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  1. Sedentary behavior has been reported to be associated with metabolic and vascular health independent of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). In order to select appropriate options to measure sedentar...

    Authors: Takanori Honda, Sanmei Chen, Hiro Kishimoto, Kenji Narazaki and Shuzo Kumagai
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1307
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. To compare an autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model with a model that combines ARIMA with the Elman recurrent neural network (ARIMA-ERNN) in predicting the incidence of pertussis in mainland C...

    Authors: Meng Wang, Jinhua Pan, Xinghui Li, Mengying Li, Zhixi Liu, Qi Zhao, Linyun Luo, Haiping Chen, Sirui Chen, Feng Jiang, Liping Zhang, Weibing Wang and Ying Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1447
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  4. Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is characterized by a cluster of signs of metabolic disturbance and has caused a huge burden on the health system. The study aims to explore the prevalence and characteristics of MetS...

    Authors: Yilin Huang, Linfeng Zhang, Zengwu Wang, Xin Wang, Zuo Chen, Lan Shao, Ye Tian, Congying Zheng, Lu Chen, Haoqi Zhou, Xue Cao, Yixin Tian and Runlin Gao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1869
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  5. Baby boomers’ position in the caregiving context is shifting from caregiver to care recipient as the population ages. While the unique characteristics of baby boomer caregivers are well established in caregivi...

    Authors: Heejung Kim, Sangeun Lee, Jooyoung Cheon, Soyun Hong and Mido Chang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:579
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Intestinal worm infection adversely impacted child health and was one of the China’s largest health burdens. However, yet little was known about associations between intestinal worm infection and malnutrition ...

    Authors: Ming Guan and Bingxue Han
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1204
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. The inadequate management of solid waste impacts populations’ health and quality of life, and disproportionately affects developing countries. This study aims to describe a protocol for epidemiological diagnos...

    Authors: Vanessa Resende Nogueira Cruvinel, Carla Pintas Marques, Vanessa Cardoso, Maria Rita Carvalho Garbi Novaes, Wildo Navegantes Araújo, Antonia Angulo-Tuesta, Patrícia Maria Fonseca Escalda, Dayani Galato, Petruza Brito and Everton Nunes da Silva
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:581
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Recognizing patterns of coronary heart disease (CHD) risk in families helps to identify and target individuals who may have the most to gain from preventive interventions. The overall goal of the study is to t...

    Authors: Panniyammakal Jeemon, S. Harikrishnan, G. Sanjay, Sivasankaran Sivasubramonian, T. R. Lekha, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Nikhil Tandon and Dorairaj Prabhakaran
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:10
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  9. In the field of health promotion, interorganisational networks are of growing relevance. However, systematic and target-oriented network management is of utmost importance for network development. The aim of t...

    Authors: Madeleine Gernert, Gabriele Fohr and Andrea Schaller
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1560
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  10. Gestational diabetes increases risk for type 2 diabetes seven-fold, creating a large public health burden in a young population. In the US, there are no large registries for tracking postpartum diabetes screen...

    Authors: Cynthia J. Herrick, Matthew R. Keller, Anne M. Trolard, Ben P. Cooper, Margaret A. Olsen and Graham A. Colditz
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:148
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  11. Crude measures of exposure to indicate indoor air pollution have been associated with the increased risk for acquiring tuberculosis. Our study aimed to determine an association between childhood pulmonary tube...

    Authors: Nkosana Jafta, Prakash M. Jeena, Lars Barregard and Rajen N. Naidoo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:275
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in economically active populations. The aims of this study were to estimate the prevalence and to identify risk factors for diabetic retinopathy in patien...

    Authors: Laura Gomes Nunes Melo, Paulo Henrique Morales, Karla Rezende Guerra Drummond, Deborah Conte Santos, Marcela Haas Pizarro, Bianca Senger Vasconcelos Barros, Tessa Cerqueria Lemos Mattos, André Araújo Pinheiro, Felipe Mallmann, Franz Schubert Lopes Leal, Fernando Korn Malerbi and Marilia Brito Gomes
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:989
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. Low contraceptive uptake and high unmet need for contraception remain significant issues in Uganda compared to neighboring countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia, and Rwanda. Although prior research on contraceptiv...

