Nadav Davidovitch
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 238246 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nadav Davidovitch |
| PRENOMES | Nadav |
| SOBRENOME | Davidovitch |
| ASSINATURA | DAVIDOVITCH N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5709-9265 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 71 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The fundamental causes of disaster vulnerability
Land access is one of the strongest predictors of disaster vulnerability for extreme weather events in rural, low-income environments. In Southern Africa, smallholder farmers face accelerating land loss from both slow-onset stressors, such as declining soil fertility and acute stressors such as cyclones. However, the complex mechanisms through which land loss perpetuates disaster vulnerability require a deeper examination of the lived experience …
The association between Post-Covid syndrome and self-stigma among the adult Israeli population during the Covid-19 pandemic
In the wake of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, a novel condition, termed Post-COVID Syndrome (PCS) has emerged, impacting a significant portion of the global population. Concurrently, the global impact of the virus has extended beyond physical health, leading to the emergence of COVID-19 related stigma. This study investigates the link between PCS and self-stigma, shedding light on this underexplored phenomenon. To examine whether exposure to PCS is ass…
Polio vaccination campaigns in conflicts
In conflict settings, public health interventions such as vaccination campaigns and improvements in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) could benefit all parties involved. However, while polio vaccination campaigns frequently succeed in securing humanitarian pauses, WASH initiatives attempting to improve safe water supply and sewage disposal rarely achieve the same outcome. Using the Israel-Gaza conflict as an example, we analyze the factors co…
Covid-19 specific anxiety, perceived stress related to missile attacks, and anxiety “episodes”
Findings support an additive pattern, whereby perceived stress from missile attacks contributed to the onset of an anxiety episode over and above the effect of VSA, while VSA predicted the total number of such episodes. Focusing solely on a single, highly salient stressor may hinder clinicians and policymakers' ability to identify the adverse effect of multiple stressors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Between Syndemics and Structural Exploitation
This study examines how Israel's legal and institutional arrangements, including migration policies, health-insurance eligibility rules, and safety enforcement mechanisms, shape health risks for Thai migrant agricultural workers, and identifies policy levers to mitigate preventable harm. Using a legal policy analysis informed by syndemics and labor frameworks, we mapped laws, regulatory oversight, and enforcement chains, and synthesized evidence …
Commodification of Healthcare—Patient Perspective
This study discusses subjective aspects of the commodification of healthcare from an ethno-class perspective using narrative analysis of patient stories. We hypothesize that the objective social hierarchy of resources, together with a certain degree of individual agency, structure the patients' strategies of coping with the public-private "maze" of the healthcare system. The findings show different coping strategies indicating three different eth…
Women’s healthcare needs and access across the incarceration pathway in Israel
This study emphasizes the urgent need for a trauma-informed, gender-responsive, and continuity-based approach to healthcare within carceral settings. Our findings support the need for integration of prison health services into the national health system and call for system-wide, cross-sectoral, and human rights-based policy frameworks that promote prevention, rehabilitation, and adequate mental and physical healthcare in prison. Integrating priso…
Environmental variables and air quality
This study investigates urban environmental variables and air quality in the hot Mediterranean climate of Tel Aviv, Israel. It does so through in-situ monitoring of the variability at the microclimate level in three different urban settings: two adjoining office towers; a bridge over an intra-urban highway and railway; and a low-mid-height residential area. All three study areas are in close proximity to each other. The role of high-rises within …
Collective Forgetting of American Vaginal Breech Delivery
When asked why nearly all doctors refer their breech cases to surgery, despite non-surgical breech birth being permitted throughout the United States, an obstetrician will likely cite the Term Breech Trial (TBT). This study, conducted in 2000, decisively concluded that planned cesarean delivery is safer than vaginal breech delivery. However, a review of the literature suggests that the decline of vaginal breech deliveries was a long time in the m…
An explorative study on the challenges of solidarity in public health practice and teaching
This paper explores the place of solidarity in public health discourse and practice. We explore how public health experts define and understand the concept of solidarity in public health in their professional life and what are the challenges of rendering solidarity a competence in the training of public health practitioners. Semi-structured interviews were conducted online with 18 participants, including academic professors and public health stud…
Professional development
Introduction: We examined the perceptions of the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree graduates regarding their personal competencies, job performance and professional development using a mixed method, explanatory sequential design. Methods: A cross-sectional, self-administered questionnaire of the Haifa School of Public Health alumni who graduated between 2005 and 2022 was disseminated to 849 graduates between March and June 2022, from which 127…
