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  1. Cash transfers are key interventions in the World Health Organisation’s post-2015 global TB policy. However, evidence guiding TB-specific cash transfer implementation is limited. We designed, implemented and r...

    Authors: Tom Wingfield, Delia Boccia, Marco A. Tovar, Doug Huff, Rosario Montoya, James J. Lewis, Robert H. Gilman and Carlton A. Evans
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:810
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the world today. In 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed efficient and inexpensive “best buy” interventions for prevention of tobacco use ...

    Authors: Clarisse Mapa-Tassou, Cecile Rénée Bonono, Felix Assah, Jennifer Wisdom, Pamela A. Juma, Jean-Claude Katte, Zakariaou Njoumemi, Pierre Ongolo-Zogo, Leopold K. Fezeu, Eugene Sobngwi and Jean Claude Mbanya
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18(Suppl 1):958
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 1

  3. School gardening programmes are increasingly popular, with suggested benefits including healthier eating and increased physical activity. Our objectives were to understand the health and well-being impacts of ...

    Authors: Heather Ohly, Sarah Gentry, Rachel Wigglesworth, Alison Bethel, Rebecca Lovell and Ruth Garside
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:286
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2016 16:1051

  4. Emerging evidence shows sedentary behaviour may be associated with mental health outcomes. Yet, the strength of the evidence linking sedentary behaviour and stress is still unclear. This study aimed to synthes...

    Authors: Megan Teychenne, Lena D. Stephens, Sarah A. Costigan, Dana Lee Olstad, Brendon Stubbs and Anne I. Turner
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1357
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Smoking prevalence is very high among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer (LGBTQ+) youth and young adults (YYA) compared to non-LGBTQ+ YYA. A knowledge gap exists on culturally appropriate and effe...

    Authors: N. Bruce Baskerville, Katy Wong, Alanna Shuh, Aneta Abramowicz, Darly Dash, Aamer Esmail and Ryan Kennedy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:155
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Smoking of tobacco is estimated to have caused approximately six million deaths worldwide in 2014. Responding effectively to this epidemic requires a thorough understanding of how smoking behaviour is transmit...

    Authors: John C. Lang, Daniel M. Abrams and Hans De Sterck
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:1280
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  8. The electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) market has grown rapidly in recent years. However, causes of e-cigarette related symptoms among users and their impact on health remain uncertain. This research aims to m...

    Authors: Qiudan Li, Yongcheng Zhan, Lei Wang, Scott J. Leischow and Daniel Dajun Zeng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:674
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. The European school-based drug addiction prevention program Unplugged was adapted to the Brazilian context by the Ministry of Health and renamed #Tamojunto. Its first implementations, in the form of a public p...

    Authors: Zila M. Sanchez, Juliana Y. Valente, Ana Paula Dias Pereira, Hugo Cogo-Moreira, Márcia H. S. Melo, Sheila C. Caetano and Jair J. Mari
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:750
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  11. There is a need for accurate and precise food price elasticities (PE, change in consumer demand in response to change in price) to better inform policy on health-related food taxes and subsidies.

    Authors: Wilma E. Waterlander, Tony Blakely, Nhung Nghiem, Christine L. Cleghorn, Helen Eyles, Murat Genc, Nick Wilson, Yannan Jiang, Boyd Swinburn, Liana Jacobi, Jo Michie and Cliona Ni Mhurchu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:601
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  12. Worldwide, roughly 80% of adolescents fail to meet World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations regarding physical activity, though there is substantial variation in adolescent physical activity prevalence ...

    Authors: Dominic Weinberg, Gonneke W. J. M. Stevens, Jens Bucksch, Jo Inchley and Margaretha de Looze
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:680
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. Cancer outcomes vary widely among different countries. However, comparisons of cost-effectiveness and cost-efficiency of different systems are complex because the incidences of different cancers vary across co...

    Authors: Horace C. W. Choi, Ka-on Lam, Herbert H. M. Pang, Steven K. C. Tsang, Roger K. C. Ngan and Anne W. M. Lee
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1065
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. The prevalence of osteoporosis (OP) is rapidly increasing. Healthy behaviors are crucial for the management of OP. Application of the information–motivation–behavioral skills (IMB) model has been verified in v...

    Authors: Lhakpa Tsamlag, Huwen Wang, Qiuming Shen, Yue Shi, Shuxian Zhang, Ruijie Chang, Xiyu Liu, Tian Shen and Yong Cai
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:198
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Emerging novel influenza outbreaks have increasingly been a threat to the public and a major concern of public health departments. Real-time data in seamless surveillance systems such as health insurance claim...

    Authors: Ta-Chien Chan, Yung-Chu Teng and Jing-Shiang Hwang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:168
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. Recently, the efficacy of dietary improvement as a therapeutic intervention for moderate to severe depression was evaluated in a randomised controlled trial. The SMILES trial demonstrated a significant improve...

    Authors: Mary Lou Chatterton, Cathrine Mihalopoulos, Adrienne O’Neil, Catherine Itsiopoulos, Rachelle Opie, David Castle, Sarah Dash, Laima Brazionis, Michael Berk and Felice Jacka
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:599
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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