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  1. Recognition of loneliness as a health concern among adults stresses the need to understand the factors associated with loneliness. Research into factors of influence in the various phases of the adult life spa...

    Authors: Thanée Franssen, Mandy Stijnen, Femke Hamers and Francine Schneider
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1118
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Research on the effects of marriage on health maintains that there is a gender-specific gradient, with men deriving far greater benefits than women. One reason provided for this difference is the disproportion...

    Authors: Kenisha Russell Jonsson, Gustav Oberg, Florence Samkange-Zeeb and Nicholas Kofi Adjei
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1204
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  3. The assessment of disability in a population is an important part of public health management. In this article, we examine the psychometric properties and validation of the Polish version of the 12-item World ...

    Authors: Agnieszka Ćwirlej-Sozańska, Bernard Sozański, Hubert Kotarski, Anna Wilmowska-Pietruszyńska and Agnieszka Wiśniowska-Szurlej
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1203
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  4. More than 2 months have passed since the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) first emerged in Wuhan, China. With the migration of people, the epidemic has rapidly spread within China and throughout the w...

    Authors: Chaojun Xie, Hongjun Zhao, Kuibiao Li, Zhoubin Zhang, Xiaoxiao Lu, Huide Peng, Dahu Wang, Jin Chen, Xiao Zhang, Di Wu, Yuzhou Gu, Jun Yuan, Lin Zhang and Jiachun Lu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1202
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  5. There have been few studies on satisfaction with integrated basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents (URRBMI), and satisfaction with URRBMI is not very high because of the complexity of its polici...

    Authors: Xiaofang Liu, Fang Yang, Wenwei Cheng, Yanyan Wu, Jin Cheng, Weichu Sun, Xiaofang Yan, Mingming Luo, Xiankun Mo, Mi Hu, Qian Lin and Jingcheng Shi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1201
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  6. Many countries worldwide have experienced reductions in provision of formal long-term care services amidst rising need for care. Provision of unpaid care, meanwhile, has grown. This includes care provided by y...

    Authors: Nicola Brimblecombe, Martin Knapp, Derek King, Madeleine Stevens and Javiera Cartagena Farias
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1115
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  7. Most countries in Subsaharan Africa have well-established National Tuberculosis Control Programs with relatively stable routine performances. However, major epidemiological events may result in significant dis...

    Authors: Aboubacar Sidiki Magassouba, Boubacar Djelo Diallo, Lansana Mady Camara, Kadiatou Sow, Souleymane Camara, Boubacar Bah, Alpha Oumar Barry, Thierno Hassane Diallo, Aboubacar Camara, Adama Marie Bangoura and Oumou Younoussa Sow
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1200
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  8. Food insecurity and malnutrition in children are pervasive public health concerns in Zimbabwe. Previous studies only identified determinants of food insecurity and malnutrition with very little efforts done in...

    Authors: Akim Tafadzwa Lukwa, Aggrey Siya, Karen Nelwin Zablon, James Mba Azam and Olufunke A. Alaba
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1199
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  9. Older lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adults are an underserved and understudied population that experience specific health disparities. The intersection of aging and chronic medical disease with a higher ris...

    Authors: Benjamin H. Han, Dustin T. Duncan, Mauricio Arcila-Mesa and Joseph J. Palamar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1123
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  10. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Naohiro Yonemoto, Shunji Suzuki, Akihiko Sekizawa, Shinichi Hoshi, Yoko Sagara and Kazuo Itabashi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1196
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Public Health 2020 20:1150

  11. Adolescents living with HIV (ALWH) who transition from pediatric to adult care face several challenges that increase their risk of experiencing treatment interruptions and being lost to HIV care with resultant...

    Authors: Tiarney D. Ritchwood, Vincenzo Malo, Cameron Jones, Isha W. Metzger, Millicent Atujuna, Rebecca Marcus, Donaldson F. Conserve, Lara Handler and Linda-Gail Bekker
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1195
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  12. Internationally, there are growing concerns about antimicrobial resistance. This has resulted in increased scrutiny of antibiotic prescribing trends – particularly in primary care where the majority of prescri...

