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  1. Globally, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) 2023 report, more than 14.3 million children in low- and middle-income countries, primarily in Africa and South-East Asia, are not receiving any vacci...

    Authors: Gashaw Andargie Biks, Fisseha Shiferie, Dawit Abraham Tsegaye, Wondwossen Asefa, Legese Alemayehu, Tamiru Wondie, Meseret Zelalem, Yohannes Lakew, Kidist Belete and Samson Gebremedhin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:592
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  2. Physical exercise has the potential to mitigate addictive behaviors and relevant health issues. However, the nighttime exercise has not been studied regarding this research topic. This study aims to explore th...

    Authors: Yuqin Su, Hansen Li, Sijia Jiang, Yaqi Li, Yun Li and Guodong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:590
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  3. Migration is common among transgender women (TGW), often driven by the desire to escape stigma, find acceptance, establish new connections, access body modifications, or enter new avenues of sex work. Given th...

    Authors: Beo Oliveira Leite, Laio Magno, Francisco Inacio Bastos and Ines Dourado
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:589
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  4. Despite technological, political and economic progress, Pakistan is still a traditionally patriarchal society, and cultural norms curb women’s freedom of socialization, which contributes to poor mental health....

    Authors: Liu He, Amira Firdaus, Jiankun Gong, Nasrullah Dharejo and Iffat Ali Aksar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:581
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  5. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated struggles for youth living in poor households. Youth in rural Tanzania are particularly vulnerable given widespread poverty, lack of formal sector employment opportunities...

    Authors: Stephanie Simmons Zuilkowski, Sarah Quinones, Hassan Kihanzah, Graca Marwerwe, Leah Prencipe, Lusajo Kajula and Tia Palermo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:577
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  6. This study aimed to examine changes in life expectancy (LE), health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE), unhealthy years of life, and disease burden of older people in industrialised countries and associations wit...

    Authors: Minjae Choi, Joshua Kirabo Sempungu, Eun Hae Lee and Yo Han Lee
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:576
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  7. Age-mixing (age-disparate [5–9 years difference] and intergenerational [≥ 10 years difference]) partnerships are hypothesized drivers of HIV in adolescent girls and young women (AGYW; 15–24 years). These partn...

    Authors: Domonique M. Reed, Elizabeth Radin, Evelyn Kim, Nellie Wadonda-Kabondo, Danielle Payne, Myrline Gillot, Andreas Jahn, George Bello, Thokozani Kalua and Jessica E. Justman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:575
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  9. The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked unprecedented transformations in the lives of adolescents, with reshaping their routines, social dynamics, educational experiences, and overall well-being. Our study delves in...

    Authors: Hongjin Li, Zhiping Yang, Libin You and Shaojie Liu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:573
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  10. Most unwanted sexual contact victimization (USCV) research utilizes predominantly white, cisgender, heterosexual college student samples. Estimates of USCV prevalence and demographic variation can determine th...

    Authors: Lisa Fedina, Anna E. Bender, Meggie Royer, Louise Ashwell, Richard Tolman and Todd I. Herrenkohl
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:572
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  11. In industries worldwide, crystalline silica is pervasive and poses risks of pneumoconiosis and respiratory malignancies, with the latter being a knowledge gap in disease burden research that this study aims to...

    Authors: Lingfeng Min, Yiyang Mao and Hanpeng Lai
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:571
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  12. Pancreatic cancer, ranking seventh in global cancer-related deaths, poses a significant public health challenge with increasing incidence and mortality. Most cases are diagnosed at an advanced stage, resulting...

    Authors: Tara Anderson, Gillian Prue, Glenn McDowell, Patrick Stark, Christine Brown Wilson, Lisa Graham Wisener, Helen Kerr, Gemma Caughers, Katherine Rogers, Lana Cook, Stephanie Craig, Abdulelah Alanazi and Gary Mitchell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:570
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  13. Loneliness is more common in older adults and those who face structural vulnerabilities, including homelessness. The homeless population is aging in the United States; now, 48% of single homeless adults are 50...

