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  1. Cervical cancer is a disease of public health importance affecting many women and contributing to avoidably high levels of cancer deaths in Nigeria. In spite of the relative ease of prevention, the incidence i...

    Authors: Olumide A Abiodun, Oluwatosin O Olu-Abiodun, John O Sotunsa and Francis A Oluwole
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:814
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  2. Vaccination is currently the most effective means of preventing influenza infection. Yet evidence of vaccine performance, and the impact and value of seasonal influenza vaccination across risk groups and betwe...

    Authors: Emmanuelle Preaud, Laure Durand, Bérengère Macabeo, Norbert Farkas, Brigitte Sloesen, Abraham Palache, Francis Shupo and Sandrine I Samson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:813
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  4. HIV-positive women have an increased risk of developing cervical cancer (CC) compared to the HIV-negative women. Despite this, HIV and CC screening programs in many developing countries have remained disintegr...

    Authors: Edward Kumakech, Sören Andersson, Henry Wabinga and Vanja Berggren
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:810
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  6. Internet- and mobile based stress-management interventions (iSMI) may be an effective means to address the negative consequences of occupational stress. However, available results from randomised controlled tr...

    Authors: David Daniel Ebert, Dirk Lehr, Filip Smit, Anna-Carlotta Zarski, Heleen Riper, Elena Heber, Pim Cuijpers and Matthias Berking
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:807
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  7. The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe has established the Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) to monitor changes in overweight in primary-school children. The aims of this...

    Authors: Trudy MA Wijnhoven, Joop MA van Raaij, Angela Spinelli, Gregor Starc, Maria Hassapidou, Igor Spiroski, Harry Rutter, Éva Martos, Ana I Rito, Ragnhild Hovengen, Napoleón Pérez-Farinós, Ausra Petrauskiene, Nazih Eldin, Lien Braeckevelt, Iveta Pudule, Marie Kunešová…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:806
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  8. Stress-related mental disorders rank among the leading causes of sickness absence in several European countries. The aim of this study was to investigate predictors of all-cause and diagnosis-specific disabili...

    Authors: Kazi Ishtiak-Ahmed, Aleksander Perski and Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:805
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  9. Though tuberculosis (TB) is preventable and curable, its global burden remains enormous. Similarly, TB is one of the major public health problems in Ethiopia, particularly in geographically isolated areas like...

    Authors: Daniel Tolossa, Girmay Medhin and Mengistu Legesse
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:804
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  10. School children are confined to and exposed to outdoor environment that happens to be at their disposal during compulsory school time. The health-promoting potential of outdoor environment, and the use of it, ...

    Authors: Peter Pagels, Anders Raustorp, Antonio Ponce De Leon, Fredrika Mårtensson, Maria Kylin and Cecilia Boldemann
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:803
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  11. China’s population is quickly aging and this trend is expected to continue. Thus it is important to develop HIV interventions to help protect older Chinese from infection. Limited information exists regarding ...

    Authors: Yanqiu Zhou, Yingying Ding, Kaikan Gu, Xiaonian Lu, Meiyang Gao and Na He
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:802
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  12. Stunting is one of the major causes of morbidity among under-five children Knowledge about risk factors of stunting is an important precondition for developing and strengthening nutritional intervention strate...

    Authors: Teshale Fikadu, Sahilu Assegid and Lamessa Dube
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:800
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  13. The current study examined the associations between active commuting to school, cognitive performance, and academic achievement in Dutch adolescents. In addition, it was explored whether these associations wer...

    Authors: Martin L Van Dijk, Renate HM De Groot, Frederik Van Acker, Hans HCM Savelberg and Paul A Kirschner
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:799
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  14. In Hungary, the last wide-range evaluation about nutritional status of the population was completed in 1988. Since then, only limited data were available. Our aim was to collect, analyze and present updated preva...

    Authors: Imre Rurik, Péter Torzsa, Judit Szidor, Csaba Móczár, Gabriella Iski, Éva Albók, Tímea Ungvári, Zoltán Jancsó and János Sándor
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:798
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  15. Little is known about the association between parental chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) and occurrence of CMP in the adult offspring. The main objective of this study was to assess the parent-offspring assoc...

    Authors: Ragnhild Lier, Tom Ivar Lund Nilsen and Paul Jarle Mork
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:797
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  16. Problem drinkers have poor inhibitory control (disinhibition). Previous studies have demonstrated that various forms of ‘inhibition training’ can reduce alcohol consumption in the laboratory and at short-term ...

    Authors: Andrew Jones, Elly McGrath, Katrijn Houben, Chantal Nederkoorn, Eric Robinson and Matt Field
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:796
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  17. Most children in affluent developed countries do not meet basic physical activity recommendations. This study assessed primary caregiver knowledge of the UK recommendations on physical activity for children an...