    Authors: Katie Thomson, Rachel Berry, Tomos Robinson, Heather Brown, Clare Bambra and Adam Todd
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1148
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  13. In Canada, anaphylaxis-level food allergy constitutes a legal disability. Yet, no nationwide policies exist to support families. We sought to understand what parents of children with food allergy perceive as t...

    Authors: Elissa M. Abrams, Elinor Simons, Jennifer Gerdts, Orla Nazarko, Beatrice Povolo and Jennifer L. P. Protudjer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1194
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  15. The petrochemical industry is hazardous, in part because of the inherently dangerous nature of the work conducted, and incidents frequently result in significant financial and social losses. The most common im...

    Authors: Azita Zahiri Harsini, Fazlollah Ghofranipour, Hormoz Sanaeinasab, Farkhondeh Amin Shokravi, Philip Bohle and Lynda R. Matthews
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1192
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  16. The National Health Insurance (NHI) is a proposed health policy in South Africa that aims to change the structure of the current health system. Public involvement in policy making is important and it is a cons...

    Authors: Lizeka Amanda Tandwa and Ames Dhai
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1191
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  17. Great growth inequalities between urban and rural areas have been reported in China over the past years. By examining urban/rural inequalities in physical growth among children < 7 years old over the past thre...

    Authors: Yan Hu, Weiqun Lin, Xuying Tan, Yu Liu, Yuqi Wen, Yanfei Xing, Ying Ma, Huiyan Liu, Yanyan Song, Jingjing Liang, Kin Bong Hubert Lam and Suifang Lin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1190
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  18. Globally, the prevalence of overweight and obesity is escalating, particularly among women and wealthier people. In many developed countries, overweight and obesity are more prevalent in persons with lower soc...

    Authors: Ayelign Mengesha Kassie, Biruk Beletew Abate and Mesfin Wudu Kassaw
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1189
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  19. Screening of pregnant women carrying human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) has a crucial role in reducing the number of HTLV-1 carriers. A national HTLV-1 screening program for pregnant women was started ...

    Authors: Naohiro Yonemoto, Shunji Suzuki, Akihiko Sekizawa, Shinichi Hoshi, Yoko Sagara and Kazuo Itabashi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1150
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2021 21:962

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2020 20:1196

  20. Young people face significant challenges when managing a mental illness, such as acquiring treatment autonomy, being inexperienced users of the healthcare system and associated peer-related stigma. While medic...

    Authors: Sara S. McMillan, Victoria Stewart, Amanda J. Wheeler, Fiona Kelly and Helen Stapleton
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1188
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  21. Fall-related injuries are important public health problem worldwide. We aimed to describe the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of fall-related injuries in a level 1 trauma center.

    Authors: Ahammed Mekkodathil, Ayman El-Menyar, Ahad Kanbar, Suhail Hakim, Khalid Ahmed, Tariq Siddiqui and Hassan Al-Thani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1186
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  22. Sierra Leone, a fragile country, is facing an increasingly significant burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Facilitated by an international partnership, a project was developed to adapt and pilot deskto...

    Authors: Guanyang Zou, Sophie Witter, Lizzie Caperon, John Walley, Kiran Cheedella, Reynold G. B. Senesi and Haja Ramatulai Wurie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1185
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  23. Contact investigation is important in finding contacts of people who have Tuberculosis (TB) disease so that they can be given treatment and stop further transmission. The main objective of this study was to as...

    Authors: Tabitha Abongo, Benson Ulo and Sarah Karanja
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1184
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Antibiotic misuse and other types of unnecessary use of antibiotics can contribute to accelerate the process of antibiotic resistance, which is considered a global concern, mostly affecting low-and middle-inco...

    Authors: Olga Cambaco, Yara Alonso Menendez, John Kinsman, Betuel Sigaúque, Heiman Wertheim, Nga Do, Margaret Gyapong, Johannes John-Langba, Esperança Sevene and Khátia Munguambe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1183
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  25. Some male heterosexual clients prefer to visit a cross-border Female Sex Worker (FSW) because of cheaper sex and unsafe sex practices, and may therefore be at risk for sexually transmitted infections (STI). Th...