    Authors: Yeqing Yuan, Kelly R. Knight, John Weeks, Stephen King, Pamela Olsen and Margot Kushel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:569
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  14. 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
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  15. COVID-19 is still a disease of global public health importance which requires long term application of control measures as millions of new infections or re-infections and thousands of related deaths still occu...

    Authors: Ugwu I. Omale, Victor U. Uduma, Azuka S. Adeke, Cordis O. Ikegwuonu, Glory E. Nkwo, Ugochi IA. Nwali, Olaedo O. Nnachi, Okechukwu O. Ukpabi, Ifeyinwa M. Okeke, Richard L. Ewah, Osarhiemen Iyare, Onyinyechukwu U. Oka and Chidinma I. Amuzie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:567
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  16. The risk of workplace violence and job burnout among Chinese correctional officers is high. Stress and insomnia may influence the relationship between workplace violence and job burnout; however, this influenc...

    Authors: Jizhi Wang, Ying Huang, Siyuan Wang, Zheng Zhang, Yuqiong He, Xiaoping Wang and Huijuan Guo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:566
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  17. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines quality health services as being effective, safe, people-centered, timely, equitable, integrated and efficient. It is critical to understand people’s perspectives an...

    Authors: Amit Aryal, Emma Clarke-Deelder, Souksanh Phommalangsy, Sengchanh Kounnavong and Günther Fink
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:565
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  18. The Census of Populations and Dwellings’ is the five yearly population count of Aotearoa New Zealand. Best available populations (BAP) are subnational projections based on census data and demographic assumptio...

    Authors: Gerard J.B Sonder, Corina Grey, Debbie Ryan, Jacqueline Cumming, Andrew Sporle and Philip C. Hill
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:564
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  19. Globally, close to one-third of all workplace violence (WV) occurs in the health sector. Exposure to WV among healthcare professionals in Ghana has been widely speculated, but there is limited evidence on the ...

    Authors: Philip Apraku Tawiah, Emmanuel Appiah-Brempong, Paul Okyere, Geoffrey Adu-Fosu and Mary Eyram Ashinyo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:563
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  20. Active health is a new concept, model, and system to maintain the state of whole-person health. In the context of the increasingly serious health problems of primary and secondary school teachers, it is of gre...

    Authors: Xiaofeng Gao, Meichao Cheng and Rong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:562
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  21. In the UK, unique and unforeseen factors, including COVID-19, Brexit, and Ukraine-Russia war, have resulted in an unprecedented cost of living crisis, creating a second health emergency. We present, one of the...

    Authors: Jade Meadows, Miranda Montano, Abdelrahman J. K. Alfar, Ömer Yetkin Başkan, Caroline De Brún, Jennifer Hill, Rachael McClatchey, Nevila Kallfa and Gwen Sascha Fernandes
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:561
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  23. Given the increased risk of chronic diseases and comorbidity among middle-aged and older adults in China, it is pivotal to identify the disease trajectory of developing chronic multimorbidity and address the t...

    Authors: Jiade Chen, Fan Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Ziqiang Lin, Kaisheng Deng, Qingqin Hou, Lixia Li and Yanhui Gao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:559
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  24. Extensive research has explored the association between heavy metal exposure and various health outcomes, including malignant neoplasms, hypertension, diabetes, and heart diseases. This study aimed to investig...

    Authors: Xiangyu Wang, Xinhao Han, Shufang Guo, Yujie Ma and Yafeng Zhang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:558
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  25. The geographical differences in incidence rates of colorectal cancer (CRC) and its burden due to modifiable risk factors warrant investigating the CRC burden and its risk factors in different regions. In the c...

