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Disparities in pesticide exposure and harm are being perpetuated by current laws and regulations in the USA.

In NYC, medical cannabis services are least available in areas with Black residents and most available in urban neighborhoods with educated residents.

Climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerability indicators can help tracking the impacts of climate change on human health.

Motivation for protection in sexual relationship during the COVID-19 quarantine: analysis of the sociodemographic variables of the Iranian population

Authors: Raziyeh Maasoumi, Sara Kazemi, Shima Haghani and Fatemeh Zarei

Content type: Research 26 May 2022
A cross-sectional study on the perceived barriers to physical activity and their associations with domain-specific physical activity and sedentary behaviour

Authors: Yen Sin Koh, P. V. Asharani, Fiona Devi, Kumarasan Roystonn, Peizhi Wang, Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, Edimansyah Abdin, Chee Fang Sum, Eng Sing Lee, Falk Müller-Riemenschneider, Siow Ann Chong and Mythily Subramaniam

Content type: Research 26 May 2022
How to predict the electronic health literacy of Chinese primary and secondary school students?: establishment of a model and web nomograms

Authors: Tao Xie, Ning Zhang, Ying Mao and Bin Zhu

Content type: Research 25 May 2022
The association between childhood hearing loss and self-reported peer victimisation, depressive symptoms, and self-harm: longitudinal analyses of a prospective, nationally representative cohort study

Authors: Emma Butcher, Mario Cortina-Borja, Carol Dezateux and Rachel Knowles

Content type: Research 25 May 2022
Text mining for identifying the nature of online questions about non-suicidal self-injury

Authors: Myo-Sung Kim and Jungok Yu

Content type: Research 25 May 2022

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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 8 August 2011
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 18 June 2012
Local government responses for COVID-19 management in the Philippines

Authors: Dylan Antonio S. Talabis, Ariel L. Babierra, Christian Alvin H. Buhat, Destiny S. Lutero, Kemuel M. Quindala III and Jomar F. Rabajante

Content type: Research 21 September 2021
Oral and anal sex practices among high school youth in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Authors: Amsale Cherie and Yemane Berhane

Content type: Research article 4 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 January 2012

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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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