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  1. Handwashing is the first line of hygiene measures and one of the oldest methods of preventing the spread of infectious diseases. Despite its efficacy in the health system, handwashing is often inadequately pra...

    Authors: Sylvain Gnamien Traoré, Gilbert Fokou, Affou Séraphin Wognin, Semone Annick Gertrude Dié, Nogbou Andetchi Aubin Amanzou, Kathrin Heitz-Tokpa, Sopi Mathilde Tetchi, Malik Orou Seko, Aimé Roland Sanhoun, Adjaratou Traoré, Etilé Augustin Anoh, Issaka Tiembre, Marina Koussemon-Camara, Chantal Akoua-Koffi and Bassirou Bonfoh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1380
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  2. Physical behaviors such physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep are associated with mortality, but there is a lack of epidemiological data and knowledge using device-measured physical behaviors.

    Authors: Abdulrahman I. Alaqil, Borja del Pozo Cruz, Shaima A. Alothman, Matthew N. Ahmadi, Paolo Caserotti, Hazzaa M. Al-Hazzaa, Andreas Holtermann, Emmanuel Stamatakis and Nidhi Gupta
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1379
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  3. Understanding the intricate influences of risk factors contributing to suicide among young individuals remains a challenge. The current study employed interpretable machine learning and network analysis to unr...

    Authors: Junsong Lu, Yan Jin, Sugai Liang, Qiang Wang, Xiaojing Li and Tao Li
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1378
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  4. Extreme weather events like heatwaves and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) have a synergistic effect on mortality, but research on the synergistic effect of cold waves and PM2.5 on outpatient visits for respirator...

    Authors: Zhenxu Ning, Shuzhen He, Xinghao Liao, Chunguang Ma and Jing Wu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1377
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  5. The small Atlantic island of St Helena is a United Kingdom Overseas Territory (UKOT) with a high prevalence of childhood obesity (over a quarter of 4–5 and 10–11 year olds) and, anecdotally, adulthood obesity ...

    Authors: Brittney MacKinlay, Kate Heneghan, Alexandra J. Potts, Duncan Radley, George Sanders and Ian F. Walker
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1376
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  6. Not being in employment, education, or training (NEET) is associated with poor health (physical and mental) and social exclusion. We investigated whether England’s statutory school readiness measure conducted ...

    Authors: Matthew Warburton, Megan L. Wood, Kuldeep Sohal, John Wright, Mark Mon-Williams and Amy L. Atkinson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1375
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  7. The European Union (EU) faces many health-related challenges. Burden of diseases information and the resulting trends over time are essential for health planning. This paper reports estimates of disease burden...

    Authors: João Vasco Santos, Alicia Padron-Monedero, Boris Bikbov, Diana Alecsandra Grad, Dietrich Plass, Enkeleint A. Mechili, Federica Gazzelloni, Florian Fischer, Gerhard Sulo, Che Henry Ngwa, Isabel Noguer-Zambrano, José L. Peñalvo, Juanita A. Haagsma, Katarzyna Kissimova-Skarbek, Lorenzo Monasta, Nermin Ghith…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1374
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  8. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and urinary incontinence (UI) are both highly prevalent and age-related diseases. Nevertheless, the link between NAFLD and UI is unclear. Hence, the study was designed...

    Authors: Xinyuan Li, Weiwei Zhou and Guangsheng Hu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1373
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  9. The unknownness and dread potential of a risk event shapes its perceived risk. A public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) declaration by the World Health Organisation (WHO) is a signal for such...

    Authors: Jason Dean-Chen Yin and Juliana Nga-Man Lui
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1372
    Content type: Systematic Review Published on:

  10. In Indonesia, chronic malnutrition leading to stunted growth in children represents a significant issue within the public health domain. The prevalence of stunting varies between urban and rural areas, reflect...

    Authors: Issara Siramaneerat, Erni Astutik, Farid Agushybana, Pimnapat Bhumkittipich and Wanjai Lamprom
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1371
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  11. Aldosterone plays important parts in development of cardio-metabolic diseases as end product of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system. However, factors elevating circulating aldosterone are not clear, and lifes...