    Authors: Nityanjali Thummalachetty, Sanyukta Mathur, Margo Mullinax, Kelsea DeCosta, Neema Nakyanjo, Tom Lutalo, Heena Brahmbhatt and John S. Santelli
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:792
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Self-rated health is commonly employed in research studies that seek to assess the health status of older individuals. Perceptions of health are, however, influenced by individual and societal level factors th...

    Authors: Davina J French, Colette Browning, Hal Kendig, Mary A Luszcz, Yasuhiko Saito, Kerry Sargent-Cox and Kaarin J Anstey
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:649
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. The prevalence of child malnutrition in Angola is still very high, and little is known about its associated factors. The aim of this study was to identify these factors in children under 2 years in a suburban ...

    Authors: João B. Humbwavali, Camila Giugliani, Luciana N. Nunes, Susana V. Dalcastagnê and Bruce B. Duncan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:220
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  17. Previous studies are inconclusive on whether poor socioeconomic conditions in the neighborhood are associated with major depressive disorder. Furthermore, conceptual models that relate neighborhood conditions ...

    Authors: Bart Klijs, Eva U. B. Kibele, Lea Ellwardt, Marij Zuidersma, Ronald P. Stolk, Rafael P. M. Wittek, Carlos M. Mendes de Leon and Nynke Smidt
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:773
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. Child stunting (low height-for-age) is a marker of chronic undernutrition and predicts children’s subsequent physical and cognitive development. Around one third of the world’s stunted children live in India. ...

    Authors: Nirmala Nair, Prasanta Tripathy, Harshpal S Sachdev, Sanghita Bhattacharyya, Rajkumar Gope, Sumitra Gagrai, Shibanand Rath, Suchitra Rath, Rajesh Sinha, Swati Sarbani Roy, Suhas Shewale, Vijay Singh, Aradhana Srivastava, Hemanta Pradhan, Anthony Costello, Andrew Copas…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:384
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  19. Obesity and physical activity (PA) are predictors of colon (CC) and rectal (RC) cancers. Prolonged sitting is also emerging as a potential predictor for these cancers. Little knowledge exists about the interac...

    Authors: Carlos Nunez, Visalini Nair-Shalliker, Sam Egger, Freddy Sitas and Adrian Bauman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:325
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Unhealthy lifestyles in early childhood are a major global health challenge. These lifestyles often persist from generation to generation and contribute to a vicious cycle of health-related and social problems...

    Authors: M. Willeboordse, M. W. Jansen, S. N. van den Heijkant, A. Simons, B. Winkens, R.H.M. de Groot, N. Bartelink, S. P. Kremers, P. van Assema, H. H. Savelberg, E. de Neubourg, L. Borghans, T. Schils, K. M. Coppens, R. Dietvorst, R. ten Hoopen…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:639
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2017 17:314

  21. Excess alcohol consumption has multifaceted adverse impacts at individual, household, and community levels. The study primarily aims at assessing the role of perceived health and stress in alcohol consumption ...

    Authors: Nigatu Geda and Cindy Feng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1861
    Content type: Research Published on:

  23. A higher vegetable intake plays an important role in promoting general health and well-being, but there is a dearth of data on the independent effect of vegetable intake on health-related quality of life (HR-Q...

    Authors: Fusta Azupogo, Judith A. Seidu and Yakubu Balma Issaka
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:920
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Hypertension is one of the leading risk factors for cardiovascular diseases in India and Nepal. Socio-economic disparity in these two countries has created wide gap in management of hypertension. However, ineq...

    Authors: Santosh Kumar Rauniyar, Md. Mizanur Rahman, Md. Shafiur Rahman, Sarah Krull Abe, Shuhei Nomura and Kenji Shibuya
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1341
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. This study sought to investigate the level and determinants of receiving quality antenatal care (ANC), intrapartum care, and postnatal care (PNC) services by women in Ethiopia. The quality of care a woman rece...

    Authors: Melese Girmaye Negero, David Sibbritt and Angela Dawson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:1174
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  26. The Canary Islands is one of the Spanish Regions with the highest obesity prevalence, and one of the Autonomous Communities that was hit hard by the economic crisis that arrived to Spain in 2008. This research...

