Article History
Received: 16 January 2018
Accepted: 25 April 2018
First Online: 1 June 2018
Authors' information
: Dr. Maya Peled Raz (LLB, MPH, PhD) is a lecturer of law and ethics at the University Of Haifa, School of Public Health. She is the Chair of the Research Ethics Review Board (ERB) of the Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences at the University of Haifa, the chair of the Ethics Committees at Bnei Zion Medical Center in Haifa and the Galilee Medical Center in Naharia and a Board Member of the International Center for Health, Law and Ethics, at the University Of Haifa. Michal Perl Karsenty holds a B.Sc. in Life Sciences from Ben-Gurion University. She is a Registered Nurse (R.N) and hold an MA in Community Health from the University of Haifa. She works in the Clalit Health Services in the Haifa and Western Galilee districts as a primary care clinic nurse-supervisor. Manfred Green MD, PhD is a professor in the School of Public Health, University of Haifa and is director of the International MPH in Global Health Leadership program. He was previously director of the Israel Center for Disease Control and a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University.
: The study was approved by the Ethics Review Board at the University of Haifa (Approval Number: 161/15).
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests, potential competing interests of financial support to declare of.
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