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  1. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted healthcare utilization globally, but little is known about the effects among patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and other multimorbidities. This study analyzed the...

    Authors: Royasia Viki Ramadani, Mikael Svensson, Sven Hassler, Budi Hidayat and Nawi Ng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:71
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  2. Early childhood caries (ECC) is one of the most common chronic diseases among children. In Poland 86.9% of six-year-olds have ECC. One of the factors determining adherence to ECC prophylaxis and oral hygiene i...

    Authors: Katarzyna Domosławska-Żylińska, Magdalena Łopatek, Magdalena Krysińska-Pisarek and Paulina Wiśniewska
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:70
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  3. Though still a young field of research, gamified digital interventions have demonstrated potential in exerting a favourable impact on health and overall well-being. With the increasing use of the internet and ...

    Authors: Leona Aschentrup, Pia Anna Steimer, Kevin Dadaczynski, Timothy Mc Call, Florian Fischer and Kamil J. Wrona
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:69
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  4. Childhood obesity is one of the most concerning public health issues globally and its implications on mortality and morbidity in adulthood are increasingly important. This study uses a unique dataset of Austra...

    Authors: Preety Srivastava, Trong-Anh Trinh, Karen T. Hallam, Leila Karimi and Bruce Hollingsworth
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:68
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  5. The majority of patients with major depressive disorder require care that has generally affected caregivers’ lives. Providing care could cause negative experiences as a care burden and deteriorate quality of l...

    Authors: Somaye Minaei-Moghadam, Zahra Sadat Manzari, Saeed Vaghee and Seyedmohammad Mirhosseini
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:66
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  6. Tobacco use has posed a tremendous public health problem for China. The Chinese government has taken great efforts to curb the tobacco epidemic. However, the existing smoking cessation services available in Ch...

    Authors: Xiaoyun Xie, Lirong Liang, Yi Nan, Luge Zhang and Lin Xiao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:65
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  7. Discharged psychiatric patients are at higher risk of suicide due to various risk factors in their lives compared to the general population. However, specific problems and needs of these patients after dischar...

    Authors: Tiantian Fu, Huiming Liu, Chang Chen, Bin Zhang, Guanjie Chen, Yuanhan Bai, Jinghua Li and Fengsu Hou
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:64
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  8. Although mammography can significantly reduce breast cancer mortality, many women do not receive their annual breast cancer screening. Differences in screening adherence exist by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic ...

    Authors: Gillian Kasper, Mahsa Momen, Kristen A. Sorice, Kiara N. Mayhand, Elizabeth A. Handorf, Evelyn T. Gonzalez, Amie Devlin, Kirsten Brownstein, Nestor Esnaola, Susan G. Fisher and Shannon M. Lynch
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:63
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  9. Rest–activity rhythms are directly related to health risks, but there are limited objective methods to assess them. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between rest–activity rhythms and cardioresp...

    Authors: Jaehoon Seol, Rina So, Fumiko Murai and Tomoaki Matsuo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:62
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  10. Toddlerhood (2–3 years) is a crucial period for the development of physical activity, sleep, and emotional self-regulation skills. Although there is growing evidence of positive associations between physical a...

    Authors: Abhigale F. L. D’Cruz, Katherine L. Downing, Emma Sciberras and Kylie D. Hesketh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:61
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  11. Oral Contraceptive Pills (OCPs) are among the most commonly used forms of contraception, but they are associated with several health benefits and risks. This study aims to determine the gap in knowledge of the...

    Authors: Maroun J. Ibrahim, Lynn E. Khalife, Yara D. Ghanem, Ghady S. Baz and Michele M. Cherfane
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:60
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  12. Timely genomic surveillance is required to inform public health responses to new SARS-CoV-2 variants. However, the processes involved in local genomic surveillance introduce inherent time constraints. The Regi...

    Authors: Hannah J. Barbian, Alyse Kittner, Richard Teran, Sofiya Bobrovska, Xueting Qiu, Kayla English, Stefan J. Green, Isaac Ghinai, Massimo Pacilli and Mary K. Hayden
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:59
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  13. While mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of hepatitis B virus (HBV) remains a significant challenge in China, research investigating the effectiveness of the September 2017 pilot program to eliminate MTCT of ...