    Authors: Aránzazu Hernández-Yumar, Ignacio Abásolo Alessón and Beatriz González López-Valcárcel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1755
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Prolonged sitting is ubiquitous in modern society and linked to several diseases. Height-adjustable desks are being used to decrease worksite based sitting time (ST). Single-desk sit-to-stand workplaces exhibi...

    Authors: Bernhard Schwartz, Jay M. Kapellusch, Andreas Schrempf, Kathrin Probst, Michael Haller and Arnold Baca
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:578
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  28. Home healthcare services are increasingly utilizing novel technologies to enhance quality and efficiency of caregiving, to reduce workloads and compensate for expected labor shortages in the future due to agei...

    Authors: Jan Olav Christensen and Håkon Johannessen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:734
    Content type: Research Published on:

  29. Hypertension is an emerging public health problem in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) and urbanization is considered to favor its emergence. Given a paucity of information on hypertension and associated risk factors a...

    Authors: Beatrice Olack, Fred Wabwire-Mangen, Liam Smeeth, Joel M. Montgomery, Noah Kiwanuka and Robert F. Breiman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:1251
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. There have been reports on regional variation in prevalence of hepatitis B and C, and Clonorchis sinensis (C. sinensis) infection, which indicates potential of spatial variation in liver cancer and gallbladder ca...

    Authors: Jieun Jang, Dae-Sung Yoo and Byung Chul Chun
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:2090
    Content type: Research Published on:

  31. Enabling behaviour change in health care is a complex process. Although the use of theory to inform behaviour change interventions is advocated, there is limited information about how this might best be achiev...

    Authors: Fiona Cowdell and Judith Dyson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1180
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  32. Time spent in daily activities (sleep, sedentary behaviour and physical activity) has important consequences for health and wellbeing. The amount of time spent varies from day to day, yet little is known about...

    Authors: Ty Ferguson, Rachel Curtis, Francois Fraysse, Rajini Lagiseti, Celine Northcott, Rosa Virgara, Amanda Watson and Carol A. Maher
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1384
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  33. As access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) has grown in Africa, attention has turned to evaluating the socio-economic impacts of ART. One key issue is the extent to which improvements in health resulting from A...

    Authors: Bruce A Larson, Mathew P Fox, Sydney Rosen, Margret Bii, Carolyne Sigei, Douglas Shaffer, Fredrick Sawe, Kelly McCoy, Monique Wasunna and Jonathan L Simon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2009 9:240
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  34. Community based providers are well place to deliver behavioural interventions to improve health. Good project management and reliable outcome data are needed to efficiently deliver and evaluate such interventi...

    Authors: Linda Penn, Louis Goffe, Anna Haste and Suzanne Moffatt
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:105
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  35. The political influence of the food industry, referred to as corporate political activity (CPA), represents a potential barrier to the development and implementation of effe...

    Authors: Melissa Mialon, Boyd Swinburn, Steven Allender and Gary Sacks
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:283
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2021 21:1172

  36. The growing rates of obesity in developing countries are alarming. There is a paucity of evidence about disparities of obesity in Lesotho. This study examined socioeconomic and area-based inequalities in obesi...

    Authors: Betregiorgis Zegeye, Gebretsadik Shibre and Gashaw Garedew Woldeamanuel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:537
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. Little is known about the long-term shifts in distributions of three abdominal-obesity-related indicators, waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHpR) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) among Chinese adu...

    Authors: Xiwen Qian, Chang Su, Bing Zhang, Guoyou Qin, Huijun Wang and Zhenyu Wu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:700
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Few studies have examined plain water consumption among US adults. This study evaluated the consumption of plain water (tap and bottled) and total water among US adults by age group (20-50y, 51-70y, and ≥71y),...

    Authors: Adam Drewnowski, Colin D Rehm and Florence Constant
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1068
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Night time eating is a risk factor for metabolic syndrome and obesity. The aim of this study was to investigate whether dinner immediately before bed, snacks after dinner, or combinations of both were associat...

    Authors: Junko Yoshida, Eri Eguchi, Kenjiro Nagaoka, Tatsuo Ito and Keiki Ogino
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:1366
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Physical inactivity is a significant predictor of several chronic diseases, becoming more prevalent as people age. Since the aging population increases demands on healthcare budgets, effectively stimulating ph...

