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  1. The South African government is striving for universal access to HIV counselling and testing (HCT), a fundamental component of HIV care and prevention. In the Cape Town district, Western Cape Province of South...

    Authors: Sue-Ann Meehan, Natalie Leon, Pren Naidoo, Karen Jennings, Ronelle Burger and Nulda Beyers
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:845
  2. Whether or not to vaccinate one’s child is one of the first health-related decisions parents have to make after their child’s birth. For the past 20 years, the share of parents choosing not to immunize their c...

    Authors: Marta Fadda, Miriam K. Depping and Peter J. Schulz
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:836
  3. Making the built environment accessible for all regardless of functional capacity is an important goal for public health efforts. Considerable impediments to achieving this goal suggest the need for valid meas...

    Authors: Björn Slaug, Oliver Schilling, Susanne Iwarsson and Gunilla Carlsson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:834
  4. Physical inactivity is a growing public health concern. Use of mobile applications (apps) may be a powerful tool to encourage physical activity and a healthy lifestyle. For instance, apps may be used in the pr...

    Authors: Joan Martine Dallinga, Matthijs Mennes, Laurence Alpay, Harmen Bijwaard and Marije Baart de la Faille-Deutekom
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:833
  5. Detecting novel healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) as early as possible is an important public health priority. However, there is currently no evidence base to guide the design of efficient and reliable s...

    Authors: B. A. D. van Bunnik, M. Ciccolini, C. L. Gibbons, G. Edwards, R. Fitzgerald, P. R. McAdam, M. J. Ward, I. F. Laurenson and M. E. J. Woolhouse
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:832
  6. Smoking remains a leading health risk factor among Europeans. Tobacco, together with other factors, will lead to an expansive epidemic of chronic diseases, including COPD, among the working population in Russi...

    Authors: Elena Andreeva, Marina Pokhaznikova, Anatoly Lebedev, Irina Moiseeva, Anton Kozlov, Olga Kuznetsova and Jean-Marie Degryse
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:831
  7. High blood pressure is the principal risk factor for stroke, heart failure and kidney failure in the young population in Africa. Control of hypertension is associated with a larger reduction in morbidity and m...

    Authors: James Kayima, Joaniter Nankabirwa, Isaac Sinabulya, Jane Nakibuuka, Xiaofeng Zhu, Mahboob Rahman, Christopher T. Longenecker, Achilles Katamba, Harriet Mayanja-Kizza and Moses R. Kamya
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:830
  8. Peripheral arterial disease (PAD), a slowly progressive atherosclerotic disease affecting vital organs of the body, is increasingly recognized as a health burden worldwide. Epidemiological information on perip...

    Authors: Janaka Weragoda, Rohini Seneviratne, Manuj C. Weerasinghe, Mandika Wijeyaratne and Anil Samaranayaka
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:829
  9. Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the predominant cause of death globally. The large health disparities in the distribution of the burden of disease seen in developed and developing countries are of growing co...

    Authors: Damian K. Francis, Nadia R. Bennett, Trevor S. Ferguson, Anselm JM Hennis, Rainford J. Wilks, E. Nigel Harris, Marlene MY MacLeish and Louis W. Sullivan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:828
  10. Serodiscordance exists when the known HIV result of one member of a couple pair is positive while that of his/her partner is negative. In sub-Saharan Africa, in stable long-term couple partnerships (married or...

    Authors: Amobi Andrew Onovo, Iboro Ekpo Nta, Aaron Anyebe Onah, Chukwuemeka Arinze Okolo, Ahmad Aliyu, Patrick Dakum, Akinyemi Olumuyiwa Atobatele and Pamela Gado
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:827
  11. Ethiopia has been providing free Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) since 2005 for HIV/AIDS patients. ART improves survival time and quality of life of HIV patients but ART treatment outcomes might be affected by ...

