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  1. Sufficient targeted HIV prevention activities aiming at reducing HIV transmission within and from an extremely marginalized population of injection drug users (IDUs) must urgently and efficiently be implemente...

    Authors: Thu Minh T Tran, Hien T Nguyen, Hiroshi Yatsuya, Nobuyuki Hamajima, Akio Nishimura and Katsuki Ito
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2006 6:248
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. South East Asia (SEA) is home to over 30 tribes of indigenous population groups who are currently facing rapid socio-economic change. Epidemiological transition and increased prevalence of non-communicable dis...

    Authors: Maude E Phipps, Kevin KL Chan, Rakesh Naidu, Nazaimoon W Mohamad, Boon-Peng Hoh, Kia-Fatt Quek, Badariah Ahmad, Siti MI Harnida, Anuar ZM Zain and Khalid A Kadir
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:47
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. The reproductive health and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV programs in Iran were integrated as a pilot project in September 2014. This study aims to provide a comprehensive evaluatio...

    Authors: Parvin Afsar Kazeroni, Mohammad Mehdi Gouya, Mandana Tira, Maryam Sargolzaiie, Sana Eybpoosh, Zahra Majdfar, Bushra Zareie, Mohammad Aziz Rasouli and Ebrahim Ghaderi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:483
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Even after quitting illicit drugs, tobacco abuse remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in former injection drug users. An important unmet need in this population is to have effective interventions t...

    Authors: Michael B Drummond, Jacquie Astemborski, Allison A Lambert, Scott Goldberg, Maxine L Stitzer, Christian A Merlo, Cynthia S Rand, Robert A Wise and Gregory D Kirk
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:761
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Violence and mobility have been identified as critical factors contributing to the spread of HIV worldwide. This study aimed to assess the independent and combined associations of mobility and violence with se...

    Authors: Sowmya Ramesh, Deepika Ganju, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra, Ram Manohar Mishra and Niranjan Saggurti
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:764
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Over the past 10 years, incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has increased to record numbers in the United States, with the most significant increases observed among adolescents and young adults...

    Authors: Anjali Kunz, Amber Moodley, Donn J. Colby, Michele Soltis, Wesley Robb-McGrath, Alexandra Fairchok, Paul Faestel, Amanda Jungels, Alexis A. Bender, Edwin Kamau, Gina Wingood, Ralph DiClemente and Paul Scott
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:640
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  8. Obesity is a complex multifactorial disease, which also has an impact on quality of life. The aim of this paper is to identify the correlates of perceived health related quality of life in obese, overweight an...

    Authors: Cinzia Giuli, Roberta Papa, Roberta Bevilacqua, Elisa Felici, Cristina Gagliardi, Fiorella Marcellini, Marco Boscaro, Marco De Robertis, Eugenio Mocchegiani, Emanuela Faloia and Giacomo Tirabassi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:35
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Food insecurity (FI) is the lack of physical, social, and economic access to sufficient food for dietary needs and food preferences. We examined the association between FI and women’s uptake of services to pre...

    Authors: Sandra I McCoy, Raluca Buzdugan, Angela Mushavi, Agnes Mahomva, Frances M Cowan and Nancy S Padian
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:420
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. The traditional diet of northwestern Spain and northern Portugal follows an ‘Atlantic diet’ pattern. Adherence to the Atlantic diet has been related to the good metabolic health and low coronary mortality reco...

    Authors: Maria del Mar Calvo-Malvar, Rosaura Leis, Alfonso Javier Benítez-Estévez, Juan Sánchez-Castro and Francisco Gude
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:820
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  11. Research shows that obesity prevention has to start early. Targeting interventions towards subgroups of individuals who are predisposed, but yet normal weight, may prove more effective in preventing overweight...

