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Thetha Nami: participatory development of a peer-navigator intervention to deliver biosocial HIV prevention for adolescents and youth in rural South Africa

Despite effective biomedical tools, HIV remains the largest cause of morbidity/mortality in South Africa – especially among adolescents and young people. We used community-based participatory research (CBPR), ...

Authors: Maryam Shahmanesh, Nonhlanhla Okesola, Natsayi Chimbindi, Thembelihle Zuma, Sakhile Mdluli, Nondumiso Mthiyane, Oluwafemi Adeagbo, Jaco Dreyer, Carina Herbst, Nuala McGrath, Guy Harling, Lorraine Sherr and Janet Seeley

Protective vaccinations during pregnancy - adult Poles knowledge in this area

The vaccine is a preparation of biological origin containing antigens that stimulate the body’s immune system to produce acquired immunity. Vaccines can contain killed or “live” (attenuated) microorganisms as ...

Authors: Józefa Dąbek, Oskar Sierka, Halina Kulik and Zbigniew Gąsior

Verification of a theory of planned behavior model of medication adherence in Korean adults: focused on moderating effects of optimistic or present bias

To prevent or recover from a disease, the prescriptions for medications must be correct, and the patient must comply with the medication’s instructions. Therefore, this study verified the theory of planned beh...

Authors: Kyung Hyun Suh

Do perceived social neighborhood factors explain the association between neighborhood age composition and mental health among Dutch older adults?

In the light of urbanization and aging, a crucially relevant policy question is how to shape neighborhoods to foster healthy aging. An important debate is whether older adults should group in neighborhoods, or...

Authors: Eline Verspoor, Mariëlle A. Beenackers, Joost Oude Groeniger and Frank J. van Lenthe

Development of an online curriculum for California early care and education providers on healthy beverages

Children’s consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages is associated with obesity, diabetes, and dental decay. California’s Healthy Beverages in Child Care Act (AB 2084) requires all licensed child care centers a...

Authors: Kimberly Hazard, Danielle Lee, Lorrene Ritchie, Roberta Rose, L. Karina Díaz Rios, Kaela Plank and Abbey Alkon

A qualitative assessment of the sexual-health education, training and service needs of young adults in Tehran

Sexual Health and Relationships Education (SHRE) provides individuals with knowledge and skills to manage risky behaviors and take informed decisions to protect themselves against STIs, and unintended pregnanc...

Authors: Narges Sheikhansari, Charles Abraham, Sarah Denford and Mehrdad Eftekhar

Annual, seasonal, cultural and vacation patterns in sleep, sedentary behaviour and physical activity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Time spent in daily activities (sleep, sedentary behaviour and physical activity) has important consequences for health and wellbeing. The amount of time spent varies from day to day, yet little is known about...

Authors: Ty Ferguson, Rachel Curtis, Francois Fraysse, Rajini Lagiseti, Celine Northcott, Rosa Virgara, Amanda Watson and Carol A. Maher

Correction to: Supporting parents and healthy behaviours through parent-child meetings – a qualitative study in the Netherlands

Authors: Gülcan Bektas, Femke Boelsma, Carline L. Wesdorp, Jacob C. Seidell, Vivianne E. Baur and S. Coosje Dijkstra

Correction to: Cardiovascular disease (CVD): assessment, prediction and policy implications

Authors: Shazia Rehman, Erum Rehman, Muhammad Ikram and Zhang Jianglin

Body image perception and body composition in early adolescents: a longitudinal study of an Italian cohort

Adolescence is a sensitive period of life in which everyone faces physical and psychological changes. No longitudinal studies considering changes in body image perception and body composition in Italian adoles...

Authors: Stefania Toselli, Alessia Grigoletto, Luciana Zaccagni, Natascia Rinaldo, Georgian Badicu, Wilhelm Robert Grosz and Francesco Campa

Impacts of multimorbidity on medication treatment, primary healthcare and hospitalization among middle-aged and older adults in China: evidence from a nationwide longitudinal study

Multimorbidity is a significant contributor to inequalities in healthcare and has become a major unaddressed challenge for the health system in China. The aim of this study is to assess the socio-demographic d...

