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  1. Lifetime co-occurrence of violence victimisation is common. A large proportion of victims report being exposed to multiple forms of violence (physical, sexual, emotional violence) and/or violence by multiple k...

    Authors: Johanna Simmons, Barbro Wijma and Katarina Swahnberg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:979
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. As the understanding of how different aspects of the physical activity (PA) pattern relate to health and disease, proper assessment is increasingly important. In clinical care, self-reports are the most common...

    Authors: Örjan Ekblom, Elin Ekblom-Bak, Kate A Bolam, Björn Ekblom, Caroline Schmidt, Stefan Söderberg, Göran Bergström and Mats Börjesson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:978
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  3. Since its founding in 2002, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (Global Fund) has become the dominant multilateral health financier in low- and middle-income countries. The health impact o...

    Authors: Isabel Yan, Eline Korenromp and Eran Bendavid
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:977
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  4. Although public health and primary care share the goal of promoting the health and wellbeing of the public, the two health sectors find it difficult to develop mutually integrated plans and to collaborate with...

    Authors: Ilse Storm, Anke van Gestel, Ien van de Goor and Hans van Oers
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:974
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  5. Studies of social distancing during epidemics have found that the strength of the response can have a decisive impact on the outcome. In previous work we developed a model of social distancing driven by indivi...

    Authors: Adam Kleczkowski, Savi Maharaj, Susan Rasmussen, Lynn Williams and Nicole Cairns
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:973
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  6. Expanded program on immunization is one of the most successful and cost effective public health interventions that protect children against vaccine preventable diseases. The full childhood immunization coverag...

    Authors: Samir A. Abadura, Wondwosen T. Lerebo, Usha Kulkarni and Zeleke A. Mekonnen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:972
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  7. Little evidence exists on the physical activity and sedentary time of Canadian toddlers; this study objectively measured such behaviors and compared participants’ activity levels to national guidelines. Levels...

    Authors: Leigh M. Vanderloo and Patricia Tucker
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:969
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  9. The global tuberculosis (TB) estimate in 2011 was 500,000 cases among children under 15 years representing 5.7 % of all cases and 64, 000 deaths among HIV negative children representing 6.5 % of the total deat...

    Authors: Eric Wobudeya, Deus Lukoye, Irene R. Lubega, Frank Mugabe, Moorine Sekadde and Philippa Musoke
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:967
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  10. China’s unprecedented internal migration has left 61 million rural children living apart from parents. This study investigates how being left behind is associated with children’s growth, by examining children’...

    Authors: Nan Zhang, Laia Bécares and Tarani Chandola
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:966
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  11. Many gynecological cancer survivors (GCS) have comorbid chronic diseases (CCD). This study was to estimate the impacts of CCD on quality of life (QOL) in GCS.

    Authors: Ji-Wei Wang, Li Sun, Jiang Li, Xiao-Huan Cong, Xue-Fen Chen, Zheng Tang, Dong-Hui Yu, Tian-Rui Zhang, Zheng-Nian Luo, Zheng-Ping Yuan and Jin-Ming Yu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:965
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  12. We examined a brief educational intervention addressing hand hygiene self-regulatory mechanisms, and evaluated which psychological mechanisms may lead to hand hygiene behaviours.

    Authors: Benjamín Reyes Fernández, Sonia Lippke, Nina Knoll, Emanuel Blanca Moya and Ralf Schwarzer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:964
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  13. Published descriptions of group-based behaviour-change interventions (GB-BCIs) often omit design and delivery features specific to the group setting. This impedes the ability to compare behaviour-change interv...

    Authors: Aleksandra J. Borek, Charles Abraham, Jane R. Smith, Colin J. Greaves and Mark Tarrant
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:963
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  14. Combating the physical inactivity crisis and improving health and quality of life is a challenge and a public health priority, especially in underserved populations. A key role of public health consists of inf...

    Authors: Emerson Sebastião, Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko and Andiara Schwingel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:962
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  15. Suicide is an urgent public health challenge for China. This study aims to examine the prevalence, influence factors, and gender differences of suicidal ideation among general population in Northwestern Urban ...

