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  1. Pre-exposure-prophylaxis (PrEP) has been heralded for its potential to put women in control of preventing HIV infection, but uptake and continuation rates have been disappointing in high-incidence settings in ...

    Authors: Pia Juul Bjertrup, Nqobile Mmema, Velibanti Dlamini, Iza Ciglenecki, Qhubekani Mpala, Sindy Matse, Bernhard Kerschberger and Alison Wringe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:727
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  2. Mental health problems among workers have become an issue in Japan. The working environment for civil servants is becoming excessively stressful, and there is a need to prevent the onset of depression. In addi...

    Authors: Nobue Nakahori, Michikazu Sekine, Takashi Tatsuse and Masaaki Yamada
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:726
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  3. Since 2004, Brazil has had a national policy for occupational health and safety. This policy means companies’ tax burden is altered according to the numbers of work-related accidents and ill-health amongst the...

    Authors: Helena Eri Shimizu, Josierton Cruz Bezerra, Luciano José Arantes, Edgar Merchán-Hamann and Walter Ramalho
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:725
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  4. Rates of overweight and obesity among women of reproductive age have been steadily increasing worldwide and in Thailand. There is mounting evidence that maternal obesity during pregnancy is associated with an ...

    Authors: Sakaewan Ounjaijean, Antika Wongthanee, Kanokwan Kulprachakarn, Amaraporn Rerkasem, Sakda Pruenglampoo, Ampica Mangklabruks, Kittipan Rerkasem and José G. B. Derraik
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:724
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  7. Heavy occupational lifting is prevalent in the general working population and is sparsely reported to associate with hypertension, especially among older and hypertensive workers. We investigated if heavy occu...

    Authors: Mette Korshøj, Harald Hannerz, Ruth Frikke-Schmidt, Jacob L. Marott, Peter Schnohr, Els Clays and Andreas Holtermann
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:721
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. A substantial number of new HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa occur within stable couples. Biomedical prevention (pre-exposure prophylaxis, PrEP) and treatment (antiretroviral therapy, ART) can provide bene...

    Authors: Virginia A. Fonner, Jacob Ntogwisangu, Isihaka Hamidu, Juliet Joseph, Joshua Fields, Evans Evans, Jordan Kilewo, Claire Bailey, Lloyd Goldsamt, Celia B. Fisher, Kevin R. O’Reilly, Theonest Ruta, Jessie Mbwambo and Michael D. Sweat
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:720
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  9. The prevalence of diabetes has been rising increasing rapidly in middle- and low-income countries. In Africa, the World Health Organization projections anticipate diabetes mellitus to be the seventh leading ca...

    Authors: Maki Sifa Salama, Jonh Bosco Isunju, Salama Kaishusha David, Fiston Muneza, Sylvester Ssemanda and Nazarius Mbona Tumwesigye
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:719
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  10. Gambling advertising is well-funded and has become increasingly sophisticated in recent years. As the presence and pervasiveness of gambling advertising increases, there is a corresponding need for empirical u...

    Authors: Jamie Torrance, Bev John, James Greville, Marie O’Hanrahan, Nyle Davies and Gareth Roderique-Davies
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:718
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  11. Syrian refugees and asylum seekers (SRAs) face multiple stressors after flight, which may vary due to different geographic, economic, cultural and socio-political contexts in the host countries. Past research ...

    Authors: Andrea Drescher, Nikolai Kiselev, Aemal Akhtar, Ceren Acarturk, Richard A. Bryant, Zeynep Ilkkursun, Roland von Känel, Kenneth E. Miller, Monique C. Pfaltz, Matthis Schick, Ulrich Schnyder, Marit Sijbrandij, Julia Spaaij and Naser Morina
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:717
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  12. Colorectal cancer screening can reduce the incidence and mortality through early detection. First-degree relatives (FDRs) of patients with colorectal cancer are at high risk for colorectal cancer and therefore...

    Authors: Xueying Zhang, Yiheng Zhang, Jingyu Chen, Meifen Zhang and Ni Gong
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:716
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  13. Wearable technologies are being used to provide personalised feedback across multiple physical activity dimensions in countries such as the UK, but their feasibility has not been tested in South Asia, where ph...

