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  1. The “Place Standard Tool” (PST) offers a practical framework for structuring conversations about physical and social dimensions of Place which impact on health and well-being. The aim of this study was to surv...

    Authors: Daphne Kleopa, Andrie Panayiotou, Christiana Kouta, Chrystalla Kaiafa and Nicos Middleton
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:267
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  2. Lung cancer is one of the most lethal cancers worldwide and patient clinical outcomes seem influenced by their socioeconomic position (SEP). Since little has been investigated on this topic in the Italian cont...

    Authors: Michela Servadio, Alessandro C. Rosa, Antonio Addis, Ursula Kirchmayer, Ilaria Cozzi, Paola Michelozzi, Riccardo Cipelli, Franca Heiman, Marina Davoli and Valeria Belleudi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1543
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  3. Exercise and physical activity are key components of management in patients with rheumatic musculoskeletal diseases (RMD), but people of the South Asian communities have a lower level of engagement with these ...

    Authors: Nasimah Maricar, Behram Khan, Trixy David, Kimme L Hyrich and Anne Barton
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1342
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  4. The rising prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is a major public health problem. There is an urgent need for effective lifestyle interventions to prevent the development of T2DM. Sedentary behaviour ...

    Authors: Emma G Wilmot, Melanie J Davies, Charlotte L Edwardson, Trish Gorely, Kamlesh Khunti, Myra Nimmo, Thomas Yates and Stuart JH Biddle
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:908
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  5. The 2010–2015 Conservative-led Coalition Government launched their flagship Public Health Responsibility Deal (PHRD) for England in 2011; a year before their alcohol strategy. This co-regulatory regime placed ...

    Authors: Benjamin Hawkins and Jim McCambridge
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1477
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is associated with a significantly increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The DIAbetic CArdioVAscular Screening and intervention trial (DIACAVAS) was designed to clarify whether adv...

    Authors: Marie Dahl, Susanne Friis Søndergaard, Axel Diederichsen, Frans Pouwer, Susanne S. Pedersen, Jens Søndergaard and Jes Lindholt
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:203
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  7. The development of liver cirrhosis is usually an asymptomatic process until late stages when complications occur. The potential reversibility of the disease is dependent on early diagnosis of liver fibrosis an...

    Authors: Isabel Graupera, Maja Thiele, Ann T. Ma, Miquel Serra-Burriel, Judit Pich, Núria Fabrellas, Llorenç Caballeria, Robert J. de Knegt, Ivica Grgurevic, Mathias Reichert, Dominique Roulot, Jörn M. Schattenberg, Juan M. Pericas, Paolo Angeli, Emmanuel A. Tsochatzis, Indra Neil Guha…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1385
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2023 23:923

  8. Public health policies sometimes have unexpected effects. Understanding how policies and interventions lead to outcomes is essential if policymakers and researchers are to intervene effectively and reduce harm...

    Authors: Kathryn Oliver, Theo Lorenc, Jane Tinkler and Chris Bonell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1057
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. People who use drugs (PWUD) are considered vulnerable to COVID-19 exposure and the sequelae of infection due to their social circumstances, health conditions, drug purchasing, and substance use. They can depen...

    Authors: Joe Schofield, Joshua Dumbrell, Catriona Matheson, Tessa Parkes and Angus Bancroft
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:500
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  10. Improving nutrition knowledge among children may help them to make healthier food choices. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness and acceptability of a novel educational intervention to increas...

    Authors: Rajalakshmi R Lakshman, Stephen J Sharp, Ken K Ong and Nita G Forouhi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2010 10:123
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  11. Public health guidance and associated interventions seek to bring about change in diet and physical activity behaviours to improve life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in the population. Low socioeconom...

    Authors: P. Wittels, T. Kay and L. Mansfield
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1092
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  12. Scotland has a policy aimed at increasing physical activity levels in the population, but evidence on how to achieve this is still developing. Studies that focus on encouraging real world participants to start...

    Authors: Claire F Fitzsimons, Graham Baker, Annemarie Wright, Myra A Nimmo, Catharine Ward Thompson, Ruth Lowry, Catherine Millington, Rebecca Shaw, Elisabeth Fenwick, David Ogilvie, Joanna Inchley, Charlie E Foster and Nanette Mutrie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2008 8:259
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  13. Common mental disorders are the leading cause of workplace absences. The Prevail intervention programme aims to reduce stigma and to educate staff and managers about evidence-based low intensity psychological ...