“As if we are branded with the mark of Cain”
A taste of freedom
The prison's culinary sphere is a vibrant social arena where the institution's power structure and dynamics are exposed, enforced, negotiated, and restructured. In Israel, the practice of cooking inside the prison cells is not officially permitted (or forbidden) but is generally tolerated by the prison staff. People in Israeli prisons form ethnic-based in-cell cooking groups, allot resources, and invest skills, time, and effort in cooking their o…
Israel's repeal of a sweet beverages tax harms public health
The consumption of sweet beverages exerts negative consequences on both individual and public health, and their low prices do not reflect the concomitant internalities and externalities.( 1 ) Sweet beverage consumption promotes weight gain in children and adults. A systematic review and meta-analysis of 48 studies in children and 37 studies in adults demonstrates that 1-serving/d greater intake of sugar-sweetened beverages is associated with a 0.…
Simulation as a key training method for inculcating public health leadership skills
Background: Successful management of public health challenges requires developing and nurturing leadership competencies. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of training simulations to assess public health leadership and decision-making competencies during emergencies as an effective learning and training method. Methods: We examined the effects of two simulation scenarios on public health school students in terms of their experience (compared …
Challenges and obstacles implementing evidence-based food fortification policy in a high-income country
The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes food fortification as one of the most cost-effective and beneficial public health measures available. Mass fortification policies and regulations can reduce health disparities, including in high-income countries, by improving micronutrient intake among food-insecure or high-risk populations without changing their diet or behavior. While international health organizations have traditionally prioritize…
Anxiety in the face of the first wave of the spread of Covid-19 in Israel
Emerging lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic about the decisive competencies needed for the public health workforce
The global COVID-19 crisis exposed the critical need for a highly qualified public health workforce. This qualitative research aimed to examine public health workforce competencies needed to face COVID-19 challenges and identify the gaps between training programs and the competency demands of real-world disasters and pandemics. Through a sample of thirty-one participant qualitative interviews, we examined the perspectives of diverse stakeholders …
Governance of academic medical centres in changing healthcare systems
We provide an explorative and international comparison of the governance models of academic medical centres (AMCs). These centres face significant challenges, including disruptive external pressures and enduring financial conflicts pertaining to patient treatment, research and education. Therefore, we covered 10 European countries (Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Spain) and one associated stat…
Workplace Violence against Hospital Workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Israel
Workplace violence (WPV) against healthcare workers, a serious public health problem with profound implications, has worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examined the incidence of different types of WPV in a public hospital in Israel during the pandemic and analyzes the factors associated with its occurrence. A cross-sectional study was performed via an online questionnaire with 486 workers at a government hospital in Israel. Data we…
Revisiting the Relationship between Altruism and Organ Donation
The number of people on the waiting list for an organ transplant increases year after year. However, the number of donated organs available for transplantation does not rise in line with this increased demand. This study examines the associations between altruism, attitudes towards organ donation, and behavioral intentions regarding organ donation within the Jewish population in Israel. In a cross-sectional study, 452 participants completed an on…
Into the “New Normal”
Even though various countries' overall policy for dealing with the pandemic was not particularly innovative, the pandemic was perceived as a unique crisis. "COVID exceptionalism" has seemed to create "a new normal" that we all need to "learn to live with". The main change in perspective, while not new for public health experts, is that health exists within a social and political context. While public health ethics has turned out to be an importan…
Social and structural determinants of emergency department use among Arab and Jewish patients in Jerusalem
The study illustrates the gaps that exist between the Arab and Jewish population in Israel. The findings demonstrated significant differences between populations in both health status and access to health services. In addition, an association was found in each ethnic group between different structural factors and repeat ED requests. This study supports previous theories and findings of the relationship between structural and social factors and pa…
Mechanisms for racial separation and inequitable maternal care in hospital maternity wards
From bioethics to biopolitics
