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  1. Common disease risk clusters in families due to shared genetics, exposure to environmental risk factors, and because many health behaviours are established and maintained in family environments. This randomise...

    Authors: Carlene J. Wilson, Kayla de la Haye, John Coveney, Donna L. Hughes, Amanda Hutchinson, Caroline Miller, Ivanka Prichard, Paul Ward and Laura M. Koehly
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:965
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  2. Past research describes robust associations between education and health, yet findings have generally been limited to the examination of education as the number of years of education or educational attainment....

    Authors: Maria E. Bleil, Glenn I. Roisman, Deven T. Hamilton, Sophia W. Magro, Bradley M. Appelhans, Steven E. Gregorich, Cathryn Booth-LaForce and Robert C. Pianta
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1092
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. Parents play an important role in the lives of adolescents and efforts aimed at strengthening parenting skills and increasing knowledge on adolescent development hold much promise to prevent and mitigate adole...

    Authors: Joanna Ting Wai Chu, Robyn Whittaker, Yannan Jiang, Angela Wadham, Karolina Stasiak, Matthew Shepherd and Chris Bullen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:1203
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  4. By 2025, adult obesity prevalence is projected to increase in 44 of 53 of European-region countries. Childhood obesity tracks directly onto adult obesity, and children of low socioeconomic position families ar...

    Authors: Frances M. Cronin, Sinead M. Hurley, Thomas Buckley, Delfina Mancebo Guinea Arquez, Naeha Lakshmanan, Alice O’Gorman, Richard Layte and Debbi Stanistreet
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1585
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  5. Home-based interventions have potential for improving early child development (ECD) in low-resource settings. The design of locally acceptable strategies requires an in-depth understanding of the household con...

    Authors: Jessica D. Rothstein, Audrey J. Buckland, Kristin Gagnier, Mayra Ochoa, Aliya Allen-Valley, Belinda Jivapong, Lilia Z. Cabrera, Elli Leontsini and Kelly R. Fisher
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:108
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Health education interventions are considered critical for the prevention and management of conditions of public health concern. Although the burden of these conditions is often greatest in socio-economically ...

    Authors: E. L. Karran, A. R. Grant, H. Lee, S. J. Kamper, C. M. Williams, L. K. Wiles, R. Shala, C. V. Poddar, T. Astill and G. L. Moseley
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:453
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  7. Approximately one third of 10-11 year olds in England are now overweight or obese suggesting that population approaches are urgently required. However, despite the increasing number of school-based interventio...

    Authors: Jenny J Lloyd and Katrina M Wyatt
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:578
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  8. Recreational facilities are an important community resource for health promotion because they provide access to affordable physical activities. However, despite their health mandate, many have unhealthy food e...

    Authors: Dana Lee Olstad, Kim D Raine and Linda J McCargar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:376
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Up to 20% of UK children experience socio-emotional difficulties which can have serious implications for themselves, their families and society. Stark socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities in children’s well-b...

    Authors: Annemarie Lodder, Anita Mehay, Hana Pavlickova, Zoe Hoare, Leandra Box, Jabeer Butt, Tim Weaver, Mike J. Crawford, Donna Clutterbuck, Nicola Westbrook, Karlet Manning, Saffron Karlsen, Steve Morris, Andrew Brand, Paul Ramchandani, Yvonne Kelly…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1887
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  11. Most Dutch adolescents aged 16 to 18 engage in binge drinking. Previous studies have investigated how parenting dimensions and alcohol-specific parenting practices are related to adolescent alcohol consumption...

    Authors: Rik Crutzen, Philippe J. Giabbanelli, Astrid Jander, Liesbeth Mercken and Hein de Vries
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:747
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. Although it is increasingly acknowledged that social networks are important to our understanding ofoverweight and obesity, there is limited understanding about the processes by which such networks shapetheir p...

    Authors: Katie Powell, John Wilcox, Angie Clonan, Paul Bissell, Louise Preston, Marian Peacock and Michelle Holdsworth
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:996
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. Physical activity participation among preschoolers in childcare settings are low, and interventions to increase physical activity levels have produced mixed results. The Physical Literacy in the Early Years (P...

