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Disparities in pesticide exposure and harm are being perpetuated by current laws and regulations in the USA.

In NYC, medical cannabis services are least available in areas with Black residents and most available in urban neighborhoods with educated residents.

Climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerability indicators can help tracking the impacts of climate change on human health.

Impacts of COVID-19 on trans and non-binary people in Canada: a qualitative analysis of responses to a national survey

Authors: Hannah Kia, Leo Rutherford, Randy Jackson, Alisa Grigorovich, Carol Lopez Ricote, Ayden I. Scheim and Greta R. Bauer

Content type: Research 2 July 2022
The effectiveness of hand hygiene interventions for preventing community transmission or acquisition of novel coronavirus or influenza infections: a systematic review

Authors: Lucyna Gozdzielewska, Claire Kilpatrick, Jacqui Reilly, Sally Stewart, John Butcher, Andrew Kalule, Oliver Cumming, Julie Watson and Lesley Price

Content type: Research 2 July 2022
Hydrochlorothiazide use, sun exposure, and risk of keratinocyte cancer

Authors: Jeffrey J. VanWormer, Eseoghene B. Abokede and Richard L. Berg

Content type: Research 2 July 2022
Epidemiology of geographic disparities in heart failure among US older adults: a Medicare-based analysis

Authors: Bin Yu, Igor Akushevich, Arseniy P. Yashkin, Anatoliy I. Yashin, H. Kim Lyerly and Julia Kravchenko

Content type: Research 1 July 2022
Clustering and mapping the first COVID-19 outbreak in France

Authors: Regis Darques, Julie Trottier, Raphael Gaudin and Nassim Ait-Mouheb

Content type: Research 1 July 2022

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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
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
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
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 January 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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