Nurit Guttman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3886332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nurit Guttman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nurit |
| FAMILY NAME | Guttman |
| SIGNATURE | GUTTMAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Professional quality of life among Israeli social workers in hospitals and a health maintenance organization (HMO) during the Covid-19 pandemic
We examined differences between social workers in hospitals versus social workers in community health services regarding levels of professional quality of life (ProQoL), proximity to COVID-19, resilience, perceived social support, and preparedness for the next pandemic during waves 3-5 of the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel (December 2020-December 2021, the main COVID-19 variants were Alpha and Delta). We also examined the moderating role of resilien…
“Look After Each Other”– Ethical Concerns in the Use of Communicative Appeals to Solidarity in the Face of a Pandemic
emphasis. Appeals to solidarity according to this distinction are illustrated with examples from the COVID-19 pandemic. The second part summarizes normative justifications and advantages for employing appeals to solidarity. The third part presents ethical concerns associated with appealing to solidarity in the time of a pandemic. Drawing on these concerns, the final part presents propositions for normative conditions for employing solidarity appe…
Pharmacists under pressure to concede: Why pharmacists provide non-prescribed antibiotics in the Arab minority in Israel
Antibiotics overuse has become a global health threat because of increased antimicrobial resistance. Consumption of non-prescribed antibiotics contributes to this problem and has been found particularly among minority populations. One source for non-prescribed antibiotics are pharmacists. This study focuses on perspective of Arab pharmacists working in the Arab society in Israel--a minority reported to overconsume antibiotics--in order to learn w…
Ethical Issues in Covid-19 Communication to Mitigate the Pandemic: Dilemmas and Practical Implications
Communication plays a critical role in all stages of a pandemic. From the moment it is officially declared governments and public health organizations aim to inform the public about the risk from the disease and to encourage people to adopt mitigation practices. The purpose of this article is to call attention to the multiple types and the complexity of ethical challenges in COVID-19 communication. Different types of ethical issues in COVID-19 co…
Nesef Doctora'-When mothers are considered to be 'half-doctors: Self-medication with antibiotics and gender roles in the Arab society in Israel
This qualitative study focuses on self-medication with antibiotics as it relates to gender roles and traditions in the Arab society in Israel, a collectivist minority with defined traditional gender norms. Its findings draw on the analysis of 116 face-to-face interviews with 60 pharmacists, 27 primary care physicians and 29 community members, mainly mothers and unmarried women, from different geographical localities. The findings describe how mot…
“I can’t stand it…but I do it sometimes” parental smoking around children: Practices, beliefs, and conflicts – a qualitative study
Findings shed light on some of the difficulties faced by smoking parents and obstacles to maintaining a smoke-free environment for their children, providing insight for the type of information and support required to help parents better protect their children from exposure to tobacco smoke. Awareness of health risks associated with secondhand smoke was demonstrated, yet parents in smoking families were confused regarding which rules and behaviour…
I never thought I could get health information from the Internet!”: Unexpected uses of an Internet website designed to enable Ethiopian immigrants with low/no literacy skills to browse health informat…
The Internet is a major source for health information but contributes to the digital divide and health disparities. Minorities with low literacy skills are at a particular disadvantage in obtaining online information. A website was created with health information presented through videos in Amharic and an interface that does not require reading skills to enable users with low/no literacy to navigate among topics. In all, 225 Israeli Ethiopian imm…
Should Altruism, Solidarity, or Reciprocity be Used as Prosocial Appeals? Contrasting Conceptions of Members of the General Public and Medical Professionals Regarding Promoting Organ Donation: Appeals…
Moral appeals to altruism as a means to influence people's prosocial behavior are common, especially in organ donation, but communicators might not consider that conceptions of altruism differ among people, cultures, and scholars. In organ donation employing altruism as the main appeal is contested and some propose using solidarity or reciprocity as alternative prosocial appeals. This qualitative study explored views of people from diverse Israel…