    Authors: Carukshi Arambepola, Madhawa Perera, Fiona Gillison, Oliver Peacock and Dylan Thompson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:715
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  14. Children in resource-limited countries are more likely to die from treatable conditions than those in higher resource settings due to a lack of the right essential medicine at the right time. Globally millions...

    Authors: Tefera Tadesse, Habtamu Abuye and Gizachew Tilahun
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:714
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  15. Sexualised drug use, known as ‘chemsex’ or ‘chemfun,’ is the practice of intentionally using illicit drugs before or during sexual activates to enhance sexual arousal and pleasure. International and local data...

    Authors: Edmond P. H. Choi, Pui Hing Chau, William C. W. Wong, Jojo Y. Y. Kowk, Kitty W. Y. Choi and Eric P. F. Chow
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:713
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  16. Health care access is an important driver of population health, and factors beyond health care also drive health outcomes. Recognizing the importance of the social determinants of health (SDOH), different acto...

    Authors: Aliza Petiwala, Daniel Lanford, Glenn Landers and Karen Minyard
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:712
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  17. Serum potassium levels have been positively associated with cardiovascular mortality, but little is known about the association with cancer mortality and death due to other causes. We examined whether serum le...

    Authors: Ragnhild S. Falk, Trude Eid Robsahm, Jan Erik Paulsen, Tanja Stocks, Isabel Drake and Trond Heir
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:711
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  18. The grass-roots civil servants are the final implementers and executors of a series of government policies and the fundamental force for social stability and harmonious development. However, the mental health ...

    Authors: Huiling Song, Mengjie Zhang, Yanjie Wang, Liying Yang, Yanyu Wang and Yan Li
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:710
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  19. In December 2019, the Chinese city of Wuhan reported a novel pneumonia caused by COVID-19. While the COVID-19 pandemic has been increasingly affecting the world, the occurrence of disasters resulted in complex...

    Authors: Sanaz Sohrabizadeh, Shiva Yousefian, Amirhosein Bahramzadeh and Mohammad Hossein Vaziri
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:709
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  20. To understand operational challenges involved with responding to US measles outbreaks in 2017–19 and identify applicable lessons in order to inform preparedness and response operations for future outbreaks, pa...

    Authors: Elena K. Martin, Matthew P. Shearer, Marc Trotochaud and Jennifer B. Nuzzo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:620
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  21. Distribution of HIV self-test kits by trained lay people in the community has resulted in increased uptake of HIV testing services among the targeted populations. However, little data exists on the experiences...

    Authors: Joseph K. B. Matovu, Aminah Nambuusi, Rhoda K. Wanyenze and David Serwadda
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:708
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  22. Marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages is recognized as a contributing factor to the global increase in overweight and obesity, particularly among children. Such marketing negatively affects children’s die...

    Authors: Oumy Erica Wie Dia, Anne Lene Løvhaug, Peter Milton Rukundo and Liv Elin Torheim
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:707
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  23. Patient age is one of the most salient clinical indicators of risk from COVID-19. Age-specific distributions of known SARS-CoV-2 infections and COVID-19-related deaths are available for many regions. Less atte...

    Authors: Irena Papst, Michael Li, David Champredon, Benjamin M. Bolker, Jonathan Dushoff and David J. D. Earn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:706
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  24. Significant differences in COVID-19 incidence by gender, class and race/ethnicity are recorded in many countries in the world. Lockdown measures, shown to be effective in reducing the number of new cases, may ...

    Authors: Nathalie Bajos, Florence Jusot, Ariane Pailhé, Alexis Spire, Claude Martin, Laurence Meyer, Nathalie Lydié, Jeanna-Eve Franck, Marie Zins and Fabrice Carrat
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:705
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  25. Large scale physical distancing measures and movement restrictions imposed to contain COVID-19, often referred to as ‘lockdowns’, abruptly and ubiquitously restricted access to routine healthcare services. This s...

