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  1. Prevalence rates of overweight and obesity have increased in German children and adolescents in the last three decades. Adolescents with extreme obesity represent a distinct risk group. On the basis of data ob...

    Authors: Martin Wabitsch, Anja Moss, Thomas Reinehr, Susanna Wiegand, Wieland Kiess, André Scherag, Reinhard Holl, Rolf Holle and Johannes Hebebrand
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:789
  2. Recently attention has begun to focus not only on assessing the effectiveness of interventions to tackle mental health problems, but also on measures to prevent physical co-morbidity. Individuals with mental h...

    Authors: A-La Park, David McDaid, Prisca Weiser, Carolin Von Gottberg, Thomas Becker and Reinhold Kilian
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:787
  3. Research suggests that the growing prevalence of obesity may be related to the influence of the health behaviours of peers. We look at clustering of exercise and eating behaviours amongst a previously unstudie...

    Authors: Kieron J Barclay, Christofer Edling and Jens Rydgren
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:784
  4. Environmental barriers are associated with disability-related outcomes in older people but little is known of the effect of environmental barriers on mortality. The aim of this study was to examine whether obj...

    Authors: Merja Rantakokko, Timo Törmäkangas, Taina Rantanen, Maria Haak and Susanne Iwarsson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:783
  5. Worldwide, there were 650,000 multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases in 2010, and in 2008 the World Health Organization estimated that 150,000 deaths occurred annually due to MDR-TB. Ethiopia is 15th amo...

    Authors: Selamawit Hirpa, Girmay Medhin, Belaineh Girma, Muluken Melese, Alemayehu Mekonen, Pedro Suarez and Gobena Ameni
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:782
  6. Upstream social determinants of health (SDH) have become widely acknowledged as lying at the root of poor health outcomes in Canada and globally. The Commission on the Social Determinants of Health maintains t...

    Authors: Kelly E Kenney and Spencer Moore
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:781
  7. There is a paucity of research on predictors for drinking during pregnancy among women in Sweden and reported prevalence rates differ considerably between studies conducted at different antenatal care centres....

    Authors: Janna Skagerström, Siw Alehagen, Elisabet Häggström-Nordin, Kristofer Årestedt and Per Nilsen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:780
  8. India has the world’s highest total number of under-five deaths of any nation. While progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4 has been documented at the state level, little information is available for g...

    Authors: Mark Minnery, Eliana Jimenez-Soto, Sonja Firth, Kim-Huong Nguyen and Andrew Hodge
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:779
  9. Childsmile School adopts a directed-population approach to target fluoride varnish applications to 20% of the primary one (P1) population in priority schools selected on the basis of the proportion of enrolled...

    Authors: Lynn Brewster, Andrea Sherriff and Lorna Macpherson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:778
  10. Diabetes is one of the most widespread chronic disease. Although many medications are available for the treatment and prevention of diabetes, many people turn to nutritional supplements (NSs). In these years, ...

    Authors: Loredana Covolo, Michela Capelli, Elisabetta Ceretti, Donatella Feretti, Luigi Caimi and Umberto Gelatti
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:777
  11. A considerable percentage of flight crew reports to be fatigued regularly. This is partly caused by irregular and long working hours and the crossing of time zones. It has been shown that persistent fatigue ca...

    Authors: Alwin van Drongelen, Allard J van der Beek, Hynek Hlobil, Tjabe Smid and Cécile RL Boot
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:776
  12. Diarrheal illness remains a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality, with the majority of deaths occurring in children <5 years of age. Lack of resources often prohibits the evaluation of outbreak char...

    Authors: KA Alexander and JK Blackburn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:775
  13. There is a dearth of evidence regarding the impact of urban regeneration projects on public health, particularly the nature and degree to which urban regeneration impacts upon health-related behaviour change. ...

