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  1. In Spain, few studies have evaluated prenatal exposure to heavy metals. The objective of this study was to describe lead, mercury and cadmium concentrations in blood from a sample of newborn–mother-father trios, ...

    Authors: Esther García-Esquinas, Beatriz Pérez-Gómez, Pablo Fernández-Navarro, Mario Antonio Fernández, Concha de Paz, Ana María Pérez-Meixeira, Elisa Gil, Andrés Iriso, Juan Carlos Sanz, Jenaro Astray, Margot Cisneros, Amparo de Santos, Ángel Asensio, José Miguel García-Sagredo, José Frutos García, Jesús Vioque…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:841
  2. Central Australian Aboriginal mothers (and their neonates) who planned to birth at the Alice Springs Hospital (Northern Territory, Australia) provided biological samples: maternal blood, arterial and venous cord

    Authors: Angela Ratsch, Fiona Bogossian, Elizabeth A. Burmeister, BoMi Ryu and Kathryn J. Steadman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:2157
  3. While enhancing physical activity has been an essential goal of public health officials, people with physical impairments such as spinal cord injury (SCI) are more likely to live a sedentary lifestyle. Exercis...

    Authors: Matthew Kehn and Thilo Kroll
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2009 9:168
  4. There is an increased risk of serious neonatal infection arising through exposure of the umbilical cord to invasive pathogen in home and facility births where hygienic practices are difficult to achieve. The W...

    Authors: Aamer Imdad, Luke C Mullany, Abdullah H Baqui, Shams El Arifeen, James M Tielsch, Subarna K Khatry, Rasheduzzaman Shah, Simon Cousens, Robert E Black and Zulfiqar A Bhutta
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13(Suppl 3):S15

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 3

  5. There is growing recognition that healthcare policy should be guided by the illness experience from a layperson’s or insider’s perspective. One such area for exploration would include patient-centered research...

    Authors: Ayako Ide-Okochi, Yoshihiko Yamazaki, Etsuko Tadaka, Kazumi Fujimura and Toshie Kusunaga
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:69
  6. This prospective observational study enrolled pregnant women in the Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University between January 2019 and ... a heating season group (January - end of April 2019, Octob...

    Authors: Linghui Zhu, Ying Lu, Fang Cheng, Luyi Zhang, Aliya Yusan, Xialidan Alifu, Ayixiemuguli Alimasi and Xiahaida Alemujiang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:330
  7. We conducted an observational analysis using samples and data that had been collected during a larger randomised controlled trial, the Entebbe Mother and Baby Study (ISRCTN32849447). For the present study, 711...

    Authors: Dennison Kizito, Robert Tweyongyere, Alice Namatovu, Emily L Webb, Lawrence Muhangi, Swaib A Lule, Henry Bukenya, Stephen Cose and Alison M Elliott
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:619
  8. Awareness of the negative effects of smoking on children's health prompted a decrease in the self-reporting of parental tobacco use in periodic surveys from most industrialized countries. Our aim is to assess ...

    Authors: Carme Puig, Oscar Garcia-Algar, Toni Monleon, Roberta Pacifici, Piergiorgio Zuccaro, Jordi Sunyer, Cecilia Figueroa, Simona Pichini and Oriol Vall
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2008 8:47
  9. Study 1. Setting: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS). Whole blood samples were collected from blood donors (n = 50) attending for routine blood donation sessions (representing the general population)....Stud...

    Authors: Mary R Sweeney, Anthony Staines, Leslie Daly, Aisling Traynor, Sean Daly, Steven W Bailey, Patricia B Alverson, June E Ayling and John M Scott
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2009 9:295
  10. Allergic diseases (ADs) have been increasingly reported in infants and children over the last decade. Diet, especially the inclusion of fish intake, may help to lower the risk of ADs. However, fish also, can b...

    Authors: Surabhi Shah, Hae Soon Kim, Yun-Chul Hong, Hyesook Park, Mina Ha, Yangho Kim, Ji Hyen Lee and Eun-Hee Ha
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:568
  11. Infection is a leading cause of maternal and newborn mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Clean birthing practices are fundamental to infection prevention efforts, but these are inadequate in ...

    Authors: Joanna Esteves Mills, Erin Flynn, Oliver Cumming and Robert Dreibelbis
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:602
  12. EHL is a longitudinal birth cohort study. We aim to recruit 1000 pregnant women in the period April 2010 to March 2013. We will examine the impact of the gestational environment (maternal health) and ... be asked...

    Authors: Rebecca A Hill, Sinead Brophy, Huw Brunt, Mel Storey, Non E Thomas, Catherine A Thornton, Stephen Palmer, Frank Dunstan, Shantini Paranjothy, Roderick McClure, Sarah E Rodgers and Ronan A Lyons
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2010 10:150
  13. Obese and GD mothers had significantly lower weight gain during pregnancy and infant birth weight, waist circumference, and placental weight were higher in the obese group, including a significantly increased pre...