    Authors: Hilary A. T. Caldwell, Rebecca A. Spencer, Nila Joshi, Karina Branje, Jane Cawley, Heather Hobson, Sara F. L. Kirk, Daniel Stevens and Michelle R. Stone
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:1126
    Content type: Research Published on:

  14. Rising nativism and political volatility worldwide threaten to undermine hard-won achievements in human rights and public health. Risks are particularly acute for hundreds of millions of migrants, minorities, ...

    Authors: Stephanie M. Koning, Amanda Flaim, Leo Baldiga and David A. Feingold
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1839
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  15. Affection exchange theory (AET) explains the value of received affection for overall wellbeing in family relationships. However, this study extends prior work by investigating AET in grandmother-grandchild rel...

    Authors: Leslie Ramos Salazar, Priyanka Khandelwal and Yvette Castillo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:714
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  16. This research program aims to investigate the implementation and effects of a theoretically promising prevention method. It is being developed in a European research collaboration within a Comenius project (20...

    Authors: Charli Eriksson, Birgitta Kimber and Therése Skoog
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:1250
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  17. Social integration with friends has an important role in shaping adolescents’ behavior and determining their wellbeing. Friendship features such as companionship, trust, closeness, intimacy, and conflicts all ...

    Authors: Abdullah Alsarrani, Ruth F. Hunter, Laura Dunne and Leandro Garcia
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:2420
    Content type: Research Published on:

  18. Parents play a pivotal role in adolescent sexual health and Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. Nurses are on the frontlines of healthcare and play a critical role in promoting HPV vaccination and parent-c...

    Authors: D. Santa Maria, C. Markham, S. M. Misra, D. C. Coleman, M. Lyons, C. Desormeaux, S. Cron and V. Guilamo-Ramos
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:585
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. A central tenet in developmental psychopathology is that childhood rearing experiences have a major impact on children’s development. Recently, candidate genes have been identified that may cause children to b...

    Authors: Rabia R Chhangur, Joyce Weeland, Geertjan Overbeek, WalterCHJ Matthys and Bram Orobio de Castro
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:917
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  21. Childhood obesity is a serious health concern affecting over 155 million children in developed countries worldwide. Childhood obesity is associated with significantly increased risk for development of type 2 d...

    Authors: A Justine Wilson, Harry Prapavessis, Mary E Jung, Anita G Cramp, Joy Vascotto, Larissa Lenhardt, J Kevin Shoemaker, Margaret Watson, Tracy Robinson and Cheril L Clarson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2009 9:434
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  22. Parental alcohol consumption and alcohol-related behaviour play a critical role in shaping adolescent alcohol use, but comparatively little is known about the perspectives of parents regarding adolescent alcoh...

    Authors: Siobhan Mitchell, Rona Campbell and Georgie J. MacArthur
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:656
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  23. For decades, dominant weight discourses have led to physical, mental, and social health consequences for young women in larger bodies. While ample literature has documented why these discourses are problematic, k...

    Authors: Alexa R. Ferdinands, Tara-Leigh F. McHugh, Kate Storey and Kim D. Raine
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1193
    Content type: Research Published on:

  24. The mental wellness of children and adolescents in rural Australia is under researched and key to understanding the long-term mental health outcomes for rural communities. This analysis used data from the Aust...

    Authors: Ingrid Peters, Tonelle Handley, Karen Oakley, Sarah Lutkin and David Perkins
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1616
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Mental health problems among young people are of growing concern globally. UK adolescent mental health services are increasingly restricted to those with the most severe needs. Many young people turn to the in...

    Authors: Madeleine Stevens, Javiera Cartagena Farías, Charlotte Mindel, Francesco D’Amico and Sara Evans-Lacko
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1903
    Content type: Research Published on:

  26. Despite the current obesogenic environment creating challenges weight management, some people succeed in maintaining a normal weight. This study explored lifelong weight management from the life course perspec...

    Authors: Anu Joki, Johanna Mäkelä, Hanna Konttinen and Mikael Fogelholm
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:12
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. The quality of caregiving and the parent-child relationship is critical for early child development (ECD) and has been shown to be modifiable. This study evaluated an ECD project in Tanzania, assessing the eff...