    Authors: Huiwen Xu, Weijun Zhang, Xiaohua Wang, Jiaqi Yuan, Xinfeng Tang, Yi Yin, Shengfa Zhang, Huixuan Zhou, Zhiyong Qu and Donghua Tian
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:961
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  16. Across sub-Saharan Africa, men's levels of HIV-testing remain inadequate relative to women’s. Men are less likely to access anti-retroviral therapy and experience higher levels of morbidity and mortality once ...

    Authors: B. Hensen, JJ Lewis, A. Schaap, M. Tembo, M. Vera-Hernández, W. Mutale, HA Weiss, J. Hargreaves, JSA Stringer and H. Ayles
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:960
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  17. Because of the adverse health effects in adults, interventions to influence workplace sitting, a large contributor to overall daily sedentary time, are needed. Computer-tailored interventions have demonstrated...

    Authors: Katrien De Cocker, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Greet Cardon and Corneel Vandelanotte
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:959
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  18. Participation in group-based physical activity (GBPA) interventions has been found to result in higher levels of exercise adherence and program compliance. However, previous reviews of GBPA programs have provi...

    Authors: Samantha M. Harden, Desmond McEwan, Benjamin D. Sylvester, Megan Kaulius, Geralyn Ruissen, Shauna M. Burke, Paul A. Estabrooks and Mark R. Beauchamp
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:958
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  19. A large proportion of treated hypertensive subjects do not achieve target blood pressure (BP) levels. We investigated trends in treatment and BP levels in the population, and among treated hypertensive subject...

    Authors: Ellinor Törmä, Bo Carlberg, Marie Eriksson, Jan-Håkan Jansson and Mats Eliasson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:957
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  20. The aim of this study was to determine the associations between body size and built environment walkability variables, as well as the mediating role of physical activity and sedentary behaviours with body size.

    Authors: Melody Oliver, Karen Witten, Tony Blakely, Karl Parker, Hannah Badland, Grant Schofield, Vivienne Ivory, Jamie Pearce, Suzanne Mavoa, Erica Hinckson, Paul Sweetsur and Robin Kearns
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:956
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  21. Efforts in global heath need to deal not only with current challenges, but also to anticipate new scenarios, which sometimes unfold at lightning speed. Predictive modeling is frequently used to assist planning...

    Authors: Wladimir Jimenez Alonso, Benjamin Joseph James McCormick, Mark A. Miller, Cynthia Schuck-Paim and Ghassem R. Asrar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:955
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  22. Public health interventions can impact a broad number of outcomes, including both health and non-health outcomes (NHOs). However, although it is often acknowledged that it’s important to take NHOs into account...

    Authors: Ghislaine APG van Mastrigt, Aggie TG Paulus, Marie-Jeanne Aarts, Silvia MAA Evers and Adrienne FG Alayli-Goebbels
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:954
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  23. The wide use of the Internet in the workplace, academic or social field, can have an impact on daily life. One of the most used questionnaires worldwide to analyse these problems is the Internet Addiction Test...

    Authors: Tania Fernández-Villa, Antonio J. Molina, Miguel García-Martín, Javier Llorca, Miguel Delgado-Rodríguez and Vicente Martín
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:953
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  24. Skin cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. The increased incidence of skin cancer, combined with limited health care resources and tight budgetary conditions, has increased the importance of u...

    Authors: Christopher M. Doran, Rod Ling, Joshua Byrnes, Melanie Crane, Andrew Searles, Donna Perez and Anthony Shakeshaft
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:952
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  25. This paper identifies factors influencing differences in the prevalence of diarrhea, fever and acute respiratory infection (ARI), and health seeking behavior among caregivers of children under age five in rura...

    Authors: Almamy M. Kanté, Hialy R. Gutierrez, Anna M. Larsen, Elizabeth F. Jackson, Stéphane Helleringer, Amon Exavery, Kassimu Tani and James F. Phillips
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:951
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  26. The objective of this study was to examine whether increased levels of sitting time and physical activity in one period (within-day) or on one day (between-day) were predictive of lower levels in these behavio...

