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Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:662
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Variations in adolescents’ motivational characteristics across gender and physical activity patterns: A latent class analysis approach
Neglecting to take account of the underlying context or type of physical activity (PA) that underpins overall involvement has resulted in a limited understanding of adolescents’ PA participation. The purpose o...
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Patterns of HIV testing practices among young gay and bisexual men living in Scotland: a qualitative study
Increasing overall rates, and frequency, of HIV testing in populations at risk is a key public health objective and a critical dimension of HIV prevention efforts. In the UK, men who have sex with men (MSM) re...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:660 -
Dietary pattern and other lifestyle factors as potential contributors to hypertension prevalence in Arusha City, Tanzania: a population-based descriptive study
High blood pressure is increasing worldwide, disproportionately so in developing countries. Inadequate health care systems and adoption of unhealthy lifestyles have been linked to this emergent pattern. To bet...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:659 -
Australian adolescents’ beliefs and help-seeking intentions towards peers experiencing symptoms of depression and alcohol misuse
Many young people are reluctant to seek professional help for mental health problems, preferring to rely on their friends for support. It is therefore important to ensure that adolescents can identify signs of...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:658 -
Acute effects of reducing sitting time in adolescents: a randomized cross-over study
Levels of sitting among adolescents are high, especially during the school day. The acute cognitive and health consequences associated with prolonged sitting are poorly understood in adolescents. This randomiz...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:657 -
Local measles vaccination gaps in Germany and the role of vaccination providers
Measles elimination in Europe is an urgent public health goal, yet despite the efforts of its member states, vaccination gaps and outbreaks occur. This study explores local vaccination heterogeneity in kinderg...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:656 -
Evaluation of the implementation of an intervention to improve the street environment and promote walking for transport in deprived neighbourhoods
Levels of physical activity remain low, particularly in deprived areas. Improving the street environment to promote walking for transport using a community engagement approach is a potential strategy to increa...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:655 -
Fatigue in the general population- associations to age, sex, socioeconomic status, physical activity, sitting time and self-rated health: the northern Sweden MONICA study 2014
Fatigue is widespread in the population and a common complaint in primary care. Little is known about prevalence of fatigue in the population and its predictors.
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:654 -
Validation of verbal autopsy: determination of cause of deaths in Malaysia 2013
Mortality statistics by age, sex and cause are the foundation of basic health data required for health status assessment, epidemiological research and formation of health policy. Close to half the deaths in Ma...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:653 -
Development of the Adolescent Preoccupation with Screens Scale
Although public health concerns have been raised regarding the detrimental health effects of increasing rates of electronic screen use among adolescents, such effects have been small. Instruments currently ava...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:652 -
Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of dyslipidemia in older persons in urban and rural population in the Astana region, Kazakhstan
Despite high cardiovascular mortality in Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union, there is limited information about major risk factors, including blood lipids. We investigated the prevalence of imp...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:651 -
Validity of the global physical activity questionnaire (GPAQ) in Bangladesh
Feasible and cost-effective as well as population specific instruments for monitoring physical activity (PA) levels are needed for the management and prevention of non-communicable diseases. The WHO-endorsed G...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:650 -
Network analysis of inter-organizational relationships and policy use among active living organizations in Alberta, Canada
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...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:649 -
Examining the relationship between the food environment and adult diabetes prevalence by county economic and racial composition: an ecological study
Inequitable access to healthy food may contribute to health disparities. This study examines the relationship between the prevalence of adult diabetes and food access in the U.S. by county economic/racial comp...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:648 -
High burden of hypertension across the age groups among residents of Gondar city in Ethiopia: a population based cross sectional study
According to a report on the worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015, mean blood pressure is increasing in low and middle income countries while it is either decreasing or stabilizing in high inco...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:647 -
Adolescent alcohol use and parental and adolescent socioeconomic position in six European cities
Many risk behaviours in adolescence are socially patterned. However, it is unclear to what extent socioeconomic position (SEP) influences adolescent drinking in various parts of Europe. We examined how alcohol...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:646 -
Perceptions, practices and health seeking behaviour constrain JE/AES interventions in high endemic district of North India
Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) and Japanese Encephalitis (JE) stay as poorly understood phenomena in India. Multiple linkages to determinants such as poverty, socio-economic status, gender, environment, and...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:645 -
Hospital admissions due to alcohol related disorders among young adult refugees who arrived in Sweden as teenagers – a national cohort study
Psychological distress and lack of family support may explain the mental health problems that are consistently found in young unaccompanied refugees in Western countries. Given the strong relationship between ...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:644 -
Using lot quality assurance sampling to assess access to water, sanitation and hygiene services in a refugee camp setting in South Sudan: a feasibility study
Humanitarian agencies working in refugee camp settings require rapid assessment methods to measure the needs of the populations they serve. Due to the high level of dependency of refugees, agencies need to car...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:643 -
Controversial Ebola vaccine trials in Ghana: a thematic analysis of critiques and rebuttals in digital news
Communication is of paramount importance in responding to health crises. We studied the media messages put forth by different stakeholders in two Ebola vaccine trials that became controversial in Ghana. These ...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:642 -
Condom use peer norms and self-efficacy as mediators between community engagement and condom use among Chinese men who have sex with men
Community engagement strategies are often integrated in public health interventions designed to promote condom use among men who have sex with men (MSM), a key population for HIV prevention. However, the ways ...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:641 -
Cancer and heart attack survivors’ expectations of employment status: results from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
Sociodemographic, health- and work-related factors have been found to influence return to work in cancer survivors. It is feasible though that behavioural factors, such as expectation of being at work, could a...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:640 -
The protective effect of helmet use in motorcycle and bicycle accidents: a propensity score–matched study based on a trauma registry system
Transportation by motorcycle and bicycle has become popular in Taiwan, this study was designed to investigate the protective effect of helmet use during motorcycle and bicycle accidents by using a propensity s...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:639 -
Promoting active travel to school: a systematic review (2010–2016)
Interventions aiming to promote active school travel (AST) are being implemented globally to reverse AST decline. This systematic literature provides an update of AST interventions assessing study quality and ...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:638 -
Immediately modifiable risk factors attributable to colorectal cancer in Malaysia
This study aimed to estimate potential reductions in case incidence of colorectal cancer attributable to the modifiable risk factors such as alcohol consumption, overweight and physical inactivity amongst the ...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:637 -
Prevalence of chronic hepatitis B virus infection and infrastructure for its diagnosis in Madagascar: implication for the WHO’s elimination strategy
WHO developed a global strategy to eliminate hepatitis B by 2030 and set target to treat 80% of people with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection eligible for antiviral treatment. As a first step to achiev...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:636 -
Patients pathways to tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment in a fragmented health system: a qualitative study from a south Indian district
India’s Revised National Tuberculosis (TB) Control Programme (RNTCP) offers free TB diagnosis and treatment. But more than 50% of TB patients seek care from private practitioners (PPs), where TB is managed sub...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:635 -
Metabolic syndrome and parental history of cardiovascular disease in young adults in urban Ghana
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) in young adults poses significant cardiovascular diseases (CVD) risk for later years. Parental history of CVDs is known to affect the prevalence of CVD risk in adulthood. In sub-Sahar...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:96 -
Epidemiology of Humanpapilloma virus infection among women in Fujian, China
Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the main etiological factor for the development of cervical cancer. Here we assessed the prevalence and distribution of HPV genotypes in Fujian population.
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:95 -
The incidence of acute myeloid leukemia in Calgary, Alberta, Canada: a retrospective cohort study
The incidence rate of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) was determined in the Calgary Metropolitan Area, a major Canadian city.
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:94 -
Public health implications of changing patterns of recruitment into the South African mining industry, 1973–2012: a database analysis
The triple epidemic of silicosis, tuberculosis and HIV infection among migrant miners from South Africa and neighbouring countries who have worked in the South African mining industry is currently the target o...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:93 -
Cluster randomised trial of a school-community child health promotion and obesity prevention intervention: findings from the evaluation of fun ‘n healthy in Moreland!
Multi-level, longer-term obesity prevention interventions that focus on inequalities are scarce. Fun ‘n healthy in Moreland! aimed to improve child adiposity, school policies and environments, parent engagement, ...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:92 -
Exploring the determinants of health and wellbeing in communities living in proximity to coal seam gas developments in regional Queensland
There is some concern that coal seam gas mining may affect health and wellbeing through changes in social determinants such as living and working conditions, local economy and the environment. The onward impac...
