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  1. The various restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic may have worsened the digital divide and health inequality. However, research to ascertain the association between Internet use and difficulties in acqu...

    Authors: Eunjin Yang, Min Jung Kim and Kyung Hee Lee
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:534
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  2. Previous studies of singletons evaluating prenatal phthalate exposure and early neurodevelopment reported mixed results and the associations could be biased by parental, obstetrical, and genetic factors.

    Authors: Han Xiao, Liqin Hu, Tingting Tang, Jufang Zhong, Qiao Xu, Xiaonan Cai, Feiyan Xiang, Pan Yang, Hong Mei and Aifen Zhou
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:533
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  3. Chronic hepatitis C (CHC) virus infection is a global health concern that is associated with significant liver-related morbidity and mortality. Owing to the inflammatory pathway, CHC can causefatty liver, live...

    Authors: Ta-Jen Wang, Mei-Yen Chen, Yu-Chih Lin, Wen-Nan Chiu, Tung-Jung Huang and Hsu-Huei Weng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:532
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  4. In the global trend of actively promoting the participation of older adults in the digital age, the relevant negative issues featuring potential Internet Addiction (IA) among them has risen to be a new challen...

    Authors: Dan Wang, Xinyi Liu, Kun Chen, Chunyan Gu, Hongyan Zhao, Yong Zhang and Yu Luo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:531
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  5. The monotonous nature of work, long driving duration, and working overload hours cause frequent fatigue in taxi drivers. A high prevalence of fatigue is associated with traffic accidents. However, the risk fac...

    Authors: Enayatollah Homaie Rad, Marjan Hosseinnia, Nima Mousavi, Arian Shekari, Leila Kouchakinejad-Eramsadati and Naema Khodadadi-Hassankiadeh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:530
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  8. Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is frequently misdiagnosed during pregnancy. There is an abundance of evidence, but little is known regarding the regional prevalence estimates of GDM in India. This systema...

    Authors: Neha Mantri, Akhil Dhanesh Goel, Mamta Patel, Pritish Baskaran, Gitashree Dutta, Manoj Kumar Gupta, Vikas Yadav, Madhukar Mittal, Shashank Shekhar and Pankaj Bhardwaj
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:527
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  9. Understanding the trends of tuberculosis (TB) burden and its risk factors at the provincial level in the context of global End TB targets is crucial to identify the progress and challenges in TB control. We ai...

    Authors: Yun Wang, Huijuan Chen, Xiaoqi Zeng, Long Liao, Xiaolong Lu and Aihua Zhang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:526
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  11. Persistent disparities exist between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (the Indigenous peoples of Australia) and non-Indigenous Australians associated with cancer, with Aboriginal and Torres Strait...

    Authors: John Gilroy, Mandy Henningham, Drew Meehan, Farhana Nila, Joanna McGlone, Amanda McAtamney, Kate Whittaker, Bena Brown, Megan Varlow and Tanya Buchanan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:523
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  12. Studies on the association between estimated cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and changes in metabolic risk in the Chinese population are limited. This study aims to examine the associations between CRF and cha...

    Authors: Yuanjiao Liu, Jinghan Zhu, Jiazhou Yu and Xuhui Zhang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:522
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  13. Voluntary assisted partner notification (VAPN) in HIV contact tracing is a globally recommended strategy to identify persons who have been exposed to HIV and link them to HIV testing and follow-up. However, th...

    Authors: Maureen McGowan, Kate Bärnighausen, Astrid Berner-Rodoreda, Shannon A. McMahon, Caroline Mtaita, Joy Mauti and Florian Neuhann
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:521
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  14. Migrants and refugees face unprecedented inequalities in accessing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in developed and developing countries. Most attention has focused on the rich world perspective, while th...

