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  1. Osteoarthritis is the most common reason for pain in older adults, and the individual and economic burden of this disease is immense. The chronic character of osteoarthritis requires a long-term therapeutic tr...

    Authors: Inga Krauss, Gerhard Mueller, Georg Haupt, Benjamin Steinhilber, Pia Janssen, Nicola Jentner and Peter Martus
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:367
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  2. American Indian adults are more likely to experience co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders than adults of other racial/ethnic groups and are disproportionately burdened by the most common sexu...

    Authors: Rachel Chambers, Lauren Tingey, Anna Beach, Allison Barlow and Anne Rompalo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:366
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  3. The obesity epidemic is associated with rising rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) among adults, particularly in countries undergoing rapid urbanisation and nutrition transition. This study explored the perc...

    Authors: Kufre Joseph Okop, Ferdinand C. Mukumbang, Thubelihle Mathole, Naomi Levitt and Thandi Puoane
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:365
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  4. The lifestyles of family caregivers pose risks to their physical, mental and social health. The capability to stay healthy may be protective in the context of poor socioeconomic conditions and risk behaviours,...

    Authors: Barbara Bucki, Elisabeth Spitz, Anne-Marie Etienne, Etienne Le Bihan and Michèle Baumann
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:364
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  5. Although alcohol consumption has long been considered as a risk factor for chronic disease, the relationship to cardiovascular disease (CVD) is complex and involves at least two dimensions: average volume of a...

    Authors: Jürgen Rehm, Kevin D. Shield, Michael Roerecke and Gerrit Gmel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:363
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  6. Strict restrictions on outdoor cigarette marketing have resulted in increasing concentration of cigarette marketing at the point-of-sale (POS). The association between POS cigarette marketing and smoking-induc...

    Authors: Mohammad Siahpush, Raees A. Shaikh, Regina Robbins, Melissa Tibbits, Asia Sikora Kessler, Ghada Soliman, Molly McCarthy and Gopal K. Singh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:302
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  7. Masons have the highest rate of overexertion injuries among all construction trades and rank second for occupational back injuries in the United States. Identified ergonomic solutions are the primary method of...

    Authors: Laurel D. Kincl, Dan Anton, Jennifer A. Hess and Douglas L. Weeks
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:362
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  8. The effect of seasons on health outcomes is a reflection on the status of public health and the state of development in a given society. Evidence shows that in Sub-Saharan Africa, most infectious diseases flou...

    Authors: Japheth Kwiringira, Peter Atekyereza, Charles Niwagaba, Robert Kabumbuli, Charles Rwabukwali, Robinah Kulabako and Isabel Günther
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:361
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  9. Sedentary behaviours (SB) can be characterized by low energy expenditure in a reclining position (e.g., sitting) often associated with work and transport. Prolonged SB is associated with increased risk for chr...

    Authors: Clarice N. Waters, Er Pei Ling, Anne H. Y. Chu, Sheryl H. X. Ng, Audrey Chia, Yee Wei Lim and Falk Müller-Riemenschneider
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:360
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  10. Unhealthy eating habits in adolescence lead to a wide variety of health problems and disorders. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of absence of parental rules on eating and unhealthy eating be...

    Authors: Jana Holubcikova, Peter Kolarcik, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Jitse P. van Dijk and Sijmen A. Reijneveld
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:359
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  11. Timely initiation of antiretroviral treatment (ART) requires sustained engagement in HIV care before treatment eligibility. We assessed loss to follow-up (LTFU) correlates in HIV-positive adults accessing HIV ...

    Authors: Michael Evangeli, Marie-Louise Newell and Nuala McGrath
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:358
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  12. In South Africa, voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) has recently been implemented as a strategy for reducing the risk of heterosexual HIV acquisition among men. However, there is some concern that VMMC...

    Authors: N. P. Zungu, L. C. Simbayi, M. Mabaso, M. Evans, K. Zuma, N. Ncitakalo and S. Sifunda
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:357
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  13. In the past two decades, rates of suicide mortality have declined among most OECD member states. Two notable exceptions are Japan and South Korea, where suicide mortality has increased by 20 % and 280 %, respe...

