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Analysis of death causes of residents in poverty-stricken Areas in 2020: take Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in China as an example

Continuous surveillance of death can measure health status of the population, reflect social development of a region, thus promote health service development in the region and improve the health level of local...

Authors: Rujun Liao, Lin Hu, Qiang Liao, Tianyu Zhu, Haiqun Yang and Tao Zhang

Spatial inequalities in skilled birth attendance in India: a spatial-regional model approach

Despite a significant increase in the skilled birth assisted (SBA) deliveries in India, there are huge gaps in availing maternity care services across social gradients - particularly across states and regions....

Authors: Prem Shankar Mishra, Debashree Sinha, Pradeep Kumar and Shobhit Srivastava

Nudging and boosting children’s restaurant menus for healthier food choice: a blinded quasi-randomized controlled trial in a real life setting

Restaurants are ideal settings for implementing food interventions targeted at children. Studies with adults suggest that changes to the physical menu can lead to healthier food choices; online studies with pa...

Authors: Sven Schneider, Jessica Markovinovic and Jutta Mata

Publisher Correction To: Disclosure of same-sex practices and experiences of healthcare stigma among cisgender men who have sex with men in five sub-Saharan African countries

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: John Mark Wiginton, Sarah M. Murray, Ohemaa Poku, Jura Augustinavicius, Kevon-Mark Phillip Jackman, Jeremy Kane, Serge C. Billong, Daouda Diouf, Ibrahima Ba, Tampose Mothopeng, Iliassou Mfochive Njindam, Gnilane Turpin, Ubald Tamoufe, Bhekie Sithole, Maria Zlotorzynska, Travis H. Sanchez…

Psychosocial and mental health challenges faced by emerging adults living with HIV and support systems aiding their positive coping: a qualitative study from the Kenyan coast

In sub-Saharan Africa, there is little data on the challenges faced by young people living with HIV transitioning into adult life. Adapting the socio-ecological framework, this qualitative study investigated t...

Authors: Moses K. Nyongesa, Carophine Nasambu, Rachael Mapenzi, Hans M. Koot, Pim Cuijpers, Charles R. J. C. Newton and Amina Abubakar

A picture of health: determining the core population served by an urban NHS hospital trust and understanding the key health needs

NHS hospitals do not have clearly defined geographic populations to whom they provide care, with patients able to attend any hospital. Identifying a core population for a hospital trust, particularly those in ...

Authors: Thomas Beaney, Jonathan M. Clarke, Emily Grundy and Sophie Coronini-Cronberg

Development and validation of a multi-lingual online questionnaire for surveying the COVID-19 prevention and control measures used in global workplaces

Despite widespread COVID-19 vaccination programs, there is an ongoing need for targeted disease prevention and control efforts in high-risk occupational settings. This study aimed to develop, pilot, and valida...

Authors: Carolyn Ingram, Yanbing Chen, Conor Buggy, Vicky Downey, Mary Archibald, Natalia Rachwal, Mark Roe, Anne Drummond and Carla Perrotta

Dietary patterns and risk of bladder cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Several studies have investigated the relationship between dietary patterns and the risk of bladder cancer (BC) in different regions including Europe, the United States, and Asia, with no conclusive evidence. ...

Authors: Mostafa Dianatinasab, Elaheh Forozani, Ali Akbari, Nazanin Azmi, Dariush Bastam, Mohammad Fararouei, Anke Wesselius and Maurice P. Zeegres

Susceptibility to tobacco use and associated factors among youth in five central and eastern European countries

Tobacco use among young people still remains a major public health problem. Thus, the aim of this study was to perform a cross-country comparison for the factors associated with susceptibility to tobacco use a...

Authors: Kinga Polanska, Malgorzata Znyk and Dorota Kaleta

Relationship between childhood sexual abuse and attitudes toward premarital sexual permissiveness among middle school students in Luzhou, China

In recent years, the number of adolescents engaging in premarital sex has increased, and an increasing number of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) cases have been reported in China. Many studies have indicated that...

Authors: Zhang Rong, Zhang Wen, Liao Maoxu, Liu Ya, Fan Song, Wei Hui, Tan Xiaozhen and Ye Yunli

Which urban communities are susceptible to COVID-19? An empirical study through the lens of community resilience

After the lockdown of Wuhan on January 23, 2020, the government used community-based pandemic prevention and control as the core strategy to fight the pandemic, and explored a set of standardized community pan...