    Authors: Tadele Dana Darebo, Mark Spigt, Berhanetsehay Teklewold, Abebe Sorsa Badacho, Niklas Mayer and Meba Teklewold
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:520
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  16. Hikikomori refers to the extreme isolation of individuals in their own homes, lasting at least six months. In recent years social isolation has become an important clinical, social, and public health problem, ...

    Authors: Francisca Correia Lopes, Mariana Pinto da Costa, Cesar I Fernandez-Lazaro, Francisco J Lara-Abelenda, Victor Pereira-Sanchez, Alan R Teo and Miguel Angel Alvarez-Mon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:518
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  17. The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review to summarize and assess the advancements lately made on the enjoyable impacts of game-based physical education interventions on children and adole...

    Authors: Weilong Mo, Jamalsafri Bin Saibon, Yaming LI, Jiequan Li and Yanwu He
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:517
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  19. Our study aimed to investigate the impact of urinary concentrations of personal care products (PCPs)-related phenols (PNs) and parabens (PBs), including Triclosan (TCS), Bisphenol A (BPA), Benzophenone-3 (BP-3...

    Authors: Jinjiang Jiang, Bo Chen, Bo Tang, Jinze Li, Chensong Zhang, Daqing Tan, Ting Zhang and Qiang Wei
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:515
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  20. Cancer registries in Nigeria, as well as in other sub-Saharan African countries, face challenges in adhering to international cancer registration standards. We aimed to improve cancer incidence estimation by i...

    Authors: Gregrey A. Oko-oboh, Anssi Auvinen, Darlington E. Obaseki and Janne Pitkäniemi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:514
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  21. Seasonal influenza and other respiratory tract infections are serious public health problems that need to be further addressed and investigated. Internet search data are recognized as a valuable source for for...

    Authors: Su wei, Sun Lin, Zhao wenjing, Song Shaoxia, Yang Yuejie, He Yujie, Zhang Shu, Li Zhong and Liu Ti
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:513
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  22. In low- and middle-income countries, households mainly use solid fuels like wood, charcoal, dung, agricultural residues, and coal for cooking. This poses significant public health concerns due to the emission ...

    Authors: Sayed Mohammad Rasel, Abu Bakkar Siddique, Md. Fahad Shahariar Nayon, Md Shakil Mahmud Suzon, Sanzida Amin, Sadia Sultana Mim and Md. Shakhaoat Hossain
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:512
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  23. Rapid antigen-detection tests for SARS-CoV-2 self-testing represent a useful tool for pandemic control and expanding access to community-level case screening. COVID-19 self-tests have been extensively used in ...

    Authors: Elena Marbán-Castro, Vladimer Getia, Maia Alkhazashvili, Maia Japaridze, Ia Jikia, Berra Erkosar, Paula Del Rey-Puech, Guillermo Z. Martínez-Pérez, Paata Imnadze, Amiran Gamkrelidze, Olga Denisiuk, Elena Ivanova Reipold and Sonjelle Shilton
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:511
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  24. Women who are sexually active are at risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), which can cause serious difficulties for their reproductive health. However, despite the high global burden of STIs, most in...

    Authors: Afsaneh Karami Juyani, Fatemeh Zarei and Raziyeh Maasoumi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:510
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  25. The number and proportion of the elderly population have been continuously increasing in China, leading to the elevated prevalence of chronic diseases and multimorbidity, which ultimately brings heavy burden t...

    Authors: Shan Gao, Shasha Sun, Ting Sun, Tingting Lu, Yan Ma, Hebin Che, Miao Liu, Wanguo Xue, Kunlun He, Yabin Wang and Feng Cao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:509
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  26. Social media has become an indispensable part of contemporary young people's lives, and the influence of social media on college students' eating and other health-related behaviors has become increasingly prom...

    Authors: Kaiyan Xu, Chunguang Liang, Ying Zhao, Fan Zhang, Chunyan Zhang, Yanhong Zhang, Yefan Zhang and Zhaoquan Jiang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:508
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  27. A fundamental ethical issue in African genomics research is how socio-cultural factors impact perspectives, acceptance, and utility of genomic information, especially in stigmatizing conditions like orofacial ...