While bioethicist Arthur Caplan claims that “The Nazi analogy is equivalent to dropping a nuclear bomb in ethical battles about science and medicine”, we claim that such total exclusion of this analogy is equally problematic. Our analysis builds on Roberto Esposito’s conceptualization of immunitas and communitas as key elements of biopolitics. Within public health theories and practices there is an inherent tension between exclusion (immunitas) a…
Medical humanitarianism, human rights and political advocacy
Migration as a social determinant of health for irregular migrants
Patient-physician relationships in second opinion encounters - The physicians' perspective
Immigrating to a universal health care system
The Israeli Medical Association's discourse on health inequity
The social history of medicine and Israeli history
Taking and giving
This article examines the conditions that facilitated the activity of the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in Lithuania during the early 1920s. In particular, it discusses the interaction between the JDC and the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jews (OZE). It demonstrates that, unlike in other countries, the JDC's involvement in Lithuania went beyond the conventional development of policies and controlling budgets. The J…
The physician as a neoliberal subject - A qualitative study within a private-public mix setting
Medical Borders
Scientific medicine carries within it an inherent contradiction. On the one hand, given its general scientific inquiry into health and disease, their conditions, etiologies, and treatments, it makes a claim for universality. To justify this claim, at different times and in different places, scientific medicine has prioritized techniques such as the medical gaze and autopsies to assure its diagnoses; it has applied numerical methods in order to ha…
Anxiety in the face of the first wave of the spread of Covid-19 in Israel
Mechanisms for racial separation and inequitable maternal care in hospital maternity wards
Scientific Medicine and the Politics of Public Health
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Ethnicity and immunization coverage among schools in Israel
The lower vaccination refusal rate found in Bedouin schools supports the hypothesis that difficulties related to accessibility constitute the main problem rather than noncompliance with the recommended vaccination protocol for school-age children, featuring higher socio-economic status groups. Our study emphasizes the importance of identifying, beyond the national-level data, subpopulation groups at risk for non-vaccination. This knowledge is ess…
Stakeholder participation in health impact assessment
Professional Identity across the Borders
The article explores and contextualises the arrival of Jewish psychiatrists from Germany and Austria in Palestine and their absorption process during the 1930s and 1940s. We investigate the interaction between the refugees and a varied local population composed of Jews from different origins, Arabs and immigrants. We claim that the case of psychiatrist refugees from Europe in the 1930s was unique in comparison to the migration of Jewish psychiatr…
Air, sun, water
This paper follows the social and political history of OZE, the Society for the Preservation of the Health of the Jewish Population, in the interwar period. We focus on two campaigns against typhus and favus, the first two disease oriented efforts by OZE, in order to reconstruct the operational approaches, considerations and obstacles faced by OZE as a Jewish organization and transnational participant in the discourse on the health and politics o…
Measuring Adaptability
ArgumentTwo medical delegations, one from Palestine and one from the United States, were sent to detainment camps in Cyprus in the summer of 1947. The British Mandatory government had set up these camps in the summer of 1946 to stem the flow of Jewish immigrants into Palestine after World War II. The purpose of the medical delegations was to screen the camps' inhabitants and to propose a mental-health program for their life in Palestine. We exami…
Medical Selection and the Debate over Mass Immigration in the New State of Israel (1948–1951)
This paper examines the discourse regarding medical selection of immigrants to Israel during the years 1948-51, which was a period of mass immigration in which approximately 700,000 people immigrated to the State, thereby doubling the Jewish population in only three years. The paper focuses on the debate that preceded the Israeli Government's eventual acceptance of a selection policy. We assert that the debate was shaped to a large extent by a co…
Last resort? Lobotomy operations in Israel, 1946–60
In this paper we examine lobotomy operations in mandatory Palestine and Israel between 1946 and 1960. The aim is to reconstruct the circumstances in which these operations were done, and to examine: which patients were lobotomized and why; how lobotomy was perceived by the local psychiatric profession; and the reasons for its decline. Apart from shedding new light on the history of lobotomy, which is usually analysed from the viewpoint of the USA…
Measuring Adaptability
ArgumentTwo medical delegations, one from Palestine and one from the United States, were sent to detainment camps in Cyprus in the summer of 1947. The British Mandatory government had set up these camps in the summer of 1946 to stem the flow of Jewish immigrants into Palestine after World War II. The purpose of the medical delegations was to screen the camps' inhabitants and to propose a mental-health program for their life in Palestine. We exami…
Medical Borders
Scientific medicine carries within it an inherent contradiction. On the one hand, given its general scientific inquiry into health and disease, their conditions, etiologies, and treatments, it makes a claim for universality. To justify this claim, at different times and in different places, scientific medicine has prioritized techniques such as the medical gaze and autopsies to assure its diagnoses; it has applied numerical methods in order to ha…