    Authors: Staffan K. Berglund, Luz García-Valdés, Francisco J Torres-Espinola, Mª Teresa Segura, Cristina Martínez-Zaldívar, María J. Aguilar, Ahmad Agil, Jose A. Lorente, Jesús Florido, Carmen Padilla, Signe Altmäe, Acensión Marcos, M. Carmen López-Sabater and Cristina Campoy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:207
  14. Profound knowledge about child growth, development, health, and disease in contemporary children and adolescents is still rare. Epidemiological studies together with new powerful research technologies present ...

    Authors: Mirja Quante, Mara Hesse, Mirko Döhnert, Michael Fuchs, Christian Hirsch, Elena Sergeyev, Nora Casprzig, Mandy Geserick, Stephanie Naumann, Christiane Koch, Matthew A Sabin, Andreas Hiemisch, Antje Körner and Wieland Kiess
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1021
  15. Data from the nationally representative Ethiopia Mini Demographic and Health Survey 2019 were analysed for 5,527 mothers who gave birth within five years preceding the survey. We defined quality ANC as having: blood

    Authors: Melese Girmaye Negero, David Sibbritt and Angela Dawson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:1174
  16. Recruitment for this cohort has started in 2011 in three Dutch areas and is still ongoing. To date over 300 mother-child pairs have been included. Women are preferably included during the first trimester of pregn...

    Authors: Marijke de Cock, Ilona Quaak, Eva J. Sugeng, Juliette Legler and Margot van de Bor
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:147
  17. There is little research on HIV awareness and practices of traditional birth attendants (TBA) in India. This study investigated knowledge and attitudes among rural TBA in Karnataka as part of a project examini...

    Authors: Purnima Madhivanan, Bhavana N Kumar, Paul Adamson and Karl Krupp
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2010 10:570
  18. Approximately 100,000 expecting mothers who live in designated study areas will be recruited over a 3-year period from January 2011. Participating children will be followed until they reach 13 years of age. Expos...

    Authors: Toshihiro Kawamoto, Hiroshi Nitta, Katsuyuki Murata, Eisaku Toda, Naoya Tsukamoto, Manabu Hasegawa, Zentaro Yamagata, Fujio Kayama, Reiko Kishi, Yukihiro Ohya, Hirohisa Saito, Haruhiko Sago, Makiko Okuyama, Tsutomu Ogata, Susumu Yokoya, Yuji Koresawa…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:25
  19. Detailed information on health behaviors including diet and physical activity, and blood samples for metabolic parameters and DNA are collected from pregnant women of South Asian ancestry who are free of signific...

    Authors: Sonia S Anand, Anil Vasudevan, Milan Gupta, Katherine Morrison, Anura Kurpad, Koon K Teo and Krishnamachari Srinivasan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:79
  20. In Pacific Island countries and territories, the burden of road traffic injuries and their attendant risks are considered significant but are poorly quantified. As with other low and middle-income countries, u...

    Authors: Josephine Herman, Shanthi Ameratunga and Rod Jackson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:479
  21. The Qatari Birth Cohort study is the first mother-child cohort study in the Middle East Area that aims to assess the synergetic role of environmental exposure and genetic factors in the development of chronic dis...

    Authors: Eman Sadoun, Vasiliki Leventakou, Maribel Casas, Heba Fawzy Ahmed, Manolis Kogevinas and Eleni Fthenou
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:836
  22. Neonatal sepsis contributes significantly to morbidity and mortality among young infants. The aetiological agents as well as their susceptibility to antimicrobial agents are dynamic. This study determined aeti...

    Authors: Tumaini V Mhada, Francis Fredrick, Mecky I Matee and Augustine Massawe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:904
  23. Nepal has made substantial progress in reducing under-five mortality and is on track to achieve Millennium Development Goal 4, but advances in neonatal health are less encouraging. The objectives of this study...

    Authors: Deepak Paudel, Ishwar B Shrestha, Matthias Siebeck and Eva A Rehfuess
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1239
  24. Women are enrolled prior to delivery at one hospital in each of two catchment areas: an urban district in ... district in the Mekong Delta 150 km southwest of HCMC. Infants are enrolled within 3 days of birth, an...

    Authors: Katherine L Anders, Nguyet Minh Nguyen, Nguyen Thi Van Thuy, Nguyen Trong Hieu, Hoa L Nguyen, Nguyen Thi Hong Tham, Phan Thi Thanh Ha, Le Bich Lien, Nguyen Van Vinh Chau and Cameron P Simmons
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:937
  25. Loneliness is a significant public health concern due to its detrimental impact on health and wellbeing. Despite people with disability reporting higher levels of loneliness than the general population, there ...