Organ and tissue donor parents’ positive psychological adjustment to grief and bereavement: Practical and ethical implications
Organ transplantation from the deceased typically involves requesting close family members’ consent to procure the deceased’s organs. This raises ethical and clinical concerns whether this difficult decision, taken while they are grieving, might have a long-term impact on their adjustment to bereavement. The study employed five measures of bereavement, adjustment and meaning of life (three developed for this study), administered to 216 bereaved I…
Ethics in Communication for Health Promotion in Clinical Settings and Campaigns
My Son Is Reliable”: Young Drivers’ Parents’ Optimism and Views on the Norms of Parental Involvement in Youth Driving
The high crash rates among teenage drivers are of great concern across nations. Parents’ involvement is known to help increase their young drivers’ driving safety. In particular, parents can place restrictions on their son’s/daughter’s driving (e.g., restrict night time driving), which can enable the young driver to gain driving experience in safer conditions. Yet little is known about what do parents think about parental responsibility regarding…
Development, design, and conceptual issues of project zero exposure: A program to protect young children from tobacco smoke exposure
The major challenges in this research are twofold: building an effective intervention and measuring the effects of the intervention. Creation of an effective intervention to protect children from TSE is a challenging but sorely needed public health endeavor. We hope that our approach will contribute to building a stronger evidence base for control of child exposure to tobacco smoke
An entertainment-education study of secondary delegitimization in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
An important goal in educational initiatives that aim to promote peace in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict is overcoming mutual delegitimization. The drama Plonter (or “serious mishap” in Hebrew) aims to address a more subtle phenomenon referred to as “secondary delegitimization” (i.e., delegitimization among people who consider themselves supporters of human rights and do not recognize how they, in fact, contribute to delegitimization of the adv…
What should be given a priority – costly medications for relatively few people or inexpensive ones for many? The Health Parliament public consultation initiative in Israel
Background In the past two decades, government and civic organizations have been implementing a wide range of deliberative public consultations on health care‐related policy. Drawing on these experiences, a public consultation initiative in Israel called the Health Parliament was established. Goals To implement a public consultation initiative that will engage members of the public in the discussion of four healthcare policy questions associated …
Bringing the Mountain to the Public: Dilemmas and Contradictions in the Procedures of Public Deliberation Initiatives That Aim to Get "Ordinary Citizens" to Deliberate Policy Issues
Journal Article Bringing the Mountain to the Public: Dilemmas and Contradictions in the Procedures of Public Deliberation Initiatives That Aim to Get "Ordinary Citizens" to Deliberate Policy Issues Get access Nurit Guttman Nurit Guttman 1Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 69978 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 17, Issue 4, November 2007, Pages 411…
Educational drama and the dilemma of ‘false catharsis’: Lessons for theory and practice from a study of anti-drug plays in Israel
This study, initiated and funded by The Israel Anti-Drug Authority, investigated adolescents’ reactions to professionally produced anti-drug plays, performed in 27 schools across Israel. The study included observations and the analyses of 20 professionally produced anti-drug plays performed during the school year and interviews with theatre personnel. The analysis of the plays’ narratives revealed that most plays had a melodramatic narrative base…
Guilt, Fear, Stigma and Knowledge Gaps: Ethical Issues in Public Health Communication Interventions
Public health communication campaigns have been credited with helping raise awareness of risk from chronic illness and new infectious diseases and with helping promote the adoption of recommended treatment regimens. Yet many aspects of public health communication interventions have escaped the scrutiny of ethical discussions. With the transference of successful commercial marketing communication tactics to the realm of public health, consideratio…
When the Visit to the Emergency Department is Medically Nonurgent: Provider Ideologies and Patient Advice
