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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.

Time-sensitive testing pressures and COVID-19 outcomes: are socioeconomic inequalities over the first year of the pandemic explained by selection bias?

Authors: Alice R Carter, Gemma L Clayton, M Carolina Borges, Laura D Howe, Rachael A Hughes, George Davey Smith, Deborah A Lawlor, Kate Tilling and Gareth J Griffith

Content type: Research 26 September 2023
Association between sun-protective behaviors and hypertension: a cross-sectional study from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2009 to 2014

Authors: Shuping Yang, Feng Dai, Zhaokai Wang, Ruoshui Li, Xianzhi Xu, Cheng Li, Xiancun Hou, Yang Liu, Chaofan Wang, Dongye Li, Lei Li and Tongda Xu

Content type: Research 26 September 2023
Catastrophic health expenditure and its inequality in rural China: based on longitudinal data from 2013 to 2018

Authors: Weile Zhang, Min Su, Dongxu Li, Tianjiao Zhang and Wenhui Li

Content type: Research 26 September 2023
Factors associated with quality of life in Chinese people with psoriasis: a cross-sectional study

Authors: Xiu-jie Zhang, Jing-rong Lin, Min-xing Ou, Hong-wei Yan, Sheng-nan Liu, Lu Dai and Fu-qing Gong

Content type: Research 25 September 2023
Effect of glycerol concentration on levels of toxicants emissions from water-pipe tobacco smoking (WTS)

Authors: Salwa Almomen, Mobarak Aldossari, Yousef Khaleel, Mishal Altamimi, Ohoud Alharbi, Abdulelah Alsuwaydani, Malak Almutairi, Sarah Alyousef, Radwan Hafiz, Faris Alshomer and Amani S. Alqahtani

Content type: Research 25 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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