BMC Public Health

Last month in BMC Public Health: December 2021

New in 'Injury and violence prevention': Women’s experiences of safety apps for sexualized violence: a narrative scoping review

New in 'Health behavior and health promotion': History of drinking problems diminishes the protective effects of within-guideline drinking on 18-year risk of dementia and CIND

New in 'Mental health': Reducing behavioral health symptoms by addressing minority stressors in LGBTQ adolescents: a randomized controlled trial of Proud & Empowered

New in 'Physical activity and health': Association of dog ownership with accelerometer-measured physical activity and daily steps in 70-year-old individuals: a population-based cross-sectional study

New in 'Infectious disease epidemiology': Economic burden of varicella in Europe in the absence of universal varicella vaccination

New in 'Injury and violence prevention': A cross-sectional study of community perceptions of stigmatization amongst women affected by UN-peacekeeper perpetrated sexual exploitation and abuse

Journal Editors

Natalie Pafitis, BMC

Ana Donnelly, BMC

Assistant Editors

Megan Barling, BMC

Maxine Dillon, BMC

John Feigelson, BMC

NEW COLLECTION Call for content: COVID-19 pandemic and intimate partner violence

In recognition of the 66th session on the Commission on the Status of Women, and the upcoming 2 year anniversary of WHO’s declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, our new Guest Edited collection welcomes research looking at intimate partner violence throughout COVID-19. Open to submissions until 31st December 2022.

BMC Public Health is committed to playing a role in advancing progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by supporting researchers in disseminating their related work and showcasing this to assist policy-makers, governments and humanitarian organizations in making research-backed decisions to advance the international well-being agenda.

Supporting equity in academic publishing

New Content Item At BMC, we strive to be inclusive and provide equal opportunities to authors based in low- and middle-income countries who might face challenges in publishing their work. Follow us here for guidance on submitting your research to the BMC Series and get in touch with feedback on what else we can do to help move to a more equitable publishing system.

Schistosomiasis, soil transmitted helminthiasis, and malaria co-infections among women of reproductive age in rural communities of Kwale County, coastal Kenya

Authors: Victor Tunje Jeza, Francis Mutuku, Lydia Kaduka, Charles Mwandawiro, Janet Masaku, Collins Okoyo, Henry Kanyi, Joyce Kamau, Zipporah Ng’ang’a and Jimmy Hussein Kihara

Content type: Research

19 January 2022
The economic impact of the switch from single- to multi-dose PCV13 vial in Benin

Authors: Patrick G. Ilboudo, Téné-Alima Essoh, Roch A. Houngnihin, Daleb Abdoulaye Alfa, Naomi Dick, Landry Kaucley and Alexis Satoulou-Maleyo

Content type: Research article

19 January 2022
Progress toward the UNAIDS 90–90-90 targets among female sex workers and sexually exploited female adolescents in Juba and Nimule, South Sudan

Authors: Avi J. Hakim, Alex Bolo, Kelsey C. Coy, Victoria Achut, Joel Katoro, Golda Caesar, Richard Lako, Acaga Ismail Taban, Katrina Sleeman, Jennifer Wesson and Alfred G. Okiria

Content type: Research

19 January 2022
COVID-19 myth-busting: an experimental study

Authors: Aimée Challenger, Petroc Sumner and Lewis Bott

Content type: Research article

19 January 2022
Global school-based student health survey: country profiles and survey results in the eastern Mediterranean region countries

Authors: Elham Abdalmaleki, Zhaleh Abdi, Sahand Riazi Isfahani, Sara Safarpoor, Bahar Haghdoost, Saharnaz Sazgarnejad and Elham Ahmadnezhad

Content type: Research

19 January 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
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
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
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
COVID-19 mortality risk for older men and women

Authors: N. David Yanez, Noel S. Weiss, Jacques-André Romand and Miriam M. Treggiari

Content type: Research article

19 November 2020

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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. BMC Public Health does not publish clinical research: this should be submitted to the relevant BMC Series medical journal.

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Introducing the BMC Series SDG Editorial Board Members: Melissa Willoughby

Melissa Willoughby is an Editorial Board Member of BMC Public Health. She specializes in the health of marginalized populations with a focus on violence, criminal justice and gender, relating to SDG 5, achieving gender equality and empowerment for all women and girls and SDG 16, promoting peaceful and inclusive societies.

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BMC Public Health is recruiting new Editorial Board Members

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Call for papers

The COVID-19 pandemic and intimate partner violence
Guest Editors: Jhumka Gupta, Lindsay Stark, Tiara Willie, Paul Bukuluki
Submissions deadline: 31st December 2022

LGBTQ+ Health
Guest Editors: Monica Malta, Wangnan Cao
Submissions deadline: 31^st March 2022

Air pollution and health
Guest Editors: Hualiang Lin, Om Kurmi, Bing-Fang Hwang
The collection will remain open until further notice

Food security and food systems
Guest Editors: Sherly Hendriks, Hirotsugu Aiga, Tarra Penney
The collection will remain open until further notice

BMC Series Focus Issues

January: Antimicrobial resistance

Microbial resistance has become a major threat to human health in the 21st century. In order to provide the public with a general understanding of the situation of drug-resistant pathogens, and to alert and prevent this threat, the BMC Series Journals dedicate their first focus issue in 2022 to research on antimicrobial resistance.

December: HIV

For World AIDS day, the BMC Series Journals dedicate this month's focus issue to research on HIV and AIDS highlighting recent advancements in understanding the biology of the disease, the continued breakthroughs in diagnosis and treatment and also shed some light on what life with HIV is like.