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Successive monitoring surveys of selected banned and restricted pesticide residues in vegetables from the northwest region of China from 2011 to 2013
A wide range of pesticides is applied for crop protection in vegetable cultivation in China. Regulation of pesticide maximum residue limits (MRLs) in vegetables is established but not fully enforced. And pesti...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:91 -
Early rigorous control interventions can largely reduce dengue outbreak magnitude: experience from Chaozhou, China
Dengue fever is a severe public heath challenge in south China. A dengue outbreak was reported in Chaozhou city, China in 2015. Intensified interventions were implemented by the government to control the epide...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:90 -
Geographic Variations and Time Trends in Cancer Treatments in Taiwan
Targeted therapies have become important treatment options for cancer care in many countries. This study aimed to examine recent trends in utilization of antineoplastic drugs, particularly the use of targeted ...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:89 -
Socio-cognitive correlates of intention to use Toombak: a cross-sectional study among students (13–16 years) in Khartoum State, Sudan
Toombak is a form of smokeless tobacco, locally made and consumed in Sudan. It is associated with a number of health hazards, particularly oral cancer. This study was set out to assess the prevalence and socio...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:88 -
National policies for the promotion of physical activity and healthy nutrition in the workplace context: a behaviour change wheel guided content analysis of policy papers in Finland
Health policy papers disseminate recommendations and guidelines for the development and implementation of health promotion interventions. Such documents have rarely been investigated with regard to their assum...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:87 -
Associations of cause-specific mortality with area level deprivation and travel time to health care in France from 1990 to 2007, a multilevel analysis
It is now widely accepted that social and physical environment participate in shaping health. While mortality is used to guide public health policies and is considered as a synthetic measure of population heal...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:86 -
Correlates of physical activity and sitting time in adults with type 2 diabetes attending primary health care in Oman
Despite evidence of the benefits of physical activity in the management of type 2 diabetes, it is poorly addressed in diabetes care. This study aimed to identify the prevalence and correlates of meeting ≥600ME...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:85 -
Informing tobacco control policy in Jordan: assessing the effectiveness of pictorial warning labels on cigarette packs
Pictorial warning labels (PWLs) deter initiation and motivate quitting. Assessing PWLs is important to track effectiveness and wear out. Jordan introduced an updated set of PWLs in 2013. This study assessed th...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:84 -
Patterns of participation over four rounds of annual fecal immunochemical test-based screening for colorectal cancer: what predicts rescreening?
Participation at the recommended intervals is critical for screening to be effective in reducing colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence. This study describes patterns of screening participation over four rounds of ...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:81 -
Determinants of contraceptive use and future contraceptive intentions of women attending child welfare clinics in urban Ghana
Family planning is an integral component of maternal and child health services in Ghana. Although knowledge on contraception is universal and most women attend maternal and child health services, contraceptive...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:79 -
Evaluation of the colorectal cancer screening Programme in the Basque Country (Spain) and its effectiveness based on the Miscan-colon model
The population-based Basque Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Screening Programme started in 2009 with a biennial immunochemical quantitative test (FIT) biennial and colonoscopy under sedation in positive cases. The pop...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:78 -
Determinants of childhood stunting in the Democratic Republic of Congo: further analysis of Demographic and Health Survey 2013–14
Prevalence of child stunting in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is among the highest in the world. There is a need to systematically investigate how stunting operates at different levels of determinatio...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:74 -
Housing conditions of urban households with Aboriginal children in NSW Australia: tenure type matters
Housing is a key determinant of the poor health of Aboriginal Australians. Most Aboriginal people live in cities and large towns, yet research into housing conditions has largely focused on those living in rem...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:70 -
Pathways for scaling up public health interventions
To achieve population-wide health improvement, public health interventions found effective in selected samples need to be ‘scaled up’ and implemented more widely. The pathways through which interventions are s...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:68 -
Erratum to: cluster randomized evaluation of adolescent girls empowerment Programme (AGEP): study protocol
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:67 -
The 2016 HIGh Heels: Health effects And psychosexual BenefITS (HIGH HABITS) study: systematic review of reviews and additional primary studies
High-heeled shoes (high heels) are frequently worn by many women and form an important part of female gender identity. Issues of explicit and implicit compulsion to wear high heels have been noted. Previous st...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:37
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