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  1. Physical activity guidelines for adults with disability, chronic conditions, and pregnancy (i.e., specific populations) have been developed to provide guidance for engaging in physical activity. However, speci...

    Authors: T. L. Morgan, C. Romani, A. Ross-White, A. Latimer-Cheung and J. R. Tomasone
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1034
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. Most newborn deaths occur among those of low birthweight (LBWt), due to prematurity &/or impaired fetal growth. Simple practices can substantially mitigate this risk. In low-income country settings where many ...

    Authors: Stephen Hodgins, Binamra Rajbhandari, Deepak Joshi, Bharat Ban, Subarna Khatry and Luke C. Mullany
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1274
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. The global burden of diabetes and other non-communicable diseases is rising dramatically worldwide and is causing a double poor health burden in low- and middle-income countries. Early life influences play an ...

    Authors: Mark A Hanson, Peter D Gluckman, Ronald CW Ma, Priya Matzen and Regien G Biesma
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1025
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  4. Bicycle use has increased in some of France's major cities, mainly as a means of transport. Bicycle crashes need to be studied, preferably by type of cycling. Here we conduct a descriptive analysis.

    Authors: Emmanuelle Amoros, Mireille Chiron, Bertrand Thélot and Bernard Laumon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:653
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Schools are a key setting for large-scale primordial non-communicable disease prevention in young people, but little data on sustainability of impacts on cardiometabolic risk markers is available.

    Authors: Jakob Tarp, Eva Jespersen, Niels Christian Møller, Heidi Klakk, Barbara Wessner, Niels Wedderkopp and Anna Bugge
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:605
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Medical work capacity evaluations play a key role in social security schemes because they usually form the basis for eligibility decisions regarding disability benefits. However, the evaluations are often poor...

    Authors: Urban Schwegler, Jessica Anner, Christine Boldt, Andrea Glässel, Veronika Lay, Wout Ernst Lodewijk De Boer, Gerold Stucki and Bruno Trezzini
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1088
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Despite several strategies exist for anemia prevention and control, it has been the major public health important problem in the world. Numerous immediate and long-term health issues were reported in children ...

    Authors: Molla Azmeraw, Amare Kassaw, Samuel Derbie Habtegiorgis, Agimasie Tigabu, Abraham Tsedalu Amare, Kindie Mekuria, Dessie Temesgen, Alemu Birara Zemariam, Gashaw Kerebeh, Berihun Bantie, Dessie Alemnew and Biruk Beletew Abate
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2398
    Content type: Research Published on:

  8. The global obesity epidemic has led to increased attention on pregnancy, a period when women are at risk of gaining excessive weight. Excessive gestational weight gain is associated with numerous complications...

    Authors: Linda Reme Sagedal, Nina C Øverby, Hilde Lohne-Seiler, Elling Bere, Monica K Torstveit, Tore Henriksen and Ingvild Vistad
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:132
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  9. Low birth weight and maternal anemia remain intractable problems in many developing countries. The adequacy of the current strategy of providing iron-folic acid (IFA) supplements only during pregnancy has been...

    Authors: Phuong H Nguyen, Alyssa E Lowe, Reynaldo Martorell, Hieu Nguyen, Hoa Pham, Son Nguyen, Kimberly B Harding, Lynnette M Neufeld, Gregory A Reinhart and Usha Ramakrishnan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:898
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  10. Neonatal mortality continues to be a challenge in Nigeria, where low-quality care, caregivers’ ignorance of signs of neonatal illnesses, and prevalent use of unorthodox alternatives to health care predominate....

    Authors: Onyinye H Chime, Chizoma I. Eneh, Isaac N Asinobi, Uchenna Ekwochi, Ikenna Kingsley Ndu, Obinna C Nduagubam, Ogechukwu F Amadi and Donatus Chidiebere Osuorah
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:665
    Content type: Research Published on:

  12. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have high caseloads in the US, with vaccines a critical component of the response. Disparities in COVID-19 morbidity and mortality have been identified across states and raci...

