{"id":10548,"date":"2019-03-25T16:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/03\/25\/inadequate-healthcare-and-general-inequity-in-the-periphery"},"modified":"2019-03-25T16:00:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:00:54","slug":"inadequate-healthcare-and-general-inequity-in-the-periphery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/03\/25\/inadequate-healthcare-and-general-inequity-in-the-periphery\/","title":{"rendered":"Inadequate healthcare and general inequity in the periphery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Residents of Israel&#8217;s periphery have poorer access to public resources\u2014including education, transportation, and healthcare\u2014than residents of its central regions. As a result of inadequate medical care, these citizens experience lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality rates, and far lower doctor-to-patient ratios. The cycle of disadvantage continues as those with greatest need have the least access to quality care. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ima.org.il\/eng\/viewcontent.aspx?categoryid=6177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This thorough article<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ima.org.il\/eng\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israeli Medical Association<\/a> outlines the statistics as well as the socio-economic factors that contribute to the gap.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Israel&#8217;s periphery have poorer access to public resources\u2014including education, transportation, and healthcare\u2014than residents of its central regions. As a result of inadequate medical care, these citizens experience lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality rates, and far lower doctor-to-patient ratios. The cycle of disadvantage continues as those with greatest need have the least access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":10549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2678],"tags":[2535,2680,3142,3114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=10548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10549\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=10548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=10548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=10548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}