    Authors: Nicola S. Gray, Helen Davies, Rhodri Brad and Robert J. Snowden
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:1324
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  14. Preventive activities carried out in primary care have important variability that makes necessary to know which factors have an impact in order to establish future strategies for improvement. The present study...

    Authors: Bonaventura Bolíbar, Clara Pareja, M Pilar Astier-Peña, Julio Morán, Teresa Rodríguez-Blanco, Magdalena Rosell-Murphy, Manuel Iglesias, Sebastián Juncosa, Juanjo Mascort, Concepció Violan, Rosa Magallón and Javier Apezteguia
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2008 8:281
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  15. The collection of ethnicity information as part of cancer datasets is important for planning services and ensuring equal access, and for epidemiological studies. However, ethnicity has generally not been well ...

    Authors: Ruth H Jack, Karen M Linklater, David Hofman, Justine Fitzpatrick and Henrik Møller
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2006 6:281
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  16. Falls prevention exercise programmes are evidence-based and recommended for improving physical function in older adults. However, few service evaluations exist to assess the effectiveness of community-delivere...

    Authors: Emily James, Paul Oman, Michael Ali, Paul Court, Stuart Goodall, Simon J. Nichols and Alasdair F. O’Doherty
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1457
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  17. Engagement in multiple substance use risk behaviours such as tobacco smoking, alcohol and drug use during adolescence can result in adverse health and social outcomes. The impact of interventions that address ...

    Authors: Laura Tinner, Jennifer C Palmer, E. Caitlin Lloyd, Deborah M Caldwell, Georgie J MacArthur, Kaiseree Dias, Rebecca Langford, James Redmore, Linda Wittkop, Sarah Holmes Watkins, Matthew Hickman and Rona Campbell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1111
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  18. The growth in numbers of older people represents a considerable cost to health and social care services in the United Kingdom. There is an acknowledged need to address issues of social exclusion and both the p...

    Authors: Ann Skingley, Stephen M Clift, Simon P Coulton and John Rodriguez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:142
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  19. Workplace programmes to test staff for asymptomatic COVID-19 infection have become common, but raise a number of ethical challenges. In this article, we report the findings of a consultation that informed the ...

    Authors: Jan W. van der Scheer, Akbar Ansari, Meredith McLaughlin, Caitríona Cox, Kathleen Liddell, Jenni Burt, Jenny George, Rebecca Kenny, Ruth Cousens, Brandi Leach, James McGowan, Katherine Morley, Janet Willars and Mary Dixon-Woods
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1747
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  20. The complexity of public health interventions create challenges in evaluating their effectiveness. There have been huge advancements in quantitative evidence synthesis methods development (including meta-analy...

    Authors: Ellesha A. Smith, Nicola J. Cooper, Alex J. Sutton, Keith R. Abrams and Stephanie J. Hubbard
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:278
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Childhood unintentional injury represents an important global health problem. Most of these injuries occur at home, and many are preventable. The main aim of this study was to identify key facilitators and bar...

    Authors: Joanne Ablewhite, Isabel Peel, Lisa McDaid, Adrian Hawkins, Trudy Goodenough, Toity Deave, Jane Stewart and Denise Kendrick
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:280
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. People experiencing homelessness have elevated morbidity, increasing their risk of COVID-19 related complications and mortality. Achieving high vaccination coverage in a timely manner among homeless population...

    Authors: Ian Thomas and Peter Mackie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:1494
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  23. Community-based initiatives (CBIs) on childhood obesity are considered a good practice approach against childhood obesity. The European Commission called for an overview of CBIs implemented from 2005–2011. A s...

    Authors: Wanda Jose Erika Bemelmans, Trudy Maria Arnoldina Wijnhoven, Marieke Verschuuren and João Breda
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:758
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Alcohol misuse is a significant international public health problem. Screening and brief intervention (SBI) in primary care reduces alcohol consumption by about 15 – 30%, sustained over 12 months in hazardous ...

    Authors: Elizabeth Murray, Zarnie Khadjesari, Stuart Linke, Rachael Hunter and Nick Freemantle
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:505
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  25. The European Diabetes Prevention Study (EDIPS) is an RCT of diet and exercise interventions in people with impaired glucose tolerance. We undertook a qualitative study, nested within the EDIPS in Newcastle-upo...

    Authors: Linda Penn, Suzanne M Moffatt and Martin White
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2008 8:235
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  26. The objective of this study was to assess socioeconomic inequalities in subjective measures of oral health in a national sample of adults in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

    Authors: Carol C Guarnizo-Herreño, Richard G Watt, Elizabeth Fuller, Jimmy G Steele, Jing Shen, Stephen Morris, John Wildman and Georgios Tsakos
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:827
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. In Liverpool, injecting drug users (IDUs), men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) and UK Africans experience a disproportionate burden of HIV, yet services do not reach out to these groups and late presentations cont...