Recalling the Survivors
In this article we describe and analyze the attitude and treatment of mentally ill Holocaust survivors in Israel. The treatment and conditions of this group in Israel have been far from satisfactory over the years, but for many decades there was almost no open debate on this subject. The survivors who suffered from mental problems and were hospitalized in psychiatric and geriatric institutes were part of the repressed collective memory of the Isr…
Air, sun, water
This paper follows the social and political history of OZE, the Society for the Preservation of the Health of the Jewish Population, in the interwar period. We focus on two campaigns against typhus and favus, the first two disease oriented efforts by OZE, in order to reconstruct the operational approaches, considerations and obstacles faced by OZE as a Jewish organization and transnational participant in the discourse on the health and politics o…
Taking and giving
This article examines the conditions that facilitated the activity of the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in Lithuania during the early 1920s. In particular, it discusses the interaction between the JDC and the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jews (OZE). It demonstrates that, unlike in other countries, the JDC's involvement in Lithuania went beyond the conventional development of policies and controlling budgets. The J…
Professional Identity across the Borders
The article explores and contextualises the arrival of Jewish psychiatrists from Germany and Austria in Palestine and their absorption process during the 1930s and 1940s. We investigate the interaction between the refugees and a varied local population composed of Jews from different origins, Arabs and immigrants. We claim that the case of psychiatrist refugees from Europe in the 1930s was unique in comparison to the migration of Jewish psychiatr…
Bedouin-Arab women's access to antenatal care at the interface of physical and structural barriers
Since 2000, the Israeli Public Health Services have established eight Maternal-and-Child-Health (MCH) stations in unrecognised Bedouin-Arab villages in South Israel in order to reduce barriers to healthcare. The goals of this pilot study were: (1) to explore the new MCH stations' impact on antenatal care (ANC) accessibility; and (2) to compare access to ANC between women from villages with MCH stations and women from villages without MCH stations…
Pasteur in Palestine
Argument We examine the creation and functioning of the “Pasteur Institute in Palestine” focusing on the relationship between biological science, health policy, and the creation of a “new society” within the framework of Zionism. Similar to other bacteriological institutes founded by colonial powers, this laboratory was developed in response to public health needs. But it also had a political role. Dr. Leo Böhm, a Zionist physician, strived to es…
The social history of medicine and Israeli history
Immigrating to a universal health care system
Medical humanitarianism, human rights and political advocacy
Patient-physician relationships in second opinion encounters - The physicians' perspective
Stakeholder participation in health impact assessment
Exposure to Traumatic Experiences Among Asylum Seekers from Eritrea and Sudan During Migration to Israel
Beyond 'New Humanitarianism
Filc D, Davidovitch N, Gottlieb ND. Beyond 'New Humanitarianism': Physicians for Human Rights-Israel's Mobile Clinic and Open Clinic on the Interface of Social Justice, Human Rights and Medical Relief. Journal of Human Rights Practice . 2014;7(1):88-108
Ethnicity and immunization coverage among schools in Israel
The lower vaccination refusal rate found in Bedouin schools supports the hypothesis that difficulties related to accessibility constitute the main problem rather than noncompliance with the recommended vaccination protocol for school-age children, featuring higher socio-economic status groups. Our study emphasizes the importance of identifying, beyond the national-level data, subpopulation groups at risk for non-vaccination. This knowledge is ess…
The Israeli Medical Association's discourse on health inequity
Migration as a social determinant of health for irregular migrants
Vaccine Nation
Reviewed by: Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization by Elena Conis Nadav Davidovitch Elena Conis. Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 353 pp. $27.50 (978-0-226-92376-5). During the last few decades, social historians of medicine have turned to antivaccination as a fascinating phenomenon for their analysis. In contrast to the simplistic ways that …
Second Medical Opinion
BACKGROUND: Second opinion (SO) is common in medical practice and can reduce unnecessary risks and costs. To date, there is no population-based estimation of how many people seek SOs and what the characteristics of second-opinion seekers are. OBJECTIVES: To estimate how many people seek SOs, and what the characteristics of second-opinion seekers are. METHODS: We conducted both a medical records analysis (n=1,392,907) and a cross-sectional nationa…
Syndemic vulnerability and the right to health
Barriers to contraceptive careseeking
Objectives: In recent years, there has been a mass migration of Eritreans (many seeking political asylum) into Israel after precarious irregular movement across international borders. This study qualitatively explores the structural barriers to family planning (i.e. contraceptive services) for Eritrean women in Israel that are rooted in their temporary legal status and the patchwork of family planning services. Design/Methods: From December 2012 …
Using All Means to Protect Public Health in Israel From Emerging Tobacco Products
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