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  1. In countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, systematic variation in the classification of intent in pharmaceutical poisoning deaths have been identified between jurisdictions. This study aimed ...

    Authors: Kate Churruca and Rebecca Mitchell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:83
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  2. Although diarrheal diseases are preventable and treatable, they are the leading cause of child mortality and morbidity as a consequence of poor hygiene and contaminated water. Handwashing with soap is an effec...

    Authors: Jurgita Slekiene and Hans-Joachim Mosler
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:82
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  3. 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 ...

    Authors: Joanne M. Osborne, Carlene Wilson, Amy Duncan, Stephen R. Cole, Ingrid Flight, Deborah Turnbull, Donna L. Hughes and Graeme P. Young
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:81
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  4. The implementation of cervical cancer screening strategies has reported different rates of success in different countries due to population specific factors that limit women’s participation. We report observat...

    Authors: Adolf K. Awua, Edwin K. Wiredu, Edwin A. Afari, Ahmad S. Tijani, Gabriel Djanmah and Richard M. K. Adanu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:80
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  5. Fall related injury is an emerging issue for older Indigenous people worldwide, yet few targeted fall prevention programs are currently available for Indigenous populations. In order to inform the development ...

    Authors: Caroline Lukaszyk, Julieann Coombes, Norma Jean Turner, Elizabeth Hillmann, Lisa Keay, Anne Tiedemann, Cathie Sherrington and Rebecca Ivers
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:77
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  6. The study aimed to determine the opinions and attitudes of a university population regarding the regulation of sugar-sweetened beverages in a university setting, primarily looking at differences in opinion bet...

    Authors: Elly Howse, Becky Freeman, Jason H. Y. Wu and Kieron Rooney
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:76
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  7. Female sex workers (FSWs) are an important population for HIV acquisition and transmission. Their risks are shaped by behavioral, sexual network, and structural level factors. Violence is pervasive and associa...

    Authors: Michele R. Decker, Catherine Tomko, Erin Wingo, Anne Sawyer, Sarah Peitzmeier, Nancy Glass and Susan G. Sherman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:75
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  8. Immigrants typically arrive in good health. This health benefit can decline as immigrants adopt behaviours similar to native-born populations. Risk of injury is low in immigrants but it is not known whether th...

    Authors: Natasha Ruth Saunders, Alison Macpherson, Jun Guan, Lisa Sheng and Astrid Guttmann
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:73
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  9. Children’s positive socialisation to alcohol is associated with early initiation of drinking and alcohol-related harm in adult life. Internationally, there have been reports of adults’ alcohol consumption at s...

    Authors: Bernadette M. Ward, Rebecca Kippen, Geoffrey Munro, Penny Buykx, Nyanda McBride, John Wiggers and Madeline Clark
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:72
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  10. It is now universally acknowledged that climate change constitutes a major threat to human health. At the same time, some of the measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, so-called climate change mitigation...

    Authors: Alina Herrmann, Helen Fischer, Dorothee Amelung, Dorian Litvine, Carlo Aall, Camilla Andersson, Marta Baltruszewicz, Carine Barbier, Sébastien Bruyère, Françoise Bénévise, Ghislain Dubois, Valérie R. Louis, Maria Nilsson, Karen Richardsen Moberg, Bore Sköld and Rainer Sauerborn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:71
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  11. 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...

    Authors: Melanie J Andersen, Anna B Williamson, Peter Fernando, Darryl Wright and Sally Redman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:70
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  12. Physical activity (PA) improves health outcomes accumulating evidence suggests that sedentary time (ST), especially parent-reported screen-time, is associated with negative health outcomes in children. The aim...

    Authors: Daniel Berglind and Per Tynelius
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:69
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  13. 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...

    Authors: Max Barnish, Heather May Morgan and Jean Barnish
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:37
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  14. A reversed gender pattern has been observed in the suicide rate in China compared to elsewhere. Like suicidal behaviour, non-suicidal self-injurious (NSSI) behaviour is a health-risk behaviour. We examined whe...

