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

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

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
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
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

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Spatial identification of environmental health hazards potentially associated with adverse birth outcomes

By: Svechkina A., Portnov B.A.
Published in: Environmental Science and Pollution Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Reduced birth weight (RBW) and reduced head circumference (RHC) are adverse birth outcomes (ABOs), often linked to envir (more…)

“Death Lay Here on the Sofa”: Reflections of Young Adults on Their Experience as Caregivers of Parents Who Died of Cancer at Home

By: Goldblatt H., Granot M., Zarbiv E.
Published in: Qualitative Health Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The prevalence of terminally ill patients, who die at home, is increasing. The aim of this study was to address the mean (more…)

Uterine cancer in Jewish Israeli BRCA1/2 mutation carriers

By: Laitman Y., Michaelson-Cohen R., Levi E., Chen-Shtoyerman R., Reish O., Josefsberg Ben-Yehoshua S., Bernstein-Molho R., Keinan-Boker L., Rosengarten O., Silverman B.G., Perri T., Korach J., Mor P., Ephrat Ben-Baruch N., Levy Lahad E., Friedman E., the Israeli Consortium of Hereditary Breast Cancer
Published in: Cancer
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Background: BRCA1/2 mutation carriers have an increased risk of developing ovarian cancer, leading to the recommendation (more…)

Assessing and monitoring the impact of the national newborn hearing screening program in Israel

By: Wasser J., Ari-Even Roth D., Herzberg O., Lerner-Geva L., Rubin L.
Published in: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Background: The Israeli Newborn Hearing Screening Program (NHSP) began operating nationally in January 2010. The program (more…)

Interrogating the genetic determinants of Tourette’s syndrome and other tiC disorders through genome-wide association studies

By: Yu D., Sul J.H., Tsetsos F., Nawaz M.S., Huang A.Y., Zelaya I., Illmann C., Osiecki L., Darrow S.M., Hirschtritt M.E., Greenberg E., Muller-Vahl K.R., Stuhrmann M., Dion Y., Rouleau G., Aschauer H., Stamenkovic M., Schlögelhofer M., Sandor P., Barr C.L., Grados M., Singer H.S., Nöthen M.M., Hebebrand J., Hinney A., King R.A., Fernandez T.V., Barta C., Tarnok Z., Nagy P., Depienne C., Worbe Y., Hartmann A., Budman C.L., Rizzo R., Lyon G.J., McMahon W.M., Batterson J.R., Cath D.C., Malaty I.A., Okun M.S., Berlin C., Woods D.W., Lee P.C., Jankovic J., Robertson M.M., Gilbert D.L., Brown L.W., Coffey B.J., Dietrich A., Hoekstra P.J., Kuperman S., Zinner S.H., Luðvigsson P., Sæmundsen E., Thorarensen Ó., Atzmon G., Barzilai N., Wagner M., Moessner R., Ophoff R., Pato C.N., Pato M.T., Knowles J.A., Roffman J.L., Smoller J.W., Buckner R.L., Jeremy Willsey A., Tischfield J.A., Heiman G.A., Stefansson H., Stefansson K., Posthuma D., Cox N.J., Pauls D.L., Freimer N.B., Neale B.M., Davis L.K., Paschou P., Coppola G., Mathews C.A., Scharf J.M., Bruun R.D., Chouinard S., Kurlan R., Leckman J.F., Smit J., Wolanczyk T., Worbe Y., Tourette Association of America International Consortium for Genetics, Gilles de la Tourette GWAS Replication Initiative, Tourette International Collaborative Genetics Study, Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Tourette Syndrome Working Group
Published in: American Journal of Psychiatry
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Objective: Tourette’s syndrome is polygenic and highly heritable. Genome-wide association study (GWAS) approaches are us (more…)

A Dual-Pathway Model Linking Self-Control Skills to Aggression in Adolescents: Happiness and Time Perspective as Mediators

By: Orkibi H., Ronen T.
Published in: Journal of Happiness Studies
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The World Health Organization has recognized aggressive behavior and violence in adolescence as a global public health p (more…)

Ethnic disparities in physical activity among adolescents in Israel

By: Tesler R., Kolobov T., Ng K.W., Shapiro E., Walsh S.D., Shuval K., Harel-Fisch Y.
Published in: American Journal of Health Behavior
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Objectives: In this study, we examined physical activity (PA) levels among Jewish and Arab adolescents in Israel, as wel (more…)

