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  1. Public health research is an endeavour that often involves multiple relationships, far-reaching collaborations, divergent expectations and various outcomes. Using the Tall Girls Study as a case study, this pap...

    Authors: Fiona J Bruinsma, Jo-Anne Rayner, Alison J Venn, Priscilla Pyett and George Werther
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 5):S7
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 5

  2. The perceived risk/benefit balance of prescribed and over-the-counter (OTC) medicine, as well as complementary therapies, will significantly impact on an individual’s decision-making to use medicine. For women...

    Authors: Karalyn McDonald, Lisa H Amir and Mary-Ann Davey
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 5):S5
    Content type: Review Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 5

  3. Intervention studies for depression and intimate partner violence (IPV) commonly incorporate screening to identify eligible participants. The challenge is that current ethical evaluation is largely informed by...

    Authors: Victoria J Palmer, Jane S Yelland and Angela J Taft
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 5):S3
    Content type: Review Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 5

  4. When a medicine such as rofecoxib (Vioxx) is withdrawn, or a whole class of medicines discredited such as the selective COX-2 inhibitors (COX-2s), follow-up of impacts at consumer level can be difficult and co...

    Authors: Lynne Parkinson, Xenia Doljagore, Richard Gibson, Evan Doran, Lisa Notley, Jenny Stewart Williams, Paul Kowal and Julie E Byles
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:892
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. The social environment in which children grow up is closely associated with their health. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between maternal educational level, parental preventive behav...

    Authors: Elisabeth Mangrio, Kristina Hansen, Martin Lindström, Marie Köhler and Maria Rosvall
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:891
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Spatial planning affects the built environment, which in turn has the potential to have a significant impact on health, for good or ill. One way of ensuring that spatial plans take due account of health is thr...

    Authors: Selena Gray, Laurence Carmichael, Hugh Barton, Julie Mytton, Helen Lease and Jennifer Joynt
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:889
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Falls in older people continue to be a major public health issue in industrialized countries. Extensive research into falls prevention has identified exercise as a proven fall prevention strategy. However, des...

    Authors: Alexander Voukelatos, Dafna Merom, Chris Rissel, Cathie Sherrington, Wendy Watson and Karen Waller
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:888
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  9. General practice based registration networks (GPRNs) provide information on morbidity rates in the population. Morbidity rate estimates from different GPRNs, however, reveal considerable, unexplained differenc...

    Authors: C van den Dungen, N Hoeymans, HC Boshuizen, M van den Akker, MCJ Biermans, K van Boven, HJ Brouwer, RA Verheij, MWM de Waal, FG Schellevis and GP Westert
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:887
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  10. In sub-Saharan Africa, little is known about the health and functional status of older people who either themselves are HIV infected or are affected by HIV and AIDS in the family. This aim of this study was to...

    Authors: Francien Scholten, Joseph Mugisha, Janet Seeley, Eugene Kinyanda, Susan Nakubukwa, Paul Kowal, Nirmala Naidoo, Ties Boerma, Somnath Chatterji and Heiner Grosskurth
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:886
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. Sentinel surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections in hospitals and influenza-like illness in ambulatory clinics is recommended to assist in global pandemic influenza preparedness. Healthcare utiliz...

    Authors: Kim A Lindblade, April J Johnson, Wences Arvelo, Xingyou Zhang, Hannah T Jordan, Lissette Reyes, Alicia M Fry and Norma Padilla
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:885
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. With the medical reform, the function of community health centres emerged to be more important recently in China. However, the health service capabilities were tremendously different between metropolitan citie...

    Authors: Cuixia Ge, Jialiang Fu, Ying Chang and Lie Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:884
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. It is well recognised that the adoption and longer term adherence to physical activity by adults to reduce the risk of chronic disease is a challenge. Interventions, such as group and home based physical activ...

    Authors: Nicole Freene, Gordon Waddington, Wendy Chesworth, Rachel Davey and John Goss
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:883
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  14. Pneumonia is still the leading cause of death among children in Africa, and pneumococcal serotypes 1 and 5 are frequently isolated from African children with invasive pneumococcal disease below the age of 5 ye...

