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  1. The prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents has been rapidly rising in Mainland China in recent decades, both in urban and rural areas. There is an urgent need to develop effective interventions t...

    Authors: Yajun Chen, Lu Ma, Yinghua Ma, Haijun Wang, Jiayou Luo, Xin Zhang, Chunyan Luo, Hong Wang, Haiping Zhao, Dehong Pan, Yanna Zhu, Li Cai, Zhiyong Zou, Wenhan Yang, Jun Ma and Jin Jing
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:210
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  2. Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a significant public health problem with negative health consequences for women and their pregnancies. While social support has a protective effect against IPV and reduces he...

    Authors: Geofrey Nimrod Sigalla, Vibeke Rasch, Tine Gammeltoft, Dan Wolf Meyrowitsch, Jane Rogathi, Rachel Manongi and Declare Mushi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:240
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. While most studies focused solely on the comparison between informal caregivers and non-caregivers, little is known about the relation between caregiving time or caregiving activities and lifestyle factors. Th...

    Authors: André Hajek, Jens-Oliver Bock and Hans-Helmut König
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:755
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  4. Individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) experience a range of cognitive, affective, and physical deficits following prenatal alcohol exposure. They are thought to be overrepresented in criminal...

    Authors: K. McLachlan, A. McNeil, J. Pei, U. Brain, G. Andrew and T. F. Oberlander
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:43
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Social prescribing enables health-care professionals to address non-medical causes of ill-health by harnessing the resources of the voluntary and community sectors in patient care. Although increasingly popula...

    Authors: Josephine M. Wildman, Suzanne Moffatt, Mel Steer, Kirsty Laing, Linda Penn and Nicola O’Brien
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:98
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  6. There is high prevalence of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in Saudi Arabia that is still increasing. Early diagnosis of prediabetes, and immediate, effective intervention is yet unestablished....

    Authors: Rasmieh Alzeidan, Zeinab Shata, Marwah Mazen Hassounah, Leena Rashad Baghdadi, Ahmad Hersi, Amel Fayed, Tarek Kashour and Hala Elmorshedy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1550
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  7. A healthy lifestyle can be beneficial for one’s mental health. Thus, identifying healthy lifestyle choices that promote psychological well-being and reduce mental problems is useful to prevent mental disorders...

    Authors: Julia Velten, Angela Bieda, Saskia Scholten, André Wannemüller and Jürgen Margraf
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:632
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Over one-quarter of all smokers in the United States identify as non-daily smokers and this number is projected to rise. Unlike daily smokers who typically maintain consistent levels of nicotine exposure with ...

    Authors: Andréa L. Hobkirk, Vishal Midya, Nicolle M. Krebs, Sophia I. Allen, Lisa Reinhart, Dongxiao Sun, Andrea L. Stennett and Joshua E. Muscat
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1025
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Observational studies have consistently reported severe weight gains during the college years; information about the effect on body composition is scarce, however. Thus, the aim of the study was to determine t...

    Authors: Wolfgang Kemmler, Simon von Stengel, Matthias Kohl and Julia Bauer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:50
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  10. Physical activity (PA) intervention is a commonly recommended strategy to combat childhood obesity. However, its effectiveness has long been controversial. This paper aims to examine the effectiveness of long-...

    Authors: Hong Mei, Yuelin Xiong, Shuixian Xie, Siyu Guo, Yukun Li, Bingbing Guo and Jianduan Zhang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:205
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  11. The Brazilian indigenous population is currently undergoing a process of epidemiological transition regarding the occurrence of communicable diseases, malnutrition and non-communicable chronic diseases. Chroni...

    Authors: Zilmar Augusto de Souza Filho, Alaidistânia Aparecida Ferreira, Juliano dos Santos, Karina Cardoso Meira and Angela Maria Geraldo Pierin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:1251
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. More than one-third of deaths during the first five years of life are attributed to undernutrition, which are mostly preventable through economic development and public health measures. To alleviate this probl...

    Authors: Mandefro Asfaw, Mekitie Wondaferash, Mohammed Taha and Lamessa Dube
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:41
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. Human capital (the knowledge, skills, and health that accumulate over life) can be optimized by investments in early childhood to promote cognitive and language development. Parents and caregivers play a cruci...