    Authors: Wenting Huang, Emily Dove-Medows, Jalissa Shealey, Katia Sanchez, Lauren Benson, DawnSheska D. Seymore, Patrick S. Sullivan, Heather M. Bradley and Aaron J. Siegler
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:88
    Content type: Research Published on:

  13. Preventing excessive weight gain during pregnancy is potentially important in the prevention of overweight and obesity among women of childbearing age. However, few intervention studies aiming at weight manage...

    Authors: Ellen Althuizen, Mireille NM van Poppel, Jacob C Seidell, Carla van der Wijden and Willem van Mechelen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2006 6:168
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  14. Vehicle accidents are still a heavy social burden despite improvements due the latest technologies and policies. To pursue the trend of decrease, having a more detailed view and understanding of the injury pat...

    Authors: Claire Bruna-Rosso, Nadim Ballout, Pierre-Jean Arnoux, Amina Ndiaye, Jean-Louis Martin and Céline Vernet
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:82
    Content type: Research Published on:

  15. Born in Bradford (BiB) is a prospective multi-ethnic pregnancy and birth cohort study that was established to examine determinants of health and development during childhood and, subsequently, adult life in a ...

    Authors: Philippa K Bird, Rosemary R. C. McEachan, Mark Mon-Williams, Neil Small, Jane West, Peter Whincup, John Wright, Elizabeth Andrews, Sally E Barber, Liam J B Hill, Laura Lennon, Dan Mason, Katy A Shire, Dagmar Waiblinger, Amanda H. Waterman, Deborah A. Lawlor…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:939
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  17. A study in frog and chicken embryos, and reports of a high incidence of birth defects in regions of intensive GM-soy planting have raised concerns on the teratogenic potential of glyphosate-based herbicides. T...

    Authors: Jessica S. A. de Araujo, Isabella F. Delgado and Francisco J. R. Paumgartten
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:472
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. Maternal exposure to air pollution is related to fetal dysplasia. However, the association between maternal exposure to air pollution and the risk of congenital hypothyroidism (CH) in the offspring is largely ...

    Authors: Li Shang, Liyan Huang, Wenfang Yang, Cuifang Qi, Liren Yang, Juan Xin, Shanshan Wang, Danyang Li, Baozhu Wang, Lingxia Zeng and Mei Chun Chung
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1412
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Rapid weight gain during the first three years of life predicts child and adult obesity, and also later cardiovascular and other morbidities. Cross-sectional studies suggest that infant diet, activity and slee...

    Authors: Barry J Taylor, Anne-Louise M Heath, Barbara C Galland, Andrew R Gray, Julie A Lawrence, Rachel M Sayers, Kelly Dale, Kirsten J Coppell and Rachael W Taylor
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:942
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  22. This paper describes early results of an integrated maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) program in Northern Nigeria where child mortality rates are two to three times higher than in the southern states....

    Authors: Sally E Findley, Omolara T Uwemedimo, Henry V Doctor, Cathy Green, Fatima Adamu and Godwin Y Afenyadu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1034
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. South and Southeast Asian countries (SSEA) account for the highest burden of anemia globally, nonetheless, progress towards the decline of anemia has almost been stalled. This study aimed to explore the indivi...

    Authors: Dev Ram Sunuwar, Devendra Raj Singh, Pranil Man Singh Pradhan, Vintuna Shrestha, Pushpa Rai, Sunil Kumar Shah and Bipin Adhikari
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:343
    Content type: Research Published on:

  24. Afghanistan is the 15th least developed country in the world, with poor sanitation and high rates of infectious diseases and malnutrition. However, little is known about the health of young Afghan refugees resett...

    Authors: Mehdi Sanati Pour, Surabhi Kumble, Sarah Hanieh and Beverley-Ann Biggs
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:896
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. The association between socioeconomic status (SES) and stroke risk remains controversial around the world. It is not clear that the effect of SES on stroke in China due to the lack of relevant research. We aim...

    Authors: Siping Wang, Binyan Shen, Meiting Wu, Ciyu Chen and Juan Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:648
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. Approximately 287,000 women die of causes related to pregnancy and childbirth every year. While effective interventions exist to prevent maternal death, high quality impact evaluations for these interventions ...

