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Outbreak or Epidemic? How Obama’s Language Choice Transformed the Ebola Outbreak into an Epidemic

By: Gesser-Edelsburg A., Shir-Raz Y., Bar-Lev O.S., James J.J., Green M.S.
Published in: Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objective Our aim was to examine in what terms leading newspapers’ online sites described the current Ebola crisis. Meth (more…)

The Effect of an Interphase Interval on Electrically Induced Dorsiflexion Force and Fatigue in Subjects With an Upper Motor Neuron Lesion

By: Becher M., Springer S., Braun-Benyamin O., Laufer Y.
Published in: Artificial Organs
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: The study objective was to investigate the effects of an interphase interval (IPI) interposed between the two phases of (more…)

The importance of social networking in a national polio vaccine campaign

By: Rubin L., Landsman K.
Published in: Pediatrics
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
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Attitudes toward nursing students with disabilities: Promoting social inclusion

By: Shpigelman C.-N., Zlotnick C., Brand R.
Published in: Journal of Nursing Education
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: Nursing education programs rarely refer to individuals with disabilities as potential nursing students; more (more…)

Duration of Adulthood Overweight, Obesity, and Cancer Risk in the Women’s Health Initiative: A Longitudinal Study from the United States

By: Arnold M., Jiang L., Stefanick M.L., Johnson K.C., Lane D.S., LeBlanc E.S., Prentice R., Rohan T.E., Snively B.M., Vitolins M., Zaslavsky O., Soerjomataram I., Anton-Culver H.
Published in: PLoS Medicine
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: High body mass index (BMI) has become the leading risk factor of disease burden in high-income countries. Wh (more…)

Unreliability as a Threat to understanding psychopathology: The cautionary tale of attentional bias

By: Rodebaugh T.L., Scullin R.B., Langer J.K., Dixon D.J., Huppert J.D., Bernstein A., Zvielli A., Lenze E.J.
Published in: Journal of Abnormal Psychology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: The use of unreliable measures constitutes a threat to our understanding of psychopathology, because advancement of scie (more…)

Attentional bias temporal dynamics in remitted depression

By: Zvielli A., Vrijsen J.N., Koster E.H.W., Bernstein A.
Published in: Journal of Abnormal Psychology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Theory implicates attentional bias (AB) or dysregulated attentional processing of emotional information in the recurrenc (more…)

The Association of Health Literacy with Health Behavior, Socioeconomic Indicators, and Self-Assessed Health From a National Adult Survey in Israel

By: Levin-Zamir D., Baron-Epel O.B., Cohen V., Elhayany A.
Published in: Journal of Health Communication
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: There is a growing need to understand how health literacy influences health outcomes in diverse populations. The aim of (more…)

Contamination Appraisals, Pollution Beliefs, and the Role of Cultural Inheritance in Shaping Disease Avoidance Behavior

By: Feder Y.
Published in: Cognitive Science
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Despite the upsurge of research on disgust, the implications of this research for the investigation of cultural pollutio (more…)

Evolution and Adaptation of Wild Emmer Wheat Populations to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses

By: Huang L., Raats D., Sela H., Klymiuk V., Lidzbarsky G., Feng L., Krugman T., Fahima T.
Published in: Annual Review of Phytopathology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: The genetic bottlenecks associated with plant domestication and subsequent selection in man-made agroecosystems have lim (more…)

Survivor–spouse dissociation and posttraumatic stress disorder: Personal and dyad relationships

By: Weinberg M., Besser A., Ataria Y., Neria Y.
Published in: Journal of Trauma and Dissociation
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: This study examined the relationships between dissociation and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms among injur (more…)

Breastfeeding, Other Early Life Exposures and Childhood Leukemia and Lymphoma

By: Amitay E.L., Dubnov Raz G., Keinan-Boker L.
Published in: Nutrition and Cancer
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: ABSTRACT: Childhood cancer incidence increases and although rare, it is a leading cause of mortality. Leukemia and lymph (more…)

The Legal System and Alzheimer’s Disease: Social Workers and Lawyers’ Perceptions and Experiences

By: Werner P., Doron I.
Published in: Journal of Gerontological Social Work
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: The expected increase in the number of people living with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) worldwide will be accompanied by an i (more…)

Automated video analysis of non-verbal communication in a medical setting

By: Hart Y., Czerniak E., Karnieli-Miller O., Mayo A.E., Ziv A., Biegon A., Citron A., Alon U.
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Non-verbal communication plays a significant role in establishing good rapport between physicians and patients and may i (more…)

Emotional suppression, caregiving burden, mastery, coping strategies and mental health in spousal caregivers

By: Khalaila R., Cohen M.
Published in: Aging and Mental Health
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objectives: The main aim was to explore the multiple mediation effects of personal resources (mastery, engagement and di (more…)

Positive attitude toward life, emotional expression, self-rated health, and depressive symptoms among centenarians and near-centenarians

By: Kato K., Zweig R., Schechter C.B., Barzilai N., Atzmon G.
Published in: Aging and Mental Health
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objectives: Favorable attitudes, emotions, personality characteristics, and self-rated health have been associated with (more…)

Nutritional Status Prior to Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgery

By: Dagan S.S., Zelber-Sagi S., Webb M., Keidar A., Raziel A., Sakran N., Goitein D., Shibolet O.
Published in: Obesity Surgery
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: Two main causes for nutrient deficiencies following bariatric surgery (BS) are pre-operative deficiencies an (more…)

The partner in late-life repartnering: Caregiving expectations from an intergenerational perspective

By: Koren C., Simhi S., Lipman-Schiby S., Fogel S.
Published in: International Psychogeriatrics
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: Late-life repartnering among functionally independent adults, resulting in complex stepfamilies, has emerged (more…)

Abriendo Puertas: Feasibility and Effectiveness a Multi-Level Intervention to Improve HIV Outcomes Among Female Sex Workers Living with HIV in the Dominican Republic

By: Kerrigan D., Barrington C., Donastorg Y., Perez M., Galai N.
Published in: AIDS and Behavior
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Female sex workers (FSW) are disproportionately affected by HIV. Yet, few interventions address the needs of FSW living (more…)

Risk factors of gestational diabetes mellitus recurrence: a meta-analysis

By: Schwartz N., Nachum Z., Green M.S.
Published in: Endocrine
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: The literature regarding risk factors for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) recurrence is inconsistent. We aimed to as (more…)