Authors: Chunyu Shi, Liao Liao, Huan Li and Zhenhua Su

Correction to: A whole system approach to increasing children’s physical activity in a multi-ethnic UK city: a process evaluation protocol

Authors: Jennifer Hall, Daniel D. Bingham, Amanda Seims, Sufyan Abid Dogra, Jan Burkhardt, James Nobles, Jim McKenna, Maria Bryant, Sally E. Barber and Andy Daly-Smith

Health and wellbeing needs and priorities in mining host communities in South Africa: a mixed-methods approach for identifying key SDG3 targets

The global mining industry has an opportunity to mobilize resources to advance progress against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In 2018, the Anglo-American Group outlined aspirations for mining host ...

Authors: Brian Rice, Delia Boccia, Daniel J. Carter, Renay Weiner, Lebohang Letsela, Mariken de Wit, Rebecca Pursell, Michael Jana, Ana Maria Buller and Mitzy Gafos

Occupational health care personnel tackling alcohol overuse – an observational study of work processes and patient characteristics

Overuse of alcohol is a significant risk factor for early retirement. This observational study investigated patient characteristics and work processes in occupational health care (OHC) affecting practices in t...

Authors: Jarmo O. Kuronen, Klas Winell, Jelena Hartsenko and Kimmo P. Räsänen

Quantile regression analysis of the association between parental rearing and interpersonal sensitivity in Chinese adolescents

Parental rearing is well documented as an important influencing factor of interpersonal sensitivity (IS). However, little research has focused on the extent by which various aspects of parental rearing in flue...

Authors: Yafeng Zhang, Wei Tian, Yuqi Xin, Quan Zhou, Guangcan Yan, Jianqiu Zhou, Bin Wang, Yuchun Tao, Lihua Fan and Limin Wang

Time trends in type 2 diabetes mellitus incidence across the BRICS from 1990 to 2019: an age-period-cohort analysis

The incidence rate of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is rapidly increasing in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS). The present study analyzed trends in T2DM incidence rate across the BRICS ...

Authors: Panglin Sun, Haoyu Wen, Xiaoxue Liu, Yudiyang Ma, Jie Jang and Chuanhua Yu

Reliability of prisoners’ survey responses: comparison of self-reported health and biomedical data from an australian prisoner cohort

Prisoner health surveys primarily rely on self-report data. However, it is unclear whether prisoners are reliable health survey respondents. This paper aimed to determine the level of agreement between self-re...

Authors: Tony Gerard Butler, Mathew Gullotta and David Greenberg

Field epidemiology training programs contribute to COVID-19 preparedness and response globally

Field epidemiology training programs (FETPs) have trained field epidemiologists who strengthen global capacities for surveillance and response to public health threats. We describe how FETP residents and gradu...

Authors: Audrey E. Hu, Robert Fontaine, Reina Turcios-Ruiz, Aisha A. Abedi, Seymour Williams, Angela Hilmers, Eni Njoh, Elizabeth Bell, Carl Reddy, Kashef Ijaz and Henry C. Baggett

Adolescent school injuries and classroom sex compositions in German secondary schools

School injuries are an important adolescent health problem. Previous research suggests that relevant risk behaviors for school injuries, risk-taking and aggression, are highly susceptible to peer effects. Spec...

Authors: Andreas Filser, Sven Stadtmüller, Robert Lipp and Richard Preetz

Costs of breast cancer treatment incurred by women in Vietnam

There is a paucity of research on the cost of breast cancer (BC) treatment from the patient’s perspective in Vietnam.

Authors: Tran Thu Ngan, Nguyen Bao Ngoc, Hoang Van Minh, Michael Donnelly and Ciaran O’Neill

A school-based educational on-site vaccination intervention for adolescents in an urban area in Germany: feasibility and psychometric properties of instruments in a pilot study

Vaccination rates for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) and diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and polio (Tdap-IPV) are not optimal among German adolescents. Education in combination with easy access to vaccinati...

Authors: Norma Bethke, Paul Gellert, Nina Knoll, Niklas Weber and Joachim Seybold

Parental care status and sexual risk behavior in five nationally-representative surveys of sub-Saharan African nations

About 10% of children worldwide do not live with either of their biological parents, and although some of these children are orphans, many have living parents. While research shows that orphaned children in Su...