    Authors: Nanna Julie Olsen, Tine Buch-Andersen, Mina Nicole Händel, Louise Mai Østergaard, Jeanett Pedersen, Charlotte Seeger, Maria Stougaard, Maria Trærup, Kate Livemore, Erik Lykke Mortensen, Claus Holst and Berit Lilienthal Heitmann
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:590
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  12. In French Guiana, a French overseas territory in South America, 6 to 10 thousands undocumented persons work illegally in gold mining sites in the Amazonian forest. Precarious life conditions lead to poor healt...

    Authors: Maylis Douine, Emilie Mosnier, Quentin Le Hingrat, Charlotte Charpentier, Florine Corlin, Louise Hureau, Antoine Adenis, Yassamine Lazrek, Florence Niemetsky, Anne-Laure Aucouturier, Magalie Demar, Lise Musset and Mathieu Nacher
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:23
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2017 17:736

  13. Protective vaccinations are one of the basic means of infectious disease prevention. The aim of the study was to assess the implementation of compulsory and additional protective vaccinations among adult Poles...

    Authors: Józefa Dąbek, Oskar Sierka and Zbigniew Gąsior
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:2342
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  14. Rural Australian adults are continually shown to be insufficiently active with higher prevalence of lifestyle-related diseases associated with physical inactivity compared to urban adults. This may, partly, be...

    Authors: Braden L Mitchell, Nicole R Lewis, Ashleigh E Smith, Alex V Rowlands, Gaynor Parfitt and James Dollman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:969
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  15. Young girls in sub Saharan Africa are reported to have higher rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection compared to boys in the same age group. Knowledge of HIV status amongst high schools learners...

    Authors: Ayesha BM Kharsany, Mukelisiwe Mlotshwa, Janet A Frohlich, Nonhlanhla Yende Zuma, Natasha Samsunder, Salim S Abdool Karim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:231
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. Research pertaining to the community-based prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is important to understand the magnitude of this infection. This study was conducted to estimate LTBI prevalence an...

    Authors: Takele Teklu, Mengistu Legesse, Girmay Medhin, Aboma Zewude, Mahlet Chanyalew, Martha Zewdie, Biniam Wondale, Milkessa Haile-Mariam, Rembert Pieper and Gobena Ameni
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:266
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. We evaluated whether outbreaks of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection, newborn microcephaly, and Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) in Latin America may be detected through current surveillance systems, and how cases detec...

    Authors: Leonelo E. Bautista and Víctor M. Herrera
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:656
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. In many countries, including Italy, there are few national data on pre-pregnancy Body Mass Index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG), despite these being important predictors of maternal and neonatal healt...

    Authors: Paola Pani, Claudia Carletti, Manuela Giangreco, Alessandra Knowles, Elena Clagnan, Michele Gobbato, Stefania Del Zotto, Adriano Cattaneo and Luca Ronfani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:132
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  19. The prevalence of anaemia and iron deficiency (ID) among children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and their correction during nutritional rehabilitation are not well documented. This study assessed anaemi...

    Authors: Peter Akomo, Paluku Bahwere, Hitoshi Murakami, Chrissy Banda, Elizabeth Maganga, Sylvester Kathumba, Kate Sadler and Steve Collins
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:806
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. The relationship between physical activity and health status has been thoroughly investigated in several studies, while the relation between physical activity and socio-economic status (SES) is less investigat...

    Authors: Giuseppe La Torre, Daniele Masala, Elisabetta De Vito, Elisa Langiano, Giovanni Capelli and Walter Ricciardi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2006 6:22
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Atmospheric pollution has been recognized as the greatest environmental threat to human health. The population of the Venafro Valley, southern Italy, is exposed to emissions from a Waste-To-Energy (WTE) and a ...

    Authors: Elisa Bustaffa, Cristina Mangia, Liliana Cori, Fabrizio Bianchi, Marco Cervino and Fabrizio Minichilli
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2031
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  22. Tuberculosis (TB) presents globally a significant health problem and health care workers (HCW) are at increased risk of contracting TB infection. There is no diagnostic gold standard for latent TB infection (L...