    Authors: Mark A Tully, Ruth F Hunter, Helen McAneney, Margaret E Cupples, Michael Donnelly, Geraint Ellis, George Hutchinson, Lindsay Prior, Michael Stevenson and Frank Kee
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:774
  14. Volunteering has been advocated by the United Nations, and American and European governments as a way to engage people in their local communities and improve social capital, with the potential for public healt...

    Authors: Caroline E Jenkinson, Andy P Dickens, Kerry Jones, Jo Thompson-Coon, Rod S Taylor, Morwenna Rogers, Clare L Bambra, Iain Lang and Suzanne H Richards
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:773
  15. Alcohol consumption, smoking and weight problems are common risk factors for different health problems. We examine how these risk factors are associated with the use of health care services.

    Authors: Kaire Vals, Raul-Allan Kiivet and Mall Leinsalu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:772
  16. Although reported condom use between female sex workers and their clients is high in Ethiopia, condom use with regular, non-paying partners remains low, posing a substantial risk of HIV infection to sex worker...

    Authors: Alyssa Mooney, Aklilu Kidanu, Heather M Bradley, Evelyn Kuor Kumoji, Caitlin E Kennedy and Deanna Kerrigan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:771
  17. The Fogarty International Center (FIC) has supported research capacity development for over twenty years. While the mission of FIC is supporting and facilitating global health research conducted by U.S. and in...

    Authors: Sara Bennett, Ligia Paina, Freddie Ssengooba, Douglas Waswa and James M M’Imunya
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:770
  18. The prevalence of obesity is increasing rapidly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) as their populations become exposed to obesogenic environments. The transition from an agrarian to an industrial and ...

    Authors: Amina Aitsi-Selmi, Ruoling Chen, Martin J Shipley and Michael G Marmot
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:769
  19. Ethnic minority women from low-income countries who live in high-income countries are more physically inactive than ethnic majority women in those countries. At the same time, they can be harder to reach with ...

    Authors: Marieke A Hartman, Vera Nierkens, Stephan W Cremer, Karien Stronks and Arnoud P Verhoeff
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:768
  20. Air pollution is known to be a leading cause of respiratory symptoms. Many cross-sectional studies reported that air pollution caused respiratory disease in Japanese individuals in the 1960s. Japan has laws re...

    Authors: Takako Tanaka, Masaharu Asai, Yorihide Yanagita, Tsuyoshi Nishinakagawa, Naomi Miyamoto, Kenji Kotaki, Yudai Yano, Ryo Kozu, Sumihisa Honda and Hideaki Senjyu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:766
  21. Disclosure of HIV status has become an entry criterion for prevention of mother to child transmission programs in resource-constrained countries. However, little has been explored about the prevalence of, barr...

    Authors: Endalew Gemechu Sendo, Amsale Cherie and Tadese Asfaw Erku
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:765
  22. The aim of this study was to make an in-depth analysis of the prevalence and co-occurrence in pre-school children of possible asthma and atopic manifestations.

    Authors: Kristina Bröms, Dan Norbäck, Margaretha Eriksson, Claes Sundelin and Kurt Svärdsudd
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:764
  23. Individuals of Asian heritage represent the largest ethnic minority in Canada. Approximately 10% of the new HIV diagnoses in men in British Columbia occur among Asian-Canadians. However, the HIV risk patterns ...

    Authors: Thiha Maung Maung, Becky Chen, David M Moore, Keith Chan, Steve Kanters, Warren Michelow, Robert S Hogg, Nadine Nakamura, Wayne Robert, Reka Gustafson and Mark Gilbert
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:763
  24. Excessive alcohol consumption is responsible for considerable harm from chronic disease and injury. Within most developed countries, members of sporting clubs participate in at-risk alcohol consumption at leve...

    Authors: Melanie Kingsland, Luke Wolfenden, Bosco C Rowland, Karen E Gillham, Vanessa J Kennedy, Robyn L Ramsden, Richard W Colbran, Sarah Weir and John H Wiggers
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:762
  25. Physical activity is important for children’s health, but successful physical activity promotion is challenging. Whether performing many different types of activities (Variety) is associated with higher physic...

