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Featured article: Middle-aged moderate drinkers rarely have health concerns about drinking

Middle-aged drinkers (30–65 year olds), who consume low-levels of alcohol, have either minor or non-existent concerns about the health effects of drinking.

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Featured article: More social media time raises cyberbullying risk

European teens who spend more than two hours a day online on social networks are the ones most likely to report being cyberbullied.

Content type: Research article
| 21 September 2018

Epidemiology of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs consumption in Spain. The MCC-Spain study

Authors: Inés Gómez-Acebo, Trinidad Dierssen-Sotos, María de Pedro, Beatriz Pérez-Gómez, Gemma Castaño-Vinyals, Tania Fernández-Villa, Camilo Palazuelos-Calderón, Pilar Amiano, Jaione Etxeberria, Yolanda Benavente, Guillermo Fernández-Tardón, Inmaculada Salcedo-Bellido, Rocío Capelo, Rosana Peiró, Rafael Marcos-Gragera, José M. Huerta…
Content type: Study protocol
| 21 September 2018

Study protocol: healthy urban living and ageing in place (HULAP): an international, mixed methods study examining the associations between physical activity, built and social environments for older adults the UK and Brazil

Authors: Geraint Ellis, Ruth F. Hunter, Adriano Akira F. Hino, Claire L. Cleland, Sara Ferguson, Brendan Murtagh, Ciro Romelio Rodriguez Anez, Sara Melo, Mark Tully, Frank Kee, Urmi Sengupta and Rodrigo Reis
Content type: Research article
| 21 September 2018

Gastroesophageal reflux disease and its related factors among women of reproductive age: Korea Nurses’ Health Study

Authors: Oksoo Kim, Hee Jung Jang, Sue Kim, Hea-Young Lee, Eunyoung Cho, Jung Eun Lee, Heeja Jung and Jiyoung Kim
Content type: Research article
| 20 September 2018

Lower youth steps/day values observed at both high and low population density areas: a cross-sectional study in metropolitan Tokyo

Authors: Hiroki Sato, Shigeru Inoue, Noritoshi Fukushima, Hiroyuki Kikuchi, Tomoko Takamiya, Catrine Tudor-Locke, Yuki Hikihara and Shigeho Tanaka
Content type: Research article
| 20 September 2018

Attitudes and barriers associated with seasonal influenza vaccination uptake among public health students; a cross-sectional study

Authors: Christopher J. Rogers, Kaitlin O. Bahr and Stephanie M. Benjamin

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Content type: Research article
| 8 August 2011

Porn video shows, local brew, and transactional sex: HIV risk among youth in Kisumu, Kenya

Authors: Carolyne Njue, Helene ACM Voeten and Pieter Remes
Content type: Research article
| 18 June 2012

The weight of nations: an estimation of adult human biomass

Authors: Sarah Catherine Walpole, David Prieto-Merino, Phil Edwards, John Cleland, Gretchen Stevens and Ian Roberts
Content type: Research article
| 25 January 2012

Health literacy and public health: A systematic review and integration of definitions and models

Authors: Kristine Sørensen, Stephan Van den Broucke, James Fullam, Gerardine Doyle, Jürgen Pelikan, Zofia Slonska and Helmut Brand
Content type: Research article
| 25 April 2011

Malnutrition among children under the age of five in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): does geographic location matter?

Authors: Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Tumwaka P Madungu, Jacques BO Emina, Kikhela PD Nzita and Francesco P Cappuccio
Content type: Research article
| 31 January 2011

Mobile phone use and stress, sleep disturbances, and symptoms of depression among young adults - a prospective cohort study

Authors: Sara Thomée, Annika Härenstam and Mats Hagberg

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BMC Public Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on the epidemiology of disease and the understanding of all aspects of public health. The journal has a special focus on the social determinants of health, the environmental, behavioral, and occupational correlates of health and disease, and the impact of health policies, practices and interventions on the community.

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Natalie Pafitis, BioMed Central
Eva Szunyogova, BioMed Central

Section Editors

Christopher Barton, Monash University
David Rehkopf, Stanford University School of Medicine
Bianca Brijnath, National Ageing Research Institute
Ariadne Kapetanaki, University of Hertfordshire
Youcheng Liu, Wayne State University
Isabelle Niedhammer, INSERM
Mahfuzar Rahman, BRAC
Giovanni Rezza, Istituto Superiore di Sanita
Richard Rosenkranz, Kansas State University
Dianne Stanton Ward, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michelle Turner, University of Ottawa; CREAL
Frances Kay-Lambkin, University of Newcastle
Carol Maher, University of South Australia
Marc Adams, Arizona State University
Janice Thompson, University of Birmingham
Timothy Mackey, University of California, San Diego
David Stieb, Population Studies Division, Health Canada

Michelle Turner, Section Editor

Michelle C Turner is an Assistant Research Professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal, formerly CREAL), Barcelona, Spain as well as Affiliate Scientist at the McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. She joined the Editorial Board of BMC Public Health in 2013.

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