    Authors: Suzanne Lee Pollard, Matthews Mathai and Neff Walker
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13(Suppl 3):S12
    Content type: Review Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 3

  27. Malnutrition in mothers and children is a significant public health challenge in developing countries such as Nepal. Although undernutrition in children has been gradually decreasing, the coexistence of variou...

    Authors: Dev Ram Sunuwar, Devendra Raj Singh and Pranil Man Singh Pradhan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:405
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) is considered to be self-limited, however, severe HFMD is a deadly threat for children worldwide, therefore, it is essential to define the clinical and epidemiologic characte...

    Authors: Yanhao Wang, Han Zhao, Rong Ou, Hua Zhu, Lidan Gan, Zihuan Zeng, Ruizhu Yuan, Huan Yu and Mengliang Ye
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:801
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. All flour in the USA is fortified with folic acid at a level of 140 μg/100 g which is estimated to supply an extra 100 μg daily to the average diet. Some researchers have advocated that this be increased to do...

    Authors: Mary Rose Sweeney, Joseph McPartlin and John Scott
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2007 7:41
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Globally, 15 million babies were born prematurely in 2012, with 37.6 % of them in South Asia. About 32.4 million infants were born small for gestational age (SGA) in 2010, with more than half of these births o...

    Authors: Ashish KC, Johan Wrammert, Viktoria Nelin, Uwe Ewald, Robert Clark and Mats Målqvist
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:877
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. Female strangulation in South Africa occurs in a context of pervasive and often extreme violence perpetrated against women, and therefore represents a major public health, social and human rights concern. Sout...

    Authors: Shahnaaz Suffla, Ashley Van Niekerk and Najuwa Arendse
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2008 8:363
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. Epidemiological studies on the potential role of surgery in Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease transmission have disclosed associations with history of specific surgical interventions or reported negative results.

    Authors: Alberto Rábano, Jesús de Pedro-Cuesta, Kåre Mølbak, Åke Siden, Miguel Calero and Henning Laursen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2005 5:9
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. The final meeting of the EXPOsOMICS project “Final Policy Workshop and Stakeholder Consultation” took place 28–29 March 2017 to present the main results of the project and discuss their implications both for f...

    Authors: Michelle C. Turner, Paolo Vineis, Eduardo Seleiro, Michaela Dijmarescu, David Balshaw, Roberto Bertollini, Marc Chadeau-Hyam, Timothy Gant, John Gulliver, Ayoung Jeong, Soterios Kyrtopoulos, Marco Martuzzi, Gary W. Miller, Timothy Nawrot, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, David H. Phillips…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:260
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  35. Mobile Health (mHealth) is becoming an important tool to improve health outcomes in maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH). Studies of mHealth interventions, have demonstrated their effectiveness in improvi...

    Authors: Nirmala Murthy, Subhashini Chandrasekharan, Muthu Perumal Prakash, Aakash Ganju, Joanne Peter, Nadi Kaonga and Patricia Mechael
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:820
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. Each year almost one million newborns die from infections, mostly in low-income countries. Timely case management would save many lives but the relative mortality effect of varying strategies is unknown. We ha...

    Authors: Anita K M Zaidi, Hammad A Ganatra, Sana Syed, Simon Cousens, Anne CC Lee, Robert Black, Zulfiqar A Bhutta and Joy E Lawn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 3):S13
    Content type: Review Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 3

  37. Improving perinatal health is the key to achieving the Millennium Development Goal for child survival. Recently, several reviews suggest that scaling up available effective perinatal interventions in an integr...

    Authors: Anisur Rahman, Allisyn Moran, Jesmin Pervin, Aminur Rahman, Monjur Rahman, Sharifa Yeasmin, Hosneara Begum, Harunor Rashid, Mohammad Yunus, Daniel Hruschka, Shams E Arifeen, Peter K Streatfield, Lynn Sibley, Abbas Bhuiya and Marge Koblinsky
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:914
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Low and middle income countries (LMICs), including India, contribute to a major proportion of low birth weight (LBW) infants globally. These infants require special care. Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) in hospital...

