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

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
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

Operations

Food on Campus
Old Woman, Nursing Home, Healthcare, Sickness, Chronic Diseases, Disabilities

Research

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

Learning & Students

The University Breaks Ground on New School of Medicine

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In response: Aviram J et al the perils of overestimating the efficacy of cannabis-based medicines for chronic pain management

By: Aviram J., Samuelly-Leichtag G.
Published in: Pain Physician
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
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Dilemmas for guardians of advanced dementia patients regarding tube feeding

By: Gil E., Agmon M., Hirsch A., Ziv M., Zisberg A.
Published in: Age and Ageing
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Background: advanced dementia is an incurable illness, its last stage marked by inability to eat. Tube feeding was deeme (more…)

Association of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease with lower brain volume in healthy middle-aged adults in the Framingham Study

By: Weinstein G., Zelber-Sagi S., Preis S.R., Beiser A.S., DeCarli C., Speliotes E.K., Satizabal C.L., Vasan R.S., Seshadri S.
Published in: JAMA Neurology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Importance: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common condition that is most often asymptomatic. It is associ (more…)

Professionals’ Awareness of Sexual Abuse in Late Life: An Exploratory Survey

By: Alon S., Tuma N., Band-Winterstein T., Goldblatt H.
Published in: Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: BACKGROUND: The sexual abuse phenomenon is considered taboo. It has been discussed, to date, mainly in relation to child (more…)

“Eating Me Up from Inside”: A Pilot Study of Mentalization of Self and Others and Emotion Regulation Strategies among Young Women with Eating Disorders

By: Rothschild-Yakar L., Peled M., Enoch-Levy A., Gur E., Stein D.
Published in: Israel Journal of Psychiatry
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Background: We examined the relationship between general ability of mentalization, the specific aspect of affective ment (more…)

Two-year follow-up of fall prediction among older adults in an independent-living community

By: Zur O., Berner Y., Ohel Y., Carmeli E.
Published in: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Adults over the age of 70 are at risk of falls. Early detection of risk of falls can suggest early interventions. In thi (more…)

Paternal use of antidepressants and offspring outcomes in Sweden: Nationwide prospective cohort study

By: Viktorin A., Levine S.Z., Altemus M., Reichenberg A., Sandin S.
Published in: BMJ (Online)
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Objective: To examine the association between paternal antidepressant use at conception and offspring preterm birth, mal (more…)

Improvement in hand trajectory of reaching movements by error-augmentation

By: Israely S., Leisman G., Carmeli E.
Published in: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether adaptive responses to error-augmentation force fields, would decrea (more…)

Very high frequency oscillations of heart rate variability in healthy humans and in patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy

By: Estévez-Báez M., Machado C., Montes-Brown J., Jas-García J., Leisman G., Schiavi A., Machado-García A., Carricarte-Naranjo C., Carmeli E.
Published in: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Literature reports on the very high frequency (VHF) range of 0.4–0.9 Hz in heart rate variability (HRV) are scanty. The (more…)

Food selectivity, gastrointestinal symptoms and urine organic acids in autism spectrum disorder: A pilot study

By: Vissoker R.E., Berger D., Latzer Y., Gal E.
Published in: Current Nutrition and Food Science
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Background: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by numerous comorbidities including eating problems, the mos (more…)

Perspective on broad-acting clinical physiological effects of photobiomodulation

By: Shanks S., Leisman G.
Published in: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Research into photobiomodulation reveals beneficial effects of light therapy for a rapidly expanding list of medical con (more…)

Profiles of little-known medicinal polypores: Funalia trogii (Agaricomycetes)

By: Zmitrovich I.V., Bondartseva M.A., Arefyev S.P., Ezhov O.N., Wasser S.P.
Published in: International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The purpose of this study was to comprehensively characterize little-known polypores that have recently been found to po (more…)

Oxytocin and animal models for autism spectrum disorder

By: Wagner S., Harony-Nicolas H.
Published in: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of complex neurodevelopmental conditions characterized by deficits in social c (more…)

The relationship between disordered eating pathology, sense of coherence and body image among adolescent boys in Israel

By: Latzer Y., Tzischinsky O., Spivak-Lavi Z., Chen I., Weinberger-Litman S.
Published in: Israel Journal of Psychiatry
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Background: Disordered eating pathology (DEP) and body dissatisfaction are well-documented risk factors for eating disor (more…)

Artificial Light at Night of Different Spectral Compositions Differentially Affects Tumor Growth in Mice: Interaction With Melatonin and Epigenetic Pathways

By: Zubidat A.E., Fares B., Fares F., Haim A.
Published in: Cancer Control
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Lighting technology is rapidly advancing toward shorter wavelength illuminations that offer energy-efficient properties. (more…)

Effects of low-level laser therapy in autism spectrum disorder

By: Leisman G., Machado C., Machado Y., Chinchilla-Acosta M.
Published in: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The study examined the efficacy of low-level laser therapy, a form of photobiomodulation, for the treatment of irritabil (more…)

Do patients with interictal migraine modulate pain differently from healthy controls? A psychophysical and brain imaging study

By: Kisler L.B., Granovsky Y., Coghill R.C., Sprecher E., Manor D., Yarnitsky D., Weissman-Fogel I.
Published in: Pain
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Studies in interictal migraine show either normal or impaired pain modulation, at the psychophysical level. To date, pai (more…)

Unique divergence of the breast cancer 2 (BRCA2) gene in Neanderthals

By: Michalak P., Kang L.
Published in: Hereditas
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Unique divergence of the BRCA2, a tumor suppressor gene, in Neanderthals relative to other primates, including modern hu (more…)

Severe central obesity or diabetes can replace weight loss in the detection of frailty in obese younger elderly – A preliminary study

By: Buch A., Keinan-Boker L., Kis O., Carmeli E., Izkhakov E., Ish-Shalom M., Berner Y., Shefer G., Marcus Y., Stern N.
Published in: Clinical Interventions in Aging
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Purpose: Unwanted weight loss is one of the established criteria for the diagnosis of frailty. However, the relevance of (more…)

Scoping Review: The Trajectory of Recovery of Participation Outcomes following Stroke

By: Engel-Yeger B., Tse T., Josman N., Baum C., Carey L.M.
Published in: Behavioural Neurology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Participation is a central concept in health and well-being and healthcare, yet operationalizing this concept has been d (more…)