OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Israel Journal of Health Policy Research is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Israel’s rapid rollout of vaccinations for COVID-19	182
A study of ethnic, gender and educational differences in attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines in Israel – implications for vaccination implementation policies	104
Addressing vaccine hesitancy and access barriers to achieve persistent progress in Israel’s COVID-19 vaccination program	97
Patient-centered care: achieving higher quality by designing care through the patient’s eyes	55
Who should be vaccinated first? Comparing vaccine prioritization strategies in Israel and European countries using the Covid-19 Health System Response Monitor	42
What can we learn from Israel’s rapid roll out of COVID 19 vaccination?	34
Understanding the phases of vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic	33
Strategic management as adaptation to changes in the ecosystems of public hospitals in Israel	27
WhatsApp Tele-Medicine – usage patterns and physicians views on the platform	27
Ethnic and minority group differences in engagement with COVID-19 vaccination programmes – at Pandemic Pace; when vaccine confidence in mass rollout meets local vaccine hesitancy	26
Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel, March–November 2020: when, where, and for whom?	24
Actionable lessons for the US COVID vaccine program	21
Multinational dietary changes and anxiety during the coronavirus pandemic-findings from Israel	19
Emergency department impaired adherence to personal protective equipment donning and doffing protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Physical activity, resilience, emotions, moods, and weight control, during the COVID-19 global crisis	18
Prediction of vaccine hesitancy based on social media traffic among Israeli parents using machine learning strategies	17
Fear of panoptic surveillance: using digital technology to control the COVID-19 epidemic	17
Substances use between early and later stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel	17
A rapid assessment of migrant careworkers’ psychosocial status during Israel’s COVID-19 lockdown	17
Training medical educators to teach: bridging the gap between perception and reality	16
The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination: what can Canada learn from Israel?	15
National initiatives to promote quality of care and patient safety: achievements to date and challenges ahead	14
Age, ageing, ageism and “age-itation” in the Age of COVID-19: rights and obligations relating to older persons in Israel as observed through the lens of medical ethics	14
Lessons from Israel's COVID-19 Green Pass program	13
Strategy drives implementation: COVID vaccination in Israel	12

Early Covid-19 vaccination rollout: a commentary from England	12
Did the events following the COVID-19 outbreak influence the incidents of violence against hospital staff?	11
How, when, and for whom: decisions regarding remote neuropsychological assessment during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic	11
Academic activism on behalf of children during the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel; beyond public health advocacy	11
Health behaviors of medical students decline towards residency: how could we maintain and enhance these behaviors throughout their training	10
Adapting the Israeli national health insurance law to the 21st century– a report from the 19th Dead Sea Conference	10
Trends and correlated outcomes in population-level prescription opioid and transdermal fentanyl use in Israel	9
Involvement and skepticism towards the JCI Accreditation process among hospital’s four sectors employees: suggestions for cultural change	9
Falls and fear of falling among Israeli community-dwelling older people: a cross-sectional national survey	9
Trust in COVID-19 policy among public health professionals in Israel during the first wave of the pandemic: a cross-sectional study	9
A COVID-19 call center for healthcare providers: dealing with rapidly evolving health policy guidelines	9
The impact of Israel’s Front-of-Package labeling reform on consumers' behavior and intentions to change dietary habits	9
Similarities and differences between two well-performing healthcare systems: a comparison between the Israeli and the Danish healthcare systems	8
Emergency medicine physician burnout before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Correlates of psychological distress and self-rated health among Palestinian citizens of Israel: findings from the health and environment survey (HESPI)	8
Antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals: towards implementing a one health based national action plan in Israel	8
Quality of care indicator performance was minimally changed in 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Robotic vs. open surgery in obese women with low-grade endometrial cancer: comparison of costs and quality of life measures	8
The effect of community water fluoridation cessation on children's dental health: a national experience	8
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care physicians in Israel, with comparison to an international cohort: a cross-sectional study	7
Mortality during the first four waves of COVID-19 pandemic in Israel: March 2020–October 2021	7
Barriers to completing colonoscopy after a positive fecal occult blood test	7
The landscape of medical care consumption in Israel: a nationwide population cross-sectional study	7
Determinants of Israeli consumers’ decision to use food label information more frequently: a national survey study	6
Experiences of weight stigmatization in the Israeli healthcare system among overweight and obese individuals	6
The role of statisticians in the response to COVID-19 in Israel: a holistic point of view	6
Addressing the important error of missing surgical items in an operated patient	6
Use and barriers to the use of telehealth services in the Arab population in Israel: a cross sectional survey	6
Adapting to change: Clalit's response to the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Breastfeeding challenges and support in a high initiation population	6
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) seroprevalence among women at childbearing age, maternal and congenital CMV infection: policy implications of a descriptive, retrospective, community-based study	5
Advancing child health and educational equity during the COVID-19 pandemic through science and advocacy	5
The importance of having good quality indicators for care of patients with COPD: a look at hospital readmission rates	5
Motorcycle-related head and neck injuries: increased risk among ethnic minorities	5
National and regional trends in MRI utilization in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic	5
Survey of faculty development in four Israeli medical schools: clinical faculty development is inadequate and clinical teaching is undervalued in Israeli faculties of medicine	5