    Authors: Fahimeh Haghighatdoost, Kamran Mehrabani-Zeinabad, Parisa Hajihashemi, Noushin Mohammadifard and Peyman Adibi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:557
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  26. SARS-CoV-2 infections usually cause immune dysregulation in the human body. Studies of immunological changes resulting from coinfections with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) or HIV are limited.

    Authors: Lei Li, Jianxiang Zhang, Ranran Sun, Hong Liu, Genyang Cheng, Feifei Fan, Chong Wang, Ang Li, Hongxia Liang, Zujiang Yu, Guiqiang Wang and Zhigang Ren
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:556
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  27. Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) is a common public health issue affecting many women of reproductive age worldwide. This study has been designed to investigate of computer-based stress inoculation training (SIT) c...

    Authors: Fatemeh Zolfaghary, Hajar Adib-Rad, Fatemeh Nasiri‑Amiri, Mahbobeh Faramarzi, Hajar Pasha and Hemmat gholinia-ahangar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:555
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  29. Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and Treatment as Prevention (TasP) are effective strategies to prevent HIV transmission within serodifferent couples. However, limited usage of PrEP, knowledge and interest has ...

    Authors: Xolani Ntinga, Oluwaseyi O. Isehunwa, Lindani I. Msimango, Patricia M. Smith, Lynn T. Matthews and Alastair Van Heerden
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:553
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  31. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Taiwan has implemented strict border controls and community spread prevention measures. As part of these efforts, the government also implemented measures for public transportatio...

    Authors: Ning Chang, Yi-chen Tsai, Wei J. Chen, Chung-Chuan Lo and Hsiao-Han Chang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:551
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  32. This study describes regional differences and dynamic changes in the prevalence of comorbidities among middle-aged and elderly people with chronic diseases (PCMC) in China from 2011–2018, and explores distribu...

    Authors: Liangwen Zhang, Linjiang Wei and Ya Fang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:550
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  33. The temporality of household income level with overweight/obesity in children has not been extensively studied. Little research has been conducted to determine the impact of household income on the risk of chi...

    Authors: Yi-Chang Chou, Feng-Shiang Cheng, Shih-Han Weng, Yung-Feng Yen and Hsiao-Yun Hu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:549
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  34. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination has been a crucial strategy for mitigating transmission and disease severity. However, vaccine-effectiveness may be influenced by various factors, including booster va...

    Authors: Max Oberste, Teodora Asenova, Angela Ernst, Kija Shah-Hosseini, Nadja Schnörch, Michael Buess, Kerstin Daniela Rosenberger, Annelene Kossow, Felix Dewald, Florian Neuhann and Martin Hellmich
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:548
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  35. Many studies have shown that using smartphones can improve cognitive function, but no studies have shown the effect of the diversity of online activities on cognitive function. Therefore, this study explores t...

    Authors: Qian Chen, Haoqiang Ji and Qingxin Shang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:547
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  36. The aim of our study was to determine how six mood indicators (vigour, fatigue, depression, anger, confusion, tension) depend on moderate to vigorous physical activity, walking time and sedentary time at work,...

    Authors: Albertas Skurvydas, Natalja Istomina, Ruta Dadeliene, Daiva Majauskiene, Emilija Strazdaite, Ausra Lisinskiene, Dovile Valanciene, Aiste Barbora Uspuriene and Asta Sarkauskiene
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:546
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  37. Fear of being infected by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) could trigger mental health problems among nurses at the frontline. In such a situation, coping strategies are needed to deal with the imminent thr...

    Authors: Nurul Huda, Malissa Kay Shaw, Hsiu Ju Chang, Erwin, Suci Tuty Putri and Satriya Pranata
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:545
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  38. Physical activity (PA) and dietary habits (DH) play a crucial role on quality of life and health outcomes from various aspects.

    Authors: Jelena Raudeniece, Edmunds Vanags, Ilze Justamente, Dana Skara, Per Morten Fredriksen, Iain Brownlee and Dace Reihmane
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:544
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  39. This study aims to evaluate the public acceptance of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) control measures during the Omicron-dominant period and its associated factors.

