Maya Negev
Biographic Data
| ID | 85827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maya Negev |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maya |
| FAMILY NAME | Negev |
| SIGNATURE | NEGEV M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5523-3210 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Administrators’ insights into uncovering hidden littering motivations and challenges in behavior change
Tackling littering in public spaces poses a global challenge with significant environmental, social, and economic implications. This study explores the motivational influences and the barriers to altering littering behavior among educational and operational administrators in Israel. Using the Iceberg Model, Theory U, and the Immunity to Change (ITC) framework, this research reveals the underlying factors often overlooked in littering behaviors wh…
Direct and indirect pathways of climate-related impacts on vulnerable populations
Climate change exacerbates health and economic inequities, disproportionately impacting vulnerable populations. This study empirically validates and expands the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) risk framework—hazard, exposure, and vulnerability—by incorporating personal and collective dimensions such as risk appraisal, everyday adaptation, and community resilience. Using structural equation modeling (SEM) and data from a national …
Heat vulnerability assessment in an Eastern Mediterranean city - a mixed-methods approach
Cities with already hot climates face distinct, intensifying challenges as global temperatures rise, particularly where existing urban and social conditions heighten vulnerability. Yet urban climate vulnerability assessments remain limited in such contexts, especially in smaller cities. This study presents a mixed-methods participatory heat risk assessment in Shefa-‘Amr, an Arab city in northern Israel, to explore how exposure, lived experiences,…
Exploring the climate change, infrastructure, health nexus and everyday adaptation among vulnerable populations
Despite the strong relationship between climate change, infrastructure, and health outcomes, the impacts of climate change on infrastructure and on health are commonly studied separately. The current study addresses this gap by examining the pathways through which critical infrastructures impact climate-related health risks among vulnerable individuals and the everyday adaptation practices they adopt in response. Data from ten focus groups (n = 6…
Residential seismic retrofitting
Seismic retrofitting is the most effective way to reduce casualties from earthquakes. Yet, seismic retrofitting of vulnerable residential structures faces many impediments. As no single policy measure can overcome these obstacles, seismic retrofitting requires that multiple policy measures be applied in tandem and therefore policy packages are necessary. As seismic threats are spread over multiple locales, differing in their characteristics, no s…
The Attitudes and Perceptions of Israeli Psychiatrists Toward Telepsychiatry and Their Behavioral Intention to Use Telepsychiatry
Despite high performance expectancy, low effort expectancy, low perceived risk, largely positive attitudes, high voluntariness, and the expectancy for facilitating conditions, the intention to use telepsychiatry was rather low. This result is explained by the low level of experience, which plays a pivotal role. We recommend promoting the facilitating conditions that affect the continued use of telepsychiatry when initiating its implementation, an…
Urban Climate Policy and Action through a Health Lens—An Untapped Opportunity
Motivated by a growing recognition of the climate emergency, reflected in the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26), we outline untapped opportunities to improve health through ambitious climate actions in cities. Health is a primary reason for climate action yet is rarely integrated in urban climate plans as a policy goal. This is a missed opportunity to create sustainable alliances across sectors and groups, to engage a broad set of stakeholde…
Lessons of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict for Public Health
In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed a faceless, non-adversarial threat that endangered Israelis and Palestinians with the same ferocity. However, the capacities of the health systems to address it were not equal, with Israel more equipped for the outbreak with infrastructure, resources, manpower and later, vaccines. The pandemic demonstrated the life-saving benefits of cooperation and the self-defeating harms brought by non-cooperation.…
Attitudinal Barriers Hindering Adoption of Telepsychiatry among Mental Healthcare Professionals
Despite proven advantages for the use of telemedicine in psychiatry, mental healthcare professionals have shown deep-seated mistrust and suspicion of telepsychiatry, which hinders its widespread application. The current study examines the attitudes of Israeli mental health professionals towards telepsychiatry and seeks to uncover the effects of experience and organizational affiliation on its adoption. The methodology included qualitative and the…
Extreme energy poverty in the urban peripheries of Romania and Israel
"Medical Cannabis" as a Contested Medicine
Few empirical studies have explored how different types of knowledge are associated with diverse objectivities and moral economies. Here, we examine these associations through an empirical investigation of the public policy debate in Israel around medical cannabis (MC), which may be termed a contested medicine because its therapeutic effects, while subjectively felt by users, are not generally recognized by the medical profession. Our findings in…
Implications of standards in setting environmental policy
Environmental exposures and fetal growth
