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  1. Physical activity (PA) is important for physical and mental health in adults and older adults. Interventions incorporating theory-based behaviour change techniques (BCTs) can be useful in helping people to inc...

    Authors: Carole Beighton, Christina Victor, Rebecca Normansell, Derek Cook, Sally Kerry, Steve Iliffe, Michael Ussher, Peter Whincup, Julia Fox-Rushby, Alison Woodcock and Tess Harris
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:1236
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. The challenges of delivering interventions for pregnant smokers have been poorly documented. Also, the process of promoting a physical activity intervention for pregnant smokers has not been previously recorde...

    Authors: Nikoletta Giatras, Elisabeth Wanninkhof, Miranda Leontowitsch, Beth Lewis, Adrian Taylor, Sue Cooper and Michael Ussher
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:85
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. Excessive sitting time is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease mortality and morbidity independent of physical activity. This aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of a sit-stand workstation on sitt...

    Authors: Lee E. F. Graves, Rebecca C. Murphy, Sam O. Shepherd, Josephine Cabot and Nicola D. Hopkins
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:1145
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. Due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, public health interventions have been introduced globally in order to prevent the spread of the virus and avoid the overload of health care systems, especially for the most seve...

    Authors: Katja Radon, Elmar Saathoff, Michael Pritsch, Jessica Michelle Guggenbühl Noller, Inge Kroidl, Laura Olbrich, Verena Thiel, Max Diefenbach, Friedrich Riess, Felix Forster, Fabian Theis, Andreas Wieser and Michael Hoelscher
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1036
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2020 20:1335

  5. Behaviour change interventions that promote physical activity have major implications for health and well-being. Measuring intervention fidelity is crucial in determining the extent to which an intervention is...

    Authors: Jeffrey D. Lambert, Colin J. Greaves, Paul Farrand, Rosina Cross, Anne M. Haase and Adrian H. Taylor
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:765
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Feasible and valid assessment of healthy behaviors is the first step for integrating health promotion in routine primary care. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop and evaluate the validity and reli...

    Authors: Paola Bully, Alvaro Sanchez, Gonzalo Grandes, Haizea Pombo, Ma Soledad Arietalenizbeaskoa, Veronica Arce and Catalina Martinez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1228
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. There is large body of knowledge to support the importance of early interventions to improve child health and development. Nonetheless, it is important to identify cost-effective blends of preventive intervent...

    Authors: Raziye Salari, Helena Fabian, Ron Prinz, Steven Lucas, Inna Feldman, Amanda Fairchild and Anna Sarkadi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:961
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  8. Diarrheal disease is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in low and middle income countries with children being disproportionately affected. Project SHINE (Sanitation & Hygiene INnovation in Education) is...

    Authors: Erin Hetherington, Matthijs Eggers, Joyce Wamoyi, Jennifer Hatfield, Mange Manyama, Susan Kutz and Sheri Bastien
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:172
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Inadequate parenting is an important public health problem with possible severe and long-term consequences related to child development. We have solid theoretical and political arguments in favor of efforts en...

    Authors: Tea Trillingsgaard, Rikke Damkjær Maimburg and Marianne Simonsen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:409
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  10. Exploring the relationship between physical activity, cognition and academic performance in children is an important but developing academic field. One of the key tasks for researchers is explaining how the th...

    Authors: Adrian McPherson, Lisa Mackay, Jule Kunkel and Scott Duncan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:936
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. The classic determination of burnout is by means of the dimensions exhaustion, cynicism and inefficacy. A new definition of the syndrome is based on clinical subtypes, consisting of “frenetic” (involved, ambit...

    Authors: Jesús Montero-Marín, Ricardo Araya, Barbara Olivan Blazquez, Petros Skapinakis, Vicente Martinez Vizcaino and Javier García-Campayo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:922
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. Integrated Infectious Diseases Capacity Building Evaluation (IDCAP) teams designed and implemented two health worker in-service training approaches: 1) an off-site classroom-based integrated management of infe...

