Prioritization

Prioritization

Israel Journal of Health Policy Research considers articles on prioritization in health care. Priority setting in health care has become more explicit worldwide over the last two decades. Israel provides an important laboratory for international learning, having one of the most explicit and accountable systems for priority setting. The country also provides relevant lessons regarding resource allocation among health and other sectors such as defence. This thematic series in IJHPR takes advantage of these characteristics, featuring articles that analyze the priority setting process in Israel, both within the health system and regarding allocations to health in the overall public budgetary context.

1. Content Type:Commentary

   Ten years of Israel’s organ transplant law: is it on the right track?

   The Israeli organ donor law was established in 2008. In the ensuing 10 years there have been some improvements in deceased donation and living donor rates and a reduction in the unethical practice of transplan...

   Authors:Jeffrey Zaltzman

   Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:45

   Published on: 1 August 2018

   The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:11

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2. Content Type:Commentary

   Expensive lifesaving treatments: allocating resources and maximizing access

   Avisar et al. present an exemplary model for outreach aimed at ensuring that a maximum of patients eligible for expensive Hepatitis C (HPC) drugs receive treatment. We enlarge the picture to put their model in...

   Authors:Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot and David Chinitz

   Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2018 7:3

   Published on: 4 January 2018

   The original article was published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:46

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3. Content Type:Commentary

   Equity in HTA: what doesn’t get measured, gets marginalised

   When making recommendations about the public funding of new health technologies, policy makers typically pay close attention to quantitative evidence about the comparative effectiveness, cost effectiveness and...

   Authors:Richard Cookson and Andrew J. Mirelman

   Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:38

   Published on: 10 July 2017

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4. Content Type:Original Research Article

   Do the equity-efficiency preferences of the Israeli Basket Committee match those of Israeli health policy makers?

   Prioritization of medical technologies requires a multi-dimensional view. Often, conflicting equity and efficiency criteria should be reconciled. The most dramatic manifestation of such conflict is in the prio...

   Authors:Amir Shmueli

   Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:20

   Published on: 30 April 2017

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5. Content Type:Original Research Article

   Efficiency and equity considerations in the preferences of health policy-makers in Israel

   There is a traditional tension in public policy between the maximization of welfare from given resources (efficiency) and considerations related to the distribution of welfare among the population and to socia...

   Authors:Amir Shmueli, Ofra Golan, Francesco Paolucci and Emmanouil Mentzakis

   Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2017 6:18

   Published on: 1 April 2017

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6. Content Type:Commentary

   What health care services does the public want and who should decide? Ask them!

   Most of the parties involved in healthcare decisions – governments, politicians, healthcare professionals, pharmaceutical companies, special interest groups – actively work to make their desires known. In Isra...

   Authors:Adele Diederich

   Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:47

   Published on: 10 October 2016

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7. Content Type:Original Research Article

   Trends in annual drug expenditure – a 16 year perspective of a public healthcare maintenance organization

   Modern drug therapy accounts for a major share of health expenditure and challenges public provider resources. The objective of our study was to compare drug expenditure trends for ten major drug classes over ...

   Authors:Yossef Lomnicky, Daniel Kurnik, Ronen Loebstein, Itzhak Katzir, Janet Vesterman-Landes and Nava Siegelmann-Danieli

   Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:37

   Published on: 15 September 2016

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8. Content Type:Research

   Trends in the use of antipsychotics in the Israeli inpatient population, 2004–2013

   Although serious mental illneses are treated with both typical and atypical antipsychotic grugs, trends in their use in psychiatric inpatient population in Israel are unrecognized. The aim of this study was to...

   Authors:Alexander M. Ponizovsky, Eli Marom, Michal Ben-Laish, Igor Barash, Abraham Weizman and Eyal Schwartzberg

   Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2016 5:16

   Published on: 15 June 2016

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9. Content Type:Commentary

   Public attitudes and values in priority setting

   There is growing recognition that critical decisions concerning investments in new health care technologies and services should incorporate society’s values along with the scientific evidence. From a normative...

   Authors:Stuart J Peacock

   Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:29

   Published on: 19 June 2015

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10. Content Type:Original Research Article

    Personal needs versus national needs: public attitudes regarding health care priorities at the personal and national levels

    Many stakeholders have little or no confidence in the ability of the public to express their opinions on health policy issues. The claim often arises that lay people prioritize according to their own personal ...

    Authors:Giora Kaplan and Orna Baron-Epel

    Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:15

    Published on: 15 May 2015

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11. Content Type:Integrative Article

    Health sector solidarity: a core European value but with broadly varying content

    Although the concept of solidarity sits at the center of many European health sector debates, the specific groups eligible for coverage, the financing arrangements, and the range of services and benefits that,...