    Authors: Xueyan Yang and Marcus W. Feldman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:66
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  15. This study examined the effectiveness of a theoretical framework that integrates self-determination theory (SDT) and the theory of planned behavior (TPB) in explaining the use of facemasks to prevent seasonal ...

    Authors: Pak-Kwong Chung, Chun-Qing Zhang, Jing-Dong Liu, Derwin King-Chung Chan, Gangyan Si and Martin S. Hagger
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:65
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  16. Behaviors established during the adolescence have life-long consequences to the onset of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in later life. Therefore, it is essential to understand adolescents’ knowledge and prac...

    Authors: A. U. Gamage and P. L. Jayawardana
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:64
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  17. During the past two decades, several scientific publications from different countries have shown how oral health in the population varies with social determinants. The aim of the present study was to explore t...

    Authors: Magnus Hakeberg and Ulla Wide Boman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:63
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  18. Trachoma, caused by ocular infection with Chlamydia trachomatis, is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. We conducted the first population-based trachoma prevalence survey in the Casamance region ...

    Authors: Emma M. Harding-Esch, Julbert Kadimpeul, Boubacar Sarr, Awa Sane, Souleymane Badji, Mass Laye, Ansumana Sillah, Sarah E. Burr, David MacLeod, Anna R. Last, Martin J. Holland, David C. Mabey and Robin L. Bailey
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:62
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  19. Evidence has shown that children 0-4 year-old attending childcare are prone to acquire infections compared to children cared for at home, with fever being the most common symptom. Illness absenteeism due to fe...

    Authors: K. K. B. Peetoom, R. Crutzen, J. M. H. A. Bohnen, R. Verhoeven, H. J. M. G. Nelissen-Vrancken, B. Winkens, G. J. Dinant and J. W. L. Cals
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:61
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  20. To investigate the association between critical and communicative oral health literacy (OHL) and oral health outcomes (status, oral health-related quality of life and practices) in adults.

    Authors: Marília Jesus Batista, Herenia Procopio Lawrence and Maria da Luz Rosário de Sousa
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:60
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  21. As more countries worldwide develop national viral hepatitis strategies, it is important to ask whether context-specific factors affect their decision-making. This study aimed to determine whether country-leve...

    Authors: Jeffrey V Lazarus, Ida Sperle, Kelly Safreed-Harmon, Charles Gore, Beatriz Cebolla and Alexander Spina
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:16
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  22. People who inject drugs (PWID) are at continued risk for HIV in the U.S., and experience disparities across the HIV care continuum compared to other high-risk groups. Estimates of the risk of HIV transmission ...

    Authors: Daniel J. Escudero, Mark N. Lurie, Kenneth H. Mayer, Maximilian King, Sandro Galea, Samuel R. Friedman and Brandon D. L. Marshall
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:614
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  23. Sporting or physical recreation event participation can affect different domains of mental and social well-being if sufficiently frequent, yet previous research has focused mainly on the physical health benefi...

    Authors: Anne Grunseit, Justin Richards and Dafna Merom
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:59
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  24. Hypertension is a global health issue and is currently increasing at rapid pace in South Asian countries including Bangladesh. Although, some studies on hypertension have been conducted in Bangladesh, there is...

    Authors: Nurshad Ali, Shakil Mahmood, M. Manirujjaman, Rasheda Perveen, Abdullah Al Nahid, Shamim Ahmed, Farida Adib Khanum and Mustafizur Rahman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:58
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  25. Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Health and Child Care (MOHCC) adopted 2013 World Health Organization (WHO) prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) guidelines recommending initiation of HIV-positive pregn...

    Authors: Addmore Chadambuka, Leila Katirayi, Auxilia Muchedzi, Esther Tumbare, Reuben Musarandega, Agnes I. Mahomva and Godfrey Woelk
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:57
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  26. Children frequently consume foods from restaurants; considering the quick-service sector alone, 1/3 of children eat food from these restaurants on a given day, and among these consumers, 1/3 of their daily cal...

