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  1. To assess the association of socioeconomic position (SEP), measured by family financial situation and housing tenure in childhood and adulthood, with mental health conditions in adulthood.

    Authors: Eleonora Dal Grande, Catherine R. Chittleborough, Jing Wu, Zumin Shi, Robert D. Goldney and Anne W. Taylor
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:675
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  2. Access to antenatal HIV testing during pregnancy and the level of uptake of services for Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) in Sudan are very low. This study aimed to obtain insights into the p...

    Authors: Ibrahim E. Elsheikh, Rik Crutzen and H.W. Van den Borne
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:674
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  3. Since 2004, the uptake of seasonal influenza vaccines in Latin America and the Caribbean has markedly increased. However, vaccine effectiveness (VE) is not routinely measured in the region. We assessed the fea...

    Authors: Nathalie El Omeiri, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Wilfrido Clará, Guiselle Guzmán-Saborío, Miguel Elas, Homer Mejía, Ida Berenice Molina, Yadira De Molto, Sara Mirza, Marc-Alain Widdowson and Alba María Ropero-Álvarez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:673
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  4. Despite advanced smoking prevention and cessation policies in many countries, the prevalence of cigarette smoking among indigenous and some ethnic minorities continues to be high. This study examined the stage...

    Authors: Nihaya Daoud, Samah Hayek, Ahmad Sheikh Muhammad, Kathleen Abu-Saad, Amira Osman, James F. Thrasher and Ofra Kalter-Leibovici
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:672
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  5. Sleep and physical activity are two health behaviors associated with improved smoking cessation outcomes. Text message-based interventions have previously been used to promote physical activity and smoking ces...

    Authors: A. Jordan Filion, Gerarda Darlington, Jean-Philippe Chaput, Michele Ybarra and Jess Haines
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:671
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  7. Despite it is costly, slow and non-reproducible process, physician review (PR) is a commonly used method to interpret verbal autopsy data. However, there is a growing interest to adapt a new automated and inte...

    Authors: Berhe Weldearegawi, Yohannes Adama Melaku, Geert Jan Dinant and Mark Spigt
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:669
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  8. Five years after coronary angiography, life satisfaction (LS) among patients may be related to incidents of cardiovascular diseases, risk factors and unhealthy behaviours and socioeconomic conditions, but thei...

    Authors: Michèle Baumann, Anastase Tchicaya, Kyle Vanderpool, Nathalie Lorentz and Etienne Le Bihan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:668
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  9. Analytic methodology for investigating physical activity patterns over time has been limited. The aim of this study was to demonstrate the group-based trajectory analysis process for identifying developmental ...

    Authors: Soyang Kwon, Jungwha Lee and Mercedes R. Carnethon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:667
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  10. Indigenous Australians are a socially disadvantaged group who experience significantly poorer health and a higher prevalence of modifiable health behaviours than other Australians. Little is known about the cl...

    Authors: Natasha E Noble, Christine L Paul, Nicole Turner, Stephen V Blunden, Christopher Oldmeadow and Heidi E Turon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:666
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  11. Violence against women is a global public health problem with negative effects on physical, mental, and reproductive health. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified intimate partner violence (IPV) a...

    Authors: Donna E. Stewart, Raquel Aviles, Alessandra Guedes, Ekaterina Riazantseva and Harriet MacMillan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:665
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  12. An EPI (Expanded Program on Immunization) intervention package was implemented from October 2011 to May 2014 among migrant children in Yiwu, east China. This study aimed to evaluate its impacts on vaccination ...

    Authors: Yu Hu, Shuying Luo, Xuewen Tang, Linqiao Lou, Yaping Chen, Jing Guo and Bing Zhang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:664
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  13. Young adulthood is a critical life period for health and health behaviours. Related measurements collected before and after birth, and during childhood and adolescence can provide a life-course analysis of imp...