    Authors: Jiayi Zhong, Qianhong Zhong, Husheng Xiong, Dawei Wu, Caiyun Zheng, Shuang Liu, Qinyi Zhong, Yan Chen and Dingmei Zhang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:543
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  40. Mediation analysis aims to determine how intermediate variables affect exposure to disease. In this study, 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) was evaluated to assess its role in mediating heavy metal exposure and c...

    Authors: Yan Lu, Licheng Lu, Gang Zhang, Weiguo Zhang, Yazhuo Cheng and Mingyue Tong
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:542
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  41. An increasing number of original studies suggested that occupational noise exposure might be associated with the risk of hypertension, but the results remain inconsistent and inconclusive. In addition, the att...

    Authors: Shanyu Zhou, Shijie Hu, Kexin Ding, Xianzhong Wen, Xudong Li, Yongshun Huang, Jiabin Chen and Dafang Chen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:541
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  42. The role of social support in antiretroviral therapy (ART) uptake and retention among pregnant and postpartum women in Ghana’s capital, Accra, has received limited attention in the literature. This cross-secti...

    Authors: Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Jerry John Nutor, Jaffer Okiring, Isaac Yeboah, Pascal Agbadi, Monica Getahun, Wisdom Agbadi and Rachel G.A. Thompson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:540
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  43. As a long-term chronic disease, Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients’ quality of life is affected by both themselves and his/ her close relatives, requiring comprehensive support from family members to ens...

    Authors: Haijing Zan, Zhixing Meng, Jing Li, Xinjian Zhang and Tao Liu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:539
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  44. Large-scale outbreaks of scrub typhus combined with its emergence in new areas as a vector-borne rickettsiosis highlight the ongoing neglect of this disease. This study aims to explore the long-term changes an...

    Authors: Jiaojiao Qian, Yifan Wu, Changqiang Zhu, Qiong Chen, Hongliang Chu, Licheng Liu, Chongcai Wang, Yizhe Luo, Na Yue, Wenhao Li, Xiaohong Yang, Jing Yi, Fuqiang Ye, Ji He, Yong Qi, Fei Lu…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:538
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  45. In occupational health, the maintenance and promotion of workers’ health, especially lifestyle motivation-based interventions, have gained considerable attention and are actively implemented. Motivational theo...

    Authors: Kayoko Ishii, Hiroko Sumita, Hitomi Nagamine and Kumiko Morita
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:537
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  46. Environmental stress represents an important burden on health and leads to a considerable number of diseases, hospitalisations, and excess mortality. Our study encompasses a representative sample size drawn fr...

    Authors: Bram Vandeninden, Eva M. De Clercq, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Martina Otavova, Catherine Bouland and Christel Faes
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:536
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  47. Continued proliferation of accelerometers in physical activity research has opened new avenues for understanding activity behaviours beyond simple aggregate measures of frequency and duration. This study explo...

    Authors: Joshua Culverhouse, Melvyn Hillsdon and Richard Pulsford
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:535
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  48. Chronic hepatitis C (CHC) virus infection is a global health concern that is associated with significant liver-related morbidity and mortality. Owing to the inflammatory pathway, CHC can causefatty liver, live...

    Authors: Ta-Jen Wang, Mei-Yen Chen, Yu-Chih Lin, Wen-Nan Chiu, Tung-Jung Huang and Hsu-Huei Weng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:532
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  49. The monotonous nature of work, long driving duration, and working overload hours cause frequent fatigue in taxi drivers. A high prevalence of fatigue is associated with traffic accidents. However, the risk fac...

    Authors: Enayatollah Homaie Rad, Marjan Hosseinnia, Nima Mousavi, Arian Shekari, Leila Kouchakinejad-Eramsadati and Naema Khodadadi-Hassankiadeh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:530
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