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  1. During pregnancy or lactating, adequate nutrition for adolescents becomes critical to reduce risks for both child and maternal-related morbidity and mortality. Power dynamics play a massive role in health outc...

    Authors: Charles O. Opiyo, David Omondi Okeyo, Sussy Gumo, Elly O. Munde, Zablon O. Omungo, Maureen Olyaro, Rachel K. Ndirangu, Nanlop Ogbureke, Sophie Efange and Collins Ouma
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:537
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. The emergence and spread of pathogenic bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics has become a major public health concern. The incorrect prescription, inappropriate consumption and excess use of antimicrobial ...

    Authors: Samer Sakr, Ali Ghaddar, Bassam Hamam and Imtithal Sheet
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:535
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  3. Direct observed treatment (DOT) has been implemented in Bhutan since 1997 and currently, it is offered in various model of delivery including a combination of hospital based, home based DOT and ambulatory DOT....

    Authors: Kunzang Dorji, Trisasi Lestari, Sonam Jamtsho and Yodi Mahendradhata
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:533
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  4. The advent of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) is associated with improved clinical and laboratory outcomes resulting in prolonged life and well-being of people living with Human Immunodeficiency V...

    Authors: Bello Abdullahi Suleiman, Mohammed Yahaya, F. A. Olaniyan, A. G. Sule and M. B. Sufiyan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:531
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  5. Acute arboviral infections are distributed worldwide including Sudan, and dengue fever (DENV) is not an exception. The virus activity has recently been frequently reported in Kassala State, eastern Sudan. Howe...

    Authors: Mawahib H. Eldigail, Hazem A. Abubaker, Fatima A. Khalid, Tajeldin M. Abdallah, Ibrahim A. Adam, Gamal K. Adam, Rabie A. Babiker, Mohamed E. Ahmed, Eltahir M. Haroun and Imadeldin E. Aradaib
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:530
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  6. Indonesia shoulders a significant tobacco burden, with almost two million cases of tobacco-related illnesses and more than two hundred thousand tobacco-related deaths annually. Indonesian tobacco control is pr...

    Authors: Putu Ayu Swandewi Astuti, Mary Assunta and Becky Freeman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:527
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  8. Globally, two billion workers are employed informally but there is limited research on the relationship between informal work and health. Existing studies have focused on informality as an employment condition...

    Authors: Thant Ko Ko, Julia Dickson-Gomez, Gisèle Yasmeen, Wai Wai Han, Katherine Quinn, Kirsten Beyer and Laura Glasman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:524
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  9. Since young children spend approximately 30 h per week in early childcare centres (ECC), this setting is ideal to foster healthy behaviours. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of the Healthy Start-Dé...

    Authors: Anne Leis, Stéphanie Ward, Hassan Vatanparast, M. Louise Humbert, Amanda Froehlich Chow, Nazeem Muhajarine, Rachel Engler-Stringer and Mathieu Bélanger
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:523
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  10. Current guidelines suggest too little sleep, too little physical activity, and too much sedentary time are associated with poor health outcomes. These behaviours may also influence academic performance in scho...

    Authors: Erin K. Howie, John Joosten, Courtenay J. Harris and Leon M. Straker
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:520
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  11. The main aim of this study was to determine the socioeconomic and family factors associated with binge drinking (BD) in Spanish adolescents who participated in a web-based computer intervention for the prevent...

    Authors: Ana Magdalena Vargas-Martínez, Marta Trapero-Bertran, Toni Mora and Marta Lima-Serrano
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:519
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  12. It was highlighted that the original article [1] contained an ambiguity in the citation of Reference 2 in the Results section.

    Authors: Miia Wikström, Heidi Anttila, Minna Savinainen, Anne Kouvonen and Matti Joensuu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:518
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Public Health 2020 20:327

  13. Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) comprise 20 communicable diseases that are prevalent in rural poor and remote communities with less access to the health system. For effective and efficient control, the WHO ...

    Authors: Aboa Paul Koffi, Théodore Ange Kouakou Yao, Yves Thierry Barogui, Gabriel Diez, Simplice Djakeaux, Marie Hélène Zahiri, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh, Silvia Santos, Kingsley Bampoe Asiedu, Roch Christian Johnson and Henri Assé
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:517
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  14. Smoking and alcohol consumption are the most common social habits in patients with sialolithiasis. Moreover, obesity has been reported to have a significant association with poor oral hygiene, one of the cause...