    Authors: Carolina J. G. Kampman, Christian J. P. A. Hoebe, René Koene, Laura Kamp, Klaus Jansen, Femke D. H. Koedijk, Alma Tostmann and Jeannine L. A. Hautvast
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1182
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  26. HIV/AIDS continues to be a major public health concern for children. Each day, worldwide, approximately 440 children became newly infected with HIV, and 270 children died from AIDS-related causes in 2018. Poor...

    Authors: Junko Yasuoka, Siyan Yi, Sumiyo Okawa, Sovannary Tuot, Makoto Murayama, Chantheany Huot, Pheak Chhoun, Sokunthea Yem, Kazuki Yuzuriha, Tetsuya Mizutani and Kimiyo Kikuchi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1181
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Developing robust evidence is a challenge for researchers working with disadvantaged or vulnerable populations. For example, research shows that young people who have transitioned from out-of-home care (OOHC) ...

    Authors: Lauren Parsons, Donna Chung, Reinie Cordier, David Hodgson, Stephan Lund, Philip Mendes, Melissa O’Donnell, Richard Parsons and Stian Thoresen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1180
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  28. Short or long sleep duration is proposed as a potential risk factor for all-cause mortality in the older people, yet the results of published studies are not often reproducible.

    Authors: Mengyang He, Xiangling Deng, Yuqing Zhu, Luyao Huan and Wenquan Niu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1179
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  29. Trend analysis of malaria surveillance data is essential to inform stakeholders on progress towards malaria control. From the total 387,096 cases of malaria reported in Amhara region in 2017, 167,079 (43.2%) c...

    Authors: Damtie Lankir, Samrawit Solomon and Addisu Gize
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1175
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  30. Tuberculosis (TB), a preventable and curable disease, is claimed as the second largest number of fatalities, and there are 9,025 cases reported in the United States in 2018. Many researchers have done a lot of...

    Authors: Yan Wu, Meng Huang, Ximei Wang, Yong Li, Lei Jiang and Yuan Yuan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1173
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  31. Consistent use of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), a biomedical intervention for HIV seronegative persons, has been shown to significantly decrease HIV acquisition. Black women are a viable population segment ...

    Authors: Rasheeta Chandler, Shawnika Hull, Henry Ross, Dominique Guillaume, Sudeshna Paul, Nikita Dera and Natalie Hernandez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1172
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  32. Mobile technology is increasingly important for delivering public health interventions to remote populations. This research study developed, piloted, and assessed a serious game for mobile devices that teaches...

    Authors: Sonja Mueller, Delphine Soriano, Andrei Boscor, Naomi Saville, Abriti Arjyal, Sushil Baral, Maureen Fordham, Gareth Hearn, Virginie Le Masson, Rachya Kayastha and Patty Kostkova
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1171
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  33. Concerns remain about potential negative impacts of e-cigarettes including possibilities that: youth e-cigarette use (vaping) increases risk of youth smoking; and vaping by parents may have impacts on their ch...

    Authors: Michael J. Green, Linsay Gray and Helen Sweeting
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1111
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  34. Canadians spend the majority of their days sedentary. Gender and education are important social determinants of health that impact health behaviours. There is evidence that gender and educational differences i...

    Authors: Stephanie A. Prince, Karen C. Roberts, Alexandria Melvin, Gregory P. Butler and Wendy Thompson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1170
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  35. Despite efforts by the NIH to enhance the participation of women and minorities in clinical research, women with HIV continue to remain underrepresented in alcohol intervention research. The purpose of this st...

    Authors: Shantrel S. Canidate, Christa L. Cook, Deepthi Varma, Giselle D. Carnaby, Nicole Ennis, Nichole E. Stetten and Robert L. Cook
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1169
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  36. Problematic anger is intense anger associated with elevated generalized distress and that interferes with functioning. It also confers a heightened risk for the development of mental health problems. In milita...