    Authors: Alphonse Nshimyiryo, Dale A. Barnhart, Vincent K. Cubaka, Jean Marie Vianney Dusengimana, Symaque Dusabeyezu, Deogratias Ndagijimana, Grace Umutesi, Cyprien Shyirambere, Nadine Karema, Joel M. Mubiligi and Fredrick Kateera
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:704
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  26. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) makes certain recommendations including the annual influenza vaccination of pregnant and pre-pregnant women during influenza (flu) season with an ...

    Authors: Qing Chun Lu, Tie Yun Zhang, Pravesh Kumar Bundhun and Cheng Chen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:703
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  27. The current study examined the change in local government staff’s emotional distress over 7 years after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, and the influence of earthquake exposure and professional quality of life (...

    Authors: Yunge Fan, Lili Guan, Hu Xiang, Xianmei Yang, Guoping Huang, Wenhong Cheng, Yongbiao Xie, Xiuzhen Wang, Guangming Liang, Ming He, Ruiru Wang, Jia Hu, Menglin Liu, Xiaojie Mou, Baoming Wu, Hong Ma…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:702
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  28. Increased level of physical activity (PA) is one of the approaches offered by school health services in Norway for the prevention and treatment of children and adolescents with overweight and obesity. Research...

    Authors: Ingeborg B. Skogen and Kjetil L. Høydal
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:701
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  29. We aimed to test which life course model best described the association between leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) and multimorbidity at age 55. We analyzed data from birth to age 55 using the database from...

    Authors: Natan Feter, Jayne S. Leite, Daniel Umpierre, Eduardo L. Caputo and Airton J. Rombaldi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:700
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  31. Both the presence of psychological problems and the absence of an employment contract are related to long-term sickness absence, prolonged work disability and unemployment. Studies researching the effectivenes...

    Authors: Selwin S. Audhoe, Jan L. Hoving, Bonne J. H. Zijlstra, Monique H. W. Frings-Dresen and Karen Nieuwenhuijsen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:698
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  32. Women’s return to work after diagnosis of breast cancer (BC) is becoming more prevalent. However, register-based national investigation on sickness absence (SA) and disability pension (DP) in BC women is lacki...

    Authors: Pia K. Kvillemo, Lingjing Chen, Matteo Bottai, Paolo Frumento, Gino Almondo, Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz, Emilie Friberg and Kristina A. E. Alexanderson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:697
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  33. According to the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017, smoking is one of the leading four risk factors contributing to deaths in China. We aimed to evaluate the associations of smoking with all-cause mortality ...

    Authors: Lijing Ye, Jie Yang, Jingyi Li, Nannan Cheng, Yue Zhang, Xiaofan Lu, Ziyi Zhou, Zhuo Wang, Lishun Liu, Xiao Huang, Yun Song, Shibo Xing, Dongqing Wang, Junnong Li, Binyan Wang, Genfu Tang…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:696
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  34. Variable selection is an important issue in many fields such as public health and psychology. Researchers often gather data on many variables of interest and then are faced with two challenging goals: building...

    Authors: A. Bartonicek, S. R. Wickham, N. Pat and T. S. Conner
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:695
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  35. Segregation of household waste at the source is an effective and sustainable strategy for management of municipal waste. However, household segregation levels remain insufficient as waste management approaches...

    Authors: Madhanraj Kalyanasundaram, Yogesh Sabde, Kristi Sidney Annerstedt, Surya Singh, Krushna Chandra Sahoo, Vivek Parashar, Manju Purohit, Ashish Pathak, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg, Kamran Rousta, Kim Bolton, Salla Atkins and Vishal Diwan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:694
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  36. Cultural differences in affective and cognitive intrinsic motivation could pose challenges for global public health campaigns, which use cognitive or affective goals to evoke desired attitudes and proactive he...

    Authors: Min Zhang, Bei Zhu, Chunlan Yuan, Chao Zhao, Jiaofeng Wang, Qingwei Ruan, Chao Han, Zhijun Bao, Jie Chen, Kevin ( Vin) Arceneaux, Ryan Vander Wielen and Greg J. Siegle
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:693
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  37. Communities with low vaccination rates are at greater risk during outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases. Most Australian parents support vaccines, but some refuse and are often judged harshly by their comm...

