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Featured article: Unhealthy sleep patterns affect risk of metabolic syndrome

Fewer than six and more than ten hours of sleep per day are associated with metabolic syndrome and its individual components.

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Featured article: More social media time raises cyberbullying risk

European teens who spend more than two hours a day online on social networks are the ones most likely to report being cyberbullied.

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| 14 August 2018

Sero-prevalence of yellow fever and related Flavi viruses in Ethiopia: a public health perspective

Authors: Mesfin Mengesha Tsegaye, Berhane Beyene, Workenesh Ayele, Almaz Abebe, Israel Tareke, Amadou Sall, Sergio Yactayo, Messeret E. Shibeshi, Erin Staples, Desalegn Belay, Abrham Lilay, Abebe Alemu, Emana Alemu, Adugna Kume, Alemnesh H/Mariam, Olivier Ronveaux…
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| 14 August 2018

Vaginal washing and lubrication among female sex workers in the Mexico-US border region: implications for the development of vaginal PrEP for HIV prevention

Authors: Heather A. Pines, Shirley J. Semple, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Craig W. Hendrix, Alicia Harvey-Vera, Pamina M. Gorbach, Carlos Magis-Rodríguez, Gustavo Martinez and Thomas L. Patterson
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| 14 August 2018

Time trends and future prediction of coal worker’s pneumoconiosis in opencast coal mine in China based on the APC model

Authors: Yuting Li, Wei Xian, Haodi Xu, Jinbin Sun, Bing Han and Hongbo Liu
Content type: Research article
| 13 August 2018

Epidemiology of birth defects based on surveillance data from 2011–2015 in Guangxi, China: comparison across five major ethnic groups

Authors: Jichang Chen, Xuemei Huang, Bo Wang, Yu Zhang, Chokechai Rongkavilit, Dingyuan Zeng, Yongjiang Jiang, Ba Wei, Chawla Sanjay and Eric McGrath
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| 13 August 2018

Population-level factors associated with maternal mortality in the United States, 1997–2012

Authors: Daniel B. Nelson, Michelle H. Moniz and Matthew M. Davis

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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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.

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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