BMC Public Health

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Editors' picks

Digital parenting interventions can prevent violence against adolescents in low- and middle-income countries.

Gestational parent diet may modify the effect of ambient pollutants on birth outcomes.

School-based interventions can reduce and prevent psychotic experiences in adolescence.

Alcohol policy framing in South Africa during the early stages of COVID-19: using extraordinary times to make an argument for a new normal

Authors: Andrew Bartlett, Matthew Lesch, Su Golder and Jim McCambridge

Content type: Research 28 September 2023
Integration measurement and its applications in low- and middle-income country health systems: a scoping review

Authors: Rachel Neill, Nukhba Zia, Lamisa Ashraf, Zainab Khan, Wesley Pryor and Abdulgafoor M. Bachani

Content type: Research 28 September 2023
The epidemiology of varicella and effectiveness of varicella vaccine in Ganyu, China: a long-term community surveillance study

Authors: Lingxian Qiu, Sheng Liu, Minglei Zhang, Guohua Zhong, Siying Peng, Jiali Quan, Hongyan Lin, Xiaowen Hu, Kongxin Zhu, Xingcheng Huang, Junchao Peng, Yue Huang, Shoujie Huang, Ting Wu, Jinbo Xu, Zifang Dong…

Content type: Research 28 September 2023
Validation of the vaccination attitudes examination scale in a South African context in relation to the COVID-19 vaccine: quantifying dimensionality with bifactor indices

Authors: Anita Padmanabhanunni, Tyrone Brian Pretorius and Serena Ann Isaacs

Content type: Research 27 September 2023
Association of drug overdoses and user characteristics of Canada’s national mobile/virtual overdose response hotline: the National Overdose Response Service (NORS)

Authors: Dylan Viste, William Rioux, Nora Cristall, Taylor Orr, Pamela Taplay, Lisa Morris-Miller and S. Monty Ghosh

Content type: Research 27 September 2023

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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
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
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

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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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