    Authors: Ya-Li Luo, Shuang Gao, Quan-Fu Zhang, Xian Liu, Ding-Yan Lv, Jia-Hong Chen and Wei Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:58
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  14. Gastric cancer has attracted widespread attention on social media due to its high incidence and severity. The Bilibili, TikTok, and YouTube video-sharing platforms have received considerable interest among gen...

    Authors: Menghui Wang, Nan Yao, Jianming Wang, Wenjuan Chen, Yaobin Ouyang and Chuan Xie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:57
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  15. Sex workers, those who trade sex for monetary or nonmonetary items, experience high rates of HIV transmission but have not been adequately included in HIV prevention and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) adheren...

    Authors: Randi Beth Singer, Janelli Barrow, Amy K. Johnson, Jessica Zemlak, Natasha Crooks, Sarah Abboud, Douglas Bruce, Noel Green, Jahari Stamps, Jennifer Neely, Susan G. Sherman, Crystal L. Patil and Alicia K. Matthews
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:56
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  16. Good knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) of diabetes influence its control and complications. We examined the KAP of diabetes in patients with sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR) and non-sight-th...

    Authors: Shahina Pardhan, Rajiv Raman, Anupama Biswas, Durgasri Jaisankar, Sanjiv Ahluwalia and Raju Sapkota
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:55
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  17. COVID-19 pandemic has led to psychological concerns, the distribution of which across populations may differ depending on whether pandemic-related damage is direct or indirect. This study aims to investigate c...

    Authors: Min-sung Kim and Sung-il Cho
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:54
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  18. Globally, young gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (YMSM) experience a disproportionate burden of disease compared to young heterosexual men and older MSM. However, YMSM experience major inequit...

    Authors: Samuel Waweru Mwaniki, Peter Mwenda Kaberia, Peter Mwangi Mugo and Thesla Palanee-Phillips
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:52
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  19. There is an increasing awareness that diet-related inflammation may have an impact on the stroke. Herein, our goal was to decipher the association of dietary inflammatory index (DII) with stroke in the US gene...

    Authors: Yukang Mao, Jiayi Weng, Qiyang Xie, Lida Wu, Yanling Xuan, Jun Zhang and Jun Han
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:50
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  20. A healthy lifestyle may improve mental health. It is yet not known whether and how a mobile intervention can be of help in achieving this in adolescents. This study investigated the effectiveness and perceived...

    Authors: Carmen Peuters, Laura Maenhout, Greet Cardon, Annick De Paepe, Ann DeSmet, Emelien Lauwerier, Kenji Leta and Geert Crombez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:44
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  21. The uptake of Intermittent Preventive Treatment of malaria in pregnancy using Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) remains unacceptably low, with more than two-thirds of pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa sti...

    Authors: Kadiatou Koita, Joel D. Bognini, Efundem Agboraw, Mahamadou Dembélé, Seydou Yabré, Biébo Bihoun, Oumou Coulibaly, Hamidou Niangaly, Jean-Batiste N’Takpé, Maia Lesosky, Dario Scaramuzzi, Eve Worrall, Jenny Hill, Valérie Briand, Halidou Tinto and Kassoum Kayentao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:43
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  23. With the rapid development of China’s chemical industry, although researchers have developed many methods in the field of chemical safety, the situation of chemical safety in China is still not optimistic. How...

    Authors: Zheng Li, Min Yao, Zhenmin Luo, Xinping Wang, Tongshuang Liu, Qianrui Huang and Chang Su
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:39
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  24. In 2021, China had a population of 264·01 million individuals over the age of 60, indicating a high prevalence of chronic diseases. Among older adults, physical inactivity (PI) is a significant risk factor for...

    Authors: Yi Li, Mingyuan Cui, Yiqun Pang, Bing Zhan, Xiaotian Li, Qiurui Wang, Fang Chen, Zhixiong Zhou and Qingzhu Yang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:37
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  25. Healthy lifestyles are crucial for preventing chronic diseases. Nonetheless, approximately 90% of Chinese community residents regularly engage in at least one unhealthy lifestyle. Mobile smart devices-based he...