    Authors: Nicola D. Ridgers, Anna Timperio, Ester Cerin and Jo Salmon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:950
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  27. Victimization in cyberspace has emerged as a new public health issue among the young. The main purpose of this study was to analyze associations between cyber victimization defined as cyber harassment (CH) (a ...

    Authors: Maria Fridh, Martin Lindström and Maria Rosvall
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:949
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  28. Numerous studies in schools in the Western Cape Province, South Africa have shown that children have an unhealthy diet with poor diversity and which is high in sugar and fat. HealthKick (HK) was a three-year r...

    Authors: Nelia P. Steyn, Anniza de Villiers, Nomonde Gwebushe, Catherine E. Draper, Jillian Hill, Marina de Waal, Lucinda Dalais, Zulfa Abrahams, Carl Lombard and Estelle V. Lambert
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:948
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  29. In New Haven County, CT (NHC), influenza hospitalization rates have been shown to increase with census tract poverty in multiple influenza seasons. Though multiple factors have been hypothesized to cause these...

    Authors: Supriya Kumar, Kaitlin Piper, David D. Galloway, James L. Hadler and John J. Grefenstette
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:947
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  30. Systematic reviews have highlighted that school-based diet and physical activity (PA) interventions have had limited effects. This study used qualitative methods to examine how the effectiveness of future prim...

    Authors: R. Jago, E. Rawlins, R. R. Kipping, S. Wells, C. Chittleborough, T. J. Peters, J. Mytton, D. A. Lawlor and R. Campbell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:946
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  31. Sexual and reproductive rights include access to accurate and appropriate information in order to make informed decisions. In the current age of media globalization and Internet, adolescents are exposed to inf...

    Authors: Anna K-J Macintyre, Adela Rosa Montero Vega and Mette Sagbakken
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:945
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  32. Tobacco use and unhealthy lifestyle habits amongst youth contribute to most major health issues in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and worldwide. However up to date and comprehensive statistics are not availabl...

    Authors: Leena W. Asfour, Zachary D. Stanley, Michael Weitzman and Scott E. Sherman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:944
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  33. Since SARS epidemic in 2003, Hong Kong has experienced several major epidemic risks, but how general community might react to the repeated infectious diseases health risks have not been studied. In 2013, impor...

    Authors: Emily YY Chan, Calvin KY Cheng, Greta Tam, Zhe Huang and Poyi Lee
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:943
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  34. Effective interventions on screen-time behaviours (television, video games and computer time) are needed to prevent non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries. The present manuscript investi...

    Authors: Susana Andrade, Maïté Verloigne, Greet Cardon, Patrick Kolsteren, Angelica Ochoa-Avilés, Roosmarijn Verstraeten, Silvana Donoso and Carl Lachat
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:942
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  35. Given the large number of workers in the construction industry, it is important to derive accurate and valid estimates of cancer risk, and in particular lung cancer risk. In most previous studies, risks among ...

    Authors: Aude Lacourt, Javier Pintos, Jérôme Lavoué, Lesley Richardson and Jack Siemiatycki
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:941
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  36. A dengue outbreak in an ecotourism destination spot in Vietnam, from September to November 2013, impacted a floating village of fishermen on the coastal island of Cat Ba. The outbreak raises questions about ho...

    Authors: Thanh Le Viet, Marc Choisy, Juliet E. Bryant, Duoc Vu Trong, Thai Pham Quang, Peter Horby, Hien Nguyen Tran, Huong Tran Thi Kieu, Trung Nguyen Vu, Kinh Nguyen Van, Mai Le Quynh and Heiman FL Wertheim
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:940
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  37. Optimal infant nutrition comprises exclusive breastfeeding, with complementary foods introduced from six months of age. How parents make decisions regarding this is poorly studied. This study begins to address...

