Health Systems in Transition: Israel [antikvár]

PrefaceThe Health Systems in Transition (HiT) profiles are country-based reports that provide a detailed description of a health system and of reform and policy initiatives in progress or under development in a specific country. Each profile is produced by country experts in collaboration with the Observatory's staff. In order to facilitate comparisons between countries, the profiles are based on a template, which is revised periodically. The template provides detailed guidelines and specific questions, definitions and examples needed to compile a profile.HiT profiles seek to provide relevant information to support policy-makers and analysts in the development of health systems in Europe. They are building blocks that can be used:to learn in detail about different approaches to the organization, financing and delivery of health services and the role of the main actors in health systems;to describe the institutional framework, the process, content and implementation of health care reform programmes;to highlight challenges and areas that require more in-depth analysis;to provide a tool for the dissemination of information on health systems and the exchange of experiences of reform strategies between policy-makers and analysts in different countries;to assist other researchers in more in-depth comparative health policy analysis.Compiling the profiles poses a number of methodological problems. In many countries, there is relatively little information available on the health system and the impact of reforms. Due to the lack of a uniform data source, quantitative data on health services are based on a number of different sources, including the European Health for All database, national statistical offices, Eurostat, thev