    Authors: Martin Kayitale Mbonye, Sarah M. Burnett, Sarah Naikoba, Allan Ronald, Robert Colebunders, Jean-Pierre Van Geertruyden and Marcia R. Weaver
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:714
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. People of South Asian-origin are responsible for more than three-quarters of all the smokeless tobacco (SLT) consumption worldwide; yet there is little evidence on the effect of SLT cessation interventions in ...

    Authors: Kamran Siddiqi, Omara Dogar, Rukhsana Rashid, Cath Jackson, Ian Kellar, Nancy O’Neill, Maryam Hassan, Furqan Ahmed, Muhammad Irfan, Heather Thomson and Javaid Khan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:501
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. While discrimination takes multiple forms, racial or ethnic discrimination is a root cause of this health-damaging social phenomenon. We drew on intersectionality theory, which offers an account of discriminat...

    Authors: Nihaya Daoud, Neveen Ali Saleh-Darawshy, Meiyin Gao, Ruslan Sergienko, Stephanie Ruth Sestito and Nabil Geraisy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1741
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. Sub-Saharan Africa is increasingly being challenged in providing care and treatment for chronic diseases, both communicable and non-communicable. In order to address the challenges of linkage to and retention ...

    Authors: Beth Rachlis, Violet Naanyu, Juddy Wachira, Becky Genberg, Beatrice Koech, Regina Kamene, Jackie Akinyi and Paula Braitstein
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:741
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. Concussion is a preventable injury that can have long-term health consequences for children and youth. In Ontario, the Policy/Program Memorandum # 158 (PPM) was introduced by the Ministry of Education of Ontar...

    Authors: Roman Matveev, Lauren Sergio, Jessica Fraser-Thomas and Alison K. Macpherson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:1324
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. The HealthKick intervention, introduced at eight primary schools in low-income settings in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, aimed to promote healthy lifestyles among learners, their families and school...

    Authors: Anniza de Villiers, Nelia P. Steyn, Catherine E. Draper, Jillian Hill, Lucinda Dalais, Jean Fourie, Carl Lombard, Gerhard Barkhuizen and Estelle V. Lambert
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:818
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. Common mental disorders, such as depression, anxiety disorder, and adjustment disorder, have emerged as a major public and occupational health problem in many countries. These disorders can have severe consequ...

    Authors: Iris Arends, Jac JL van der Klink and Ute Bültmann
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2010 10:132
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  20. Older adults (OA) represent a core priority group for physical activity and Public Health policy. As a result, significant interest is placed on how to optimise adherence to interventions promoting these appro...

    Authors: Daniel Parnell, Andy Pringle, Jim McKenna, Stephen Zwolinsky, Zoe Rutherford, Jackie Hargreaves, Lizzie Trotter, Michael Rigby and David Richardson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:220
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Wildfires cause significant physical and mental ill-health. How physical and mental symptoms interact following wildfire smoke exposure is unclear, particularly in the context of repeated exposures. In this cr...

    Authors: Caroline X. Gao, Jana Menssink, Timothy C. H. Campbell, Catherine L. Smith, Jillian F. Ikin, Tyler Lane, Michael J. Abramson and Matthew Carroll
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:1573
    Content type: Research Published on:

  22. The incidence of poor mental health (MH) is increasing in Denmark and worldwide, especially among 16–24 year olds. Low physical activity (PA) during adolescence seems to be a risk factor for poor MH in early a...

    Authors: Per Hoegh Poulsen, Karin Biering and Johan Hviid Andersen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:3
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Stroke is a major cause of acute neurological symptoms in children with significant long-term neurological sequelae. However, data of diseases burden on stroke among children was lack. We aimed to be dedicated...

    Authors: Min Du, Donghua Mi, Min Liu and Jue Liu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2120
    Content type: Research Published on:

  24. The Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR) in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducts outreach for public preparedness for natural and manmade incidents. In 2011, OPHPR condu...

