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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
| 19 June 2018

Age, sex, and the changing disability burden of compensated work-related musculoskeletal disorders in Canada and Australia

Authors: Robert A. Macpherson, Tyler J. Lane, Alex Collie and Christopher B. McLeod
Content type: Research article
| 19 June 2018

Waist-to-height ratio index for predicting incidences of hypertension: the ARIRANG study

Authors: Jung Ran Choi, Sang Baek Koh and Eunhee Choi
Content type: Research article
| 19 June 2018

Subjective and objective assessment of sedentary behavior among college employees

Authors: Samuel Headley, Jasmin Hutchinson, Sarah Wooley, Kristen Dempsey, Kelvin Phan, Gregory Spicer, Xanne Janssen, Jerold Laguilles and Tracey Matthews
Content type: Research article
| 19 June 2018

Receptiveness and preferences of health-related smartphone applications among Vietnamese youth and young adults

Authors: Toan Thanh Thi Do, Mai Dinh Le, Thanh Van Nguyen, Bach Xuan Tran, Huong Thi Le, Hinh Duc Nguyen, Long Hoang Nguyen, Cuong Tat Nguyen, Tho Dinh Tran, Carl A. Latkin, Roger C. M. Ho and Melvyn W. B. Zhang
Content type: Research article
| 19 June 2018

Exploring patterns of response across the lifespan: the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) study

Authors: Emma Green, Holly Bennett, Carol Brayne and Fiona E. Matthews

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| 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
| 18 January 2014

Determinants of eating behaviour in university students: a qualitative study using focus group discussions

Authors: Tom Deliens, Peter Clarys, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij and Benedicte Deforche

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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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