Authors: Sarah Elizabeth Neville, Indrani Saran and Thomas M. Crea

Assessment of the Cost of the Mediterranean Diet in a Low-Income Region: Adherence and Relationship with Available Incomes

The Mediterranean Diet (MD) is recognized as heart-healthy, but the economic cost associated with this type of diet has scarcely been studied.

Authors: Alessia Rubini, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto, Marta Flor-Alemany, Lorena Yeguas-Rosa, Miriam Hernández-González, Francisco Javier Félix-García, Francisco Javier Félix-Redondo and Daniel Fernández-Bergés

Implementation evaluation of a collective impact initiative to promote adolescent health in Oklahoma County, USA

The teenage birth rate in the USA has considerably decreased in recent decades; however, more innovative, collaborative approaches are needed to promote adolescent health and prevent teenage pregnancy at the c...

Authors: Whitney R. Garney, Sonya Panjwani, Kelly Wilson, Kristen E. Garcia, Sharayah Fore, Shelby C. Lautner, Laura Lang, Brittney Criswell and Ronneal Mathews

Obesity indicators as mediators of association between daytime napping and type 2 diabetes mellitus: the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study

To examine the mediating effect of obesity indicators on the association between daytime napping and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) qualitatively and quantitatively using baseline data from the Guangzhou Biob...

Authors: Jing Yi Xiao, Wei Sen Zhang, Chao Qiang Jiang, Ya Li Jin, Feng Zhu, Kar Keung Cheng, Tai Hing Lam and Lin Xu

Growth patterns of infants with in- utero HIV and ARV exposure in Cape Town, South Africa and Lusaka, Zambia

Infants born HIV-exposed yet remain uninfected (HEU) are at increased risk of poorer growth and health compared to infants born HIV-unexposed (HU). Whether maternal antiretroviral treatment (ART) in pregnancy ...

Authors: Dorothy C. Nyemba, Emma Kalk, Michael J. Vinikoor, Hlengiwe P. Madlala, Mwangelwa Mubiana-Mbewe, Maureen Mzumara, Carolyn Bolton Moore, Amy L. Slogrove, Andrew Boulle, Mary-Ann Davies, Landon Myer and Kathleen Powis

Premature mortality attributable to COVID-19: potential years of life lost in 17 countries around the world, January–August 2020

Understanding the impact of the burden of COVID-19 is key to successfully navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of a larger investigation on COVID-19 mortality impact, this study aims to estimate the Poten...

Authors: Maider Pagola Ugarte, Souzana Achilleos, Annalisa Quattrocchi, John Gabel, Ourania Kolokotroni, Constantina Constantinou, Nicoletta Nicolaou, Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Llanes, Qian Huang, Olesia Verstiuk, Nataliia Pidmurniak, Jennifer Wenjing Tao, Bo Burström, Petra Klepac, Ivan Erzen, Mario Chong…

Knowledge and Attitudes of Cypriots on Melanoma Prevention: Is there a Public Health Concern?

Melanoma is the deadliest type of skin cancer. It is the eighth most common cancer in males and the tenth in females in Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean with a high ultraviolet (UV) index. Cyprus is expe...

Authors: Demetra Kyprianou, Iris Charalambidou, Oluwaseun Famojuro, Hongmei Wang, Dejun Su and Paraskevi A. Farazi

The impact of COVID-19 on physical activity behaviour in Italian primary school children: a comparison before and during pandemic considering gender differences

The World Health Organization stated an average of 60 min of Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity (MVPA) that children should accumulate every day.

Authors: Laura Dallolio, Sofia Marini, Alice Masini, Stefania Toselli, Rita Stagni, Maria Cristina Bisi, Davide Gori, Alessia Tessari, Alessandra Sansavini, Marcello Lanari, Laura Bragonzoni and Andrea Ceciliani

A survey of depression and anxiety disorders in urban and rural Suriname

Suriname is a Low-middle income country consisting of diverse population groups. Epidemiological studies concerning mental disorders like depression and anxiety had not been conducted until 2015. The treatment...

