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  1. Secondary school teachers are at heightened risk of psychological distress, which can lead to poor work performance, poor quality teacher-student relationships and mental illness. A pilot cluster randomised co...

    Authors: Judi Kidger, Tracey Stone, Kate Tilling, Rowan Brockman, Rona Campbell, Tamsin Ford, William Hollingworth, Michael King, Ricardo Araya and David Gunnell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1060
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  3. Sedentary behaviour has been associated with obesity and related chronic diseases. Disentangling the nature of this association is complicated due to interactions with other lifestyle factors, such as dietary ...

    Authors: Sofie Compernolle, Katrien De Cocker, Pedro J. Teixeira, Jean-Michel Oppert, Célina Roda, Joreintje D. Mackenbach, Jeroen Lakerveld, Martin McKee, Ketevan Glonti, Harry Rutter, Helga Bardos, Greet Cardon and Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1057
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  4. Dietary intake patterns of children from the 2004 Pelotas birth cohort study have been described at 12, 24 and 48 months of age, but there is no information about dietary patterns of these children at 6 years....

    Authors: Leonardo Pozza Santos, Maria Cecília Formoso Assunção, Alicia Matijasevich, Iná S. Santos and Aluísio J. D. Barros
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1055
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  5. Nursing professionals have received comprehensive medical education and training. However, whether these medical professionals exhibit positive patient care attitudes and behaviors and thus reduce mortality ri...

    Authors: Hsiu-Ling Huang, Chuan-Yu Kung, Cheng-Chin Pan, Pei-Tseng Kung, Shun-Mu Wang, Wen-Yu Chou and Wen-Chen Tsai
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1054
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  7. Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer survival can in part be explained by long patient intervals among people from deprived groups; however, the reasons for this are unclear. This qualitative study explores th...

    Authors: Grace McCutchan, Fiona Wood, Stephanie Smits, Adrian Edwards and Kate Brain
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1052
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  9. Customer intercept interviews are increasingly used to characterize food purchases at retail food outlets and restaurants; however, methodological procedures, logistical issues and response rates using interce...

    Authors: Jennifer E. Pelletier, Caitlin E. Caspi, Liana R. N. Schreiber, Darin J. Erickson, Lisa Harnack and Melissa N. Laska
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1050
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  10. Peru has made great improvements in reducing stunting and child mortality in the past decade, and has reached the Millennium Development Goals 1 and 4. The remaining challenges or missed opportunities for chil...

    Authors: Yvonne Tam, Luis Huicho, Carlos A. Huayanay-Espinoza and María Clara Restrepo-Méndez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1048
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  11. Intake of saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol has been associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease. The aim of this study was to explore whether increased nutrition knowledge is associated with...

    Authors: Najat Yahia, Carrie A. Brown, Melyssa Rapley and Mei Chung
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1047
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  12. Emergency contraception (EC) can significantly reduce the rate of unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite the increasing awareness of EC among educated young women...

    Authors: Anthony Idowu Ajayi, Ezebunwa Ethelbert Nwokocha, Wilson Akpan and Oladele Vincent Adeniyi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1046
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  13. The aim of the current study is to identify strategies to promote healthy eating in young children that can be applied by caregivers, based on their own perceptions of effectiveness and feasibility. Whereas pr...

    Authors: Laura Vandeweghe, Ellen Moens, Caroline Braet, Wendy Van Lippevelde, Leentje Vervoort and Sandra Verbeken
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1045
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  14. Homelessness is a major concern in many urban communities across North America. Since vulnerably housed individuals are at risk of experiencing homelessness, it is important to identify predictive factors link...

    Authors: Matthew J. To, Anita Palepu, Tim Aubry, Rosane Nisenbaum, Evie Gogosis, Anne Gadermann, Rebecca Cherner, Susan Farrell, Vachan Misir and Stephen W. Hwang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1041
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  15. The prevalence of short stature (SS) and underweight in Jordan on a national level is unknown. This study aimed to investigate, on a national level, the prevalence of short stature (SS), underweight, overweigh...

    Authors: Ayman A. Zayed, Abdallah M. Beano, Faris I. Haddadin, Sohab S. Radwan, Suhaib A. Allauzy, Motasem M. Alkhayyat, Zaid A. Al-Dahabrah, Yanal G. Al-Hasan and Al-Motassem F. Yousef
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1040
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  17. Smoking cessation services are available in England to provide assistance to those wishing to quit smoking. Data from one such service were analysed in order to investigate differences in quit rate between mal...

    Authors: N. J. Walker, H. C. van Woerden, V. Kiparoglou, Y. Yang, H. Robinson and E. Croghan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1038
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2017 17:294

  19. Current understanding of population physical activity (PA) levels and sedentary behaviour in developing countries is limited, and based primarily on self-report. We described PA levels using objective and self...

    Authors: Christina Howitt, Soren Brage, Ian R. Hambleton, Kate Westgate, T. Alafia Samuels, Angela MC Rose and Nigel Unwin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1036
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  20. Monitoring the scale of pharmaceuticals, illicit and licit drugs consumption is important to assess the needs of law enforcement and public health, and provides more information about the different trends with...

