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  1. Given today’s high prevalence of common mental disorders and related sick leave among teachers, an urgent need exists for a more systematic approach to the management of social and organizational risk factors ...

    Authors: Lydia Kwak, Caroline Lornudd, Christina Björklund, Gunnar Bergström, Lotta Nybergh, Liselotte Schäfer Elinder, Kjerstin Stigmar, Charlotte Wåhlin and Irene Jensen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1668
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  2. Prevalence of depression in Indonesia is estimated at about 3.7% of the total population, although the actual may be higher. Studies worldwide have linked the environment where people live to their mental heal...

    Authors: Mohamad Fahmi, Nur Afni Panjaitan, Ibnu Habibie, Adiatma Y. M. Siregar, Gilang Amarullah, Rahma and Deni K. Sunjaya
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1371
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. The previously-named Mexico City Policy (MCP) — which prohibited non U.S.-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from receiving U.S. family planning (FP) funding if they advocated, provided, counseled, or...

    Authors: Jennifer Sherwood, Alana Sharp, Brian Honermann, Caitlin Horrigan, Meghna Chatterjee, Austin Jones, Chloe Cooney and Greg Millett
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:1116
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. Discrimination is a major driver of health disparities among minority groups and can impede the reach of public health programs. In the Dominican Republic, residents of bateyes, or agricultural ‘company towns,’ o...

    Authors: Hunter M. Keys, Gregory S. Noland, Madsen Beau De Rochars, Thomas H. Taylor, Stephen Blount and Manuel Gonzales
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1513
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Malaysian fishermen have been identified as a key-affected HIV population with HIV rates 10 times higher than national rates. A number of studies have identified that psychosocial and structural-level stressor...

    Authors: Lynn Murphy Michalopoulos, Tina Jiwatram-Negrón, Martin K. K. Choo, Adeeba Kamarulzaman and Nabila El-Bassel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:464
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Childhood immunization programmes have made substantial contributions to lowering the burden of disease among children in developing countries, however a large proportion of children still remain unimmunized. ...

    Authors: Abrham Wondimu, Qi Cao, Jan C. Wilschut and Maarten J. Postma
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1656
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  7. The National Early Warning Score (NEWS/NEWS 2) has been adopted across the National Health Service (NHS) in the U.K. as a method of escalating care for deteriorating patients. Intensive Care Unit (ICU) resourc...

    Authors: Hassan Zaidi, Mohamed Bader-El-Den and James McNicholas
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1231
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Providing unpaid support to family and friends with disabling health conditions can limit a carer’s capacity to participate in employment. The emotional support needs and unpredictability of caring for people ...

    Authors: Sandra Diminic, Emily Hielscher and Meredith G. Harris
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:587
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Intimate partner violence (IPV) threatens the safety and health of women worldwide. Safety planning is a widely recommended, evidence-based intervention for women experiencing IPV, yet fewer than 1 in 5 Canadi...

    Authors: Marilyn Ford-Gilboe, Colleen Varcoe, Kelly Scott-Storey, Judith Wuest, James Case, Leanne M. Currie, Nancy Glass, Marilyn Hodgins, Harriet MacMillan, Nancy Perrin and C. Nadine Wathen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:273
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  11. Bladder and kidney cancers are the ninth and twelfth most common type of cancer worldwide, respectively. Internationally, rates vary ten-fold, with several countries showing rising incidence. This study descri...

    Authors: Nathalie Saint-Jacques, Jonathan S. W. Lee, Patrick Brown, Jamie Stafford, Louise Parker and Trevor J. B. Dummer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:175
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. Maternal mortality ratio in Nigeria is among the highest in the world with an estimated 160 women dying every day of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. In addition to appropriate management of ...

    Authors: Stella Babalola, Olamide Oyenubi, Ilene S. Speizer, Lisa Cobb, Akinsewa Akiode and Mojisola Odeku
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:942
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  13. Previous research shows that parental unemployment is associated with low life satisfaction in adolescents. It is unclear whether this translates to an association between national unemployment and adolescent lif...

