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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
| 25 May 2018

Effectiveness of control measures to prevent occupational tuberculosis infection in health care workers: a systematic review

Authors: Bey-Marrié Schmidt, Mark E. Engel, Leila Abdullahi and Rodney Ehrlich
Content type: Study protocol
| 25 May 2018

The protocol of a population-based prospective cohort study in southwest of Iran to analyze common non-communicable diseases: Shahrekord cohort study

Authors: Arsalan Khaledifar, Morteza Hashemzadeh, Kamal Solati, Hosseion Poustchi, Valentina Bollati, Ali Ahmadi, Soleiman Kheiri, Keihan Ghatreh samani, Mehdi Banitalebi, Morteza Sedehi and Reza Malekzadeh
Content type: Research article
| 24 May 2018

The long-term economic impacts of arthritis through lost productive life years: results from an Australian microsimulation model

Authors: Deborah Schofield, Michelle Cunich, Rupendra N. Shrestha, Robert Tanton, Lennert Veerman, Simon Kelly and Megan E. Passey
Content type: Research article
| 24 May 2018

A 12-month follow-up of a mobile-based (mHealth) obesity prevention intervention in pre-school children: the MINISTOP randomized controlled trial

Authors: Christine Delisle Nyström, Sven Sandin, Pontus Henriksson, Hanna Henriksson, Ralph Maddison and Marie Löf
Content type: Research article
| 24 May 2018

Prevalence and associated factors for stunting among 6–12 years old school age children from rural community of Humbo district, Southern Ethiopia

Authors: Tesfahun Yonas Bogale, Elazar Tadesse Bala, Minyahil Tadesse and Benedict Oppong Asamoah

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Content type: Research article
| 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
Amanda Daley, University of Birmingham
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

Dianne Stanton Ward, Section Editor

Dianne S. Ward, EdD, is an experienced researcher in the area of child health; specifically, obesity prevention. She has published more than 189 research articles, 10 book chapters, and a book about physical activity interventions for children and adolescents. She joined the editorial board of BMC Public Health in 2015.

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