    Authors: Penelope Robinson, Kerrie Wiley and Chris Degeling
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:578
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  39. According to the 2015 National Survey of the Nutritional Situation in Colombia the prevalence of stunting in children under 5 years of age was 10.8%. In terms of region, Bogotá, presented the highest prevalenc...

    Authors: Paula Andrea Castro Prieto, Kenny Margarita Trujillo Ramírez, Sergio Moreno, Juan Sebastián Holguín, Diana María Pineda, Simón Tomasi and Andrea Ramirez Varela
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:690
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2021 21:2096

  40. Given the rampant HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Chengdu, southwest China, Treat All policy, defined as immediate antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation after HIV diagnosis, was impleme...

    Authors: Chenyao Wu, Baiyang Zhang, Zhen Dai, Qianwen Zheng, Zhenhua Duan, Qinying He and Cairong Zhu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:689
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. The stay-at-home orders imposed in early April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in various states complicated mosquito control activities across the United States (US), and Florida was no exception. Mosquito ...

    Authors: Imelda K. Moise, Lola R. Ortiz-Whittingham, Vincent Omachonu, Marah Clark and Rui-De Xue
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:687
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  43. The government is the main body in charge of controlling epidemics; hence, expectations from the intention and capacities of the government would affect the flexibility and behaviors of citizens. Given the sev...

    Authors: Leila Zarei, Saeed Shahabi, Ahmad Kalateh Sadati, Reza Tabrizi, Seyed Taghi Heydari and Kamran Bagheri Lankarani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:686
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. People with chronic conditions are disproportionately prone to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic but there are limited data documenting this. We aimed to assess the health, psychosocial and economic impacts...

    Authors: Kavita Singh, Dimple Kondal, Sailesh Mohan, Suganthi Jaganathan, Mohan Deepa, Nikhil Srinivasapura Venkateshmurthy, Prashant Jarhyan, Ranjit Mohan Anjana, K. M. Venkat Narayan, Viswanathan Mohan, Nikhil Tandon, Mohammed K. Ali, Dorairaj Prabhakaran and Karen Eggleston
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:685
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  45. We investigated if people’s response to the official recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with conspiracy beliefs related to COVID-19, a distrust in the sources providing information on C...

    Authors: Anna Soveri, Linda C. Karlsson, Jan Antfolk, Mikael Lindfelt and Stephan Lewandowsky
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:684
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  46. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Gerrit Stassen, Kevin Rudolf, Madeleine Gernert, Ansgar Thiel and Andrea Schaller
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:683
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Public Health 2021 21:95

  47. Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common reasons for seeking health care and is costly to the health care system. Recent evidence has shown that LBP care provided by many providers is divergent from guide...

    Authors: Amanda Hall, Danielle Coombs, Helen Richmond, Krystal Bursey, Brad Furlong, Rebecca Lawrence and Steven J. Kamper
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:682
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Developmental policies in low- and middle-income countries pose immense potential within the agriculture sectors to escalate economic growth and development. Almost one-half of the workforces continue to be en...

    Authors: Smita, Sunil Rajpal, Shiau-Yun Lu and William Joe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:681
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Universal provision of effective antiretroviral medication has been essential to reduce mortality, increase longevity, and reduce onward transmission of HIV. This study aims to illuminate persistent threats to...

    Authors: Kate A. Salters, Stephanie Parent, Valerie Nicholson, Lu Wang, Paul Sereda, Tatiana E. Pakhomova, Mia Kibel, William Chau, Kalysha Closson, Surita Parashar, Rolando Barrios, Julio S. G. Montaner and Robert S. Hogg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:680
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Globally 70.8 million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes and are at disproportionally high risk for trauma. At the time of this study, there was an estimated 1.6 million internally displaced ...

    Authors: Phuong N. Pham, Laila Fozouni, Abdulrazzaq al-Saiedi, Kevin Coughlin and Patrick Vinck
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:679
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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