TY - JOUR
T1 - Revamping mental health care in Israel
T2 - From the Netanyahu Commission to National Health Insurance Law
AU - Mark, Mordechai
AU - Rabinowitz, Jonathan
AU - Feldman, Dina
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - This paper describes the basis for the reform in mental health care system in Israel as presented in the report of the Netanyahu Commission (State Commission for Investigation of Functioning and Efficiency of the Health Care System in Israel, 1990) and the report of the State Comptroller's office (State Comptroller, 1991). These reports pointed to seven major problem areas in the mental health care system: (1) segregation of mental health and general health care systems, (2) variations in availability of services across the country, (3) conflict of interests within Ministry of Health which provides services and oversight, (4) overuse of hospital based care and under use of community based care, (5) reliance on hospitals for custodial care, (6) lack of appreciation of mental health service needs of non-severely mentally ill, and (7) lack of regional service planning. The article describes these problems and the proposed solutions.
AB - This paper describes the basis for the reform in mental health care system in Israel as presented in the report of the Netanyahu Commission (State Commission for Investigation of Functioning and Efficiency of the Health Care System in Israel, 1990) and the report of the State Comptroller's office (State Comptroller, 1991). These reports pointed to seven major problem areas in the mental health care system: (1) segregation of mental health and general health care systems, (2) variations in availability of services across the country, (3) conflict of interests within Ministry of Health which provides services and oversight, (4) overuse of hospital based care and under use of community based care, (5) reliance on hospitals for custodial care, (6) lack of appreciation of mental health service needs of non-severely mentally ill, and (7) lack of regional service planning. The article describes these problems and the proposed solutions.
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U2 - 10.1300/J010v25n03_10
DO - 10.1300/J010v25n03_10
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C2 - 9358604
AN - SCOPUS:0030770975
SN - 0098-1389
VL - 25
SP - 119
EP - 129
JO - Social Work in Health Care
JF - Social Work in Health Care
IS - 3
ER -