Evaluating environmental exposures of pregnant women and assessing in utero growth over the course of the pregnancy during different exposure windows, is of great scientific and public health interest. Recent advances in data collection and analysis pose great promise to provide insights into contribution of environment to the health of the developing fetus, but also pose major challenges and pitfalls, such as data management, proper statistical …
Scientific Advice and Administrative Traditions
The role of the chief scientist (CS), a key administrative position in various Israeli ministries, is to fund policy-oriented research and support evidence-based decision-making. Has the CS's role promoted or constrained incorporation of scientific advice regarding climate change adaptation into governmental policy? Have administrative traditions affected the adaptation planning process in Israel? Analysis of documents and 26 in-depth interviews …
Rhetorical and regulatory boundary-work
Medicalization of cannabis
Health Aspects of Climate Change in Cities with Mediterranean Climate, and Local Adaptation Plans
Cities with a Mediterranean-type climate (Med-cities) are particularly susceptible to health risks from climate change since they are located in biogeographical hot-spots that experience some of the strongest effects of the changing climate. The study aims to highlight health impacts of climate change in Med-cities, analyze local climate adaptation plans and make adaptation policy recommendations for the Med-city level. We identified five Med-cit…
Impacts of Climate Change on Vector Borne Diseases in the Mediterranean Basin — Implications for Preparedness and Adaptation Policy
The Mediterranean region is vulnerable to climatic changes. A warming trend exists in the basin with changes in rainfall patterns. It is expected that vector-borne diseases (VBD) in the region will be influenced by climate change since weather conditions influence their emergence. For some diseases (i.e., West Nile virus) the linkage between emergence andclimate change was recently proved; for others (such as dengue) the risk for local transmissi…
Stakeholder participation in health impact assessment
Rethinking the relationship between technical and local knowledge
Knowledge, data and interests
Extreme energy poverty in the urban peripheries of Romania and Israel
Rethinking the relationship between technical and local knowledge
Rhetorical and regulatory boundary-work
Scientific Advice and Administrative Traditions
The role of the chief scientist (CS), a key administrative position in various Israeli ministries, is to fund policy-oriented research and support evidence-based decision-making. Has the CS's role promoted or constrained incorporation of scientific advice regarding climate change adaptation into governmental policy? Have administrative traditions affected the adaptation planning process in Israel? Analysis of documents and 26 in-depth interviews …
Exploring the climate change, infrastructure, health nexus and everyday adaptation among vulnerable populations
Despite the strong relationship between climate change, infrastructure, and health outcomes, the impacts of climate change on infrastructure and on health are commonly studied separately. The current study addresses this gap by examining the pathways through which critical infrastructures impact climate-related health risks among vulnerable individuals and the everyday adaptation practices they adopt in response. Data from ten focus groups (n = 6…
"Medical Cannabis" as a Contested Medicine
Few empirical studies have explored how different types of knowledge are associated with diverse objectivities and moral economies. Here, we examine these associations through an empirical investigation of the public policy debate in Israel around medical cannabis (MC), which may be termed a contested medicine because its therapeutic effects, while subjectively felt by users, are not generally recognized by the medical profession. Our findings in…
Implications of standards in setting environmental policy
Knowledge, data and interests
Stakeholder participation in health impact assessment
Rethinking the relationship between technical and local knowledge
Knowledge, data and interests
Stakeholder participation in health impact assessment
Impacts of Climate Change on Vector Borne Diseases in the Mediterranean Basin — Implications for Preparedness and Adaptation Policy
The Mediterranean region is vulnerable to climatic changes. A warming trend exists in the basin with changes in rainfall patterns. It is expected that vector-borne diseases (VBD) in the region will be influenced by climate change since weather conditions influence their emergence. For some diseases (i.e., West Nile virus) the linkage between emergence andclimate change was recently proved; for others (such as dengue) the risk for local transmissi…
Health Aspects of Climate Change in Cities with Mediterranean Climate, and Local Adaptation Plans
Cities with a Mediterranean-type climate (Med-cities) are particularly susceptible to health risks from climate change since they are located in biogeographical hot-spots that experience some of the strongest effects of the changing climate. The study aims to highlight health impacts of climate change in Med-cities, analyze local climate adaptation plans and make adaptation policy recommendations for the Med-city level. We identified five Med-cit…
Medicalization of cannabis
Environmental exposures and fetal growth
Evaluating environmental exposures of pregnant women and assessing in utero growth over the course of the pregnancy during different exposure windows, is of great scientific and public health interest. Recent advances in data collection and analysis pose great promise to provide insights into contribution of environment to the health of the developing fetus, but also pose major challenges and pitfalls, such as data management, proper statistical …
Scientific Advice and Administrative Traditions