    Authors: Leon M. Straker, Graham L. Hall, Jenny Mountain, Erin K. Howie, Elisha White, Nigel McArdle and Peter R. Eastwood
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:663
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  14. Inequalities in the distribution of the social determinants of health are now a widely recognised problem, seen as requiring immediate and significant action (CSDH. Closing the Gap in a Generation. Geneva: WHO...

    Authors: Gemma Carey and Brad Crammond
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:662
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  15. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is an immense global problem with serious economic and social consequences. Modifiable risk factors for CVD have been identified internationally in adolescents where early interven...

    Authors: N A Odunaiya, K Grimmer and Q A Louw
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:661
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  17. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have already become major killers in Bangladesh. Once NCDs are developed, they become chronic health and economic problems. Their primary prevention is linked to their common r...

    Authors: M. Mostafa Zaman, Mahfuzur Rahman Bhuiyan, Md. Nazmul Karim, MoniruzZaman, Md. Mukhlesur Rahman, Abdul Waheed Akanda and Thushara Fernando
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:659
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  18. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of gonorrhoea and factors associated with rectal gonorrhoea among men reporting sexual contact with men with gonorrhoea.

    Authors: Krishneel Dutt, Eric P.F. Chow, Sarah Huffam, Karen Klassen, Christopher K. Fairley, Catriona S Bradshaw, Ian Denham and Marcus Y. Chen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:658
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  19. There is controversy about chronic health consequences of tick-borne infections, especially Lyme borreliosis. This study aims to assess whether general function, physical fitness and subjective health complain...

    Authors: Reidar Hjetland, Harald Reiso, Camilla Ihlebæk, Roy M. Nilsen, Nils Grude and Elling Ulvestad
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:657
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  20. Itai-itai disease primarily results from cadmium (Cd) exposure and is known as one of the four major pollution diseases in Japan. Cd pollution is more serious in several areas of China than in Japan. However, ...

    Authors: Shen Ke, Xi-Yu Cheng, Jie-Ying Zhang, Wen-Jing Jia, Hao Li, Hui-Fang Luo, Peng-He Ge, Ze-Min Liu, Hong-Mei Wang, Jin-Sheng He and Zhi-Nan Chen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:656
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  21. Lifestyle habits of physicians are of paramount importance both because they influence the physician’s own health and because these habits have been shown to affect patients’ care. There is limited information...

    Authors: Saif M Borgan, Ghufran A Jassim, Zaid A Marhoon and Mahmoud H Ibrahim
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:655
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  22. The purpose of the study was to develop and test the initial psychometric properties of the ATTitudes and Avatars INstrument (ATTAIN). The integrated behavior model guided instrument development to measure the...

    Authors: Annmarie A. Lyles, Susan K. Riesch and Roger L. Brown
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:654
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  23. Mental health problems are rising, especially among younger people, indicating a need to identify determinants of the development of mental health over the life course. Parental involvement in their children’s...

    Authors: Hugo Westerlund, Kristiina Rajaleid, Pekka Virtanen, Per E. Gustafsson, Tapio Nummi and Anne Hammarström
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:653
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  24. Community-based obesity treatment programs have become an important response to address child obesity; however the majority of these programs are small, efficacy trials, few are translated into real-world situ...

    Authors: Louise L. Hardy, Seema Mihrshahi, Joanne Gale, Binh Nguyen, Louise A. Baur and Blythe J. O’Hara
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:652
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  25. To reach young people for Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) testing, new web-based strategies are used to offer testing via young people’s sexual and social networks. The success of such peer-driven strategies depends o...

    Authors: Kevin A. T. M Theunissen, Arjan E. R. Bos, Christian J. P. A. Hoebe, Gerjo Kok, Stan Vluggen, Rik Crutzen and Nicole H. T. M. Dukers-Muijrers
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:651
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  26. Household air pollution (HAP) resulting from the use of solid fuels presents a major public health hazard. Improved stoves have been offered as a potential tool to reduce exposure to HAP and improve health out...