    Authors: Alassane Dicko, Olumuyiwa O Odusanya, Abdoulbaki I Diallo, Gaoussou Santara, Amadou Barry, Amagana Dolo, Aminata Diallo, Yetunde A Kuyinu, Omolara A Kehinde, Nancy François, Dorota Borys, Juan P Yarzabal, Marta Moreira and Lode Schuerman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:882
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Overweight and obesity in youth has increased dramatically. Therefore, overweight prevention initiatives should start early in life and target modifiable energy balance-related behaviours. Parental participati...

    Authors: Wendy Van Lippevelde, Maïté Verloigne, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Mona Bjelland, Nanna Lien, Juan M Fernández-Alvira, Luis A Moreno, Eva Kovacs, Johannes Brug and Lea Maes
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:881
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. Smokers need effective support to maximise the chances of successful quit attempts. Current smoking cessation medications, such as nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), bupropion, nortriptyline or varenicline, h...

    Authors: Natalie Walker, Colin Howe, Chris Bullen, Hayden McRobbie, Marewa Glover, Varsha Parag, Jonathan Williman, Reon Veale, Vili Nosa and Joanne Barnes
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:880
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  17. The WHO recognises pesticide poisoning to be the single most important means of suicide globally. Pesticide self-poisoning is a major public health and clinical problem in rural Asia, where it has led to case ...

    Authors: Melissa Pearson, Flemming Konradsen, David Gunnell, Andrew H Dawson, Ravi Pieris, Manjula Weerasinghe, Duleeka W Knipe, Shaluka Jayamanne, Chris Metcalfe, Keith Hawton, A Rajitha Wickramasinghe, W Atapattu, Palitha Bandara, Dhammika de Silva, Asanga Ranasinghe, Fahim Mohamed…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:879
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  19. Low individual-level socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with higher prevalence of cigarette smoking. Recent work has examined whether neighborhood-level SES may affect smoking behavior independently from...

    Authors: Sarah S Cohen, Jennifer S Sonderman, Michael T Mumma, Lisa B Signorello and William J Blot
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:877
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. The 'Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids' program was designed to help overweight fathers lose weight and positively influence the health behaviors of their children. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the pr...

    Authors: Philip J Morgan, David R Lubans, Ronald C Plotnikoff, Robin Callister, Tracy Burrows, Richard Fletcher, Anthony D Okely, Myles D Young, Andrew Miller, Victoria Clay, Adam Lloyd and Clare E Collins
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:876
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  21. Past studies using large population based datasets link certain perinatal circumstances (birth weight, parity, etc) with mental health outcomes such as suicide, self-harm and psychiatric problems. Problematica...

    Authors: Robert Young, Vincent Riordan and Cameron Stark
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:875
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Rates of suicide and poor mental health are high in environments (neighbourhoods and institutions) where individuals have only weak social ties, feel socially disconnected and experience anomie - a mismatch be...

    Authors: Robert Young, Helen Sweeting and Anne Ellaway
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:874
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Developing more accessible stop smoking services (SSS) is important, particularly for reaching smokers from socio-economically deprived groups who are more likely to smoke and less likely to quit in comparison...

    Authors: Manpreet Bains, Andrea Venn, Rachael L Murray, Ann McNeill and Laura L Jones
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:873
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Although HIV prevalence has remained low in Laos thus far, there is reason to be concerned that Lao male-to-female (MtF) transgender persons (kathoy) and their partners may facilitate the spread of HIV. Little is...

    Authors: Kim Longfield, Xouchai Panyanouvong, Judy Chen and Megan B Kays
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:872
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Future public health professionals are especially important among students partly because their credibility in light of their professional messages and activities will be tested daily by their clients; and par...

    Authors: Éva Bíró, Róza Ádány and Karolina Kósa
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:871
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. The prevalence of HIV/AIDS has exacerbated the impact of childhood undernutrition in many developing countries, including Tanzania. Even with the provision of antiretroviral therapy, undernutrition among HIV-p...

