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  1. A subgroup has emerged within the obese that do not display the typical metabolic disorders associated with obesity and are hypothesized to have lower risk of complications. The purpose of this review was to a...

    Authors: Lara L Roberson, Ehimen C Aneni, Wasim Maziak, Arthur Agatston, Theodore Feldman, Maribeth Rouseff, Thinh Tran, Michael J Blaha, Raul D Santos, Andrei Sposito, Mouaz H Al-Mallah, Ron Blankstein, Matthew J Budoff and Khurram Nasir
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:14
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Despite advancements in our understanding of the importance of stress reduction in achieving good health, we still only have limited insight into the impact of stress on cellular function. Recent studies have ...

    Authors: Charrlotte Seib, Eliza Whiteside, Janice Humphreys, Kathryn Lee, Patrick Thomas, Lisa Chopin, Gabrielle Crisp, Angela O’Keeffe, Michael Kimlin, Andrew Stacey and Debra Anderson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:9
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  3. Continued management of sanitation and hygiene services, post-intervention, is a global challenge, particularly in the school-setting. This situation threatens anticipated impacts of school sanitation and hygi...

    Authors: Christie Chatterley, Amy Javernick-Will, Karl G Linden, Kawser Alam, Laure Bottinelli and Mohini Venkatesh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:6
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  4. Evidence is often missing on social differentials in effects of nutrition interventions. We evaluated the adherence to and effect of prenatal food and micronutrient supplementations on mortality before the age...

    Authors: Rubina Shaheen, Peter Kim Streatfield, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Lars Lindholm and Lars Åke Persson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:5
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  5. Sedentary behaviours, defined as non exercising seated activities, have been shown to have deleterious effects on health. It has been hypothesised that too much sitting time can have a detrimental effect on bo...

    Authors: Sebastien FM Chastin, Oleksii Mandrichenko and Dawn A Skelton
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:4
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. While the numbers of hepatitis-C-virus (HCV) infections among men who have sex with men (MSM) who are co-infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are on the rise, with vast evidence for sexual tran...

    Authors: Axel J Schmidt, Luis Falcato, Benedikt Zahno, Andrea Burri, Stephan Regenass, Beat Müllhaupt and Philip Bruggmann
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:3
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  7. Information on health seeking behavior and beneficiaries’ perception of the quality of primary care can help policy makers to set strategies to improve health system. With scarcity of research on this particul...

    Authors: Nazar P Shabila, Namir G Al-Tawil, Tariq S Al-Hadithi and Egbert Sondorp
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:2
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  8. Significant variation exists in published Aboriginal mortality and life expectancy (LE) estimates due to differing and evolving methodologies required to correct for inadequate recording of Aboriginality in de...

    Authors: Bronwen Phillips, Stephen Morrell, Richard Taylor and John Daniels
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1
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  9. Cotinine levels provide a valid measure of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). The goal of this study was to examine exposure to tobacco smoke among smoking and nonsmoking Israeli adults and to iden...

    Authors: Hagai Levine, Tamar Berman, Rebecca Goldsmith, Thomas Göen, Judith Spungen, Lena Novack, Yona Amitai, Tamy Shohat and Itamar Grotto
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1241
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  10. Burnout is the result of prolonged workplace exposure to chronic stress factors and may present itself in one of the following subtypes: “frenetic”, “under-challenged” and “worn-out”. The aims of the present s...

    Authors: Jesús Montero-Marín, Javier Prado-Abril, José Miguel Carrasco, Ángela Asensio-Martínez, Santiago Gascón and Javier García-Campayo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1240
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  11. Nepal has made substantial progress in reducing under-five mortality and is on track to achieve Millennium Development Goal 4, but advances in neonatal health are less encouraging. The objectives of this study...

    Authors: Deepak Paudel, Ishwar B Shrestha, Matthias Siebeck and Eva A Rehfuess
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1239
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  12. Women who use drugs are extremely vulnerable to HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), but studies on risk behaviours and HIV infection among female drug users are limited in Nepal.