The medical humanitarian face of Israel

By: Zarka S.
Published in: Israel Medical Association Journal
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
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The effect of age at immigration on cervical cancer incidence: A population-based cohort study of 1 486 438 Israeli women

By: Raz Y., Keinan-Boker L., Goren S., Soen-Grisaru G., Cohen D., Grisaru D.
Published in: International Journal of Gynecological Cancer
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Objective To clarify the effect of mass migration from a high-risk area (former Soviet Union) to a low-risk area (Israel (more…)

Trauma exposure in relation to the content of mother-child emotional conversations and quality of interaction

By: Overbeek M.M., Koren-Karie N., Ben-Haim A.E., Clasien de Schipper J., Dreier Gligoor P.D., Schuengel C.
Published in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Parent-child conversations contribute to understanding and regulating children’s emotions. Similarities and differences (more…)

International clinical practice recommendations on the definition, diagnosis, assessment, intervention, and psychosocial aspects of developmental coordination disorder

By: Blank R., Barnett A.L., Cairney J., Green D., Kirby A., Polatajko H., Rosenblum S., Smits-Engelsman B., Sugden D., Wilson P., Vinçon S.
Published in: Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Aim: These international clinical practice recommendations (CPR) for developmental coordination disorder (DCD), initiate (more…)

Herding Brains: A Core Neural Mechanism for Social Alignment

By: Shamay-Tsoory S.G., Saporta N., Marton-Alper I.Z., Gvirts H.Z.
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: When we clap our hands in synchrony, feel the sadness of a friend, or match our attitudes to peer norms, we align our be (more…)

Subjective traumatic outlook as a screening tool for psychological trauma: Cut-off values and diagnostic criteria

By: Mahat-Shamir M., Lavenda O., Palgi Y., Hamama-Raz Y., Greenblatt-Kimron L., Pitcho-Prelorentzos S., Ring L., Bar-Shua E., Ben-Ezra M.
Published in: Psychiatry Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The Subjective Traumatic Outlook (STO) deals with changes in individuals’ perception, following a traumatic event and th (more…)

Early-childhood social reticence predicts SCR-BOLD coupling during fear extinction recall in preadolescent youth

By: Michalska K.J., Feldman J.S., Ivie E.J., Shechner T., Sequeira S., Averbeck B., Degnan K.A., Chronis-Tuscano A., Leibenluft E., Fox N.A., Pine D.S.
Published in: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Social Reticence (SR) is a temperament construct identified in early childhood that is expressed as shy, anxiously avoid (more…)

Risk of cardiovascular disease after radiotherapy in survivors of breast cancer: A case-cohort study

By: Hamood R., Hamood H., Merhasin I., Keinan-Boker L.
Published in: Journal of Cardiology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Background: The current investigation examined the association between chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy and subsequent r (more…)

The meanings of the unlicensed assistive personnel role in nursing homes: A triadic job analysis perspective

By: Band-Winterstein T., Doron I., Zisberg L., Shulyaev K., Zisberg A.
Published in: Journal of Nursing Management
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Aim: This study described and analyzed how older residents, professional nurses and unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) (more…)

Association between schizophrenia and an autoimmune bullous skin disease-pemphigus: A population-based large-scale study

By: Kridin K., Zelber-Sagi S., Comaneshter D., Cohen A.D.
Published in: Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Aims. Immunological hypotheses have become increasingly prominent suggesting that autoimmunity may be involved in the pa (more…)

Head mounted displays for capturing head kinematics in postural tasks

By: Lubetzky A.V., Wang Z., Krasovsky T.
Published in: Journal of Biomechanics
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Tracking head motion in a simple, portable and accurate manner during performance of postural tasks in a virtual reality (more…)

Autonomic impairment of patients in coma with different Glasgow coma score assessed with heart rate variability

By: Estévez-Báez M., Machado C., García-Sánchez B., Rodríguez V., Alvarez-Santana R., Leisman G., Carrera J.M.E., Schiavi A., Montes-Brown J., Arrufat-Pié E.
Published in: Brain Injury
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Primary objective: The objective of this study is to assess the functional state of the autonomic nervous system in heal (more…)

Art therapist’s perceptions of the role of the art medium in the treatment of bereaved clients in art therapy

By: Bat-Or M., Garti D.
Published in: Death Studies
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The exploratory study’s aim was to examine how art therapists perceive the role of the art medium in the treatment of be (more…)