Women and men alike tend to utilize health services once they have defined themselves as ill or injured. This probably owes to the fact that many men work in Israel. The tendency to utilize health services is strong in all age groups, but it also increases with age. However, private clinics and government clinics are used also by refugees, although less so by camp dwellers. Charitable clinics play a certain role for some groups, while popular committee clinics and home visits play only a minor role.
Pharmacies are without importance as places to go for consultation.
The category labelled 'other' is quite large, but it is not clear what this signifies. To a certain extent, these documents evaluate the quality of health care services, although their conclusions are conflicting. As a conclusion, the availability of health care services seems good and quite fairly distributed both socially and geographically. This may be an indication of a social welfare system which serves to counteract inequality and a skewed distribution of other resources. It is generally assumed that the provision of maternal and child health care services can have an impact on fertility behaviour by reducing infant mortality, and by providing family planning and counselling services to couples.