BMC Public Health

Last week in BMC Public Health: 22 November – 28 November, 2021

New in 'Air pollution and health' collection: Personal exposure to particulate matter and heart rate variability among informal electronic waste workers at Agbogbloshie: a longitudinal study

New in 'Food security and food systems' collection: Prevalence and risk factors of food insecurity among Libyan migrant families in Australia

New in 'Air pollution and health' collection: Particulate matter (PM10) prediction based on multiple linear regression: a case study in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand

New in 'Maternal and child health': Women’s Perceptions and Experiences of Breastfeeding: a scoping review of the literature

New in 'Health policies, systems and management': The impact of disinvestment on alcohol and drug treatment delivery and outcomes: a systematic review

New in 'Occupational health': Determining what constitutes an effective psychosocial ‘return to work’ intervention: a systematic review and narrative synthesis

Journal Editors

Natalie Pafitis, BMC

Ana Donnelly, BMC

Assistant Editors

Megan Barling, BMC

Maxine Dillon, BMC

John Feigelson, BMC

NEW COLLECTION Call for content: LGBTQ+ Health

Launched to mark Pride Month, our new Guest Edited collection welcomes research into how inclusive public health programs can tackle LGBTQ+ health inequalities and address health issues seen in this population. Open to submissions until March 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.

Exploring the factors related to adolescent health literacy, health-promoting lifestyle profile, and health status

Authors: Fen Chu-Ko, Meng-Ling Chong, Chi-Jung Chung, Chun-Chi Chang, Hsin-Yi Liu and Li-Chi Huang

Content type: Research

1 December 2021
Diagnosis experiences from 50 hepatitis B patients in Chongqing, China: a qualitative study

Authors: Xiangxi Zhou, Fan Zhang, Yongping Ao, Chunli Lu, Tingting Li, Xianglong Xu and Huan Zeng

Content type: Research

1 December 2021
Factors associated with an interruption in treatment of people living with HIV in USAID-supported states in Nigeria: a retrospective study from 2000–2020

Authors: Silviu Tomescu, Thomas Crompton, Jonathan Adebayo, Constance Wose Kinge, Francis Akpan, Marcus Rennick, Charles Chasela, Evans Ondura, Dauda Sulaiman Dauda and Pedro T. Pisa

Content type: Research

30 November 2021
Understanding urban inequalities in children’s linear growth outcomes: a trend and decomposition analysis of 39,049 children in Bangladesh (2000-2018)

Authors: Hayman Win, Jordyn Wallenborn, Nicole Probst-Hensch and Günther Fink

Content type: Research

30 November 2021
Mental health outcomes of a pilot 2-arm randomized controlled trial of a HIV-prevention program for South African adolescent girls and young women and their female caregivers

Authors: Geri Donenberg, Katherine G. Merrill, Millicent Atujuna, Erin Emerson, Bethany Bray and Linda Gail Bekker

Content type: Research

30 November 2021

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

Peer Review Taxonomy

This journal is participating in a pilot of NISO/STM's Working Group on Peer Review Taxonomy, to identify and standardize definitions and terminology in peer review practices in order to make the peer review process for articles and journals more transparent. Further information on the pilot is available here.

The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:

Identity transparency: Single anonymized
Reviewer interacts with: Editor
Review information published: Review reports. Reviewer Identities reviewer opt in. Author/reviewer communication

We welcome your feedback on this Peer Review Taxonomy Pilot. Please can you take the time to complete this short survey.

The journal welcomes submissions in over 20 broad areas of public health research

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Research highlights

Press Releases

Take a look at papers published in BMC Public Health that have received national and international press coverage.

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.

Read the blog here

BMC Public Health is recruiting new Editorial Board Members

Click here to learn more about the role and what the requirements are.

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Call for papers

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

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.

November: Infection and health

The BMC Series journals would like to dedicate their November focus issue to the recent research into infections and health highlighting four key topics within research on infection - the biology, recent advances in detection and diagnosis, the risk factors and incidence reports and finally on the advances in treatment and combating of infection. Browse the articles in the focus issue further to learn more.