Citation Impact
2.567 - 2-year Impact Factor
3.275 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.342 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.382 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
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The World Health Organization (WHO) considers physical inactivity (PIA) as a critical noncommunicable factor for disease and mortality, affecting more women than men. In 2013, the WHO set a 10% reduction of th...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1677
Healthy lifestyles play an important role in the prevention of premature death, chronic diseases, productivity loss and other social and economic concerns. However, workplace interventions to address issues of...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1676
This study is built on a long-standing research partnership between the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health and the White Mountain Apache Tribe to identify effective interventions to prevent suicid...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1675
Implementation of school-based physical activity (PA) programmes has proven to be difficult, particularly due to schools’ focus on academic performance and lack of organisational support for PA interventions. ...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1674
Despite policy intention to reach disadvantaged populations, inequalities in health care resource use and health outcomes persist in Nepal. The current study aimed to investigate the trend of full vaccination ...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1673
Many studies have shown that having a dog has an impact on the increase in physical activity (PA) of people. However, what is often not taken into account in many such studies is owning of other pets. The aim ...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1672
Since 1998, China has gradually moved toward voluntary uncompensated blood donation. In some cities, the shortage of platelets has been noticeably severe. Mutual assistance that collects blood from one’s famil...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1671
Preschoolers’ energy balance-related behaviours (EBRBs) and self-regulation skills are important for their later health. Few preschool-based interventions aiming to promote preschoolers’ EBRBs and self-regulat...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1670
Race and place intersect to produce location-based variation in disease distributions. We analyzed the geographic distribution of tuberculosis (TB) incidence in Michigan, USA to better understand the complex i...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1669
Given today’s high prevalence of common mental disorders and related sick leave among teachers, an urgent need exists for a more systematic approach to the management of social and organizational risk factors ...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1668
Intestinal parasitic infections are common in rural areas with poor infrastructure and low socioeconomic status. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of selected parasitic infections in margina...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1667
In Scandinavia, the distribution of ticks is expanding and tick-borne diseases constitute growing health risks. While the probability of getting a tick-borne disease after a tick bite is low, the health impact...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1666
Building trust and engaging the community are important for biomedical trials. This was core to the set up and delivery of the EBOVAC-Salone and PREVAC Ebola vaccine trials in Sierra Leone during and following...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1665
Tuberculosis is a leading cause of death worldwide and has become a high global health priority. Accurate country level surveillance is critical to ending the pandemic. Effective routine reporting systems whic...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1664
Pregnant women and children are the most vulnerable groups to zinc deficiency. Despite the presence of few primary studies, studies that could provide strong evidence that would help policymakers to develop ap...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1663
Anemia among Women of Reproductive Age (WRA) continues to be among the major public health problems in many developing countries, including Rwanda, where it increased in prevalence between the 2015 and 2010 Rw...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1662
Despite the magnitude of youth unemployment there is a lack of studies, which explore the relations between health experiences and labour market position in various contexts. The aim of this paper was to analy...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1661
Risky alcohol consumption is responsible for a variety of chronic and acute harms. Individuals involved in organised sport have been identified as one population group who consume risky amounts of alcohol both...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1660
Infectious disease forecasting aims to predict characteristics of both seasonal epidemics and future pandemics. Accurate and timely infectious disease forecasts could aid public health responses by informing k...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1659
The bidirectional relationship between the twin epidemics of Tuberculosis (TB) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) causes major global health challenges in the twenty-first century. TB-HIV co-infected peopl...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1658
Racial minority children, particularly from low-income households, are at risk for obesity. Family meals have a protective effect on child nutritional health. However, the current evidence is limited in racial...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1657
Childhood immunization programmes have made substantial contributions to lowering the burden of disease among children in developing countries, however a large proportion of children still remain unimmunized. ...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1656
The prevalence of hookah consumption has been on the increase in Iran over the past two decades. This rate is higher among women than men in the south of Iran than other geographical areas. The purpose of this...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1655
Public toilets are a common transmission vector of infectious diseases due to environmental contamination. Research on Chinese people’s hygiene practices in public lavatories are lacking. This study examined C...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1654
With nearly 30 % of the general population experiencing one mental disorder in 12 months, common mental disorders (CMDs) are highly prevalent in Germany and mainly affect the workforce. Therefore, the processe...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1653
The World Health Organization recommends periodic evaluations of influenza surveillance systems to identify areas for improvement and provide evidence of data reliability for policymaking. However, data about ...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1652
Alcohol-related harm has been found to be higher in disadvantaged groups, despite similar alcohol consumption to advantaged groups. This is known as the alcohol harm paradox. Beverage type is reportedly socioe...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1651
To verify the prevalence and profile of users and non-users of anabolic steroid (AS) among resistance training practitioners.