    Authors: Jose Antonio Baz-Lomba, Stefania Salvatore, Emma Gracia-Lor, Richard Bade, Sara Castiglioni, Erika Castrignanò, Ana Causanilles, Felix Hernandez, Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern, Juliet Kinyua, Ann-Kathrin McCall, Alexander van Nuijs, Christoph Ort, Benedek G. Plósz, Pedram Ramin, Malcolm Reid…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1035
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  21. Chronic pain interfering with activities of daily living is highly prevalent in the community. More than 600 million people worldwide are obese. The aim of this paper is to assess if such chronic pain is assoc...

    Authors: Sharon A. Allen, Eleonora Dal Grande, Amy P. Abernethy and David C. Currow
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1034
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  22. Very brief interventions (VBIs) for physical activity are promising, but there is uncertainty about their potential effectiveness and cost. We assessed potential efficacy, feasibility, acceptability, and cost ...

    Authors: Sally Pears, Maaike Bijker, Katie Morton, Joana Vasconcelos, Richard A. Parker, Kate Westgate, Soren Brage, Ed Wilson, A. Toby Prevost, Ann-Louise Kinmonth, Simon Griffin, Stephen Sutton and Wendy Hardeman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1033
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  23. Previous research has demonstrated health benefits of marriage and the potential for worse outcomes during widowhood in some populations. However, few studies have assessed the relevance of widowhood and widow...

    Authors: Jessica M. Perkins, Hwa-young Lee, K. S. James, Juhwan Oh, Aditi Krishna, Jongho Heo, Jong-koo Lee and S. V. Subramanian
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1032
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  25. Authors: Chris Lonsdale, Taren Sanders, Kristen E. Cohen, Philip Parker, Michael Noetel, Tim Hartwig, Diego Vasconcellos, Morwenna Kirwan, Philip Morgan, Jo Salmon, Marj Moodie, Heather McKay, Andrew Bennie, Ron Plotnikoff, Renata L. Cinelli, David Greene…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1026
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Public Health 2016 16:873

  26. The need for instruments that can assist in detecting the prodromal stages of stress-related exhaustion has been acknowledged. The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether the Lund University Checklist...

    Authors: Kai Österberg, Roger Persson, Njördur Viborg, Peter Jönsson and Artur Tenenbaum
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1025
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  27. A negative attitude toward disability is one of the potential barriers for people with disability (PWD) to achieve social equality. Although numerous studies have investigated attitudes toward disability, few ...

    Authors: Qiaolan Zheng, Qi Tian, Chun Hao, Jing Gu, Jianting Tao, Zuoyi Liang, Xinlin Chen, Jiqian Fang, Jianhua Ruan, Qiuxiang Ai and Yuantao Hao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1024
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  28. Recent malaria control and elimination attempts show remarkable success in several parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Vector control via larval source management represents a new and to date underrepresented approac...

    Authors: Peter Dambach, Issouf Traoré, Achim Kaiser, Ali Sié, Rainer Sauerborn and Norbert Becker
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1023
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  29. The potential for environmental interventions to improve health and wellbeing has assumed particular importance in the face of unprecedented population ageing. However, presently observational environmental as...

    Authors: Vanessa Burholt, Matthew Steven Roberts and Charles Brian Alexander Musselwhite
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1022
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  30. The incidence of childhood type 1 diabetes (T1D) incidence is rising in many countries, supposedly because of changing environmental factors, which are yet largely unknown. The purpose of the study was to unra...

    Authors: F. Balazard, S. Le Fur, S. Valtat, A. J. Valleron, P. Bougnères, Dominique Thevenieau, Corinne Fourmy Chatel, Rachel Desailloud, Hélène Bony-Trifunovic, Pierre-Henri Ducluzeau, Régis Coutant, Sophie Caudrelier, Armelle Pambou, Emmanuelle Dubosclard, Florence Joubert, Philippe Jan…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1021
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  31. Due to climate change, extreme weather events have an incremental impact on human health. Injuries and mental health disorders are a particular burden of disease, which is broadly investigated in high income c...

    Authors: Elisabeth Rataj, Katharina Kunzweiler and Susan Garthus-Niegel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1020
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  33. Efforts to explain children’s nutrition behavior or weight often involve investigating the parent-child relationship, typically studying the associations between food parenting practices (FPPs) and child outco...

    Authors: Sanne M. P. L. Gerards, Christina Niermann, Dorus W. M. Gevers, Nadine Eussen and Stef P. J. Kremers
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1018
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  34. Calls to a telephone health helpline (THHL) have been previously evaluated for the ability to monitor specific syndromes, such as fever and influenza-like-illness or gastrointestinal illness. This method of su...

    Authors: D. McGolrick, P. Belanger, H. Richardson, K. Moore, A. Maier and A. Majury
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1017
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  35. Campylobacteriosis is a prominent bacterial gastrointestinal infection worldwide with several transmission pathways. Its non-foodborne routes have been less documented and quantified. The study aimed to quanti...

