Dr. Hasia Lubetzky
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Instructor
Department :
Zusman Child Developmental Center
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hasia@bgu.ac.il
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rural health, family health, rehabilitation, accessibility
Education
B.O.T.,(occupational therapy) The Hebrew university, Jerusalem M.H.A., School of Management, the Department of Health Policy and Management, Ben-Gurion University.PhD, The Kreitman School of Advanced Graduate Studies, Ben-Gurion University.
Research Interests
Rural-health, Health service provision to culturally-diverse-populations, Child-rehabilitation-therapy, Developmental-rehabilitation-center, Rural-rehabilitation, Bedouins, Jews, Minorities, Accessibility, Availability.
Research Projects
Lubetzky H. PhD Thesis
"Health Services in the periphery Following the enactment of Israel health insurance law, 1995" 12.2009 Lubetzky H, Shvarts S, Galil A, Tesler H, Vardi G, Merrick J.
Does co-payment for services decrease utilization of rehabilitation services for children with developmental disabilities? J Disabil Int Dev 2005;16(3):115-6. Lubetzky H, Shvarts S, Merrick J, Vardi G, Galil A.The use of developmental rehabilitation services. Comparison between Bedouins and Jews in the South of Israel. ScientificWorldJournal 2004;4:186-92.
Research Abstract
Giving-Health-Services in South- Periphery Following the Enactment of Israel Health Insurance law . Southern-Israel is characterized with wide population-dispersal and cultural-heterogeneity. In order to give qualitative health-services as granted in Israel''s-health-law, one must identify the unique health-needs emerging from the living-areas and cultures existing in the south. The research examines the main issues related to providing health-services to southern-Periphery, as perceived by health-services providers and customers. The research involves a quantitative-study and a qualitative-study Quantitative-study''s Results were: 1. The farther one lives away from Be''er-Sheva and the higher the socio-economic status of the settlement, the less he arrives for visits in "Soroka" Medical-University-Center. 2. The rate-of-visits from Bedouins coming from outside of permanent-settlements is significantly lower than the rate-of-visits from permanent-settlement Bedouins, maintaining a similar rate as the Jewish visitors. The qualitative-study theses were: 1) The factors which are being perceived as affecting on distance-factor 2) The factors which are perceived as unique in providing health services in south-Israel. 3) Perception of the non-equality in the health services between southern-periphery and central-Israel. As a consequence of the study, the existing programs today could be adjusted to the needs of the culturally diverse populations and rural-populations in Israel, within the limits of a given budget.