An analysis of CBS and OECD data on government investments in medical R&D reveals a gloomy picture: only 0.5% of government R&D investments are in the health care sector; the past five years have seen a 20% decline in hospital research funding<\/p>\n
compared to other OECD countries, Israel is ranked lower in R&D health investments. In addition to this data, we also found that in Israel there is a lack of health program management and transparency, as well as a lack of health policy and long-term planning, which harms Israel’s ability to deal with future crises.<\/p>\n
Policymakers must learn from such models as are employed in countries comparable to Israel – countries that lead in the health R&D field, such as Finland, Norway, and Ireland.<\/p>\n
It is imperative to establish a clear and long-term strategy that includes various scenarios (including those such as the “Covid-19”), to encourage collaborations between ministries and sectors, to invest in medical research at a rate similar to that of comparable countries, to enable access to Israeli health databases, with the required regulation, and to act with full transparency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An analysis of CBS and OECD data on government investments in medical R&D reveals a gloomy picture: only 0.5% of government R&D investments are in the health care sector; the past five years have seen a 20% decline in hospital research funding compared to other OECD countries, Israel is ranked lower in R&D health investments. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[228,81,80,56,1461,42,1614],"post_category":[],"class_list":["post-38571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-report","tag-228","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-research-and-development","tag-science","tag-science-and-technology","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n