    Authors: Jodie Bailie, Glenda M. Bishop, Hannah Badland, Eric Emerson, Zoe Aitken, Roger Stancliffe, Kanchana Ekanayake and Gwynnyth Llewellyn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2361
  26. We aim to recruit 300 Aboriginal pregnant mothers and their newborns from the Six Nations Reserve, and follow them prospectively to age 3 years. Key details of environment and health including maternal nutrition,...

    Authors: Gita Wahi, Julie Wilson, Ruby Miller, Rebecca Anglin, Sarah McDonald, Katherine M Morrison, Koon K Teo and Sonia S Anand
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:608
  27. The preconception period represents transgenerational opportunities to optimize modifiable risk factors associated with both short and long-term adverse health outcomes for women, men, and children. As such, p...

    Authors: Tristan Carter, Danielle Schoenaker, Jon Adams and Amie Steel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:509
  28. At the end of the follow up, the following main outcomes were determined: pregnancy outcomes (incidence of gestational diabetes mellitus, pre-eclampsia, pregnancy- ... induced hypertension, weight gain during pre...

    Authors: Raquel Poyatos-León, Gema Sanabria-Martínez, Jorge Cañete García-Prieto, Celia Álvarez-Bueno, Diana P. Pozuelo-Carrascosa, Iván Cavero-Redondo, Antonio García-Hermoso, Sagrario Gómez-Cantarino, Miriam Garrido-Miguel and Vicente Martínez-Vizcaíno
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:437
  29. Taiwan is an endemic area of viral hepatitis, including hepatitis A, which is transmitted mainly from the fecal-oral route. In order to reduce the transmission through food intake, the government implemented a...

    Authors: Shih-Bin Su, Ching-Yih Lin, Ming-Jen Sheu, Wei-Chih Kan, Hsien-Yi Wang and How-Ran Guo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2010 10:719
  30. Asthma and allergy are highly prevalent in industrialised countries. Longitudinal and cross-sectional studies have identified a number of potential risk factors for these conditions, including genetic and envi...

    Authors: Michael J Epton, George I Town, Tristram Ingham, Kristin Wickens, David Fishwick and Julian Crane
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2007 7:26
  31. In China, data on the prevalence and characteristics of comorbid stroke and traumatic brain injury (TBI) in real-world populations are still lacking but of paramount importance for the evidence-based preventio...

    Authors: Bin Jiang, Dongling Sun, Haixin Sun, Xiaojuan Ru, Hongmei Liu, Siqi Ge, Jie Fu and Wenzhi Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2037
  32. Although an inverse relationship between number of siblings and likelihood of allergic disorders has been shown in many epidemiological studies, the biological mechanism underlying this phenomenon has not yet ...

    Authors: Yoshihiro Miyake, Keiko Tanaka and Masashi Arakawa
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:561
  33. A wide range of outcome measures can be calculated for hospital-treated injury patients. These include mortality, use of critical care services, complications, length of stay, treatment costs, readmission and ...

    Authors: Dasamal Tharanga Fernando, Janneke Berecki-Gisolf, Stuart Newstead and Zahid Ansari
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:798
  34. Improving maternal health has been a primary goal of international health agencies for many years, with the aim of reducing maternal and child deaths and improving access to antenatal care (ANC) services, part...

    Authors: B. W. Bresnahan, E. Vodicka, J. B. Babigumira, A. M. Malik, F. Yego, A. Lokangaka, B. M. Chitah, Z. Bauer, H. Chavez, J. L. Moore, L. P. Garrison, J. O. Swanson, D. Swanson, E. M. McClure, R. L. Goldenberg, F. Esamai…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:952
  35. Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) face a double burden of disease, with a high prevalence of household food insecurity and childhood micronutrient deficiencies, accompanied by a burgeoning incre...

    Authors: Karen E. Charlton, Joanna Russell, Emma Gorman, Quentin Hanich, Aurélie Delisle, Brooke Campbell and Johann Bell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:285
  36. Manganese (Mn) is an essential element for humans, but exposure to high levels has been associated with adverse developmental outcomes. Early epidemiological studies evaluating the effect of Mn on fetal growth...

    Authors: Wei Xia, Yanqiu Zhou, Tongzhang Zheng, Bin Zhang, Bryan A. Bassig, Yuanyuan Li, John Pierce Wise Sr., Aifen Zhou, Yanjian Wan, Youjie Wang, Chao Xiong, Jinzhu Zhao, Zhengkuan Li, Yuanxiang Yao, Jie Hu, Xinyun Pan…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:142
  37. Safety and effectiveness of efficacious antiretroviral (ARV) regimens beyond single-dose nevirapine (sdNVP) for prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) have been demonstrated in well-controlled clin...

