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  1. Interventions for prevention of type 2 diabetes ought to be acceptable to target communities. We assessed perceptions about type 2 diabetes and lifestyle change among people afflicted or at high risk of this d...

    Authors: Roy W Mayega, Samuel Etajak, Elizeus Rutebemberwa, Goran Tomson and Juliet Kiguli
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:864
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Few studies have examined the link between self-reported health (SRH) and subsequent mortality in developing countries, and very few considered mortality effects of changes in SRH. We examined the relationship...

    Authors: Jiaying Zhao, Vasoontara Yiengprugsawan, Sam-ang Seubsman, Matthew Kelly, Chris Bain and Adrian Sleigh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:860
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  3. Low birthweight babies need extra care, and families need to know whether their newborn is low birthweight in settings where many births are at home and weighing scales are largely absent. In the context of a ...

    Authors: Tanya Marchant, Suzanne Penfold, Elibariki Mkumbo, Donat Shamba, Jennie Jaribu, Fatuma Manzi and Joanna Schellenberg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:859
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  4. Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) reduces HIV acquisition among heterosexual men by approximately 60%. VMMC is a surgical procedure and some adverse events (AEs) are expected. Swaziland’s Ministry of ...

    Authors: Tigistu Adamu Ashengo, Jonathan Grund, Masitsela Mhlanga, Thabo Hlophe, Munamato Mirira, Naomi Bock, Emmanuel Njeuhmeli, Kelly Curran, Elizabeth Mallas, Laura Fitzgerald, Rhoy Shoshore, Khumbulani Moyo and George Bicego
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:858
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  5. Screen-related behaviours are highly prevalent in schoolchildren. Considering the adverse health effects and the relation of obesity and screen time in childhood, efforts to affect screen use in children are w...

    Authors: Wendy Van Lippevelde, Elling Bere, Maïté Verloigne, Maartje M van Stralen, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Nanna Lien, Frøydis Nordgård Vik, Yannis Manios, Monika Grillenberger, Éva Kovács, Mai JM ChinAPaw, Johannes Brug and Lea Maes
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:857
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  6. There is a higher prevalence of obesity in individuals with mental disorders compared to the general population. The results of several studies suggested that weight reduction in this population is possible fo...

    Authors: Nick Verhaeghe, Delphine De Smedt, Jan De Maeseneer, Lea Maes, Cornelis Van Heeringen and Lieven Annemans
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:856
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Cervical cancer claims the lives of 275,000 women each year; most of these deaths occur in low-or middle-income countries. In Kenya, cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality among women...

    Authors: Allison L Friedman, Kelvin O Oruko, Melissa A Habel, Jessie Ford, Jennine Kinsey, Frank Odhiambo, Penelope A Phillips-Howard, Susan A Wang, Tabu Collins, Kayla F Laserson and Eileen F Dunne
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:855
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  8. Dental caries and traumatic dental injury (TDI) can play an important role in the emergence of parental guilt, since parents feel responsible for their child’s health. The aim of the present study was to evalu...

    Authors: Monalisa Cesarino Gomes, Marayza Alves Clementino, Tassia Cristina de Almeida Pinto-Sarmento, Carolina Castro Martins, Ana Flávia Granville-Garcia and Saul Martins Paiva
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:854
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  9. Open drug scenes are gatherings of drug users who publicly consume and deal drugs. The authors conducted a study of five European cities that have met such scenes constructively. The aim was to investigate sha...

    Authors: Helge Waal, Thomas Clausen, Linn Gjersing and Michael Gossop
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:853
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  11. Although studies of self-rated health (SRH) are conducted widely in developed countries, comprehensive assessments of the determinants of SRH in Chinese are scarce, particularly for working Chinese individuals...

    Authors: Yingnan Jia, Junling Gao, Junming Dai, Pinpin Zheng, Xiaoyu Wu, Guangyao Li and Hua Fu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:851
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  12. Infectious disease surveillance is a process the product of which reflects both actual disease trends and public awareness of the disease. Decisions made by patients, health care providers, and public health p...

    Authors: Ying Zhang, Ali Arab, Benjamin J Cowling and Michael A Stoto
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:850
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  15. Antibiotic self medication is highly prevalent in the developing countries due to easy availability and poor regulatory controls for selling these drugs. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalenc...

    Authors: Mohitosh Biswas, Manobendro Nath Roy, Md Imran Nur Manik, Md Shahid Hossain, SM Tafsirul Alam Tapu, Md Moniruzzaman and Sharmin Sultana
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:847
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  16. Dengue, recognized by the WHO as the most important mosquito-borne viral disease in the world, is a growing problem. Currently, the only effective way of preventing dengue is vector control. Standard methods h...

    Authors: Catrin H Jones, David Benítez-Valladares, Guillermo Guillermo-May, Felipe Dzul-Manzanilla, Azael Che-Mendoza, Mario Barrera-Pérez, Celia Selem-Salas, Juan Chablé-Santos, Johannes Sommerfeld, Axel Kroeger, Timothy O’Dempsey, Anuar Medina-Barreiro and Pablo Manrique-Saide
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:846
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  17. People who inject drugs are at high risk for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV. HTLV was reported by neighboring countries to be prevalent in this population, but the situation for Germany is unclear. To genera...