    Authors: Gretchen Antelman, Josephine Ferla, Michelle M. Gill, Heather J. Hoffman, Teopista Komba, Amina Abubakar, Pieter Remes, Ola Jahanpour, Martha Mariki, Mary A. Mang’enya and Roland van de Ven
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:19
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  28. Despite the health benefits of regular physical activity, most children are insufficiently active. Schools are ideally placed to promote physical activity; however, many do not provide children with sufficient...

    Authors: Chris Lonsdale, Taren Sanders, Kristen E. Cohen, Philip Parker, Michael Noetel, Tim Hartwig, Diego Vasconcellos, Morwenna Kirwan, Philip Morgan, Jo Salmon, Marj Moodie, Heather McKay, Andrew Bennie, Ron Plotnikoff, Renata L. Cinelli, David Greene…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:873
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2016 16:1026

  29. Natural disasters represent an increasing threat both in terms of incidence and severity as a result of climate change. Although much is known about individual responses to disasters, much less is known about ...

    Authors: Lisa Gibbs, Elizabeth Waters, Richard A Bryant, Philippa Pattison, Dean Lusher, Louise Harms, John Richardson, Colin MacDougall, Karen Block, Elyse Snowdon, Hugh Colin Gallagher, Vikki Sinnott, Greg Ireton and David Forbes
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1036
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  30. Childhood obesity remains a significant public health problem. To date, most research on the causes and correlates of obesity has focused on a small number of direct predictors of obesity rather than testing c...

    Authors: Esther M. Leerkes, Cheryl Buehler, Susan D. Calkins, Lenka H. Shriver and Laurie Wideman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1912
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  31. An extended version of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) was used to inform the design of a framework for an educational resource around e-cigarette use in young people.

    Authors: E. E. A. Simpson, J. Davison, J. Doherty, L. Dunwoody, C. McDowell, M. McLaughlin, S. Butter and M. Giles
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:276
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  32. Filial piety, as a major traditional norm in Chinese culture and in Chinese families, affects the attitudes and behaviors of adult children toward their parents and impacts their end-of-life decision-making an...

    Authors: Wai I Ng, Sok Leng Che, Xiang Li and Mingxia Zhu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:721
    Content type: Research Published on:

  33. Children enrolled in Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) programs are at high risks of health problems. Although non-family child care providers play important roles on children’s health status as role mode...

    Authors: Won O. Song, SuJin Song, Violeta Nieves, Andie Gonzalez and Elahé T. Crockett
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:648
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. Although the mandate of recreational facilities is to enhance well-being, many offer foods inconsistent with recommendations for healthy eating. Little is known regarding recreational facility food environment...

    Authors: Dana Lee Olstad, Shauna M Downs, Kim D Raine, Tanya R Berry and Linda J McCargar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:423
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. In 2017, the provincial government of British Columbia (BC) implemented a mandatory policy outlining Active Play Standards (AP Standards) to increase physical activity (PA) levels, sedentary and motor skills a...

    Authors: Claire N. Tugault-Lafleur, Patti-Jean Naylor, Valerie Carson, Guy Faulkner, Erica Y. Lau, Luke Wolfenden and Louise C. Mâsse
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:687
    Content type: Research Published on:

  38. Asset-based economic empowerment interventions, which take an integrated approach to building human, social, and economic capital, have shown promise in their ability to reduce HIV risk for young people, inclu...

    Authors: Fred M. Ssewamala, Laura Gauer Bermudez, Torsten B. Neilands, Claude A. Mellins, Mary M. McKay, Irv Garfinkel, Ozge Sensoy Bahar, Gertrude Nakigozi, Miriam Mukasa, Lindsay Stark, Christopher Damulira, Jennifer Nattabi and Apollo Kivumbi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:693
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  39. Education is a pivot included Decade of Action for Road Safety initiative, which has reduced deaths caused by accidents in developed countries. Given the circumstances of each country, a proper education progr...

    Authors: Fatemeh Bakhtari Aghdam, Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani, Saber Azami-Aghdash, Alireza Esmaeili, Haneieh Panahi, Maryam Khazaee-Pool and Mina Golestani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1064
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Chronic musculoskeletal problems are a major source of disability, reduced productivity and poor quality of life. Prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders among Iranian housewives is particularly high. Understa...

