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Biostatistics and methods

This section aims to publish studies looking at statistical models and methods and their application to problems of human health and disease.

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  1. Traditional linear regression analyses have detected increasing trends in the incidence of overweight/obesity among both genders in China. However, these previous regression analyses were limited in their abil...

    Authors: Yifei Ouyang, Huijun Wang, Chang Su, Zhihong Wang, Yiqi Song, Yingting Xiao, Wenwen Du and Bing Zhang

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:278

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  2. The risk of a child dying before reaching five years of age is highest in Sub-Saharan African countries. But Child mortality rates have shown substantial decline in Ethiopia. It is important to identify factor...

    Authors: Dawit G Ayele, Temesgen T Zewotir and Henry G Mwambi

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:268

    Content type: Research article

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  3. The relationship between social capital and self-rated health has been documented in many developed compared to developing countries. Because social capital and health play important roles in development, it m...

    Authors: Yan Kwan Lau and John E Ataguba

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:266

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  4. In recent years publications have called for increased use of administrative data for research; predicted that use would rise; and discussed possible ethical parameters for that use. This paper describes the n...

    Authors: Lucy F Telfar Barnard, Michael G Baker, Simon Hales and Philippa Howden-Chapman

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:246

    Content type: Research article

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  5. The Tanzanian Government started scaling up its antiretroviral treatment (ART) program from referral, regional and district hospitals to primary health care facilities in October 2004. In 2010, most ART clinic...

    Authors: Francis Levira, Abela Mpobela Agnarson, Honorati Masanja, Basia Zaba, Anna Mia Ekström and Anna Thorson

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:195

    Content type: Research article

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  6. Smoking prevalence varies over time and place due to various social, environmental and policy influences. However, its spatio-temporal patterns at small-area level are poorly understood. This paper attempts to...

    Authors: Gang Meng, K Stephen Brown and Mary E Thompson

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:182

    Content type: Research article

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  7. Psychosocial stress at work has been recognised as one of the most important factors behind the increase in sick leave due to stress-related mental disorders. It is therefore important to be able to measure pe...

    Authors: Emina Hadzibajramovic, Gunnar Ahlborg Jr, Anna Grimby-Ekman and Åsa Lundgren-Nilsson

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:180

    Content type: Research article

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  8. Aggregated measures are often employed when prevalence, risk factors and consequences of alcohol use in the population are monitored. In order to avoid time-dependent bias in aggregated measures, reference per...

    Authors: Ann Kristin Knudsen and Jens Christoffer Skogen

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:172

    Content type: Research article

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  9. Emerging novel influenza outbreaks have increasingly been a threat to the public and a major concern of public health departments. Real-time data in seamless surveillance systems such as health insurance claim...

    Authors: Ta-Chien Chan, Yung-Chu Teng and Jing-Shiang Hwang

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:168

    Content type: Research article

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  11. Existing physical activity surveys have not been validated for use with low-income overweight and obese young mothers. This study aimed to validate the Pregnancy Infection and Nutrition 3 (PIN3) physical activ...

    Authors: Mei-Wei Chang, Derek Hales, Roger Brown, Dianne Ward, Ken Resnicow and Susan Nitzke

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:121

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  12. Most projections of type 2 diabetes (T2D) prevalence are simply based on demographic change (i.e. ageing). We developed a model to predict future trends in T2D prevalence in Tunisia, explicitly taking into acc...

    Authors: Olfa Saidi, Martin O’Flaherty, Nadia Ben Mansour, Wafa Aissi, Olfa Lassoued, Simon Capewell, Julia A Critchley, Dhafer Malouche and Habiba Ben Romdhane

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:104

    Content type: Research article

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  13. A large number of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) outbreaks was reported during 2008 in China. However, little is known about the effects of meteorological conditions on different temporal and spatial scal...

    Authors: Yilan Liao, Renbin Ouyang, Jinfeng Wang and Bing Xu

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:71

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  14. Self-report may not be an accurate method of determining cervical, breast and colorectal cancer screening rates due to recall, acquiescence and social desirability biases, particularly for certain sociodemogra...

    Authors: Aisha Lofters, Mandana Vahabi and Richard H Glazier

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:28

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  15. Obesity is a major independent risk factor for chronic diseases such as hypertension and coronary diseases, it might not be only related to the amount of body fat but its distribution. The single body mass ind...

    Authors: Shukang Wang, Yanxun Liu, Fangyu Li, Hongying Jia, Longjian Liu and Fuzhong Xue

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:7

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  16. Multimorbidity is highly prevalent in the elderly and relates to many adverse outcomes, such as higher mortality, increased disability and functional decline. Many studies tried to reduce the heterogeneity of ...

