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  1. Parental support is an important element in overweight prevention programs for children. The purpose of this study was to examine everyday life situations in which mothers encounter difficulties encouraging he...

    Authors: Emilie L. M. Ruiter, Gerdine A. J. Fransen, Gerard R. M. Molleman, Michelle J. H. M. Hoeijmakers, Koos van der Velden and Rutger C. M. E. Engels
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:701
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Little is known about the long-term shifts in distributions of three abdominal-obesity-related indicators, waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHpR) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) among Chinese adu...

    Authors: Xiwen Qian, Chang Su, Bing Zhang, Guoyou Qin, Huijun Wang and Zhenyu Wu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:700
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  3. While schools have potential to contribute to children’s health and healthy behaviour, embedding health promotion within complex school systems is challenging. The ‘Healthy Primary School of the Future’ (HPSF)...

    Authors: N. H. M. Bartelink, P. van Assema, M. W. J. Jansen, H. H. C. M. Savelberg, G. F. Moore, J. Hawkins and S. P. J. Kremers
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:698
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  4. Many studies have demonstrated positive effects of physical activity on children’s health such as improved cardiorespiratory function and decreased obesity. Physical activity has also been found to have positi...

    Authors: Kenji Takehara, Togoobaatar Ganchimeg, Akihito Kikuchi, Lkagvasuren Gundegmaa, Lkagvasuren Altantsetseg, Ai Aoki, Takemune Fukuie, Kazuya Suwabe, Shagdar Bat-Erdene, Masashi Mikami, Rintaro Mori and Hideaki Soya
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:697
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  5. Malaria remains endemic in Ghana despite several interventions. Studies have demonstrated very high levels of asymptomatic malaria parasitaemia in both under-five and school-age children. Mass testing, treatme...

    Authors: Ignatius Cheng Ndong, Daniel Okyere, Juliana Yartey Enos, Alfred Amambua-Ngwa, Corinne Simone C. Merle, Alexander Nyarko, Kwadwo Ansah Koram and Collins Stephan Ahorlu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:695
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. A high level of workplace social capital (WSC) may contribute to the protection of employees’ health. We hypothesized that a participatory workplace intervention would increase the level of WSC defined as vert...

    Authors: Elisabeth Framke, Ole Henning Sørensen, Jacob Pedersen, Thomas Clausen, Vilhelm Borg and Reiner Rugulies
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:693
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Intimate partner violence can have a devastating impact on victims’ psychological and physical health and ability to maintain and preserve interpersonal relationships. The aim of the current study is to empiri...

    Authors: Dayna M. Maniccia and Janel M. Leone
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:692
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  8. The prevalence of periodontal disease is increasing among elderly individuals in Japan. Reports on the risk factors for tooth loss have included socioeconomic status (SES); however, few studies have addressed ...

    Authors: Nobue Nakahori, Michikazu Sekine, Masaaki Yamada, Takashi Tatsuse, Hideki Kido and Michio Suzuki
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:691
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Lung function is lower in people with disadvantaged socio-economic position (SEP) and is associated with hazardous health behaviours and exposures. The associations are likely to be interactive, for example, e...

    Authors: Caroline Carney and Michaela Benzeval
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:690
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  10. Reproductive health is a part of a comprehensive definition of complete physical, mental and social well-being. Sex education is an important aspect of public health. Ignorance, due to the lack of sex educatio...

    Authors: Damian Warzecha, Iwona Szymusik, Bronislawa Pietrzak, Katarzyna Kosinska-Kaczynska, Janusz Sierdzinski, Nicole Sochacki-Wojcicka and Miroslaw Wielgos
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:689
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  11. The health benefits of physical exercise have been shown to be important in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases in patients with hypertension, dyslipidaemia or diabetes. However, few strategies have demo...

    Authors: David C. Missud, Elsa Parot-Schinkel, Laurent Connan, Bruno Vielle and Jean-François Huez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:688
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  12. To achieve the goal of measles eradication, all WHO member countries should continuously monitor the status of measles elimination. This work aims to characterize measles outbreaks in Iran from 2014 to 2016 an...

    Authors: Naser Piri, Manoochehr Karami, Leili Tapak, Seyed Mohsen Zahraei and Younes Mohammadi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:687
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  13. Traditional exercise [supervised exercise (SE)] intervention has been proved to be one of the most effective ways to improve metabolic health. However, most exercise interventions were on a high-cost and small...

