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Papers

(The median citation count of Israel Journal of Health Policy Research is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of models in the covid-19 pandemic	106
Medical student lifestyle counselling for non-communicable disease: impact on students’ competence and patients’ health behaviors	34
Enablers to high vaccination uptake among a disadvantaged minority population: a qualitative study of the Arab population of Israel	27
Reduction in self-reported influenza-like-illness in school children and household members following influenza vaccine administration – a cohort study, Israel, 2016–7	27
Implications of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures among patients with recently diagnosed type 2 diabetes	20
Vaccine injury compensation: the Israeli case	20
Use and barriers to the use of telehealth services in the Arab population in Israel: a cross sectional survey	18
Involvement and skepticism towards the JCI Accreditation process among hospital’s four sectors employees: suggestions for cultural change	18
The effect of cessation of drinking water fluoridation on dental restorations and crowns in children aged 3–5 years in Israel – a retrospective study	18
Organ donation in the time of COVID-19: the Israeli experience one year into the pandemic—ethical and policy implications	17
The role of Israeli researchers in the scientific literature regarding COVID-19 vaccines	14
Association of health behaviors with function and health-related quality of life among patients with Parkinson’s disease	13
Perceptions of home hospitalization among the public and physicians in Israel: findings from surveys conducted for the Dead Sea Health Policy Conference of 2022	12
An important new health policy voice	12
The effect of legal representation on clinical measures in involuntarily admitted psychiatric patients: a retrospective study	12
What if health care worked like everything else?	12
Kidnapping-Induced Trauma and secondary stress in armed conflicts: a comparative study among women in hostage families, volunteers, and the General Population	11
Admission characteristics of patients with short term hospitalization	11
“A picture is worth a thousand words”: smoking in multi-unit housing in Israel	10
Frailty; Time for Global Action	10
Trust in COVID-19 policy among public health professionals in Israel during the first wave of the pandemic: a cross-sectional study	9
Where internal medical patients receive intensive interventions: results from a tertiary-care hospital in Israel	9
Mixed effect of increasing outflow of medical patients from an emergency department	9
The COVID-19 Israeli tapestry: the intersectionality health equity challenge	9
IHR amendments and the “pandemic agreement” an Israeli perspective	8

Correction to: Physical activity, resilience, emotions, moods, and weight control, during the COVID-19 global crisis	8
Scheduling an appointment for MRI: patient perception of wait time and difficulty	8
Transgender men's preferences when choosing obstetricians and gynecologists	8
Frailty and its association with long-term mortality among community-dwelling older adults aged 75 years and over	7
National and regional trends in MRI utilization in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic	7
Trends in Israeli clinical trials registration “MyTrial”	7
Coping, meaning in life, and quality of life during ongoing conflict: insights from Israeli populations	7
Did the events following the COVID-19 outbreak influence the incidents of violence against hospital staff?	7
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care physicians in Israel, with comparison to an international cohort: a cross-sectional study	7
Food insecurity amongst asylum seekers and people without status in Israel	6
IQOS point-of-sale marketing: a comparison between Arab and Jewish neighborhoods in Israel	6
The attitudes and knowledge of family physicians regarding malnutrition in the elderly: a call for action	6
It’s time to eliminate the mismatch between pediatric training and practice	6
Reproductive healthcare utilization for women in the sex trade: a qualitative study	6
Mortality during the first four waves of COVID-19 pandemic in Israel: March 2020–October 2021	6
Crisis management for Patient Safety Officers: lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic	6
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	5
Intersecting dimensions: advanced analytical approach to school climate and injury prevention in health policy	5
Vision impairment in boys recruited to the iREAD study	5
Factors associated with medical complications after body art among Israeli adults: a retrospective study	5
Correction: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) seroprevalence among women at childbearing age, maternal and congenital CMV infection: policy implications of a descriptive, retrospective, community-based study	5
The effect of community water fluoridation cessation on children's dental health: a national experience	5
Factors affecting decisions of an HMO Drug Exemptions Committee on individual patient requests for coverage of non-formulary drugs	5
Arab representation in Israeli healthcare professions: achievements, challenges and opportunities	5
Augmented reality- virtual reality wartime training of reserve prehospital teams: a pilot study	5
Navigating crisis: exploring the links between threat perceptions, well-being, individual and workplace resilience among general hospital staff	5
Experiences of weight stigmatization in the Israeli healthcare system among overweight and obese individuals	5
Emergency medicine physician burnout before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Lessons from Israel's COVID-19 Green Pass program	4
Politics of reproduction: a view from Israel on the Dobbs decision	4
The impact of Israel’s Front-of-Package labeling reform on consumers' behavior and intentions to change dietary habits	4
Failure of Israeli pediatric residency curricula to cover child development and special education issues: results of a national survey on levels of knowledge	4
Association of quality of nursing care with violence load, burnout, and listening climate	4
Health behaviors of medical students decline towards residency: how could we maintain and enhance these behaviors throughout their training	4
Quality of care indicator performance was minimally changed in 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Weight stigma in healthcare settings: the experience of Arab and Jewish bariatric surgery candidates in Israel	4
Correction to: Obstetric anesthesia services in Israel snapshot (OASIS) study: a 72 hour cross-sectional observational study of workforce supply and demand	4
Academic activism on behalf of children during the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel; beyond public health advocacy	4
Dental health of preschool children after two-years of a supervised tooth brushing program in Southern Israel	4
People with serious mental illness are at higher risk for acute care hospitalization in Israel, 2000–2019	4
Delirium screening in the emergency department: evaluation and intervention	3
Prediction of vaccine hesitancy based on social media traffic among Israeli parents using machine learning strategies	3
Physicians’ views and knowledge on the antibiotic treatment of pneumonia in advanced dementia	3
The Israeli anesthesiology workforce crisis: a reassessment survey	3
Understanding and addressing populations whose prior experience has led to mistrust in healthcare	3
Prescription opioid use in Israel – the tide has risen, but it’s not a tidal wave	3
Predictors of intention to stay in the profession among novice nurses: a cross-sectional study	3
Improving compliance with physical distancing across religious cultures in Israel	3
How, when, and for whom: decisions regarding remote neuropsychological assessment during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic	3
Seven key parameters that facilitate clinical pharmacy practice: a comparison between Israel and the United States	3