    Authors: Sun Y. Jeon, Eric N. Reither and Ryan K. Masters
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:356
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  15. Health facility data are more readily accessible for operational planning and evaluation of disease control programmes. The importance, potential challenges and limitations of using facility based survey as an...

    Authors: Abraham Rexford Oduro, Ernest Tei Maya, James Akazili, Frank Baiden, Kwadwo Koram and Kalifa Bojang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:354
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  16. Worksite health promotion (WHP) initiatives are increasingly seen as having potential for large-scale health gains. While health insurance premiums are directly linked to workplaces in the USA, other countries...

    Authors: A. W. Taylor, R. Pilkington, A. Montgomerie and H. Feist
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:353
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  17. In Australia, 61.5 % of children aged 3–4 attend Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) programs. Children’s experiences within these programs vary widely and impact directly on educational wellbeing and so...

    Authors: Collette Tayler, Daniel Cloney, Ray Adams, Karin Ishimine, Karen Thorpe and Thi Kim Cuc Nguyen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:352
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  18. Hypertension is the leading cardiovascular risk factor globally as well as in Malaysia. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence, awareness, treatment, control and the socio demographic determinants of hype...

    Authors: Suraya Abdul-Razak, Aqil Mohammad Daher, Anis Safura Ramli, Farnaza Ariffin, Md Yasin Mazapuspavina, Krishnapillai S. Ambigga, Maizatullifah Miskan, Hasidah Abdul-Hamid, Nafiza Mat-Nasir, Mohamed Noor Khan Nor-Ashikin, Kien Keat Ng, Hapizah Nawawi and Khalid Yusoff
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:351
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  19. Stress-related health problems (e.g., work-related exhaustion) are a societal concern in many postindustrial countries. Experience suggests that early detection and intervention are crucial in preventing long-...

    Authors: Roger Persson, Kai Österberg, Njördur Viborg, Peter Jönsson and Artur Tenenbaum
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:350
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  20. The Bristol Girls Dance Project was a cluster randomised controlled trial that aimed to increase objectively measured moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) levels of Year 7 (age 11–12) girls through a ...

    Authors: S. J. Sebire, M. J. Edwards, J. M. Kesten, T. May, K. J. Banfield, E. L. Bird, K. Tomkinson, P. Blair, J. E. Powell and R. Jago
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:349
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  22. Fish consumption may have a role in reducing the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS). The aim of this study was to identify associations between fish consumption and MetS and its components, especially reg...

    Authors: C. Tørris, M. Molin and M. Småstuen Cvancarova
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:347
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  23. Sufficient daily physical activity (PA) is necessary for physical, social and mental health benefits during growth. Most of the available data on children is based on subjective reports, while only limited dat...

    Authors: Eva-Maria Riso, Merike Kull, Kerli Mooses, Aave Hannus and Jaak Jürimäe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:346
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  24. Our aim was to use participatory methods to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of using Bingo clubs for the design and delivery of an evidence-based physical activity and/or healthy eating intervent...

    Authors: Josie M. M. Evans, Gemma Ryde, Ruth Jepson, Cindy Gray, Ashley Shepherd, Dionne Mackison, Aileen V. Ireland, Marion E. T. McMurdo and Brian Williams
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:345
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  25. Healthy Alberta Communities (HAC) was a 3-year community-based intervention to reduce lifestyle-related risk factors for chronic disease and obesity at a population-level. The current paper examines changes in...

    Authors: Ellina Lytvyak, Dana Lee Olstad, Donald P. Schopflocher, Ronald C. Plotnikoff, Kate E. Storey, Candace I. J. Nykiforuk and Kim D. Raine
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:344
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  26. Risky sexual behaviors of adolescents in Mexico are a public health problem; 33.4 % of adolescent girls and 14.7 % of boys report not having used any protection at their first intercourse. The fertility rate i...

