesized that transitioning T1DM care to a virtual, multidisciplinary clinic could improve measures beyond HbA1c.

Methods: To assess the impact of transitioning from standard to virtual T1DM care, we evaluated glycemic measures and patient reported outcomes.

Association between COVID-19 vaccination and critical outcomes among older adults with dementia: a comparative cohort study.

Background: As COVID-19 vaccines became available, understanding their potential benefits in vulnerable populations has gained significance. This study explored the advantages of COVID-19 vaccination in individuals with cognitive disorders by analyzing health-related variables and outcomes.

Methods: A prospective cohort study analyzed electronic medical records of 25,733 older adults with cognitive disorders and 65,544 older adults without cognitive disorders from March 2020 to February 2022.

Addressing the second victim phenomenon in Israeli health care institutions.

Background: The 'second victim' phenomenon (SVP) refers to practitioners who experience a negative physical or emotional response, as well as a professional decline, after participating or witnessing an adverse event. Despite the Israeli Ministry of Health's implementation of specific protocols regarding the overall management of adverse events in health organizations over the past decade, there is limited knowledge regarding healthcare managers' perceptions of the 'second victim' occurrence.

Methods: A phenomenological qualitative approach was used to identify an accurate view of policy.

Factors affecting the use of dental services among Arab children in Israel: a qualitative study.

Background: In 2010, Israel reformed its hitherto dominantly privately financed dental services and included preventative and restorative dental care for children in the publicly-funded basket of healthcare services. A survey conducted by Brookdale Institute, found that only 67% of low-income Israeli-Arab children were using the new service (compared to 85% of Jewish children) while the majority of others continue using privately funded services. The aim of this study is to explore and explain Israeli-Arab children's low utilization of publicly-funded preventive and restorative dental care.

Challenges facing mental health systems arising from the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from 14 European and North American countries.

We assessed challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic presented for mental health systems and the responses to these challenges in 14 countries in Europe and North America. Experts from each country filled out a structured questionnaire with closed- and open-ended questions between January and June 2021. We conducted thematic analysis to investigate the qualitative responses to open-ended questions, and we summarized the responses to closed-ended survey items on changes in telemental health policies and regulations.

Nurses' Silence: Understanding the Impacts of Second Victim Phenomenon among Israeli Nurses.

Introduction: The 'second victim' phenomenon, (SVP) refers to a health professional who was involved in an adverse event (AE) and continues to suffer from the event to the detriment of personal and professional functioning. The second victims' natural history of recovery model predicts stages of the phenomenon from AE occurrence until the 'moving on' stage and serves as a suitable structure for many organizational support programs worldwide.

Purpose: Using the second victims' natural history of recovery model to examine the impact of the SVP on Israeli nurses, with a specific focus on the organizational support they felt they required compared with the support they felt that they had received from their organizations.

Use and barriers to the use of telehealth services in the Arab population in Israel: a cross sectional survey.

Background: Studies conducted in Israel and in other countries show that minority populations typically underuse telehealth services notwithstanding the advantages inherent in the use of these services. The goal of this study was to examine telehealth use patterns and the barriers to the use of telehealth services in the Arab population in Israel, which is a culturally and ethnically varied minority population with a unique language and culture.

Methods: A telephone survey was conducted among a representative sample of the adult Arab population in Israel from October 29 to November 4, 2020.

An "ultimate partnership": Older persons' perspectives on age-stereotypes and intergenerational interaction in co-designing digital technologies.

Aim: There is often a gap between the ideal of involving older persons iteratively throughout the design process of digital technology, and actual practice. Until now, the lens of ageism has not been applied to address this gap. The goals of this study were: to voice the perspectives and experiences of older persons who participated in co-designing regarding the design process; their perceived role in co-designing and intergenerational interaction with the designers; and apparent manifestations of ageism that potentially influence the design of digital technology.

The Dilemma of Compulsory Vaccinations-Ethical and Legal Considerations.

The high childhood vaccination coverage in Israel leads to a low rate of morbidity from the diseases against which the vaccination in administered. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, children's immunization rates declined dramatically due to closures of schools and childcare services, lockdowns, and guidelines for physical distancing. In addition, parents' hesitancy, refusals, and delays in adhering to routine childhood immunizations seem to have increased during the pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic posed many dilemmas for policymakers, which sometimes resulted in unprecedented decision-making.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic evolved through five phases, beginning with 'the great threat', then moving through 'the emergence of variants', 'vaccines euphoria', and 'the disillusionment', and culminating in 'a disease we can live with'. Each phase required a different governance response. With the progress of the pandemic, data were collected, evidence was created, and health technology was developed and disseminated.

Work like a Doc: A comparison of regulations on residents' working hours in 14 high-income countries.

Background: Medical residents work long, continuous hours. Working in conditions of extreme fatigue has adverse effects on the quality and safety of care, and on residents' quality of life. Many countries have attempted to regulate residents' work hours.

Coping with COVID-19: the role of hospital care structures and capacity expansion in five countries.

This contribution examines the responses of five health systems in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: Denmark, Germany, Israel, Spain and Sweden. The aim is to understand to what extent this crisis response of these countries was resilient. The study focuses on hospital care structures, considering both existing capacity before the pandemic and the management and expansion of capacity during the crisis.

The role of Israeli researchers in the scientific literature regarding COVID-19 vaccines.

Background: The accurate and timely publication of scientific findings is a key component of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article explores the role of Israeli researchers in the scientific literature regarding COVID-19 vaccines.

Methods: Content and bibliometric analysis of articles included in the Web of Science database regarding COVID-19 vaccines, that were published between January 2020 and June 2022.

Primary Care Physicians' Perceptions on Nurses' Shared Responsibility for Quality of Patient Care: A Survey.

Nurses are key players in primary care in Israel and in the efforts to improve its quality, yet a survey conducted among primary care physicians (PCPs) in 2010 indicated that 40% perceived the contribution of nurses to primary care quality as moderate to very small. In 2020, we conducted a cross-sectional survey using self-report questionnaires among PCPs employed by health plans to examine the change in PCPs' perceptions on nurses' responsibility and contributions to quality of primary care between 2010 and 2020. Four-hundred-and-fifty respondents completed the questionnaire in 2020, as compared to 605 respondents in 2010.

Informal caregivers' negative affect: The interplay of caregivers' resilience, aging anxiety and burden.

Objectives: This study focused on the negative affect of informal caregivers of older adults. In a novel investigation, the interplay of aging anxiety, caregiving burden, and resilience as a protective factor was examined, suggesting that aging anxiety and caregiving burden are mediators for the link between resilience and negative affect.

Methods: In a cross-sectional design, 191 Israeli informal caregivers of older adults (65+) participated in the study.

Sex differences in care complexity and cost of cardiac-related procedures as a basis for improving hospital payments systems.

In this study, we estimate sex differences in care complexity and cost of cardiac-related procedures in order to demonstrate the importance of sex as a risk adjuster in a hospital payment system. We use individual visit-level data for all adult Israelis who underwent either heart valve surgery (HVS) or coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) during the period 2014-2018 in publicly funded hospitals. We find that women undergoing a cardiac-related procedure are more likely to die during hospitalization, they have longer hospital stays, and overall, they are more likely to be care-complex than men.