    Authors: Emma Thomas, Kremlin Wickramasinghe, Shanthi Mendis, Nia Roberts and Charlie Foster
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:650
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  27. Many children are not physically active enough for a health benefit. One avenue of physical activity is modified sport programs, designed as an introduction to sport for young children. This longitudinal study...

    Authors: Rochelle M. Eime, Meghan M. Casey, Jack T. Harvey, Melanie J. Charity, Janet A. Young and Warren R. Payne
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:649
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  28. This study identifies differences in socio-cognitive factors as they relate to the intention to smoke among boys and girls living in high socioeconomic status (HSES) and low socioeconomic status (LSES) neighbo...

    Authors: Henricus-Paul Cremers, Liesbeth Mercken, Hein de Vries and Anke Oenema
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:648
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  29. Physical activity prevents or delays progression of impaired glucose tolerance in high-risk individuals. Physical activity promotion should serve as a basis in diabetes care. It is necessary to develop and eva...

    Authors: Jenny Rossen, Agneta Yngve, Maria Hagströmer, Kerstin Brismar, Barbara E. Ainsworth, Christina Iskull, Peter Möller and Unn-Britt Johansson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:647
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  30. Although cigarette smoking affects all biological systems of the human body including the gastrointestinal tract, there is a lack of evidence regarding its effect on the severity of diarrhoeal disease and whet...

    Authors: Sumon Kumar Das, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, A.M. Shamsir Ahmed, Mohammad Abdul Malek, Shahnawaz Ahmed, K.M. Shahunja, Farzana Ferdous, Fahmida Dil Farzana, Jui Das, Aminur Rahman, Abdullah Al Mamun and Abu Syed Golam Faruque
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:646
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  31. Parents are the key agents of behavioural changes in their children. This fact is as an important aspect of obesity treatment and prevention. The present study aims to evaluate the influence of parents who hav...

    Authors: Helen Andriani, Chu-Yung Liao and Hsien-Wen Kuo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:645
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  32. Food decision-making is a complex process and varies according to the setting, based on cultural and contextual factors. The study aimed to understand the process of food decision-making in households in rural...

    Authors: Meena Daivadanam, Rolf Wahlström, K.R. Thankappan and T.K. Sundari Ravindran
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:644
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  33. To conduct a meta-ethnographic analysis of qualitative studies to identify barriers to Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) individuals engaging in physical activity in the UK context.

    Authors: Sejlo A. Koshoedo, Virginia A. Paul-Ebhohimhen, Ruth G. Jepson and Margaret C. Watson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:643
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  34. The evidence surrounding the value of workplace health promotion in positively influencing employees’ health and wellbeing via changes to their health behaviours is growing. The aim of the study was to explore...

    Authors: Melanie Pescud, Renee Teal, Trevor Shilton, Terry Slevin, Melissa Ledger, Pippa Waterworth and Michael Rosenberg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:642
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  35. In 1998, more than half of the adult population in Germany had serum 25-hydroxy-vitamin-D [25(OH)D] levels below the common threshold of 50 nmol/l. Since then, there has been a lot of attention for vitamin D i...

    Authors: Martina Rabenberg, Christa Scheidt-Nave, Markus A. Busch, Nina Rieckmann, Birte Hintzpeter and Gert B.M. Mensink
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:641
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  37. Chlamydia infection (CT) is one of the most commonly reported sexually transmitted diseases. It is often referred to as a “silent” disease with the majority of infected people having no symptoms. Without early...

    Authors: Yu Teng, Nan Kong and Wanzhu Tu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:639
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  38. Overweight/obesity is an important public health burden worldwide, increasing the risk for the development of cardiovascular diseases or the metabolic syndrome. This risk may be reduced by a good aerobic fitne...