    Authors: Svetlana V. Doubova, Claudia Infante-Castañeda and Ricardo Pérez-Cuevas
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:343
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  27. Work stress may impair physicians’ ability to provide high quality patient care. Prior research remains however sparse and has insufficiently explored explanations for this relationship. It has been suggested ...

    Authors: Adrian Loerbroks, Matthias Weigl, Jian Li and Peter Angerer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:342
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  28. Reliable assessment of children’s dietary behaviour is needed for research purposes. The aim of this study was (1) to investigate the level of agreement between observed and child-reported break-time food item...

    Authors: V. M. van de Gaar, W. Jansen, M. J. J. van der Kleij and H. Raat
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:341
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  29. Many ethnic minority populations have poorer health than the general population. However, there is limited knowledge on the possible ethnic gap in physical mobility. We aim to examine the prevalence of mobilit...

    Authors: S. Rask, P. Sainio, A. E. Castaneda, T. Härkänen, S. Stenholm, P. Koponen and S. Koskinen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:340
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  30. Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a global public health concern. While community-level gender norms and attitudes to IPV are recognised drivers of IPV risk, there is little evidence on how inte...

    Authors: Tanya Abramsky, Karen M. Devries, Lori Michau, Janet Nakuti, Tina Musuya, Ligia Kiss, Nambusi Kyegombe and Charlotte Watts
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:339
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  31. Regular physical activity (PA) forms the basis for healthy growth and development. High volume of sedentary behavior (SB) on the other hand is harmful for health. The purpose of the study was to describe objec...

    Authors: Pauliina Husu, Henri Vähä-Ypyä and Tommi Vasankari
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:338
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  32. To investigate differences in return to work (RTW) and employment trajectories in individuals on sick leave for either mental health reasons or other health related reasons.

    Authors: Pernille Pedersen, Thomas Lund, Louise Lindholdt, Ellen A. Nohr, Chris Jensen, Hans Jørgen Søgaard and Merete Labriola
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:337
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  33. Sense of Coherence (SOC) is considered as a health-promoting resource; it is mainly developed before the age of 30. The multiple demands university students face, such as study-related stress and financial dif...

    Authors: Janet Junqing Chu, Mobarak Hossain Khan, Heiko J. Jahn and Alexander Kraemer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:336
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  34. Burnout is a psychosomatic syndrome characterized by three dimensions (emotional exhaustion [EE], feelings of depersonalization [DP], and reduced personal accomplishment [PA]). We determined the prevalence of ...

    Authors: Zhengxue Qiao, Lu Chen, Mingqi Chen, Xin Guan, Lin Wang, Yang Jiao, Jiarun Yang, Qinghua Tang, Xiuxian Yang, Xiaohui Qiu, Dong Han, Jingsong Ma, Yanjie Yang and Xiuwei Zhai
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:335
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  35. Health systems are not considered to be significantly influenced by European Union (EU) policies given the subsidiarity principle. Yet, recent developments including the patients’ rights and cross-border direc...

    Authors: Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, Kristine Sorensen, Christoph Aluttis, Roderick Pace and Helmut Brand
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:334
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  36. Socioeconomic status (SES) is often inversely related to health outcomes and is likely to play a role in the use of psychoactive substances among young individuals, although little consensus exists on the asso...

    Authors: Eleni Charitonidi, Joseph Studer, Jacques Gaume, Gerhard Gmel, Jean-Bernard Daeppen and Nicolas Bertholet
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:333
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  37. Persons with a mental illness are less likely to be successful in attempts to quit smoking. A number of smoking and environmental characteristics have been shown to be related to quitting behaviour and motivat...

    Authors: Alexandra P. Metse, John Wiggers, Paula Wye, Lyndell Moore, Richard Clancy, Luke Wolfenden, Megan Freund, Tara Van Zeist, Emily Stockings and Jenny A. Bowman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:332
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  38. Uptake of and adherence to the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) interventions are a challenge to most women if there is no male partner involvement. Organizations which include the Nat...

    Authors: Annamercy Makoni, Milton Chemhuru, Cleopas Chimbetete, Notion Gombe, More Mungati, Donewell Bangure and Mufuta Tshimanga
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:331
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  39. Adolescents in South Africa are at high risk of acquiring HIV. The HIV vaccination of adolescents could reduce HIV incidence and mortality. The potential impact and cost-effectiveness of a national school-base...

