Health and Safety in Israel

The country’s wide-ranging medical system and high doctor-patient ratio caused a low newborn mortality rate that is 4 for every 1,000 live births. In 2001, according to the Ministry of Health annual report, the life expectancy for women is 82.2 years and 78.5 for men. Western-level education for medical professions is obtainable at Israel's schools of medicine, nursing and physical rehabilitation, dentistry and pharmacology.

National Health Insurance Law was endorsed in 1994 and it was put into practiced or executed in 1995, since then the bureau provided a consistent basket of medical services for all people of Israel. The task or duty for all health services is controlled by the Ministry of Health, which organizes legislation and supervises its completion; controls medical standards in all over the country; manages the set-up and construction of hospitals; and licenses of medical employees. The ministry also performs as a public health organization with regards to ecological and precautionary medicine.

The Council for Public Health in the country runs crusades to raise public knowledge of pertinent issues. As a result, the country has totally eliminated a variety of diseases, such as polio, malaria, and diphtheria, which had brought epidemic to Israel in its influential years. Other ailments such as tuberculosis have been almost eradicated but from time to time reappear, brought by the influence of new refugees.