Editor-in-Chief, Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal; Director of the Department of Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; Associate Editor, Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal; Director of Medical and Research Development, Rambam Health Care Campus,...

Author details Bio-statistical Unit, The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer 52621, Israel. Biomathematics Unit, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel. Public Health Services, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel. Faculty for Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the N...

Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel Department of Cell Research and Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv 69978, Israel Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel Gaucher Clinic, Sha’are Zedek Medical Center, Jeru...

We have introduced an early warning system for volatility regimes regarding Tehran Stock Exchange using Markov Switching GARCH approach. We have examined whether Tehran Stock Market has calmed down or more specifically, whether the surge in volatility during 2007-2010 global financial crises still affects stock return volatility in Iran.  Doing so, we have used a regime switching GARCH model.  ...

This article explores how two asylum-seeking women from Eritrea attempt to secure safety and legal status for their children – born unborn themselves by leaving them behind in the settler colonial state of Israel taking on forged Ethiopian Israeli identities travel UK facilitate a process family reunification. Situating asylum regime drawing multi-sited ethnographic research collected between 2...

The question of human resources is central to the success of VISION 2020 and of any health programme. The VISION 2020 global initiative document clearly spelt out what personnel was required and, more recently, the World Health Organization document on human resources for health care made recommendations on the type and number of people needed in order to meet all our objectives in global healt...

The purpose of this article is to introduce non-verbal tools as a way to initiate the psychosocial support response after a major disaster. The psychosocial interventions that follow the application of the Non Verbal Tool in its different configurations are based on the principle of fostering and strengthening the social and psychological attributes among the community members. The various psyc...

Family caregivers of persons following neurotrauma function as de facto extensions of our health care system. Their challenges may result in negative consequences for their physical and mental health, which directly impacts the well-being of their care-recipient. In this paper, we survey current practices in providing caregiver support, outline considerations for developing collaborative interv...

Objective The individually delivered Supervising for Home Safety (SHS) program improves caregivers' injury-related beliefs and supervision practices. The current randomized controlled trial used a group delivery in a community setting and assessed program impact, feasibility, and acceptance. Methods Caregivers of 2-5-year-olds were randomized to receive either the SHS or an attention-matched ...