    Authors: Esther O. Chung, Lia C. H. Fernald, Emanuela Galasso, Lisy Ratsifandrihamanana and Ann M. Weber
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1256
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  14. The aims of this report were 1) to describe the duration of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and the proportion of participants meeting the recommended criterion of at least 150 min of MVPA per we...

    Authors: Yoshimi Fukuoka, William Haskell and Eric Vittinghoff
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:761
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. High demand for services has resulted in lengthy waiting times being experienced across mental health services, both across Australia and internationally. Timely access to services is necessary to optimise the...

    Authors: Cally Jennings, Ben Singh, Helen Oni, Anna Mazzacano and Carol Maher
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:570
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  16. Evaluation of the implementation process of trials is important, because the way a study is implemented modifies its outcomes. Furthermore, lessons learned during implementation can inform other researchers on...

    Authors: Dorit Teuscher, Andrea J. Bukman, Marleen A. van Baak, Edith J. M. Feskens, Reint Jan Renes and Agnes Meershoek
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:54
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2017 17:736

  17. Source case investigation, for children with tuberculosis (TB), is conducted to establish the source of infection and to minimize the extent of on-going transmission from infectious persons in the community. T...

    Authors: Madeeha Laghari, Syed Azhar Syed Sulaiman, Amer Hayat Khan, Bandeh Ali Talpur, Zohra Bhatti and Naheed Memon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1274
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. Unfavorable lifestyle factors influence the risk of stress disorders. For risk reduction, lifestyle modifications, such as regular physical activity, balanced nutrition and competence in stress management, are...

    Authors: Dieter Melchart, Erich Wühr, Kristina Wifling and Beatrice E. Bachmeier
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:823
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  20. Lifestyles profoundly determine the quality of an individual’s health and life since his childhood. Many diseases in adulthood are avoidable if health-risk behaviors are identified and improved at an early sta...

    Authors: Francesco Bagordo, Antonella De Donno, Tiziana Grassi, Marcello Guido, Gabriele Devoti, Elisabetta Ceretti, Claudia Zani, Donatella Feretti, Milena Villarini, Massimo Moretti, Tania Salvatori, Annalaura Carducci, Marco Verani, Beatrice Casini, Sara Bonetta, Elisabetta Carraro…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:233
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  21. Few population-based studies have assessed dietary behaviors in the rural multiethnic population of Northern Norway. The present study determined dietary patterns and investigated their association with Sami e...

    Authors: Natalia Petrenya, Charlotta Rylander and Magritt Brustad
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1632
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. The Norwegian Directorate of Health recommends that Healthy Life Centres (HLCs) be established in primary health care to support behaviour change and reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases. The aim of th...

    Authors: Eirik Abildsnes, Eivind Meland, Thomas Mildestvedt, Tonje H. Stea, Sveinung Berntsen and Gro Beate Samdal
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:18
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  23. As the incidence and prevalence rates of end stage renal disease (ESRD) rise globally, a disproportionate increase has been observed in the elderly population. Singapore has the fifth highest incidence of trea...

    Authors: Emeline Han, Farah Shiraz, Victoria Haldane, Joel Jun Kai Koh, Rina Yu Chin Quek, Semra Ozdemir, Eric Andrew Finkelstein, Tazeen Hasan Jafar, Hui-Lin Choong, Sheryl Gan, Lydia W. W. Lim and Helena Legido-Quigley
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1107
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Anemia is one of the most common diseases of childhood and is a health problem globally, particularly in developing counties and in children less than 2 years of age. Anemia during childhood has short- and lon...

    Authors: Zhi Huang, Fu-xiang Jiang, Jian Li, Dan Jiang, Ti-gang Xiao and Ju-hua Zeng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:1267
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Large volumes of sitting time have been associated with multiple health risks. To reduce sitting time of office workers working for a Dutch insurance company, the Dynamic Work intervention was developed. The p...

    Authors: Judith G. M. Jelsma, Lidewij R. Renaud, Maaike A. Huysmans, Jennifer K. Coffeng, Anne Loyen, Femke van Nassau, Judith E. Bosmans, Erwin M. Speklé, Allard J. van der Beek and Hidde P. van der Ploeg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:188
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  26. Web-based interventions for physical activity offer several advantages over face-to-face, print-and telephone-based interventions and are scalable and potentially cost-effective. Recent reviews of web-based in...