    Authors: Shujuan Yang, Bin Yu, Kai Liao, Xu Qiao, Yunzhe Fan, Ming Li, Yuekong Hu, Jiayan Chen, Tingting Ye, Changwei Cai, Chunlan Ma, Tong Pang, Zixing Huang, Peng Jia, Jan D. Reinhardt and Qingyu Dou
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:32
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  26. Health and adequate access to health care are human rights. Refugees are at risk for substance abuse. Despite the known structural and personal risk factors for abuse, refugees in Germany continue to face barr...

    Authors: Panagiotis Stylianopoulos, Laura Hertner, Andreas Heinz, Ulrike Kluge, Ingo Schäfer and Simone Penka
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:30
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  27. Being overweight and obese is associated with an elevated risk of developing noncommunicable diseases, which are the leading causes of mortality worldwide. It is a warning that global prevalence of overweight ...

    Authors: Miloš Ilić, Huiwen Pang, Tomislav Vlaški, Maja Grujičić and Budimka Novaković
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:29
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  28. Previous research has shown that exposure to bullying is linked to long-term adverse mental health consequences. However, prospective studies examining the persistence of bullying, using information from repea...

    Authors: Sara Brolin Låftman, Karina Grigorian, Andreas Lundin, Viveca Östberg and Jonas Raninen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:27
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  29. Chinese topography appears a three-rung ladder-like distribution of decreasing elevation from northwest to southeast, which is divided by two sloping edges. Previous studies have reported that prevalence of th...

    Authors: Boshen Gong, Youmin Wang, Jin-an Zhang, Qiao Zhang, Jiajun Zhao, Jiashu Li, Xichang Wang, Yutong Han, Ziwei Yu, Chenyu Zhang, Bingcong Peng, Yumin Xing, Qiuxian Li, Ping Wang, Yongze Li, Weiping Teng…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:26
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  30. Coronary artery diseases (CADs) are the most important non‑communicable diseases (NCDs), which cause the highest number of deaths around the world. Hypertension (HTN), dyslipidemia (DL), diabetes mellitus (DM)...

    Authors: Nazanin Zeinali-Nezhad, Hamid Najafipour, Mitra Shadkam and Rashed Pourhamidi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:25
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  31. While solidarity practices were important in mitigating the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, their limits became evident as the pandemic progressed. Taking a longitudinal approach, this study anal...

    Authors: Franziska B. Schönweitz, Bettina M. Zimmermann, Nora Hangel, Amelia Fiske, Stuart McLennan, Anna Sierawska and Alena Buyx
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:23
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  32. The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound social and economic impact across the United States due to the lockdowns and consequent changes to everyday activities in social spaces.

    Authors: Stephanie A Ponce, Alexis Green, Paula D. Strassle and Anna María Nápoles
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:22
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  33. The Omicron pandemic struck Shanghai, China, resulting in impairments of both physical and psychological health on those patients who were confirmed and transferred to the Fangcang shelters. The way of isolati...

    Authors: Wenjie Yan, Zhilei Shang, Lili Wu, Hongli Lv, Yanpu Jia, Jingye Zhan, Jing Wang, Hui Ouyang, Weizhi Liu and Wenfang Chen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:21
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  34. Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) insecurity increases the risk of water-related diseases. However, limited research has been conducted on psychosocial distress as it relates to WaSH insecurity, especially...

    Authors: Lourdes Johanna Avelar Portillo, Alhelí Calderón-Villarreal, Daniela Abramovitz, Alicia Harvey-Vera, Susan Cassels, Carlos F. Vera, Sheryl Munoz, Arturo Tornez, Gudelia Rangel, Steffanie A. Strathdee and Georgia L. Kayser
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:19
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  35. Correctional officers tend to have high levels of work-family conflict (WFC). WFC has been found associated with various forms of psychological distress and to affect the overall well-being of correctional off...

    Authors: Ying Huang, Huijuan Guo, Siyuan Wang, Shaoling Zhong, Yuqiong He, Hui Chen, Jiansong Zhou and Xiaoping Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:17
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  36. Young adults (18–24 years) in universities are frequently exposed to an environment that promotes unhealthy eating behaviors. Using a validated tool, the Chinese Nutrition Environment Measurement Survey for St...