    Authors: Bruno F Sunguya, Krishna C Poudel, Keiko Otsuka, Junko Yasuoka, Linda B Mlunde, David P Urassa, Namala P Mkopi and Masamine Jimba
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:869
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Poor feeding practices during infancy contribute to obesity risk. As infants transition from human milk and/or formula-based diets to solid foods, these practices interfere with infant feeding self-regulation ...

    Authors: Mildred A Horodynski, Beth Olson, Susan Baker, Holly Brophy-Herb, Garry Auld, Laurie Van Egeren, Joel Lindau and Lisa Singleterry
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:868
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  29. The objective of this study was to evaluate the validity of self reported criteria of Metabolic Syndrome (MS) in the SUN (Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra) cohort using their medical records as the gold stan...

    Authors: Maria Teresa Barrio-Lopez, Maira Bes-Rastrollo, Juan Jose Beunza, Alejandro Fernandez-Montero, Martin Garcia-Lopez and Miguel Angel Martinez-Gonzalez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:867
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. First-degree relatives of individuals diagnosed with melanoma are at increased disease risk. However, many first-degree relatives do not receive a periodic total cutaneous examination from a health care provid...

    Authors: Elliot J Coups, Sharon L Manne, Paul B Jacobsen, Michael E Ming, Carolyn J Heckman and Stuart R Lessin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:866
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. Alcohol problems are a major UK and international public health issue. The prevalence of alcohol problems is markedly higher among prisoners than the general population. However, studies suggest alcohol proble...

    Authors: Susan MacAskill, Tessa Parkes, Oona Brooks, Lesley Graham, Andrew McAuley and Abraham Brown
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:865
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. The aim of this study was to determine the - largely unexplored - extent of systematic variation in the work disability assessment by Dutch insurance physicians (IPs) of employees on long-term sick leave, and ...

    Authors: Antonius JM Schellart, Henny Mulders, Romy Steenbeek, Johannes R Anema, Herman Kroneman and Jan Besseling
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:864
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. Reproductive morbidity has a huge impact on the health and quality of life of women. We aimed to determine the prevalence of reproductive morbidities and the health seeking behavior of a nationally representat...

    Authors: Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani, Masoumeh Simbar and Mehrandokht Abedini
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:863
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. The prevalence of hyperglycaemia and its association with socioeconomic factors have been well studied in developed countries, however, little is known about them in transforming rural China.

    Authors: Chaowei Fu, Yue Chen, Fadi Wang, Xuecai Wang, Jiangen Song and Qingwu Jiang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:862
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. Responses to public health need require information on the distribution of mental and physical ill health by demographic and socioeconomic factors at the local community level.

    Authors: Stephani L Hatch, Souci Frissa, Maria Verdecchia, Robert Stewart, Nicola T Fear, Abraham Reichenberg, Craig Morgan, Bwalya Kankulu, Jennifer Clark, Billy Gazard, Robert Medcalf and Matthew Hotopf
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:861
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  36. The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility of International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and to explore the distribution, including gender differences, of health proble...

    Authors: Roland Morgell, Lars G Backlund, Britt Arrelöv, Lars-Erik Strender and Gunnar H Nilsson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:860
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. There is current controversy about the efficacy of smoking cessation interventions that are based on information obtained by spirometry. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness in the prim...

    Authors: Francisco Martin-Lujan, Josep Ll Piñol-Moreso, Nuria Martin-Vergara, Josep Basora-Gallisa, Irene Pascual-Palacios, Ramon Sagarra-Alamo, Estefania Aparicio Llopis, Maria T Basora-Gallisa and Roser Pedret-Llaberia
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:859
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  38. The prevalence of childhood asthma and allergies in Cyprus was significantly higher in urban compared to rural areas back in the year 2000, against a background of an overall low prevalence (e.g. current wheez...

    Authors: Ourania Kolokotroni, Nicos Middleton, Nicolas Nicolaou, Spyros Pipis, Kostas N Priftis, Donald K Milton and Panayiotis K Yiallouros
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:858
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. There is pressing need to diagnose lung cancer earlier in the United Kingdom (UK) and it is likely that research using computerised general practice records will help this process. Linkage of these records to ...