    Authors: Cesar Bandera
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:436
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. NHS Health Check is a primary prevention programme offering cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment to adults in England aged 40–74. Uptake remains a challenge and invitation method is a strong predictor ...

    Authors: Christopher J. Gidlow, Naomi J. Ellis, Victoria Riley, Tim Chadborn, Amanda Bunten, Zafar Iqbal, Aliko Ahmed, Alistair Fisher, David Sugden and David Clark-Carter
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:224
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. Continued management of sanitation and hygiene services, post-intervention, is a global challenge, particularly in the school-setting. This situation threatens anticipated impacts of school sanitation and hygi...

    Authors: Christie Chatterley, Amy Javernick-Will, Karl G Linden, Kawser Alam, Laure Bottinelli and Mohini Venkatesh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:6
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. The increase in mobile phone use has generated concerns about possible risks to human health, especially the development of brain tumors. Whether tumor patients should continue to use mobile telephones has rem...

    Authors: Yu-xiao Liu, Guo-qing Li, Xiang-ping Fu, Jing-hui Xue, Shou-ping Ji, Zhi-wen Zhang, Yi Zhang and An-ming Li
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:764
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the most prevalent long-term psychiatric disorders among survivors of traumatic events. It is well established that social support has been related to the onset ...

    Authors: Wenjie Dai, Long Chen, Hongzhuan Tan, Jieru Wang, Zhiwei Lai, Atipatsa C. Kaminga, Yan Li and Aizhong Liu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:194
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Methamphetamine (MA) use is a significant public health concern due to its negative effects on health. However, to date, no epidemiological research has examined high-risk sexual behaviors (inconsistent condom...

    Authors: Yu Mon Saw, Thu Nandar Saw, Nyein Chan, Su Myat Cho and Masamine Jimba
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:209
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. Behaviour risk factor surveillance (BRFS) data can be an important source of information for studying changes in various health outcomes and risk factors. Results obtained from surveillance data analysis are v...

    Authors: Shireen Assaf and Stefano Campostrini
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:489
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  32. There is an average negative mental health effect for individuals who experience divorce. Little is known whether the pattern of such divorce effects varies within couples. We study whether the husband and wif...

    Authors: Christiaan WS Monden, Niina Metsä-Simola, Saska Saarioja and Pekka Martikainen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:158
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. Reducing the Strength is an increasingly popular intervention in which local authorities ask retailers to stop selling ‘super-strength’ beers and ciders. The intervention cannot affect alcohol availability, no...

    Authors: Colin Sumpter, Elizabeth McGill, Esther Dickie, Enes Champo, Ester Romeri and Matt Egan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:448
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. While power imbalance is now recognized as a key component of bullying, reliable and valid measurement instruments have yet to be developed. This research aimed to develop a self-report instrument that measure...

    Authors: Helen J. Nelson, Garth E. Kendall, Sharyn K. Burns, Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl and Robert T. Kane
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1046
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. There is a major need for longitudinal research examining the experiences of people with dementia and their primary carers, as relatively little is known about how the factors associated with capability to ‘li...

    Authors: Barbora Silarova, Sharon M. Nelis, Rosalie M. Ashworth, Clive Ballard, Marta Bieńkiewicz, Catherine Henderson, Alexandra Hillman, John V. Hindle, Julian C. Hughes, Ruth A. Lamont, Rachael Litherland, Ian R. Jones, Roy W. Jones, Martin Knapp, Piers Kotting, Anthony Martyr…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:1214
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  36. Household food insecurity is a potent social determinant of health and health care costs in Canada, but understanding of the social and economic conditions that underlie households’ vulnerability to food insec...

    Authors: Valerie Tarasuk, Andrée-Anne Fafard St-Germain and Andrew Mitchell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:12
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. The association between mental distress and divorce is well established in the literature. Explanations are commonly classified within two different frameworks; social selection (mentally distressed people are...