    Authors: Ronja Foraita, Mirko Brandes, Frauke Günther, Karin Bammann, Iris Pigeot and Wolfgang Ahrens
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:638
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  39. A national health literacy scale was developed in China in 2012, though no studies have validated it. In this investigation, we assessed the reliability, construct validity, and measurement invariance of that ...

    Authors: Minxue Shen, Ming Hu, Siyun Liu, Yan Chang and Zhenqiu Sun
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:637
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  40. Harmful effects of alcohol abuse are well documented for drinkers, and adverse effects are also reported for the physical and emotional well-being of family members, with evidence often originating from either...

    Authors: Adyya Gupta, Bavani Priya, Joseph Williams, Mona Sharma, Ruby Gupta, Dilip Kumar Jha, Shah Ebrahim and Preet K. Dhillon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:636
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  41. Physical activity is a modifiable behavior related to many preventable non-communicable diseases. There is an age-related decline in physical activity levels in young people, which tracks into adulthood. Commo...

    Authors: Artur Direito, Yannan Jiang, Robyn Whittaker and Ralph Maddison
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:635
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  42. Adolescents’ physical activity (PA) is decreasing and sedentary behavior (SB) increasing alarmingly. Insufficient PA and excessive SB are both related to various health risks indicating that interventions to p...

    Authors: Anne-Mari Jussila, Tommi Vasankari, Olavi Paronen, Harri Sievänen, Kari Tokola, Henri Vähä-Ypyä, Anna Broberg and Minna Aittasalo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:634
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  43. Despite previous studies reporting spatial in equality in diabetes prevalence across China, potential geographic variations in diabetes mortality have not been explored.

    Authors: Maigeng Zhou, Thomas Astell-Burt, Peng Yin, Xiaoqi Feng, Andrew Page, Yunning Liu, Jiangmei Liu, Yichong Li, Shiwei Liu, Limin Wang, Lijun Wang and Linhong Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:633
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  44. Sedentary behaviour is an independent risk factor for mortality and morbidity, especially for type 2 diabetes. Since office work is related to long periods that are largely sedentary, it is of major importance...

    Authors: Frida Bergman, Carl-Johan Boraxbekk, Patrik Wennberg, Ann Sörlin and Tommy Olsson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:632
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  45. Drowning is common worldwide. Rescue efforts attempted by untrained bystanders often lead to the death of the primary drowning victim (PDV), the rescuer or both. Our study aimed to inform prevention by identif...

    Authors: Yinchao Zhu, Xia Jiang, Hui Li, Fudong Li and Jieping Chen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:631
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  46. Inadequate immunization coverage with increased risk of vaccine preventable diseases outbreaks remains a problem in Africa. Moreover, different factors contribute to incomplete vaccination status. This study w...

    Authors: Gianluca Russo, Alessandro Miglietta, Patrizio Pezzotti, Rodrigue Mabvouna Biguioh, Georges Bouting Mayaka, Martin Sanou Sobze, Paola Stefanelli, Vincenzo Vullo and Giovanni Rezza
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:630
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  48. Overweight among children and adolescents related to social inequality, as well as age and gender differences, may contribute to poor self-image, thereby raising important public health concerns. This study ex...

    Authors: JS van Vliet, PA Gustafsson, K Duchen and N Nelson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:628
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  49. School absenteeism is linked to a range of health concerns, health risk behaviors and school dropout. It is therefore important to evaluate the extent to which adolescents with absenteeism are in contact with ...

    Authors: Kristin Gärtner Askeland, Siren Haugland, Kjell Morten Stormark, Tormod Bøe and Mari Hysing
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:626
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  50. Intimate partner violence (IPV) has important impacts on the health of women in society. Our aim was to estimate the health and economic benefits of reducing the prevalence of IPV in the 2008 Australian female...

    Authors: Dominique A. Cadilhac, Lauren Sheppard, Toby B. Cumming, Tharshanah Thayabaranathan, Dora C. Pearce, Rob Carter and Anne Magnus
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:625
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