    Authors: Yue Fang, Yunsheng Ma, Dandan Mo, Shunxing Zhang, Mi Xiang and Zhiruo Zhang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:686
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  14. Hepatitis G virus (HGV) infection transmitted from blood donors is a concern in China, as many articles about HGV infection in Chinese blood donors from different provinces have been published. This study aime...

    Authors: Taiwu Wang, Juecai Chen, Qi Zhang, Xia Huang, Nanzhen Xie, Jinhai Zhang, Tongjian Cai, Yao Zhang and Hongyan Xiong
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:685
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  15. Frequent users of emergency medical services (EMS) comprise a disproportionate percentage of emergency department (ED) visits. EDs are becoming increasingly overwhelmed and a portion of use by frequent callers...

    Authors: Gina Agarwal, Janice Lee, Brent McLeod, Sabnam Mahmuda, Michelle Howard, Krista Cockrell and Ricardo Angeles
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:684
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  16. An awareness campaign set to accompany the Global Maternal Sepsis Study (GLOSS) was launched in 2017. In order to better develop and evaluate the campaign, we sought to understand the factors that influence aw...

    Authors: Vanessa Brizuela, Mercedes Bonet, João Paulo Souza, Özge Tunçalp, Kasisomayajula Viswanath and Ana Langer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:683
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. Type 2 diabetes is increasing globally, with the highest burden in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) such as the Philippines. Developing effective interventions could improve detection, prevention, and t...

    Authors: Gina Agarwal, Ricardo N. Angeles, Lisa Dolovich, Janusz Kaczorowski, Jessica Gaber, Dale Guenter, Floro Dave Arnuco, Hilton Y. Lam, Lehana Thabane, Daria O’Reilly, Rodelin M. Agbulos, Rosemarie S. Arciaga, Jerome Barrera, Elgie Gregorio, Servando Halili Jr, Norvie Jalani…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:682
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  18. Positive youth development (PYD) models are effective in improving adolescent sexual health. Adolescent programs including peer educators, parents and the wider community also demonstrate effectiveness in impr...

    Authors: Brianna C. S. Crocker, Sabrina W. Pit, Vibeke Hansen, Franklin John-Leader and Mary Louise Wright
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:681
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. Worldwide, roughly 80% of adolescents fail to meet World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations regarding physical activity, though there is substantial variation in adolescent physical activity prevalence ...

    Authors: Dominic Weinberg, Gonneke W. J. M. Stevens, Jens Bucksch, Jo Inchley and Margaretha de Looze
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:680
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. In 2014, Alberta, Canada broke new ground in having the first provincial healthcare policy and procedure for advance care planning (ACP), the process of communicating and documenting a person’s future healthca...

    Authors: Patricia D. Biondo, Seema King, Barinder Minhas, Konrad Fassbender and Jessica E. Simon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:679
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. The total number of people with dementia is increasing worldwide, due to our aging society. Without a disease-modifying drug available, risk reduction strategies are to date the only promising way to reduce de...

    Authors: Irene Heger, Kay Deckers, Martin van Boxtel, Marjolein de Vugt, KlaasJan Hajema, Frans Verhey and Sebastian Köhler
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:678
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Home delivery is the most frequent childbirth practice in Ethiopia and brings health risks for many mothers and their babies which in turn affecting the whole families. Characterizing the spatial variations an...

    Authors: Araya Mesfin Nigatu, Kassahun Alemu Gelaye, Degefie Tibebe Degefie and Abraham Yeneneh Birhanu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:677
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  23. This section defined time use (TU) research, illustrating its relevance for public health. TUR in the health context is the study of health-enhancing and health-compromising behaviours that are assessed across...

    Authors: Adrian Bauman, Michael Bittman and Jonathan Gershuny
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 2):607
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 2

  24. Exercise interventions are typically delivered to people with cancer and survivors via supervised clinical rehabilitation. However, motivating and maintaining activity changes outside of the clinic setting rem...

    Authors: Sjaan R. Gomersall, Tina L. Skinner, Elisabeth Winkler, Genevieve N. Healy, Elizabeth Eakin and Brianna Fjeldsoe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 2):542
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 2

  25. Relatively little is known about how total sedentary time is accumulated in different domains and if correlates of sedentary time differ across domains. Time use surveys present a unique opportunity to study s...

