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  1. Stunting in early life has considerable human and economic costs. The purpose of the study was to identify factors associated with stunting among children aged 0-23 months in Indonesia to inform the design of ...

    Authors: Harriet Torlesse, Aidan Anthony Cronin, Susy Katikana Sebayang and Robin Nandy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:669
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Government social assistance payments seek to alleviate poverty and address survival needs, but their monthly disbursement may cue increases in illicit drug use. This cue may be magnified when assistance is di...

    Authors: Lindsey Richardson, Allison Laing, M-J Milloy, Russ Maynard, Bohdan Nosyk, Brandon Marshall, Eric Grafstein, Patricia Daly, Evan Wood, Julio Montaner and Thomas Kerr
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:668
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  3. Physical activity (PA) is a key factor for facing the increasing prevalence of obesity and overweight, and should be part of every public health programs. In this context, a community-based public health progr...

    Authors: Camille Buscail, Mehdi Menai, Benoît Salanave, Paul Daval, Marjorie Painsecq, Pierre Lombrail, Serge Hercberg and Chantal Julia
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:667
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. To examine the extent to which state adoption of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2006 revisions to adult and adolescent HIV testing guidelines is associated with availability of other impo...

    Authors: Jemima A. Frimpong, Thomas D’Aunno, Stéphane Helleringer and Lisa R. Metsch
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:666
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Elevated blood pressure in childhood is a risk factor for adult hypertension which is a global health problem. Excess adiposity in childhood creates a predisposition to develop adult hypertension. Our aim was ...

    Authors: Richard J. Munthali, Juliana Kagura, Zané Lombard and Shane A. Norris
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:665
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  6. Multiple studies show that obesity and depression tend to cluster in women. An “appearance concern” pathway has been proposed as one basic explanation of why higher weights might lead to depression. The transi...

    Authors: Seung-Yong Han, Alexandra A. Brewis and Amber Wutich
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:664
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. In Spain, several ecological studies have analyzed trends in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality from all causes in urban areas over time. However, the results of these studies are quite heterogeneous find...

    Authors: Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo, Mercè Gotsens, Laia Palència, Maica Rodríguez-Sanz, Miguel A. Martinez-Beneito, Mónica Ballesta, Montse Calvo, Lluís Cirera, Antonio Daponte, Felicitas Domínguez-Berjón, Ana Gandarillas, Natividad Izco Goñi, Carmen Martos, Conchi Moreno-Iribas, Andreu Nolasco, Diego Salmerón…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:663
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Few studies have explored risk factors for poor mental health in Ugandan primary schools. This study investigated whether individual- and contextual-level school-related factors including violence from school ...

    Authors: Barbara F. Thumann, Ula Nur, Dipak Naker and Karen M. Devries
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:662
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  10. Female sex workers (FSWs) are at increased risk of HIV and STIs compared to women in the general population, and frequently experience violence in their working and domestic lives from a variety of perpetrator...

    Authors: Tara S. Beattie, Shajy Isac, Parinita Bhattacharjee, Prakash Javalkar, Calum Davey, T. Raghavendra, Sapna Nair, Satyanarayana Ramanaik, D. L. Kavitha, James F. Blanchard, Charlotte Watts, Martine Collumbien, Stephen Moses and Lori Heise
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:660
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  11. Involvement in a compensation process following a motor vehicle collision is consistently associated with worse health status but the reasons underlying this are unclear. Some compensation systems are hypothes...

    Authors: Nieke A. Elbers, Alex Collie, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Katherine Lippel, Keri Lockwood and Ian D. Cameron
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:658
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. Risk behaviours, such as smoking and physical inactivity account for up to two-thirds of all cardiovascular deaths, and are associated with substantial increased mortality in many conditions including cancer a...

    Authors: Nick Meader, Kristelle King, Thirimon Moe-Byrne, Kath Wright, Hilary Graham, Mark Petticrew, Chris Power, Martin White and Amanda J. Sowden
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:657
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. HIV-related mHealth interventions have demonstrable efficacy in supporting treatment adherence, although the evidence base for promoting HIV testing is inconclusive. Progress is constrained by a limited unders...