Authors: Yang Zhao, Siqi Zhao, Lin Zhang, Tilahun Nigatu Haregu and Haipeng Wang

Facility-level characteristics associated with family planning and child immunization services integration in urban areas of Nigeria: a longitudinal analysis

Unmet need for postpartum contraception is high. Integration of family planning with routine child immunization services may help to satisfy unmet need. However, evidence about the determinants and effects of ...

Authors: Kate L. Sheahan, Ilene S. Speizer, Jennifer Orgill-Meyer, Siân Curtis, Morris Weinberger, John Paul and Antonia V. Bennett

An innovative and integrated model for global outbreak response and research - a case study of the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST)

Despite considerable institutional experimentation at national and international levels in response to calls for global health security reform, there is little research on organisational models that address ou...

Authors: Philomena Raftery, Mazeda Hossain and Jennifer Palmer

Family planning use and correlates among female sex workers in a community empowerment HIV prevention intervention in Iringa, Tanzania: a case for tailored programming

Female sex workers in sub-Saharan Africa face high unmet need for family planning and higher risk for unintended pregnancy. Community empowerment HIV prevention approaches have the potential to increase family...

Authors: S. Wilson Beckham, Melissa Stockton, Noya Galai, Wendy Davis, Jessie Mwambo, Samuel Likindikoki and Deanna Kerrigan

Barriers and drivers of psychosocial risk assessments in German micro and small-sized enterprises: a qualitative study with owners and managers

The negative effect of unfavorable working conditions and long-term work stress on health has been demonstrated in previous research. To address these challenges, systematic approaches such as psychosocial ris...

Authors: Valeria Pavlista, Peter Angerer and Mathias Diebig

Application of a novel hybrid algorithm of Bayesian network in the study of hyperlipidemia related factors: a cross-sectional study

This article aims to understand the prevalence of hyperlipidemia and its related factors in Shanxi Province. On the basis of multivariate Logistic regression analysis to find out the influencing factors closel...

Authors: Xuchun Wang, Jinhua Pan, Zeping Ren, Mengmeng Zhai, Zhuang Zhang, Hao Ren, Weimei Song, Yuling He, Chenglian Li, Xiaojuan Yang, Meichen Li, Dichen Quan, Limin Chen and Lixia Qiu

Moderating effect of people-oriented public health services on depression among people under mandatory social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study in China

Public health measures, such as social isolation, are vital to control the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but such measures may increase the risk of depression. Thus, this study examines th...

Authors: Bolin Cao, Dongya Wang, Yifan Wang, Brian J. Hall, Nan Wu, Meimei Wu, Qishan Ma, Joseph D. Tucker and Xing Lv

Epidemiological characteristics and initial spatiotemporal visualisation of COVID-19 in a major city in the Middle East

The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged initially in China in December 2019 causing the COVID-19 disease, which quickly spread worldwide. Iran was one of the first countries ou...

Authors: Shahab MohammadEbrahimi, Alireza Mohammadi, Robert Bergquist, Fatemeh Dolatkhah, Mahsa Olia, Ayoub Tavakolian, Elahe Pishgar and Behzad Kiani

The pathways between natural disasters and violence against children: a systematic review

Natural disasters are increasingly affecting a larger segment of the world’s population. These highly disruptive events have the potential to produce negative changes in social dynamics and the environment whi...

Authors: Ilan Cerna-Turoff, Hanna-Tina Fischer, Hani Mansourian and Susannah Mayhew

Mental health impact among hospital staff in the aftermath of the Nice 2016 terror attack: the ECHOS de Nice study

The Nice terror attack of July 14, 2016 resulted in 84 deaths and 434 injured, with many hospital staff exposed to the attack, either as bystanders on site at the time of the attack (‘bystander exposure’) who ...

