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
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SDG3 Highlights

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Learning & Students

Establishment of the New School of Medicine at the University of Haifa
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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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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Food on Campus
Herta and Paul Amir School of Medicine, University of Haifa, Cornerstone Ceremony

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The University Breaks Ground on New School of Medicine

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The significance of human spermatozoa vacuoles can be elucidated by a novel procedure of array comparative genomic hybridization

By: Berkovitz A., Dekel Y., Goldstein R., Bsoul S., Machluf Y., Bercovich D.
Published in: Human Reproduction
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: STUDY QUESTION: Is there an association between spermatozoon genomic stability and vacuolar morphology and location? SUM (more…)

Women’s narratives of crisis and change: Transitioning from infertility to pregnancy

By: HaCohen N., Amir D., Wiseman H.
Published in: Journal of Health Psychology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Education  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: This study explores ways women, who endured prolonged fertility difficulties, after which they eventually conceived, int (more…)

Examining effects of medical cannabis narratives on beliefs, attitudes, and intentions related to recreational cannabis: A web-based randomized experiment

By: Sznitman S.R., Lewis N.
Published in: Drug and Alcohol Dependence
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Background: This experimental study tests effects of exposure to video narratives about successful symptom relief with M (more…)

Mean Platelet Volume in Pemphigus Vulgaris

By: Kridin K., Shihade W., Zelber-Sagi S.
Published in: Angiology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is an autoimmune blistering disease of the skin and mucous membranes. The mean platelet volume ( (more…)

No one size fits all – The development of a theory-driven intervention to increase in-hospital mobility: The “wALK-FOR” study

By: Zisberg A., Agmon M., Gur-Yaish N., Rand D., Hayat Y., Gil E.
Published in: BMC Geriatrics
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Background: There is growing evidence that mobility interventions can increase in-hospital mobility and prevent hospital (more…)

Estimated frailty prevalence among Israeli elderly – results from a cross sectional national survey

By: Buch A., Keinan-Boker L., Berner Y., Carmeli E., Goldsmith R., Stern N.
Published in: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Background: Increasing longevity presents new social and medical challenges in developed countries. The prevalence of fr (more…)

Communicating risk for issues that involve ‘uncertainty bias’: what can the Israeli case of water fluoridation teach us?

By: Gesser-Edelsburg A., Shir-Raz Y.
Published in: Journal of Risk Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Water fluoridation is a controversial issue in public health. Despite the uncertainty regarding its efficacy and safety, (more…)

Genomic instabilities, cellular senescence, and aging: In vitro, in vivo and aging-like human syndromes

By: Lidzbarsky G., Gutman D., Shekhidem H.A., Sharvit L., Atzmon G.
Published in: Frontiers in Medicine
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: As average life span and elderly people prevalence in the western world population is gradually increasing, the incidenc (more…)

Medical egg freezing: How cost and lack of insurance cover impact women and their families

By: Inhorn M.C., Birenbaum-Carmeli D., Westphal L.M., Doyle J., Gleicher N., Meirow D., Raanani H., Dirnfeld M., Patrizio P.
Published in: Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Medical egg freezing (MEF) is being recommended increasingly for women at risk of losing their reproductive ability due (more…)

Resistance to DNA damage and enhanced DNA repair capacity in the hypoxia-tolerant blind mole rat Spalax carmeli

By: Domankevich V., Eddini H., Odeh A., Shams I.
Published in: Journal of Experimental Biology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Blind mole rats of the genus Spalax are the only mammalian species to date for which spontaneous cancer has never been r (more…)

Inter-relationships between objective handwriting features and executive control among children with developmental dysgraphia

By: Rosenblum S.
Published in: PLoS ONE
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Objective To describe handwriting and executive control features and their inter-relationships among children with devel (more…)

Coexistent solid malignancies in pemphigus a population-based study

By: Kridin K., Zelber-Sagi S., Comaneshter D., Cohen A.D.
Published in: JAMA Dermatology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: IMPORTANCE The association of pemphigus vulgaris and pemphigus foliaceus with comorbid malignancies is yet to be firmly (more…)

Sensory Over-Responsiveness among Healthy Subjects is Associated with a Pronociceptive State

By: Weissman-Fogel I., Granovsky Y., Bar-Shalita T.
Published in: Pain Practice
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Objective: Chronic pain patients show hypersensitivity to sensory nonpainful stimuli. Sensory over-responsiveness (SOR) (more…)

A cross sectional survey assessing knowledge, attitudes and behaviors regarding brucellosis among Arab Israelis

By: Baron-Epel O., Bord S., Cohen-Dar M., Obeid S.
Published in: BMC Public Health
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Background: Brucellosis is a contagious zoonotic disease transferred from sick animals to humans and endemic in the Midd (more…)

When Is a Child’s Forensic Statement Deemed Credible? A Comparison of Physical and Sexual Abuse Cases

By: Hershkowitz I., Melkman E.P., Zur R.
Published in: Child Maltreatment
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: A large national sample of 4,775 reports of child physical and sexual abuse made in Israel in 2014 was analyzed in order (more…)

Summary of key issues raised in the Technology for Early Awareness of Addiction and Mental Illness (TEAAM-I) meeting

By: Baumel A., Baker J., Birnbaum M.L., Christensen H., De Choudhury M., Mohr D.C., Muench F., Schlosser D., Titov N., Kane J.M.
Published in: Psychiatric Services
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Technology provides an unparalleled opportunity to remove barriers to earlier identification and engagement in services (more…)

Endoscopic resection of large colorectal adenomas – clinical experience of a tertiary referral centre

By: Mlynarsky L., Zelber-Sagi S., Miller E., Kariv R.
Published in: Colorectal Disease
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Aim: Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality. Adenomatous polyps are typically resected endosco (more…)

Implicit and explicit anti-fat bias: The role of weight-related attitudes and beliefs

By: Elran-Barak R., Bar-Anan Y.
Published in: Social Science and Medicine
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Introduction: The increasing prevalence of anti-fat bias in American society comes at a great cost to the health and wel (more…)

Progression and new onset of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in living kidney donors compared to healthy controls

By: Katchman H., Zelber-Sagi S., Baruch R., Berman G., Schwartz I.F., Schwartz D., Nakache R., Goykhman Y., Katz P., Shibolet O., Shashar M., Grupper A.
Published in: Clinical Transplantation
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Background: There is growing evidence linking nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) with reduced glomerular filtratio (more…)

“Like Every Normal Person?!” The Paradoxical Effect of Aging With Schizophrenia

By: Mushkin P., Band-Winterstein T., Avieli H.
Published in: Qualitative Health Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Studies on aging with schizophrenia have focused mainly on the adversities of aging with mental illness. The present stu (more…)