    Authors: Ingmar Schäfer, Hanna Kaduszkiewicz, Hans-Otto Wagner, Gerhard Schön, Martin Scherer and Hendrik van den Bussche

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1285

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  17. Although stigmatization has long been recognized as a major obstacle to HIV prevention. The lack of a valid and reliable measurement tool for stigmatization is a major gap in the research. This study aimed to:...

    Authors: Marianne Beaulieu, Alix Adrien, Louise Potvin and Clément Dassa

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1246

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  18. Accelerometers objectively assess physical activity (PA) and are currently used in several large-scale epidemiological studies, but there is no consensus for processing the data. This study compared the impact...

    Authors: Sarah Kozey Keadle, Eric J Shiroma, Patty S Freedson and I-Min Lee

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1210

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  19. Health literacy (HL) is seen as an increasingly relevant issue for global public health and requires a reliable and comprehensive operationalization. By now, there is limited evidence on how the development of...

    Authors: Sibel Vildan Altin, Isabelle Finke, Sibylle Kautz-Freimuth and Stephanie Stock

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1207

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  20. Childhood obesity is a major public health issue in many countries, including China. The importance of parenting relative to the healthy development of children requires the development of instruments for asse...

    Authors: Wilson Tam, Vera Keung, Albert Lee, Kenneth Lo and Calvin Cheung

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1194

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  21. Growing evidence suggests that mixed methods approaches to measuring neighborhood effects on health are needed. The Wisconsin Assessment of the Social and Built Environment (WASABE) is an objective audit tool ...

    Authors: Kristen C Malecki, Corinne D Engelman, Paul E Peppard, F Javier Nieto, Maggie L Grabow, Milena Bernardinello, Erin Bailey, Andrew J Bersch, Matthew C Walsh, Justin Y Lo and Ana Martinez-Donate

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1165

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  22. Prevalence estimates of chronic medical conditions and their multiples (multimorbidity) in the general population are scarce and often rather speculative in Switzerland. Using complementary data sources, we as...

    Authors: Ueli Zellweger, Matthias Bopp, Barbara M Holzer, Sima Djalali and Vladimir Kaplan

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1157

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  23. To assess the nonresponse rates in a questionnaire survey with respect to administrative register data, and to correct the bias statistically.

    Authors: Tommi Härkänen, Risto Kaikkonen, Esa Virtala and Seppo Koskinen

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1150

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  26. There is an ongoing debate on the potential association between obesity and atopy. However, no previous studies have investigated whether this relationship depends on sex and smoking status in Chinese adults.

    Authors: Xiao Luo, Yupeng Wang, Zhiqiang Wang, Xiao-hua Zhou, Jing Zhao, Jianing Suo, Xiaohui Dong and Meina Liu

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1105

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  27. The psychometric properties of the Korean Short Form-12 Health Survey, version 2 (SF-12 v2) have not been assessed in the general population. Therefore, the aim of our study was to evaluate the psychometric pr...

    Authors: Seon-Ha Kim, Min-Woo Jo, Jeonghoon Ahn, Minsu Ock, Sangjin Shin and Jooyeon Park

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1086

    Content type: Research article

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  28. Dengue is a public health problem that presents complexity in its dissemination. The physical means of spreading and the dynamics of the spread between municipalities need to be analyzed to guide effective pub...

    Authors: Hugo Saba, Vera C Vale, Marcelo A Moret and José Garcia V Miranda

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1085

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  29. The main aim of this study, using a spatial-temporal model, is to analyse the link between a deprivation index and the incidence of prostate and cervical cancer in the Girona Health Region (GHR).

    Authors: Gemma Renart Vicens, Marc Saez Zafra, Judit Moreno-Crespi, Bernat C Serdà Ferrer and Rafael Marcos-Gragera

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1079

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  31. Despite extensive studies on exposure and disease misclassification, few studies have investigated misclassification of confounders. This study aimed to identify differentially misclassified confounders in a c...

    Authors: Mirko Di Martino, Danilo Fusco, Paola Colais, Luigi Pinnarelli, Marina Davoli and Carlo Alberto Perucci

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1049

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  32. Agent based models (ABM) are useful to explore population-level scenarios of disease spread and containment, but typically characterize infected individuals using simplified models of infection and symptoms dy...

