The Impact of Adherence to Treatment for ADHD on the Quality of Military Service - The Israeli Military Experience.

Introduction: Attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) is prevalent in 5.9-7.1% of children and adolescents, and 5% of adults.

Managing health and finance: challenges, outcome, and control in the Israel Defense Forces.

Background: The Ministry of Defense budget constitutes 16% of the state budget. The budget for the Ministry of Health and for civilian health care is derived from the state budget. The health care funds receive their budgets from several sources.

The cost of preventing stigma by hospitalizing soldiers in a general hospital instead of a psychiatric hospital.

Hospitalization costs are lower in psychiatric hospitals than in psychiatric departments of general hospitals. However, soldiers hospitalized in psychiatric hospitals are subject to the stigma associated with mental illness. The goal of this study was to examine the financial costs of preventing such stigma by hospitalizing soldiers in psychiatric departments of general hospitals, rather than less expensive psychiatric hospitals.

Reorganization of secondary medical care in the Israeli Defense Forces Medical Corps: A cost-effect analysis.

Objective: To increase accessibility and availability of secondary medical care, 10 secondary unit specialist clinics were established side-by-side with five existing regional specialist centers, thus achieving decentralization. The purpose was to analyze the impact of this reorganization on overall consumption of secondary medical care and expenditures.

Methods: Consumption of secondary medical care was analyzed by using computerized clinic and Medical Corps databases.

Scintigraphic characteristics of non-ossifying fibroma in military recruits undergoing bone scintigraphy for suspected stress fractures and lower limb pains.

Introduction: Non-ossifying fibroma (NOF) is the most common fibrous bone lesion in children and young adults. This benign lesion is not a true neoplasm but is considered a developmental defect. Clinically, the lesion is asymptomatic and has a predilection for the long bones, particularly the femur and the tibia.

Characteristics of skeletal stress fractures in female military recruits of the Israel defense forces on bone scintigraphy.

Aim: Clinical surveys on stress fractures (SF) in female military recruits are scarce. The aim of this study was to characterize the scintigraphic findings and classify the distribution and pattern of SF in a group of female recruits of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

Materials And Methods: The bone scans of 146 female recruits (age range, 19-20.

[Unplanned pregnancies among women soldiers in the IDF--an overview].

Unlabelled: According to the Security Service Law in Israel, a pregnant soldier serving her compulsory military service, who decides to continue with the pregnancy, is discharged from military service. If she wishes to terminate the pregnancy (TOP) and continue serving in the army, she is referred to a civilian pregnancy termination committee.

Objective: This article aims to examine the incidence of pregnancies amongst soldiers during their compulsory military service (ages 18-20 years) and characterize the populations at risk.

Serologic testing for celiac disease in young adults--a cost-effect analysis.

In recent years, there has been a marked increase in the diagnostic workups for celiac disease among military personnel, thereby significantly increasing overall laboratory testing expenditures and burden. We evaluated the serologic testing procedure in symptomatic young adults, using a "cost-effect" approach. We evaluated the serologic screening policy for celiac disease among serologically tested military personnel.

[Tsunami--the death waves].

On December 26, 2004, the fourth strongest earthquake over the past century struck in the Indian Ocean off the western coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Measuring 9.0 in magnitude, the earthquake triggered massive tsunamis that struck the Indian Ocean countries and Somalia, and killed more than tens of thousands and destroyed entire villages, leaving over a million homeless.

No need to tax the sick: clinical guidelines for rofecoxib as an alternative effective method to the copayment policy in the advent of increasing pharmaceutical expenditures.

Background: Over the last few years, major health care systems have been trying to control increasing pharmaceutical expenditures by a variety of methods, such as the controversial copayment policy, as essential health expenditures were being jeopardized.

Objective: To analyze the regulatory intervention of preauthorization on a rofecoxib model in the medical corps of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in terms of indications for prescription, consumption, and cost.

Interventions: Guidelines established by the medical services branch based on current literature and communication with diverse specialists and hospitals were implemented by a general practitioner who checked each rofecoxib prescription that was written for IDF personnel by a specialist.

Recommendations for nursing requirements at a field hospital, based on the Israel Defense Forces field hospital at the earthquake disaster in Turkey--August 1999.

On the 17th of August 1999, an earthquake of 7.4 magnitude on the Richter Scale struck the Marmara region in Turkey causing a massive casualties event with an estimated 2,680 deaths and 5,300 injuries just at the city of Adapazari alone. A field hospital was set up by the Israel Defense Forces at Adapazari in order to provide temporary medical services until regular medical forces recovered.