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  1. Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has been linked to an increased risk of obesity, but not much is known about the mechanisms behind this association. The objective of this ...

    Authors: M. Pia Chaparro, Gail G. Harrison, May C. Wang, Edmund Y. W. Seto and Anne R. Pebley
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:81
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  2. Reducing sedentary behaviour may have important health implications. This study evaluated the potential enablers and barriers for outcomes of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) designed to evaluate a pragmati...

    Authors: Stuart J. H. Biddle, Charlotte L. Edwardson, Trish Gorely, Emma G. Wilmot, Thomas Yates, Myra A. Nimmo, Kamlesh Khunti and Melanie J. Davies
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:80
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  3. With an increasing prevalence of obesity in young children globally, there is an urgent need for the development of effective early interventions. A previous Healthy Beginnings Trial using a nurse-led home vis...

    Authors: Li Ming Wen, Chris Rissel, Louise A. Baur, Alison J. Hayes, Huilan Xu, Anna Whelan, Myna Hua, Miranda Shaw and Philayrath Phongsavan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:79
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  4. Innovation contests call on non-experts to help solve problems. While these contests have been used extensively in the private sector to increase engagement between organizations and clients, there is little d...

    Authors: Wei Zhang, David Schaffer, Lai Sze Tso, Songyuan Tang, Weiming Tang, Shujie Huang, Bin Yang and Joseph D. Tucker
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:78
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  5. Reducing the prevalence of obesity and chronic disease are important priorities. Maori and Pacific Islander communities living in Australia have higher rates of obesity and chronic disease than the wider Austr...

    Authors: Seema Mihrshahi, Lisa Vaughan, Nicola Fa’avale, Shreenika De Silva Weliange, Inez Manu-Sione and Lisa Schubert
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:77
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  7. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant public health issue that affects 1 in 3 women globally and a similarly large number of women in Nepal. Over the past decade, important policy and programmatic s...

    Authors: Cari Jo Clark, Rachael A. Spencer, Binita Shrestha, Gemma Ferguson, J. Michael Oakes and Jhumka Gupta
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:75
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  8. Web-based nutritional education programmes appear to be comparable to those delivered face-to-face. However, no existing web-based nutrition education or similar programme has yet been evaluated with considera...

    Authors: Saki Nakamura, Takayo Inayama and Takashi Arao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:74
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  9. In Canada, active tuberculosis (TB) disease rates remain disproportionately higher among the Indigenous population, especially among the Inuit in the north. We used mathematical modeling to evaluate how interv...

    Authors: Ashleigh R. Tuite, Victor Gallant, Elaine Randell, Annie-Claude Bourgeois and Amy L. Greer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:73
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  10. The objective of this population-based, large sample size study was to investigate the socioeconomic inequality of overweight and obesity among the elderly in Iran.

    Authors: Alireza Raeisi, Mohammadbagher Mehboudi, Hossein Darabi, Iraj Nabipour, Bagher Larijani, Neda Mehrdad, Ramin Heshmat, Gita Shafiee, Farshad Sharifi and Afshin Ostovar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:72
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  11. Abnormalities in the clinical markers of metabolic syndrome (MS) are associated with the development of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and some cancers. MS prevalence in Korea increased betw...

    Authors: Binh Thang Tran, Bo Yoon Jeong and Jin-Kyoung Oh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:71
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  12. Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a diverse and culturally-rich country with severe infrastructural and health problems. Tuberculosis (TB) is widespread, and the number of cases with drug resistance is rising. Treatme...

    Authors: Tanya Diefenbach-Elstob, David Plummer, Robert Dowi, Sinba Wamagi, Bisato Gula, Keyanato Siwaeya, Daniel Pelowa, Peter Siba and Jeffrey Warner
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:70
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  13. Induced abortion (IA) has shown social inequality related to birthplace and education with higher rates of IAs in immigrant and in less educated women relative to their native and highly educated counterparts....

    Authors: Yolanda González-Rábago, Elena Rodriguez-Alvarez, Luisa N. Borrell and Unai Martín
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:69
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  14. Explicit labelling of lower strength alcohol products could reduce alcohol consumption by attracting more people to buy and drink such products instead of higher strength ones. Alternatively, it may lead to mo...

    Authors: Ian Shemilt, Vivien Hendry and Theresa M. Marteau
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:29
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  15. Shared facilities are not recognised as improved sanitation due to challenges of maintenance as they easily can be avenues for the spread of diseases. Thus there is need to evaluate the quality of shared facil...

    Authors: Sheillah Simiyu, Mark Swilling, Sandy Cairncross and Richard Rheingans
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:68
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  16. Exposure to shift work has been associated with negative health consequences, although the association between shift work and sickness absence remains unclear. The aim of this study is to investigate associati...

    Authors: Alwin van Drongelen, Cécile R.L. Boot, Hynek Hlobil, Allard J. van der Beek and Tjabe Smid
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:67
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  17. Malaria remains an important public health concern in China and is particularly serious in Yunnan, a China’s provincial region of high malaria burden with an incidence of 1.79/105 in 2012. This study aims to exam...

