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

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

Learning & Students

The University Breaks Ground on New School of Medicine
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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Attitudes and completion of advance care planning: Assessing the contribution of health beliefs about Alzheimer’s disease among Israeli laypersons

By: Werner P., Schiffman I.K.
Published in: Palliative and Supportive Care
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Objectives The purpose of this study was to assess laypersons’ attitudes and completion of advance care planning (ACP) a (more…)

Antimicrobial agent susceptibilities of Legionella pneumophila MLVA-8 genotypes

By: Sharaby Y., Nitzan O., Brettar I., Höfle M.G., Peretz A., Halpern M.
Published in: Scientific Reports
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Legionella pneumophila causes human lung infections resulting in severe pneumonia. High-resolution genotyping of L. pneu (more…)

Author Correction: RGS7 is recurrently mutated in melanoma and promotes migration and invasion of human cancer cells (Scientific Reports, (2018), 8, 1, (653), 10.1038/s41598-017-18851-4)

By: Qutob N., Masuho I., Alon M., Emmanuel R., Cohen I., Di Pizio A., Madore J., Elkahloun A., Ziv T., Levy R., Gartner J.J., Hill V.K., Lin J.C., Hevroni Y., Greenberg P., Brodezki A., Rosenberg S.A., Kosloff M., Hayward N.K., Admon A., Niv M.Y., Scolyer R.A., Martemyanov K.A., Samuels Y.
Published in: Scientific Reports
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The Acknowledgements section in this Article is incomplete. © 2019, The Author(s). (more…)

The Increasing Burden of Myopia in Israel among Young Adults over a Generation: Analysis of Predisposing Factors

By: Shapira Y., Mimouni M., Machluf Y., Chaiter Y., Saab H., Mezer E.
Published in: Ophthalmology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Purpose: To determine the trends in prevalence of myopia in Israeli young adults over approximately a generation, as wel (more…)

Serine substitutions are linked to codon usage and differ for variable and conserved protein regions

By: Schwartz G.W., Shauli T., Linial M., Hershberg U.
Published in: Scientific Reports
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Serine is the only amino acid that is encoded by two disjoint codon sets (TCN & AGY) so that a tandem substitution of tw (more…)

Incidence of surrogacy in the USA and Israel and implications on women’s health: a quantitative comparison

By: Birenbaum-Carmeli D., Montebruno P.
Published in: Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Purpose: Gestational surrogacy (GS) has been researched in multiple qualitative studies. In contrast, quantitative aspec (more…)

Effects of predator type and alternative prey on mosquito egg raft predation and destruction

By: Mukherjee S., Blaustein L.
Published in: Hydrobiologia
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: For a vector species, understanding their egg raft predation (consumption) or destruction is essential for both ecologic (more…)

Keeping culture in mind: A systematic review and initial conceptualization of mentalizing from a cross-cultural perspective

By: Aival-Naveh E., Rothschild-Yakar L., Kurman J.
Published in: Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: In this review, we call for a cross-cultural examination of mentalizing. To this end, we first outline theoretical direc (more…)

Depression genetic risk score is associated with anhedonia-related markers across units of analysis

By: Guffanti G., Kumar P., Admon R., Treadway M.T., Hall M.H., Mehta M., Douglas S., Arulpragasam A.R., Pizzagalli D.A.
Published in: Translational Psychiatry
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Investigations of pathophysiological mechanisms implicated in vulnerability to depression have been negatively impacted (more…)

A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies multiple longevity genes

By: Deelen J., Evans D.S., Arking D.E., Tesi N., Nygaard M., Liu X., Wojczynski M.K., Biggs M.L., van der Spek A., Atzmon G., Ware E.B., Sarnowski C., Smith A.V., Seppälä I., Cordell H.J., Dose J., Amin N., Arnold A.M., Ayers K.L., Barzilai N., Becker E.J., Beekman M., Blanché H., Christensen K., Christiansen L., Collerton J.C., Cubaynes S., Cummings S.R., Davies K., Debrabant B., Deleuze J.-F., Duncan R., Faul J.D., Franceschi C., Galan P., Gudnason V., Harris T.B., Huisman M., Hurme M.A., Jagger C., Jansen I., Jylhä M., Kähönen M., Karasik D., Kardia S.L.R., Kingston A., Kirkwood T.B.L., Launer L.J., Lehtimäki T., Lieb W., Lyytikäinen L.-P., Martin-Ruiz C., Min J., Nebel A., Newman A.B., Nie C., Nohr E.A., Orwoll E.S., Perls T.T., Province M.A., Psaty B.M., Raitakari O.T., Reinders M.J.T., Robine J.-M., Rotter J.I., Sebastiani P., Smith J., Sørensen T.I.A., Taylor K.D., Uitterlinden A.G., van der Flier W., van der Lee S.J., van Duijn C.M., van Heemst D., Vaupel J.W., Weir D., Ye K., Zeng Y., Zheng W., Holstege H., Kiel D.P., Lunetta K.L., Slagboom P.E., Murabito J.M.
Published in: Nature Communications
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Human longevity is heritable, but genome-wide association (GWA) studies have had limited success. Here, we perform two m (more…)