    Authors: Young Ju Jin, Young Eun Han and Hyo Geun Choi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:516
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  15. There is evidence that type 2 diabetes self-management programmes may have a positive impact on health outcomes of adults living in Gulf countries. However, none of the programmes evaluated were developed usin...

    Authors: Thamer Al Slamah, Barbara I. Nicholl, Fatima Y. Alslail, Leanne Harris, Deborah Kinnear and Craig A. Melville
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:515
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  16. Indigenous Australians suffer from higher rates of oral disease and have more untreated dental problems and tooth extractions than the general population. Indigenous Australians also have lower rates of access...

    Authors: Anna Tynan, David Walker, Taygan Tucker, Barry Fisher and Tarita Fisher
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:514
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  17. Weight-for-height Z-score (WHZ) and Mid Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) are both commonly used as acute malnutrition screening criteria. However, there exists disparity between the groups identified as malnouri...

    Authors: Eunyong Ahn, Cyprian Ouma, Mesfin Loha, Asrat Dibaba, Wendy Dyment, Jaekwang Kim, Nam Seon Beck and Taesung Park
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:511
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  18. Adolescence is a period during which physical, social, and mental abilities are rapidly developed, and during this time the family environment plays an important role. Differences in health behaviors, mental h...

    Authors: Hanul Park and Kang-Sook Lee
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:510
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  19. Despite widely available access to HIV care in Washington, DC, inequities in HIV outcomes persist. We hypothesized that laboratory monitoring and virologic outcomes would not differ significantly based on insu...

    Authors: Deborah Goldstein, W. David Hardy, Anne Monroe, Qingjiang Hou, Rachel Hart and Arpi Terzian
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:509
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  20. Community engagement is increasingly seen as key to improving healthcare systems and to increasing communities’ involvement in the shaping of their own communities. This paper describes how ‘community engageme...

    Authors: E. De Weger, N. J. E. Van Vooren, H. W. Drewes, K. G. Luijkx and C. A. Baan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:508
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  21. Health systems in Canada and elsewhere are at a crossroads of reform in response to rising economic and societal pressures. The Quadruple Aim advocates for: improving patient experience, reducing cost, advanci...

    Authors: Ruta K. Valaitis, Sabrina T. Wong, Marjorie MacDonald, Ruth Martin-Misener, Linda O’Mara, Donna Meagher-Stewart, Sandy Isaacs, Nancy Murray, Andrea Baumann, Fred Burge, Michael Green, Janusz Kaczorowski and Rachel Savage
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:507
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Brucellosis is a serious public health problem primarily affecting livestock workers. The strong seasonality of the disease indicates that climatic factors may play important roles in the transmission of the d...

    Authors: Kun Liu, Zurong Yang, Weifeng Liang, Tianci Guo, Yong Long and Zhongjun Shao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:506
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  23. Approximately 66% of children under the age of 5 in Sub-Saharan African countries do not reach their full cognitive potential, the highest percentage in the world. Because the majority of studies investigating...

    Authors: Fabrizio Drago, Rebecca J. Scharf, Angelina Maphula, Emanuel Nyathi, Tjale C. Mahopo, Erling Svensen, Estomih Mduma, Pascal Bessong and Elizabeth T. Rogawski McQuade
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:505
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Eighty per cent of perinatally HIV infected (PHI) adolescents live in sub-Saharan Africa (sSA), a setting also characterized by huge economic disparities. Caregiving is crucial to the management of chronic ill...

    Authors: Patrick V. Katana, Amina Abubakar, Moses K. Nyongesa, Derrick Ssewanyana, Paul Mwangi, Charles R. Newton and Julie Jemutai
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:504
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Stress is an increasing public health problem, and the association between stress and subjective social status (SSS) among adolescents has received little attention. SSS in society have shown to be associated ...

    Authors: Pernille Bach Steen, Per Høgh Poulsen, Johan Hviid Andersen and Karin Biering
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:396
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  27. Social participation (SP) is known to have a favourable impact on health. However, studies on this issue have been conducted mainly in advanced countries, and results in China have been mixed. This study exami...

