BMC Public Health

Call for Papers for Two new Sections!

BMC Public Health will be launching two new Sections:

- Social determinants of health

- Mental health

Both sections are now open for submissions.

Press Releases

NEW: Take a look at published papers that received national and international press coverage.

Section Editor Highlights

NEW: Take a look at the highlighted papers as chosen by the journal's Section Editors.

National Public Health Week

National Public Health Week 2019 is here! Click here to read recently published articles chosen by our Editors related to the themes chosen this year.

Quiz: Public Health Weeks 2019

Think you’re up-to-date with the latest public health facts, figures, and recommendations? Test your acumen below and join us in raising public health awareness for populations everywhere during this year’s Public Health Weeks.

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Featured article: Decline in physical activity often starts as early as age 7

Overall physical activity starts to decline already around the age of school entry. While the proportion of physically inactive individuals rises with age there still are groups of people who manage to increase their physical activity level in adulthood and old age.

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Featured article: First national estimates of virginity in Japan: 1 in 10 adults in their 30s remains a virgin

Japan has an increasing percentage of young adults with no history of heterosexual intercourse. Public health experts at the University of Tokyo completed the most detailed analysis of national fertility survey data to date to understand trends in sexual experience over the past three decades.

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Featured article: Association between intake of red and processed meat and the risk of heart failure: a meta-analysis

Findings of this meta-analysis indicate significant connection between processed meat intake and risk of heart failure in Europeans but not in Americans.

Featured article: How many cigarettes are there in a bottle of wine?

The well-established link between cancer and tobacco may provide a way to help explain possible links between alcohol and cancer, and raise public awareness of alcohol-associated cancer risks, according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Public Health.

To learn more about this study, please read Blog written by the authors.

Featured supplement: Experiences and lessons learned in polio eradication in Nigeria.

A new supplement from the World Health Organization published in BMC Public Health explores the Polio Eradication Programme in Nigeria.

To learn more about the supplement, please read Blog written by Dr Fiona Braka, co-editor of the supplement.

BMC Public Health is recruiting new Associate Editors

We are recruiting new Associate Editors to join our international editorial board, helping to provide expertise on a wide range of different subject disciplines.

Content type: Study protocol
| 18 April 2019

Improving nutrition and physical activity environments of family child care homes: the rationale, design and study protocol of the ‘Healthy Start/Comienzos Sanos’ cluster randomized trial

Authors: Patricia Markham Risica, Alison Tovar, Vanessa Palomo, Laura Dionne, Noereem Mena, Kate Magid, Diane Stanton Ward and Kim M. Gans
Content type: Research article
| 18 April 2019

Do trajectories of economic, work- and health-related disadvantages explain child welfare clients’ increased mortality risk? A prospective cohort study

Authors: Ylva B. Almquist and Lars Brännström
Content type: Study protocol
| 18 April 2019

Rationale and methods of the MOVI-da10! Study –a cluster-randomized controlled trial of the impact of classroom-based physical activity programs on children’s adiposity, cognition and motor competence

Authors: Mairena Sánchez-López, Abel Ruiz-Hermosa, Andrés Redondo-Tébar, María Eugenia Visier-Alfonso, Estela Jimenez-López, Maria Martínez-Andres, Montse Solera-Martínez, Alba Soriano-Cano and Vicente Martínez-Vizcaíno
Content type: Research article
| 18 April 2019

Religiosity and sexual abstinence among Nigerian youths: does parent religion matter?

Authors: Oluwaseyi Dolapo Somefun
Content type: Research article
| 17 April 2019

Kids Out; evaluation of a brief multimodal cluster randomized intervention integrated in health education lessons to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behavior among eighth graders

Authors: M. Aittasalo, A-M Jussila, K. Tokola, H. Sievänen, H. Vähä-Ypyä and T. Vasankari

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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
| 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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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.

Sections

Editors

Natalie Pafitis, BioMed Central
Eva Szunyogova, BioMed Central

Manuscript Editor

Marie-Victoire Cosson, BioMed Central

Section Editors

Marc Adams, Arizona State University, USA
Bianca Brijnath, National Ageing Research Institute, Australia
Noriko Cable, University College London, UK
Jianguang Ji, Lund University, Sweden
Ariadne Kapetanaki , City University London, UK
Frances Kay-Lambkin, University of Newcastle, Australia
Youcheng Liu, Wayne State University, USA
Tim Mackey, University of California San Diego, USA
Carol Maher, University of South Australia, Australia
Isabelle Niedhammer, INSERM, France
Mahfuzar Rahman, ICDDRB, Bangladesh
David Rehkopf, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Giovanni Rezza, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Italy
Richard Rosenkranz, Kansas State University, USA
David Stieb, Population Studies Division, Health Canada, Canada
Janice L Thompson, University of Birmingham, UK
Michelle Turner, University of Ottawa, Canada; CREAL, Spain
Dianne Stanton Ward , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Assistant Editors

Maxine Dillon, BioMed Central
Rosie Brooks, BioMed Central
Megan Barling, BioMed Central

Jianguang Ji, Section Editor

Associate Professor Jianguang Ji, Section Editor of the Chronic disease epidemiology section, is a Senior Research Fellow in Medical Epidemiology at Lund University. His research has a strong focus on the influence of genetic and environmental factors on chronic diseases, with a main focus on cancer incidence and mortality.

Noriko Cable, Section Editor

Dr. Noriko Cable, Section Editor of the Mental health section, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London. She works on social relationships, alcohol use and mental health from childhood to late adulthood as well as cross-national examinations of mental health.