    Authors: Abimbola M. Oladayo, Oluwakemi Odukoya, Veronica Sule, Ikenna Molobe, Tamara Busch, Babatunde Akodu, Wasiu L. Adeyemo, Lord J. J. Gowans, Mekonen Eshete, Azeez Alade, Waheed Awotoye, Adebowale A. Adeyemo, Peter A. Mossey, Anya E. R. Prince, Jeffrey C. Murray and Azeez Butali
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:507
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  28. In recent years, healthcare systems have progressively adopted several technologies enhancing access to healthcare for older adults and support the delivery of efficient and effective care for this specific po...

    Authors: Alessia Bertolazzi, Valeria Quaglia and Ramona Bongelli
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:506
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  29. In April 2021, the province of Ontario, Canada, was at the peak of its third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Intensive Care Unit (ICU) capacity in the Toronto metropolitan area was insufficient to handle local ...

    Authors: Mehmet A. Begen, Felipe F. Rodrigues, Tim Rice and Gregory S. Zaric
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:505
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  30. Sexual minority status is associated with face-to-face bullying and cyberbullying victimization. However, limited studies have investigated whether such a relationship differs by sex or grade in a nationally r...

    Authors: Junjie Lu, Jiarui Yang, Ekaterina Sadikova and Henning Tiemeier
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:504
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  31. The literature on disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake focuses primarily on the differences between White versus non-White individuals or differences by socioeconomic status. Much less is known about dispari...

    Authors: Elizabeth Wong, Ying Liu, Victoria Shier and Ashlesha Datar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:503
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  32. Supporting the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (hereafter respectfully referred to as First Nations peoples) is a national priority for Australia. Despite immense losses o...

    Authors: Kate Anderson, Elaina Elder-Robinson, Megan Ferguson, Bronwyn Fredericks, Simone Sherriff, Michelle Dickson, Kirsten Howard and Gail Garvey
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:502
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  33. Housing instability is highly prevalent among intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors, and the coupling consequences of structural racism, sexism, classism, and the COVID-19 pandemic, may create more barrier...

    Authors: Tiara C. Willie, Sabriya L. Linton, Shannon Whittaker, Karlye A. Phillips, Deja Knight, Mya C. Gray, Gretta Gardner and Nicole M. Overstreet
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:501
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  34. Tobacco smoking remains a key cause of preventable illness and death globally. In response, many countries provide extensive services to help people to stop smoking by offering a variety of effective behaviour...

    Authors: Rikke Siersbaek, Paul Kavanagh, John Ford, Sara Burke and Sarah Parker
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:500
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  35. Chronic kidney disease (CKD), often coexisting with various systemic disorders, may increase the risk of falls. Our study aimed to assess the prevalence and risk of falls among patients with CKD in China.

    Authors: Pinli Lin, Biyu Wan, Jintao Zhong, Mengya Wang, Fang Tang, Lingzhen Wang, Junjun Guo, Yuling Ye, Xusheng Liu, Lu Peng and Lili Deng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:499
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  36. Differences in type 2 diabetes risk have been reported for several sociodemographic determinants including sex/gender or socioeconomic status. From an intersectional perspective, it is important to not only co...

    Authors: Francesca Färber, Enrique Alonso-Perez, Christin Heidemann, Yong Du, Gertraud Stadler, Paul Gellert and Julie Lorraine O’Sullivan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:498
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  37. This study evaluated a research project that provided employment in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-based setting and supported participants to identify and achieve their goals and aspiratio...

    Authors: Elizabeth Doery, Lata Satyen, Yin Paradies, Graham Gee and John W. Toumbourou
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:497
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  38. Prior to December 2022, there were no reports of reinfection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Shaanxi province, China. Since then, China has refined its strategy in resp...