    Authors: Dongyang Yang, Chengdong Xu, Jinfeng Wang and Yong Zhao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:66
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  18. The association between farmers’ market characteristics and consumer shopping habits remains unclear. Our objective was to examine associations among distance to farmers’ markets, amenities within farmers’ mar...

    Authors: Stephanie B. Jilcott Pitts, Jedediah Hinkley, Qiang Wu, Jared T. McGuirt, Mary Jane Lyonnais, Ann P. Rafferty, Olivia R. Whitt, Nancy Winterbauer and Lisa Phillips
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:65
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  19. High blood pressure (HBP) is an increasing public health issue for developing countries. HBP is an important contributing factor to many non-communicable diseases that were until very recently thought to be ra...

    Authors: Joseph Kouesyandé Soubeiga, Tieba Millogo, Brice W. Bicaba, Boukare Doulougou and Séni Kouanda
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:64
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  20. The worksite cafeteria is a suitable setting for interventions focusing on changing eating behavior, because a lot of employees visit the worksite cafeteria regularly and a variety of interventions could be im...

    Authors: Elizabeth Velema, Ellis L. Vyth and Ingrid H. M. Steenhuis
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:63
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  24. Low level of physical activity (PA) has become an important public health problem even in low-income countries. The objectives of this study were to measure PA levels, determine the prevalence of low PA and id...

    Authors: Mohammad Moniruzzaman, M. S. A. Mansur Ahmed and Mohammad Mostafa Zaman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:59
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  25. Lifestyle risk behaviours are responsible for a large proportion of disease burden and premature mortality worldwide. Risk behaviours tend to cluster in populations. We developed a new lifestyle risk index by ...

    Authors: Steinar Krokstad, Ding Ding, Anne C. Grunseit, Erik R. Sund, Turid Lingaas Holmen, Vegar Rangul and Adrian Bauman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:58
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  26. Nutritional status of pre adolescent children is not widely studied in Sri Lanka. The purpose of this study was to determine the nutritional status among pre-adolescent school children in a rural province of S...

    Authors: N. P. G. C. R. Naotunna, M. Dayarathna, H. Maheshi, G. S. Amarasinghe, V. S. Kithmini, M. Rathnayaka, L. Premachandra, N. Premarathna, P. C. Rajasinghe, G. Wijewardana, T. C. Agampodi and S. B. Agampodi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:57
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  27. Relations between several occupational psychological and social factors and disability retirement remain largely unexplored. Knowledge of which specific aspects of the work environment that affect risk of disa...

    Authors: Jan S. Emberland, Morten Birkeland Nielsen and Stein Knardahl
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:56
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  28. In Australia, ‘Alcohol Management Plans’ (AMPs) provide the policy infrastructure for State and Commonwealth Governments to address problematic alcohol use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. We repo...

    Authors: Alan R. Clough, Stephen A. Margolis, Adrian Miller, Anthony Shakeshaft, Christopher M. Doran, Robyn McDermott, Robert Sanson-Fisher, Valmae Ypinazar, David Martin, Jan A. Robertson, Michelle S. Fitts, Katrina Bird, Bronwyn Honorato, Simon Towle and Caryn West
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:55
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  29. Whether not meeting common guidelines for lifestyle behaviours is associated with weight gain is uncertain. This study examined whether 5-year weight gain was predicted by not meeting guidelines for: breakfast...

    Authors: Kylie J. Smith, Seana L. Gall, Sarah A. McNaughton, Verity J. Cleland, Petr Otahal, Terence Dwyer and Alison J. Venn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:54
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  30. Infant mortality is one of the priority public health issues in developing countries like Nepal. The infant mortality rate (IMR) was 48 and 46 per 1000 live births for the year 2006 and 2011, respectively, a s...

    Authors: Reeta Lamichhane, Yun Zhao, Susan Paudel and Emmanuel O. Adewuyi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:53
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  31. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the short- and long-term intervention and mediation effects of a 3-month individualized need-supportive physical activity (PA) counseling intervention on empl...

    Authors: Anass Arrogi, Astrid Schotte, An Bogaerts, Filip Boen and Jan Seghers
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:52
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  33. Given the ongoing childhood obesity public health crisis and potential protective effect of family meals, there is need for additional family meals research, specifically experimental studies with expanded hea...

    Authors: Catherine Rogers, Sarah E. Anderson, Jamie S. Dollahite, Tisa F. Hill, Chris Holloman, Carla K. Miller, Keeley J. Pratt and Carolyn Gunther
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:50
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  34. The workplace has been identified as a priority setting to positively influence individuals’ dietary behaviours. However, a dearth of evidence exists regarding the costs of implementing and delivering workplac...

    Authors: Sarah Fitzgerald, Ann Kirby, Aileen Murphy, Fiona Geaney and Ivan J. Perry
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:49
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  35. Behavioural brief interventions (BI) can support people to reduce harmful drinking but multiple barriers impede the delivery and equitable access to these. To address this challenge, we developed YourCall™, a ...