    Authors: Adalaiti Maitituersun, Mulalibieke Heizhati, Nanfang Li, Lin Gan, Mei Li, Ling Yao, Wenbo Yang, Shasha Liu, Xiayire Aierken, Hui Wang, Miaomiao Liu, Jing Hong, Ting Wu, Delian Zhang and Qing Zhu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1370
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  12. For healthcare delivery to be optimally effective, health systems must possess adequate levels and we must ensure a fair distribution of human resources aimed at healthcare facilities. We conducted a scoping r...

    Authors: Vini Mehta, Puneeta Ajmera, Sheetal Kalra, Mohammad Miraj, Ruchika Gallani, Riyaz Ahamed Shaik, Hashem Abu Serhan and Ranjit Sah
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1368
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  13. We previously conducted a case-control study and found that exposure to electronic screen before nocturnal sleep was associated with hypertensive disorders in pregnancy (HDP). Hence, we carried out this cohort...

    Authors: Shaidi Tang, Yun Liu, Ying Gu, Qianqian Yang and Qian Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1367
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  14. Oxidative stress is closely related to gut health. Exposures to oxidative stress in one’s diet and lifestyle can be evaluated by the oxidative balance score (OBS). However, the relationship between OBS and int...

    Authors: Jiayan Hu, Hede Zou, Xiyun Qiao, Yuxi Wang, Mi Lv, Kunli Zhang and Fengyun Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1366
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  16. Computed Tomography (CT) or Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are considered gold standards for measuring visceral fat area (VFA). However, their relatively high prices and potential radiation exposure limit th...

    Authors: Chao Li, Liankun Zeng, Miaosheng Li, Kang Deng, Die Zhou, Rutao Liang, Xiaoshu Zhang, Zhihui Hu, Ai Luo, Chunling Chen, Qi Chen, Wenlong Wei, Wangen Li and Zhuoqing Hu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1364
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  17. Although the association between ambient temperature and mortality of respiratory diseases was numerously documented, the association between various ambient temperature levels and respiratory emergency depart...

    Authors: Xuan Li, Yongming Zhang, Zhenbiao Tian, Jianping Wang, Jinhua Zhao, Yuanjun Lyu, Ying Ni, Yuming Guo, Zhuang Cui, Wenyi Zhang and Changping Li
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1363
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  18. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) accounts as a crucial health concern with a huge burden on health and economic systems. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of soy isoflavones supplementat...

    Authors: Asal Neshatbini Tehrani, Behzad Hatami, Ghazal Daftari, Azita Hekmatdoost, Zahra Yari, Amin Salehpour, Seyed Ahmad Hosseini and Bizhan Helli
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1362
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  19. Smokeless tobacco (SLT) poses many negative health impacts. Despite its longstanding presence in societies across the world, the health implications of SLT have only been rigorously studied in recent decades. ...

    Authors: Ramaiah Itumalla, Mahalaqua Nazli Khatib, Shilpa Gaidhane, Quazi Syed Zahiruddin, Abhay M Gaidhane, Ahmad Neyazi, Ahmad Farshid Hassam, Prakasini Satapathy, Sarvesh Rustagi, Neelima Kukreti and Bijaya Kumar Padhi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1361
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  20. With access to  antiretroviral therapy (ART) HIV infection is a chronic manageable condition and non-sexually transmissible. Yet, many people living with HIV still testify about experiencing HIV-related stigma...

    Authors: Lena Nilsson Schönnesson, Marie Dahlberg, Maria Reinius, Galit Zeluf-Andersson, Anna-Mia Ekström and Lars E. Eriksson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1360
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  21. Few studies have assessed the burden of mental disorders among children and adolescents considering the impact of co-morbidities and suicide on disability adjusted life years (DALYs).

    Authors: Yanxia Li, Qian Chen, Li Liu, Xing Yang, Huijuan Mu, Qihao Wang, Jian Lian, Huijie Chen, Yuan Gao, Lingjun Yan, Wei Sun and Guowei Pan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1359
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  22. Understanding factors associated with antiretroviral treatment (ART) adherence is crucial for ART success among people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the “test and treat” era. Multiple psychosocial factors tend to...