    Authors: Nishila Moodley, Glenda Gray and Melanie Bertram
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:330
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  40. Achievement of the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets in Sub-Sahara Africa is challenged by a weak care-cascade with poor linkage to care and retention in care. Community-based HIV testing and counselling (HTC) is widely...

    Authors: Niklaus Daniel Labhardt, Isaac Ringera, Thabo Ishmael Lejone, Phofu Masethothi, T’sepang Thaanyane, Mashaete Kamele, Ravi Shankar Gupta, Kyaw Thin, Bernard Cerutti, Thomas Klimkait, Christiane Fritz and Tracy Renée Glass
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:329
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  42. The ubiquity of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure at home or in private establishments, workplaces and public areas poses several challenges for the reduction of SHS exposure. This study aimed to describe the pr...

    Authors: Florian Fischer and Alexander Kraemer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:327
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  43. Research to increase children’s physical activity and inform intervention design has, to date, largely underrepresented children’s voices. Further, research has been limited to singular qualitative methods tha...

    Authors: Robert J. Noonan, Lynne M. Boddy, Stuart J. Fairclough and Zoe R. Knowles
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:326
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  44. Most adolescents begin alcohol consumption during adolescence, heavy alcohol use by adolescents is common, and alcohol-related harm amongst adolescents is a major public health burden. Parents are a common sou...

    Authors: Adrian B. Kelly, Gary C. K. Chan, Megan Weier, Catherine Quinn, Matthew J. Gullo, Jason P. Connor and Wayne D. Hall
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:325
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  45. We aimed to establish the frequency and characteristics (e.g. socioeconomic, pre-injury, and crash-related parameters) of injured bicyclists and other injured road users.

    Authors: Bamini Gopinath, Jagnoor Jagnoor, Ashley Craig, Annette Kifley, Michael Dinh, Rebecca Ivers, Soufiane Boufous and Ian D. Cameron
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:324
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  46. A process evaluation of a participatory supportive return to work program, aimed at workers without a (permanent) employment contract who are sick-listed due to a common mental disorder, revealed that this pro...

    Authors: Lieke Lammerts, Frederieke G. Schaafsma, Willem van Mechelen and Johannes R. Anema
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:323
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  47. Surface water contaminated with human waste may transmit urogenital schistosomiasis (UGS). Water-related activities that allow skin exposure place people at risk, but public health practitioners know little ab...

    Authors: Karen Claire Kosinski, Alexandra V. Kulinkina, Akua Frimpomaa Atakora Abrah, Michael N. Adjei, Kara Marie Breen, Hafsa Myedah Chaudhry, Paul E. Nevin, Suzanne H. Warner and Shalini Ahuja Tendulkar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:322
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  48. Pay for Performance (P4P) mechanisms to health facilities and providers are currently being tested in several low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) to improve maternal and child health (MCH). This paper revi...

    Authors: Ashis Das, Saji S. Gopalan and Daniel Chandramohan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:321
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  49. We conducted a systematic review to obtain studies on childhood obesity and parenting published between 2009 and 2015, and draw out those studies with a particular focus on media parenting. Our analysis addres...

    Authors: Alyssa Aftosmes-Tobio, Claudia Ganter, Selma Gicevic, Sami Newlan, Christine L. Simon, Kirsten K. Davison and Jennifer A. Manganello
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:320
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  50. There has been a rapid increase in the retail availability of e-cigarettes in the UK and elsewhere. It is known that exposure to cigarette point-of-sale (POS) displays influences smoking behaviour and intentio...

    Authors: Catherine Best, Farhana Haseen, Winfried van der Sluijs, Gozde Ozakinci, Dorothy Currie, Douglas Eadie, Martine Stead, Anne Marie MacKintosh, Jamie Pearce, Catherine Tisch, Andy MacGregor, Amanda Amos, John Frank and Sally Haw
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:310
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