    Authors: Peter MacPherson, Anu Chawla, Kathy Jones, Emer Coffey, Vida Spaine, Ian Harrison, Pauline Jelliman, Penelope Phillips-Howard, Caryl Beynon and Miriam Taegtmeyer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:419
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Between 2015 and 2017 six deaths due to meningitis in the Lombardy Region, Northern Italy, caught the attention of media and increased concern among the population, with a consequent increase in demand for vac...

    Authors: Loredana Covolo, Elia Croce, Marco Moneda, Elena Zanardini, Umberto Gelatti, Peter J. Schulz and Elisabetta Ceretti
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1061
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  29. Smoking prevention programmes that reach adolescents before they experiment with tobacco may reduce the prevalence of tobacco use. ASSIST is a school-based, peer-led smoking prevention programme that encourage...

    Authors: Fiona Dobbie, Richard Purves, Jennifer McKell, Nadine Dougall, Rona Campbell, James White, Amanda Amos, Laurence Moore and Linda Bauld
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:742
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Scotland has disproportionately high rates of suicide compared with England. An analysis of trends may help reveal whether rates appear driven more by birth cohort, period or age. A ‘birth cohort effect’ for E...

    Authors: Nadine Dougall, Cameron Stark, Tim Agnew, Rob Henderson, Margaret Maxwell and Paul Lambert
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:970
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  31. The World Health Organisation declared the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a global pandemic on 11th March 2020. Since then, the world has been firmly in its grip. At the time of writing, there were more ...

    Authors: Chiara Lombardo, Lijia Guo, Susan Solomon, David Crepaz-Keay, Shari McDaid, Lucy Thorpe, Steven Martin, Ann John, Alec Morton, Gavin Davidson, Antonis A. Kousoulis and Tine Van Bortel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:1830
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  32. Childhood obesity is a major public health concern with serious implications for the sustainability of healthcare systems. Studies in the US and UK have shown that ethnicity is consistently associated with chi...

    Authors: Maria J Maynard, Graham Baker, Emma Rawlins, Annie Anderson and Seeromanie Harding
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2009 9:480
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  33. In July 2021, a randomised controlled trial was conducted to compare the effect on SARS-CoV-2 transmission of seven days of Daily Contact Testing (DCT) using Lateral Flow Test (LFT) and two Polymerase Chain Re...

    Authors: Sarah Denford, Alex F. Martin, Lauren Towler, Fiona Mowbray, Rosie Essery, Rachael Bloomer, Derren Ready, Nicola Love, Richard Amlôt, Isabel Oliver, G James Rubin and Lucy Yardley
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1373
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  34. Systematic reviews have highlighted that school-based diet and physical activity (PA) interventions have had limited effects. This study used qualitative methods to examine how the effectiveness of future prim...

    Authors: R. Jago, E. Rawlins, R. R. Kipping, S. Wells, C. Chittleborough, T. J. Peters, J. Mytton, D. A. Lawlor and R. Campbell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:946
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. A significant proportion of international students at UK universities are from regions with medium to high hepatitis B prevalence rates. Understanding the perception of students regarding hepatitis B infection...

    Authors: Emma L. Davies, Shona Fielding, Gillian Noble and Emmanuel Okpo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:332
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. Many children do not meet current UK physical activity (PA) guidelines. Girls are less active than boys throughout childhood, and the age-related decline in PA, particularly from early adolescence, is steeper ...

    Authors: Russell Jago, Mark J Edwards, Simon J Sebire, Ashley R Cooper, Jane E Powell, Emma L Bird, Joanne Simon and Peter S Blair
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1003
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  38. Mobile health technologies have advanced to now allow monitoring of the acute physiological responses to lifestyle behaviours. Our aim was to explore how people engaged with real-time feedback on their physica...

    Authors: Maxine E. Whelan, Francesca Denton, Claire L. A. Bourne, Andrew P. Kingsnorth, Lauren B. Sherar, Mark W. Orme and Dale W. Esliger
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:130
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Health Information-Seeking Behaviour (HISB) is necessary for self-management and medical decision-making among patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). With the advancement of information technology, he...

