SDG 3:
GOOD HEALTH AND WELL BEING

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

University Impact Ranking for SDG 3
U of Haifa 0/100 

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SDG3 Highlights

Food, Healthy, Schnitzel, Vegetables, Chicken, Pomegranate

Operations

Food on Campus
Herta and Paul Amir School of Medicine, University of Haifa, Cornerstone Ceremony

Learning & Students

The University Breaks Ground on New School of Medicine
School of Medicine, Medical Students, Medical Studies, University, Doctor's Coat

Learning & Students

Establishment of the New School of Medicine at the University of Haifa
Old Woman, Nursing Home, Healthcare, Sickness, Chronic Diseases, Disabilities

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Prof. Anna Zisberg and Prof. Efrat Shadmi won a grant of 20 million euros as part of an international research group that aims to reduce chronic diseases in the elderly
Prof. Pavel Goldstein, Integrative Pain (iPain) Laboratory, University of Haifa

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New Approach to Chronic Pain fostered by Integrative Pain Laboratory at the University of Haifa

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Even a small change can make a big difference: The case of in-hospital cognitive decline and new IADL dependency

By: Zisberg A., Sinoff G., Agmon M., Tonkikh O., Gur-Yaish N., Shadmi E.
Published in: Age and Ageing
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: post-hospitalisation functional decline is a widely described phenomenon, yet factors related to new disabil (more…)

A strengths-based case management service for people with serious mental illness in Israel: A randomized controlled trial

By: Gelkopf M., Lapid L., Werbeloff N., Levine S.Z., Telem A., Zisman-Ilani Y., Roe D.
Published in: Psychiatry Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Case management services for people with serious mental illness are generally found to be effective, but controlled and (more…)

Clinical analgesia correlates with decline in temporal summation in response to remifentanil infusion in patients with chronic neuropathic (radicular) pain

By: Suzan E., Midbari A., Pud D., Hadad S., Eisenberg E.
Published in: Journal of Opioid Management
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: Animal studies have shown that in addition to their antinociceptive effects, opioids have attenuated the ele (more…)

Suicide prevention strategies revisited: 10-year systematic review

By: Zalsman G., Hawton K., Wasserman D., van Heeringen K., Arensman E., Sarchiapone M., Carli V., Höschl C., Barzilay R., Balazs J., Purebl G., Kahn J.P., Sáiz P.A., Lipsicas C.B., Bobes J., Cozman D., Hegerl U., Zohar J.
Published in: The Lancet Psychiatry
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background Many countries are developing suicide prevention strategies for which up-to-date, high-quality evidence is re (more…)

Diabetes, prostate cancer screening and risk of low- and high-grade prostate cancer: an 11 year historical population follow-up study of more than 1 million men

By: Dankner R., Boffetta P., Keinan-Boker L., Balicer R.D., Berlin A., Olmer L., Murad H., Silverman B., Hoshen M., Freedman L.S.
Published in: Diabetologia
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Aims/hypothesis: An inverse association has consistently been shown between diabetes and prostate cancer incidence. We i (more…)

Pattern of Blood Pressure Response in Patients With Severe Asymptomatic Hypertension Treated in the Emergency Department

By: Rock W., Zbidat K., Schwartz N., Elias M., Minuhin I., Shapira R., Grossman E.
Published in: Journal of Clinical Hypertension
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Severe asymptomatic hypertension (SAH) is a common cause of emergency department (ED) visits. Despite recommendations ag (more…)

Unusual scapular winging – A case report

By: Dori Z., Sarig Bahat H.
Published in: Manual Therapy
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Scapular mobility has a central role in maintaining normal upper limb function. Scapular winging is characterized by a f (more…)

A possible effect of methylphenidate on state anxiety: A single dose, placebo controlled, crossover study in a control group

By: Segev A., Gvirts H.Z., Strouse K., Mayseless N., Gelbard H., Lewis Y.D., Barnea Y., Feffer K., Shamay-Tsoory S.G., Bloch Y.
Published in: Psychiatry Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Methylphenidate affects state-anxiety in ADHD patients. The current study examines the effect of Methylphenidate on stat (more…)

Cognitive and affective components of Theory of Mind in preschoolers with oppositional defiance disorder: Clinical evidence

By: de la Osa N., Granero R., Domenech J.M., Shamay-Tsoory S., Ezpeleta L.
Published in: Psychiatry Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: The goal of the study was to examine the affective-cognitive components of Theory of Mind (ToM), in a community sample o (more…)

Constance E. Lieber, Theodore R. Stanley, and the Enduring Impact of Philanthropy on Psychiatry Research