    Authors: Gerd Gran, Jörg Aßmus and Anne Ma Dyrhol-Riise
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:353
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. The World Health Organization (WHO) risk assessment algorithm for vertical transmission of HIV (VT) assumes the availability of maternal viral load (VL) result at delivery and early viral control 4 weeks after...

    Authors: Sheila Fernández-Luis, Maria Grazia Lain, Miquel Serna-Pascual, Sara Domínguez-Rodríguez, Louise Kuhn, Afaaf Liberty, Shaun Barnabas, Elisa Lopez-Varela, Kennedy Otwombe, Siva Danaviah, Eleni Nastouli, Paolo Palma, Nicola Cotugno, Moira Spyer, Viviana Giannuzzi, Carlo Giaquinto…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1312
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  24. Hepatitis-E Virus (HEV) infection is endemic in Punjab, India. On 4th April 2013, public officials of Labour Colony, Amritsar reported > 20 jaundice cases occurring within several days.

    Authors: Tripurari Kumar, Aakash Shrivastava, Deepak Bhatia, Yash Mitra, Anil Kumar, Sharmeen Hussain, Lakhbir Singh Chauhan, Kayla F. Laserson, Jai Prakash Narain, Rajesh Kumar and Averhoff Francisco
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 3):464
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 3

  25. Cutaneous injection-related infections (CIRI) are a primary reason individuals who inject drugs (IDU) are hospitalized. The objective of this study was to investigate determinants of hospitalization for a CIRI...

    Authors: Elisa Lloyd-Smith, Evan Wood, Ruth Zhang, Mark W Tyndall, Sam Sheps, Julio SG Montaner and Thomas Kerr
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2010 10:327
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. Eliminating mother-to-child HIV-transmission (EMTCT) implies a case rate target of new pediatric HIV-infections< 50/100,000 live-births and a transmission rate < 5%. We assessed these indicators at community-l...

    Authors: Laura Fuente-Soro, Sheila Fernández-Luis, Elisa López-Varela, Orvalho Augusto, Tacilta Nhampossa, Ariel Nhacolo, Edson Bernardo, Blanca Burgueño, Bernadette Ngeno, Aleny Couto, Helga Guambe, Kwalila Tibana, Marilena Urso and Denise Naniche
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:520
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. People who inject drugs are at high risk of acquiring hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) due to risky injection and sexual practices. The objective of this study is to...

    Authors: Ahmed Khatib, Eva Matiko, Farhat Khalid, Susie Welty, Ameir Ali, Asha Othman, Shaaban Haji, Mohammed Dahoma and George Rutherford
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:917
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Yellow Fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease endemic in tropical Africa and Latin America and is transmitted through infected mosquitoes. The earliest outbreak of yellow fever in Nigeria was reported in ...

    Authors: Bassey Enya Bassey, Fiona Braka, Rosemary Onyibe, Olufunmilola Olawumi Kolude, Marcus Oluwadare, Alawale Oluwabukola, Ogunlaja Omotunde, Oluwatobi Adeoluwa Iyanda, Adedamola Ayodeji Tella and Olayiwola Suliat Olanike
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:467
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  29. Due to numerous blood exposures hospital staff are at risk of acquiring hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections. This study aimed at estimating prevalence of HBV, associated risk factors and HBV vaccination among P...

    Authors: Maria Ganczak, Katarzyna Topczewska, Maria Budnik-Szymoniuk and Marcin Korzeń
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:298
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. In the alarming context of risk of Zika virus (ZIKV) transmission in the Euro-Mediterranean area, there is a need to examine whether capacities to detect, diagnose and notify ZIKV infections in the region are ...