Authors: Laurence Bentz, Stéphanie Vandentorren, Roxane Fabre, Jeremy Bride, Philippe Pirard, Nadège Doulet, Thierry Baubet, Yvon Motreff and Christian Pradier

Effectiveness of a community-level social mobilization intervention in achieving the outcomes of polio vaccination campaigns during the post-polio-endemic period: Evidence from CORE Group polio project in Uttar Pradesh, India

A social mobilization (SM) initiative contributed to India’s success in polio elimination. This was the CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) India, a partner of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) SM Network and which continued...

Authors: Manojkumar Choudhary, Roma Solomon, Jitendra Awale, Rina Dey, Jagajeet Prasad Singh and William Weiss

Quality of life during the epidemic of COVID-19 and its associated factors among enterprise workers in East China

The COVID-19 related lockdown and home confinement might have an important impact on the quality of life in enterprise workers. We investigated the quality of life during the epidemic in enterprise workers who...

Authors: Xiaoxiao Chen, Qian Xu, Haijiang Lin, Jianfu Zhu, Yue Chen, Qi Zhao, Chaowei Fu and Na Wang

Effect of socioeconomic characteristics and lifestyle on BMI distribution in the Chinese population: a population-based cross-sectional study

Body mass index (BMI) is an accepted measurement that is widely used to quantify overweight and obesity at the population level. Previous studies have described the distribution variation of BMI through applyi...

Authors: Weihua Wang, Lin Qiu, Rina Sa, Shaonong Dang, Feng Liu and Xiang Xiao

Testing the effects of a prenatal depression preventive intervention on parenting and young children’s self-regulation and functioning (EPIC): protocol for a longitudinal observational study

Perinatal depression is a pervasive public health concern that disproportionately affects low-income women and can have negative impacts on parenting and child developmental outcomes. Few interventions focus o...

Authors: Alicia Diebold, Jessica K. Johnson, Marianne Brennan, Jody D. Ciolino, Amelie Petitclerc, Lauren S. Wakschlag, Craig F. Garfield, Chen Yeh, Aiko Lovejoy, Dana Zakieh and S. Darius Tandon

First recourse for care-seeking and associated factors among rural populations in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Access to quality healthcare is a global fundamental human right. However, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, several parameters affect the choices of health service users in fragile, rural contexts (zon...

Authors: Wyvine Ansima Bapolisi, Hermès Karemere, Freddy Ndogozi, Aimé Cikomola, Ghislain Kasongo, Albert Ntambwe and Ghislain Bisimwa

The association between cigarette smoking attitudes and social capital among Iranian health and medical students: a cross-sectional study

Smoking remains a leading public health challenge globally. As a psychosocial determinant of health, social capital can influence health attitudes and behaviors, and thus it may have the capacity to reduce smo...

Authors: Hamideh Zahedi, Mohammad Hasan Sahebihagh, Parvin Sarbakhsh and Leila Gholizadeh

Mental health, compliance with measures and health prospects during the COVID-19 epidemic: the role of health literacy

The importance of health literacy in dealing with the COVID-19 epidemic has been emphasized but scarcely addressed empirically. In this study, the association of health literacy with mental health, compliance ...

Authors: Lize Hermans, Stephan Van den Broucke, Lydia Gisle, Stefaan Demarest and Rana Charafeddine

Hospitalization of unintentional fall injuries in Kuwait: a national database study

Accidental falls are a major cause of morbidity placing pressure on hospital capacity and utilizing costly services. Evaluating the burden of falls is key for planning, implementation, and evaluation of preven...

Authors: Islam Kamal Ibrahim and Fatima AlAsoomi

Health literacy of patients on oral anticoagulation treatment- individual and social determinants and effect on health and treatment outcomes

Assessment health literacy in people with cardiovascular health problems would facilitate the development of appropriate health strategies for the care and reduction of complications associated with oral antic...

Authors: Ana Cristina Cabellos-García, Antonio Martínez-Sabater, Miguel Ángel Díaz-Herrera, Vicente Gea-Caballero and Enrique Castro-Sánchez

Public health messages on arboviruses transmitted by Aedes aegypti in Brazil

The outbreak of Zika virus in Brazil in 2015 followed the arrival of chikungunya in 2014 and a long history of dengue circulation. Vital to the response to these outbreaks of mosquito-borne pathogens has been ...