    Authors: Bhagabati Ghimire, S Pilar Suguimoto, Saman Zamani, Masako Ono-Kihara and Masahiro Kihara
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1238
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  13. Patients with Tuberculosis (TB) are a vulnerable group for acquiring HIV infection. Therefore, countries with a concentrated HIV epidemic and high prevalence of TB should provide adequate information about HIV...

    Authors: Cesar Ugarte-Gil, Mario Ponce, Carlos Zamudio, Luz Canaza, Frine Samalvides and Carlos Seas
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1237
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  14. Men who have sex with men in Viet Nam have been under-studied as a high-risk group for HIV infection, and this population’s percentage and determinants of HIV testing have not been comprehensively investigated.

    Authors: Macarena Cecilia García, Quyen Le Duong, Licelot Eralte Mercer, Samantha Beth Meyer and Paul Russell Ward
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1236
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  15. During Rwanda’s genocide period in 1994, about 800,000 people were killed. People were murdered, raped and seriously injured. This retrospective study investigated prevalence and frequency of traumatic episode...

    Authors: Lawrence Rugema, Ingrid Mogren, Joseph Ntaganira and Krantz Gunilla
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1235
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. The past decade has witnessed a growing body of research on welfare state characteristics and health inequalities but the picture is, despite this, inconsistent. We aim to review this research by focusing on t...

    Authors: Kersti Bergqvist, Monica Åberg Yngwe and Olle Lundberg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1234
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  17. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people in Taiwan. However, few studies have investigated children’s suicidal ideation, and longitudinal studies are particularly rare. The purposes of t...

    Authors: Yi-Chen Chiang, Tony Szu-Hsien Lee, Lee-Lan Yen, Chi-Chen Wu, Dai-Chan Lin, Baai-Shyun Hurng and Hsing-Yi Chang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1233
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  18. In elderly persons frailty and malnutrition are very common and can lead to serious health hazards such as increased mortality, morbidity, dependency, institutionalization and a reduced quality of life. In Aus...

    Authors: Thomas E Dorner, Christian Lackinger, Sandra Haider, Eva Luger, Ali Kapan, Maria Luger and Karin E Schindler
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1232
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  19. There is some evidence in the literature that emphasising fish consumption may assist with weight loss. The aim was to assess the effects of advice to consume 2 fish meals per week in a weight loss diet.

    Authors: Linda C Tapsell, Marijka J Batterham, Karen E Charlton, Elizabeth P Neale, Yasmine C Probst, Jane E O’Shea, Rebecca L Thorne, Qingsheng Zhang and Jimmy Chun Yu Louie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1231
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  20. Hypertension is an important and modifiable cardiovascular risk factor that remains under-detected and under-treated, especially in the older individuals. Community-led interventions that integrate primary hea...

    Authors: Chenglin Ye, Gary Foster, Janusz Kaczorowski, Larry W Chambers, Ricardo Angeles, Francine Marzanek-Lefebvre, Stephanie Laryea, Lehana Thabane and Lisa Dolovich
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1230
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Chronic pain is common in Europe and elsewhere and its under treatment confers a substantial burden on individuals, employers, healthcare systems and society in general. Indeed, the personal and socioeconomic ...

    Authors: Harald Breivik, Elon Eisenberg and Tony O’Brien
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1229
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  22. Māori and Pacific Island people have significantly higher smoking rates compared to the rest of the New Zealand population. The main aim of this paper is to describe how knowledge of Indigenous people’s practi...

    Authors: Marewa Glover, Amber Bosman, Annemarie Wagemakers, Anette Kira, Chris Paton and Nathan Cowie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1228
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  23. Despite the popularity of hypnotherapy for smoking cessation, the efficacy of this method is unclear. We aimed to investigate the efficacy of a single-session of group hypnotherapy for smoking cessation compar...

    Authors: Maria Dickson-Spillmann, Severin Haug and Michael P Schaub
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1227
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Exhaled breath temperature has been suggested as a new method to detect and monitor pathological processes in the respiratory system. The putative mechanism of this approach is based upon changes in the blood ...