    Authors: Eleanor T. Shonkoff, Stephanie Anzman-Frasca, Vanessa M. Lynskey, Grace Chan, Meaghan E. Glenn and Christina D. Economos
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:56
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  27. Smoking surveys among physicians have proved useful in highlighting the importance of physicians as healthy life style exemplars and role models in tobacco control and smoking cessation. The aim of this study ...

    Authors: Kersti Pärna, Mariliis Põld and Inge Ringmets
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:55
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  28. Evaluation of the implementation process of trials is important, because the way a study is implemented modifies its outcomes. Furthermore, lessons learned during implementation can inform other researchers on...

    Authors: Dorit Teuscher, Andrea J. Bukman, Marleen A. van Baak, Edith J. M. Feskens, Reint Jan Renes and Agnes Meershoek
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:54
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  29. Caregiving burden and depression in family caregivers have been investigated, but little is known about how they affect paid caregivers. The aim of this study was to investigate caregiving burden and depressio...

    Authors: Yao-Dan Liang, Ya-Li Wang, Zhi Li, Li He, Ying Xu, Qing Zhang, Gui-Ying You and Xu-Hua Mi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:53
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  30. In the past 20 years, the trends of ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality in China have been described in divergent claims. This research analyzes mortality trends for IHD by using the data from 102 continuou...

    Authors: Xia Wan, Hongyan Ren, Enbo Ma and Gonghuan Yang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:52
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  31. Possessing a strong cultural identity has been shown to protect against mental health symptoms and buffer distress prompted by discrimination. However, no research to date has explored the protective influence...

    Authors: Stephane M. Shepherd, Rosa Hazel Delgado, Juanita Sherwood and Yin Paradies
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:50
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  32. The International Physical Actvity Questionnaire (IPAQ) is a validated tool for physical activity assessment used in many countries however no Arabic version of the long-form of this questionnaire exists to th...

    Authors: Khalil Helou, Nour El Helou, Maya Mahfouz, Yara Mahfouz, Pascale Salameh and Mireille Harmouche-Karaki
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:49
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  33. Food insecurity is a very common problem in developing countries particularly among the poorer households. Very few studies have tested the association between adult smoking and food insecurity.

    Authors: Chandrashekhar T. Sreeramareddy and N. Ramakrishnareddy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:48
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  34. Alcohol is a Class-1 carcinogen but public awareness of the link between alcohol and cancer is low. The news media is a popular, readily-accessible source of health information and plays a key role in shaping ...

    Authors: Jaklin Eliott, Andrew John Forster, Joshua McDonough, Kathryn Bowd and Shona Crabb
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:47
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  35. Studies have indicated that people with disabilities die earlier and may experience a poorer health than the general population. This study investigated 31 factors related to health and well-being, health beha...

    Authors: Nina Føns Johnsen, Michael Davidsen, Susan Ishøy Michelsen and Knud Juel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:46
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  36. Maternal stature and body mass indices (BMI) of non-pregnant women (NPW) of child bearing age are relevant to maternal and offspring health. The objective was to compare anthropometric indices of NPW in four r...

    Authors: K Michael Hambidge, Nancy F Krebs, Ana Garcés, Jamie E Westcott, Lester Figueroa, Shivaprasad S Goudar, Sangappa Dhaded, Omrana Pasha, Sumera Aziz Ali, Antoinette Tshefu, Adrien Lokangaka, Vanessa R Thorsten, Abhik Das, Kristen Stolka, Elizabeth M McClure, Rebecca L Lander…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:45
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  37. Despite emerging research about the role of the family and home environment on early childhood obesity, little is known on how weight-related behaviors, parent practices and the home environment influence over...

    Authors: Seema Mihrshahi, Bradley A. Drayton, Adrian E. Bauman and Louise L. Hardy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:44
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  38. Evidence on diseases caused by or associated with alcohol use disorders (AUDs) has been based on two meta-analyses including rather dated studies. The objective of this contribution was to estimate the risks o...