    Authors: Shanthi Ameratunga, Bridget Kool, Sarah Sharpe, Papaarangi Reid, Arier Lee, Ian Civil, Gordon Smith, Vanessa Thornton, Matthew Walker and Robyn Whittaker
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:48
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  36. The disasters at Seveso, Three Mile Island, Bhopal, Chernobyl, the World Trade Center (WTC) and Fukushima had historic health and economic sequelae for large populations of workers, responders and community me...

    Authors: Roberto G. Lucchini, Dana Hashim, Sushma Acquilla, Angela Basanets, Pier Alberto Bertazzi, Andrey Bushmanov, Michael Crane, Denise J. Harrison, William Holden, Philip J. Landrigan, Benjamin J. Luft, Paolo Mocarelli, Nailya Mazitova, James Melius, Jacqueline M. Moline, Koji Mori…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:46
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  37. Most of the medicine users remain unaware about the disposal of unused or expired medicines. The aim of this study was to know the disposal practices of unused and expired medicines among the general public in...

    Authors: Mohammad Bashaar, Vijay Thawani, Mohamed Azmi Hassali and Fahad Saleem
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:45
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  38. Globally, more than two billion people are at risk of iodine deficiency disorders, 32% of which are school children. Iodine deficiency has been recognized as a severe public health concern in Ethiopia, however...

    Authors: Zegeye Abebe, Ejigu Gebeye and Amare Tariku
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:44
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  39. Previous researches aiming to estimate the association between metabolic syndrome and depressive symptoms come out with inconsistent results. Besides, most of them are conducted in the developed areas. There i...

    Authors: Shasha Yu, Hongmei Yang, Xiaofan Guo, Liqiang Zheng and Yingxian Sun
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:43
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  40. Few studies in South Africa have investigated the exposure of asthmatic learners to indoor and outdoor air pollution at schools. This study compared outdoor PM10 and SO2 exposure levels in exposed (1–2 km from go...

    Authors: Vusumuzi Nkosi, Janine Wichmann and Kuku Voyi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:42
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  42. People tend to underestimate their current weight and overestimate their height minimizing health risk factors. The aim of this study was to assess body weight satisfaction, acceptance of body image, weight co...

    Authors: Maria del Mar Bibiloni, Josep Ll Coll, Jordi Pich, Antoni Pons and Josep A. Tur
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:39
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  43. Since 1990, reduction of tuberculosis (TB) mortality has been lower in South Africa than in other high-burden countries in Africa. This research investigated the influence of routinely captured demographic and...

    Authors: J Christo Heunis, N Gladys Kigozi, Perpetual Chikobvu, Sonja Botha and HCJ Dingie van Rensburg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:38
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  44. Vaccination is a mainstay of preventive healthcare, reducing the incidence of serious childhood infections. Ecological studies have demonstrated an inverse association between markers of high ambient ultraviol...

    Authors: Caradee Y. Wright, Patricia N. Albers, Angela Mathee, Zamantimande Kunene, Catherine D’Este, Ashwin Swaminathan and Robyn M. Lucas
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:37
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  45. Diabetes is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and there are reports of increasing prevalence of prediabetes in Nigeria. This study therefore characterised CVDs risk factors in subjects with impa...

    Authors: Victor M. Oguoma, Ezekiel U. Nwose, Ifeoma I. Ulasi, Adeseye A. Akintunde, Ekene E. Chukwukelu, Phillip T. Bwititi, Ross S. Richards and Timothy C. Skinner
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:36
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  46. Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. It is also well established that HPV viruses are responsible for a variety of cancers. Little is known about t...

    Authors: Nelia M. Afonso, Maurice J. Kavanagh, Stephanie M. Swanberg, Jeanne M. Schulte, Tracy Wunderlich and Victoria C. Lucia
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:35
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  47. Violence and Injuries are a significant global public health concern characterized by marked regional variation in incidence. Approximately five million people die from injuries each year, accounting 9% of all...

    Authors: Gladwell Koku Gathecha, Wilfred Mwai Githinji and Alfred Karagu Maina
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:34
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  48. Alcohol abuse is recognized as a significant contributor to injury. It is therefore essential that trauma centers implement screening and brief intervention (SBI) to identify patients who are problem drinkers....

    Authors: Ghasem Imani, Cristobal Barrios, Craig L. Anderson, Maryam Hosseini Farahabadi, Faried Banimahd, Bharath Chakravarthy, Wirachin Hoonpongsimanont, Christopher E. McCoy, Georginne Mercado, Babak Farivar, Jacqueline K. Pham and Shahram Lotfipour
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:32
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  50. Benefits of physical activity in the management of diabetes are well documented. However, evidence on the effectiveness of interventions integrating physical activity in diabetes care is sparse especially in t...

    Authors: Thamra S. Alghafri, Saud M. Alharthi, Yahya M. Al-Farsi, Angela M. Craigie, Maureen Mcleod and Annie S. Anderson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:28
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