By: Krystal J.H., Abi-Dargham A., Akbarian S., Arnsten A.F.T., Barch D.M., Bearden C.E., Braff D.L., Brown E.S., Bullmore E.T., Carlezon W.A., Jr., Carter C.S., Cook E.H., Jr., Daskalakis Z.J., DiLeone R.J., Duman R.S., Grace A.A., Hariri A.R., Harrison P.J., Hiroi N., Kenny P.J., Kleinman J.E., Krystal A.D., Lewis D.A., Lipska B.K., Marder S.R., Mason G.F., Mathalon D.H., McClung C.A., McDougle C.J., McIntosh A.M., McMahon F.J., Mirnics K., Monteggia L.M., Narendran R., Nestler E.J., Neumeister A., O’Donovan M.C., Öngür D., Pariante C.M., Paulus M.P., Pearlson G., Phillips M.L., Pine D.S., Pizzagalli D.A., Pletnikov M.V., Ragland J.D., Rapoport J.L., Ressler K.J., Russo S.J., Sanacora G., Sawa A., Schatzberg A.F., Shaham Y., Shamay-Tsoory S.G., Sklar P., State M.W., Stein M.B., Strakowski S.M., Taylor S.F., Turecki G., Turetsky B.I., Weissman M.M., Zachariou V., Zarate C.A., Jr., Zubieta J.-K.
Published in: Biological Psychiatry
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
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The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

By: Fuchsberger C., Flannick J., Teslovich T.M., Mahajan A., Agarwala V., Gaulton K.J., Ma C., Fontanillas P., Moutsianas L., McCarthy D.J., Rivas M.A., Perry J.R.B., Sim X., Blackwell T.W., Robertson N.R., Rayner N.W., Cingolani P., Locke A.E., Tajes J.F., Highland H.M., Dupuis J., Chines P.S., Lindgren C.M., Hartl C., Jackson A.U., Chen H., Huyghe J.R., Van De Bunt M., Pearson R.D., Kumar A., Müller-Nurasyid M., Grarup N., Stringham H.M., Gamazon E.R., Lee J., Chen Y., Scott R.A., Below J.E., Chen P., Huang J., Go M.J., Stitzel M.L., Pasko D., Parker S.C.J., Varga T.V., Green T., Beer N.L., Day-Williams A.G., Ferreira T., Fingerlin T., Horikoshi M., Hu C., Huh I., Ikram M.K., Kim B.-J., Kim Y., Kim Y.J., Kwon M.-S., Lee J., Lee S., Lin K.-H., Maxwell T.J., Nagai Y., Wang X., Welch R.P., Yoon J., Zhang W., Barzilai N., Voight B.F., Han B.-G., Jenkinson C.P., Kuulasmaa T., Kuusisto J., Manning A., Ng M.C.Y., Palmer N.D., Balkau B., Stančáková A., Abboud H.E., Boeing H., Giedraitis V., Prabhakaran D., Gottesman O., Scott J., Carey J., Kwan P., Grant G., Smith J.D., Neale B.M., Purcell S., Butterworth A.S., Howson J.M.M., Lee H.M., Lu Y., Kwak S.-H., Zhao W., Danesh J., Lam V.K.L., Park K.S., Saleheen D., So W.Y., Tam C.H.T., Afzal U., Aguilar D., Arya R., Aung T., Chan E., Navarro C., Cheng C.-Y., Palli D., Correa A., Curran J.E., Rybin D., Farook V.S., Fowler S.P., Freedman B.I., Griswold M., Hale D.E., Hicks P.J., Khor C.-C., Kumar S., Lehne B., Thuillier D., Lim W.Y., Liu J., Van Der Schouw Y.T., Loh M., Musani S.K., Puppala S., Scott W.R., Yengo L., Tan S.-T., Taylor H.A., Jr., Thameem F., Wilson G., Sr., Wong T.Y., Njolstad P.R., Levy J.C., Mangino M., Bonnycastle L.L., Schwarzmayr T., Fadista J., Surdulescu G.L., Herder C., Groves C.J., Wieland T., Bork-Jensen J., Brandslund I., Christensen C., Koistinen H.A., Doney A.S.F., Kinnunen L., Esko T., Farmer A.J., Hakaste L., Hodgkiss D., Kravic J., Lyssenko V., Hollensted M., Jorgensen M.E., Jorgensen T., Ladenvall C., Justesen J.M., Käräjämäki A., Kriebel J., Rathmann W., Lannfelt L., Lauritzen T., Narisu N., Linneberg A., Melander O., Milani L., Neville M., Orho-Melander M., Qi L., Qi Q., Roden M., Rolandsson O., Swift A., Rosengren A.H., Stirrups K., Wood A.R., Mihailov E., Blancher C., Carneiro M.O., Maguire J., Poplin R., Shakir K., Fennell T., DePristo M., De Angelis M.H., Deloukas P., Gjesing A.P., Jun G., Nilsson P., Murphy J., Onofrio R., Thorand B., Hansen T., Meisinger C., Hu F.B., Isomaa B., Karpe F., Liang L., Peters A., Huth C., O’Rahilly S.P., Palmer C.N.A., Pedersen O., Rauramaa R., Tuomilehto J., Salomaa V., Watanabe R.M., Syvänen A.-C., Bergman R.N., Bharadwaj D., Bottinger E.P., Cho Y.S., Chandak G.R., Chan J.C.N., Chia K.S., Daly M.J., Ebrahim S.B., Langenberg C., Elliott P., Jablonski K.A., Lehman D.M., Jia W., Ma R.C.W., Pollin T.I., Sandhu M., Tandon N., Froguel P., Barroso I., Teo Y.Y., Zeggini E., Loos R.J.F., Small K.S., Ried J.S., DeFronzo R.A., Grallert H., Glaser B., Metspalu A., Wareham N.J., Walker M., Banks E., Gieger C., Ingelsson E., Im H.K., Illig T., Franks P.W., Buck G., Trakalo J., Buck D., Prokopenko I., Mägi R., Lind L., Farjoun Y., Owen K.R., Gloyn A.L., Strauch K., Tuomi T., Kooner J.S., Lee J.-Y., Park T., Donnelly P., Morris A.D., Hattersley A.T., Bowden D.W., Collins F.S., Atzmon G., Chambers J.C., Spector T.D., Laakso M., Strom T.M., Bell G.I., Blangero J., Duggirala R., Tai E.S., McVean G., Hanis C.L., Wilson J.G., Seielstad M., Frayling T.M., Meigs J.B., Cox N.J., Sladek R., Lander E.S., Gabriel S., Burtt N.P., Mohlke K.L., Meitinger T., Groop L., Abecasis G., Florez J.C., Scott L.J., Morris A.P., Kang H.M., Boehnke M., Altshuler D., McCarthy M.I.
Published in: Nature
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: The genetic architecture of common traits, including the number, frequency, and effect sizes of inherited variants that (more…)

