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Troen AM, Martins APB, Aguado IH, Popkin B, Mozaffarian D, Caraher M, Yaroch AL, Bordonada MÁR, Levine H. Israel decides to cancel sweetened beverage tax in setback to public health. Lancet 2023; 401:553-554. [PMID: 36738757 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(23)00214-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2023] [Accepted: 01/25/2023] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- Aron M Troen
- The Robert H Smith Faculty of Agriculture Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel; NCDS Prevention & Health Promotion Working Group, WFPHA, Geneva, Switzerland.
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- NCDS Prevention & Health Promotion Working Group, WFPHA, Geneva, Switzerland; School of Public Health, São Paulo University, São Paulo, Brazil; Brazilian Association of Public Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Policy Working Group, WFPHA, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Public Health, History of Science, and Gynaecology, University Mihuel Hernández, Alicante, Spain
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- Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA; Tufts School of Medicine and Division of Cardiology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Centre for Food Policy, School of Health Sciences, University of London, London, UK
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- GusNIP Nutrition Incentive Program Training, Technical Assistance, Evaluation, and Information Center (NTAE), Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition, Omaha, NE, USA
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- NCDS Prevention & Health Promotion Working Group, WFPHA, Geneva, Switzerland; Spanish School of Public Health, Institute of Health Carlos the Third, Madrid, Spain
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- Policy Working Group, WFPHA, Geneva, Switzerland; Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel; Israel Association of Public Health Physicians, Jerusalem, Israel
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Does health economics research align with the disease burden in the Middle East and North Africa region? A systematic review of economic evaluation studies on public health interventions. Glob Health Res Policy 2022; 7:25. [PMID: 35879742 PMCID: PMC9309606 DOI: 10.1186/s41256-022-00258-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2022] [Accepted: 07/11/2022] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Introduction Economic evaluation studies demonstrate the value of money in health interventions and enhance the efficiency of the healthcare system. Therefore, this study reviews published economic evaluation studies of public health interventions from 26 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries and examines whether they addressed the region's major health problems.
Methods PubMed and Scopus were utilized to search for relevant articles published up to June 26, 2021. The reviewers independently selected studies, extracted data, and assessed the quality of studies using the Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS) checklist.
Results The search identified 61 studies. Approximately half (28 studies; 46%) were conducted in Israel and Iran. The main areas of interest for economic evaluation studies were infectious diseases (21 studies; 34%), cancers (13 studies; 21%), and genetic disorders (nine studies; 15%). Five (8%), 39 (64%), 16 (26%), and one (2%) studies were classified as excellent, high, average, and poor quality, respectively. The mean of CHEERS checklist items reported was 80.8% (SD 14%). Reporting the structure and justification of the selected model was missed in 21 studies (37%), while price and conversion rates and the analytical methods were missed in 21 studies (34%). Conclusions The quantity of economic evaluation studies on public health interventions in the MENA region remains low; however, the overall quality is high to excellent. There were obvious geographic gaps across countries regarding the number and quality of studies and gaps within countries concerning disease prioritization. The observed research output, however, did not reflect current and upcoming disease burden and risk factors trends in the MENA region.
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The Israel National Bariatric Surgery Registry: the inception process. Surg Obes Relat Dis 2020; 16:80-89. [DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2019.09.078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2019] [Revised: 08/13/2019] [Accepted: 09/21/2019] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Bates S, Bayley T, Norman P, Breeze P, Brennan A. A Systematic Review of Methods to Predict Weight Trajectories in Health Economic Models of Behavioral Weight-Management Programs: The Potential Role of Psychosocial Factors. Med Decis Making 2019; 40:90-105. [PMID: 31789103 PMCID: PMC6985993 DOI: 10.1177/0272989x19889897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Objectives. There is limited evidence on the long-term effectiveness of behavioral weight-management interventions, and thus, when conducting health economic modeling, assumptions are made about weight trajectories. The aims of this review were to examine these assumptions made about weight trajectories, the evidence sources used to justify them, and the impact of assumptions on estimated cost-effectiveness. Given the evidence that some psychosocial variables are associated with weight-loss trajectories, we also aimed to examine the extent to which psychosocial variables have been used to estimate weight trajectories and whether psychosocial variables were measured within cited evidence sources. Methods. A search of databases (Medline, PubMed, Cochrane, NHS Economic Evaluation, Embase, PSYCinfo, CINAHL, EconLit) was conducted using keywords related to overweight, weight-management, and economic evaluation. Economic evaluations of weight-management interventions that included modeling beyond trial data were included. Results. Within the 38 eligible articles, 6 types of assumptions were reported (weight loss maintained, weight loss regained immediately, linear weight regain, subgroup-specific trajectories, exponential decay of effect, maintenance followed by regain). Fifteen articles cited at least 1 evidence source to support the assumption reported. The assumption used affected the assessment of cost-effectiveness in 9 of the 19 studies that tested this in sensitivity analyses. None of the articles reported using psychosocial factors to estimate weight trajectories. However, psychosocial factors were measured in evidence sources cited by 11 health economic models. Conclusions. Given the range of weight trajectories reported and the potential impact on funding decisions, further research is warranted to investigate how psychosocial variables measured in trials can be used within health economic models to simulate heterogeneous weight trajectories and potentially improve the accuracy of cost-effectiveness estimates.
