Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 11 , Pages 1217-1225 , November 2008

Healthy Israel 2020: A visionary national health targeting initiative

  • E. Rosenberg

      Affiliations

    • Israeli Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. 98 HaRimon Street, Moshav Beit-Gamliel, D.N. Emeq-Soreq 76880, Israel. Tel.: +972 50 624 2275; fax: +972 8 932 7279.
    • ,
  • B. Lev

      Affiliations

    • Israeli Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel
    • ,
  • G. Bin-Nun

      Affiliations

    • Israeli Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel
    • ,
  • M. McKee

      Affiliations

    • London School of Hygeine and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
    • ,
  • L. Rosen

      Affiliations

    • Israeli Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel
    • Department of Health Promotion, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Israel

Received 6 July 2007 ,Revised 5 February 2008 ,Accepted 14 March 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2008.03.015

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