    Authors: Barbara Iyen-Omofoman, Richard B Hubbard, Chris JP Smith, Emily Sparks, Emma Bradley, Alison Bourke and Laila J Tata
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:857
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. There is currently a lack of reliable information on the exposures of residents and bystanders to pesticides in the UK. Previous research has shown that the methods currently used for assessing pesticide expos...

    Authors: Karen S Galea, Laura MacCalman, Kate Jones, John Cocker, Paul Teedon, Anne J Sleeuwenhoek, John W Cherrie and Martie van Tongeren
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:856
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  41. In Africa, herbal medicines are often used as primary treatment for Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) related problems. Concurrent use of traditional herbal medicines (THM) with antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) is...

    Authors: Betty Namuddu, Joan N Kalyango, Charles Karamagi, Peter Mudiope, Samwel Sumba, Henry Kalende, Eric Wobudeya, Brian K Kigozi and Paul Waako
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:855
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Information on the distribution of Metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its combinations by urban/rural areas in lower-middle income countries has been limited. It is not clear how the various combinations of MetS co...

    Authors: Wichai Aekplakorn, Pattapong Kessomboon, Rassamee Sangthong, Suwat Chariyalertsak, Panwadee Putwatana, Rungkarn Inthawong, Wannee Nitiyanant and Surasak Taneepanichskul
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:854
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Vitamin D insufficiency is highly prevalent. Most of the studies concerning vitamin D status were generated from countries situated at temperate latitudes. It is less clear what the extent of vitamin D insuffi...

    Authors: La-or Chailurkit, Wichai Aekplakorn and Boonsong Ongphiphadhanakul
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:853
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Cutting and piercing injuries are among the leading causes of unintentional injury morbidity in developed countries. In New Zealand, cutting and piercing are second only to falls as the most frequent cause of ...

    Authors: Simon Thornley, Bridget Kool, Elizabeth Robinson, Roger Marshall, Gordon S Smith and Shanthi Ameratunga
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:852
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Walking is a preferred, prevalent and recommended activity for aging populations and is influenced by the neighborhood built environment. To study this influence it is necessary to differentiate whether walkin...

    Authors: Ester Cerin, Anthony Barnett, Cindy HP Sit, Man-chin Cheung, Lok-chun Janet Lee, Sai-yin Ho and Wai-man Chan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:851
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Although communities have long been exhorted to make efforts to enhance their own health, such approaches have often floundered and resulted in little or no health benefits when the capacity of the community h...

    Authors: Selma C Liberato, Julie Brimblecombe, Jan Ritchie, Megan Ferguson and John Coveney
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:850
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Alcohol use and misuse and their relation to sociodemograhic factors are well studied among university students in Western European countries and the USA, but less is known about students in Eastern Europe. Th...

    Authors: Rene Sebena, Olga Orosova, Rafael T Mikolajczyk and Jitse P van Dijk
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:849
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. In California, some 40, 000 retailers sell tobacco products. Tobacco's ubiquitousness in retail settings normalizes use and cues smoking urges among former smokers and those attempting cessation. Thus, limitin...

    Authors: Patricia A McDaniel and Ruth E Malone
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:848
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. The study aims to test the differential effects of a web-based text and a web-based video-driven computer-tailored approach for lower socio-economic status (LSES) and higher socio-economic status (HSES) smoker...

    Authors: Nicola E Stanczyk, Catherine Bolman, Jean WM Muris and Hein de Vries
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:847
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  50. Since 1953, through the cooperation of state and local health departments, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has collected information on incident cases of tuberculosis (TB) disease in ...

    Authors: Carla A Winston, Thomas R Navin, Jose E Becerra, Michael P Chen, Lori R Armstrong, Carla Jeffries, Rachel S Yelk Woodruff, Jessie Wing, Angela M Starks, Craig M Hales, J Steve Kammerer, William R Mac Kenzie, Kiren Mitruka, Mark C Miner, Sandy Price, Joseph Scavotto…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:846
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