It is estimated that more than half of pediatric hospital emergency department (ED) visits are medically nonurgent. Anecdotal impressions suggest that ED providers castigate medically nonurgent visits, yet studies on such visits are scarce. This study explored the perspectives of 26 providers working in the EDs of two urban hospitals regarding medically nonurgent pediatric ED visits and advising parents or guardians on appropriate ED use. Three p…
Public Health Communication Interventions: Values and Ethical Dilemmas
Low-income mothers' views on breastfeeding
Beyond Strategic Research: A Value-Centered Approach to Health Communication Interventions
Research on health communication interventions tends to focus on achieving the intervention sponsor's goals. Thus, it can be characterized as strategic. Client and sponsor values, though recognized as important by researchers who adopt this approach, tend to be treated as independent variables that might serve as barriers to behavior change goals, or as dependent variables that can be manipulated to achieve those goals. This paper adopts the prop…
Low-income mothers' views on breastfeeding
Bringing the Mountain to the Public: Dilemmas and Contradictions in the Procedures of Public Deliberation Initiatives That Aim to Get "Ordinary Citizens" to Deliberate Policy Issues
Journal Article Bringing the Mountain to the Public: Dilemmas and Contradictions in the Procedures of Public Deliberation Initiatives That Aim to Get "Ordinary Citizens" to Deliberate Policy Issues Get access Nurit Guttman Nurit Guttman 1Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 69978 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 17, Issue 4, November 2007, Pages 411…
I never thought I could get health information from the Internet!”: Unexpected uses of an Internet website designed to enable Ethiopian immigrants with low/no literacy skills to browse health informat…
The Internet is a major source for health information but contributes to the digital divide and health disparities. Minorities with low literacy skills are at a particular disadvantage in obtaining online information. A website was created with health information presented through videos in Amharic and an interface that does not require reading skills to enable users with low/no literacy to navigate among topics. In all, 225 Israeli Ethiopian imm…
An entertainment-education study of secondary delegitimization in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
An important goal in educational initiatives that aim to promote peace in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict is overcoming mutual delegitimization. The drama Plonter (or “serious mishap” in Hebrew) aims to address a more subtle phenomenon referred to as “secondary delegitimization” (i.e., delegitimization among people who consider themselves supporters of human rights and do not recognize how they, in fact, contribute to delegitimization of the adv…
Beyond Strategic Research: A Value-Centered Approach to Health Communication Interventions
Research on health communication interventions tends to focus on achieving the intervention sponsor's goals. Thus, it can be characterized as strategic. Client and sponsor values, though recognized as important by researchers who adopt this approach, tend to be treated as independent variables that might serve as barriers to behavior change goals, or as dependent variables that can be manipulated to achieve those goals. This paper adopts the prop…
My Son Is Reliable”: Young Drivers’ Parents’ Optimism and Views on the Norms of Parental Involvement in Youth Driving
The high crash rates among teenage drivers are of great concern across nations. Parents’ involvement is known to help increase their young drivers’ driving safety. In particular, parents can place restrictions on their son’s/daughter’s driving (e.g., restrict night time driving), which can enable the young driver to gain driving experience in safer conditions. Yet little is known about what do parents think about parental responsibility regarding…
When the Visit to the Emergency Department is Medically Nonurgent: Provider Ideologies and Patient Advice
It is estimated that more than half of pediatric hospital emergency department (ED) visits are medically nonurgent. Anecdotal impressions suggest that ED providers castigate medically nonurgent visits, yet studies on such visits are scarce. This study explored the perspectives of 26 providers working in the EDs of two urban hospitals regarding medically nonurgent pediatric ED visits and advising parents or guardians on appropriate ED use. Three p…
Beyond Strategic Research: A Value-Centered Approach to Health Communication Interventions
Research on health communication interventions tends to focus on achieving the intervention sponsor's goals. Thus, it can be characterized as strategic. Client and sponsor values, though recognized as important by researchers who adopt this approach, tend to be treated as independent variables that might serve as barriers to behavior change goals, or as dependent variables that can be manipulated to achieve those goals. This paper adopts the prop…
Public Health Communication Interventions: Values and Ethical Dilemmas
Low-income mothers' views on breastfeeding