    Authors: Ruth Zimmermann, Ulrich Marcus, Dirk Schäffer, Astrid Leicht, Benjamin Wenz, Stine Nielsen, Claudia Santos-Hövener, R Stefan Ross, Oumaima Stambouli, Boris-Alexander Ratsch, Norbert Bannert, Claus-Thomas Bock, Claudia Kücherer and Osamah Hamouda
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:845
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  18. Smoking behaviour among immigrants is assumed to converge to that of the host country’s majority population with increasing duration of stay. We compared smoking prevalence among Turkish immigrants residing in...

    Authors: Katharina Reiss, Odile Sauzet, Jürgen Breckenkamp, Jacob Spallek and Oliver Razum
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:844
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  19. Implementation of safer conception strategies requires knowledge of partner HIV-serostatus. We recruited women and men in a high HIV-prevalence setting for a study to assess periconception risk behavior among ...

    Authors: Lynn T Matthews, Lizzie Moore, Tamaryn L Crankshaw, Cecilia Milford, Fortunate N Mosery, Ross Greener, Christina Psaros, Steven A Safren, David R Bangsberg and Jennifer A Smit
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:843
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  20. Tetramine, or tetramethylenedisulfotetramine, is an internationally banned compound that had been used primarily as a rodenticide. Despite its regulatory status, there are widespread reports of its intentional...

    Authors: Yi Li, Yanxia Gao, Xuezhong Yu, Jingmin Peng, Fei Ma and Lewis Nelson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:842
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Women whose pregnancy was complicated by gestational diabetes have a 7-fold higher risk of developing diabetes, primarily type 2. Early detection can prevent or delay the onset of late complications, for which...

    Authors: Christinna Rebecca Olesen, Jane Hyldgaard Nielsen, Rikke Nørmark Mortensen, Henrik Bøggild, Christian Torp-Pedersen and Charlotte Overgaard
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:841
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  23. Sri Lanka has experienced major changes in its suicide rates since the 1970s, and in 1995 it had one of the highest rates in the world. Subsequent reductions in Sri Lanka’s suicide rates have been attributed t...

    Authors: Duleeka W Knipe, Chris Metcalfe, Ravindra Fernando, Melissa Pearson, Flemming Konradsen, Michael Eddleston and David Gunnell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:839
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  24. HIV counseling and testing (HCT), an effective preventive strategy and an entry point for care, remains under-utilized in Tanzania. Limited uptake of HCT, despite the widespread availability of varied testing ...

    Authors: Bernard Njau, Jan Ostermann, Derek Brown, Axel Mühlbacher, Elizabeth Reddy and Nathan Thielman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:838
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  25. Wales faces serious public health challenges, with relatively low life expectancies and wide inequalities in life expectancy with associated pressures on the National Health Service (NHS) at a time of financia...

    Authors: Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Joanna M Charles, Sara Thomas, Julie Bishop, David Cohen, Sam Groves, Ciaran Humphreys, Helen Howson and Peter Bradley
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:837
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  26. Iodine deficiencies were prevalent in China until the introduction of universal salt iodization (USI) in 1995. In 2012, the standard salt iodine concentration was adjusted to 20-30 mg/kg. The success of USI fo...

    Authors: Yan Zou, Xiaoming Lou, Gangqiang Ding, Zhe Mo, Wenming Zhu and Guangming Mao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:836
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  27. Almost all studies in health research control or investigate socioeconomic position (SEP) as exposure or confounder. Different measures of SEP capture different aspects of the underlying construct, so efficien...

    Authors: Lesley Fairley, Baltica Cabieses, Neil Small, Emily S Petherick, Debbie A Lawlor, Kate E Pickett and John Wright
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:835
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  28. Tackling childhood obesity is one of the major contemporary public health policy challenges and vital in terms of addressing socioeconomic health inequalities.

    Authors: Frances C Hillier-Brown, Clare L Bambra, Joanne-Marie Cairns, Adetayo Kasim, Helen J Moore and Carolyn D Summerbell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:834
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  29. To respond to growing prevalence of hypertension in Vietnam, it is critical to have an in-depth understanding about quality of life (QOL) among people living with hypertension and related factors. This study a...

    Authors: Ninh Thi Ha, Hoa Thi Duy, Ninh Hoang Le, Vishnu Khanal and Rachael Moorin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:833
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  30. Women new to sex work and those with a greater degree of mobility have higher risk of HIV infection. Using social capital as a theoretical framework, we argue that better understanding of the interactions of m...

    Authors: Pande Putu Januraga, Julie Mooney-Somers and Paul R Ward
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:832
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is common among prisoners, particularly those with a history of injecting drug use (IDU). Incarcerated people who inject drugs frequently report high-risk injecting practices ...

