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

Prof. Pavel Goldstein, Integrative Pain (iPain) Laboratory, University of Haifa

Public Engagements

New Approach to Chronic Pain fostered by Integrative Pain Laboratory at the University of Haifa
Food, Healthy, Schnitzel, Vegetables, Chicken, Pomegranate

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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
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
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Establishment of the New School of Medicine at the University of Haifa

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Health care disparities among persons with comorbid schizophrenia and cardiovascular disease: A case-control epidemiological study

By: Gal G., Munitz H., Levav I.
Published in: Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Aims. Studies showed health care disparities among persons with comorbid schizophrenia and cardiovascular disease (CVD), (more…)

Mitigating pharmaceutical waste exposures: Policy and program considerations

By: Amster E.D.
Published in: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Pharmaceutical disposal and the environmental fate of medication metabolites directly impacts the public’s health in two (more…)

Storage and disposal of medical cannabis among patients with cancer: Assessing the risk of diversion and unintentional digestion

By: Sznitman S.R., Goldberg V., Sheinman-Yuffe H., Flechter E., Bar-Sela G.
Published in: Cancer
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: BACKGROUND: Increasingly more jurisdictions worldwide are legalizing medical cannabis. Major concerns related to such po (more…)

Risk communication and infectious diseases in an age of digital media

By: Gesser-Edelsburg A., Shir-Raz Y.
Published in: Risk Communication and Infectious Diseases in an Age of Digital Media
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: In a digital world where the public’s voice is growing increasingly strong, how can health experts best exert influence (more…)

A feasibility study to assess the validity of administrative data sources and self-reported information of breast cancer survivors

By: Hamood R., Hamood H., Merhasin I., Keinan-Boker L.
Published in: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: Cancer survivorship has increasingly become the focus of research due to progress in early detection and adv (more…)

Help seeking in school by Israeli Arab minority adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems: Results from the Galilee Study

By: Daeem R., Mansbach-Kleinfeld I., Farbstein I., Khamaisi R., Ifrah A., Sheikh Muhammad A., Fennig S., Apter A.
Published in: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: Many distressed minority adolescents with little access to professional mental health services use teachers (more…)

Relationships between body mass index and sleep quality and duration in adults 70 years and older

By: Shochat T., Shefer-Hilel G., Zisberg A.
Published in: Sleep Health
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objective Associations between sleep and body mass index (BMI) are age dependent. In older adults, BMI norms representin (more…)

Ethnic origin and access to electronic health services

By: Mesch G.S.
Published in: Health Informatics Journal
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: E-health holds the promise of changing the delivery of health care by extending and enhancing its reach, and democratizi (more…)

Identifying a system of predominant negative symptoms: Network analysis of three randomized clinical trials

By: Levine S.Z., Leucht S.
Published in: Schizophrenia Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background Reasons for the recent mixed success of research into negative symptoms may be informed by conceptualizing ne (more…)

Unemployment risk at 2 and 4 years following colorectal cancer diagnosis: a population based study

By: Rottenberg Y., Ratzon N.Z., Cohen M., Hubert A., Uziely B., de Boer A.G.E.M.
Published in: European Journal of Cancer
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background About half of colorectal patients are diagnosed less than 65 years of age and they have a relatively high cur (more…)

Light at night and breast cancer incidence in Connecticut: An ecological study of age group effects

By: Portnov B.A., Stevens R.G., Samociuk H., Wakefield D., Gregorio D.I.
Published in: Science of the Total Environment
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: The aim of this study was to test the prediction that within the state of Connecticut, USA, communities with high nightt (more…)

The relationship between sensory processing patterns, alexithymia, traumatic childhood experiences, and quality of life among patients with unipolar and bipolar disorders

By: Serafini G., Gonda X., Pompili M., Rihmer Z., Amore M., Engel-Yeger B.
Published in: Child Abuse and Neglect
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Several studies documented the involvement of sensory perception in emotional processes. The long-term consequences of t (more…)

Automated identification of wound information in clinical notes of patients with heart diseases: Developing and validating a natural language processing application

By: Topaz M., Lai K., Dowding D., Lei V.J., Zisberg A., Bowles K.H., Zhou L.
Published in: International Journal of Nursing Studies
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background Electronic health records are being increasingly used by nurses with up to 80% of the health data recorded as (more…)

Cancer incidence in Holocaust male survivors—An Israeli cohort study

By: Keinan-Boker L., Goldbourt U.
Published in: International Journal of Cancer
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Previous studies, often using proxy exposure assessment and not controlling for individual risk factors, suggested highe (more…)

Causes of traffic accidents as perceived by pre-driving adolescents

By: Rosenbloom T., Ben Eliyahu A., Nemrodov D.
Published in: North American Journal of Psychology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: We examined pre-driving adolescents’ opinions towards traffic accidents. 326 girls and boys from the ninth grade (ages 1 (more…)

Receiving family physician’s advice and the ‘stages of change’ in smoking cessation among Arab minority men in Israel

By: Daoud N., Hayek S., Biderman A., Mashal A., Bar-Zeev Y., Kalter-Leibovici O.
Published in: Family Practice
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background. Receiving physician advice (PA) can increase patient’s willingness to quit smoking and influence the ‘stages (more…)

In reply

By: Leibowitz M., Cohen-Stavi C.J., Balicer R.D.
Published in: JAMA Internal Medicine
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
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Reducing dropout in treatment for depression: Translating dropout predictors into individualized treatment recommendations

By: Zilcha-Mano S., Keefe J.R., Chui H., Rubin A., Barrett M.S., Barber J.P.
Published in: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objective: Premature discontinuation of therapy is a widespread problem that hampers the delivery of mental health treat (more…)

Executive functions, time organization and quality of life among adults with learning disabilities

By: Sharfi K., Rosenblum S.
Published in: PLoS ONE
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Purpose: This study compared the executive functions, organization in time and perceived quality of life (QoL) of 55 adu (more…)

‘Normalizing’ the malignant phenotype of luminal breast cancer cells via alpha(v)beta(3)-integrin

By: Abu-Tayeh H., Weidenfeld K., Zhilin-Roth A., Schif-Zuck S., Thaler S., Cotarelo C., Tan T.Z., Thiery J.P., Green J.E., Klorin G., Sabo E., Sleeman J.P., Tzukerman M., Barkan D.
Published in: Cell Death and Disease
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Reestablishing tissue organization of breast cancer cells into acini was previously shown to override their malignant ph (more…)