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This section aims to publish studies looking at statistical models and methods and their application to problems of human health and disease.
Research article
Humanitarian agencies working in refugee camp settings require rapid assessment methods to measure the needs of the populations they serve. Due to the high level of dependency of refugees, agencies need to car...
BMC Public Health 2017 17:643
Published on: 8 August 2017
Research article
Despite a body of evidence on racial/ethnic minority enrollment and retention in research, literature specifically focused on recruiting racially/ethnically diverse older adults for social science studies is l...
BMC Public Health 2017 17:563
Published on: 9 June 2017
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As service provision and patient behaviour varies by day, healthcare data used for public health surveillance can exhibit large day of the week effects. These regular effects are further complicated by the imp...
BMC Public Health 2017 17:477
Published on: 19 May 2017
Research article
Studies of retail alcohol outlets are restricted to regions due to lack of U.S. national data. Commercial business lists (BL) offer a possible solution, but no data exists to determine if BLs could serve as an...
BMC Public Health 2017 17:480
Published on: 19 May 2017
Research article
The media serves as an important link between medical research, as reported in scholarly sources, and the public and has the potential to act as a powerful tool to improve public health. However, concerns abou...
BMC Public Health 2017 17:343
Published on: 20 April 2017
Research article
In 2012, international statistics showed El Salvador’s suicide rate as 40th in the world and the highest in Latin America. Over the last 15 years, national statistics show the suicide death rate declining as o...
BMC Public Health 2017 17:339
Published on: 20 April 2017
Research article
Public health surveillance is not ethically neutral and yet, ethics guidance and training for surveillance programmes is sparse. Development of ethics guidance should be based on comprehensive and transparentl...
BMC Public Health 2017 17:295
Published on: 4 April 2017
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In public health monitoring of young people it is critical to understand the effects of selective non-response, in particular when a controversial topic is involved like substance abuse or sexual behaviour. Re...
BMC Public Health 2017 17:276
Published on: 23 March 2017
Research article
Social exclusion (SE) refers to the inability of certain groups or individuals to fully participate in society. SE is associated with socioeconomic inequalities in health, and its measurement in routine public...
BMC Public Health 2017 17:253
Published on: 14 March 2017
Technical advance
Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) quantify the loss of healthy years of life due to dying prematurely and due to living with diseases and injuries. Current methods of attributing DALYs to underlying risk ...
BMC Public Health 2017 17:197
Published on: 14 February 2017
Research article
In aggregate studies, ecological indices are used to study the influence of socioeconomic status on health. Their main limitation is ecological bias. This study assesses the misclassification of individual soc...
BMC Public Health 2017 17:86
Published on: 17 January 2017
Research article
To date, many epidemiologic studies examining associations between obesity and dietary and sedentary/physical activity behaviors have focused on assessing Body Mass Index (BMI) at one point in time. Recent dev...
BMC Public Health 2016 16:1128
Published on: 28 October 2016
Research article
Several low and middle-income countries (LMIC) use Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and/or Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) to monitor the health of their population. The level and trends ...
BMC Public Health 2016 16:1118
Published on: 24 October 2016
Research article
Thyroid cancer has been rapidly rising in incidence in Canada; however, in contrast, lung cancer appears to be decreasing in incidence in Canadian men and stable in women. Moreover, disease-related mortality r...
BMC Public Health 2016 16:950
Published on: 8 September 2016
Research article
Though the socio-economic situation of the Ethiopian household is improving along with the decrease in under-five child mortality. But, under-five mortality is still one of the major problems. Identification o...
BMC Public Health 2016 16:930
Published on: 5 September 2016
Research Article
The distribution of birth intervals can be used to draw attention to important characteristics of dynamics of fertility process. The main objective of this paper is to examine the effects of socioeconomic, dem...
BMC Public Health 2016 16:934
Published on: 5 September 2016
The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2016 16:1088
Research article
Long-term multicentre studies are subject to numerous factors that may affect the integrity of their conclusions. Quality control and standardization of data collection are crucial to minimise the biases induc...
BMC Public Health 2016 16:877
Published on: 25 August 2016
Research article
Extensive geographic variation in adverse health outcomes exists, but global measures ignore differences between adjacent geographic areas, which often have very different mortality rates. We describe a novel ...
BMC Public Health 2016 16:681
Published on: 2 August 2016
Research article
In Spain, several ecological studies have analyzed trends in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality from all causes in urban areas over time. However, the results of these studies are quite heterogeneous find...
BMC Public Health 2016 16:663
Published on: 29 July 2016
Research article
Different analytical techniques have been used to study the determinants of overweight. However, certain commonly used techniques may be limited by the continuous nature and skewed distribution of body mass in...
BMC Public Health 2016 16:642
Published on: 26 July 2016
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