Sustaining primary care teams in the midst of a pandemic	5
Knowledge of and willingness to take pre-exposure prophylaxis among men who have sex with men in Israel	5
Child food insecurity in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: urgent need for policy evaluation and reform in Israel’s school feeding programs	5
The surfacing portion of the Iceberg of the Domestic Violence Phenomenon—data from the Israeli National Trauma Registry	5
Game-related injuries in schools: a retrospective nationwide 6-year evaluation and implications for prevention policy	5
Obstetric anesthesia services in Israel snapshot (OASIS) study: a 72 hour cross-sectional observational study of workforce supply and demand	5
The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on patient visits to the emergency department and hospitalizations in medical wards in an Israeli medical center	5
Improving compliance with physical distancing across religious cultures in Israel	4
Improving the quality of care in health systems: towards better strategies	4
Medical student lifestyle counselling for non-communicable disease: impact on students’ competence and patients’ health behaviors	4
Oral health of the 65+ age group in Israel-2020	4
When policy meets reality: the new 18-hour on-call shift policy and the Israeli anesthesia workforce crisis	4
Dental health of preschool children after two-years of a supervised tooth brushing program in Southern Israel	4
Seven key parameters that facilitate clinical pharmacy practice: a comparison between Israel and the United States	4

The role of models in the covid-19 pandemic	4
The vexing relationship between socioeconomic status and health	4
The physician shortage in Israel and a policy proposal for improvement	4
The involvement of community pediatricians in the treatment of developmental-behavioral difficulties as perceived by directors of child development centers	4
Changes and trends in medication-assisted treatment in Israel	4
The National Immunization Technical Advisory Group in Israel	4
Transgender men's preferences when choosing obstetricians and gynecologists	4
Residents’ perspective on duty hours at an Israeli tertiary hospital	4
Educational level, ethnicity and mortality rates in Israel: national data linkage study	4
Heat stroke: knowledge and practices of medical professionals in pediatric emergency medicine departments – a survey study	3
The COVID-19 pandemic posed many dilemmas for policymakers, which sometimes resulted in unprecedented decision-making	3
Tobacco smoke incursion into private residences in Israel: a cross-sectional study examining public perceptions of private rights and support for governmental policies	3
Reducing infantile anemia: insight on patterns of process and outcome indicators by ethnicity and socioeconomic class during a 10-year intervention program and 5 years after	3
Organ donation in the time of COVID-19: the Israeli experience one year into the pandemic—ethical and policy implications	3
Healthcare policy changes in an era of health workforce shortage	3
The insurability of innovative pharmaceutical cancer technologies	3
Machine-learning based routing of callers in an Israeli mental health hotline	3
Caring for the health and well-being of our learners in medicine as critical actions toward high-quality care	3
Perspective: lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic concerning the resilience of the population	3
Suicide rates and risk factors for suicide among Israeli immigrants from Ethiopia (1985–2017)	3
Trends in Israeli community-based opioid prescribing, 2010–2020, an observational study of the country’s largest HMO	3
Does a policy that requires adherence to a regular primary care physician improve the actual adherence of patients?	3
Increased rates of unattained developmental milestones among Israeli children between 2016 and 2020: a national report	3
Understanding out-of-pocket spending and financial hardship among patients who succumb to cancer and their caregivers	3
Ethnic disparities in receiving benefits for disability following postpartum mental illness during first two years after delivery: an Israeli nationwide study	3
The role of Israeli researchers in the scientific literature regarding COVID-19 vaccines	3
Opportunities to improve the quality of inpatient consultation: one hospital’s investigation but an age old struggle	3
Enhancing the primary care pediatrician's role in managing psychosocial issues: a cross sectional study of pediatricians and parents in Israel	3
Timing, extent and outcomes of public health measures in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel and a comparative analysis by socioeconomic indices	2
Factors affecting the use of dental services among Arab children in Israel: a qualitative study	2
Relationship between patient ethnicity and prevalence of anemia during pregnancy and the puerperium period and compliance with healthcare recommendations - implications for targeted health policy	2
Cost containment by peer prior authorization program for second line treatment in patients with retinal disease	2
Failure of Israeli pediatric residency curricula to cover child development and special education issues: results of a national survey on levels of knowledge	2
Crisis management for Patient Safety Officers: lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic	2
Vaccine injury compensation: the Israeli case	2
Rational and irrational vaccine hesitancy	2
Promoting patients’ rights through hospital accreditation	2
Results of the national biomonitoring program show persistent iodine deficiency in Israel	2
Rethinking the path from evidence to decision-making	2
Availability, timeliness, documentation and quality of consultations among hospital departments: a prospective, comparative study	2
Understanding and addressing populations whose prior experience has led to mistrust in healthcare	2
The association between hallway boarding in internal wards, readmission and mortality rates: a comparative, retrospective analysis, following a policy change	2
“A picture is worth a thousand words”: smoking in multi-unit housing in Israel	2
The role of biostatistics in the response to COVID-19: a Belgian and international perspective	2
The need for cardiac surgery differential tariffs in Israel at the era of aging population and emerging technology: Importance of procedure type and patient complexity as assessed by EuroSCORE	2
To charge or not to charge: reducing patient no-show	2
The Hamas massacre of Oct 7, 2023, and its aftermath, medical crimes, and the Lancet commission report on medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust	2
Party keepers: a significant community-based intervention for harm reduction	2
Factors associated with medical complications after body art among Israeli adults: a retrospective study	2
Mixed effect of increasing outflow of medical patients from an emergency department	2