Bulletin: Public Health, Hospitals, and Professionals

Articles

• Stuart Altman, Should Israel Be Concerned by the High Proportion of Medical Care Paid for Privately
• Hadar Amir et al, Bedouin Women’s Gender Preferences When Choosing Obstetricians and Gynecologists
• Sue Anderson et al, The UK, Israel, and the USA:  The Impact of Healthcare Systems on Health
• Liat Ashkenazi et al, Male Nurses in Israel
• Sarah Ben-Ami and Aliza Yaffe, Palliative Care in Israel: The Nursing Perspective
• Merav Ben-Natan et al, Factors That Influence Israeli Muslim Arab Parents’ Intention to Vaccinate Their Children
• Shuli Brammli-Greenberg et al, Why and How Did Israel Adopt Activity-Based Hospital Payment
• Nissim Cohen, Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Bending the Rules in the Context of Informal Payments for Health Care
• Saralee Glasser et al, Intervention for Antenatal Depression by Public Health Nurses in an Ultra-Orthodox Community
• Anthony D. Heymann, Unsupportive Social Interactions are Associated with Poorer Self-reported Health in Israeli Patients with Diabetes
• Tamar Jacob, Implications of the National Health Insurance Law and for Physical Therapy Services
• Ilya Kagan et al, Public Health Nurses in Israel
• Ahmed Khalaila et al, Health Related Absenteeism of Family Physicians in the Negev
• Liat Lerner-Geva et al, Cultural Disparities in the Use of Medications Among Midlife Women in Israel
• Natali Levin, Medical Malpractice in Israel
• Joseph Mendlovic et al, Geographic Variation in Selected Hospital Procedures and Services
• Basil Porter et al, Community Paediatrics in Israel
• Carlos Quiñonez, Dental Reform in Israel’s National Health Insurance Law
• Mark Schweda et al, Views on End-of-Life Decision Making among Religious and Secular Persons in the USA, Germany, and Israel
• Yaffa Shir-Raz and Eli Avraham, PR Strategies of Pharmaceutical Companies in Countries Where Direct Advertising of Prescription Drugs Is Banned
• Diana Tasher et al, Child Health Care in Israel
• Chen Stein Zamir and Avi Israeli, Perceptions About Routine Childhood Vaccinations Among Jewish Ultra-Orthodox Mothers
• Cheryl Zlotnick et al, Comparing the Health Status of Youth Village Alumni in Israel to the General Population

Exchange: Chinitz, Israeli, Filc, and Cohen, Black Market Medicine and Privatization in Israel

Chinitz, David, and Avi Israeli. “Not Everything is Black or White: Commentary on Filc D and Cohen N, Blurring the Boundaries between Public and Private Health Care Services as an Alternative Explanation for the Emergence of Black Medicine: the Israeli Case.” Health Economics, Policy and Law (early view; online first).

 

Filc, Dani, and Nissim Cohen. “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck: Black Market Medicine and Privatization in Israel.” Health Economics, Policy and Law (early view; online first).

 

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1744133115000365

http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1744133115000377

 

Abstract

It is thus surprising to read a paper based in a country with National Health Insurance that implies that such blurring is problematic to the point of contributing to the emergence of black medicine in that country’s health care system. The article by Filc and Cohen on which we comment here, appears to be issuing a warning that when boundaries blur mischief is likely to be afoot Given the relevance to many health systems, and the illustrative value of the Israeli case, we have decided to review briefly the contents of that article, and comment on the main components of its analysis.