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  1. Few studies have characterized the epidemiology and management of hypertension across several communities with comparable methodologies in sub-Saharan Africa. We assessed prevalence, awareness, treatment, and ...

    Authors: Samson Okello, Alfa Muhihi, Shukri F. Mohamed, Soter Ameh, Caleb Ochimana, Abayomi Olabayo Oluwasanu, Oladimeji Akeem Bolarinwa, Nelson Sewankambo and Goodarz Danaei
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1706
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  2. In Ontario, Canada, Indigenous communities experience some of the province’s worst drinking water, with issues ranging from deteriorating water quality to regulatory problems and lack of support. When water is...

    Authors: Kayla J. Lucier, Corinne J. Schuster-Wallace, Derek Skead, Kathleen Skead and Sarah E. Dickson-Anderson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1704
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  3. Rwandan adolescents have limited access to high-quality family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) information and care to prevent unplanned pregnancy and HIV/STIs. In addition to the immediate implicatio...

    Authors: Cara Nolan, Laura Packel, Rebecca Hope, Jordan Levine, Laura Baringer, Emmyson Gatare, Aline Umubyeyi, Felix Sayinzoga, Michael Mugisha, Janepher Turatsinze, Aimee Naganza, Laiah Idelson, Stefano Bertozzi and Sandra McCoy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1701
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  4. There has been a recent focus on resettlement of migrants and refugee in rural settings in Australia and elsewhere. Rural resettlement is seen as an opportunity to revitalise rural communities, to fill the nee...

    Authors: Anna Ziersch, Emily Miller, Melanie Baak and Lillian Mwanri
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1700
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  5. Investigating variables associated with mental health literacy in the college-age population takes us one step closer to providing intervention for this vulnerable group, where growing rates of psychological d...

    Authors: Rona Miles, Laura Rabin, Anjali Krishnan, Evan Grandoit and Kamil Kloskowski
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1699
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  6. The internet is now the first line source of health information for many people worldwide. In the current Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic, health information is being produced, revised, upd...

    Authors: Amy P. Worrall, Mary J. Connolly, Aine O’Neill, Murray O’Doherty, Kenneth P. Thornton, Cora McNally, Samuel J. McConkey and Eoghan de Barra
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1635
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  7. Unintentional injuries among adolescents is a major public health problem the world over. A great majority of the annual deaths among adolescents is due to unintentional injuries; it is also the leading cause ...

    Authors: Sashimali Wickramasinghe, Nalika Sepali Gunawardena, Dhanusha Punyadasa, Shanthi Gunawardena, Champika Wickramasinghe, Ayesha Lokubalasooriya, Renuka Peiris and Sameera Senanayake
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1697
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  8. Brain cancer is a rare and deadly malignancy with a low survival rate. The present study aims to evaluate the epidemiology of brain cancer and its relationship with the human development index (HDI) worldwide.

    Authors: Zaher Khazaei, Elham Goodarzi, Vahidreza Borhaninejad, Farhad Iranmanesh, Hosein Mirshekarpour, Batool Mirzaei, Hasan Naemi, Sayeed Maryam Bechashk, Isan Darvishi, Roghayeh Ershad Sarabi and Ahmad Naghibzadeh-Tahami
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1696
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  9. Mental disorders among adolescents have become a worldwide public health problem. This study aimed to estimate the best combination of exercise time and screen time to promote the mental health of Chinese adol...

    Authors: Feng Zhang, Xiaojian Yin, Cunjian Bi, Liu Ji, Huipan Wu, Yuqiang Li, Yi Sun, Sien Ren, Guodong Wang, Xiaofang Yang, Ming Li, Yuan Liu and Ge Song
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1695
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  10. Myths and misconceptions around modern contraceptives have been associated with low contraceptive uptake in sub-Saharan Africa and Kenya in particular. Addressing persistent contraceptive knowledge gaps can ma...

    Authors: Jefferson Mwaisaka, Lianne Gonsalves, Mary Thiongo, Michael Waithaka, Hellen Sidha, Alfred Agwanda, Carol Mukiira and Peter Gichangi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1694
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  11. The aim of this study is to describe the prevalence and mortality of bladder cancer (BCa) using data obtained in the Global Burden of Disease study performed in 2017 (GBD 2017).