    Authors: Esmée Bijnens, Nicky Pieters, Harrie Dewitte, Bianca Cox, Bram G Janssen, Nelly Saenen, Evi Dons, Maurice P Zeegers, Luc Int Panis and Tim S Nawrot
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1226
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. The first objective of this study was to investigate the public perceptions of private water and alternative sources with respect to safety, quality, testing and treatment in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), Ca...

    Authors: Steven M Roche, Andria Jones-Bitton, Shannon E Majowicz, Katarina D M Pintar and David Allison
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1225
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  26. Low levels of cardiorespiratory fitness are associated with high risk of non-communicable diseases and all-cause mortality. Physical activity level is the primary determinant of cardiorespiratory fitness in ad...

    Authors: Kirstine Hoj Obling, Kristian Overgaard, Lise Juul and Helle Terkildsen Maindal
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1224
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  27. There is strong evidence based on previous studies that ethnicity and socioeconomic status are important determinants of diversity in the occurrence of diabetes. However, the independent roles of socioeconomic...

    Authors: Seyed Morteza Shamshirgaran, Louisa Jorm, Hilary Bambrick and Annemarie Hennessy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1223
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Tuberculosis remains the major debilitating public health problem in Ethiopia. However, studies to understand the patients’ perspectives on the illness and their health-seeking behavior have been few in the co...

    Authors: Meseret Senbeto, Sebsibe Tadesse, Takele Tadesse and Tesfahun Melesse
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1222
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  29. A large number of studies have investigated the motivation behind health care workers (HCWs) taking the influenza vaccine. But with the appearance of pandemic influenza, it became important to better analyse t...

    Authors: Roberta Bonfiglioli, Michela Vignoli, Dina Guglielmi, Marco Depolo and Francesco Saverio Violante
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1221
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  30. Health insurance is improving access to quality health care in Ghana. However, there are implementation challenges which call for reform of the current health insurance system. There is no doubt that reforming...

    Authors: Peter Agyei-Baffour, Regina Oppong and Daniel Boateng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1220
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  31. People want to be well informed and ask for more information regarding their health. The public can use different sources (i.e. the Internet, health care providers, friends, family, television, radio, and news...

    Authors: Irene A Harmsen, Gemma G Doorman, Liesbeth Mollema, Robert AC Ruiter, Gerjo Kok and Hester E de Melker
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1219
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  32. The idea that behaviour can be influenced at population level by altering the environments within which people make choices (choice architecture) has gained traction in policy circles. However, empirical evide...

    Authors: Gareth J Hollands, Ian Shemilt, Theresa M Marteau, Susan A Jebb, Michael P Kelly, Ryota Nakamura, Marc Suhrcke and David Ogilvie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1218
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  33. Diabetes affects both individuals and their families and has an impact on economic and social development of a country. Information on the availability, cost, and quality of medical care for diabetes is mostly...

    Authors: Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Andreas Lechner, Uta Ferrari, Guenter Froeschl, Louis W Niessen, Jochen Seissler and Dewan Shamsul Alam
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1217
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  35. Helicobacter pylori is an important global pathogen infecting approximately 50% of the world’s population. This study was undertaken in order to estimate the prevalence rate of Helicobacter pylori infections a...

    Authors: Nilufer Ozaydin, Sinan A Turkyilmaz and Sanda Cali
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1215
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  36. The relationship between socioeconomic position and obesity has been clearly established, however, the extent to which specific behavioural factors mediate this relationship is less clear. This study aimed to ...

    Authors: Emma Gearon, Kathryn Backholer, Allison Hodge and Anna Peeters
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1214
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  37. The global increase in the prevalence of NCD’s is accompanied by an increase in risk factors for these diseases such as insufficient physical activity and poor nutritional habits. The main aims of this researc...

    Authors: Tracy L Kolbe-Alexander, Jaco Conradie and Estelle V Lambert
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1213
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Diabetes mellitus is an increasingly prevalent metabolic disorder that is associated with substantial disease burden. Australia has an opportunity to improve ways of caring for the growing number of people wit...

