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Featured article: Whole systems approaches to obesity and other complex public health challenges

Increasing awareness of the complexity of public health problems, including obesity, has led to growing interest in whole systems approaches (WSAs). This paper reports a systematic review of WSAs targeting obesity and other complex public health and societal issues, such as healthy lifestyles for prevention of non-communicable disease.

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Featured article: Tobacco smoking is associated with an increase in number of morphological defects of spermatozoa

New systematic review and meta-analysis collates information on previously published studies investigating the impact of tobacco smoking on the quality of semen in infertile males.

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Featured article: More young people are choosing not to try alcohol

Young people in England aren’t just drinking less alcohol – a new study published in BMC Public Health shows that more of them are never trying alcohol at all.

Featured blog: How do middle-aged social drinkers perceive their alcohol consumption?

Research recently published in BMC Public Health found that rather than having health concerns, middle-aged drinkers who consume low-levels of alcohol, place more importance on their drinking behaviors conforming to socially acceptable narratives of their age, gender and identity.

Featured supplement: Experiences and lessons learned in polio eradication in Nigeria.

A new supplement from the World Health Organization published in BMC Public Health explores the Polio Eradication Programme in Nigeria.

To learn more about the supplement, please read Blog written by Dr Fiona Braka, co-editor of the supplement.

BMC Public Health is recruiting new Associate Editors

We are recruiting new Associate Editors to join our international editorial board, helping to provide expertise on a wide range of different subject disciplines.

Content type: Research article
| 18 January 2019

Associations between active commuting to school, sleep duration, and breakfast consumption in Ecuadorian young people

Authors: Emilio Villa-González, Francisco J. Huertas-Delgado, Palma Chillón, Robinson Ramírez-Vélez and Yaira Barranco-Ruiz
Content type: Research article
| 18 January 2019

Sport-based youth development interventions in the United States: a systematic review

Authors: Meredith A. Whitley, William V. Massey, Martin Camiré, Mish Boutet and Amanda Borbee
Content type: Research article
| 18 January 2019

Association between rural-to-urban migrants’ social medical insurance, social integration and their medical return in China: a nationally representative cross-sectional data analysis

Authors: Bo-li Peng and Li Ling
Content type: Research article
| 18 January 2019

To what extent can the activities of the South Australian Health in All Policies initiative be linked to population health outcomes using a program theory-based evaluation?

Authors: Fran Baum, Toni Delany-Crowe, Colin MacDougall, Helen van Eyk, Angela Lawless, Carmel Williams and Michael Marmot
Content type: Research article
| 18 January 2019

Incidence rate of sexually transmitted infections among HIV infected patients on long-term ART in an urban and a rural clinic in Uganda

Authors: Stephen Okoboi, Barbara Castelnuovo, David M. Moore, Joseph Musaazi, Andrew Kambugu, Josephine Birungi, Mastula Nanfuka and Annelies Van Rie

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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
| 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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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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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

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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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Featured article: Whole systems approaches to obesity and other complex public health challenges

Featured article: Tobacco smoking is associated with an increase in number of morphological defects of spermatozoa

Featured article: More young people are choosing not to try alcohol

Featured blog: How do middle-aged social drinkers perceive their alcohol consumption?

Featured supplement: Experiences and lessons learned in polio eradication in Nigeria.

BMC Public Health is recruiting new Associate Editors

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Associations between active commuting to school, sleep duration, and breakfast consumption in Ecuadorian young people

Sport-based youth development interventions in the United States: a systematic review

Association between rural-to-urban migrants’ social medical insurance, social integration and their medical return in China: a nationally representative cross-sectional data analysis

To what extent can the activities of the South Australian Health in All Policies initiative be linked to population health outcomes using a program theory-based evaluation?

Incidence rate of sexually transmitted infections among HIV infected patients on long-term ART in an urban and a rural clinic in Uganda

Porn video shows, local brew, and transactional sex: HIV risk among youth in Kisumu, Kenya

The weight of nations: an estimation of adult human biomass

Health literacy and public health: A systematic review and integration of definitions and models

Malnutrition among children under the age of five in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): does geographic location matter?

Mobile phone use and stress, sleep disturbances, and symptoms of depression among young adults - a prospective cohort study

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