    Authors: Jun Liu, Yao Yan, Yan Li, Kaihao Lin, Yingqian Xie, Zhimin Tan, Qicai Liu, Junbin Li, Lihua Wang, Yi Zhou, Gang Yao, Shanzi Huang, Chenglong Ye, Meixi Cen, Xiaowen Liao, Lu Xu…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1358
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  24. Emerging adults (aged 18–29) are less likely to receive the COVID-19 vaccine than any other adult age group. Black Americans are less likely than non-Hispanic white Americans to be fully vaccinated against COV...

    Authors: Amy Lee Hall, Pranati Movva, Rhonda Dailey, Wanda Gibson-Scipio, Alan P. Baptist and Karen Kolmodin MacDonell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1356
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  26. Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience extensive problems due to fatigue and illness perception. Reducing these problems may improve these patients’ quality of life (QoL). Accordingly, the current st...

    Authors: Amir Akbari Esfahani, Abbas Pourshahbaz and Behrooz Dolatshahi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1354
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  27. Community medical institutions play a vital role in China’s healthcare system. While the number of these institutions has increased in recent years, their construction contents remain insufficient. The potenti...

    Authors: Xue Zhang, Jing Dai, Wei Li, Yu Chen, Yunyu He, Yunjuan Yang and Liuyang Yang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1353
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  28. Women living with HIV (WLWH) experience higher rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) compared to women without HIV, but there has been minimal research to date on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ...

    Authors: Xinyi Zhang, Carolina R. Price, Alexandrya S. Pope, Tami P. Sullivan and Jaimie P. Meyer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1352
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  29. Adolescent weight problems have become a growing public health concern, making early prediction of non-normal weight status crucial for effective prevention. However, few temporal prediction tools for adolesce...

    Authors: Hengyan Liu, Yik-Chung Wu, Pui Hing Chau, Thomas Wai Hung Chung and Daniel Yee Tak Fong
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1351
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  30. The impacts of long-term exposure to air pollution on the risk of subsequent non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) among participants with type 2 diabetes (T2D) is ambiguous. The modifying role of Life’s E...

    Authors: Ruxianguli Aimuzi, Zhilan Xie, Yimin Qu and Yu Jiang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1350
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  31. This study aims to assess the long-term trends in the burden of three major gynecologic cancers(GCs) stratified by social-demographic status across the world from 1990 to 2019. To assess the trends of risk fac...

    Authors: Yiran Liu, Wenqi Shi, Sumaira Mubarik and Fang Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1349
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  32. Understanding vaccine hesitancy, as a critical concern for public health, cannot occur without the use of validated measures applicable and relevant to the samples they are assessing. The current study aimed t...

    Authors: Hamid Sharif-Nia, Long She, Kelly-Ann Allen, João Marôco, Harpaljit Kaur, Gökmen Arslan, Ozkan Gorgulu, Jason W. Osborne, Pardis Rahmatpour and Fatemeh Khoshnavay Fomani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1348
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  34. According to the Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee Scientific Report, limited evidence is available on sedentary behaviors (screen time) and their joint associations with physical activity (steps...

    Authors: Jason M. Nagata, Shayna Weinstein, Sana Alsamman, Christopher M. Lee, Erin E. Dooley, Kyle T. Ganson, Alexander Testa, Holly C. Gooding, Orsolya Kiss, Fiona C. Baker and Kelley Pettee Gabriel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1346
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  36. Climate change increases the risk of illness through rising temperature, severe precipitation and worst air pollution. This paper investigates how monthly excess mortality rate is associated with the increasin...

    Authors: Yuqing Zhang, Kai Wang, Junjie Ren, Yixuan Liu, Fei Ma, Tenglong Li, Ying Chen and Chengxiu Ling
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1344
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  37. Varying trends in children’s and adolescents’ physical activity (PA) have been reported during the last 10–20 years. Trends in sedentary behavior (SB) have been studied only rarely. The purpose of the present ...