    Authors: Wondimu Ayele, Afework Mulugeta, Alem Desta and Felicia A. Rabito
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:826
  12. By September 2014, an outbreak of Ebola Viral Disease (EVD) in West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Senegal and Nigeria, had recorded over 4500 and 2200 probable or confirmed cases and deat...

    Authors: Abdulaziz Mohammed, Taiwo Lateef Sheikh, Saheed Gidado, Gabriele Poggensee, Patrick Nguku, Adebola Olayinka, Chima Ohuabunwo, Ndadilnasiya Waziri, Faisal Shuaib, Joseph Adeyemi, Ogbonna Uzoma, Abubakar Ahmed, Funmi Doherty, Sarah Beysolow Nyanti, Charles Kyalo Nzuki, Abdulsalami Nasidi…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:824
  13. In 2013, about 32 % of the Australian population over 15 years of age was born overseas. Previous cancer-related immigrant health studies identified differences in mortality and incidence between immigrants an...

    Authors: Eleonora Feletto and Freddy Sitas
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:823
  14. Foodborne illness has a large public health and economic burden worldwide, and many cases are associated with food handled and prepared at home. Educational interventions are necessary to improve consumer food...

    Authors: Ian Young, Lisa Waddell, Shannon Harding, Judy Greig, Mariola Mascarenhas, Bhairavi Sivaramalingam, Mai T. Pham and Andrew Papadopoulos
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:822
  15. Substance use of adolescents was investigated in a region around Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in the period 2005–2009. The study was intended to find out to what extent behaviour related to different substances...

    Authors: Claudia E. Verhagen, Daan G. Uitenbroek, Emilie J. Schreuders, Sabah El Messaoudi and Marlou L. A. de Kroon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:821
  16. Self-efficacy has been determined to be a strong predictor of who will engage in physical activity. We aimed to evaluate the associations between self-efficacy to perform physical activity, self-reported leisu...

    Authors: Göran Bergström, Mats Börjesson and Caroline Schmidt
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:820
  17. Child health is significantly poorer in homes with intimate partner violence (IPV). However, a possible link to parental provision of childcare has been neglected.

    Authors: Helga Bjørnøy Urke and Maurice B. Mittelmark
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:819
  18. The HealthKick intervention, introduced at eight primary schools in low-income settings in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, aimed to promote healthy lifestyles among learners, their families and school...

    Authors: Anniza de Villiers, Nelia P. Steyn, Catherine E. Draper, Jillian Hill, Lucinda Dalais, Jean Fourie, Carl Lombard, Gerhard Barkhuizen and Estelle V. Lambert
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:818
  19. Parental chronic pain has been associated with adverse outcomes in offspring. However, knowledge on individual and family resilience factors in adolescent offspring of chronic pain sufferers is scarce. This st...

    Authors: Jannike Kaasbøll, Ingunn Ranøyen, Wendy Nilsen, Stian Lydersen and Marit S. Indredavik
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:817
  20. There is limited research on awareness of alcohol warning labels and their effects. The current study examined the awareness of the Australian voluntary warning labels, the ‘Get the facts’ logo (a component of...

    Authors: Kerri Coomber, Florentine Martino, I. Robert Barbour, Richelle Mayshak and Peter G. Miller
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:816
  21. Screening for alcohol misuse and brief interventions (BIs) for harm in trauma care settings are known to reduce alcohol intake and injury recidivism, but are rarely implemented. We created the content for a mo...

    Authors: Sarah Sharpe, Matthew Shepherd, Bridget Kool, Robyn Whittaker, Vili Nosa, Enid Dorey, Susanna Galea, Papaarangi Reid and Shanthi Ameratunga
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:815
  22. In the Neonatal health – Knowledge into Practice (NeoKIP) trial in Vietnam, local stakeholder groups, supported by trained laywomen acting as facilitators, promoted knowledge translation (KT) resulting in decr...