    Authors: Klara Johansson, Solveig Petersen, Björn Högberg, Gonneke W. J. M. Stevens, Bart De Clercq, Diana Frasquilho, Frank Elgar and Mattias Strandh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1555
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  14. Children orphaned by parental AIDS or those of parents with HIV infection demonstrate many negative mental health outcomes. Different types of psychosocial interventions have been conducted to improve the psyc...

    Authors: Peilian Chi, Shan Zhao, Chen Zhang, Xiaoming Li, Yan Guo, Xiuyun Lin and Hongfei Du
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1572
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Currently, the influenza epidemic in China is at a high level and mixed with other respiratory diseases. Current studies focus on regional influenza and the impact of environmental pollutants on time series, a...

    Authors: Hao Li, Miao Ge and Congxia Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:1685
    Content type: Research Published on:

  16. Previous studies indicate that psychological, social, and organizational factors at work contribute to health, motivation, absence from work, and functional ability.

    Authors: Stein Knardahl, Håkon A. Johannessen, Tom Sterud, Mikko Härmä, Reiner Rugulies, Jorma Seitsamo and Vilhelm Borg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:176
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  17. Mental health problems (MHP) are the leading cause of disability worldwide. The inverse association between socioeconomic position (SEP) and MHP has been well documented. There is prospective evidence that fac...

    Authors: Caroline S. Duchaine, Ruth Ndjaboué, Manon Levesque, Michel Vézina, Xavier Trudel, Mahée Gilbert-Ouimet, Clermont E. Dionne, Benoît Mâsse, Neil Pearce and Chantal Brisson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:91
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  19. The study explores associations between perceived neighbourhood characteristics, physical activity and diet quality, which in Latin America and Brazil have been scarcely studied and with inconsistent results.

    Authors: Dóra Chor, Letícia Oliveira Cardoso, Aline Araújo Nobre, Rosane Härter Griep, Maria de Jesus Mendes Fonseca, Luana Giatti, Isabela Bensenor, Maria del Carmen Bisi Molina, Estela M. L. Aquino, Ana Diez-Roux, Débora de Pina Castiglione and Simone M. Santos
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:751
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  21. Preventing intimate partner violence or dating violence (DV) among adolescents is a public health priority due to its magnitude and damaging short and long-term consequences for adolescent and adult health. In...

    Authors: C. Vives-Cases, M. C. Davo-Blanes, R. Ferrer-Cascales, B. Sanz-Barbero, N. Albaladejo-Blázquez, M. Sánchez-San Segundo, M. Lillo-Crespo, N. Bowes, S. Neves, V. Mocanu, E. M. Carausu, J. Pyżalski, M. J. Forjaz, I. Chmura-Rutkowska, C. P. Vieira and C. Corradi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:389
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  22. In 2017, the G20 health ministers convened for the first time to discuss global health and issued a communiqué outlining their health priorities, as the BRICS and G7 have done for years. As these political clu...

    Authors: Bronwyn McBride, Sarah Hawkes and Kent Buse
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:815
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. More than 40% of adults in Sub-Saharan Africa are unaware of their HIV status. HIV self-testing (HIVST) is a novel approach with a potential to increase uptake of HIV testing and linkage to care for people who...

    Authors: Bernard Njau, Christopher Covin, Esther Lisasi, Damian Damian, Declare Mushi, Andrew Boulle and Catherine Mathews
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1289
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Spirometry is widely used in medical surveillance in occupational health and as a diagnostic test for obstructive and restrictive lung disease. We evaluated the effect of spirometry parameters on the risk of a...

    Authors: Irmeli Lindström, Paula Pallasaho, Jouko Remes, Tuula Vasankari and Markku Heliövaara
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:165
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Smoking cessation can significantly reduce the risk of developing smoking-related diseases. Several face-to-face and web-based treatments have shown to be effective. Blending of web-based and face-to-face trea...