    Authors: Hannah L Brooke, Kirsten Corder, Simon J Griffin, Ulf Ekelund and Esther MF van Sluijs
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:761
  26. In the educational sector job demands have intensified, while job resources remained the same. A prolonged disbalance between demands and resources contributes to lowered vitality and heightened need for recov...

    Authors: Roosmarijn MC Schelvis, Karen M Oude Hengel, Noortje M Wiezer, Birgitte M Blatter, Joost AGM van Genabeek, Ernst T Bohlmeijer and Allard J van der Beek
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:760
  27. Asthma in older adults is underdiagnosed and poorly self-managed. This population has little knowledge about the key symptoms, the prevalence among older adults, and the serious consequences of untreated asthm...

    Authors: Uwana Evers, Sandra C Jones, Don Iverson and Peter Caputi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:759
  28. In the current two decades, dyslipidemia and increased blood glucose as metabolic abnormalities are the most common health threats with a high incidence among HIV/AIDS patients on antiretroviral (ARV) treatmen...

    Authors: Nazisa Hejazi, Roslee Rajikan, Christopher Lee Kwok Choong and Suzana Sahar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:758
  29. Process evaluations are useful for understanding how interventions are implemented in trial settings. This is important for interpreting main trial results and indicating how the intervention might function be...

    Authors: Catherine R Chittleborough, Alexandra L Nicholson, Elaine Young, Sarah Bell and Rona Campbell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:757
  30. Governments can intervene to change health-related behaviours using various measures but are sensitive to public attitudes towards such interventions. This review describes public attitudes towards a range of ...

    Authors: Stephanie Diepeveen, Tom Ling, Marc Suhrcke, Martin Roland and Theresa M Marteau
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:756
  31. Studies repeatedly highlight associations between the built environment and physical activity, particularly walking. Fewer studies have examined associations with cardiometabolic risk factors, with association...

    Authors: Falk Müller-Riemenschneider, Gavin Pereira, Karen Villanueva, Hayley Christian, Matthew Knuiman, Billie Giles-Corti and Fiona C Bull
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:755
  32. The prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is similar in Japan and China and is increasing due to high rates of smoking in these countries. Reducing COPD is an important public health issue...

    Authors: Midori Yamaguchi, Motoyuki Nakao, Hideto Obata, Hideki Ikeda, Tetsuro Kanda, Qiao Wang, Yoriko Hara, Hisamitsu Omori and Yoko Ishihara
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:754
  33. High rates of physical inactivity compromise the health status of populations globally. Social networks have been shown to influence physical activity (PA), but little is known about how best to engineer socia...

    Authors: Liza S Rovniak, James F Sallis, Jennifer L Kraschnewski, Christopher N Sciamanna, Elizabeth J Kiser, Chester A Ray, Vernon M Chinchilli, Ding Ding, Stephen A Matthews, Melissa Bopp, Daniel R George and Melbourne F Hovell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:753
  34. Although the majority of postpartum women indicate a desire to delay a next birth, family planning (FP) methods are often not offered to, or taken up by, women in the first year postpartum. This study uses dat...

    Authors: Ilene S Speizer, Jean Christophe Fotso, Chinelo Okigbo, Cheikh Mbacké Faye and Cheikh Seck
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:752
  35. Studies indicate that physical damage to long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) occurs at a surprisingly rapid rate following net distribution. To what extent does such damage affect the impact of LLINs...

    Authors: Virgile Gnanguenon, Roseric Azondekon, Frederic Oke-Agbo, Arthur Sovi, Razaki Ossè, Gil Padonou, Rock Aïkpon and Martin C Akogbeto
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:751
  36. The burden of sick leave for society and organisations underlines the urgent need to prevent sick leave. An effective workplace intervention for organisations to shorten sick leave episodes is the Participator...

    Authors: Ruben A Kraaijeveld, Frederieke G Schaafsma, Cécile RL Boot, William S Shaw, Ute Bültmann and Johannes R Anema
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:750
  37. The success of health programs is influenced not only by their acceptability but also their ability to meet and respond to community expectations of service delivery. The World Health Organization (WHO) and th...

