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 

25% of Universities =
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38.2
54.2
67.9
83.7
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Group of Students at the Annual Meeting of Society for Psychotherapy, Dublin

Learning & Students

Students in the Psychotherapy Research Lab seeking to improve available treatments for depression

Learning & Students

New! Department of Medical Imaging Sciences, Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences
Pilates classes, Sunset, Sports, View from the Roof, Haifa Bay, University of Haifa

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Pilates and Yoga classes at sunset on the roof of the Student house
Person standing in front of three arrows showing different ways

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The Institute of Information Processing and Decision Making (IIPDM)
Family concept of happiness, Hands of Family Group People in the shape of a heart against the sunset

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The Sciences of Happiness – new unit established by the Interdisciplinary Clinical Center at the University of Haifa
Food, Healthy, Schnitzel, Vegetables, Chicken, Pomegranate

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Food on Campus

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Relationship between Personality Traits and Endogenous Analgesia: The Role of Harm Avoidance

By: Nahman-Averbuch H., Yarnitsky D., Sprecher E., Granovsky Y., Granot M.
Published in: Pain Practice
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: Whether psychological factors such as anxiety and pain catastrophizing levels influence the expression of en (more…)

Coffee and caffeine consumption and the risk of hypertension in postmenopausal women

By: Rhee J.J., Qin F.F., Hedlin H.K., Chang T.I., Bird C.E., Zaslavsky O., Manson J.E., Stefanick M.L., Winkelmayer W.C.
Published in: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: The associations of coffee and caffeine intakes with the risk of incident hypertension remain controversial. (more…)

Longitudinal association of measures of adiposity with serum antioxidant concentrations in postmenopausal women

By: Kabat G.C., Heo M., Ochs-Balcom H.M., Leboff M.S., Mossavar-Rahmani Y., Adams-Campbell L.L., Nassir R., Ard J., Zaslavsky O., Rohan T.E.
Published in: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background/Objectives:The relationship between obesity and circulating levels of antioxidants is poorly understood. Most (more…)

Unemployment risk and income change after testicular cancer diagnosis: A population-based study

By: Rottenberg Y., Ratzon N.Z., Jacobs J.M., Cohen M., Peretz T., de Boer A.G.E.M.
Published in: Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: Among patients with cancer, returning to full working may serve as an indicator for return to normal lifesty (more…)

Defilement, disgust, and disease: The experiential basis of hittite and akkadian terms for impurity

By: Feder Y.
Published in: Journal of the American Oriental Society
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: This article challenges the common tendency in modern research to treat impurity as a religious phenomenon divorced from (more…)

Global quality of life among WHI women aged 80 years and older

By: Naughton M.J., Brunner R.L., Hogan P.E., Danhauer S.C., Brenes G.A., Bowen D.J., Snively B.M., Goveas J.S., Saquib N., Zaslavsky O., Shumaker S.A.
Published in: Journals of Gerontology – Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background. The number of older adults living to age 80 and older is increasing rapidly, particularly among women. Corre (more…)

Risk factors for cervical cancer and CIN3 in Jewish women in Israel – Two case control studies

By: Bassal R., Schejter E., Bachar R., Perri T., Korach J., Jakobson-Setton A., Ben-David L.H., Cohen D., Keinan-Boker L.
Published in: Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Purpose: The aim of the study was to identify risk and protective factors/markers for cervical cancer and cervical intra (more…)

Sequence mining of comorbid neurodevelopmental disorders using the SPADE algorithm

By: Pimus I., Peleg M., Schertz M.
Published in: Methods of Information in Medicine
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objectives: Understanding the progression of comorbid neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) during different critical time (more…)

Lifestyle changes for the treatment of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A review of observational studies and intervention trials

By: Zelber-Sagi S., Godos J., Salomone F.
Published in: Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is emerging as a major public health problem because of its association with in (more…)

Emotional regulation and revictimization in women’s intimate relationships

By: Zamir O., Lavee Y.
Published in: Journal of Interpersonal Violence
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: The aim of the current study was to test whether women’s emotional regulation (ER) capacity moderates the relationship b (more…)

A longitudinal study to evaluate pregnancy-induced endogenous analgesia and pain modulation

By: Carvalho B., Granot M., Sultan P., Wilson H., Landau R.
Published in: Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background and Objectives: The phenomenon of pregnancyinduced analgesia has been demonstrated in animal models but less (more…)

Health information exchange and information gaps in referrals to a pediatric emergency department

By: Chacour Bahous M., Shadmi E.
Published in: International Journal of Medical Informatics
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objective: to assess the extent of information gaps between three information sources available at admission to a pediat (more…)

Perceived descriptive safety-related driving norms within and outside Arab towns and villages in Israel

By: Baron-Epel O., Obid S., Fertig S., Gitelman V.
Published in: Traffic Injury Prevention
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: ABSTRACT: Objective: Involvement in car crashes is higher among Israeli Arabs compared to Jews. This study characterized (more…)

Effective learning and retention of braille letter tactile discrimination skills in children with developmental dyslexia

By: Hayek M., Dorfberger S., Karni A.
Published in: Developmental Science
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Children with developmental dyslexia (DD) may differ from typical readers in aspects other than reading. The notion of a (more…)

The role of nurses in e-health: The MobiGuide project experience

By: Parimbelli E., Sacchi L., Budasu R., Napolitano C., Peleg M., Quaglini S.
Published in: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Leveraging the experience of the European project MobiGuide, this paper elaborates on the nurses’ role in developing, de (more…)

Assistive technology and older adults

By: Carmeli E., Imam B., Merrick J.
Published in: Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Across the Lifespan
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: The population of individuals living with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) is projected to double by th (more…)

Editorial: Mental health reform and a window of opportunity for community mental health

By: Roe D., Kodesh A., Thornicroft G.
Published in: Israel Journal of Psychiatry
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
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Spatial working memory performance in a real museum environment versus computer simulation: A comparison between healthy elderly and young adults

By: Korman M., Kizony R., Hochhauser M., Kuflik T., Wecker A.J., Weiss P.L.
Published in: Journal of Pain Management
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: In recognition of the limited ecological validity of testing in a laboratory setting, we compared spatial memory perform (more…)

Dormant tumor cells expressing LOXL2 acquire a stem-like phenotype mediating their transition to proliferative growth

By: Weidenfeld K., Schif-Zuck S., Abu-Tayeh H., Kang K., Kessler O., Weissmann M., Neufeld G., Barkan D.
Published in: Oncotarget
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Recurrence of breast cancer disease years after treatment appears to arise from disseminated dormant tumor cells (DTC). (more…)

Retrospective study of the associations between hepatitis C virus infection and metabolic factors

By: Yair-Sabag S., Nussinson E., Ben-Assuli O., Shibli F., Shahbari A., Zelber-Sagi S.
Published in: World Journal of Hepatology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: AIM To evaluate the bidirectional association between metabolic syndrome (MS) components and antiviral treatment respons (more…)