Authors: India L. Clancy, Robert T. Jones, Grace M. Power, James G. Logan, Jorge Alberto Bernstein Iriart, Eduardo Massad and John Kinsman

Neighborhood disadvantage and the sales of unhealthy products: alcohol, tobacco and unhealthy snack food

Individuals may use unhealthy coping mechanisms such as alcohol, tobacco, and unhealthy snack consumption. The purpose of this study was to assess how neighborhood disadvantage is associated with sales of alco...

Authors: Lauren A. Wallace, Rajib Paul, Shafie Gholizadeh, Wlodek Zadrozny, Caitlan Webster, Melanie Mayfield and Elizabeth F. Racine

Economic support, education and sexual decision making among female adolescents in Zambia: a qualitative study

The importance of educating female adolescents has been recognized as critical to the development of any country. However, in low income countries like Zambia they often drop out of school due to poverty, earl...

Authors: J. Milimo, J. M. Zulu, J. Svanemyr, E. Munsaka, O. Mweemba and I. F. Sandøy

Life weariness, suicidal thoughts and mortality: a sixteen-year longitudinal study among men and women older than 60 years

Suicide in old age is a significant contributor to mortality. However, the extent to which life weariness and suicidal thoughts impact on mortality in a long-term perspective is unknown. The aim of this study ...

Authors: Cecilia Fagerström, Anna-Karin Welmer, Sölve Elmståhl and Hanna Tuvesson

Minority stress, depression, and cigarette smoking among Chinese gay versus bisexual men: a two-group structural equation model analyses

Literature in the West suggested that bisexual men have a higher smoking rate compared to gay men. Data on patterns of smoking among gay and bisexual men are limited in Eastern Asian countries like China. This...

Authors: Jingjing Li, Danqin Huang, Michael Windle, Cam Escoffery, Wei Wang, Xiaoyan Li, Kevin Tao, Regine Haardörfer, Shiyue Li, Carla J. Berg and Hong Yan

An assessment of anthropometric indices and its association with NCDs among the older adults of India: evidence from LASI Wave-1

The purpose of this study is to assess the status of physical body indices such as body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) among the older adults aged 45 and above in Indi...

Authors: Mahadev Bramhankar, Mohit Pandey, Gursimran Singh Rana, Balram Rai, Nand Lal Mishra and Anandi Shukla

Is working in later life good for your health? A systematic review of health outcomes resulting from extended working lives

Work, rather than unemployment, is recognised as being good for health, but there may be an age when the benefits are outweighed by adverse impacts. As countries around the world increase their typical retirem...

Authors: Susan Baxter, Lindsay Blank, Anna Cantrell and Elizabeth Goyder

Newspaper coverage of food insecurity in UK, 2016–2019: a multi-method analysis

Food insecurity is a growing concern in the UK. Newspaper coverage can reflect and shape public and political views. We examined how frequently food insecurity was reported on in UK newspapers, how the problem...

Authors: Amy Yau, Hardeep Singh-Lalli, Hannah Forde, Matthew Keeble, Martin White and Jean Adams

Use of the socio-ecological model to explore factors that influence the implementation of a diabetes structured education programme (EXTEND project) inLilongwe, Malawi and Maputo, Mozambique: a qualitative study

Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES) programmes are vital for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) management. However, they are limited in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). To address this gap, a DSMES, ...

Authors: C. Bamuya, J. C. Correia, E. M. Brady, D. Beran, D. Harrington, A. Damasceno, A. M. Crampin, Ana Magaia, Naomi Levitt, M. J. Davies and M. Hadjiconstantinou

Men’s perceptions of sexual and reproductive health education within the context of pregnancy and HIV in Zambia: a descriptive qualitative analysis

Although health care providers are beginning to focus on men’s roles as fathers and husbands, there is limited understanding of how men view their ability to promote sexual and reproductive health in families ...

