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  1. Female sex workers in sub-Saharan Africa face high unmet need for family planning and higher risk for unintended pregnancy. Community empowerment HIV prevention approaches have the potential to increase family...

    Authors: S. Wilson Beckham, Melissa Stockton, Noya Galai, Wendy Davis, Jessie Mwambo, Samuel Likindikoki and Deanna Kerrigan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1377
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  2. The Nice terror attack of July 14, 2016 resulted in 84 deaths and 434 injured, with many hospital staff exposed to the attack, either as bystanders on site at the time of the attack (‘bystander exposure’) who ...

    Authors: Laurence Bentz, Stéphanie Vandentorren, Roxane Fabre, Jeremy Bride, Philippe Pirard, Nadège Doulet, Thierry Baubet, Yvon Motreff and Christian Pradier
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1372
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  3. A social mobilization (SM) initiative contributed to India’s success in polio elimination. This was the CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) India, a partner of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) SM Network and which continued...

    Authors: Manojkumar Choudhary, Roma Solomon, Jitendra Awale, Rina Dey, Jagajeet Prasad Singh and William Weiss
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1371
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  4. The COVID-19 related lockdown and home confinement might have an important impact on the quality of life in enterprise workers. We investigated the quality of life during the epidemic in enterprise workers who...

    Authors: Xiaoxiao Chen, Qian Xu, Haijiang Lin, Jianfu Zhu, Yue Chen, Qi Zhao, Chaowei Fu and Na Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1370
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  5. Body mass index (BMI) is an accepted measurement that is widely used to quantify overweight and obesity at the population level. Previous studies have described the distribution variation of BMI through applyi...

    Authors: Weihua Wang, Lin Qiu, Rina Sa, Shaonong Dang, Feng Liu and Xiang Xiao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1369
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  6. Perinatal depression is a pervasive public health concern that disproportionately affects low-income women and can have negative impacts on parenting and child developmental outcomes. Few interventions focus o...

    Authors: Alicia Diebold, Jessica K. Johnson, Marianne Brennan, Jody D. Ciolino, Amelie Petitclerc, Lauren S. Wakschlag, Craig F. Garfield, Chen Yeh, Aiko Lovejoy, Dana Zakieh and S. Darius Tandon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1368
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  7. Access to quality healthcare is a global fundamental human right. However, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, several parameters affect the choices of health service users in fragile, rural contexts (zon...

    Authors: Wyvine Ansima Bapolisi, Hermès Karemere, Freddy Ndogozi, Aimé Cikomola, Ghislain Kasongo, Albert Ntambwe and Ghislain Bisimwa
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1367
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  8. Smoking remains a leading public health challenge globally. As a psychosocial determinant of health, social capital can influence health attitudes and behaviors, and thus it may have the capacity to reduce smo...

    Authors: Hamideh Zahedi, Mohammad Hasan Sahebihagh, Parvin Sarbakhsh and Leila Gholizadeh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1366
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  9. The importance of health literacy in dealing with the COVID-19 epidemic has been emphasized but scarcely addressed empirically. In this study, the association of health literacy with mental health, compliance ...

    Authors: Lize Hermans, Stephan Van den Broucke, Lydia Gisle, Stefaan Demarest and Rana Charafeddine
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1365
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  11. Assessment health literacy in people with cardiovascular health problems would facilitate the development of appropriate health strategies for the care and reduction of complications associated with oral antic...

    Authors: Ana Cristina Cabellos-García, Antonio Martínez-Sabater, Miguel Ángel Díaz-Herrera, Vicente Gea-Caballero and Enrique Castro-Sánchez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1363
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  12. The outbreak of Zika virus in Brazil in 2015 followed the arrival of chikungunya in 2014 and a long history of dengue circulation. Vital to the response to these outbreaks of mosquito-borne pathogens has been ...

    Authors: India L. Clancy, Robert T. Jones, Grace M. Power, James G. Logan, Jorge Alberto Bernstein Iriart, Eduardo Massad and John Kinsman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1362
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  13. Individuals may use unhealthy coping mechanisms such as alcohol, tobacco, and unhealthy snack consumption. The purpose of this study was to assess how neighborhood disadvantage is associated with sales of alco...

    Authors: Lauren A. Wallace, Rajib Paul, Shafie Gholizadeh, Wlodek Zadrozny, Caitlan Webster, Melanie Mayfield and Elizabeth F. Racine
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1361
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  14. The importance of educating female adolescents has been recognized as critical to the development of any country. However, in low income countries like Zambia they often drop out of school due to poverty, earl...

    Authors: J. Milimo, J. M. Zulu, J. Svanemyr, E. Munsaka, O. Mweemba and I. F. Sandøy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1360
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  15. Suicide in old age is a significant contributor to mortality. However, the extent to which life weariness and suicidal thoughts impact on mortality in a long-term perspective is unknown. The aim of this study ...