    Authors: Anne Loyen, Josephine Y. Chau, Judith G. M. Jelsma, Femke van Nassau and Hidde P. van der Ploeg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 2):538
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 2

  26. The last few years have seen renewed interest in use-of-time recalls in epidemiological studies, driven by a focus on the 24-h day [including sleep, sitting, and light physical activity (LPA)] rather than just...

    Authors: Charles E. Matthews, David Berrigan, Beate Fischer, Sjaan R. Gomersall, Andrea Hillreiner, Youngwon Kim, Michael F. Leitzmann, Pedro Saint-Maurice, Timothy S. Olds and Gregory J. Welk
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 2):478
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 2

  27. The central aim was to examine the accuracy of the full range of daily activities recorded in self-report time-use diaries against data from two objective passive data collection devices (wearable camera and acce...

    Authors: Teresa Harms, Jonathan Gershuny, Aiden Doherty, Emma Thomas, Karen Milton and Charlie Foster
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 2):455
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 2

  28. Over the last 150 years, advanced economies have seen the burden of disease shift to non-communicable diseases. The risk factors for these diseases are often co-morbidities associated with unhealthy weight. Th...

    Authors: Michael Bittman, Eimear Cleary, Charlotte Wilkinson-Bibicos and Jonathan Gershuny
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 2):454
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 2

  29. Behaviour has diverse economic, social and health consequences. Linking time spent in different daily activities to energy expenditure (EE) is one way of investigating the health and physiological consequences...

    Authors: Teresa Harms, David Berrigan and Jonathan Gershuny
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 2):453
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 2

  30. Differences in how shift workers accumulate physical activity (PA) while at work and in leisure time, on days when they are working at night, during the day, or on non-work days, are largely unexplored. The ai...

    Authors: Tracy L. Kolbe-Alexander, Sjaan Gomersall, Bronwyn Clark, Luciana Torquati, Toby Pavey and Wendy J. Brown
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 2):452
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 2

  31. This Supplement aims to raise awareness and knowledge of how time use surveys may be applied to studying health behaviours such as physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and eating. This commentary provides a...

    Authors: Josephine Y. Chau, Sjaan R. Gomersall, Hidde P. van der Ploeg and Karen Milton
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 2):451
    Content type: Introduction Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 2

  32. Recently, a small number of studies have suggested that gains in fitness and reductions in body fat achieved during the school term are reversed or stagnate during the holiday period. This may be associated wi...

    Authors: Tim Olds, Carol Maher and Dorothea Dumuid
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 2):450
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 2

  33. Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) has demonstrated patients’ physiological and psychosocial improvements, symptoms reduction and health-economic benefits whilst enhances the ability of the whole family to adjust t...

    Authors: Alda Marques, Cristina Jácome, Patrícia Rebelo, Cátia Paixão, Ana Oliveira, Joana Cruz, Célia Freitas, Marília Rua, Helena Loureiro, Cristina Peguinho, Fábio Marques, Adriana Simões, Madalena Santos, Paula Martins, Alexandra André, Sílvia De Francesco…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:676
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  34. Animal data suggest that jet fuels such as JP-8 are associated with hearing deficits when combined with noise and that the effect is more pronounced than with noise exposure alone. Some studies suggest periphe...

    Authors: Adrian Fuente, Louise Hickson, Thais C. Morata, Warwick Williams, Asaduzzaman Khan and Eduardo Fuentes-Lopez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:675
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  35. The HealthyFood (HF) program offers members up to 25% cash back monthly on healthy food purchases. In this randomized controlled trial, we tested the efficacy of financial incentives combined with text message...

    Authors: Anjali Gopalan, Pamela A. Shaw, Raymond Lim, Jithen Paramanund, Deepak Patel, Jingsan Zhu, Kevin G. Volpp and Alison M. Buttenheim
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:674
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  36. India is home to 243 million adolescents. Two million (9%) of them belong to Scheduled Tribes living in underserved, rural areas. Few studies have examined the health of tribal adolescents. We conducted a cros...

    Authors: Kelly Rose-Clarke, Hemanta Pradhan, Suchitra Rath, Shibanand Rath, Subhashree Samal, Sumitra Gagrai, Nirmala Nair, Prasanta Tripathy and Audrey Prost
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:673
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  37. There has been an increasing interest in urban agriculture (UA) practice and research in recent years. Scholars have already reported numerous beneficial and potential adverse impacts of UA on health-related o...