    Authors:Richard B Saltman

    Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:5

    Published on: 17 April 2015

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12. Content Type:Commentary

    The redesign of the medical intern assignment mechanism in Israel

    A collaboration of medical professionals with economists and computer scientists involved in “market design” had led to the redesign of the clearinghouse assigning medical students to internships in Israel. Th...

    Authors:Alvin E Roth and Ran I Shorrer

    Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:11

    Published on: 25 March 2015

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13. Content Type:Original Research Article

    Assigning Israeli medical graduates to internships

    Physicians in Israel are required to do an internship in an accredited hospital upon completion of the medical studies, and prior to receiving the medical license. For most students, the assignment is determin...

    Authors:Slava Bronfman, Avinatan Hassidim, Arnon Afek, Assaf Romm, Rony Shreberk, Ayal Hassidim and Anda Massler

    Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:6

    Published on: 20 March 2015

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14. Content Type:Commentary

    The challenge of measuring multi-morbidity and its costs

    The ageing of the population across developed countries and beyond has increased the importance of examining multi-morbidity. The recent paper by Arbelle et al. [Isr J of Health Policy Res. 2014;3:29] on multi...

    Authors:Raphael Wittenberg

    Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2015 4:1

    Published on: 26 January 2015

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15. Content Type:Commentary

    Governing the allocation of scarce resources: is health care no longer a special case?

    Health care rationing has always been seen as a wicked problem, somehow special and not subject to the same rules of engagement as other policy areas. The article by Philip Sax makes a strong contribution by p...

    Authors:David Chinitz

    Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:23

    Published on: 24 June 2014

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16. Content Type:Commentary

    Points mean prizes: priority points, preferential status and directed organ donation in Israel

    The introduction of Israel’s new Organ Transplantation Act in 2010 has enabled the development of a unique priority point system aimed at motivating individual’s to donate their organ. The priority point syste...

    Authors:Antonia J Cronin

    Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:8

    Published on: 24 February 2014

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17. Content Type:Original Research Article

    Making the case for directed organ donation to registered donors in Israel

    The number of deceased donor organ donations in Israel is lower than average when compared to other Western World countries. To address the organ gap, the 2008 Organ Transplantation Law provides new interventi...

    Authors:Gil Siegal

    Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2014 3:1

    Published on: 23 January 2014

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18. Content Type:Commentary

    Does cancer deserve special treatment when health technologies are prioritized?

    Despite most new cancer treatments having relatively high costs and low health benefits, they are often funded ahead of treatments for other illnesses. And yet, according to the article by Dan Greenberg and co...

    Authors:Paul Hansen

    Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2013 2:45

    Published on: 18 November 2013

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19. Content Type:Original Research Article

    Oncologists’ and family physicians’ views on value for money of cancer and congestive heart failure care

    Previous studies suggest that cancer-related interventions are valued by policy makers more favorably than interventions for other medical conditions, but the views of practicing physicians have not yet been a...

    Authors:Dan Greenberg, Ariel Hammerman, Shlomo Vinker, Adi Shani, Yuval Yermiahu and Peter J Neumann

    Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2013 2:44

    Published on: 18 November 2013

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20. Content Type:Commentary

    Crowd-out of defence and health spending: is Israel different from other industrialised nations?

    Does high defence spending limit the growth of public health investment? Using comparative data from 31 OECD countries between 1980 and 2010, we find little evidence that defence crowds out public health spend...

    Authors:Aaron Reeves and David Stuckler

    Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2013 2:14

    Published on: 22 April 2013

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21. Content Type:Original Research Article

    Adjusting health expenditure for military spending and interest payment: Israel and the OECD countries

    Compared to OECD countries, Israel has a remarkably low percentage of GDP and of government expenditure spent on health, which are not reflected in worse national outcomes. Israel is also characterized by a re...

    Authors:Amir Shmueli and Avi Israeli

    Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2013 2:5

    Published on: 20 February 2013

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22. Content Type:Commentary

    Priority setting: the importance of incorporating opportunity costs

    This article is a comment on Ofra Golan and Paul Hansen’s framework for health technology prioritization that they suggest could be developed and used by the committee selecting new technologies for Israel’s h...

    Authors:Ole Frithjof Norheim

    Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2012 1:45

    Published on: 26 November 2012

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23. Content Type:Original Research Article

    Which health technologies should be funded? A prioritization framework based explicitly on value for money

    Deciding which health technologies to fund involves confronting some of the most difficult choices in medicine. As for other countries, the Israeli health system is faced each year with having to make these di...

    Authors:Ofra Golan and Paul Hansen

    Citation:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 2012 1:44

    Published on: 26 November 2012

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