Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 4 , Pages 257-266 , July 2008

Cultural and Educational Disparities in the Use of Primary and Preventive Health Care Services Among Midlife Women in Israel

  • Yael Benyamini, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Yael Benyamini, PhD, Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978.
    • ,
  • Tzvia Blumstein, MA

      Affiliations

    • Women and Children's Health Research Unit, The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology & Health Policy Research, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
    • ,
  • Valentina Boyko, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Women and Children's Health Research Unit, The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology & Health Policy Research, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
    • ,
  • Liat Lerner-Geva, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Women and Children's Health Research Unit, The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology & Health Policy Research, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel

Received 28 July 2007 ,Accepted 29 December 2007.

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 Funded by the Israel National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research.

PII: S1049-3867(07)00207-1

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2007.12.009

Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 4 , Pages 257-266 , July 2008

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