    Authors: Sarah Lukens, Jay DePasse, Roni Rosenfeld, Elodie Ghedin, Ericka Mochan, Shawn T Brown, John Grefenstette, Donald S Burke, David Swigon and Gilles Clermont

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1019

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  34. Projection analyses can provide estimates of the future health burden of increasing BMI and represent a relevant and useful tool for public health planning. Our study presents long-term (2013–2030) projections...

    Authors: Ernest Lo, Denis Hamel, Yun Jen, Patricia Lamontagne, Sylvie Martel, Colin Steensma, Chantal Blouin and Russell Steele

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:996

    Content type: Research article

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  35. An earlier attempt to adapt the REALM (Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine) word recognition test to Dutch was not entirely successful due to ceiling effects. In contrast to REALM, the Short Assessmen...

    Authors: Henk Pander Maat, Marie-Louise Essink-Bot, Karlijn EF Leenaars and Mirjam P Fransen

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:990

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  37. The social and cultural positions of both researchers and research participants influence qualitative methods and study findings. In Papua New Guinea (PNG), as in other contexts, gender is a key organising cha...

    Authors: Michelle L Redman-MacLaren, Unia K Api, Matupit Darius, Rachael Tommbe, Tracie A Mafile’o and David J MacLaren

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:922

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  39. Most sedentary behavior measures focus on occupational or leisure-time sitting. Our aim was to develop a comprehensive measure of adult sedentary behavior and establish its measurement properties.

    Authors: Brigid M Lynch, Christine M Friedenreich, Farah Khandwala, Andrew Liu, Joshua Nicholas and Ilona Csizmadi

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:899

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  40. TV and other screen use are common among elementary school aged children with both potential benefits and harms. It is not clear why some parents restrict their children’s screen use and others do not. Parent’...

    Authors: Teresia M O’Connor, Tzu-An Chen, Betty del Rio Rodriguez and Sheryl O Hughes

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:894

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  41. Infectious disease surveillance is a process the product of which reflects both actual disease trends and public awareness of the disease. Decisions made by patients, health care providers, and public health p...

    Authors: Ying Zhang, Ali Arab, Benjamin J Cowling and Michael A Stoto

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:850

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  42. Almost all studies in health research control or investigate socioeconomic position (SEP) as exposure or confounder. Different measures of SEP capture different aspects of the underlying construct, so efficien...

    Authors: Lesley Fairley, Baltica Cabieses, Neil Small, Emily S Petherick, Debbie A Lawlor, Kate E Pickett and John Wright

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:835

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  43. Presently, there is no consensus on how to define multimorbidity. In this paper we investigate the connection between prevalence estimates for two or more and three or more chronic conditions to improve compar...

    Authors: Barbara M Holzer, Klarissa Siebenhuener, Matthias Bopp and Christoph E Minder

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:780

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  44. Health impact assessment (HIA) studies are increasingly predicting the health effects of mode shifts in traffic. The challenge for such studies is to combine the health effects, caused by injuries, with the di...

    Authors: Marko Tainio, Dorota Olkowicz, Grzegorz Teresiński, Audrey de Nazelle and Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:765

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  45. The workplace is a setting where sedentary behaviour is highly prevalent. Accurately measuring physical activity and sedentary behaviour is crucial to assess the impact of behavioural change interventions. Thi...

    Authors: Jonine Jancey, Marian Tye, Sarah McGann, Krysten Blackford and Andy H Lee

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:762

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  46. Health is associated with amount of daily physical activity. Recently, the identification of sedentary time as an independent factor, has gained interest. A valid and easy to use activity monitor is needed to ...

    Authors: Brenda AJ Berendsen, Marike RC Hendriks, Kenneth Meijer, Guy Plasqui, Nicolaas C Schaper and Hans HCM Savelberg

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:749

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  47. Buruli ulcer (BU) disease is a chronic debilitating skin disease caused by Mycobacteriumulcerans. It is associated with areas where the water is slow-flowing or stagnant. Policy makers take the necessary strategi...

    Authors: Ernest Kenu, Vincent Ganu, Benedict NL Calys-Tagoe, Gerald AB Yiran, Margaret Lartey and Richard Adanu

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:724

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  49. The homeless population of France has increased by 50% over the last 10 years. Studies have shown that homelessness is associated with a high risk of premature death. The aim of this study was to estimate the ...

    Authors: Cécile Vuillermoz, Albertine Aouba, Lise Grout, Stéphanie Vandentorren, Fanny Tassin, Layla Vazifeh, Walid Ghosn, Eric Jougla and Grégoire Rey

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:690

    Content type: Research article

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