    Authors: C. Evans, K. Turner, L. S. Suggs, A. Occa, A. Juma and H. Blake
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:656
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2016 16:948

  14. Scotland has a persistently high mortality rate that is not solely due to the effects of socio-economic deprivation. This “excess” mortality is observed across the entire country, but is greatest in and around...

    Authors: M. Smith, A. E. Williamson, D. Walsh and G. McCartney
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:655
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  15. Stunting among children under five years old is associated with long-term effects on cognitive development, school achievement, economic productivity in adulthood and maternal reproductive outcomes. Accurate e...

    Authors: Damaris K. Kinyoki, James A. Berkley, Grainne M. Moloney, Elijah O. Odundo, Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala and Abdisalan M. Noor
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:654
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. Thailand is 18th out of the 22 countries with the highest tuberculosis (TB) burden. It will be a challenge for Thailand to achieve the UN Millennium Development target for TB, as well as the new WHO targets fo...

    Authors: Jiraporn Choowong, Per Tillgren and Maja Söderbäck
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:653
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. Due to lack of culturally relevant assessment tools, little is known about children’s developmental profiles in low income settings such as Ethiopia. The objective of this study was to adapt and standardize th...

    Authors: Teklu Gemechu Abessa, Berhanu Nigussie Worku, Mekitie Wondafrash Kibebew, Jan Valy, Johan Lemmens, Herbert Thijs, Wondwosen Kasahun Yimer, Patrick Kolsteren and Marita Granitzer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:652
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. Poor diets are a leading cause of disease burden worldwide. In Australia, the Federal Government established the Food and Health Dialogue (the Dialogue) in 2009 to address this issue, primarily through food re...

    Authors: Alexandra Jones, Roger Magnusson, Boyd Swinburn, Jacqui Webster, Amanda Wood, Gary Sacks and Bruce Neal
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:651
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. The Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds (CAHHM) is a pan-Canadian, prospective, multi-ethnic cohort study being conducted in Canada. The overarching objective of the CAHHM is to understand the assoc...

    Authors: Sonia S. Anand, Jack V. Tu, Philip Awadalla, Sandra Black, Catherine Boileau, David Busseuil, Dipika Desai, Jean-Pierre Després, Russell J. de Souza, Trevor Dummer, Sébastien Jacquemont, Bartha Knoppers, Eric Larose, Scott A. Lear, Francois Marcotte, Alan R. Moody…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:650
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  20. Multimorbidity is increasingly being recognized as a serious public health concern. Research into its determinants, prevalence, and management is needed and as the risk of experiencing multiple chronic conditi...

    Authors: Jessica Li, Mark Green, Ben Kearns, Eleanor Holding, Christine Smith, Annette Haywood, Cindy Cooper, Mark Strong and Clare Relton
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:649
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Children enrolled in Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) programs are at high risks of health problems. Although non-family child care providers play important roles on children’s health status as role mode...

    Authors: Won O. Song, SuJin Song, Violeta Nieves, Andie Gonzalez and Elahé T. Crockett
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:648
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Young novice drivers have crash rates higher than any other age group. To address this problem, graduated driver licensing (GDL) laws have been implemented in the United States to require an extended learner p...

    Authors: Motao Zhu, Peter Cummings, Songzhu Zhao and Thomas Rice
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:647
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Estimated medical costs (“T”) and QALYs (“Q”) associated with smoking are frequently used in cost-utility analyses of tobacco control interventions. The goal of this study was to understand how researchers hav...

    Authors: Shari P. Feirman, Allison M. Glasser, Lyubov Teplitskaya, David R. Holtgrave, David B. Abrams, Raymond S. Niaura and Andrea C. Villanti
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:646
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Health communications often present graphic, threat-based representations of the potential consequences of health-risk behaviours. These ‘threat appeals’ feature prominently in public health campaigns, but the...

    Authors: Rachel N. Carey and Kiran M. Sarma
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:645
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Different analytical techniques have been used to study the determinants of overweight. However, certain commonly used techniques may be limited by the continuous nature and skewed distribution of body mass in...