IFN-β is a macrophage-derived effector cytokine facilitating the resolution of bacterial inflammation

By: Kumaran Satyanarayanan S., El Kebir D., Soboh S., Butenko S., Sekheri M., Saadi J., Peled N., Assi S., Othman A., Schif-Zuck S., Feuermann Y., Barkan D., Sher N., Filep J.G., Ariel A.
Published in: Nature Communications
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The uptake of apoptotic polymorphonuclear cells (PMN) by macrophages is critical for timely resolution of inflammation. (more…)

Changing the current health system’s vision for disease prevention and health promotion

By: Madjar B., Shachaf S., Zlotnick C.
Published in: International Nursing Review
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Aim: Using the case of Israel, we examine the confluence of current philosophies of health care along with the historica (more…)

Prospective Longitudinal Trends in Body Composition and Clinical Outcomes 3 Years Following Sleeve Gastrectomy

By: Sherf-Dagan S., Zelber-Sagi S., Buch A., Bar N., Webb M., Sakran N., Raziel A., Goitein D., Keidar A., Shibolet O.
Published in: Obesity Surgery
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Background and Aims: Longitudinal assessment of body composition following bariatric surgery allows monitoring of health (more…)

Abundance of ethnically biased microsatellites in human gene regions

By: Kinney N., Kang L., Eckstrand L., Pulenthiran A., Samuel P., Anandakrishnan R., Varghese R.T., Michalak P., Garner H.R.
Published in: PLoS ONE
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Microsatellites–a type of short tandem repeat (STR)–have been used for decades as putatively neutral markers to study th (more…)

Development and validation of the neighborhood environment walkability scale for youth across six continents

By: Cerin E., Conway T.L., Barnett A., Smith M., Veitch J., Cain K.L., Salonna F., Reis R.S., Molina-García J., Hinckson E., Muda W.A.M.W., Anjana R.M., Van Dyck D., Oyeyemi A.L., Timperio A., Christiansen L.B., Mitáš J., Mota J., Moran M., Islam M.Z., Mellecker R.R., Sallis J.F.
Published in: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Background: The IPEN International Physical Activity and Environment Network Adolescent project was conducted using comm (more…)

Incidence and Predictors of Chlamydia, Gonorrhea and Trichomonas among a Prospective Cohort of Cisgender Female Sex Workers in Baltimore, Maryland

By: Park J.N., Gaydos C.A., White R.H., Decker M.R., Footer K.H.A., Galai N., Silberzahn B.E., Riegger K., Morris M., Huettner S.S., Allen S.T., Sherman S.G.
Published in: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Background Cisgender female sex workers (CFSWs) have elevated rates of sexually transmitted infections (STI) yet are und (more…)

Discourse on hygiene between hospitalized patients and health care workers as an accepted norm: Making it legitimate to remind health care workers about hand hygiene

By: Gesser-Edelsburg A., Cohen R., Zemach M., Halavi A.M.
Published in: American Journal of Infection Control
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Background: Despite World Health Organization recommendations that patients should play a role in encouraging hand hygie (more…)

Community-based rehabilitation programme for adolescents with mental health conditions in Israel: A qualitative study protocol

By: Tuaf H., Orkibi H.
Published in: BMJ Open
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Introduction In Israel, 12% of adolescents have mental health conditions. Approximately 600 adolescents with mental heal (more…)

International workshop on the future of community child healthcare

By: Grossman Z., Porter B., Meyerovitch J., Rubin L., Kuint J., Wechsler E., Dushnitzky D., Ashkenazi S.
Published in: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Increasing numbers of children with developmental, emotional, and psychosocial issues require adaptation of the services (more…)

A Protocol for Integrating Neuroscience Into Studies of Family-Based Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa: An Approach to Research and Potential Benefits for Clinical Care

By: Bohon C., Weinbach N., Lock J.
Published in: Frontiers in Psychiatry
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a life-threatening disorder with peak onset during adolescence. Prior research supports the eff (more…)