    Authors: André Ravel, Katarina Pintar, Andrea Nesbitt and Frank Pollari
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1016
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  36. Understanding views about what constitutes a healthy diet in diverse populations may inform design of culturally tailored behavior change interventions. The objective of this study was to describe perspectives...

    Authors: Jinan C. Banna, Betsy Gilliland, Margaret Keefe and Dongping Zheng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1015
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  37. Effective treatment and prevention of obesity and its co-morbidities requires the recognition and understanding of cultural and social aspects of eating practices. The objective of the present study was to ide...

    Authors: María C. Caamaño, Dolores Ronquillo, Riko Kimoto, Olga P. García, Kurt Z. Long and Jorge L. Rosado
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1014
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  38. In Japan, new HPV immunizations have dropped dramatically after repeated adverse media reports and a June 2013 temporary suspension of the government’s recommendation for the vaccine. The aim of the present st...

    Authors: Asami Yagi, Yutaka Ueda, Tomomi Egawa-Takata, Yusuke Tanaka, Akiko Morimoto, Yoshito Terai, Masahide Ohmichi, Tomoyuki Ichimura, Toshiyuki Sumi, Hiromi Murata, Hidetaka Okada, Hidekatsu Nakai, Masaki Mandai, Kiyoshi Yoshino, Tadashi Kimura, Junko Saito…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1013
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  39. Low levels of muscular fitness (MF) are recognized as an important marker of nutritional status and a predictor of metabolic complications, cardiovascular disease and death, however, the relationship between M...

    Authors: Robinson Ramírez-Vélez, Jorge E. Correa-Bautista, Felipe Lobelo, Mikel Izquierdo, Alicia Alonso-Martínez, Fernando Rodríguez-Rodríguez and Carlos Cristi-Montero
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1012
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  40. Depending on the definitions used, between 5 and 20 % of all Swedish children grow up with at least one parent suffering from alcohol problems, while 6 % have at least one parent who has received inpatient psy...

    Authors: Tobias H. Elgán, Nicklas Kartengren, Anna K. Strandberg, Maria Ingemarson, Helena Hansson, Ulla Zetterlind and Johanna Gripenberg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1011
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  41. We examined the relationship between dog walking and physical activity within and between four US cities and Australia and investigated if dog walking is associated with higher perceived safety in US and Austr...

    Authors: Hayley Christian, Lisa Wood, Andrea Nathan, Ichiro Kawachi, Stephen Houghton, Karen Martin and Sandra McCune
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1010
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  42. Repeated participation is important in faecal immunochemical testing (FIT) screening for colorectal cancer (CRC). However, a large number of screening invitations over time may lead to screening fatigue and co...

    Authors: Marjolein J. E. Greuter, Johannes Berkhof, Karen Canfell, Jie-Bin Lew, Evelien Dekker and Veerle M. H. Coupé
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1009
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  43. Violence, as well as other behaviors, is often intensified during adolescence and early adulthood. The objective of this study is estimate the prevalence of Brazilian school students involvement in fights with...

    Authors: Alice Cristina Medeiros Melo and Leila Posenato Garcia
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1008
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  44. Evidence suggests that early menarche is positively associated with adiposity in adulthood. However, it is important to assess whether this association is due to early menarche or to the association of adiposi...

    Authors: Susana Bubach, Ana Maria Baptista Menezes, Fernando Celso Barros, Fernando César Wehrmeister, Helen Gonçalves, Maria Cecília Formoso Assunção and Bernardo Lessa Horta
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1007
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  45. Violence against children (VAC) remains a global problem. The health sector has an opportunity and responsibility to be part of the multi-sector collaboration to prevent and respond to VAC. This review aimed t...

    Authors: Andrea L. Wirtz, Carmen Alvarez, Alessandra C. Guedes, Luisa Brumana, Cecilie Modvar and Nancy Glass
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1006
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  47. Due to the large mortality from inactivity-related non-communicable diseases in low- and middle- income countries, accurate assessment of physical activity is important for surveillance, monitoring and underst...

    Authors: Adewale L. Oyeyemi, Sarah J. Moss, Makama A. Monyeki and Herculina S. Kruger
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1004
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  48. The dramatic rise in Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD) in the oil-producing countries of the Arabian Peninsula is driven in part by insufficient physical activity, one of the five main contributors to health risk...

    Authors: Ruth Mabry, Mohammad Javad Koohsari, Fiona Bull and Neville Owen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1003
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  49. In Sub-Saharan Africa, epidemiological studies have reported an increasing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCD) among people living with HIV. NCD management can be feasibly integrated into HIV care; howev...

    Authors: Claudia Leung, Eric Aris, Aisa Mhalu, Hellen Siril, Beatrice Christian, Happiness Koda, Talumba Samatta, Martha Tsere Maghimbi, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, Guerino Chalamilla and Claudia Hawkins
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1002
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  50. We recently developed HOUSES, an individual housing-based socioeconomic status (SES) measurement for health disparities research. We assessed whether HOUSES was associated with risk of pertussis and pertussis ...

    Authors: Rachel Hammer, Conrad Capili, Chung-Il Wi, Euijung Ryu, Jennifer Rand-Weaver and Young J. Juhn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1000
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