    Authors: Duc M. Duong, Anna Bergström, Lars Wallin, Ha TT Bui, Leif Eriksson and Ann Catrine Eldh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:814
  23. Male circumcision (MC) has been demonstrated to be effective and cost-effective for HIV/AIDS prevention. Global guidance to adopt this intervention was announced in 2007 for countries with high HIV/AIDS preval...

    Authors: Fiona K. Lau, Sylvia Jayakumar and Sema K. Sgaier
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:813
  24. Awareness of health disparities based on sexual orientation has increased in the past decades, and many official public health agencies throughout Europe call for programs addressing the specific needs of lesb...

    Authors: Arjan van der Star and Richard Bränström
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:812
  25. Each year 2.5 billion cases of diarrheal disease are reported in children under five years, and over 1,000 die. Country characteristics could play a role on this situation. We explored associations between cou...

    Authors: Ángela María Pinzón-Rondón, Carol Zárate-Ardila, Alfonso Hoyos-Martínez, Ángela María Ruiz-Sternberg and Alberto Vélez-van-Meerbeke
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:811
  26. Cash transfers are key interventions in the World Health Organisation’s post-2015 global TB policy. However, evidence guiding TB-specific cash transfer implementation is limited. We designed, implemented and r...

    Authors: Tom Wingfield, Delia Boccia, Marco A. Tovar, Doug Huff, Rosario Montoya, James J. Lewis, Robert H. Gilman and Carlton A. Evans
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:810
  27. Homicide is one of the leading causes of mortality in the World. Homicide risk factors vary significantly between countries and regions. In Rwanda, data on homicide victimization is unreliable because no stand...

    Authors: Wilson Rubanzana, Joseph Ntaganira, Michael D. Freeman and Bethany L. Hedt-Gauthier
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:809
  28. Despite their wide usage, it has recently been suggested that stroller use may reduce physical activity levels of young children. However, there have been no studies on stroller use as it relates to physical a...

    Authors: Catherine S. Birken, Bradley Lichtblau, Talia Lenton-Brym, Patricia Tucker, Jonathon L Maguire, Patricia C. Parkin and Sanjay Mahant
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:808
  29. The impact of migration and country or region of origin on sexual behaviours and prevention of the sexual transmission of HIV has been scarcely studied in France. The objective of this study was to evaluate if...

    Authors: Thomas Kesteman, Annabelle Lapostolle, Dominique Costagliola, Véronique Massari and Pierre Chauvin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:807
  30. The contribution of sport to overall health-enhancing leisure-time physical activity (HELPA) in adults is not well understood. The aim was to examine this in a national sample of Australians aged 15+ years, an...

    Authors: RM Eime, JT Harvey, MJ Charity, MM Casey, JGZ van Uffelen and WR Payne
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:806
  31. Ethnic inequalities in mental health have been found in many high-income countries. The purpose of this study is to test whether mental health inequalities between ethnic groups are mediated by exposure to unf...

    Authors: Karen Nieuwenhuijsen, Aart H. Schene, Karien Stronks, Marieke B. Snijder, Monique H. W. Frings-Dresen and Judith K Sluiter
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:805
  32. Mass media communications are an important component of comprehensive interventions to address population levels of overweight and obesity, yet we have little understanding of the effective characteristics of ...

    Authors: Helen Dixon, Maree Scully, Sarah Durkin, Emily Brennan, Trish Cotter, Sarah Maloney, Blythe J. O’Hara and Melanie Wakefield
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:804
  33. Various body weight and height-based references are used to define obese children and adolescents. However, no study investigating the diagnostic accuracies of the definitions of obesity and overweight in Hong...

    Authors: Lin Wang and Stanley Sai-chuen Hui
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:802
  34. Control of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) requires multiple strategic approaches including water, sanitation and hygiene services (WASH). Buruli ulcer (BU), one of the 17 NTDs, remains a public health issu...