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- Sarah Bates
- School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
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- School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
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- School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
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- School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
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Obesity in children and adolescents is a severe health, psychosocial, and economic problem. Treatment of obesity should be based on the physiology, biochemistry, and genetics of the disease. Treatment is designed to prevent the comorbidities of obesity and allow a healthy, high-quality, and productive life. Treatment is based on healthy living and usually involves tools such as pharmacotherapy, medical device therapy, and bariatric surgery. Bariatric surgery is not acceptable to most patients, parents, primary care providers, and payers. The most successful treatment of obesity follows a chronic disease model, provides a continuum of care, and involves many different disciplines.
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Ginsberg GM. Mortality, hospital days and treatment costs of current and reduced sugar consumption in Israel. Isr J Health Policy Res 2017; 6:1. [PMID: 28096974 PMCID: PMC5225513 DOI: 10.1186/s13584-016-0129-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2016] [Accepted: 12/19/2016] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Consumption of sugar causes tooth decay, overweight and obesity related morbidities. This paper in response to the Minister of Health's request, provides estimates of the mortality, morbidity and health care costs attributable to sugar consumption in Israel along with the effects of reducing sugar consumption. METHODS Gender specific relative risks of many diseases from overweight (25 < =BMI < 30) and obesity (BMI > =30) were applied to the national gender specific prevalence rates of overweight and obesity in order to calculate the population attributable fraction (PAF) from overweight and obesity. National expenditure on these related diseases was calculated by applying disease-specific data from a recent Canadian study to estimates of disease specific general hospital expenditures in Israel. Disease specific costs attributable to overweight and obesity were estimated from the product of these expenditures and PAF. In addition national costs of treating caries in persons under 18 years of age from sugar were calculated. Similar calculations were made to estimate the burden from sugar in terms of mortality and hospital utilisation. A recent UK modelling study was used to estimate the effect of a national program to reduce calorific consumption of sugar from 12.45 to 10% in 5 years. RESULTS Conditions associated with overweight or obesity accounted annually for 6402 deaths (95% CI 3296-8760) and 268,009 hospital days. Dental costs attributable to sugar consumption were 264 million NIS. In total, obesity, overweight and sugar consumption accounted for 2449 million in direct treatment costs (0.21% of GDP), rising to 4027 million (0.35% of GDP) when indirect costs were included. A national program of reducing energy from sugar consumption from 12.45 to 10% over 5 years is considered have a very feasible short-term goal. Even if the program does not impose taxes on sugar consumption, this would save 778 million NIS as well as 1184 lives. CONCLUSION Sugar consumption causes a huge monetary and mortality burden. Estimates of potential decreases in this burden justify the current prioritisation given by the health minister of creating and implementing a national program to reduce sugar consumption, which is likely to be cost-saving (ie: averted treatment costs will exceed intervention costs).
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- Gary M. Ginsberg
- Israel Ministry of Health, Public Health Services, Yirmiahu Street 39, Jerusalem, 9446724 Israel
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Yom Din G, Zugman Z, Khashper A. The impact of preventive health behaviour and social factors on visits to the doctor. Isr J Health Policy Res 2014; 3:41. [PMID: 25584186 PMCID: PMC4290136 DOI: 10.1186/2045-4015-3-41] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2014] [Accepted: 12/02/2014] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to examine the joint impact of preventive health behavior (PHB) and social and demographic factors on the utilization of primary and secondary medical care under a universal health care system, as measured by visits to the doctor, who were categorized as either a General Practitioner (GP) or Specialist Doctor (SD). METHODS An ordered probit model was utilized to analyze data obtained from the 2009 Israeli National Health Survey. The problem of endogeneity between PHB factors and visits to GP was approached using the two-stage residuals inclusion and instrumental variables method. RESULTS We found a positive effect of PHB on visits to the doctor while the addition of the PHB factors to the independent variables resulted in important changes in explaining visits to GP (in values of the estimates, in their sign, and in their statistical significance), and only in slight changes for visits to SD. A 1% increase in PHB factors results in increasing the probability to visit General Practitioner in the last year in 0.6%. The following variables were identified as significant in explaining frequency of visits to the doctor: PHB, socio-economic status (pro-poor for visits to GP, pro-rich for visits to SD), location (for visits to SD), gender, age (age 60 or greater being a negative factor for visits to GP and a positive factor for visits to SD), chronic diseases, and marital status (being married was a negative factor for visits to GP and a positive factor for visits to SD). CONCLUSIONS There is a need for allowing for endogeneity in examining the impact of PHB, social and demographic factors on visits to GP in a population under universal health insurance. For disadvantaged populations with low SES and those living in peripheral districts, the value of IndPrev is lower than for populations with high SES and living in the center of the country. Examining the impact of these factors, significant differences in the importance and sometimes even in the sign of their influence on visits to different categories of doctors - GP and SD, are found.