    Authors: Xinxin Ma, Xiangdan Piao and Takashi Oshio
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:502
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  28. Successful treatment of tuberculosis leads to clinical and public health benefits such as reduction in transmission, complications, and mortality among patients. However, data are limited on treatment outcomes...

    Authors: Jonathan Izudi, Imelda K. Tamwesigire and Francis Bajunirwe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:501
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  29. Interventions directed at after school programs (ASPs) have the potential to support physical activity (PA) in young children. Research has indicated that interventions that emphasize competence building among...

    Authors: Kirsti Riiser, Kåre Rønn Richardsen, Anders L. H. Haugen, Siv Lund and Knut Løndal
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:500
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Despite the existence of urban and rural health extension workers maternal mortality and morbidity remain, as a public health problem in Ethiopia. The utilization of maternal health services from UHE-ps is key...

    Authors: Kebede Megerssa Berri, Yeshi Kumera Adaba, Teka Girma Tarefasa, Nagasa Dida Bededa and Daniel Belema Fekene
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:499
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  31. Fall is a major public health problem and potentially disabling issue. A vast burden of visually impaired live in low-middle income countries particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Limited ability to detect envir...

    Authors: Moges Gashaw, Balamurugan Janakiraman, Amare Minyihun, Gashaw Jember and Kedir Sany
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:498
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  32. Recovery Education Centres (RECs) are increasingly implemented to support the process of recovery for individuals experiencing mental health challenges. However, the evidence on key REC mechanisms and outcomes...

    Authors: Nadine Reid, Bushra Khan, Sophie Soklaridis, Nicole Kozloff, Rebecca Brown and Vicky Stergiopoulos
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:497
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  33. The HEP was established decades ago to address preventive, promotive and selective curative services through Health Extension Workers (HEWs). However, knowledge and practice of HEWs on drug provision for child...

    Authors: Ager Befekadu and Mezgebu Yitayal
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:496
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  34. In Nicaragua, cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women. Human papillomavirus (HPV) testing, primarily using self-sampling, was introduced between 2014 and 2018 in three provinces. We an...

    Authors: Francesca Holme, Francisco Maldonado, Orlando B. Martinez-Granera, Jose Maria Rodriguez, Juan Almendarez, Rose Slavkovsky, Pooja Bansil, Kerry A. Thomson, Jose Jeronimo and Silvia de Sanjose
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:495
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  35. HIV testing programs in the United States aim to reach ethnic minority populations who experience high incidence of HIV, yet 40% of African Americans have never been tested for HIV. The objective of this study...

    Authors: Allison Mathews, Samantha Farley, Donaldson F. Conserve, Kimberly Knight, Alston Le’Marus, Meredith Blumberg, Stuart Rennie and Joseph Tucker
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:494
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  36. In Kenya, unsafe abortion is the leading cause of maternal deaths in adolescent girls aged 15–19 years, and a majority did not use a modern contraceptive before becoming pregnant. The aim of this study was to ...

    Authors: Miranda Håkansson, Stephanie Super, Monica Oguttu and Marlene Makenzius
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:493
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  37. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children experience some of the highest rates of otitis media in the world. Key risk factors for otitis media in Aboriginal children in Australia are largely social and en...

    Authors: Jack DeLacy, Tinashe Dune and John J. Macdonald
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:492
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  38. In the original article [1] the first paragraph of the Background section was omitted due to a discrepancy between the metadata of the article and the PDF version.

    Authors: Juliet Nabirye, Livex Andrew Okwi, Rebecca Nuwematsiko, George Kiwanuka, Fiston Muneza, Carol Kamya and Juliet N. Babirye
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:491
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Public Health 2020 20:171

  39. Achieving the 95–95-95 global targets by 2030, innovative HIV testing models, such as HIV self-testing are needed for people, who are unaware of their HIV status. We aimed to explore key informants, mountain c...

    Authors: Bernard Njau, Esther Lisasi, Damian J. Damian, Declare L. Mushi, Andrew Boulle and Catherine Mathews
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:490
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. The current study investigated the prevalence of depressed mood, suicide ideation, suicide plan, and suicide attempt and their associations with health risk behaviors among high school adolescents in the Commo...