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1650
The Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) field in Europe has been a focus of research developments and public health policy changes for years. However, these processes are still in their infancy phase ...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1648
Given the widespread problem of physical inactivity, and the continued growth in prevalence of childhood and adolescent obesity, promotion of regular physical activity (PA) among young people has become a publ...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1647
Sub-Saharan and Caribbean immigrants are particularly affected by HIV in Europe, and recent evidence shows that a large portion of them acquired HIV after arrival. There is a need for efficient interventions t...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1646
Although they are declining worldwide, neurotropic parasitic diseases are still common in developing and emerging countries. The aim of this study was to estimate the pooled prevalence and pooled association m...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1645
One of the largest school feeding programs in the world is the National School Feeding Program of Brazil. However, results from the 2012 National School Health Survey indicated that only 22.8% of 9th grade stu...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1644
Diet is an essential determinant of health. Among the health determinants, we find access problems that are summarized as food insecurity. While such food insecurity has been studied in other countries and cor...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1643
The directly observed treatment short-course (DOTS) is one of the most effective tuberculosis (TB) control measures worldwide. However, despite its aim of providing comprehensive and humanistic care, few studi...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1642
Poor health is both a cause and consequence of poverty, and there is a growing body of evidence suggesting that social capital is an important factor for improving health in resource-poor settings. Internation...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1641
Insufficient physical activity (IPA) and mobile phone dependence are common coexisting behaviors among college students. However, the impact of the synergies between the two behaviors on depression has yet to ...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1640
Alcohol consumption estimates in public health predominantly rely on self-reported survey data which is likely to underestimate consumption volume. Surveys tend to ask specifically about standard drinks and pr...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1639
To assess the quality and completeness of treatment and outcome data in the electronic tuberculosis (TB) and antiretroviral treatment (ART) registers in drug-resistant (DR-) TB patients at three treatment faci...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1638
Health inequities are widespread and persistent, and the root causes are social, political and economic as opposed to exclusively behavioural or genetic. A barrier to transformative change is the tendency to f...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1637
Globally, an estimate of 254,928 measles cases in 2015 and 89,780 deaths in 2016 occur annually. In Nigeria, measles is the fifth leading causes of under-five child mortality with 342 confirmed cases found in ...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1636
Social capital is an important determinant of health, but how specific sub-dimensions of social capital affect health and health-related behaviors is still unknown. To better understand its role for health ine...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1635
According to the 2015 report of the Joint United Nations Program on Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the prevalence rates of HIV infection among men who have s...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1634
The border area between French Guiana and Brazil is an active HIV-transmission zone. The aim of the present study was to describe HIV knowledge, risk and the level of stigma among inhabitants of this border area.
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1633
Few population-based studies have assessed dietary behaviors in the rural multiethnic population of Northern Norway. The present study determined dietary patterns and investigated their association with Sami e...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1632
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis, and Tuberculosis (TB) are three primary communicable infections have the likely potential to cause severe morbidity in prison settings. The prison has the most fa...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1631
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the coverage of HIV health education among rural residents in western China by ascertaining their awareness of HIV/AIDS and its transmission routes, and to investigate...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1630
First-degree relatives of patients with diabetes (FDR) tend to have impaired insulin activity, which lead to the alternation of circulating cytokine levels. Liver is a main target tissue of insulin action; the...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1628
Early childhood caries (ECC) has reached epidemic proportions affecting millions of children worldwide. Its prevention becomes imperative owing to the significant morbidity and financial implications involved ...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1626
Obesity and metabolic diseases represent a major health burden in the Caribbean, particularly since a large part of the population is disadvantaged. However, socioeconomic inequalities in chronic diseases are ...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1620
Citation Impact
2.567 - 2-year Impact Factor
3.275 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.342 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.382 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
7,227,832 downloads
Social Media Impact
11669 mentions