    Authors: Mariann Idstad, Fartein Ask Torvik, Ingrid Borren, Kamilla Rognmo, Espen Røysamb and Kristian Tambs
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:320
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. An increase in suicide mortality is often observed in economic recessions. The objective of this study was to analyse trends in socioeconomic inequalities in suicide mortality before and during the economic re...

    Authors: Carme Borrell, Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo, Mercè Gotsens, Montse Calvo, Maica Rodríguez-Sanz, Xavier Bartoll and Santiago Esnaola
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:772
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2019 19:357

  40. Although the French population comprises large and diverse immigrant groups, there is little research on smoking disparities by geographical origin. The aim of this study is to investigate in this country smok...

    Authors: Myriam Khlat, Damien Bricard and Stéphane Legleye
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:479
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Smoking is still gaining ground in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially among socially disadvantaged groups. People living with HIV represent a subgroup with a significantly elevated prevalence of cigarette smoking....

    Authors: Olalekan A. Uthman, Anna Mia Ekström and Tahereh T. Moradi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:998
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) estimates the effects of maternal and child health interventions on mortality rates and the number of deaths. The family planning module in Spectrum interacts with LiST by providing...

    Authors: John Stover and William Winfrey
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17(Suppl 4):775
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 4

  43. In 2009, after many delays and changes, India introduced a single pictorial health warning label (HWL) on smokeless tobacco (SLT) packing—a symbolic image of a scorpion covering 40% of the front surface. In 20...

    Authors: Shannon Gravely, Geoffrey T. Fong, Pete Driezen, Steve Xu, Anne C. K. Quah, Genevieve Sansone, Prakash C. Gupta and Mangesh S. Pednekar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1246
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Social engagement forms the basis of social relationships by providing a sense of belonging, social identity, and fulfillment. Previous research demonstrates that social engagement was associated with positive...

    Authors: Mengyun Luo, Ding Ding, Adrian Bauman, Joel Negin and Philayrath Phongsavan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:99
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Road traffic Injuries (RTIs) as a health problem imposes governments to implement different interventions. Target achievement in this issue required effective and efficient measures. Efficiency evaluation of t...

    Authors: Habibollah Rahimi, Hamid Soori, Seyed Saeed Hashemi Nazari, Seyed Abbas Motevalian, Adel Azar, Eskandar Momeni and Mehdi Javartani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:806
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Scotland has a persistently high mortality rate that is not solely due to the effects of socio-economic deprivation. This “excess” mortality is observed across the entire country, but is greatest in and around...

    Authors: M. Smith, A. E. Williamson, D. Walsh and G. McCartney
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:655
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  47. In view of the upcoming demographic transition, there is still no clear evidence on how increasing life expectancy will affect future disease burden, especially regarding specific diseases. In our study, we pr...

    Authors: Valeska Milan, Stefan Fetzer and Christian Hagist
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:123
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Neglecting to take account of the underlying context or type of physical activity (PA) that underpins overall involvement has resulted in a limited understanding of adolescents’ PA participation. The purpose o...

    Authors: Margaret Lawler, Caroline Heary and Elizabeth Nixon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:661
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Delay to start antiretroviral therapy (ART) and nonadherence compromise the health and wellbeing of people living with HIV (PLWH), raise the cost of care and increase risk of transmission to sexual partners. T...

    Authors: R. Horne, E. Glendinning, K. King, T. Chalder, C. Sabin, A. S. Walker, L. J. Campbell, I. Mosweu, J. Anderson, S. Collins, R. Jopling, P. McCrone, H. Leake Date, S. Michie, M. Nelson, N. Perry…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:905
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  50. We designed and implemented the Brigham and Women’s Wellness Initiative (B-Well), a single-arm study to examine the feasibility of a workplace program that used individual and team-based financial incentives t...

    Authors: Elena Losina, Savannah R. Smith, Ilana M. Usiskin, Kristina M. Klara, Griffin L. Michl, Bhushan R. Deshpande, Heidi Y. Yang, Karen C. Smith, Jamie E. Collins and Jeffrey N. Katz
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:921
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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