    Authors: Jennifer Lisa Sakamoto, Akira Shibanuma and Masamine Jimba
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:489
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  41. Procedural justice has been linked to several mental health problems, but most studies have used self-reported data. There exist a need to assess the link between procedural justice and health using outcomes t...

    Authors: Viktor Persson, Constanze Eib, Claudia Bernhard-Oettel and Constanze Leineweber
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:488
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. There is metabolic heterogeneity in normal-weight individuals, however, there has been limited research in the Chinese population. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence, distribution and epidemiologic...

    Authors: Qianqian Zheng, Weihua Lin, Chengguo Liu, Yaohan Zhou, Tianhui Chen, Liqun Zhang, Xuhui Zhang, Senhai Yu, Qiong Wu, Ziqi Jin and Yimin Zhu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:487
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  43. Since the 2009 A/H1N1 pandemic, Public Health England have developed a suite of real-time statistical models utilising enhanced pandemic surveillance data to nowcast and forecast a future pandemic. Their abili...

    Authors: Paul J. Birrell, Xu-Sheng Zhang, Alice Corbella, Edwin van Leeuwen, Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, Katja Hoschler, Alex J. Elliot, Maryia McGee, Simon de Lusignan, Anne M. Presanis, Marc Baguelin, Maria Zambon, André Charlett, Richard G. Pebody and Daniela De Angelis
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:486
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  44. Improving the coverage of antenatal care is regarded as an important strategy to reduce the risks of maternal and child mortality in low income settings like Gambia. Nonetheless, a large number of countries in...

    Authors: Sanni Yaya, Olanrewaju Oladimeji, Kelechi Elizabeth Oladimeji and Ghose Bishwajit
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:485
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  45. This study evaluated whether parent-child attachment and self-esteem may mediate the relationship between parental marital conflict and increases in features of internet gaming disorder (IGD) in children at 1 ...

    Authors: Hyunsuk Jeong, Hyeon Woo Yim, Seung-Yup Lee, Hae Kook Lee, Marc N. Potenza, Sun-Jin Jo and Hye Jung Son
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:484
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  46. Echinococcosis is a neglected zoonotic parasitic disease caused echinococcus parasitizes, poseing a significant economic burden on both humans and animals. There are limited studies on echinococcosis in China,...

    Authors: Nima Qucuo, Guangjian Wu, Ruifeng He, Danzeng Quzhen, Ciren Zhuoga, Suolang Deji, Lijie Zhang, Zhigang Zhao and Zhongjun Du
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:483
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  47. The first 1000 days after conception are a critical period to encourage lifestyle changes to reduce the risk of childhood obesity and early programming of chronic diseases. A healthy lifestyle during pregnancy...

    Authors: Adrienne Alayli, Franziska Krebs, Laura Lorenz, Farah Nawabi, Anne-Madeleine Bau, Isabel Lück, Andrea Moreira, Judith Kuchenbecker, Elena Tschiltschke, Michael John, Stefan Klose, Benny Häusler, Christian Giertz, Ulrike Korsten-Reck and Stephanie Stock
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:482
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  48. Poor personal hygiene and inadequate sanitation practices among young children leads to communicable diseases. There remains a gap in the holistic assessment of school children’s hygiene literacy, practices an...

    Authors: Nousheen Akber Pradhan, Waliyah Mughis, Tazeen Saeed Ali, Maleeha Naseem and Rozina Karmaliani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:481
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  49. Screening for sexually transmitted infection (STI) especially HIV as early detection and treatment have been financially supported under the Thai Universal Coverage (UC) scheme since 2009 (THB140 for HIV). How...

    Authors: Orawan Anunsittichai, Krit Pongpirul, Thanyawee Puthanakit, Koranit Roowicha, Jirarat Kaewprasert, Wipaporn Natalie Songtaweesin and Surasith Chaithongwongwattana
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:480
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  50. Great changes have taken place in terms of people’s lifestyles and behavioral habits. Diabetes has become a threat to human health and is the most important noncommunicable disease. More than 60% of rural diab...

    Authors: Hong-hong Jia, Li Liu, Gui-xia Huo, Rui-qi Wang, Yu-qiu Zhou and Li-yan Yang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:478
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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