    Authors: Leidjaira Lopes Juvanhol, Raquel Martins Lana, Renata Cabrelli, Leonardo Soares Bastos, Aline Araújo Nobre, Lúcia Rotenberg and Rosane Härter Griep
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:642
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Tuberculosis (TB) incidence data in vaccine target populations, particularly adolescents, are important for designing and powering vaccine clinical trials. Little is known about the incidence of tuberculosis a...

    Authors: Dharma Rao Uppada, Sumithra Selvam, Nelson Jesuraj, Esther L. Lau, T. Mark Doherty, Harleen M. S. Grewal, Mario Vaz and Bernt Lindtjørn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:641
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. Advocates for environmental justice, local, state, and national public health officials, exposure scientists, need broad-based health indices to identify vulnerable communities. Longitudinal studies show that ...

    Authors: Jane E. Gallagher, Adrien A. Wilkie, Alissa Cordner, Edward E. Hudgens, Andrew J. Ghio, Rebecca J. Birch and Timothy J. Wade
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:640
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Unhealthy lifestyles in early childhood are a major global health challenge. These lifestyles often persist from generation to generation and contribute to a vicious cycle of health-related and social problems...

    Authors: M. Willeboordse, M. W. Jansen, S. N. van den Heijkant, A. Simons, B. Winkens, R.H.M. de Groot, N. Bartelink, S. P. Kremers, P. van Assema, H. H. Savelberg, E. de Neubourg, L. Borghans, T. Schils, K. M. Coppens, R. Dietvorst, R. ten Hoopen…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:639
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2017 17:314

  31. Evidence linking caries in primary dentition and children’s anthropometric measures is contradictory. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of primary dental caries and its relationship with body mass index (BMI...

    Authors: Jing-jing Liang, Zhe-qing Zhang, Ya-jun Chen, Jin-cheng Mai, Jun Ma, Wen-han Yang and Jin Jing
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:638
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. Diabetes mellitus (DM) appears to be a global epidemic and an increasingly major non-communicable disease threatening both affluent and non-affluent society. The study aimed to determine the knowledge of diabe...

    Authors: Yaa Obirikorang, Christian Obirikorang, Enoch Odame Anto, Emmanuel Acheampong, Emmanuella Nsenbah Batu, Agyemang Duah Stella, Omerige Constance and Peter Kojo Brenya
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:637
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. Evidences show that the burden of overweight and obesity is increasing in developing countries, particularly among urban women. Despite this worrying trend and the recognition of the emerging problem of chroni...

    Authors: Solomon Abrha, Solomon Shiferaw and Kedir Y. Ahmed
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:636
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. Sedentary behaviours (time spent sitting, with low energy expenditure) are associated with deleterious health outcomes, including all-cause mortality. Whether this association can be considered causal has yet ...

    Authors: Stuart J. H. Biddle, Jason A. Bennie, Adrian E. Bauman, Josephine Y. Chau, David Dunstan, Neville Owen, Emmanuel Stamatakis and Jannique G. Z. van Uffelen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:635
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. Living in a socially deprived neighborhood is associated with lifestyle risk factors, e.g., smoking, physical inactivity and unhealthy diet, as well as an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, i.e., corona...

    Authors: Susanna Calling, Xinjun Li, Naomi Kawakami, Tsuyoshi Hamano and Kristina Sundquist
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:634
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. Despite considerable reductions in malaria achieved by scaling-up long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS), maintaining sustained community protection remains operationally cha...

    Authors: George Mtove, Joseph P. Mugasa, Louisa A. Messenger, Robert C. Malima, Peter Mangesho, Franklin Magogo, Mateusz Plucinski, Ramadhan Hashimu, Johnson Matowo, Donald Shepard, Bernard Batengana, Jackie Cook, Basiliana Emidi, Yara Halasa, Robert Kaaya, Aggrey Kihombo…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:633
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2016 16:1195

  37. Persistent high levels of under-nutrition in India despite economic growth continue to challenge political leadership and policy makers at the highest level. The present inductive enquiry was conducted to map ...

    Authors: S. Chaturvedi, S. Ramji, N. K. Arora, S. Rewal, R. Dasgupta and V. Deshmukh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:632
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. As average life span increases, elderly will account for an increasing proportion of the total population in most parts of the world. Thus, initiatives to retain older workers at the labor market are becoming ...