    Authors: Anna Tynan, Peter S Hill, Angela Kelly, Martha Kupul, Herick Aeno, Richard Naketrumb, Peter Siba, John Kaldor and Andrew Vallely
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:749
  38. Work stress has become a major occupational risk factor in industrialized countries and an important economic issue. The objective was to estimate the annual costs of coronary heart diseases (CHD) and mental d...

    Authors: Hélène Sultan-Taïeb, Jean-François Chastang, Malika Mansouri and Isabelle Niedhammer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:748
  39. Both compulsory detoxification treatment and community-based methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) exist for heroin addicts in China. We aim to examine the effectiveness of three intervention models for referr...

    Authors: Liping Yan, Enwu Liu, Jennifer M McGoogan, Song Duan, Li-Tzy Wu, Scott Comulada and Zunyou Wu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:747
  40. Older people with intellectual disabilities have very low physical activity levels. Well designed, theory-driven and evidence-based health promotion programmes for the target population are lacking. This paper...

    Authors: Marieke van Schijndel-Speet, Heleen M Evenhuis, Pepijn van Empelen, Ruud van Wijck and Michael A Echteld
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:746
  41. Indigenous Australians suffer a disproportionate burden of preventable chronic disease compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts – much of it diet-related. Increasing fruit and vegetable intakes and reduci...

    Authors: Julie Brimblecombe, Megan Ferguson, Selma C Liberato, Kylie Ball, Marjory L Moodie, Anne Magnus, Edward Miles, Amanda J Leach, Mark D Chatfield, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Kerin O’Dea and Ross S Bailie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:744
  42. Illness conditions lead to medical expenditure. Even with various types of medical insurance, there can still be considerable out-of-pocket costs. Medical expenditure can affect other categories of household c...

    Authors: Kuangnan Fang, Chi Ma, Yefei Jiang, Linglong Ye, Benchang Shia and Shuangge Ma
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:743
  43. To understand the full burden of a health condition, we need the information on the disease and the information on how that disease impacts the functioning of an individual. The ongoing revision of the Interna...

    Authors: Reuben Escorpizo, Nenad Kostanjsek, Cille Kennedy, Molly Meri Robinson Nicol, Gerold Stucki and Tevfik Bedirhan Üstün
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:742
  44. Effective interventions among female sex workers require a thorough knowledge of the context of local sex industries. We explore the organisation of female sex work in a low socio-economic setting in Kampala, ...

    Authors: Martin Mbonye, Sarah Nakamanya, Winifred Nalukenge, Rachel King, Judith Vandepitte and Janet Seeley
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:741
  45. To investigate the association between dietary components and development of chronic diabetic complications, the dietary evaluation should include a long period, months or years. The present manuscript aims to...

    Authors: Roberta Aguiar Sarmento, Bárbara Pelicioli Riboldi, Ticiana da Costa Rodrigues, Mirela Jobim de Azevedo and Jussara Carnevale de Almeida
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:740
  46. Infectious intestinal disease (IID) is a major health and economic burden in high-income countries. In the UK, there are an estimated 17 million IID cases annually, of which 6 million are caused by the 12 most...

    Authors: Clarence C Tam, Laura Viviani, Laura C Rodrigues and Sarah J O’Brien
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:739
  47. Human rights approaches to manage HIV and efforts to decriminalize HIV exposure/transmission globally offer hope to persons living with HIV (PLWH). However, among vulnerable populations of PLWH, substantial hu...

    Authors: J Craig Phillips, Allison Webel, Carol Dawson Rose, Inge B Corless, Kathleen M Sullivan, Joachim Voss, Dean Wantland, Kathleen Nokes, John Brion, Wei-Ti Chen, Scholastika Iipinge, Lucille Sanzero Eller, Lynda Tyer-Viola, Marta Rivero-Méndez, Patrice K Nicholas, Mallory O Johnson…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:736

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