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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New! Department of Medical Imaging Sciences, Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences
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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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Predictors of Psychotherapy Use among Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Depressive Symptoms

By: Nurit G.-Y., Dana P., Yuval P.
Published in: Clinical Gerontologist
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: ABSTARCT: Objectives: The present study investigates the applicability of the behavioral model of health service use (An (more…)

Positivity ratio of flourishing individuals: Examining the moderation effects of methodological variations and chronological age

By: Shrira A., Bodner E., Palgi Y.
Published in: Journal of Positive Psychology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: We tested the relationship between flourishing and positivity ratio while accounting for different measures of affect an (more…)

Disagreement between emergency department admission diagnosis and hospital discharge diagnosis: Mortality and morbidity

By: Eames J., Eisenman A., Schuster R.J.
Published in: Diagnosis
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Previous studies have shown that changes in diagnoses from admission to discharge are associated with poorer outcomes. T (more…)

Predictors of optimal cognitive aging in 80+ women: The women’s health initiative memory study

By: Goveas J.S., Rapp S.R., Hogan P.E., Driscoll I., Tindle H.A., Smith J.C., Kesler S.R., Zaslavsky O., Rossom R.C., Ockene J.K., Yaffe K., Manson J.E., Resnick S.M., Espeland M.A.
Published in: Journals of Gerontology – Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background. Independent predictors of preserved cognitive functioning and factors associated with maintaining high prese (more…)

Fatalism, Diabetes Management Outcomes, and the Role of Religiosity

By: Berardi V., Bellettiere J., Nativ O., Ladislav S., Hovell M.F., Baron-Epel O.
Published in: Journal of Religion and Health
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: This study aimed to determine whether fatalistic beliefs were associated with elevated levels of glycated hemoglobin (Hb (more…)

Scapular muscle activity in a variety of plyometric exercises

By: Maenhout A., Benzoor M., Werin M., Cools A.
Published in: Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: Plyometric shoulder exercises are commonly used to progress from slow analytical strength training to more d (more…)

Complications and safety of preconception low-dose aspirin among women with prior pregnancy losses

By: Ahrens K.A., Silver R.M., Mumford S.L., Sjaarda L.A., Perkins N.J., Wactawski-Wende J., Galai N., Townsend J.M., Lynch A.M., Lesher L.L., Faraggi D., Zarek S., Schisterman E.F.
Published in: Obstetrics and Gynecology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: OBJECTIVE: To evaluate complications and safety of preconception low-dose aspirin in 1,228 U.S. women (2007-2011). METHO (more…)

Factors Associated With Preferences for Institutionalized Care in Elderly Persons: Comparing Hypothetical Conditions of Permanent Disability and Alzheimer’s Disease

By: Werner P., Segel-Karpas D.
Published in: Journal of Applied Gerontology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objective: To study the willingness to use institutional care versus home care in hypothetical situations of permanent d (more…)

Nonmedical information seeking amid conflicting health information: negative and positive effects on prostate cancer screening

By: Gibson L., Tan A.S.L., Freres D., Lewis N., Martinez L., Hornik R.C.
Published in: Health Communication
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: This study investigates the impact of seeking information about the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test on men’s PSA te (more…)

Assessing the effects of reported torture in the Israeli-Palestinian context: A struggle for psycho-political thirdness

By: Mukamel M.
Published in: Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: A group of Israeli and Palestinian physicians and mental health professionals was trained to assess the physical and psy (more…)

Featured Article: Inhibition of diabetic cataract by glucose tolerance factor extracted from yeast

By: Mirsky N., Cohen R., Eliaz A., Dovrat A.
Published in: Experimental Biology and Medicine
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Diabetes leads to many complications; among them is the development of cataract. Hyperglycemia brings to increased polyo (more…)

The Role of Ephs and Ephrins in Memory Formation

By: Dines M., Lamprecht R.
Published in: International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: The ability to efficiently store memories in the brain is a fundamental process and its impairment is associated with mu (more…)

Identification of Risk Factors for Mortality and Poor-Quality-of-Life Survival in Frail Older Women Participating in the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study

By: Zaslavsky O., Woods N.F., LaCroix A.Z., Cauley J.A., Johnson K.C., Cochrane B.B., Sagi S.Z.
Published in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objectives To identify potentially modifiable factors associated with overall and poor-quality-of-life (QoL) survival in (more…)

Behavioral profiling as a translational approach in an animal model of posttraumatic stress disorder

By: Ardi Z., Albrecht A., Richter-Levin A., Saha R., Richter-Levin G.
Published in: Neurobiology of Disease
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Diagnosis of psychiatric disorders in humans is based on comparing individuals to the normal population. However, many a (more…)

A novel approach to PTSD modeling in rats reveals alternating patterns of limbic activity in different types of stress reaction

By: Ritov G., Boltyansky B., Richter-Levin G.
Published in: Molecular Psychiatry
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Human reactions to trauma exposure are extremely diverse, with some individuals exhibiting only time-limited distress an (more…)

The immediate effect of dry needling on multifidus muscles’ function in healthy individuals

By: Dar G., Hicks G.E.
Published in: Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: BACKGROUND: Dry needling of muscles is mainly used for the management of pain in musculoskeletal disorders. Yet, the ass (more…)

Antiatherosclerotic effects of licorice extract supplementation on hypercholesterolemic patients: Decreased CIMT, reduced plasma lipid levels, and decreased blood pressure

By: Fogelman Y., Gaitini D., Carmeli E.
Published in: Food and Nutrition Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: Ethanolic extract of licorice root has been shown to reduce low-density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidation in ather (more…)

Health aspects of climate change in cities with Mediterranean climate, and local adaptation plans

By: Paz S., Negev M., Clermont A., Green M.S.
Published in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Cities with a Mediterranean-type climate (Med-cities) are particularly susceptible to health risks from climate change s (more…)

Seriously clowning: Medical clowning interaction with children undergoing invasive examinations in hospitals

By: Tener D., Ofir S., Lev-Wiesel R., Franco N.L., On A.
Published in: Social Work in Health Care
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: This qualitative study examined the subjective experience of children undergoing an invasive examination in the hospital (more…)

Why do parents who usually vaccinate their children hesitate or refuse? General good vs. individual risk

By: Gesser-Edelsburg A., Shir-Raz Y., Green M.S.
Published in: Journal of Risk Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: This study examines vaccination hesitancy or refusal following the 2013 polio outbreak in Israel, based on two theoretic (more…)