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Featured article: Smokers tend to have unhealthier diets than non-smokers

Smokers have worse quality diets than former smokers or non-smokers and consume around 200 more calories a day, suggesting that smokers are at further risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer.

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Featured article: Health consequences of flight attendant work

While flight attendants are healthier overall than the general population, they have higher rates of certain diseases and conditions, including female reproductive cancers.

Content type: Research article
| 18 July 2018

Non-response bias in estimates of prevalence of club-based sport participation from an Australian national physical activity, recreation and sport survey

Authors: J. T. Harvey, M. J. Charity, N. A. Sawyer and R. M. Eime
Content type: Study protocol
| 18 July 2018

Evaluating the impact of screening plus eave tubes on malaria transmission compared to current best practice in central Côte d’Ivoire: a two armed cluster randomized controlled trial

Authors: Eleanore D. Sternberg, Jackie Cook, Ludovic P. Ahoua Alou, Carine J. Aoura, Serge Brice Assi, Dimi Théodore Doudou, A. Alphonsine Koffi, Raphael N’Guessan, Welbeck A. Oumbouke, Rachel A. Smith, Eve Worrall, Immo Kleinschmidt and Matthew B. Thomas
Content type: Study protocol
| 18 July 2018

Increasing return-to-work among people on sick leave due to common mental disorders: design of a cluster-randomized controlled trial of a problem-solving intervention versus care-as-usual conducted in the Swedish primary health care system (PROSA)

Authors: Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, Kristina Holmgren, Ute Bültmann, Hanna Gyllensten, Jan Hagberg, Lars Sandman and Gunnar Bergström
Content type: Study protocol
| 18 July 2018

Impact of the Safe Childbirth Checklist on health worker childbirth practices in Luapula province of Zambia: a pre-post study

Authors: Sandra Mudhune, Sydney Chauwa Phiri, Marta R. Prescott, Elizabeth A. McCarthy, Aaron Banda, Prudence Haimbe, Francis Dien Mwansa, Angel Mwiche, Francis Bwalya, Micheck Kabamba, Hilda Shakwelele and Margaret L. Prust
Content type: Study protocol
| 18 July 2018

A randomized clinical efficacy trial of a psychosocial intervention to strengthen self-acceptance and reduce HIV risk for MSM in India: study protocol

Authors: Matthew J. Mimiaga, Beena Thomas, Kenneth H. Mayer, Kristen S. Regenauer, Alpana Dange, C. Andres Bedoya, Shruta Rawat, Vinoth Balu, Conall O’Cleirigh, Katie B. Biello, Vivek Anand, Soumya Swaminathan and Steven A. Safren

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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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Aims and scope

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.

Editor

Natalie Pafitis, 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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