Israel’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: tailoring measures for vulnerable cultural minority populations
Abstract Every country has vulnerable populations that require special attention from policymakers in their response to a pandemic. This is because those populations may have specific characteristics, culture and behaviours that can accelerate the spread of the virus, and they usually have less acce...
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| author | Ruth Waitzberg Nadav Davidovitch Gideon Leibner Nadav Penn Shuli Brammli-Greenberg |
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| description | Abstract Every country has vulnerable populations that require special attention from policymakers in their response to a pandemic. This is because those populations may have specific characteristics, culture and behaviours that can accelerate the spread of the virus, and they usually have less access to healthcare, particularly in times of crisis. In order to carry out a comprehensive national intervention plan, policy makers should be sensitive to the needs and lifestyles of these groups, while taking into account structural and cultural gaps. In the context of Israel, the two most prominent and well-defined minority groups are the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and parts of the Arab population. The government was slow to recognize the unique position of these two groups, public pressure eventually led to a response that was tailored to the ultra-Orthodox community and during the month of Ramadan a similar response has been implemented among the Arab community. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d54443cfaa6c4da5a085608b085818ea2022-12-21T19:02:09ZengBMCInternational Journal for Equity in Health1475-92762020-05-011911510.1186/s12939-020-01191-7Israel’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: tailoring measures for vulnerable cultural minority populationsRuth Waitzberg0Nadav Davidovitch1Gideon Leibner2Nadav Penn3Shuli Brammli-Greenberg4The Smokler Center for Health Policy Research, Myers-JDC-Brookdale InstituteDepartment of Health Systems Management, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the NegevThe Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical SchoolThe Smokler Center for Health Policy Research, Myers-JDC-Brookdale InstituteThe Smokler Center for Health Policy Research, Myers-JDC-Brookdale InstituteAbstract Every country has vulnerable populations that require special attention from policymakers in their response to a pandemic. This is because those populations may have specific characteristics, culture and behaviours that can accelerate the spread of the virus, and they usually have less access to healthcare, particularly in times of crisis. In order to carry out a comprehensive national intervention plan, policy makers should be sensitive to the needs and lifestyles of these groups, while taking into account structural and cultural gaps. In the context of Israel, the two most prominent and well-defined minority groups are the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and parts of the Arab population. The government was slow to recognize the unique position of these two groups, public pressure eventually led to a response that was tailored to the ultra-Orthodox community and during the month of Ramadan a similar response has been implemented among the Arab community.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-020-01191-7COVID-19Health policyCultural minoritiesUltra-orthodox JewsRamadan |
| spellingShingle | Ruth Waitzberg Nadav Davidovitch Gideon Leibner Nadav Penn Shuli Brammli-Greenberg Israel’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: tailoring measures for vulnerable cultural minority populations International Journal for Equity in Health COVID-19 Health policy Cultural minorities Ultra-orthodox Jews Ramadan |
| title | Israel’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: tailoring measures for vulnerable cultural minority populations |
| title_full | Israel’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: tailoring measures for vulnerable cultural minority populations |
| title_fullStr | Israel’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: tailoring measures for vulnerable cultural minority populations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Israel’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: tailoring measures for vulnerable cultural minority populations |
| title_short | Israel’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: tailoring measures for vulnerable cultural minority populations |
| title_sort | israel s response to the covid 19 pandemic tailoring measures for vulnerable cultural minority populations |
| topic | COVID-19 Health policy Cultural minorities Ultra-orthodox Jews Ramadan |
| url | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-020-01191-7 |
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