    Authors: Justin Mandala, Kwasi Torpey, Prisca Kasonde, Mushota Kabaso, Rebecca Dirks, Chiho Suzuki, Catherine Thompson, Gloria Sangiwa and Ya Diul Mukadi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2009 9:314
  38. Despite the significant positive effect of exclusive breast-feeding on child health, only 32% of children under 6 months old were exclusively breast-fed in Kenya in 2008. The aim of this study was to explore p...

    Authors: Akiko Matsuyama, Mohamed Karama, Junichi Tanaka and Satoshi Kaneko
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:525
  39. Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) is a recognised public health, social and educational issue, which must be achieved to allow the realisation of human rights. People with disabilities are likely to experienc...

    Authors: Jane Wilbur, Shubha Kayastha, Thérèse Mahon, Belen Torondel, Shaffa Hameed, Anita Sigdel, Amrita Gyawali and Hannah Kuper
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:476
  40. Injury is one of the major public health problems and causes more than 5 million deaths in the world annually. Cases of specific types of injury are life-threatening and heavily-burdened to individuals and soc...

    Authors: Shu Sun, Liuna Yang, Xinzhu Hu, Yalan Zhu, Boxi Liu, Yunbin Yang and Xin Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:157
  41. An estimated 2.8 million neonatal deaths occur annually worldwide. The vulnerability of newborns makes the timeliness of seeking and receiving care critical for neonatal survival and prevention of long-term se...

    Authors: Naoko Kozuki, Tanya Guenther, Lara Vaz, Allisyn Moran, Sajid B. Soofi, Christine Nalwadda Kayemba, Stefan S. Peterson, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Sudhir Khanal, James M. Tielsch, Tanya Doherty, Duduzile Nsibande, Joy E. Lawn and Stephen Wall
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:989
  42. Our objective was to estimate the effect of various childbirth care packages on neonatal mortality due to intrapartum-related events (“birth asphyxia”) in term babies for use in the Lives Saved Tool (LiST).

    Authors: Anne CC Lee, Simon Cousens, Gary L Darmstadt, Hannah Blencowe, Robert Pattinson, Neil F Moran, G Justus Hofmeyr, Rachel A Haws, Shereen Zulfiqar Bhutta and Joy E Lawn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 3):S10

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 3

  43. Antimicrobial resistance is particularly harmful to infectious disease management in low-income countries since expensive second-line drugs are not readily available. The objective of this study was to impleme...

    Authors: Bjørn Blomberg, Davis SM Mwakagile, Willy K Urassa, Samwel Y Maselle, Marcellina Mashurano, Asbjørn Digranes, Stig Harthug and Nina Langeland
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2004 4:45
  44. Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is an autoimmune disease that typically follows a monophasic course and may affect any age group. The precise population-based incidence of ADEM is still unknown in ...

    Authors: Chang-hui Xiong, Yan Yan, Zhen Liao, Shi-hui Peng, Hai-rong Wen, Yan-xia Zhang, Shu-hua Chen, Jian Li, Hai-ying Chen, Xiao-wu Feng, Hui-qing Yao, Li Huang and Li Zhang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:111
  45. Acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) are a leading cause of death among children. Low birthweight is prevalent in South Asia and associated with increased risks of mortality, and morbidity, high levels of...

    Authors: James M Tielsch, Joanne Katz, Scott L Zeger, Subarna K Khatry, Laxman Shrestha, Patrick Breysse, William Checkley, Luke C Mullany and Steven C LeClerq
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1271
  46. Many environmental pollutants are known to have disproportionate effects on Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) as well as communities of low-income and wealth. The reasons for these disproportionate...

    Authors: Nathan Donley, Robert D. Bullard, Jeannie Economos, Iris Figueroa, Jovita Lee, Amy K. Liebman, Dominica Navarro Martinez and Fatemeh Shafiei
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:708
  47. Previous studies of singletons evaluating prenatal phthalate exposure and early neurodevelopment reported mixed results and the associations could be biased by parental, obstetrical, and genetic factors.

    Authors: Han Xiao, Liqin Hu, Tingting Tang, Jufang Zhong, Qiao Xu, Xiaonan Cai, Feiyan Xiang, Pan Yang, Hong Mei and Aifen Zhou
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:533
  48. Out-of-pocket (OOP) payment is one of many countries’ main financing options for health care. High OOP payments push them into financial catastrophe and the resultant impoverishment. The infrastructure, societ...

    Authors: Kaniz Fatima Mohsin, Md. Nasif Ahsan and Mohammed Ziaul Haider
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1504

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