    Authors: Hairong He, Hongjun Xie, Yule Chen, Chengzhuo Li, Didi Han, Fengshuo Xu and Jun Lyu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1693
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  12. There are limited studies on the prevalence of adherence to the combined guidelines for physical activity (PA), sedentary behavior, and sleep in children and adolescents. Moreover, little is known about correl...

    Authors: Lukáš Rubín, Aleš Gába, Jan Dygrýn, Lukáš Jakubec, Eliška Materová and Ondřej Vencálek
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1692
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  13. Legal substances use is prevalent in Ethiopia. Substance use can have several health problems that are potentially harmful to educational performance, social issues, psychological and physical wellbeing. This ...

    Authors: Abate Dargie Wubetu, Sintayehu Getachew and Wassie Negash
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1691
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  14. This paper explores strategies to engage community stakeholders in efforts to address the effects of traffic-related air pollution (TRAP). Communities of color and low-income communities are disproportionately...

    Authors: Linda Sprague Martinez, Noelle Dimitri, Sharon Ron, Neelakshi Hudda, Wig Zamore, Lydia Lowe, Ben Echevarria, John L. Durant, Doug Brugge and Ellin Reisner
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1690
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  15. Long-term sickness absences burden the economy in many industrialized countries. Both educational attainment and health behaviors are well-known predictors of sickness absence. It remains, however, unclear whe...

    Authors: K. B. Seglem, R. Ørstavik, F. A. Torvik, E. Røysamb and M. Vollrath
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1689
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  16. Iran has a low incidence but higher rate of death from cervical cancer (CC). The country is in the process of implementing an organized screening program including HPV testing and cytology. Studies show high d...

    Authors: Rahim Taghizadeh Asl, Liesbeth Van Osch, Nanne De Vries, Kazem Zendehdel, Mohsen Shams, Fatemeh Zarei and Hein De Vries
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1688
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  17. On the basis of the integration constructs from self-determination theory (SDT) and achievement goal theory (AGT), this study aims to investigate the relationship among classroom motivational climate from four...

    Authors: Ruzhuan Chen, Lijuan Wang, Bingnan Wang and Yulan Zhou
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1687
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  18. Abdominal obesity is becoming an increasingly serious public health challenge in children and adolescents, there remains controversial opinions on birth weight and risk of childhood abdominal obesity. This stu...

    Authors: Zhaogen Yang, Bin Dong, Yi Song, Xijie Wang, Yanhui Dong, Di Gao, Yanhui Li, Zhiyong Zou, Jun Ma and Luke Arnold
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1686
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  19. Arab-Americans constitute ~ 5% of Michigan’s population. Estimates of obesity in Arab-Americans are not up-to-date. We aim to describe the distribution of and factors associated with obesity in an Arab-America...

    Authors: Saivaishnavi Kamatham, Joseph Trak, Suma Alzouhayli, Ziad Fehmi, Nabil Rahoui, Noor Sulieman, Zaina Khoury, Omar Fehmi, Hanan Rakine, Dana El-Masri, Deema Ujayli, Hanin Elhagehassan, James Naaman, Firas Almsaddi, Michael Salloum, Iqra Farooquee…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1685
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  20. Respiratory tract infections are one of the common infection associated with Hajj pilgrimage that is of great public health and global concern. This study is aimed at determining the factor structure of the kn...

    Authors: Mohammed Dauda Goni, Nyi Nyi Naing, Habsah Hasan, Nadiah Wan-Arfah, Zakuan Zainy Deris, Wan Nor Arifin, Aisha Abubakar Baaba and Stanley Njaka
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1684
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  21. Hidden hunger (micronutrient deficiencies) among adolescents are linked to impaired physical growth, poor cognitive function, low resistance to infection as well as degenerative and chronic diseases at later a...

    Authors: Vivienne N. Ibeanu, Chinonye G. Edeh and Peace N. Ani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1683
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  22. With data from different regions accumulated, physical inactivity (PI) was found to be pandemic worldwide. Using China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), a nationwide longitudinal survey data, ...

