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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Students in the Psychotherapy Research Lab seeking to improve available treatments for depression
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The Sciences of Happiness – new unit established by the Interdisciplinary Clinical Center at the University of Haifa

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New! Department of Medical Imaging Sciences, Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences
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Integrative Psychotherapy for Schizophrenia: Its Potential for a Central Role in Recovery Oriented Treatment

By: Lysaker P.H., Roe D.
Published in: Journal of Clinical Psychology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Research has affirmed that recovery from serious mental illnesses (SMI), such as schizophrenia, is a common outcome and (more…)

Association between anthropometric measures and long-term survival in frail older women: Observations from the women’s health initiative study

By: Zaslavsky O., Rillamas-Sun E., LaCroix A.Z., Woods N.F., Tinker L.F., Zisberg A., Shadmi E., Cochrane B., Edward B.J., Kritchevsky S., Stefanick M.L., Vitolins M.Z., Wactawski-Wende J., Zelber-Sagi S.
Published in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objectives To evaluate the association between currently recommended guidelines and commonly used clinical criteria for (more…)

Outcome of a right aortic arch diagnosed in utero

By: Bronshtein M., Blumenfeld Z., Naroditsky I., Gover A.
Published in: Prenatal Diagnosis
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
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‘Virtual lesion’ in pain research; A study on magnetic stimulation of the primary motor cortex

By: Granovsky Y., Liem K.S., Weissman-Fogel I., Yarnitsky D., Chistyakov A., Sinai A.
Published in: European Journal of Pain (United Kingdom)
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background ‘Virtual lesion’ (‘VL’) is a transient disruption of cortical activity during task performance. It can be ind (more…)

Parental resolution and the adolescent’s health and adjustment: The case of adolescents with type 1 diabetes

By: Goldberg A., Wiseman H.
Published in: Social Work in Health Care
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Education  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: This study examines the association between parents’ resolution of their adolescent child’s diagnosis of type 1 diabetes (more…)

Acute mastoiditis in children with a cochlear implant

By: Raveh E., Ulanovski D., Attias J., Shkedy Y., Sokolov M.
Published in: International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objectives Cochlear implantation is performed at a young age, when children are prone to acute otitis media. Acute masto (more…)

A youthful age identity mitigates the effect of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms on successful aging

By: Shrira A., Palgi Y., Ben-Ezra M., Hoffman Y., Bodner E.
Published in: American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
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Association between second-hand smoking and acute coronary heart disease among Arab women with multiple risk factors

By: Awawdi K., Steiner H., Green M.S., Zelber-Sagi S.
Published in: European Journal of Public Health
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: Active smoking is a well-established risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD). However, the role of seco (more…)

Aging well among women veterans compared with non-veterans in the Women’ s Health Initiative

By: LaCroix A.Z., Rillamas-Sun E., Woods N.F., Weitlauf J., Zaslavsky O., Shih R., Lamonte M.J., Bird C., Yano E.M., Leboff M., Washington D., Reiber G.
Published in: Gerontologist
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Purpose of the Study: To examine whether Veteran status influences (a) women’ s survival to age 80 years without disease (more…)

Sleep disturbance, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease in postmenopausal veteran women

By: Rissling M.B., Gray K.E., Ulmer C.S., Martin J.L., Zaslavsky O., Gray S.L., Hale L., Zeitzer J.M., Naughton M., Woods N.F., LaCroix A., Calhoun P.S., Stefanick M., Weitlauf J.C.
Published in: Gerontologist
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Purpose of the Study: To compare the prevalence and cardiometabolic health impact of sleep disturbance among postmenopau (more…)

Genocide exposure and subsequent suicide risk: A population-based study

By: Levine S.Z., Levav I., Yoffe R., Becher Y., Pugachova I.
Published in: PLoS ONE
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: The association between periods of genocide-related exposures and suicide risk remains unknown. Our study tests that ass (more…)

Initial severity and efficacy of risperidone in autism: Results from the RUPP trial

By: Levine S.Z., Kodesh A., Goldberg Y., Reichenberg A., Furukawa T.A., Kolevzon A., Leucht S.
Published in: European Psychiatry
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: Risperidone is a common psychopharmacological treatment for irritability in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). (more…)

Oxytocin and Social Adaptation: Insights from Neuroimaging Studies of Healthy and Clinical Populations

By: Ma Y., Shamay-Tsoory S., Han S., Zink C.F.
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Adaptation to the social environment is critical for human survival. The neuropeptide oxytocin (OT), implicated in socia (more…)

Reproductive Health Needs among Substance Use Disorder Treatment Clients

By: Terplan M., Lawental M., Connah M.B., Martin C.E.
Published in: Journal of Addiction Medicine
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objectives: Individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) have unique reproductive health needs. The aim of this study (more…)

El Niño and climate change – Contributing factors in the dispersal of Zika virus in the Americas?

By: Paz S., Semenza J.C.
Published in: The Lancet
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
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Potential risks associated with traditional herbal medicine use in cancer care: A study of Middle Eastern oncology health care professionals

By: Ben-Arye E., Samuels N., Goldstein L.H., Mutafoglu K., Omran S., Schiff E., Charalambous H., Dweikat T., Ghrayeb I., Bar-Sela G., Turker I., Hassan A., Hassan E., Saad B., Nimri O., Kebudi R., Silbermann M.
Published in: Cancer
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: BACKGROUND The authors assessed the use of herbal medicine by Middle Eastern patients with cancer, as reported by their (more…)

Molecular evolution of antioxidant and hypoxia response in long-lived, cancer-resistant blind mole rats: The Nrf2-Keap1 pathway

By: Schmidt H., Hangmann J., Shams I., Avivi A., Hankeln T.
Published in: Gene
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: The Nrf2-Keap1 pathway is crucial for the cellular antioxidant and hypoxia response in vertebrates. Deciphering its modi (more…)

Increased soluble CD72 in systemic lupus erythematosus is in association with disease activity and lupus nephritis

By: Vadasz Z., Goldeberg Y., Halasz K., Rosner I., Valesini G., Conti F., Perricone C., Sthoeger Z., Bezalel S.R., Tzioufas A.G., Levin N.A., Shoenfeld Y., Toubi E.
Published in: Clinical Immunology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Introduction: B cell receptor (BCR) -mediated signals are enhanced when CD72 expression is deficient on B cells in autoi (more…)

Who Knows Who Cares for Me: C’est La Vie: Abuse of Israeli and Palestinian Prisoners’ Human and Medical Rights—A Foucaultian Perspective

By: Einat T., Parchev O., Litvin A., Michaeli N., Zelikovitz G.
Published in: Prison Journal
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: One fundamental measure of a liberal democracy concerns its guarantee of civil and health liberties to prisoners. The st (more…)

Changing the approach to treatment choice in epilepsy using big data

By: Devinsky O., Dilley C., Ozery-Flato M., Aharonov R., Goldschmidt Y., Rosen-Zvi M., Clark C., Fritz P.
Published in: Epilepsy and Behavior
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Purpose: A UCB-IBM collaboration explored the application of machine learning to large claims databases to construct an (more…)