    Authors: Camille Escadafal, Lobna Gaayeb, Flavia Riccardo, Elisa Pérez-Ramírez, Marie Picard, Maria Grazia Dente, Jovita Fernández-Pinero, Jean-Claude Manuguerra, Miguel-Ángel Jiménez-Clavero, Silvia Declich, Kathleen Victoir and Vincent Robert
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1219
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  31. Health facility data are more readily accessible for operational planning and evaluation of disease control programmes. The importance, potential challenges and limitations of using facility based survey as an...

    Authors: Abraham Rexford Oduro, Ernest Tei Maya, James Akazili, Frank Baiden, Kwadwo Koram and Kalifa Bojang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:354
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. Testing for presence of HIV infection is a pre-requisite to qualify for antiretroviral treatment. A considerable proportion of German men who have sex with men (MSM) infected with HIV have a CD4 cell count bel...

    Authors: Ulrich Marcus, Martyna Gassowski, Martin Kruspe and Jochen Drewes
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:727
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  33. HIV programming in Ukraine largely targets “key population” groups. Men who purchase sex are not directly reached. The aim of our study was to explore the prevalence of sexually transmitted and blood-borne inf...

    Authors: Lisa Lazarus, Nicole Herpai, Daria Pavlova, Amaanat Gill, François Cholette, Leigh M. McClarty, Shajy Isac, Anna Lopatenko, Michael Pickles, Sharmistha Mishra, Souradet Y. Shaw, Robert Lorway, Lyle R. McKinnon, Paul Sandstrom, James Blanchard, Olga Balakireva…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2054
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  34. The objetive in this study is to determine the relationship between dietary patterns, BMI, type 2 diabetes mellitus family history (T2DMFH) and some lifestyle variables such as smoking and skipping breakfast i...

    Authors: Laura Elisa Gutiérrez-Pliego, Eneida del Socorro Camarillo-Romero, Laura Patricia Montenegro-Morales and José de Jesus Garduño-García
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:850
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. Long-term excess exposure to environmental manganese (Mn) can lead to multi-system damage, especially in occupational populations. Therefore, we established a manganese-exposed workers healthy cohort (MEWHC), ...

    Authors: Yanting Zhou, Xiaoting Ge, Yuefei Shen, Lian Qin, Yaoqiu Zhong, Chao Jiang, Cheng Su, Jinyu Huang, Suzhen Lin, Defu Li, Hong Cheng, Fu Wei, Songfeng Ou, Yunfeng Zou and Xiaobo Yang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:944
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. Pulmonary diseases are a common and costly cause of 30-day readmissions. Few studies have focused on the difference in risk for rehospitalization between men and women in older patients. In this study we analy...

    Authors: Alessandra Buja, Anna De Polo, Elisa De Battisti, Milena Sperotto, Tatjana Baldovin, Silvia Cocchio, Patrizia Furlan, Mario Saia, Maria Luisa Scapellato, Guido Viel, Vincenzo Baldo, Chiara Bertoncello and Mark Ebell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:53
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. A safe effective and affordable HIV vaccine is the most cost effective way to prevent HIV infection worldwide. Current studies of HIV prevalence and incidence are needed to determine potentially suitable cohor...

    Authors: Patricia J Munseri, Muhammad Bakari, Mohamed Janabi, Eric Aris, Said Aboud, Bo Hejdeman and Eric Sandstrom
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:722
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Recent literature on community intervention research stresses system change as a condition for durable impact. This involves highly participatory social processes leading to behavioural change.

    Authors: Carlos Hernandez-Alvarez, Jorge Arosteguí, Harold Suazo-Laguna, Rosa Maria Reyes, Josefina Coloma, Eva Harris, Neil Andersson and Robert J. Ledogar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17(Suppl 1):396
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 1

  39. Cutaneous injection-related infections (CIRI), such as abscesses and cellulitis, are common and preventable among injection drug users (IDU). However, risk factors for CIRI have not been well described in the ...

    Authors: Elisa Lloyd-Smith, Evan Wood, Ruth Zhang, Mark W Tyndall, Julio SG Montaner and Thomas Kerr
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2008 8:405
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Depression is one of the leading causes of illness and disability among young people. In the Netherlands, one in twelve Dutch adolescents has experienced depression in the last 12 months. Pre-vocational studen...