    Authors: Denise A Peels, Rudolf R Hoogenveen, Talitha L Feenstra, Rianne HJ Golsteijn, Catherine Bolman, Aart N Mudde, Gerrie CW Wendel-Vos, Hein de Vries and Lilian Lechner
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1099
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Worldwide, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the fourth cause of death. Exacerbations have a negative impact on the prognosis of COPD and the frequency and severity of these episodes are associat...

    Authors: Eulàlia Borrell, Mar Rodríguez, Pere Torán, Laura Muñoz, Guillem Pera, Núria Montellà, Mònica Monteagudo, Magalí Urrea, Yolanda Puigfel, Antonio Negrete, Xavier Mezquiriz, Cristina Domènech, Anna Lacasta, Ma Llum García, Sandra Maneus and Glòria Tintoré
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2009 9:8
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  42. Daytime napping has been postulated as both a protective and a risk factor for depression in previous studies. In addition to these conflicting results, research gaps also exist with regard to controlling conf...

    Authors: Yuning Liu, Tingting Peng, Siqiao Zhang and Kun Tang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:759
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. The United States spends more than most other countries per capita on maternal and child health (MCH), and yet lags behind other countries in MCH outcomes. Local health departments (LHDs) are responsible for a...

    Authors: Tamar Klaiman, Athena Pantazis, Anjali Chainani and Betty Bekemeier
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:602
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Psychological life satisfaction is a robust predictor of wellbeing. Public health measures to improve wellbeing would benefit from an understanding of how overall life satisfaction varies as a function of sati...

    Authors: Léan V OBrien, Helen L Berry and Anthony Hogan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:976
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Han and Mongolian populations constitute approximately 96 % of the population of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and the two ethnic groups have different genetic backgrounds and lifestyle. We aim to assess t...

    Authors: Guoju Li, Hailing Wang, Ke Wang, Wenrui Wang, Fen Dong, Yonggang Qian, Haiying Gong, Guodong Xu, Yanlong Li, Li Pan, Bin Wang, Guangjin Zhu and Guangliang Shan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:294
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. The disease burden due to poor nutrition, physical inactivity and obesity is high and increasing. An adequately sized and skilled workforce is required to respond to this issue. This study describes the public...

    Authors: Andrea Begley and Christina Mary Pollard
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:881
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Evidence suggests that both preventive and curative nutrition interventions are needed to tackle child acute malnutrition (AM) in developing countries. In addition to reducing the incidence of AM, providing pr...

    Authors: Lieven Huybregts, Elodie Becquey, Amanda Zongrone, Agnes Le Port, Regina Khassanova, Lazare Coulibaly, Jef L. Leroy, Rahul Rawat and Marie T. Ruel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:237
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  48. Obesity and other nutrition-related chronic disease rates are high in American Indian (AI) populations, and an urgent need exists to identify evidence-based strategies for prevention and treatment. Multi-level...

    Authors: Joel Gittelsohn, Brittany Jock, Leslie Redmond, Sheila Fleischhacker, Thomas Eckmann, Sara N. Bleich, Hong Loh, Elizabeth Ogburn, Preety Gadhoke, Jacqueline Swartz, Marla Pardilla and Benjamin Caballero
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:105
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  49. The disease burden related to mental disorders and metabolic syndrome is growing in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC). The Colombo Twin and Singleton Study (COTASS) is a population-based sample of twins a...

    Authors: Kaushalya Jayaweera, Lisa Aschan, Gayani Pannala, Anushka Adikari, Nicholas Glozier, Khalida Ismail, Carmine M. Pariante, Fruhling Rijsdijk, Sisira Siribaddana, Helena M. S. Zavos, Patricia A. Zunszain, Athula Sumathipala and Matthew Hotopf
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:145
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. The demand for induced abortions in Uganda is high despite legal and moral proscriptions. Abortion seekers usually go to illegal, hidden clinics where procedures are performed in unhygienic environments by und...

    Authors: Joseph B Babigumira, Andy Stergachis, David L Veenstra, Jacqueline S Gardner, Joseph Ngonzi, Peter Mukasa-Kivunike and Louis P Garrison
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:904
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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