    Authors: Sarmila Mazumder, Ravi Prakash Upadhyay, Zelee Hill, Sunita Taneja, Brinda Dube, Jasmine Kaur, Medha Shekhar, Runa Ghosh, Shruti Bisht, Jose Carlos Martines, Rajiv Bahl, Halvor Sommerfelt and Nita Bhandari
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:307
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. COVID-19 is a pandemic caused by nCoV-2019, a new beta-coronavirus from Wuhan, China, that mainly affects the respiratory system and can be modulated by nutrition.

    Authors: Zahra Salehi, Mohammadreza Askari, Alireza Jafari, Batoul Ghosn, Pamela J. Surkan, Mohammad Javad Hosseinzadeh-Attar, Hamed Pouraram and Leila Azadbakht
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1661
    Content type: Research Published on:

  40. The gut microbiota is a key determinant of long-term health. Promoting maternal health literacy may enhance children well-being. Aim of the present study was to assess gut microbiota-related health literacy of...

    Authors: Alessandra Consales, Letizia Toscano, Chiara Ceriotti, Valentina Tiraferri, Silvana Castaldi and Maria Lorella Giannì
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1012
    Content type: Research Published on:

  42. Smoke exposure is a prevalent and well-documented risk factor for various diseases across different organ systems. Serum neurofilament light chain (sNfL) has emerged as a promising biomarker for a multitude of...

    Authors: Ning Zhu, Jing Zhu, Shanhong Lin, Hang Yu and Chao Cao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:353
    Content type: Research Published on:

  43. Of the global burden of 2.6 million stillbirths, around 1.2 million occur during labour i.e. are intrapartum deaths. In low-/middle-income countries, a significant proportion of women give birth at home, usual...

    Authors: Mohammad Yawar Yakoob, Mahrukh Ayesha Ali, Mohammad Usman Ali, Aamer Imdad, Joy E Lawn, Nynke Van Den Broek and Zulfiqar A Bhutta
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 3):S7
    Content type: Review Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 3

  44. Previous reports on the prevalence of neural tube defects (NTDs) in China did not include cases of NTDs that were less than 28 weeks of gestational age (GA) and hence did not accurately reflect the total preva...

    Authors: Xiaohong Li, Jun Zhu, Yanping Wang, Dezhi Mu, Li Dai, Guangxuan Zhou, Qi Li, He Wang, Mingrong Li and Juan Liang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:161
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), more than 93% of users must pay out of pocket for care. Despite the risk of catastrophic expenditures (CE), 94% of births in Lubumbashi are attended by skilled pe...

    Authors: Abel Mukengeshayi Ntambue, Françoise Kaj Malonga, Karen D. Cowgill, Michèle Dramaix-Wilmet and Philippe Donnen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:948
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Worldwide urbanization has become a crucial issue in recent years. Bangladesh, one of the poorest and most densely-populated countries in the world, has been facing rapid urbanization. In urban areas, maternal...

    Authors: Nuzhat Choudhury, Allisyn C Moran, M Ashraful Alam, Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Sabina F Rashid and Peter Kim Streatfield
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:791
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Folic acid (FA) added to foods during fortification is 70-85% bioavailable compared to 50% of folate occurring naturally in foods. Thus, if FA supplements also are taken during pregnancy, both mother and fetus...

    Authors: Cathrine Hoyo, Amy P Murtha, Joellen M Schildkraut, Michele R Forman, Brian Calingaert, Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, Joanne Kurtzberg, Randy L Jirtle and Susan K Murphy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:46
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Although child malnutrition has been reducing, the coexistence in mothers and children of various forms of malnutrition has continued to rise around the world. In the Indonesian context, a knowledge gap exists...

    Authors: Helen Andriani, Erlin Friska, Miftahul Arsyi, Alphyyanto Eko Sutrisno, Alexander Waits and Nurul Dina Rahmawati
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:1836
    Content type: Research Published on:

  50. Globally, the number of digital health solutions is increasing, but they are not always designed with access and utilisation for people with impairments in mind. Development efforts have often not included the...

    Authors: Silje Havrevold Henni, Sigurd Maurud, Kristin Skeide Fuglerud and Anne Moen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:35
    Content type: Research Published on:
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