    Authors: Andrew JM Cooper, Katie Dearnley, Kate M Williams, Stephen J Sharp, Esther MF van Sluijs, Soren Brage, Stephen Sutton and Simon J Griffin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:296
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  28. The encouragement of healthy lifestyles for obesity prevention in young people is a public health priority. The European Youth Tackling Obesity (EYTO) project is a multicentric intervention project with partic...

    Authors: Elisabet Llauradó, Magaly Aceves-Martins, Lucia Tarro, Ignasi Papell-Garcia, Francesc Puiggròs, Lluís Arola, Jordi Prades-Tena, Marta Montagut, Carlota M Moragas-Fernández, Rosa Solà and Montse Giralt
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:607
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  29. The consumption of trans-fatty acids (TFA) is directly associated with cardiovascular disease risk and is responsible for a significant health burden globally. The policy strategies for reducing TFA include li...

    Authors: Eduardo Augusto Fernandes Nilson, Neha Khandpur and Fabio da Silva Gomes
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:2010
    Content type: Research Published on:

  30. An inverse relationship exists between physical activity and many non-communicable diseases, such as obesity. Given the daily time spent, a logical domain to reach an adult population for intervention is withi...

    Authors: Stacey Johnson, Jean-Philippe Regnaux, Adrien Marck, Geoffroy Berthelot, Joana Ungureanu and Jean-François Toussaint
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:1064
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. There is limited evidence for the effectiveness of social media to promote healthy behaviour among Indigenous Australians, including to reduce smoking. Social media has significant potential to stimulate inter...

    Authors: Marita Hefler, Vicki Kerrigan, Becky Freeman, Gordon Robert Boot and David P. Thomas
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:615
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  32. We examined which adaptive coping strategies, referring to the concept of 'locus of disease control', were of relevance for patients with chronic pain conditions, and how they were interconnected with patients...

    Authors: Arndt Büssing, Thomas Ostermann, Edmund AM Neugebauer and Peter Heusser
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2010 10:507
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  33. High blood pressure is the principal risk factor for stroke, heart failure and kidney failure in the young population in Africa. Control of hypertension is associated with a larger reduction in morbidity and m...

    Authors: James Kayima, Joaniter Nankabirwa, Isaac Sinabulya, Jane Nakibuuka, Xiaofeng Zhu, Mahboob Rahman, Christopher T. Longenecker, Achilles Katamba, Harriet Mayanja-Kizza and Moses R. Kamya
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:830
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  34. Physical inactivity contributes to the global burden of non-communicable diseases. The pattern of physical activity in adulthood are often established during adolescence and sedentary behaviours in the early y...

    Authors: Mojisola Morenike Oluwasanu and Oladimeji Oladepo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:833
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2017 17:866

  35. Indigenous communities retain knowledge of the land and food resources rooted in historical continuity within their region of residence. Food systems research can be leveraged to identify strategies to encoura...

    Authors: Suparna Ghosh-Jerath, Shauna Downs, Archna Singh, Santanu Paramanik, Gail Goldberg and Jessica Fanzo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:944
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  36. Physical inactivity and unhealthy diet are modifiable behaviors that lead to several cancers. Biologically, these behaviors are linked to cancer through obesity-related insulin resistance, inflammation, and ox...

    Authors: Marta M. Jankowska, Dorothy D. Sears, Loki Natarajan, Elena Martinez, Cheryl A. M. Anderson, James F. Sallis, Stephen A. Matthews, Katie Crist, Lindsay Dillon, Eileen Johnson, Angelica Barrera-Ng, Kelsey Full, Suneeta Godbole and Jacqueline Kerr
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:186
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  37. Millions of people in low and low middle income countries suffer from extreme hunger and malnutrition. Research on the effect of food insecurity on child nutrition is concentrated in high income settings and h...

    Authors: Maurice Mutisya, Ngianga-bakwin Kandala, Moses Waithanji Ngware and Caroline W. Kabiru
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:1052
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Despite a decline in the number of new HIV infections in the UK overall, the number and proportion of new HIV diagnoses in people aged ≥50 years continues to increase. People aged ≥50 years are disproportionat...

    Authors: Elaney Youssef, Juliet Wright, Valerie Delpech, Kevin Davies, Alison Brown, Vanessa Cooper, Memory Sachikonye and Richard de Visser
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:1204
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. High intake of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) is linked to increased weight, energy intake, and diabetes. Even though the increasing interest on beverages and water intake, there are few dietary tools careful...