The role of the chief scientist (CS), a key administrative position in various Israeli ministries, is to fund policy-oriented research and support evidence-based decision-making. Has the CS's role promoted or constrained incorporation of scientific advice regarding climate change adaptation into governmental policy? Have administrative traditions affected the adaptation planning process in Israel? Analysis of documents and 26 in-depth interviews …
Rhetorical and regulatory boundary-work
Implications of standards in setting environmental policy
Extreme energy poverty in the urban peripheries of Romania and Israel
"Medical Cannabis" as a Contested Medicine
Few empirical studies have explored how different types of knowledge are associated with diverse objectivities and moral economies. Here, we examine these associations through an empirical investigation of the public policy debate in Israel around medical cannabis (MC), which may be termed a contested medicine because its therapeutic effects, while subjectively felt by users, are not generally recognized by the medical profession. Our findings in…
Urban Climate Policy and Action through a Health Lens—An Untapped Opportunity
Motivated by a growing recognition of the climate emergency, reflected in the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26), we outline untapped opportunities to improve health through ambitious climate actions in cities. Health is a primary reason for climate action yet is rarely integrated in urban climate plans as a policy goal. This is a missed opportunity to create sustainable alliances across sectors and groups, to engage a broad set of stakeholde…
Lessons of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict for Public Health
In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed a faceless, non-adversarial threat that endangered Israelis and Palestinians with the same ferocity. However, the capacities of the health systems to address it were not equal, with Israel more equipped for the outbreak with infrastructure, resources, manpower and later, vaccines. The pandemic demonstrated the life-saving benefits of cooperation and the self-defeating harms brought by non-cooperation.…
Attitudinal Barriers Hindering Adoption of Telepsychiatry among Mental Healthcare Professionals
Despite proven advantages for the use of telemedicine in psychiatry, mental healthcare professionals have shown deep-seated mistrust and suspicion of telepsychiatry, which hinders its widespread application. The current study examines the attitudes of Israeli mental health professionals towards telepsychiatry and seeks to uncover the effects of experience and organizational affiliation on its adoption. The methodology included qualitative and the…
Residential seismic retrofitting
Seismic retrofitting is the most effective way to reduce casualties from earthquakes. Yet, seismic retrofitting of vulnerable residential structures faces many impediments. As no single policy measure can overcome these obstacles, seismic retrofitting requires that multiple policy measures be applied in tandem and therefore policy packages are necessary. As seismic threats are spread over multiple locales, differing in their characteristics, no s…
The Attitudes and Perceptions of Israeli Psychiatrists Toward Telepsychiatry and Their Behavioral Intention to Use Telepsychiatry
Despite high performance expectancy, low effort expectancy, low perceived risk, largely positive attitudes, high voluntariness, and the expectancy for facilitating conditions, the intention to use telepsychiatry was rather low. This result is explained by the low level of experience, which plays a pivotal role. We recommend promoting the facilitating conditions that affect the continued use of telepsychiatry when initiating its implementation, an…
Direct and indirect pathways of climate-related impacts on vulnerable populations
Climate change exacerbates health and economic inequities, disproportionately impacting vulnerable populations. This study empirically validates and expands the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) risk framework—hazard, exposure, and vulnerability—by incorporating personal and collective dimensions such as risk appraisal, everyday adaptation, and community resilience. Using structural equation modeling (SEM) and data from a national …
Heat vulnerability assessment in an Eastern Mediterranean city - a mixed-methods approach
Cities with already hot climates face distinct, intensifying challenges as global temperatures rise, particularly where existing urban and social conditions heighten vulnerability. Yet urban climate vulnerability assessments remain limited in such contexts, especially in smaller cities. This study presents a mixed-methods participatory heat risk assessment in Shefa-‘Amr, an Arab city in northern Israel, to explore how exposure, lived experiences,…
Exploring the climate change, infrastructure, health nexus and everyday adaptation among vulnerable populations
Despite the strong relationship between climate change, infrastructure, and health outcomes, the impacts of climate change on infrastructure and on health are commonly studied separately. The current study addresses this gap by examining the pathways through which critical infrastructures impact climate-related health risks among vulnerable individuals and the everyday adaptation practices they adopt in response. Data from ten focus groups (n = 6…
Administrators’ insights into uncovering hidden littering motivations and challenges in behavior change
Tackling littering in public spaces poses a global challenge with significant environmental, social, and economic implications. This study explores the motivational influences and the barriers to altering littering behavior among educational and operational administrators in Israel. Using the Iceberg Model, Theory U, and the Immunity to Change (ITC) framework, this research reveals the underlying factors often overlooked in littering behaviors wh…
Political science (14 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Climate change (7 works) · Climate Change and Health Impacts (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Environmental planning (7 works) · Sociology (7 works)