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Author Shvarts, Shifra.

Title The workers' health fund in Eretz Israel : Kupat Holim, 1911-1937 / Shifra Shvarts
Published Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 340 pages) : illustrations
Series Rochester studies in medical history
Rochester studies in medical history.
Contents CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON SOURCES -- Introduction: Kupat Holim Then and Now -- 1. Health Services in Eretz Israel (Palestine) in the Nineteenth Century -- 2. The Workers� Health Fund: Ideology and Beginnings, 1903-1914 -- 3. The Workers� Health Funds in the First World War -- 4. The Health System Under British Military Government -- 5. The General Health Fund of Workers in Israel: Kupat Holim -- 6. According to Needs or According to Ability: Kupat Holim, 1924-1930
7. Confrontation and Cooperation Between Kupat Holim and Hadassah, 1920-1930 8. The Emek (Jezreel Valley) Hospital -- 9. Kupat Holim and the British Mandate Government -- 10. Kupat Holim and the Federation of Labor: Reciprocal Membership and the Joint Dues -- Epilogue: Summary and Conclusions -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX
Summary The first study to research the history of the health funds established by Jewish laborers in Israel
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ḳupat ḥolim (Organization : Israel)
Histadrut ha-kelalit shel ha-ʻovdim be-Erets-Yiśraʼel.
Ḳupat ḥolim (Organization : Israel)
Histadrut ha-kelalit shel ha-ʻovdim be-Erets-Yiśraʼel
Ḳupat ḥolim (Organization : Israel)
Medicine -- Israel -- History
Medical care -- Israel -- History
Public health -- Israel -- History
Federal aid to health facilities -- Israel -- History
Public health -- Israel -- Finance
Health Services -- history
Financing, Government -- history
Public Health -- history
MEDICAL -- History.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- Israel.
Federal aid to health facilities
Medical care
Medicine
Public health
Public health -- Finance
Israel
Israel
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781580466134
1580466133
9781281382894
1281382892