    Authors: Samaneh Norouzi, Sedigheh Sadat Tavafian, Rosanna Cousins and Hamidreza Mokarami
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:617
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. High levels of physical activity (PA), low levels of screen time, combined with sufficient sleep time, provide better health benefits. However, few studies have examined the association of these behaviours wit...

    Authors: Agata Korcz, Jana Krzysztoszek, Michał Bronikowski, Marlena Łopatka and Łukasz Bojkowski
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:1335
    Content type: Research Published on:

  42. As the global population grows there is a clear challenge to address the needs of consumers, without depleting natural resources and whilst helping to improve nutrition and hygiene to reduce the growth of nonc...

    Authors: Rachel S Newson, Rene Lion, Robert J Crawford, Valerie Curtis, Ibrahim Elmadfa, Gerda IJ Feunekes, Cheryl Hicks, Marti van Liere, C Fergus Lowe, Gert W Meijer, BV Pradeep, K Srinath Reddy, Myriam Sidibe and Ricardo Uauy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13(Suppl 1):S1
    Content type: Meeting report Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  43. Dental caries and traumatic dental injury (TDI) can play an important role in the emergence of parental guilt, since parents feel responsible for their child’s health. The aim of the present study was to evalu...

    Authors: Monalisa Cesarino Gomes, Marayza Alves Clementino, Tassia Cristina de Almeida Pinto-Sarmento, Carolina Castro Martins, Ana Flávia Granville-Garcia and Saul Martins Paiva
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:854
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Gypsies, Travellers and Roma (referred to as Travellers) are less likely to access health services including immunisation. To improve immunisation rates, it is necessary to understand what helps and hinders in...

    Authors: Cath Jackson, Helen Bedford, Francine M. Cheater, Louise Condon, Carol Emslie, Lana Ireland, Philippa Kemsley, Susan Kerr, Helen J. Lewis, Julie Mytton, Karen Overend, Sarah Redsell, Zoe Richardson, Christine Shepherd, Lesley Smith and Lisa Dyson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:254
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Schools are an important setting for health promotion. In England, around one third of publicly funded schools have become independent of local authorities since 2000 and are now academies, run by an academy t...

    Authors: Patricia E. Jessiman, Rona Campbell, Russ Jago, Esther M. F. Van Sluijs and Dorothy Newbury-Birch
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1186
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Sweden is often held up as an example of a country with low child deprivation; yet, rates of relative deprivation are rising. Every municipality in Sweden is required to provide free, timely and accessible bud...

    Authors: Nina Johansson, Anna Sarkadi, Inna Feldman, Anna M. H. Price, Sharon Goldfeld, Tapio Salonen, Katarina Wijk, David Isaksson, Emir Kolic, Sara Stenquist, Maria Elg, Ewa Lönn, Josefine Wennelin, Linda Lindström, Mirelle Medina, Sofie Åberg…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:2181
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  47. This study tests whether home visitation to prevent child maltreatment can be improved by adding manualized program components, targeting four key risk factors for child maltreatment: low parental self-efficac...

    Authors: Merel de Wit, Patty Leijten, Claudia van der Put, Jessica Asscher, Merian Bouwmeester-Landweer and Maja Deković
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:136
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  48. The large number of children that grow up in poverty is concerning, especially given the negative developmental outcomes that can persist into adulthood. Poverty has been found as a risk factor to negatively a...

    Authors: Mariëlle E. Abrahamse, Caroline S. Jonkman and Janneke Harting
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:465
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  49. The burden of mental health problems among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is a major public health problem in Australia. While socioeconomic factors are implicated as important determinants of ...

    Authors: Carrington CJ Shepherd, Jianghong Li, Francis Mitrou and Stephen R Zubrick
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:756
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. We assessed the association between decision-making power and mental health status of mothers and the nutritional status of their children less than 6 years old in Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

    Authors: Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan, Ayodeji Babatunde Oginni, Maha El Tantawi, Abiola Adeniyi, Michael Alade and Tracy L Finlayson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:1159
    Content type: Research Published on:
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