    Authors: Amy B. Adler, Cynthia A. LeardMann, Kimberly A. Roenfeldt, Isabel G. Jacobson and David Forbes
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1168
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. The objective of this study was to model the predictors of HIV prevalence in Malawi through a complex sample logistic regression and spatial mapping approach using the national Demographic and Health Survey da...

    Authors: Jerry John Nutor, Henry Ofori Duah, Pascal Agbadi, Precious Adade Duodu and Kaboni W. Gondwe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1167
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  39. Obesity is a major risk factor for the global burden of disease in countries that are economically developed or not. This study aimed to investigate the association between diet quality and obesity indicators ...

    Authors: Lu Jia, Haiwen Lu, Jing Wu, Xuemei Wang, Wenrui Wang, Maolin Du, Peiyu Wang, Sha Du, Yuenan Su and Nan Zhang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1165
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  40. The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) that first occurred in Wuhan, China, is currently spreading throughout China. The majority of infected patients either traveled to Wuhan or came into contact with an inf...

    Authors: Lifeng Wei, Zhuowa Sha, Ying Wang, Gangyu Zhang, Haonan Jia, Shuang Zhou, Yuanheng Li, Yameng Wang, Chao Liu, Mingli Jiao, Shufan Sun and Qunhong Wu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1164
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  41. The burgeoning rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is posing serious challenges in resource constrained health facilities of Nepal. The main objective of this study was to assess the readiness of health f...

    Authors: Umesh Ghimire, Nipun Shrestha, Bipin Adhikari, Suresh Mehata, Yashashwi Pokharel and Shiva Raj Mishra
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1163
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  42. High rate of teenage pregnancy in Nigeria is potentially an indication of poor access to and utilization of contraceptives among this age group. This paper presents findings from in-depth exploration of percei...

    Authors: Uchenna Ezenwaka, Chinyere Mbachu, Nkoli Ezumah, Irene Eze, Chibuike Agu, Ifunanya Agu and Obinna Onwujekwe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1162
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  43. The associations between various kinds of parental support and children and adolescents’ physical activity (PA) are inconclusive. This study aimed 1) to examine the associations between various kinds of parent...

    Authors: Jin-Tao Hong, Si-Tong Chen, Yan Tang, Zhen-Bo Cao, Jie Zhuang, Zheng Zhu, Peijie Chen and Yang Liu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1161
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  44. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an effective biomedical strategy to prevent transmission of HIV infection, although medication adherence remains a challenge. We present the protocol for a multicentre random...

    Authors: Xia Jin, Hongyi Wang, Hang Li, Zhenxing Chu, Jing Zhang, Qinghai Hu, Wei Lv, Xiaojie Huang, Yaokai Chen, Hui Wang, Xiaoqing He, Lukun Zhang, Zhili Hu, Rantong Bao, Shangcao Li, Haibo Ding…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1160
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  46. TB is a preventable and treatable disease. Yet, successful treatment outcomes at desired levels are elusive in many national TB programs, including India. We aim to identify risk factors for unfavourable outco...

    Authors: Reynold Washington, Rajaram Subramanian Potty, A. Rajesham, T. Seenappa, Anil Singarajipura, Reuben Swamickan, Amar Shah, K. H. Prakash, Arin Kar, Karthikeyan Kumaraswamy, B. S. Prarthana, Bala Krishna Maryala, J. Sushma, Ramesh Dasari, Bharath Shetty, Vikas Panibatla…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1158
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  47. The study objective was to evaluate the impact of a population-level intervention (the IA Agreement) on the of one-year risk for long-term sickness absence spells (LSAS) among young and middle aged workers in ...

    Authors: Therese N. Hanvold, Petter Kristensen, Karina Corbett, Rachel L. Hasting and Ingrid S. Mehlum
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1157
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  48. Family caregivers are critical partners in the plan of care of people with disabilities. The study aims to demonstrate the factor structure and internal consistency of the Caregiver Burden Inventory (CBI) amon...

    Authors: Eman Ramadan Ghazawy, Eman Sameh Mohammed, Eman Mohamed Mahfouz and Marwa Gamal Abdelrehim
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1156
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