    Authors: Matthew J Leach, Leonie Segal, Adrian Esterman, Caroline Armour, Robyn McDermott and Tim Fountaine
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1212
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  39. Recent outbreaks of measles and polio in low-income countries illustrate that conventional methods for estimating vaccination coverage do not adequately identify susceptible children. Immune markers of protect...

    Authors: Kyla T Hayford, Mohammed S Shomik, Hassan M Al-Emran, William J Moss, David Bishai and Orin S Levine
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1211
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  40. Metabolic functions may operate as important biophysiological mechanisms through which social relationships affect health. It is unclear how social embeddedness or the lack thereof is related to risk of metabo...

    Authors: Yang Claire Yang, Ting Li and Yinchun Ji
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1210
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  41. Breast cancer is the commonest cancer in women worldwide. Although programmes promoting breast cancer awareness are being carried out throughout Sri Lanka, few have targeted school students. We conducted this ...

    Authors: Hasanthika M Ranasinghe, Nilakshika Ranasinghe, Chaturaka Rodrigo, Rohini De A Seneviratne and Senaka Rajapakse
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1209
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  42. Unhealthy lifestyles contribute to the development of cardiovascular risk factors, whose incidence is increasing among children and adolescents. The Program SI! is a long-term, multi-target behavioral interven...

    Authors: José L Peñalvo, Mercedes Sotos-Prieto, Gloria Santos-Beneit, Stuart Pocock, Juliana Redondo and Valentín Fuster
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1208
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  43. With both a high need for recovery (NFR) and overweight and obesity being a potential burden for organizations (e.g. productivity loss and sickness absence), the aim of this paper was to examine the associatio...

    Authors: Robine E van der Starre, Jennifer K Coffeng, Ingrid JM Hendriksen, Willem van Mechelen and Cécile RL Boot
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1207
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. The present study aimed to explore a longitudinal relationship between fruit and vegetable consumption in adolescence and two health-related outcomes (i.e., self-rated health and mental health) in early adulth...

    Authors: Yuriko Takaoka and Norito Kawakami
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1206
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  45. Childhood overweight and obesity is a global public health concern. For girls in particular, being overweight or obese during pre-adolescence (aged 7–11 years) has intergenerational implications for both the m...

    Authors: Joanna May Kesten, Noel Cameron and Paula Louise Griffiths
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1205
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  46. Shift work has been hypothesized as a risk factor for obesity. In this study, we investigated the association between current shift work and body mass index (BMI) among female nurses in Korea. The relationship...

    Authors: Min-Ju Kim, Kuk-Hui Son, Hyun-Young Park, Dong-Ju Choi, Chang-Hwan Yoon, Hea-Young Lee, Eun-Young Cho and Myeong-Chan Cho
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1204
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  47. A diet rich in fruit, vegetables and dietary fibre and low in fat is associated with reduced risk of chronic disease. This review aimed to estimate the effectiveness of interventions to promote healthy diet fo...

    Authors: Nawaraj Bhattarai, A Toby Prevost, Alison J Wright, Judith Charlton, Caroline Rudisill and Martin C Gulliford
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1203
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  48. Application of emollients is a widespread traditional newborn care practice in many low and middle-income countries (LMICs) and may have the potential to decrease infection and consequent mortality in preterm ...

    Authors: Rehana A Salam, Jai K Das, Gary L Darmstadt and Zulfiqar A Bhutta
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13(Suppl 3):S31
    Content type: Review Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 3

  49. Injection drug use is a major public health problem. Oral health problems and the appearance of dental disease among injection drug users (IDUs) are caused by their lifestyle. The aim of the present study was ...

    Authors: Zorica Terzic Supic, Ranko Petrovic, Milena Santric Milicevic, Goran Trajkovic and Zoran Bukumiric
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1202
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  50. Prisoners have extremely high rates of smoking with rates 3–4 times higher than the general community. Many prisoners have used heroin. The aims of this study were to investigate the impact of heroin use on sm...

    Authors: Devon Indig, Alex D Wodak, Robyn L Richmond, Tony G Butler, Vicki A Archer and Kay A Wilhelm
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1200
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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