    Authors: Kathryn J Snow, Jesse T Young, David B Preen, Nicholas G Lennox and Stuart A Kinner
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:830
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  35. The objective of this study was to assess socioeconomic inequalities in subjective measures of oral health in a national sample of adults in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

    Authors: Carol C Guarnizo-Herreño, Richard G Watt, Elizabeth Fuller, Jimmy G Steele, Jing Shen, Stephen Morris, John Wildman and Georgios Tsakos
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:827
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  36. Domain-specific physical activities may have different correlates and health effects, but few large studies have examined these questions, especially their separate associations with adiposity.

    Authors: Huaidong Du, Liming Li, Gary Whitlock, Derrick Bennett, Yu Guo, Zheng Bian, Junshi Chen, Paul Sherliker, Ying Huang, Ningmei Zhang, Xiangyang Zheng, Zhongxiao Li, Ruying Hu, Rory Collins, Richard Peto and Zhengming Chen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:826
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  37. Rural communities have a higher burden of cardiovascular risk factors than urban communities. In Sweden, socioeconomic transition and urbanization have led to decreased populations in rural areas and changing ...

    Authors: Martin Lindroth, Robert Lundqvist, Mikael Lilja and Mats Eliasson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:825
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  38. Breast cancer accounts for almost 30% of all cancers and is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women in Scotland. Screening is key to early detection. The Scottish Breast Screening Programme is a nat...

    Authors: Julie A Chambers, Ronan E O’Carroll, Alan Cook, Julie Cavanagh, Debbie Archibald and Rosemary Millar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:824
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  39. Authors: Md Jasim Uddin, Nurul Alam, Tracey P Koehlmoos, Haribondhu Sarma, Muhammad Ashique Haider Chowdhury, Dewan S Alam and Louis Niessen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:823
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  40. The aim of this study was to examine whether child-caregivers’, both parents and kindergarten teachers, health parameters (age, weight status, habitual physical activity score) are significantly associated wit...

    Authors: Sascha W Hoffmann, Suzan Tug and Perikles Simon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:822
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  41. The period from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s saw a rapid increase in long-term sick leave in Sweden, primarily due to mental illness and often related to job burnout. This led to an urge for effective treatm...

    Authors: Björn Karlson, Peter Jönsson and Kai Österberg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:821
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  42. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a vaccine preventable infection yet vaccination rates are low among injection drug users (IDUs) despite the high risk of infection and longstanding recommendations to promote vaccina...

    Authors: Sarah Bowman, Lauretta E Grau, Merrill Singer, Greg Scott and Robert Heimer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:820
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  43. Children from migrant origin are at higher risk for overweight and obesity. As limited physical activity is a key factor in this overweight and obesity risk, in general, the aim of this study is to assess to w...

    Authors: Wim Labree, Freek Lötters, Dike van de Mheen, Frans Rutten, Ana Rivera Chavarría, Madelon Neve, Gerda Rodenburg, Honorine Machielsen, Gerrit Koopmans and Marleen Foets
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:819
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  45. Access to medicines is a universal right. Low availability and low affordability of medicines are issues that deny this right to a significant proportion of the world population. The objective of this study wa...

    Authors: Panthihage Ruvini L Dabare, Chandanie A Wanigatunge and BVS Hemantha Beneragama
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:817
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Novel strategies are required to increase school-based physical activity levels of children. Integrating physical activity in mathematics lessons may lead to improvements in students’ physical activity levels ...

    Authors: Nicholas Riley, David R Lubans, Kathryn Holmes and Philip J Morgan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:816
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  47. In the context of population aging, visual impairment has emerged as a growing concern in public health. However, there is a need for further research into the relationship between visual impairment and chroni...

    Authors: Noe Garin, Beatriz Olaya, Elvira Lara, Maria Victoria Moneta, Marta Miret, Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos and Josep Maria Haro
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:815
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  48. Sexting (sexual messaging via mobile devices) among adolescents may result in increased risky sexual practices, psychological distress and in some cases, suicide. There is very little research on sexting in de...

    Authors: Joshua H West, Cameron E Lister, P Cougar Hall, Benjamin T Crookston, Paola Rivera Snow, Maria Elena Zvietcovich and Richard P West
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:811
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Problem drinking, particularly risky single-occasion drinking is widespread among adolescents and young adults in most Western countries. Mobile phone text messaging allows a proactive and cost-effective deliv...

    Authors: Severin Haug, Tobias Kowatsch, Raquel Paz Castro, Andreas Filler and Michael P Schaub
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:809
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  50. Community health service center (CHSC) in China is always regarded as a good facility of primary care, which plays an important role in chronic non-communicable disease management. This study aimed to investig...

    Authors: Xiao-Jing Chen, Xi-Lian Gao, Gui-Ying You, Jing Jiang, Xiao-Lin Sun, Xiao Li, Yu-Cheng Chen, Yu-Jia Liang, Qing Zhang and Zhi Zeng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:801
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