    Authors: Pauliina Husu, Kari Tokola, Henri Vähä-Ypyä, Harri Sievänen, Sami Kokko, Jari Villberg and Tommi Vasankari
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1343
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  38. Exercise and physical activity are key components of management in patients with rheumatic musculoskeletal diseases (RMD), but people of the South Asian communities have a lower level of engagement with these ...

    Authors: Nasimah Maricar, Behram Khan, Trixy David, Kimme L Hyrich and Anne Barton
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1342
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  39. Unhealthy behaviors impose costs on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) reducing productivity and readiness among military members (Hoge et al., JAMA 295:1023–32, 2006; Mansfield et al. 362:101–9, 2010). Am...

    Authors: Nida H. Corry, Sharmini Radakrishnan, Christianna S. Williams, Kelly A. Woodall and Valerie A. Stander
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1341
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  40. Sleep disorders have a significant negative impact on mental and physical health, especially among the elderly. Various factors can affect the sleep quality of elderly people. The aim of this research to inves...

    Authors: Ahmad Delbari, Fatemeh Ahmadi, Abdossaleh Zar, Atousa Zandvakili, Hamid Reza Sadeghipour and Jamie Sims
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1340
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  41. Stroke is a life-threatening condition that causes a major medical burden globally. The currently used methods for the prevention or prediction of stroke have certain limitations. Exposure to tobacco in early ...

    Authors: Fabin Lin, Xuanjie Chen, Yisen Shi, Kaitai Yang, Guoping Hu, Weijiang Zhuang, Yifei Lin, Tingting Huang, Qinyong Ye, Guoen Cai and Xilin Wu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1339
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  42. Health-oriented leadership (HoL) has a positive impact on health- and work-related outcomes of employees in face-to-face settings. Increased digitization during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to many changes an...

    Authors: Ilona Efimov, Volker Harth and Stefanie Mache
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1338
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  43. Comprehensive school-based programs applying the WHO Health Promoting School Model have the potential to initiate and sustain behavior change and impact health. However, since they often include intervention e...

    Authors: Froukje E. Takens, Indira Indyk, Mai J. M. Chinapaw, Joanne K. Ujčič-Voortman, Femke van Nassau and Vincent Busch
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1337
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  44. Public libraries in the United States have experienced increases in opioid-related substance use in their communities and on their premises. This includes fatal and non-fatal overdose events. Some libraries ha...

    Authors: Patrick M. Schnell, Ruochen Zhao, Sydney Schoenbeck, Kaleigh Niles, Sarah R. MacEwan, Martin Fried and Janet E. Childerhose
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1336
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  45. The association between fasting plasma glucose (FPG), an important indicator of overall glycemic status, and the risk of cardiovascular mortality has been well investigated. The longitudinal study can repeated...

    Authors: Xuejiao Chen, Jiacheng Ding, Zhan Shi, Kaizhi Bai, Songhe Shi and Qingfeng Tian
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1335
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  47. Previous studies have shown the association between tuberculosis (TB) and meteorological factors/air pollutants. However, little information is available for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), who are highly...

    Authors: Fengyi Wang, Zongxiang Yuan, Shanfang Qin, Fengxiang Qin, Junhan Zhang, Chuye Mo, Yiwen Kang, Shihui Huang, Fang Qin, Junjun Jiang, Aimei Liu, Hao Liang and Li Ye
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1333
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  48. Acute Coronary Syndrome is the most common heart disease and the most significant cause of death and disability-adjusted life years worldwide. Teaching a healthy eating style is one preventive measure to preve...

    Authors: Fereshteh Sadeghi, Shahzad Pashaeypoor, Akbar Nikpajouh and Reza Negarandeh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1332
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  49. A tool to measure perception of aphrodisiac use by undergraduates students of University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria was developed and validated. The study was hinged on several theories that could explain p...

    Authors: Olawumi Cecilia Fatade, Gabriel Ifeoluwa Makinde and Ayodeji Matthew Adebayo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1331
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  50. Mental health problems, and major depression in particular, are important public health issues. Following trends in the prevalence of major depression is difficult because of the costs and complications of dia...

    Authors: Jørgen G. Bramness, Vidar Hjellvik, Anne Høye, Martin Tesli, Marit Haram, Wenche Nystad and Steinar Krokstad
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1330
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