    Authors: Alexia Sawyer, Lee Smith, Stephanie Schrempft, Cornelia HM van Jaarsveld, Jane Wardle and Abigail Fisher
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:795
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  18. Dementia is a worldwide health concern of epidemic proportions. Research in the field of subjective experience of dementia suffers from a lack of diversity of their participants including immigrants. Different...

    Authors: Monir Mazaheri, Lars E Eriksson, Alireza Nikbakht Nasrabadi, Helena Sunvisson and Kristiina Heikkilä
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:794
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  19. Preventing and reducing childhood and adolescent obesity is a growing priority in many countries. Recent UK data suggest that children in more deprived areas have higher rates of obesity and poorer diet qualit...

    Authors: Michelle Estrade, Smita Dick, Fiona Crawford, Ruth Jepson, Anne Ellaway and Geraldine McNeill
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:793
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  20. The need to challenge messages that reinforce harmful negative discourses around sexual risk and responsibility is a priority in improving sexual health. The mass media are an important source of information r...

    Authors: Susan P Martin, Lisa M McDaid and Shona Hilton
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:792
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  21. Southeast Asian communities in the United States have suffered from high rates of tobacco use and high rates of chronic diseases associated with firsthand and secondhand smoking. Research is needed on how best...

    Authors: Diana J Burgess, Jeremiah Mock, Barbara A Schillo, Jessie E Saul, Tam Phan, Yanat Chhith, Nina Alesci and Steven S Foldes
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:791
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  23. Understanding exercise participation for overweight and obese adults is critical for preventing comorbid conditions. Group-based high-intensity functional training (HIFT) provides time-efficient aerobic and re...

    Authors: Katie M Heinrich, Pratik M Patel, Joshua L O’Neal and Bryan S Heinrich
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:789
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  24. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is recognized as a systemic illness with significant extra-pulmonary features, such as exercise intolerance and muscle weakness. Pulmonary rehabilitation has been s...

    Authors: Annemieke Fastenau, Jean WM Muris, Rob A de Bie, Erik JM Hendriks, Guus M Asijee, Emmylou Beekman, Rik Gosselink and Onno CP van Schayck
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:788
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  25. Acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI) imposes considerable social and economic burden on low and middle-income countries. This study aimed to estimate the occurrence, distribution, and burden of self-reported A...

    Authors: Xiang-Lai Sang, Xiao-Cheng Liang, Yan Chen, Jian-Dong Li, Jing-Guang Li, Li Bai and Jian-Yun Sun
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:787
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  26. There is growing evidence of the increased cancer risk associated with alcohol consumption, but this is not well understood by the general public. This study investigated the acceptability among drinkers of ca...

    Authors: Simone Pettigrew, Michelle Jongenelis, Tanya Chikritzhs, Terry Slevin, Iain S Pratt, David Glance and Wenbin Liang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:786
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  28. The present study assessed coverage, changes in condom use, and prevalence of HIV and other STIs among high-risk men who have sex with men (HR-MSM; highly visible, recruited from cruising sites/sex venues) and...

    Authors: Shreena Ramanathan, Sucheta Deshpande, Abhishek Gautam, Dilip B Pardeshi, Lakshmi Ramakrishnan, Prabuddhagopal Goswami, Rajatashuvra Adhikary, Bitra George, Ramesh S Paranjape and Mandar M Mainkar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:784
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  29. Patients’ perception of risk and their lifestyle choices are of major importance in the treatment of common chronic diseases. This study reveals determinants for and knowledge about why people accept or reject...

    Authors: Nielsen Jesper Bo, Jarbøl Dorte Ejg, Gyrd-Hansen Dorte, Barfoed Benedicte Marie Lind and Larsen Pia Veldt
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:783
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  30. Presently, there is no consensus on how to define multimorbidity. In this paper we investigate the connection between prevalence estimates for two or more and three or more chronic conditions to improve compar...

    Authors: Barbara M Holzer, Klarissa Siebenhuener, Matthias Bopp and Christoph E Minder
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:780
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  31. Children from disadvantaged families including those from low socioeconomic backgrounds and Indigenous families have higher rates of obesity, making early intervention a priority. The aim of this study was to ...

    Authors: Rachel Laws, Karen J Campbell, Paige van der Pligt, Georgina Russell, Kylie Ball, John Lynch, David Crawford, Rachael Taylor, Deborah Askew and Elizabeth Denney-Wilson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:779
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  33. Crashes are the leading cause of death for teens, and parent-based interventions are a promising approach. We assess the effectiveness of Steering Teens Safe, a parent-focused program to increase safe teen dri...

    Authors: Corinne Peek-Asa, Joseph E Cavanaugh, Jingzhen Yang, Vidya Chande, Tracy Young and Marizen Ramirez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:777
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  34. There has been an increasing trend in the incidence of stroke worldwide in recent years, and the number of studies focusing on the risk factors for stroke has also increased every year. To comprehensively eval...