    Authors: Sonia Hernández-Cordero, Nancy López-Olmedo, Sonia Rodríguez-Ramírez, Simón Barquera-Cervera, Juan Rivera-Dommarco and Barry Popkin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:1031
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Life satisfaction (LS), a useful construct in the study of psycho-social well-being, is an important indicator of healthy aging. With a view to investigate whether the improved longevity in India is accompanie...

    Authors: Shreya Banerjee and Bandita Boro
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1933
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  41. Exposure to aflatoxin, a mycotoxin produced by fungi that commonly contaminates cereal crops across sub-Saharan Africa, has been associated with impaired child growth. We investigated the impact of aflatoxin e...

    Authors: Sinead Watson, Sophie E. Moore, Momodou K. Darboe, Gaoyun Chen, Yu-Kang Tu, Yi-Ting Huang, Kamilla G. Eriksen, Robin M. Bernstein, Andrew M. Prentice, Christopher P. Wild, Ya Xu, Michael N. Routledge and Yun Yun Gong
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:1247
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s highest rates of maternal and perinatal mortality and accounts for two-thirds of new HIV infections and 25% of preterm births. Antenatal care, as the entry point into the hea...

    Authors: Ellen Chirwa, Esnath Kapito, Diana L. Jere, Ursula Kafulafula, Elizabeth Chodzaza, Genesis Chorwe-Sungani, Ashley Gresh, Li Liu, Elizabeth T. Abrams, Carrie S. Klima, Linda L. McCreary, Kathleen F. Norr and Crystal L. Patil
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:205
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  43. Physical activity (PA) offers numerous benefits to health and well-being, but most adults are not sufficiently physically active to afford such benefits. The 10,000 steps campaign has been a popular and effect...

    Authors: Richard R. Rosenkranz, Mitch J. Duncan, Cristina M. Caperchione, Gregory S. Kolt, Corneel Vandelanotte, Anthony J. Maeder, Trevor N. Savage and W. Kerry Mummery
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:1197
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Although there is strong evidence of the benefits of antihypertensive treatment, the high prevalence of this important cardiovascular risk factor and its complications, as well as the low control rates of hype...

    Authors: Thiago Luiz Nogueira da Silva, Carlos Henrique Klein, Armando da Rocha Nogueira, Lucia Helena Alvares Salis, Nelson Albuquerque de Souza e Silva and Katia Vergetti Bloch
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:623
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  45. The workplace has been identified as a priority setting to positively influence individuals’ dietary behaviours. However, a dearth of evidence exists regarding the costs of implementing and delivering workplac...

    Authors: Sarah Fitzgerald, Ann Kirby, Aileen Murphy, Fiona Geaney and Ivan J. Perry
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:49
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is now one of the leading causes of disease-related deaths globally. India has the world’s second largest number of individuals living with diabetes. Lifestyle change has been p...

    Authors: Elezebeth Mathews, Emma Thomas, Pilvikki Absetz, Fabrizio D’Esposito, Zahra Aziz, Sajitha Balachandran, Meena Daivadanam, Kavumpurathu Raman Thankappan and Brian Oldenburg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 17:974
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  47. Sedentary behaviour is an independent risk factor for mortality and morbidity, especially for type 2 diabetes. Since office work is related to long periods that are largely sedentary, it is of major importance...

    Authors: Frida Bergman, Carl-Johan Boraxbekk, Patrik Wennberg, Ann Sörlin and Tommy Olsson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:632
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  49. Diarrhea remains the second leading cause of death in children under 5 years of age in sub-Saharan Africa. Health care seeking behavior for diarrhea varies by context and has important implications for develop...

    Authors: Anne-Laure Page, Sarah Hustache, Francisco J Luquero, Ali Djibo, Mahamane Laouali Manzo and Rebecca F Grais
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:389
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. This study examines the 20-year trend of suicide in 46 Muslim-majority countries throughout the world and compares their suicide rates and trends with the global average. Ecological-level associations between ...

    Authors: Bob Lew, David Lester, Kairi Kõlves, Paul S. F. Yip, Ying-Yeh Chen, Won Sun Chen, M. Tasdik Hasan, Harold G. Koenig, Zhi Zhong Wang, Muhamad Nur Fariduddin, Emek Yuce Zeyrek-Rios, Caryn Mei Hsien Chan, Feisul Mustapha, Mimi Fitriana, Housseini Dolo, Burak M. GönültaÅŸ…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:882
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2022 22:1786

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