    Authors: Cecilia Fagerström, Anna-Karin Welmer, Sölve Elmståhl and Hanna Tuvesson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1359
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  16. Literature in the West suggested that bisexual men have a higher smoking rate compared to gay men. Data on patterns of smoking among gay and bisexual men are limited in Eastern Asian countries like China. This...

    Authors: Jingjing Li, Danqin Huang, Michael Windle, Cam Escoffery, Wei Wang, Xiaoyan Li, Kevin Tao, Regine Haardörfer, Shiyue Li, Carla J. Berg and Hong Yan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1358
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  17. The purpose of this study is to assess the status of physical body indices such as body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) among the older adults aged 45 and above in Indi...

    Authors: Mahadev Bramhankar, Mohit Pandey, Gursimran Singh Rana, Balram Rai, Nand Lal Mishra and Anandi Shukla
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1357
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  18. Work, rather than unemployment, is recognised as being good for health, but there may be an age when the benefits are outweighed by adverse impacts. As countries around the world increase their typical retirem...

    Authors: Susan Baxter, Lindsay Blank, Anna Cantrell and Elizabeth Goyder
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1356
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  19. Food insecurity is a growing concern in the UK. Newspaper coverage can reflect and shape public and political views. We examined how frequently food insecurity was reported on in UK newspapers, how the problem...

    Authors: Amy Yau, Hardeep Singh-Lalli, Hannah Forde, Matthew Keeble, Martin White and Jean Adams
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1201
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  20. Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES) programmes are vital for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) management. However, they are limited in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). To address this gap, a DSMES, ...

    Authors: C. Bamuya, J. C. Correia, E. M. Brady, D. Beran, D. Harrington, A. Damasceno, A. M. Crampin, Ana Magaia, Naomi Levitt, M. J. Davies and M. Hadjiconstantinou
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1355
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  21. Although health care providers are beginning to focus on men’s roles as fathers and husbands, there is limited understanding of how men view their ability to promote sexual and reproductive health in families ...

    Authors: Tulani Francis L. Matenga, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Sharon Nkwemu, Perfect Shankalala and Karen Hampanda
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1354
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  22. University students are at a greater risk of gaining weight compared to others. We explored associations between changes in weight and a set of dispositional constructs related to eating behaviour: motivation,...

    Authors: Paula Foscarini-Craggs, Rob Lowe and Michelle Lee
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1353
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  24. Marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages high in saturated fats, trans-fatty acids, free sugars, or salt (“unhealthy foods”) to children is contributing to increasing child obesity. However, many countri...

    Authors: Laura Fisher, Minakshi Dahal, Sarah Hawkes, Mahesh Puri and Kent Buse
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1351
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  25. Child marriage in Malawi is a significant problem with 42.1% of women 20–24 married by age 18. In 2017 the Malawi government formalized legislation to make marriage under age 18 illegal; violators are subject ...

    Authors: Andrea J. Melnikas, Nancy Mulauzi, James Mkandawire and Sajeda Amin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1350
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  26. Engaging in the arts is a health-related behavior that may be influenced by social inequalities. While it is generally accepted that there is a social gradient in traditional arts and cultural activities, such...

    Authors: Jessica K. Bone, Feifei Bu, Meg E. Fluharty, Elise Paul, Jill K. Sonke and Daisy Fancourt
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1349
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  27. Elder abuse is recognized as a serious public health concern and top priority aging issues. World Health Organization reported that around 1 out of 6 old people in the world experienced some form of abuse. Thi...

    Authors: Shiva Raj Acharya, B. K. Suman, Sandip Pahari, Yong Chul Shin and Deog Hwan Moon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1348
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  29. The neighbourhood in which one lives affects health through complex pathways not yet fully understood. A way to move forward in assessing these pathways direction is to explore the spatial structure of health ...

    Authors: Jürgen Breckenkamp, Oliver Razum, Jacob Spallek, Klaus Berger, Basile Chaix and Odile Sauzet
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1346
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  31. Individuals with a parental family history of dementia have an increased risk of developing dementia because they share their genes as well as their psychosocial behaviour. Due to this increased risk and their...

    Authors: J. Vrijsen, E. L. M. Maeckelberghe, R. Broekstra, J. J. de Vries, A. Abu-Hanna, P. P. De Deyn, R. C. Oude Voshaar, F. E. Reesink, E. Buskens, S. E. de Rooij and N. Smidt
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1344
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  32. The prevalence of hypertension is increasing among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, knowledge of the complications and management of hypertension among ...

    Authors: Charles Batte, John Mukisa, Natalie Rykiel, David Mukunya, William Checkley, Felix Knauf, Robert Kalyesubula and Trishul Siddharthan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1343
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  33. Most studies on day-to-day patterns of physical behaviours (i.e. physical activities and sedentary behaviour) are based on adults with high socioeconomic status (SES) and without differentiating between work a...

    Authors: Charlotte Lund Rasmussen, Dorothea Dumuid, Karel Hron, Nidhi Gupta, Marie Birk Jørgensen, Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen and Andreas Holtermann
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1342
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  34. Anaemia is a global health concern and is also a common comorbidity in multiple medical conditions. Very limited research is available examining anaemia among family members in India and across various countri...