When the Visit to the Emergency Department is Medically Nonurgent: Provider Ideologies and Patient Advice
It is estimated that more than half of pediatric hospital emergency department (ED) visits are medically nonurgent. Anecdotal impressions suggest that ED providers castigate medically nonurgent visits, yet studies on such visits are scarce. This study explored the perspectives of 26 providers working in the EDs of two urban hospitals regarding medically nonurgent pediatric ED visits and advising parents or guardians on appropriate ED use. Three p…
Guilt, Fear, Stigma and Knowledge Gaps: Ethical Issues in Public Health Communication Interventions
Public health communication campaigns have been credited with helping raise awareness of risk from chronic illness and new infectious diseases and with helping promote the adoption of recommended treatment regimens. Yet many aspects of public health communication interventions have escaped the scrutiny of ethical discussions. With the transference of successful commercial marketing communication tactics to the realm of public health, consideratio…
Educational drama and the dilemma of ‘false catharsis’: Lessons for theory and practice from a study of anti-drug plays in Israel
This study, initiated and funded by The Israel Anti-Drug Authority, investigated adolescents’ reactions to professionally produced anti-drug plays, performed in 27 schools across Israel. The study included observations and the analyses of 20 professionally produced anti-drug plays performed during the school year and interviews with theatre personnel. The analysis of the plays’ narratives revealed that most plays had a melodramatic narrative base…
Bringing the Mountain to the Public: Dilemmas and Contradictions in the Procedures of Public Deliberation Initiatives That Aim to Get "Ordinary Citizens" to Deliberate Policy Issues
Journal Article Bringing the Mountain to the Public: Dilemmas and Contradictions in the Procedures of Public Deliberation Initiatives That Aim to Get "Ordinary Citizens" to Deliberate Policy Issues Get access Nurit Guttman Nurit Guttman 1Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 69978 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 17, Issue 4, November 2007, Pages 411…
What should be given a priority – costly medications for relatively few people or inexpensive ones for many? The Health Parliament public consultation initiative in Israel
Background In the past two decades, government and civic organizations have been implementing a wide range of deliberative public consultations on health care‐related policy. Drawing on these experiences, a public consultation initiative in Israel called the Health Parliament was established. Goals To implement a public consultation initiative that will engage members of the public in the discussion of four healthcare policy questions associated …
An entertainment-education study of secondary delegitimization in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
An important goal in educational initiatives that aim to promote peace in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict is overcoming mutual delegitimization. The drama Plonter (or “serious mishap” in Hebrew) aims to address a more subtle phenomenon referred to as “secondary delegitimization” (i.e., delegitimization among people who consider themselves supporters of human rights and do not recognize how they, in fact, contribute to delegitimization of the adv…
Development, design, and conceptual issues of project zero exposure: A program to protect young children from tobacco smoke exposure
The major challenges in this research are twofold: building an effective intervention and measuring the effects of the intervention. Creation of an effective intervention to protect children from TSE is a challenging but sorely needed public health endeavor. We hope that our approach will contribute to building a stronger evidence base for control of child exposure to tobacco smoke
My Son Is Reliable”: Young Drivers’ Parents’ Optimism and Views on the Norms of Parental Involvement in Youth Driving
The high crash rates among teenage drivers are of great concern across nations. Parents’ involvement is known to help increase their young drivers’ driving safety. In particular, parents can place restrictions on their son’s/daughter’s driving (e.g., restrict night time driving), which can enable the young driver to gain driving experience in safer conditions. Yet little is known about what do parents think about parental responsibility regarding…
Ethics in Communication for Health Promotion in Clinical Settings and Campaigns
Should Altruism, Solidarity, or Reciprocity be Used as Prosocial Appeals? Contrasting Conceptions of Members of the General Public and Medical Professionals Regarding Promoting Organ Donation: Appeals…
