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SDG 3:
GOOD HEALTH AND WELL BEING
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
SDG3 Highlights
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
New Approach to Chronic Pain fostered by Integrative Pain Laboratory at the University of Haifa
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Childhood conditions and current physical performance among non-institutionalized individuals aged 50+ in Israel
By: Weinstein G.
Published in: European Journal of Ageing
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: Adverse socioeconomic conditions in childhood have been previously linked with high risk of various health conditions. H (more…)
Oracle estimation of parametric models under boundary constraints
By: Wong K.Y., Goldberg Y., Fine J.P.
Published in: Biometrics
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: In many classical estimation problems, the parameter space has a boundary. In most cases, the standard asymptotic proper (more…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
The Effectiveness and Safety of High-Dose Colistin: Prospective Cohort Study
By: Benattar Y.D., Omar M., Zusman O., Yahav D., Zak-Doron Y., Altunin S., Elbaz M., Daitch V., Granot M., Leibovici L., Paul M.
Published in: Clinical Infectious Diseases
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: Background: Optimizing colistin dosing should translate to improved patient outcomes. Methods: We used data from 2 prosp (more…)
Error augmentation as a possible technique for improving upper extremity motor performance after a stroke – A systematic review
By: Israely S., Carmeli E.
Published in: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: Background: Improvement of motor performance is crucial in rehabilitation after a stroke. A new concept in motor learnin (more…)
Genome maintenance and bioenergetics of the long-lived hypoxia-tolerant and cancer-resistant blind mole rat, Spalax: A cross-species analysis of brain transcriptome
By: Malik A., Domankevich V., Han L., Fang X., Korol A., Avivi A., Shams I.
Published in: Scientific Reports
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: Natural Sciences | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: The subterranean blind mole rat, Spalax, experiences acute hypoxia-reoxygenation cycles in its natural subterranean habi (more…)
Ethics and regulation of inter-country medically assisted reproduction: A call for action
By: Shalev C., Moreno A., Eyal H., Leibel M., Schuz R., Eldar-Geva T.
Published in: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: The proliferation of medically assisted reproduction (MAR) for the treatment of infertility has brought benefit to many (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…)