    Authors: Pradeep Kumar, Shekhar Chauhan, Ratna Patel and Shobhit Srivastava
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1341
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  35. Hospital waste management (HWM) practices are the core need to run a proper health care facility. This study encompasses the HWM practices in teaching hospitals of Peshawar, Pakistan and examine the enforcemen...

    Authors: Salma Khalid, Najibul Haq, Zia-ul-Ain Sabiha, Abdul Latif, Muhammad Amjad Khan, Javaid Iqbal and Nowsher Yousaf
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1340
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  36. Globally, millions of children are involved in child labour. However, low- and middle-income countries are mostly hit. This study examined the predictors of child labour among public secondary school students ...

    Authors: N. O. Enebe, J. T. Enebe, C. C. Agunwa, E. N. Ossai, U. E. Ezeoke, C. A. Idoko and C. O. Mbachu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1339
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  37. Adverse events following immunization is an important factor influencing public trust in vaccination. Publicizing its incidence timely can increase public trust. The aim of this study is to describe the incide...

    Authors: Ran Hu, Shanshan Peng, Yuanbao Liu, Fengyang Tang, Zhiguo Wang, Lei Zhang, Jun Gao and Hongxiong Guo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1338
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  38. This study describes trends in social inequities in first dose measles-mumps-rubella (MMR1) vaccination coverage in Western Australia (WA) and New South Wales (NSW). Using probabilistically-linked administrati...

    Authors: Arzu Arat, Hannah C. Moore, Sharon Goldfeld, Viveca Östberg, Vicky Sheppeard and Heather F. Gidding
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1337
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  39. Existing evidence on the association between food insecurity and childhood obesity is mixed. In addition, literature from developing countries in general and Ethiopia in particular on the nexus and impact of h...

    Authors: Sibhatu Biadgilign, Mekdes K. Gebremariam and Tennyson Mgutshini
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1336
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  41. An urgent transition to more sustainable diets is necessary for the improvement of human and planetary health. One way to achieve this is for sustainable practices to become mainstream. We estimated the potent...

    Authors: Emma Patterson, Patricia Eustachio Colombo, James Milner, Rosemary Green and Liselotte Schäfer Elinder
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1332
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  42. Disparate racial/ethnic burdens of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may be attributable to higher susceptibility to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) or to factors su...

    Authors: Alan P. Pan, Osman Khan, Jennifer R. Meeks, Marc L. Boom, Faisal N. Masud, Julia D. Andrieni, Robert A. Phillips, Yordanos M. Tiruneh, Bita A. Kash and Farhaan S. Vahidy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1330
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  44. Women’s empowerment has always remained a contested issue in the complex socio-demographic and cultural milieu of Pakistani society. Women are ranked lower than men on all vital human development indicators. T...

    Authors: Safdar Abbas, Noman Isaac, Munir Zia, Rubeena Zakar and Florian Fischer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1328
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  45. Online ride-hailing is a fast-developing new travel mode. However, tobacco control policies on its drivers remain underdeveloped. This study aims to reveal the status and determine the influencing factors of r...

    Authors: Xinlin Chen, Xuefei Gu, Tingting Li, Qiaoyan Liu, Lirong Xu, Bo Peng and Nina Wu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1326
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  46. Breast cancer patients in sub-Saharan Africa experience long time intervals between their first presentation to a health care facility and the start of cancer treatment. The role of the health system in the in...

    Authors: Gloria Gbenonsi, Mouna Boucham, Zakaria Belrhiti, Chakib Nejjari, Inge Huybrechts and Mohamed Khalis
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1325
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  47. Although many indoor public places have implemented smoke-free regulations, private homes have remained sources of tobacco smoke pollutants. This study examined differences in urinary cotinine concentrations i...

    Authors: Jeonghoon Kim, In-Keun Shim, Soo Ran Won, Jungmin Ryu, Jongchun Lee and Hyen-Mi Chung
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1324
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  48. Supporting older adults to engage in physically active lifestyles requires supporting environments. Walkable environments may increase walking activity in older adults, but evidence for this subgroup is scarce...

    Authors: Erik J. Timmermans, Marjolein Visser, Alfred J. Wagtendonk, J. Mark Noordzij and Jeroen Lakerveld
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1323
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  49. Advancement in the field of gerontology has been concerned with the well-being of older adults in a family setup that is associated with caregiving and support. While family life and well-being are defined by ...

    Authors: Shobhit Srivastava, Subhojit Shaw, Himanshu Chaurasia, Naina Purkayastha and T. Muhammad
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1322
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  50. The inverse relationship between moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) duration and childhood adiposity is well established. Less is known about how characteristics of MVPA accumulation may be associat...

    Authors: Aaron Miatke, Carol Maher, François Fraysse, Dot Dumuid and Tim Olds
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1321
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