    Authors: Pierre Paul Audate, Melissa A. Fernandez, Geneviève Cloutier and Alexandre Lebel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:672
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Domestic violence is one of the most common forms of violence against women. Domestic violence during pregnancy is associated with adverse perinatal and maternal outcomes. We aimed to assess whether domestic v...

    Authors: Kunta Devi Pun, Poonam Rishal, Elisabeth Darj, Jennifer Jean Infanti, Shrinkhala Shrestha, Mirjam Lukasse and Berit Schei
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:671
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Thermal fogging of Insecticides is a vector control strategy used by the Medellin Secretary of Health to combat dengue. This method is employed during outbreaks to curb populations of potentially infectious ad...

    Authors: Andrés F. Usuga, Lina M. Zuluaga-Idárraga, Natalia Alvarez, Raúl Rojo, Enrique Henao and Guillermo L. Rúa-Uribe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:669
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Accurate and timely data on the health of a population are key for evidence-based decision making at both the policy and programmatic level. In many low-income settings, such data are unavailable or outdated. ...

    Authors: Henry Mark, Jasper V. Been, Bakary Sonko, Abdoulie Faal, Mohammed Ngum, Jahid Hasan, Andrew M. Prentice and Stefan A. Unger
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:668
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Epigenetic markers might be used for risk-stratifying cancer screening and prevention programs in the future. Although the clinical utility of consequent epigenetic tests for risk stratification is yet to be p...

    Authors: Odette Wegwarth, Nora Pashayan, Martin Widschwendter and Felix G. Rebitschek
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:667
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Tobacco remains a leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., responsible for more than 440,000 deaths each year. Approximately 10% of these deaths are attributable to exposure of non-smokers to secondhand...

    Authors: Rodrigo Arce Cardozo, Alexis Feinberg, Albert Tovar, M. J. Ruzmyn Vilcassim, Donna Shelley, Brian Elbel, Sue Kaplan, Katarzyna Wyka, Ana M. Rule, Terry Gordon and Lorna E. Thorpe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:666
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  45. The Social Engagement Framework for Addressing the Chronic-disease-challenge (SEFAC) project intends to empower citizens at risk of or with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and/or cardiovascular disease (CVD) to self-ma...

    Authors: Xuxi Zhang, Siok Swan Tan, Irene Fierloos, Oscar Zanutto, Tamara Alhambra-Borrás, Vanja Vasiljev, Scott Bennett, Tasos Rentoumis, Antonella Buranello, Stefania Macchione, Ellen Rouwet, Amy van Grieken and Hein Raat
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:664
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  46. Previous studies on asthma mortality and hospitalizations in Reunion Island indicate that this French territory is particularly affected by this pathology. Epidemiological studies conducted in schools also sho...

    Authors: J-L. Solet, C. Raherison-Semjen, E. Mariotti, Y. Le Strat, A. Gallay, E. Bertrand, N. Jahaly and L. Filleul
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:663
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  47. The slope (SII) and relative (RII) indices of inequality are commonly recommended to monitor health inequality policies. As an upwards shift of the educational level distribution (ELD) can be part of those pol...

    Authors: Françoise Renard, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Niko Speybroeck and Patrick Deboosere
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:662
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  48. China has the largest obese population in the world, and the prevalence of central obesity is increasing dramatically in China. Moreover, the rapid economic growth of China in recent decades has led to rapid u...

    Authors: Chi Shen, Zhongliang Zhou, Sha Lai, Xingxing Tao, Dantong Zhao, Wanyue Dong, Dan Li, Xin Lan and Jianmin Gao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:661
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  49. Female sex workers (FSW) have a greater HIV burden compared to other reproductive-aged women and experience high incidence of pregnancies. However, there are limited data on mother-to-child transmission of HIV...

    Authors: Jean Olivier Twahirwa Rwema, Stefan Baral, Sosthenes Ketende, Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya, Andrew Lambert, Zamakayise Kose, Mfezi Mcingana, Amrita Rao, Harry Hausler and Sheree Schwartz
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 1):605
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 1

  50. In low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), women have limited access to and uptake of cervical cancer screening. Delayed diagnosis leads to poorer outcomes and early mortality, and continues to impede cancer ...

    Authors: Megan B. Fitzpatrick, Ziad El-Khatib, David Katzenstein, Benjamin A. Pinsky, Zvavahera Mike Chirenje and Kathy McCarty
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 1):603
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 1

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