    Authors: Marieke Rombouts, Elisa L. Duinhof, Marloes Kleinjan, Jannis T. Kraiss, Laura Shields-Zeeman and Karin Monshouwer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:139
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  41. Physical activity plays a critical role in health, including for effective weight maintenance, but adherence to guidelines is often poor. Similarly, although debate continues over whether a “best” diet exists ...

    Authors: Rachael W. Taylor, Melyssa Roy, Michelle R. Jospe, Hamish R. Osborne, Kim J Meredith-Jones, Sheila M. Williams and Rachel C. Brown
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:861
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  42. Epidemiological data on hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection among pregnant women in Cameroon are very scarce, especially in the rural milieu. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence and factors...

    Authors: Jean Jacques N Noubiap, Jobert Richie N Nansseu, Shalom Tchokfe Ndoula, Jean Joel R Bigna, Ahmadou M Jingi and Joël Fokom-Domgue
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:454
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Brazil is an endemic country for schistosomiasis in the Latin American and Caribbean countries. Pernambuco is a higher-endemic Brazilian state among the 19 states reporting the disease in the country; schistos...

    Authors: Luiz Augusto Facchini, Bruno Pereira Nunes, Eronildo Felisberto, José Alexandre Menezes da Silva, Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Junior and Elaine Tomasi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:1200
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Italy has been the first European country to be affected by the COVID-19 epidemic which started out at the end of February. In this report, we focus our attention on the Veneto Region, in the North-East of Ita...

    Authors: Elisa Gallo, Ilaria Prosepe, Giulia Lorenzoni, Aslihan Şentürk Acar, Corrado Lanera, Paola Berchialla, Danila Azzolina and Dario Gregori
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:797
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Sex workers in Uganda are at significant risk for HIV infection. We characterized the HIV epidemic among Kampala female sex workers (FSW).

    Authors: Wolfgang Hladik, Andrew L. Baughman, David Serwadda, Jordan W. Tappero, Rachel Kwezi, Namakula D. Nakato and Joseph Barker
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:565
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Intensive interventions on smoking cessation increase abstinence rates. However, few electronic mail (E-mail) based intensive interventions have been tested in smokers and none in primary care (PC) setting. Th...

    Authors: Laura Díaz-Gete, Elisa Puigdomènech, Elena Mercedes Briones, Mireia Fàbregas-Escurriola, Soraya Fernandez, Jose Luis del Val, Jose Luis Ballvé, Marc Casajuana, Jessica Sánchez-Fondevila, Lourdes Clemente, Carmen Castaño and Carlos Martín-Cantera
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:364
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  47. Biomedical research plays an important role in improving health. There seems to exist a negative correlation between the amount of biomedical research funding and disease burden from all Sub-Saharan African co...

    Authors: Olouyomi Scherif Adegnika, Yabo Josiane Honkpehedji, Fabrice Mougeni Lotola, Selidji Todagbe Agnandji, Ayola Akim Adegnika, Bertrand Lell and Elisa Sicuri
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:2155
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. There is limited information about the types of recreational drugs used by men who have sex with men (MSM) in China or the consequent impact on sexual health and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquisition.

    Authors: Xiang Mao, Sequoia I. Leuba, Qinghai Hu, Hongjing Yan, Zhe Wang, Lin Lu, Minghua Zhuang, Xi Chen, Jihua Fu, Wenqing Geng, Yongjun Jiang, Hong Shang and Junjie Xu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:354
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Little research has been conducted on the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic and the sexual intercourse habits of men who have sex with men (MSM) in crowded places, both locally and abroad. This study...

    Authors: Lin Qu, Wenrui Wang, Yongming Gao, Jingyuan Yang, Jijiang Dai, Dawei Wang and Bo Tao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1161
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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