    Authors: Emil Sundstrup, Åse Marie Hansen, Erik Lykke Mortensen, Otto Melchior Poulsen, Thomas Clausen, Reiner Rugulies, Anne Møller and Lars Louis Andersen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:629
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  39. Several recent studies have described the presence of musculoskeletal complaints, presenting evidence that multisite musculoskeletal pain (MP) is more often present than single-site musculoskeletal pain. Howev...

    Authors: Rita de Cássia Pereira Fernandes, Silvana Maria da Silva Pataro, Roberta Brasileiro de Carvalho and Alex Burdorf
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:628
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2016 16:1131

  40. Health behaviour patterns in older groups, including tobacco and alcohol use, are key factors in chronic disease prevention. We explore ageing self-perceptions as motivating factors behind smoking and drinking...

    Authors: Amanda Villiers-Tuthill, Antoinette Copley, Hannah McGee and Karen Morgan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:627
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Physical activity and health literacy are topics of utmost importance in the prevention of chronic diseases. The present article describes the study protocol for evaluating a cross-provider workplace-related i...

    Authors: Andrea Schaller, Lea Dejonghe, Adrienne Alayli-Goebbels, Bianca Biallas and Ingo Froboese
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:626
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  42. Maternal obesity is associated with risks to mother and infant, and has implications for healthcare costs. United Kingdom (UK) levels of maternal obesity are rising, with higher prevalence in North East (NE) E...

    Authors: Sarah Dinsdale, Kay Branch, Lindsay Cook and Janet Shucksmith
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:625
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Comorbidity between problem gambling and depression or anxiety is common. Further, the treatment needs of people with co-occurring gambling and mental health symptoms may be different from those of problem gam...

    Authors: John A. Cunningham, David C. Hodgins, Kylie Bennett, Anthony Bennett, Marina Talevski, Corey S. Mackenzie and Christian S. Hendershot
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:624
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  44. Previous studies have stressed the importance of tobacco exposure for the mood disorders of depression and anxiety. Although a few studies have focused on perinatal women, none have specifically considered the...

    Authors: Shu-Chuan Weng, Jian-Pei Huang, Ya-Li Huang, Tony Szu-Hsien Lee and Yi-Hua Chen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:623
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. The sale of contraband tobacco allows for tobacco tax evasion, which can undermine the effectiveness of tobacco tax policies in reducing the number of smokers. Estimates of the proportion of contraband vary wi...

    Authors: Julie Stratton, Samantha Shiplo, Megan Ward, Alexey Babayan, Adam Stevens and Sarah Edwards
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:622
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. The aim of this paper was to ascertain whether greater familiarity with a smartphone or tablet was associated with participants’ preferred mobile delivery modality for eHealth interventions.

    Authors: Daniel Granger, Corneel Vandelanotte, Mitch J. Duncan, Stephanie Alley, Stephanie Schoeppe, Camille Short and Amanda Rebar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:619
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of the Give-it-a-Go programme, which offers free leisure centre memberships to physically inactive members of the public in a single London Borough receiving state benefits.

    Authors: Talitha I. Verhoef, Verena Trend, Barry Kelly, Nigel Robinson, Paul Fox and Stephen Morris
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:616
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Worldwide, every year 289,000 women die related to pregnancy and its complications. Nearly, all of these deaths occur in developing countries and more than half of this deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa. Repo...

    Authors: Abdulbasit Musa, Nega Assefa, Fitsum Weldegebreal, Habtamu Mitiku and Zelalem Teklemariam
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:614
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Action to avert maternal and child mortality was propelled by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000. The Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region has shown promise in achieving the MDGs in many coun...

    Authors: Lauren Arnesen, Thomas O’Connell, Luisa Brumana and Pablo Durán
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:613
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Alcohol consumption during attempts at smoking cessation can provoke relapse and so smokers are often advised to restrict their alcohol consumption during this time. This study assessed at a population-level w...

    Authors: Jamie Brown, Robert West, Emma Beard, Alan Brennan, Colin Drummond, Duncan Gillespie, Matthew Hickman, John Holmes, Eileen Kaner and Susan Michie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:535
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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