Article History
Received: 19 April 2017
Accepted: 18 February 2018
First Online: 28 February 2018
Authors’ information
: KA is a senior researcher in the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at the Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research. She is a nutritional epidemiologist, and much of her research has focused on the health of the Arab population in Israel.SA directs the Reduction of Health Inequalities Section in the Israel Ministry of Health Strategic and Economic Planning Administration. She holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her areas of special interest include health inequity, social determinants of health, and health policy.OKL is the director of the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at the Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research. She is an endocrinologist with a main interest in diabetes, and a cardiovascular epidemiologist who has conducted extensive research on cardiovascular risk factors in the Jewish majority and Arab minority populations in Israel.
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: Shlomit Avni is the current director of the Reduction of Health Inequalities Section in the MOH Strategic and Economic Planning Administration.KA and OKLÂ declare that they have no competing interests.
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