OECD Reviews of Health Care Qua

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Table of contents
Acronyms and abbreviations
Executive summary
Assessment and recommendations
Quality of care in Israel’s health system
	Introduction
	Context
	Profiling policies on quality of health care and their impact
	Conclusions
	Bibliography
Strengthening community-based primary health care
	Introduction
	Primary care in Israel is well-developed, accessible and of high quality
	Performance in some areas needs further improvement and unnecessary hospitalisations raise concern
	Areas for improvement in Israeli’s primary care system
	Conclusions
	Notes
	Bibliography
Tackling inequalities in health and health care in Israel
	Introduction
	The Israeli health care system is designed to provide equity in health care, and moves are underway to reduce prevailing inequalities
	Israel has a good information architecture for measuring inequalities but there are some important gaps
	Rising out-of-pocket payments for health care have implications for equity of access and quality
	Reducing geographical inequalities in health care capacity should be a priority
	Health promotion and health education services for disadvantaged groups, and culturally competent care, should be strengthened further
	Conclusions
	Notes
	Bibliography
The quality of diabetes care in Israel
	Introduction
	Diabetes is a growing public health threat in Israel
	Despite good health promotion and prevention, efforts to tackle risky behaviour should be scaled up and widened in focus
	Secondary prevention and diagnosis of diabetes strategies in Israel are in line with current international standards
	Israel has good measurement of quality of diabetes care, but co-ordination of care for diabetic patients can be improved
	Israel should step up efforts to manage diabetes complications and its co-morbidities
	Conclusions
	Notes
	Bibliography