    Authors: Lutz Siemer, Marcel E. Pieterse, Marjolein G. J. Brusse-Keizer, Marloes G. Postel, Somaya Ben Allouch and Robbert Sanderman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1187
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  26. The number of people of working age suffering from chronic disease is increasing. Chronic diseases such as diabetes can cause negative work-related consequences in the form of early retirement or absenteeism. ...

    Authors: Kristoffer Panduro Madsen, Bryan Cleal, Kasper Olesen, Lise Hagelund and Ingrid Willaing
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:584
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. There are arguments for and against the wellbeing effects of internet use, with evidence shifting from negative to positive over time, although the effects are partly dependent upon the population sub-group co...

    Authors: Ade Kearns and Elise Whitley
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:860
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  28. There exists a well established link between employment status and health, with unemployment being associated with poorer health. Much less is known about the association between economic inactivity and health...

    Authors: Eric Emerson, Chris Hatton, Susannah Baines and Janet Robertson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:401
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  29. School-based sexual health education has the potential to provide an inclusive and comprehensive approach to promoting sexual health among young people. We reviewed evaluations of school-based sexual health ed...

    Authors: A. Sadiq Sani, Charles Abraham, Sarah Denford and Susan Ball
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1069
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. In China, the most populous developing country in the world, dementia represents a serious challenge. We performed a large-scale systematic review and meta-regression analysis to elucidate the prevalence of de...

    Authors: Yangjun Zhu, Hao Liu, Xi-Li Lu, Bo Zhang, Wanwen Weng, Jun Yang, Jun Zhang and Meng-Jie Dong
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:578
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  32. Provision of HIV prevention and sexual and reproductive health services in Zambia is largely characterized by discrete service provision with weak client referral and linkage. The literature reveals gaps in th...

    Authors: Paul C. Hewett, Mutinta Nalubamba, Fiammetta Bozzani, Jean Digitale, Lung Vu, Eileen Yam and Mary Nambao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:785
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  33. In Canada, 8.1 million people informally provide care without payment, primarily to family members; 6.1 million of them are employed at a full-time or part-time job. Digital technologies, such as internet-base...

    Authors: Kristine Newman, Angel He Wang, Arthur Ze Yu Wang and Dalia Hanna
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1495
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  34. In Italy, the number of individuals who have forgone medical examinations or treatments for economic reasons is one of the highest in Europe. During the global economic crisis of 2008, the restrictive policies...

    Authors: Alessio Petrelli, Aldo Rosano, Alessandra Rossi, Concetta Mirisola and Cesare Cislaghi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1202
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  36. Young adults that are not in education, training or employment represent a problem across European countries. While some are cases of temporary transitions or short-term inactivity, others represent a more vul...

    Authors: Vigdis Sveinsdottir, Hege Randi Eriksen, Valborg Baste, Jørn Hetland and Silje Endresen Reme
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:1176
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  37. Older adults are the fastest growing segment of the United States population. There is an immediate need to identify novel, cost-effective community-based approaches that promote health and well-being for olde...

    Authors: Julene K. Johnson, Anna M. Nápoles, Anita L. Stewart, Wendy B. Max, Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, Rachel Freyre, Theresa A. Allison and Steven E. Gregorich
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:1049
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  38. Physical inactivity is one of the leading risk factors for non-communicable diseases, yet many are not sufficiently active. The Physical Activity through Sustainable Transport Approaches (PASTA) study aims to ...

    Authors: Evi Dons, Thomas Götschi, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Audrey de Nazelle, Esther Anaya, Ione Avila-Palencia, Christian Brand, Tom Cole-Hunter, Mailin Gaupp-Berghausen, Sonja Kahlmeier, Michelle Laeremans, Natalie Mueller, Juan Pablo Orjuela, Elisabeth Raser, David Rojas-Rueda, Arnout Standaert…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:1126
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  39. Malaria and tetanus infections among pregnant women represent two major public health problems in sub-Saharan Africa. Optimum use of Intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) with sulfadoxine-pyrim...