    Authors: Xiaowei Li, Wanda Zhang, Weiya Zhang, Ke Tao, Wenli Ni, Kai Wang, Zhanglai Li, Qiang Liu and Jianhao Lin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1682
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  23. In Denmark, vaccination coverage is measured using the Danish Vaccination Register (DDV). In general, the vaccination coverage is high, but for some vaccinations, the coverage is suboptimal with geographical v...

    Authors: Sidsel Skou Voss, Ida Glode Helmuth, Camilla Hiul Suppli and Palle Valentiner-Branth
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1681
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  24. Until 2019, the English schools-based human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme was offered to young women (but not young men) aged 12 to 13 years to reduce HPV-related morbidity and mortality. The aim ...

    Authors: Harriet Fisher, Karen Evans, Jo Ferrie, Julie Yates, Marion Roderick and Suzanne Audrey
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1680
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  25. Respiratory syncytial virus infection is the leading cause of bronchiolitis in Colombia. There is growing evidence about the impact of Respiratory syncytial virus on society in terms of years of life lost due ...

    Authors: Juana Patricia Sánchez Villamil, Fernando P. Polack and Jefferson Antonio Buendía
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1679
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  26. Most studies among Hispanics have focused on individual risk factors of obesity, with less attention on interpersonal, community and environmental determinants. Conducting community based surveys to study thes...

    Authors: Carrie R. Howell, Wei Su, Ariann F. Nassel, April A. Agne and Andrea L. Cherrington
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1678
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  27. Most studies on social influencer marketing techniques have focused on the promotion of unhealthy foods whereas little is known about the promotion of healthier foods. The present experimental study investigat...

    Authors: Frans Folkvord, Elze Roes and Kirsten Bevelander
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1677
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  28. Neighborhood poverty may increase childhood obesity risk. However, evidence for the neighborhood poverty-obesity relationship is limited. The purpose of this study was to examine how moving to a higher or lowe...

    Authors: Krista Schroeder, Sophia Day, Kevin Konty, Levent Dumenci and Terri Lipman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1676
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  29. Hypertension has been declared as a global public health crisis by the World Health Organization, because of its high prevalence. It affects the health of one billion people worldwide and is directly responsib...

    Authors: Yaoqin Lu, Huan Yan, Jiandong Yang and Jiwen Liu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1675
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  30. Mortality rates are known to depend on the seasons and, in temperate climates, rates are highest during winter. The magnitude of these seasonal fluctuations in mortality has decreased substantially in many cou...

    Authors: Anders Ledberg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1674
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  31. Both childhood maltreatment (CM) and intimate partner violence (IPV) are public health problems that have been related to a wide range of adverse health consequences. However, studies examining associations be...

    Authors: Margot Shields, Lil Tonmyr, Wendy E. Hovdestad, Andrea Gonzalez and Harriet MacMillan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1673
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  33. Evidence-based practice (EBP) ensures that clinicians use effective interventions to achieve desired outcomes, thereby contributing to the best quality of care. The perspective of the participants is fundament...

    Authors: Hilde Worum, Daniela Lillekroken, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Birgitte Ahlsen and Astrid Bergland
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1671
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  34. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission in the European Union, European Economic Area and United Kingdom is driven by injecting drug use (IDU), which contributes to the high burden of chronic infection among peop...

    Authors: Aya Olivia Nakitanda, Linda Montanari, Lara Tavoschi, Antons Mozalevskis and Erika Duffell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1670
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  35. Despite multiple available HIV prevention methods, the HIV epidemic continues to affect South Africa the most. We sought to understand willingness to use actual and hypothetical HIV prevention methods among pa...

    Authors: Fatima Laher, Taibat Salami, Stefanie Hornschuh, Lerato M. Makhale, Mamakiri Khunwane, Michele P. Andrasik, Glenda E. Gray, Hong Van Tieu and Janan J. Dietrich
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1669
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  36. Shenzhen is characterized with the largest scale of migrant children among all the cities in China. Unequal access to health services among migrant and local children greatly affects health equity and has a pr...

    Authors: Xiatong Ke, Liang Zhang, Zhong Li and Wenxi Tang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1668
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  37. Molecular diagnostics have revolutionized the diagnosis of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Yet in Tanzania we found delay in diagnosis with more than 70% of MDR-TB patients having a history of sever...