    Authors: Anne Walsh, Lauren Kearney and Nicole Dennis
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:939
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  38. Most of the commonly used diabetes mellitus screening tools and risk scores have been developed with American or European populations in mind. Their applicability, therefore, to low and middle-income countries...

    Authors: Otgontuya Dugee, Oyunbileg Janchiv, Pekka Jousilahti, Ariuntuya Sakhiya, Enkhtuya Palam, J. Pekka Nuorti and Markku Peltonen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:938
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  39. In Qatar traffic injuries and fatalities are of serious concern. Mobile phone use whilst driving has been associated with increased risk of vehicular collisions and injuries. Seat belt use has been demonstrate...

    Authors: Ziyad R. Mahfoud, Sohaila Cheema, Hekmat Alrouh, Mohammed Hamad Al-Thani, Al Anoud Mohammed Al-Thani and Ravinder Mamtani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:937
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. A high coverage of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination is required to achieve a clinically significant reduction in disease burden. Countries implementing free-of-charge national vaccination program for ado...

    Authors: Albert Lee, Martin CS Wong, Tracy TN Chan and Paul KS Chan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:935
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  42. Infancy and childhood are characterized by rapid growth and development, which largely determine health status and well-being across the lifespan. Identification of modifiable risk factors and prognostic facto...

    Authors: Dianne de Korte-de Boer, Monique Mommers, Huub MH Creemers, Edward Dompeling, Frans JM Feron, Cindy ML Gielkens-Sijstermans, Mariëlle Jaminon, Suhreta Mujakovic, Onno CP van Schayck, Carel Thijs and Maria Jansen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:934
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  43. Hypertension constitutes a growing burden of illness in developing countries like Zambia. Adequately screening and treating hypertension could greatly reduce the complications of stroke and coronary disease. O...

    Authors: Lily D. Yan, Benjamin H. Chi, Ntazana Sindano, Samuel Bosomprah, Jeffrey SA Stringer and Roma Chilengi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:933
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. The population in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) suffers poor health as manifested in high mortality rates and low life expectancy. Economic growth has consistently been shown to be a major determinant of health out...

    Authors: Innocent Makuta and Bernadette O’Hare
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:932
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  45. The third wave of H7N9 cases in China emerged in the second half of 2014. This study was conducted to identify the risk trends of H7N9 virus in human infections and environment contamination.

    Authors: Fan He, En-Fu Chen, Fu-Dong Li, Xin-Yi Wang, Xiao-Xiao Wang and Jun-Fen Lin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:931
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  47. Worker safety education using models that identify and reinforce factors affecting behavior is essential. The present study aimed to determine the effect of safety education based on motivational interviewing ...

    Authors: Ali Navidian, Zahra Rostami and Nasrin Rozbehani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:929
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  48. Fuyu city in China has a high prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection resulting in a high morbidity and mortality from chronic liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma. This study was conducted to id...

    Authors: Hongqin Xu, Ge Yu, Haibo Sun, Juan Lv, Moli Wang, Fei Kong, Mingyuan Zhang, Xiumei Chi, Xiaomei Wang, Ruihong Wu, Xiuzhu Gao, Jin Zhong, Bing Sun, Jing Jiang, Yu Pan and Junqi Niu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:928
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  49. Population-based birth defects surveillance is a core public health activity in the United States (U.S.); however, the lack of national data quality standards has limited the use of birth defects surveillance ...

    Authors: Marlene Anderka, Cara T. Mai, Paul A. Romitti, Glenn Copeland, Jennifer Isenburg, Marcia L. Feldkamp, Sergey Krikov, Russel Rickard, Richard S. Olney, Mark A. Canfield, Carol Stanton, Bridget Mosley and Russell S. Kirby
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:925
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  50. Lyme disease (LD) is a tick-borne zoonotic illness caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi. Texas is considered a non-endemic state for LD and the spatial distribution of the state’s reported LD cases is unk...

    Authors: Barbara Szonyi, Indumathi Srinath, Maria Esteve-Gassent, Blanca Lupiani and Renata Ivanek
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:924
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