    Authors: Mengyan Zhang, Lei Cao, Luqian Zhang, Xinxin Li, Sa Chen and Yi Zhang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:496
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  39. While there is increasing evidence for negative physical health consequences of high volumes of sedentary time and prolonged sedentary time in adolescents, the association with cognition is less clear. This st...

    Authors: Veerle Van Oeckel, Louise Poppe, Benedicte Deforche, Ruben Brondeel, Marijke Miatton and Maïté Verloigne
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:495
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  40. Quantitative evidence on the impact of meteorological factors on influenza transmissibility across different virus types/subtypes is scarce, and no previous studies have reported the effect of hourly temperatu...

    Authors: Ze-Lin Yan, Wen-Hui Liu, Yu-Xiang Long, Bo-Wen Ming, Zhou Yang, Peng-Zhe Qin, Chun-Quan Ou and Li Li
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:494
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  41. Early COVID-19 pandemic research found changes in health care and diabetes management, as well as increased diabetes distress. This study aims to determine the association between COVID-19 pandemic-related hea...

    Authors: Ankeeta Saseetharran and Shivani A. Patel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:493
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  42. Adolescence is a critical period for development, with many risk factors resulting in long-term health consequences, particularly regarding mental health. The purpose of this study was to examine the associati...

    Authors: Blal Idrees, Hugues Sampasa-Kanyinga, Hayley A. Hamilton and Jean-Philippe Chaput
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:492
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  43. This study examined the relationship between loneliness and bedtime procrastination among Chinese university students, the mediating effects of COVID-19 risk perception and self-regulatory fatigue, and connect...

    Authors: Cheng Xu, Nongying Lin, Zhiyu Shen, Zhaoyang Xie, Duo Xu, Jingdong Fu and Wenhua Yan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:491
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  44. The Basic Public Health Service (BPHS), a recently announced free healthcare program, aims to combat the most prevalent Noncommunicable Disease-“Hypertension” (HTN)-and its risk factors on a nationwide scale. ...

    Authors: Linhong Pang, Lakshme Kottu, Zihong Guo, Min Ma, Huadan Wang, Yajing Zhao, Mingjing Tang, Yi Shi, Wei Liu, Xia Wu, Junjie Song, Manli Sun, Daphne Merkus, Md Misbahul Ferdous, Liping He and Lin Duo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:490
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  45. The number of migrants and asylum seekers at the Mexico-US border has increased to historic levels. Our objective was to determine the medical diagnoses and treatments of migrating people seeking care in human...

    Authors: Christopher W. Reynolds, Allison W. Cheung, Sarah Draugelis, Samuel Bishop, Amir M. Mohareb, Ernesto Miguel Merino Almaguer, Yadira Benitez López, Lestter Enjamio Guerra, Raymond Rosenbloom, Joanna Hua, Callie VanWinkle, Pratik Vadlamudi, Vikas Kotagal and Florian Schmitzberger
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:489
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  47. The literature on therapeutic landscapes highlights that the university campus landscape has restorative effects on students. This deserves more scholarly attention since mental health has become an important ...

    Authors: Xuanyi Nie, Yifei Wang, Chan Zhang, Yu Zhao and Niall Kirkwood
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:487
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  48. Nutritional deficiencies remain serious medical and public health issues worldwide, especially in children. This study aims to analyze cross-country inequality in four common nutritional deficiencies (protein-...

    Authors: Wenkai Jiang, Xiao Li, Ruiying Wang, Yan Du and Wence Zhou
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:486
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  50. Nutritional status during pregnancy can have a significant impact on infant and maternal health outcomes. To maintain maternal homeostasis and support fetal growth, adequate macronutrient and energy intake dur...

    Authors: Mohammad Khammarnia, Alireza Ansari-Moghaddam, Fatemeh Govahi kakhki, Cain Craig Truman Clark and Fatemeh Bagher Barahouei
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:478
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