Perspective: lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic concerning the resilience of the population	3
Emergency department impaired adherence to personal protective equipment donning and doffing protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Changes and trends in medication-assisted treatment in Israel	3
Pediatricians at the forefront of child mental health? A Delphi method exploration	3
The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on patient visits to the emergency department and hospitalizations in medical wards in an Israeli medical center	3
Civilians under missile attack: post-traumatic stress disorder among the Jewish and Bedouin population of Southern Israel	3
Psychiatrists’ awareness of the cost of medication, rates of social disability pension, and their attitudes regarding knowledge of treatment costs	2
Expert opinion survey on Israel’s food system: implications for food and health policies	2
Child food insecurity in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: urgent need for policy evaluation and reform in Israel’s school feeding programs	2
The landscape of medical care consumption in Israel: a nationwide population cross-sectional study	2
Keeping our children safe: piloting a hospital-based home-visitation program in Israel	2
“A day in the life” – telemedicine in family medicine and its relationship with practicing physicians’ satisfaction: a cross-sectional study	2
Antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals: towards implementing a one health based national action plan in Israel	2
The annual feasibility and affordability of a healthy diet for families with children in Israel by income quintile and geographic area of residency	2
The median age of a city’s residents and population density influence COVID 19 mortality growth rates: policy implications	2
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	2
Public conformism with health regulation is crumbling as COVID-19 becomes a chronic threat: Repeated Cross-sectional Studies	2
A platform for the international exchange of ideas: the Israel Journal of Health Policy Research celebrates its first decade	2
Risks for re-hospitalization of persons with severe mental illness living in rehabilitation care settings	2
Drug shortages in Israel, revisited: a bitter pill to swallow	2
Insights from a web-based questionnaire: examining diagnostic procedures prior to magnetic resonance imaging	2
The efficacy of single pharmacist medication review among type II diabetic patients who take six chronic medications or more: a case–control study	2
The Israeli Trauma system during wartime - policy and management	2
Shared decision-making in end-of-life care for end-stage renal disease patients: nephrologists’ views and attitudes	2
Food supplied to Gaza during seven months of the Hamas-Israel war	2
Arab male physicians’ perceptions about their own smoking behaviors: a qualitative study	1
Trust in public health policy in the time of the COVID-19 epidemic in Israel	1
The involvement of community pediatricians in the treatment of developmental-behavioral difficulties as perceived by directors of child development centers	1
Mental health professionals’ awareness of the parental functioning of persons with severe mental disorders: a retrospective chart study	1
Demographic and injury trends for car crash casualties hospitalized in Level I Trauma centers over two decades: data from the National Trauma Registry	1
When policy meets reality: the new 18-hour on-call shift policy and the Israeli anesthesia workforce crisis	1
Party keepers: a significant community-based intervention for harm reduction	1
Exploring the relationship between social activities and financial risk aversion in adults aged 50 + with depression caseness	1
Using the Elixhauser risk adjustment model to predict outcomes among patients hospitalized in internal medicine at a large, tertiary-care hospital in Israel	1
Tobacco smoke incursion into private residences in Israel: a cross-sectional study examining public perceptions of private rights and support for governmental policies	1
Similarities and differences between two well-performing healthcare systems: a comparison between the Israeli and the Danish healthcare systems	1
Strategic changes and challenges of private dental clinics and practitioners in Israel: adapting to a competitive environment	1
Exploring pre-MRI imaging tests: patient survey reveals potential implications for healthcare efficiency in Israel	1
Predictors of short stature in Israeli children aged 6–7 years: a retrospective cohort study	1
Knowledge of and willingness to take pre-exposure prophylaxis among men who have sex with men in Israel	1
Correction to: The Hamas massacre of Oct 7, 2023, and its aftermath, medical crimes, and the Lancet commission report on medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust	1
Pediatric rehabilitation delivery: discussion is an antidote to disconnection and discontent	1
“I’m 'just' a community pediatrician” views and challenges of pediatricians working in the community in Israel	1
Understanding out-of-pocket spending and financial hardship among patients who succumb to cancer and their caregivers	1
The race to disasters - is the international relief community ready for future disasters?	1
The importance of having good quality indicators for care of patients with COPD: a look at hospital readmission rates	1
WhatsApp Tele-Medicine – usage patterns and physicians views on the platform	1
Pfizer COVID19 vaccine is not associated with acute cardiovascular events excluding myocarditis– a national self-controlled case series study	1
Addressing the important error of missing surgical items in an operated patient	1
Trends in Israel's Medical Administration subspecialty, 1987–2022	1
Israeli dentists’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding smoking cessation care	1