Authors: Raj Jadnanansing, Edwin de Beurs, Kajal Etwaroo, Matthijs Blankers, Rudi Dwarkasing, Jaap Peen, Vincent Lumsden, Robbert Bipat and Jack Dekker

Cross-sectional survey of underreported violence experienced by adolescents: a study from Indonesia

Global studies on adolescent victims of violence require serious attention due to the possibility that underreported cases may be higher than official records indicate. Since Indonesia expects to witness a dem...

Authors: Yoni Syukriani, A. Noviandhari, N. Arisanti, E. P. Setiawati, V. K. Rusmil, M. Dhamayanti and N. Sekarwana

Health-related quality of life, motivational regulation and Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction in Education Outside the Classroom: an explorative longitudinal pilot study

Given a suboptimal state of mental health among children, an urgent need exists to seek approaches related to health promotion in this population’s settings, such as in schools. Increased health-related qualit...

Authors: Jan Ellinger, Filip Mess, Simon Blaschke and Christoph Mall

Association between housing and health of refugees and asylum seekers in Germany: explorative cluster and mixed model analysis

Accommodation for asylum seekers and refugees (ASR) in Germany differs in many ways depending on a range of political, structural, social, and environmental factors. These contextual differences present a chal...

Authors: Verena Dudek, Oliver Razum and Odile Sauzet

The relationship between telework from home and employee health: a systematic review

Globalization and technological progress have made telework arrangements such as telework from home (TWFH) well-established in modern economies. TWFH was rapidly and widely implemented to reduce virus spread d...

Authors: Lars-Kristian Lunde, Lise Fløvik, Jan Olav Christensen, Håkon A. Johannessen, Live Bakke Finne, Ingrid Løken Jørgensen, Benedicte Mohr and Jolien Vleeshouwers

Burden of disease study of overweight and obesity; the societal impact in terms of cost-of-illness and health-related quality of life

Little is known about the burden that overweight and obesity impose on Dutch society. The aim of this study is to examine this burden in terms of cost-of-illness and health-related quality of life.

Authors: J. Hecker, K. Freijer, M. Hiligsmann and S. M. A. A. Evers

The broad spectrum of COVID-like patients initially negative at RT-PCR testing: a cohort study

Patients that arrive in the emergency department (ED) with COVID-19-like syndromes testing negative at the first RT-PCR represent a clinical challenge because of the lack of evidence about their management ava...

Authors: Valeria Caramello, Alessandra Macciotta, Fabrizio Bar, Alessandro Mussa, Anna Maria De Leo, Alessandro Vincenzo De Salve, Fabio Nota, Carlotta Sacerdote, Fulvio Ricceri and Adriana Boccuzzi

Social determinants of malnutrition in Chilean children aged up to five

This study aimed to ascertain the Social Determinants (SDs) of malnutrition (over and undernutrition) of Chilean children aged up to five.

Authors: Sandra Alvear-Vega and Héctor Vargas-Garrido

Association of neighborhood greenness with severity of hand, foot, and mouth disease

Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is an epidemic infectious disease in China. Relationship of neighborhood greenness with human health has been widely studied, yet its association with severe HFMD has not y...

Authors: Zhicheng Du, Boyi Yang, Bin Jalaludin, Luke Knibbs, Shicheng Yu, Guanghui Dong and Yuantao Hao

Maternal internal migration and child growth and nutritional health in Peru: an analysis of the demographic and health surveys from 1991 to 2017

Peru has historically experienced high rural-to-urban migration. Despite large reductions in undernutrition, overweight is increasing. Elsewhere, internal migration has been associated with differences in chil...

Authors: Emeline Rougeaux, J. Jaime Miranda, Mary Fewtrell and Jonathan C. K. Wells

Facilitators and barriers to compliance with COVID-19 guidelines: a structural topic modelling analysis of free-text data from 17,500 UK adults

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK government implemented a series of guidelines, rules, and restrictions to change citizens’ behaviour to tackle the spread of the virus, such as the promotion of face masks ...

Authors: Liam Wright, Elise Paul, Andrew Steptoe and Daisy Fancourt

Acceptability of a real-time notification of stress and access to self-help therapies among law enforcement officers

Law enforcement officers (LEOs) are exposed to chronic stress throughout the course of their shift, which increases the risk of adverse events. Although there have been studies targeting LEO safety through enh...