    Authors: Stellah G. Mpagama, Mangi J. Ezekiel, Peter M. Mbelele, Anna M. Chongolo, Gibson S. Kibiki, Kristen Petros de Guex and Scott K. Heysell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1667
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  39. Nationwide data on cardiovascular risk factors prevalence is lacking in Greece. This work presents the findings of the national health examination survey EMENO (2013–2016) regarding the prevalence of hypertens...

    Authors: Giota Touloumi, Argiro Karakosta, Natasa Kalpourtzi, Magda Gavana, Apostolos Vantarakis, Maria Kantzanou, Christos Hajichristodoulou, Grigoris Chlouverakis, Grigoris Trypsianis, Paraskevi V. Voulgari, Yannis Alamanos, Konstantinos Makrilakis, Stavros Liatis, Stylianos Chatzipanagiotou and George Stergiou
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1665
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  41. Quality of life (QoL) is multi-dimensional concept of an individual’ general well-being status in relation to their value, environment, cultural and social context in which they live. This study aimed to quant...

    Authors: Aung Zaw Zaw Phyo, Rosanne Freak-Poli, Heather Craig, Danijela Gasevic, Nigel P. Stocks, David A. Gonzalez-Chica and Joanne Ryan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1596
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  42. Ambient air pollution is becoming a serious environmental problem in China. The results were inconsistent on that air pollution was a risk factor of preeclampsia in pregnancy.

    Authors: Lu Jia, Qing Liu, Huiqing Hou, Guangli Guo, Ting Zhang, Songli Fan and Li Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1663
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  43. South Africa is home to more people living with HIV than any other country, including nearly one in three pregnant women attending antenatal care. Access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) has increased substanti...

    Authors: Kate Clouse, Babatyi Malope-Kgokong, Jacob Bor, Cornelius Nattey, Maanda Mudau and Mhairi Maskew
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1662
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  44. Menarche is an expected event that occurs during the development of every normal young girl. We designed this study to evaluate the knowledge of young school girls on puberty, menarche, and menstruation, and t...

    Authors: Atem Bethel Ajong, Nkengazem Nerry Tankala, Martin Ndinakie Yakum, Ikei Solange Azenoi and Bruno Kenfack
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1661
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  45. Burden of Malaria in pregnancy (MIP) is still high despite availability of proven cost-effective interventions. Considerable progress has been made on improving antenatal attendance, but MIP preventive service...

    Authors: Emmanuel Chijioke Obagha, IkeOluwakpo Ajayi, Gobir A. Abdullahi and Chukwuma David Umeokonkwo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1660
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  46. Parental support and participation in physical activity (PA) with children and parents’ acting as a role model for less sedentary behaviors (SB) are critical factors for children’s healthier lifestyle. The pur...

    Authors: Pipsa P. A. Tuominen, Jani Raitanen, Pauliina Husu, Riitta M. Luoto and Urho M. Kujala
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1659
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  47. Following the global upward trend of cardiovascular diseases (CVD/CHD), much attention has been paid to lifestyle behaviors such as physical activity (PA). However, most of previous studies were conducted in d...

    Authors: Parisa Naseri, Parisa Amiri, Hasti Masihay-Akbar, Sara Jalali-Farahani, Davood Khalili and Fereidoun Azizi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1654
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  48. The incidence of preterm birth (PTB, < 37 weeks of gestation) has been increasing in China and many other countries in recent years. However, the causes of the increase were not well understood. The current st...

    Authors: Jinhua Lu, Dongmei Wei, Songying Shen, Xiaoyan Xia, Jianrong He, Yan Sun, Kin Bong Hubert Lam, Wei Bao, Huimin Xia and Xiu Qiu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1653
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  49. Strong evidence demonstrates that social support plays a key role in facilitating preventive health behaviors. The aim of the current study was to assess the effects of perceived social support on compliance w...

    Authors: Toktam Paykani, Gregory D. Zimet, Reza Esmaeili, Amir Reza Khajedaluee and Mohammad Khajedaluee
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1650
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  50. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an emerging infectious disease that spreads around the world. The lack of effective antiviral drugs and vaccines, along with the relatively high mortality rate and hi...

    Authors: Miao Liu, Hongzhong Zhang and Hui Huang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1649
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