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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.

Reliability and predictive validity of two scales of self-rated health in China: results from China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)

Authors: Yuwei Pan, Jitka Pikhartova, Martin Bobak and Hynek Pikhart

Content type: Research 5 October 2022
Living with parents, lifestyle pattern and common mental disorders in adolescents: a school-based study in Brazil

Authors: Lucia Helena Almeida Gratão, Milene Cristine Pessoa, Luana Lara Rocha, Thales Philipe Rodrigues da Silva, Eloar dos Santos Freitas, Tatiana Resende Prado Rangel de Oliveira, Cristiane de Freitas Cunha and Larissa Loures Mendes

Content type: Research 5 October 2022
Perceived mental health, work, and life stress in association with the amount of weekly alcohol consumption among Canadian adults who have ever drank

Authors: Nigatu Geda and Cindy Feng

Content type: Research 5 October 2022
Association between obese phenotypes and risk of carotid artery plaque among chinese male railway drivers

Authors: Jia Pan, Zihang Wang, Chaohui Dong, Bo Yang, Lei Tang, Peng Jia, Shujuan Yang and Honglian Zeng

Content type: Research 5 October 2022
Prevalence of mental disorders, associated co-morbidities, health care knowledge and service utilization in Rwanda – towards a blueprint for promoting mental health care services in low- and middle-income countries?

Authors: Yvonne Kayiteshonga, Vincent Sezibera, Lambert Mugabo and Jean Damascène Iyamuremye

Content type: Research 5 October 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
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
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
School grade and sex differences in domain-specific sedentary behaviors among Japanese elementary school children: a cross-sectional study

Authors: Kaori Ishii, Ai Shibata, Minoru Adachi, Yoshiyuki Mano and Koichiro Oka

Content type: Research article 13 April 2017
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

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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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