    Authors: Zijun Ni, Lingli Zhu, Shuyan Li, Yuping Zhang and Ruiyi Zhao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:307
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  40. Universal recommendation for antiretroviral drugs and their effectiveness has put forward the challenge of assuring a chronic and continued care approach to PLHIV (People Living with HIV), pressured by aging and ...

    Authors: Vanessa Nicolau, Daniela Brandão, Tiago Rua and Ana Escoval
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:1579
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. Up to 20% of UK children experience socio-emotional difficulties which can have serious implications for themselves, their families and society. Stark socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities in children’s well-b...

    Authors: Annemarie Lodder, Anita Mehay, Hana Pavlickova, Zoe Hoare, Leandra Box, Jabeer Butt, Tim Weaver, Mike J. Crawford, Donna Clutterbuck, Nicola Westbrook, Karlet Manning, Saffron Karlsen, Steve Morris, Andrew Brand, Paul Ramchandani, Yvonne Kelly…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1887
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  42. Migrants from South Asia living in developed countries have an increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), with limited research into underlying social causes.

    Authors: Farina Kokab, Sheila Greenfield, Antje Lindenmeyer, Manbinder Sidhu, Lynda Tait and Paramjit Gill
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:1432
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Reducing bullying is a public health priority. KiVa, a school-based anti-bullying programme, is effective in reducing bullying in Finland and requires rigorous testing in other countries, including the UK. Thi...

    Authors: Suzy Clarkson, Lucy Bowes, Elinor Coulman, Matthew R. Broome, Rebecca Cannings-John, Joanna M. Charles, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Tamsin Ford, Richard P. Hastings, Rachel Hayes, Paul Patterson, Jeremy Segrott, Julia Townson, Richard Watkins, Julia Badger and Judy Hutchings
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:608
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  44. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries adopted social distance measures and lockdowns of varying strictness. Social contact patterns are essential in driving the spread of respiratory infections, and cou...

    Authors: Lamprini Veneti, Bjarne Robberstad, Anneke Steens, Frode Forland, Brita A. Winje, Didrik F. Vestrheim, Christopher I. Jarvis, Amy Gimma, W. John Edmunds, Kevin Van Zandvoort and Birgitte Freiesleben de Blasio
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1438
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  45. Mental health problems among young people are of growing concern globally. UK adolescent mental health services are increasingly restricted to those with the most severe needs. Many young people turn to the in...

    Authors: Madeleine Stevens, Javiera Cartagena Farías, Charlotte Mindel, Francesco D’Amico and Sara Evans-Lacko
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1903
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. Covid-status certification – certificates for those who test negative for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, test positive for antibodies, or who have been vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 – has been proposed to enable safer ...

    Authors: John Drury, Guanlan Mao, Ann John, Atiya Kamal, G. James Rubin, Clifford Stott, Tushna Vandrevala and Theresa M. Marteau
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:1205
    Content type: Research Published on:

  47. Behaviour is key to suppressing the COVID-19 pandemic. Maintaining behaviour change can be difficult. We investigated engagement with hand cleaning, reducing the number of outings, and wearing a face covering ...

    Authors: Louise E. Smith, Henry W. W. Potts, Richard Amlȏt, Nicola T. Fear, Susan Michie and G. James Rubin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:475
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2022 22:1163

  48. Domestic violence and abuse remains a major health concern. It is unknown whether the improved healthcare response to domestic violence and abuse demonstrated in a cluster randomised controlled trial of IRIS (Ide...

    Authors: Alex Hardip Sohal, Gene Feder, Estela Barbosa, Lee Beresford, Anna Dowrick, Farah El-Shogri, Annie Howell, Natalia Lewis, Medina Johnson, Claire Nightingale, Kambiz Boomla, Stephen Morris, Sandra Eldridge and Chris Griffiths
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:971
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  49. Sharing drug injecting paraphernalia other than needles and syringes (N/S) has been implicated in the transmission of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) among injecting drug users (IDU). We aimed to determine whether the...

    Authors: Michelle Gillies, Norah Palmateer, Sharon Hutchinson, Syed Ahmed, Avril Taylor and David Goldberg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2010 10:721
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Decision-making tools represent a paradigm shift in the relationship between the clinician and the user/patient. Some of their advantages include patient commitment, the promotion of preferences and values, an...

    Authors: Maria Inmaculada de Molina-Férnandez, Laia Raigal-Aran, Miriam de la Flor-Lopez, Paula Prata, Isabel Font-Jimenez, Francesc Valls-Fonayet, Gemma March-Jardi, Ramon Escuriet-Peiro and Lourdes Rubio-Rico
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1224
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:
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