    Authors: Sanni Yaya, Komlan Kota, Amos Buh and Ghose Bishwajit
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1467
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. In the Czech Republic, two-dose immunization against mumps achieves 98 % coverage. The routine reporting detects mumps cases, clinical complications, and hospital admissions in unvaccinated but also in vaccina...

    Authors: Hana Orlíková, Marek Malý, Pavla Lexová, Helena Šebestová, Radomíra Limberková, Lucie Jurzykowská and Jan Kynčl
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:293
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Despite known associations between different aspects of sexual health, it is not clear how patterning of adverse sexual health varies across the general population. A better understanding should contribute tow...

    Authors: Alison Parkes, Michael Waltenberger, Catherine Mercer, Anne Johnson, Kaye Wellings and Kirstin Mitchell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:14
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Health literacy is of increasing importance in public health research. It is a necessary pre-condition for the involvement in decisions about health and health care and related to health outcomes. Knowledge ab...

    Authors: Eva-Maria Berens, Dominique Vogt, Melanie Messer, Klaus Hurrelmann and Doris Schaeffer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1151
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Despite progress in recent years, Afghanistan is lagging behind in realizing the full potential of immunization. The country is still endemic for polio transmission and measles outbreaks continue to occur. In ...

    Authors: Raveesha R. Mugali, Farooq Mansoor, Sardar Parwiz, Fazil Ahmad, Najibullah Safi, Ariel Higgins-Steele and Sherin Varkey
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:290
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  45. Tanzania achieved the Millennium Development Goal for child survival, yet made insufficient progress for maternal and neonatal survival and stillbirths, due to low coverage and quality of services for care at ...

    Authors: Corinne E. Armstrong, Melisa Martínez-Álvarez, Neha S. Singh, Theopista John, Hoviyeh Afnan-Holmes, Chris Grundy, Corrine W. Ruktanochai, Josephine Borghi, Moke Magoma, Georgina Msemo, Zoe Matthews, Gemini Mtei and Joy E. Lawn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16(Suppl 2):795
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 2

  46. As high stigmatization of HIV and relatively low knowledge of HIV transmission and prevention measures persist in Sub-Saharan Africa, the improvement of HIV-related knowledge, and the evaluation of which types...

    Authors: Lena Faust and Sanni Yaya
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:1254
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. People with low literacy and low health literacy have poorer health outcomes. Literacy and health literacy are distinct but overlapping constructs that impact wellbeing. Interventions that target both could im...

    Authors: Kirsten J. McCaffery, Suzanne Morony, Danielle M. Muscat, Sian K. Smith, Heather L. Shepherd, Haryana M. Dhillon, Andrew Hayen, Karen Luxford, Wedyan Meshreky, John Comings and Don Nutbeam
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:454
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  48. Scabies occurs worldwide with a prevalence between 0.3 and 46.0%. In Ghana, even though a 5.1% proportion of scabies was reported in a retrospective review of skin diseases at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, t...

    Authors: Basil Benduri Kaburi, Donne Kofi Ameme, George Adu-Asumah, Dora Dadzie, Emmanuel Kwame Tender, Smith Vincent Addeh, Theophilus Aryee, Adolphina Addo-Lartey, Samuel Oko Sackey, Fredrick Wurapa, Edwin Andrew Afari and Ernest Kenu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:746
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Coordinated partnerships and collaborations can optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of service and program delivery in organizational networks. However, the extent to which organizations are working toge...

    Authors: Christina C. Loitz, Jodie A. Stearns, Shawn N. Fraser, Kate Storey and John C. Spence
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:649
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  50. Social support is considered to be one of the most important resources for coping with cancer. However, social interactions may also be detrimental, e. g. disappointing or discouraging. The present study explo...

    Authors: Sabine Fischbeck, Veronika Weyer-Elberich, Sylke R. Zeissig, Barbara H. Imruck, Maria Blettner, Harald Binder and Manfred E. Beutel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:511
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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