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- Gregory Yom Din
- />The Open University of Israel, Raanana, Israel, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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National Health Systems. THE NEW PUBLIC HEALTH 2014. [PMCID: PMC7170208 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-415766-8.00013-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Health care systems ideally include universal access to comprehensive prepaid medical care along with health promotion and disease prevention. National health insurance and national health services of various models have evolved in the developed world and increasingly in developing countries as well. Some models, such as the Bismarckian social security model and the Bereidge National Health Service model, or National Health insurance such as in pioneered in Canada, are used by a number of countries. The common features are based on principles of national responsibility and solidarity for health, social solidarity for providing funding and searching for effective ways of providing care. Various universal systems of health coverage exist in all industrialized countries, except in the United States which has a mix of public and private insurance but with high percentages of uninsured and poorly insured. Health reform is a continuing process as all countries aspire to assure health care for all. Aging populations, increasing costs, advancing and increasing technology all require nations to modify and adapt organization and financing systems of health care, health protection and promotion.
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Rosenberg E, Grotto I, Dweck T, Horev T, Cohen M, Lev B. Healthy Israel 2020: Israel’s Blueprint for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Public Health Rev 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/bf03391690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Kranzler Y, Davidovich N, Fleischman Y, Grotto I, Moran DS, Weinstein R. A health in all policies approach to promote active, healthy lifestyle in Israel. Isr J Health Policy Res 2013; 2:16. [PMID: 23607681 PMCID: PMC3637208 DOI: 10.1186/2045-4015-2-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2012] [Accepted: 03/20/2013] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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In December 2011, Israel launched the National Program to Promote Active, Healthy Lifestyle, an inter-ministerial, intersectoral effort to address obesity and its contribution to the country's burden of chronic disease. This paper explores the National Program according to the "Health in All Policies" (HiAP) strategy for health governance, designed to engage social determinants of health and curb health challenges at the causal level. Our objective is twofold: to identify where Israel's National Program both echoes and falls short of Health in All Policies, and to assess how the National Program can be utilized to enrich the Health in All Policies research-base.We review Health in All Policies' evolution, why it developed and how it is diverges from other approaches to intersectoriality in health. We describe why obesity and related chronic diseases necessitate an intersectoral response, cite obstacles and gaps to implementation and list examples of HiAP-type initiatives from around the world. We then analyze Israel's National Program as it relates to Health in All Policies, and propose directions through which the initiative may constitute a useful case study.We contend that joint planning, implementation and to a limited extent, budgeting, between the Ministries of Health, Education and Culture and Sport reflect an HiAP-approach, as does integrating health into the policymaking of other ministries. To further incorporate health in all Israeli policies, we suggest leveraging the Health Ministry's presence on governmental and non-governmental committees in areas like building, land-use and urban planning, institutional food policy and environmental health, and focusing on knowledge translation according to the policy needs, strengths and limitations of other sectors. Finally, we suggest studying the National Program's financing, decision-making and evaluation mechanisms in order to complement existing research on the implementation of Health in All Policies and intersectoral action for health.
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- Yannai Kranzler
- Public Health Services, Israel Ministry of Health, 39 Yirmiyahu Street, Jerusalem, Israel
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
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- Public Health Services, Israel Ministry of Health, 39 Yirmiyahu Street, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Public Health Services, Israel Ministry of Health, 39 Yirmiyahu Street, Jerusalem, Israel
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
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- Public Health Services, Israel Ministry of Health, 39 Yirmiyahu Street, Jerusalem, Israel
- Faculty of Health Sciences at the Ariel University Center of Samaria, Ariel, Israel
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- Public Health Services, Israel Ministry of Health, 39 Yirmiyahu Street, Jerusalem, Israel
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Cecchini M, Sassi F. Tackling obesity requires efficient government policies. Isr J Health Policy Res 2012; 1:18. [PMID: 22913833 PMCID: PMC3424968 DOI: 10.1186/2045-4015-1-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2012] [Accepted: 04/18/2012] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Changes in food supply and eating habits, combined with a dramatic fall in physical activity, have made obesity a global epidemic. Across OECD countries, one in two adults is currently overweight and one in six is obese. Children have not been spared, with up to one in three currently overweight. Obese people are more likely to develop diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, and have a shorter life expectancy than people of normal weight. A prevention strategy combining health promotion campaigns, government regulation, counseling of individuals at risk in primary care, and paying special attention to the most vulnerable, would enhance population health at an affordable cost, with likely beneficial effects on health inequalities. Failure to implement such a strategy would impose heavy burdens on future generations. The new IJHPR paper by Ginsberg and Rosenberg illustrates how particular countries can assess alternative strategies for tackling obesity in a rigorous fashion. This is a commentary on http://www.ijhpr.org/content/1/1/17/
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