Circles of Exclusion: The Politics of Health Care in Israel

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Index Abu Nahla, Auda, 149 access to health care services for Bedouins, 93–98 inequities in, 41–42 for Israeli Palestinians, 33, 82–84 for migrant workers. See under migrant workers neoliberalization, effects of, 52 in OPT. See under Occupied Palestinian Territories primary care, 32–34 sick funds, 30–31 Africa, migrant workers and asylum seekers from, 103, 106, 119, 125, 127 ageism communitarian Israeli spirit, move away from, 53–54, 158 managerial health culture, resulting from, 70 sick funds, “cream-skimming” and rejection of older and sicker patients by, 49–50, 53–55, 57, 166n8 agents of change, 65 Ahdut Ha’avoda, 22, 164n6 AIDS/HIV asylum seekers with, 123, 127 migrant workers with, 117, 123–25, 127 women with, 124, 168n22 Alami, Orli, 95 Alaqsa mosque, 169n7 Alma Ata Declaration (1978), 81 ambulance transport for Palestinians from Bedouin villages, 96 in OPT, 4, 144–49 The names of individual patients used in this text (e.g. Alejandro, Zahra) will be found under the entry “case study subjects.” 180 Index America. See United States American Indians Bedouins compared to, 86 settler societies and first nations, 5, 7 American Zionist Medical Unit, 23–24 anemia, 142 Anglican mission, 19 Anti-Tuberculosis League, 31 Arab League, 130–31, 150, 160 Arabs Israeli. See Israeli Palestinians Jewish immigrants from Arab countries (Mizrahim), 33, 39, 78, 157, 165n21, 187n10 in Occupied Territories. See Occupied Palestinian Territories Argentina anti-Semitism in, 78 author’s origins in, x, 9–10 as potential Zionist home, 18 public hospitals, treatment of patients in, 9, 50–51, 118 villas miseria, Bedouin villages compared to, 75 Ashkenazim, 19, 20, 26, 33, 39, 78, 165n21 Association for Civil Rights, 77 asylum seekers, 125–28 children as, 120 health care for, 118, 155, 161 with HIV/AIDS, 123, 127 language barriers faced by, 119 proposed solutions to problems of, 161 Austrian socialism, 26, 63, 164n10 Bantram, David, 102 Barak, Ehud, 131 Barzilai hospital, Ashkelon, 9, 50, 51 Bedouins, 14, 84–99, 155 access to health care, 93–98 basic utilities and services, unrecognized villages not supplied with, 2–3, 75–77, 89–90 case studies illustrating problems of Israeli health care system, 2–3 consanguine marriage amongst, 91, 96, 99, 167n10 cultural issues and obstacles, 96, 97–100 demographics of, 85 education of, 88–89 environmental injustice and, 92–93 government, relationship with, 86–87 hospitalization of, 90–91, 92 land, loss of, 84–86 language issues for, 84, 89, 94, 97 life expectancy/mortality/infant mortality, 91–92, 98–99 Native Americans, status compared to, 86 NHI and, 93 nomadism largely abandoned by, 167n8 Office for Bedouin Development, 79, 85 preventive care for, 95–96 proposed solutions to health care problems of, 160 in recognized settlements, 85, 86–88 in unrecognized villages, 75–77, 85, 89–90, 92–98, 155, 160 women, 88–89, 97–98 Beer Sheeva Groups: Equality in Health, 33 Begin, Menachem, 78 Beilinson hospital, 26, 50 Belgium, relationships, 78–79 Ben Gurion, David, 47, 85 Ben Tzur, Shmariahu, 104 Benvenisti, Meron, 73 Bessa, Dalia, 145, 148 Bikur Holim, 19, 23, 30 Bin Nun, Gabi, 71 binding employment arrangements for migrant workers, 107–10, 116 British Mandate period in Israel, 19, 22–26 Brookdale Institute, 157 Budget Reconciliation Bills (1997–1998), 59–60, 62 business culture in health care. See managerial culture introduced into health care Canada, relationships between minorities and majorities in, 78–79 Carmel hospital, 50 case study subjects al Adri, Ibrahim, 129 Alejandro, 3–4, 6, 122–23 Annas, 90 al Atrash, Ahmad, 2–3 Barghouti, Hassan, 146–47 Hij’ar, 91 Irene O., 115–16 Kabada, Ms., 106 Lauren, 127 Letizia, 115 Index 181 Malka, Levana, 1–2, 5, 13, 50, 51 Muhammad, 76 Or, Sivan, 50, 51 Al Qanou, Walid, 129–30 Salim, 94 al Sana, Shauki, 2–3 Sikui, 82 Tabazeh family, 146 Whadha, 90–91, 97 Zahra, 77, 89, 166n1 Zayyed, Hanan, 144 centralization/decentralization in health care, 64 change agents, 65 checkpoints and roadblocks in OPT, 143–49 children. See also mother-and-child clinics as asylum seekers, 120 child allowances, 12–13, 179n3 infant mortality. See life expectancy/ mortality/infant mortality of migrant workers, 3–4, 105, 119–23 rights under UN Convention on the Child, 120 CHS (General Health Services, or Clalit Sherutei Briut), 69–70. See also Kupat Holim Clalit circles of exclusion in Israeli health care system , 5, 32–33, 38–42...