Authors: Tulani Francis L. Matenga, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Sharon Nkwemu, Perfect Shankalala and Karen Hampanda

Changes over time in the relationship between weight, body fat, motivation, impulsivity and eating behaviour

University students are at a greater risk of gaining weight compared to others. We explored associations between changes in weight and a set of dispositional constructs related to eating behaviour: motivation,...

Authors: Paula Foscarini-Craggs, Rob Lowe and Michelle Lee

Towards comprehensive mental health care: experiences and challenges of psychosocial care in Brazil

Recommendations are in place for mental health (MH) care to be developed into a comprehensive, people-centred perspective and organised primarily through community services. In recent decades, Brazil has promo...

Authors: Mariá Lanzotti Sampaio and José Patrício Bispo Júnior

Barriers and opportunities to restricting marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages to children in Nepal: a policy analysis

Marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages high in saturated fats, trans-fatty acids, free sugars, or salt (“unhealthy foods”) to children is contributing to increasing child obesity. However, many countri...

Authors: Laura Fisher, Minakshi Dahal, Sarah Hawkes, Mahesh Puri and Kent Buse

Perceptions of minimum age at marriage laws and their enforcement: qualitative evidence from Malawi

Child marriage in Malawi is a significant problem with 42.1% of women 20–24 married by age 18. In 2017 the Malawi government formalized legislation to make marriage under age 18 illegal; violators are subject ...

Authors: Andrea J. Melnikas, Nancy Mulauzi, James Mkandawire and Sajeda Amin

Who engages in the arts in the United States? A comparison of several types of engagement using data from The General Social Survey

Engaging in the arts is a health-related behavior that may be influenced by social inequalities. While it is generally accepted that there is a social gradient in traditional arts and cultural activities, such...

Authors: Jessica K. Bone, Feifei Bu, Meg E. Fluharty, Elise Paul, Jill K. Sonke and Daisy Fancourt

Prevalence of abuse among the elderly population of Syangja, Nepal

Elder abuse is recognized as a serious public health concern and top priority aging issues. World Health Organization reported that around 1 out of 6 old people in the world experienced some form of abuse. Thi...

Authors: Shiva Raj Acharya, B. K. Suman, Sandip Pahari, Yong Chul Shin and Deog Hwan Moon

A method to define the relevant ego-centred spatial scale for the assessment of neighbourhood effects: the example of cardiovascular risk factors

The neighbourhood in which one lives affects health through complex pathways not yet fully understood. A way to move forward in assessing these pathways direction is to explore the spatial structure of health ...

Authors: Jürgen Breckenkamp, Oliver Razum, Jacob Spallek, Klaus Berger, Basile Chaix and Odile Sauzet

Anaemia among mother-father-child pairs in India: examining co-existence of triple burden of anaemia in a family

Anaemia is a global health concern and is also a common comorbidity in multiple medical conditions. Very limited research is available examining anaemia among family members in India and across various countri...

Authors: Pradeep Kumar, Shekhar Chauhan, Ratna Patel and Shobhit Srivastava

Prevalence and predictors of child labour among junior public secondary school students in Enugu, Nigeria: a cross-sectional study

Globally, millions of children are involved in child labour. However, low- and middle-income countries are mostly hit. This study examined the predictors of child labour among public secondary school students ...

Authors: N. O. Enebe, J. T. Enebe, C. C. Agunwa, E. N. Ossai, U. E. Ezeoke, C. A. Idoko and C. O. Mbachu

The characteristics and trend of adverse events following immunization reported by information system in Jiangsu province, China, 2015–2018

Adverse events following immunization is an important factor influencing public trust in vaccination. Publicizing its incidence timely can increase public trust. The aim of this study is to describe the incide...

Authors: Ran Hu, Shanshan Peng, Yuanbao Liu, Fengyang Tang, Zhiguo Wang, Lei Zhang, Jun Gao and Hongxiong Guo

Profiles of subjective health among people living alone: a latent class analysis

Living alone has increased globally and especially in Finland where 45% of all households are single occupancy. Epidemiological research has found that living alone a risk factor for a wide range of adversitie...

Authors: Tytti P. Pasanen, Nina Tamminen, Tuija Martelin, Katariina Mankinen and Pia Solin