Moral appeals to altruism as a means to influence people's prosocial behavior are common, especially in organ donation, but communicators might not consider that conceptions of altruism differ among people, cultures, and scholars. In organ donation employing altruism as the main appeal is contested and some propose using solidarity or reciprocity as alternative prosocial appeals. This qualitative study explored views of people from diverse Israel…
Organ and tissue donor parents’ positive psychological adjustment to grief and bereavement: Practical and ethical implications
Organ transplantation from the deceased typically involves requesting close family members’ consent to procure the deceased’s organs. This raises ethical and clinical concerns whether this difficult decision, taken while they are grieving, might have a long-term impact on their adjustment to bereavement. The study employed five measures of bereavement, adjustment and meaning of life (three developed for this study), administered to 216 bereaved I…
I never thought I could get health information from the Internet!”: Unexpected uses of an Internet website designed to enable Ethiopian immigrants with low/no literacy skills to browse health informat…
The Internet is a major source for health information but contributes to the digital divide and health disparities. Minorities with low literacy skills are at a particular disadvantage in obtaining online information. A website was created with health information presented through videos in Amharic and an interface that does not require reading skills to enable users with low/no literacy to navigate among topics. In all, 225 Israeli Ethiopian imm…
“I can’t stand it…but I do it sometimes” parental smoking around children: Practices, beliefs, and conflicts – a qualitative study
Findings shed light on some of the difficulties faced by smoking parents and obstacles to maintaining a smoke-free environment for their children, providing insight for the type of information and support required to help parents better protect their children from exposure to tobacco smoke. Awareness of health risks associated with secondhand smoke was demonstrated, yet parents in smoking families were confused regarding which rules and behaviour…
Ethical Issues in Covid-19 Communication to Mitigate the Pandemic: Dilemmas and Practical Implications
Communication plays a critical role in all stages of a pandemic. From the moment it is officially declared governments and public health organizations aim to inform the public about the risk from the disease and to encourage people to adopt mitigation practices. The purpose of this article is to call attention to the multiple types and the complexity of ethical challenges in COVID-19 communication. Different types of ethical issues in COVID-19 co…
Nesef Doctora'-When mothers are considered to be 'half-doctors: Self-medication with antibiotics and gender roles in the Arab society in Israel
This qualitative study focuses on self-medication with antibiotics as it relates to gender roles and traditions in the Arab society in Israel, a collectivist minority with defined traditional gender norms. Its findings draw on the analysis of 116 face-to-face interviews with 60 pharmacists, 27 primary care physicians and 29 community members, mainly mothers and unmarried women, from different geographical localities. The findings describe how mot…
Pharmacists under pressure to concede: Why pharmacists provide non-prescribed antibiotics in the Arab minority in Israel
Antibiotics overuse has become a global health threat because of increased antimicrobial resistance. Consumption of non-prescribed antibiotics contributes to this problem and has been found particularly among minority populations. One source for non-prescribed antibiotics are pharmacists. This study focuses on perspective of Arab pharmacists working in the Arab society in Israel--a minority reported to overconsume antibiotics--in order to learn w…
“Look After Each Other”– Ethical Concerns in the Use of Communicative Appeals to Solidarity in the Face of a Pandemic
emphasis. Appeals to solidarity according to this distinction are illustrated with examples from the COVID-19 pandemic. The second part summarizes normative justifications and advantages for employing appeals to solidarity. The third part presents ethical concerns associated with appealing to solidarity in the time of a pandemic. Drawing on these concerns, the final part presents propositions for normative conditions for employing solidarity appe…
Professional quality of life among Israeli social workers in hospitals and a health maintenance organization (HMO) during the Covid-19 pandemic
We examined differences between social workers in hospitals versus social workers in community health services regarding levels of professional quality of life (ProQoL), proximity to COVID-19, resilience, perceived social support, and preparedness for the next pandemic during waves 3-5 of the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel (December 2020-December 2021, the main COVID-19 variants were Alpha and Delta). We also examined the moderating role of resilien…
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