Combining health services in a development town in Israel

A workshop on the evaluation of health and welfare services in an Israeli development town was conducted by the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine in the town of Beit Shemesh. The extensive field study by the second-year M.P.H. students led to a better understanding of community problems and needs and to the formulation of a model for the integration of health services. The workshop's outcomes, as evaluated by the participants, revealed close cooperation between the participants and the local health and welfare personnel and a positive appraisal of the workshop's goals.