Having someone waiting for you outside: Transitions from psychiatric hospitalization to the community

By: Hasson-Ohayon I., Lerer G., Tuval-Mashiach R., Shamir E., Roe D.
Published in: Psychosis
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: The current study aims at gaining a better understanding of the transition phase from psychiatric hospitalization back t (more…)

Accelerated increase and decrease in subjective age as a function of changes in loneliness and objective social indicators over a four-year period: Results from the health and retirement study

By: Ayalon L., Palgi Y., Avidor S., Bodner E.
Published in: Aging and Mental Health
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objectives: The study examined the role of changes in loneliness and objective social indicators in the formation of cha (more…)

MEASURING ADHERENCE TO SELF-CARE GUIDELINES FOR PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES WITH DIABETIC ULCERS ADMITTED to THE ORTHOPEDIC REHABILITATION DEPARTMENT AT TEL HASHOMER HOSPITAL DURING 2012-2013

By: Ezra S., Siev-Ner I., Zaidise I.
Published in: Harefuah
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: INTRODUCTION: Diabetic foot is a devastating complication of diabetes and represents the major cause of lower limb amput (more…)

Outbreak or Epidemic? How Obama’s Language Choice Transformed the Ebola Outbreak into an Epidemic

By: Gesser-Edelsburg A., Shir-Raz Y., Bar-Lev O.S., James J.J., Green M.S.
Published in: Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objective Our aim was to examine in what terms leading newspapers’ online sites described the current Ebola crisis. Meth (more…)

Behavioral and neural stability of attention bias to threat in healthy adolescents

By: White L.K., Britton J.C., Sequeira S., Ronkin E.G., Chen G., Bar-Haim Y., Shechner T., Ernst M., Fox N.A., Leibenluft E., Pine D.S.
Published in: NeuroImage
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Considerable translational research on anxiety examines attention bias to threat and the efficacy of attention training (more…)

Contamination Appraisals, Pollution Beliefs, and the Role of Cultural Inheritance in Shaping Disease Avoidance Behavior

By: Feder Y.
Published in: Cognitive Science
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Despite the upsurge of research on disgust, the implications of this research for the investigation of cultural pollutio (more…)

The Association of Health Literacy with Health Behavior, Socioeconomic Indicators, and Self-Assessed Health From a National Adult Survey in Israel

By: Levin-Zamir D., Baron-Epel O.B., Cohen V., Elhayany A.
Published in: Journal of Health Communication
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: There is a growing need to understand how health literacy influences health outcomes in diverse populations. The aim of (more…)

Attentional bias temporal dynamics in remitted depression

By: Zvielli A., Vrijsen J.N., Koster E.H.W., Bernstein A.
Published in: Journal of Abnormal Psychology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Theory implicates attentional bias (AB) or dysregulated attentional processing of emotional information in the recurrenc (more…)

Unreliability as a Threat to understanding psychopathology: The cautionary tale of attentional bias

By: Rodebaugh T.L., Scullin R.B., Langer J.K., Dixon D.J., Huppert J.D., Bernstein A., Zvielli A., Lenze E.J.
Published in: Journal of Abnormal Psychology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: The use of unreliable measures constitutes a threat to our understanding of psychopathology, because advancement of scie (more…)