    Authors: Michaël Schwarzinger, Sophie Pascale Thiébaut, Sylvain Baillot, Vincent Mallet and Jürgen Rehm
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:43
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  39. HIV risk perceptions are a key determinant of HIV testing. The success of efforts to achieve an AIDS-free generation – including reaching the UNAIDS 90–90-90 target – thus depends critically on the content of ...

    Authors: Brendan Maughan-Brown and Atheendar S. Venkataramani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:42
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  40. In South Africa malaria is endemic in Mpumalanga, Limpopo and the north–eastern areas of KwaZulu-Natal provinces. South Africa has set targets to eliminate malaria by 2018 and research into complementary vecto...

    Authors: Pinky N. Manana, Lazarus Kuonza, Alfred Musekiwa, Hluphi D. Mpangane and Lizette L. Koekemoer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:41
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  41. Critical health literacy enables older adults to make informed health decisions and take actions for the health and wellbeing of themselves and their community, within their own social and cultural context. A ...

    Authors: Liesbeth de Wit, Christine Fenenga, Cinzia Giammarchi, Lucia di Furia, Inge Hutter, Andrea de Winter and Louise Meijering
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:40
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  42. Prenatal and postnatal visits are two effective interventions for protection and promotion of maternal health by reducing maternal mortality and improving the quality of birth. There is limited nationally repr...

    Authors: Xiaojing Fan, Zhongliang Zhou, Shaonong Dang, Yongjian Xu, Jianmin Gao, Zhiying Zhou, Min Su, Dan Wang and Gang Chen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:39
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  43. For parents and caregivers of food hypersensitive (FH) children, accommodating their child’s dietary needs when eating out can be a challenging experience. This study explored caregivers’ experiences and behav...

    Authors: Fiona M. Begen, Julie Barnett, Miriam Barber, Ros Payne, M. Hazel Gowland and Jane S. Lucas
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:38
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  44. The food environment has been implicated as an underlying contributor to the global obesity epidemic. However, few studies have evaluated the relationship between the food environment, dietary intake, and over...

    Authors: Opal Patel, Safraj Shahulhameed, Roopa Shivashankar, Mohammad Tayyab, Atiqur Rahman, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Nikhil Tandon and Lindsay M. Jaacks
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:36
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  45. One of the reasons why Isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) for Tuberculosis (TB) is not widely used in low income countries is concerns on cost of excluding active TB. We analyzed the cost-effectiveness of IPT ...

    Authors: Grace A. Shayo, Dereck Chitama, Candida Moshiro, Said Aboud, Muhammad Bakari and Ferdinand Mugusi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:35
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  46. Tobacco smoking is known to be the single largest cause of premature death worldwide. The aim of present study was to analyse the effect of smoking on general and cause-specific mortality in the Estonian popul...

    Authors: Gea Kõks, Krista Fischer and Sulev Kõks
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:34
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  47. The association of obesity and dietary patterns has been well documented in scientific literature; however, information on the impact of meal patterns on obesity is scarce. The objective of this study was to i...

    Authors: Roberta de Oliveira Santos, Diva Aliete dos Santos Vieira, Andreia Alexandra Machado Miranda, Regina Mara Fisberg, Dirce Maria Marchioni and Valéria Troncoso Baltar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:33
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  48. The United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals Report, 2015, documents that, since 1990, the number of stunted children in sub-Saharan Africa has increased by 33% even though it has fallen in all other world...

    Authors: Michelle M. Amaral, William E. Herrin and Grace Bulenzi Gulere
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:32
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  49. Caretakers/parents/caregivers/guardians play important roles in improving Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) of adolescents. Caretaker-adolescent sexual communication suggested to influence young people’s se...

    Authors: Saada A. Seif, Thecla W. kohi and Candida S. Moshiro
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:31
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  50. In May 2015, a cholera outbreak that had lasted 3 months and infected over 100 people was reported in Kasese District, Uganda, where multiple cholera outbreaks had occurred previously. We conducted an investig...

    Authors: Benon Kwesiga, Gerald Pande, Alex Riolexus Ario, Nazarius Mbona Tumwesigye, Joseph K. B. Matovu and Bao-Ping Zhu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:30
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