Authors: Katelyn K. Jetelina, Rebecca Molsberry, Lauren Malthaner, Alaina Beauchamp, M. Brad Cannell, Trina Hall, Ed Fowler and Lonzo Anderson

Late-onset or chronic overweight/obesity predicts low self-esteem in early adolescence: a longitudinal cohort study

How weight status changes with time may affect self-esteem was seldom studied. We identified the distinct trajectories of overweight/obesity over age and assessed their associations with different domains of s...

Authors: Wei Jie Gong, Daniel Yee Tak Fong, Man Ping Wang, Tai Hing Lam, Thomas Wai Hung Chung and Sai Yin Ho

Prevalence and incidence rates of laboratory-confirmed hepatitis B infection in South Africa, 2015 to 2019

Hepatitis B virus (HBV), a global public health threat, is targeted for elimination by 2030. As national HBV prevalence and incidence is lacking for South Africa, our study aimed to provide such data in the pu...

Authors: Shelina Moonsamy, Melinda Suchard, Pavitra Pillay and Nishi Prabdial-Sing

Association between past oral contraceptive use and the prevalence of hypertension in postmenopausal women: the fifth (2010–2012) Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES V)

There is little evidence as to whether the use of oral contraceptives(OC) during the fertile years affects the development of postmenopausal hypertension. This study aimed to evaluate the association between p...

Authors: JungJu Lee, Hyunsuk Jeong, Joo Hee Yoon and Hyeon Woo Yim

Is concern for gynaecological alarm symptoms associated with healthcare-seeking? A Danish population-based cross-sectional study

Diagnosing cancer at an early stage increases survival, and for most gynaecological cancers the diagnostic pathway is initiated, when women seek medical attention with symptoms. As many factors influence healt...

Authors: Anja Schmidt Vejlgaard, Sanne Rasmussen, Peter Fentz Haastrup, Dorte Ejg Jarbøl and Kirubakaran Balasubramaniam

The Gutenberg health study: a five-year prospective analysis of psychosocial working conditions using COPSOQ (Copenhagen psychosocial questionnaire) and ERI (effort-reward imbalance)

Psychosocial working conditions were previously analyzed using the first recruitment wave of the Gutenberg Health Study (GHS) cohort (n = 5000). We aimed to confirm the initial analysis using the entire GHS popul...

Authors: Matthias Nuebling, Janice Hegewald, Karla Romero Starke, Hans-Joachim Lincke, Sylvia Jankowiak, Falk Liebers, Ute Latza, Stephan Letzel, Merle Riechmann-Wolf, Emilio Gianicolo, Manfred Beutel, Norbert Pfeiffer, Klaus Lackner, Thomas Münzel, Philipp S. Wild and Andreas Seidler

Characterizing the transmission patterns of seasonal influenza in Italy: lessons from the last decade

Despite thousands of influenza cases annually recorded by surveillance systems around the globe, estimating the transmission patterns of seasonal influenza is challenging.

Authors: Filippo Trentini, Elena Pariani, Antonino Bella, Giulio Diurno, Lucia Crottogini, Caterina Rizzo, Stefano Merler and Marco Ajelli

Association of perceived work pace and physical work demands with occupational accidents: a cross-sectional study of ageing male construction workers in Denmark

Occupational accidents continue to be a significant public health challenge worldwide. Construction workers in particular are at high risk of occupational accidents, and thus it is of major importance to ident...

Authors: Pernille Weber Hansen, Vivi Schlünssen, Kirsten Fonager, Jakob Hjort Bønløkke, Claus D. Hansen and Henrik Bøggild

Background predictors of time to death in infancy: evidence from a survival analysis of the 2018 Nigeria DHS data

Nigeria’s child health profile is quite concerning with an infant mortality rate of 67 deaths per 1000 live births and a significant slowing down in progress towards improving child health outcomes. Nigeria’s ...

Authors: Michael Kunnuji, Idongesit Eshiet, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Temitope Omogbemi and Sanni Yaya

The impact of clinical and population strategies on coronary heart disease mortality: an assessment of Rose’s big idea

Coronary heart disease (CHD), the leading cause of death worldwide, has declined in many affluent countries but it continues to rise in industrializing countries.

Authors: Mohadeseh Ahmadi and Bruce Lanphear