    Authors: Xingbo Li, Haiyue Wang, Hendra Manafe, Andrea Braakhuis, Zengning Li and Rajshri Roy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:15
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  37. Lack of social support is a known predictor of the prognosis after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Although as a common factor associated with social support, there are limited data on long-term prognostic ...

    Authors: Yu Jiang, Jin-Gang Yang, Hai-Yan Qian and Yue-Jin Yang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:14
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  38. Child marriage is a global crisis underpinned by gender inequality and discrimination against girls. A small evidence base suggests that food insecurity crises can be both a driver and a consequence of child m...

    Authors: Katherine Gambir, Abel Blessing Matsika, Anna Panagiotou, Eleanor Snowden, Clare Lofthouse and Janna Metzler
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:13
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  40. The relationship between integrated lifestyles, mental status and their impact on overall well-being has attracted considerable attention. This study aimed to evaluate the association between lifestyle factors...

    Authors: Bo Li, Chuandi Zhou, Chufeng Gu, Xiaoyun Cheng, Yujie Wang, Chenxin Li, Mingming Ma, Ying Fan, Xun Xu, Haibing Chen and Zhi Zheng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:11
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  42. Community-based volunteering supports outbreak management by extending reach into at-risk communities. This paper examines the application of a ‘community champions’ model in England, UK, during the COVID-19 p...

    Authors: Jane South, James Woodall, Jude Stansfield, Tom Mapplethorpe, Andrew Passey and Anne-Marie Bagnall
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:7
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  43. Understanding risk factors linked to work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) is crucial for enhancing health promotion and ensuring workplace safety among healthcare professionals particularly physical ...

    Authors: Thao Thi Thach Le, Wattana Jalayondeja, Keerin Mekhora, Petcharatana Bhuuanantanondh and Chutima Jalayondeja
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:6
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  44. Caffeine has been reported to increase gastrointestinal motility and change intestinal microbiota. Constipation may be caused by colonic motor dysfunction and colonic microbiomeis disturbances. In this study, ...

    Authors: Yulong Kang and Jin Yan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:3
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  45. Health-promoting lifestyle can leads to improving the quality of life, life satisfaction, well-being and reducing the burden of health care in the society. This study was carried out to investigate the mediati...

    Authors: Nader Rajabi Gilan, Jamal Mohamadi, Adel Irankhah, Mehdi Khezeli and Alireza Zangeneh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2563
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  47. This study aimed to develop alternative prediction equations to predict isokinetic muscle strength at 60°/s based on anthropometric characteristics, including body mass, height, age, and sex for young and midd...

    Authors: Ye Zhang, Kang Chen, Kun Liu, Qingliang Wang, Yuhui Ma, Bo Pang, Lihua Huang and Yanhong Ma
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2558
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  48. Previous studies proved the effect of long-term exposure to air pollution or physical activity (PA) on the risk of systemic inflammation-induced multimorbidity (SIIM), while the evidence regarding their joint ...

    Authors: Yajie Li, Bing Guo, Qiong Meng, Li Yin, Lin Chen, Xing Wang, Ye Jiang, Jing Wei, Junhua Wang, Jinjie Xia, Zihao Wang, Zhuoma Duoji, Xianzhi Li, Qucuo Nima and Xing Zhao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2556
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  49. Prostate cancer (PCa) was the second most frequent cancer and the fifth leading cause of cancer death among men in 2020. The aim of this study was to analyze trends in the incidence, mortality and survival of ...

    Authors: Bernat Carles Serdà-Ferrer, Arantza Sanvisens, Rafael Fuentes-Raspall, Montse Puigdemont, Xavier Farré, Anna Vidal-Vila, Martí Rispau-Pagès, Alicia Baltasar-Bagué and Rafael Marcos-Gragera
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2552
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  50. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presents critical diagnostic challenges for managing the pandemic. We investigated the 30-month changes in COVID-19 testing modalities and functional testing sites from ...

    Authors: Hiroki Kyo, Shivani A. Patel, Masaki Yamamoto, Yasufumi Matsumura, Takeshi Ikeda and Miki Nagao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2551
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