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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What distinguishes positive deviance (PD) health professionals from their peers and what impact does a PD intervention have on behaviour change: A cross-sectional study of infection control and prevention in three Israeli hospitals

By: Cohen R., Gesser-Edelsburg A., Singhal A., Benenson S., Moses A.E.
Published in: Epidemiology and Infection
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Past studies using the Positive Deviance (PD) approach in the field of infection prevention and control (IPC) have prima (more…)

Improving the Performance and Explainability of Mammogram Classifiers with Local Annotations

By: Ness L., Barkan E., Ozery-Flato M.
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Cancer prediction models, which deeply impact human lives, must provide explanations for their predictions. We study a s (more…)

The Case of Missed Cancers: Applying AI as a Radiologist’s Safety Net

By: Chorev M., Shoshan Y., Spiro A., Naor S., Hazan A., Barros V., Weinstein I., Herzel E., Shalev V., Guindy M., Rosen-Zvi M.
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: We investigate the potential contribution of an AI system as a safety net application for radiologists in breast cancer (more…)

Perceptions about and Engagement in Behaviors to Reduce the Risk of Dementia among Adult Persons in Israel

By: Werner P., Abojabel H., Deckers K.
Published in: Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Background Engagement in behaviors aimed at reducing the risk of developing dementia is a leading recommendation in most (more…)

Support or stressor? The community as a predictor of perceptions of infertility

By: Nouman H., Zanbar L., Ph.D
Published in: Social Work in Health Care
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Perceptions of women experiencing infertility may influence their coping and psychological adjustment. This study examin (more…)

The role of explanatory models of breast cancer in breast cancer prevention behaviors among Arab-Israeli physicians and laywomen

By: Soffer M., Cohen M., Azaiza F.
Published in: Primary Health Care Research and Development
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Background: ‘Explanatory Models’ (EMs) are frameworks through which individuals and groups understand diseases, are infl (more…)

Health literacy in Israel-From measurement to intervention: Two case studies

By: Levin-Zamir D., Baron-Epel O.
Published in: Information Services and Use
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: This report focuses on opportunities, challenges and outcomes of health literacy related interventions in Israel, based (more…)

Enhanced Itch intensity is associated with less efficient descending inhibition processing for Itch but not pain attenuation in chronic dermatology patients

By: Granot M., Yakov S., Ramon M.
Published in: Pain Medicine (United States)
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Objectives. The study aims were 1) to investigate the direction of mutual inhibitory pathways on itch intensity by utili (more…)

A meta-analytic evaluation of sex differences in meningococcal disease incidence rates in ten countries.

By: Green M.S., Schwartz N., Peer V.
Published in: Epidemiology and Infection
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The magnitude and consistency of the sex differences in meningococcal disease incidence rates (IR) have not been systema (more…)

The structure of tweets about vaccine safety between health organizations, experts and the public: Analyzing risk communication conversations

By: Manheim D., Gesser-Edelsburg A.
Published in: Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: This paper considers how health education organizations in the World Health Organization’s Vaccine Safety Network (VSN) (more…)

Rapid estimate of inadequate health literacy (Reihl): Development and validation of a practitioner-friendly health literacy screening tool for older adults

By: Leung A.Y.M., Yu E.Y.T., Luk J.K.H., Chau P.H., Levin-Zamir D., Leung I.S.H., Cheung K.T., Chi I.
Published in: Hong Kong Medical Journal
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Introduction: This study aimed to develop and validate a brief practitioner-friendly health literacy screening tool, cal (more…)

Using mobile devices as activity aids in a history museum

By: Lanir J., Yosfan M., Wecker A., Eilam B.
Published in: CEUR Workshop Proceedings
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Informal learning at museums and cultural heritage sites are an important complement to formal school learning. Children (more…)

Professor shu-ting chang on his 90th birthday

By: Wasser S.P.
Published in: International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
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Laypersons’ priority-setting preferences for allocating a COVID-19 patient to a ventilator: Does a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease matter?

By: Werner P., Landau R.
Published in: Clinical Interventions in Aging
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Purpose: The current study aimed 1) to assess laypersons’ priority-setting preferences for allocating ventilators to COV (more…)

Exposure to Risk Information Detail (RID) in News Coverage of Anorexia Increases Self-Efficacy to Perform Risky Behaviors

By: Lewis N., Eliash H.
Published in: Health Communication
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: In an online randomized experiment with 419 Israeli adult women using two rounds of data collected at a one-month interv (more…)

The scope and nature of prolonged social withdrawal in Israel: An initial quantitative and qualitative investigation

By: Hareven O., Kron T., Roe D., Koren D.
Published in: International Journal of Social Psychiatry
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Objective: Over the past few decades, prolonged social withdrawal (PSW) among young people has been recognized in severa (more…)

The Gender Perspective on Parent-to-child Aggression: Gender and Gender-constellations

By: Mehlhausen-Hassoen D.
Published in: Journal of Interpersonal Violence
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Parent-to-child aggressive behavior is a common risk factor for children’s health. Gender is correlated also to the odds (more…)

Socialized occupational medicine in Israel: past, present, and future

By: Rinsky-Halivni L., Cohen C., Moshe S., Amster E.
Published in: Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Occupational health in Israel is unique as it was originally established as a socialized service which anchored in exten (more…)

Stronger correlations between neurophysiological and peripheral disease biomarkers predict better prognosis in two severe diseases

By: Gidron Y., De Couck M., Reynders T., Marechal R., Engelborghs S., D’hooghe M.
Published in: Journal of Clinical Medicine
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: ‘Mind–body’ debates assume that better brain–body associations are healthy. This study examined whether degree of associ (more…)

Communication, Health Literacy and a Systems Approach for Mitigating the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case for Massive Vaccine Roll-out in Israel

By: Levin-Zamir D.
Published in: Journal of Health Communication
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: COVID-19 has created global challenges that only an effective vaccine, apparently, can lead the citizens of the world ba (more…)