    Authors: Xuetao Chen, Liang Zhou, Yanqi Zhang, Dali Yi, Ling Liu, Wen Rao, Yazhou Wu, Dihui Ma, Xiaoyu Liu, Xiao-Hua Andrew Zhou, Hui Lin, Dixiang Cheng and Dong Yi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:776
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  35. Knowledge and awareness concerning sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) has become the burning issue of the day. Although STDs pose serious risks to health security, there is very little literature quantifying...

    Authors: Mosharaf Hossain, Kulanthayan KC Mani, Sherina Mohd Sidik, Hayati Kadir Shahar and Rafiqul Islam
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:775
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  36. Maternal behavior before and after conception affects maternal and child health. Limited awareness of adolescents in preconception health may be addressed through school education. The aim of this intervention...

    Authors: Lama Charafeddine, Rym El Rafei, Sophie Azizi, Durriyah Sinno, Kawthar Alamiddine, Christopher P Howson, Salimah R Walani, Walid Ammar, Anwar Nassar and Khalid Yunis
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:774
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  38. Intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization is a prevalent issue among women residing in Mexico City. Comprehensive and integrated health care provider (HCP) delivered programs in clinic-settings are needed,...

    Authors: Kathryn L Falb, Claudia Diaz–Olavarrieta, Paola A Campos, Jimena Valades, Roosebelinda Cardenas, Giselle Carino and Jhumka Gupta
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:772
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  39. Currently, Nigeria alone accounts for 30% of the burden of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. This review explores the socio-cultural factors influencing prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PM...

    Authors: Juliet Iwelunmor, Echezona E Ezeanolue, Collins O Airhihenbuwa, Michael C Obiefune, Chinenye O Ezeanolue and Gbenga G Ogedegbe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:771
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  40. Onset of sexual activity during adolescence is common in Vanuatu, however access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information is limited. Improving adolescents’ knowledge about SRH is nece...

    Authors: Elissa C Kennedy, Siula Bulu, Jennifer Harris, David Humphreys, Jayline Malverus and Natalie J Gray
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:770
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  41. The aim of the study was to estimate the prevalence of depression in the population diagnosed with diabetes type 2 and to test the hypothesis that the presence of depression in such cases was associated with a...

    Authors: Edurne Alonso-Morán, Altynai Satylganova, Juan F Orueta and Roberto Nuño-Solinis
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:769
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  42. The high and fluctuating mortality and rising health inequalities in post-Soviet countries have attracted considerable attention. However, there are very few individual-level data on distribution of health out...

    Authors: Adil Supiyev, Talgat Nurgozhin, Zhaxybay Zhumadilov, Almaz Sharman, Michael Marmot and Martin Bobak
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:768
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  44. Although the number of child laborers in Latin America is generally high, data on occupational hazards and injuries is insufficient. The objective of this study was therefore to determine the lifetime prevalen...

    Authors: Cornelia Schlick, Manuela Joachin, Leonardo Briceño, Daniel Moraga and Katja Radon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:766
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  45. Health impact assessment (HIA) studies are increasingly predicting the health effects of mode shifts in traffic. The challenge for such studies is to combine the health effects, caused by injuries, with the di...

    Authors: Marko Tainio, Dorota Olkowicz, Grzegorz Teresiński, Audrey de Nazelle and Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:765
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  46. Fitness and physical activity are important for cardiovascular and mental health but activity and fitness levels are declining especially in adolescents and among girls. This study examines clustering of facto...

    Authors: Richard Charlton, Michael B Gravenor, Anwen Rees, Gareth Knox, Rebecca Hill, Muhammad A Rahman, Kerina Jones, Danielle Christian, Julien S Baker, Gareth Stratton and Sinead Brophy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:764
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  47. Inequity in health is a global concern. Even in Sweden there are considerable health gaps between different social groups, not least concerning life-style related conditions. Interventions drawing on Community...

    Authors: Maria Magnusson, Moa Hallmyr Lewis, Malgorzata Smaga-Blom, Lauren Lissner and Chris Pickering
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:763
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  48. The workplace is a setting where sedentary behaviour is highly prevalent. Accurately measuring physical activity and sedentary behaviour is crucial to assess the impact of behavioural change interventions. Thi...

    Authors: Jonine Jancey, Marian Tye, Sarah McGann, Krysten Blackford and Andy H Lee
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:762
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  49. Breast cancer incidence in African population is low compared to western countries but the mortality rate is higher and the disease presents at a younger age and at a more advanced stage. The World Health Orga...

    Authors: Gertrude Luyeye Mvila, Sandra Postema, Guy Marchal, Erik Van Limbergen, Fons Verdonck, Gert Matthijs, Koen Devriendt, Genevieve Michils and Chantal Van Ongeval
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:759
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  50. Prostate cancer (PCa) is the leading cause of cancer in men in many developed countries, but no modifiable risk factors have been identified. A handful of analytical studies have suggested a possible etiologic...

    Authors: Jennifer Yu, Jérôme Lavoué and Marie-Élise Parent
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:756
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