    Authors: Roch Christian Johnson, Gratien Boni, Yves Barogui, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh, Macaire Houndonougbo, Esai Anagonou, Didier Agossadou, Gabriel Diez and Michel Boko
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:801
  35. The Youth Injection Prevention (YIP) project aimed to identify factors associated with the prevention of transitioning to injection drug use (IDU) among street-involved youth (youth who had spent at least 3 co...

    Authors: Kira Tozer, Despina Tzemis, Ashraf Amlani, Larissa Coser, Darlene Taylor, Natasha Van Borek, Elizabeth Saewyc and Jane A. Buxton
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:800
  36. There have been a number of studies conducted to date looking at the issue of health literacy, but none have been conducted in Beijing, China. The aim of this study was to evaluate the communicable diseases he...

    Authors: Daitao Zhang, Shuangsheng Wu, Yi Zhang, Peng Yang, C. Raina MacIntyre, Holly Seale and Quanyi Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:799
  37. Timing of childhood vaccinations has received close attention in many countries. Little is known about the trends in correctly timed vaccination in former Soviet countries. We examined trends in vaccination co...

    Authors: A. Schweitzer, G. Krause, F. Pessler and M. K. Akmatov
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:798
  38. The Community and District Empowerment for Scale-up (CODES) project pioneered the implementation of a comprehensive district management and community empowerment intervention in five districts in Uganda. In or...

    Authors: Anne Ruhweza Katahoire, Dorcus Kiwanuka Henriksson, Eric Ssegujja, Peter Waiswa, Florence Ayebare, Danstan Bagenda, Anthony K. Mbonye and Stefan Swartling Peterson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:797
  39. Since a higher level of self-efficacy in common mental disorders is associated with earlier return-to-work (RTW), it is important to know if work related self-efficacy can be increased by occupational health c...

    Authors: Karlijn M. van Beurden, Jac J. L. van der Klink, Evelien P. M. Brouwers, Margot C. W. Joosen, Jolanda J. P. Mathijssen, Berend Terluin and Jaap van Weeghel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:796
  40. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) children are at greater risk of drowning than other children, however little is known about drowning of Indigenous children. This study identifies the previou...

    Authors: Belinda A. Wallis, Kerrianne Watt, Richard C. Franklin and Roy M. Kimble
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:795
  41. The Body Mass Index (BMI) has long been used as an anthropometric measurement. Waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) have been proposed as alternatives to BMI. Recently, two new anthropomet...

    Authors: Ye Chang, Xiaofan Guo, Yintao Chen, Liang Guo, Zhao Li, Shasha Yu, Hongmei Yang and Yingxian Sun
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:794
  42. Studies suggest a relationship between sitting time and cardiovascular disease mortality. Our aim was to identify socio-demographic, contextual, and clinical (e.g., body composition, diabetes duration) correla...

    Authors: Anne-Sophie Brazeau, Samantha Hajna, Lawrence Joseph and Kaberi Dasgupta
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:793
  43. Four-factor structure of the two 8-item short forms of Child Perceptions Questionnaire CPQ11–14 (RSF:8 and ISF:8) has been confirmed. However, the sum scores are typically reported in practice as a proxy of Oral ...

    Authors: David TW Yau, May CM Wong, KF Lam and Colman McGrath
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:792
  44. An important but often ignored aspect of physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) is the chronological succession of activities, or temporal pattern. The main purposes of this study were (1) to inves...

    Authors: Stijn De Baere, Johan Lefevre, Kristine De Martelaer, Renaat Philippaerts and Jan Seghers
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:791
  45. On January 9th 2014, a faulty storage tank leaked 10,000 gal of an industrial coal processing liquid into the Elk River in West Virginia (WV), contaminating the drinking water of the nine counties collectively kn...

    Authors: Elena Savoia, Michael A. Stoto, Rahul Gupta, Nasandra Wright and Kasisomayajula Viswanath
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:790
  46. Harmful practices in the management of childhood diarrhea are associated with negative health outcomes, and conflict with WHO treatment guidelines. These practices include restriction of fluids, breast milk an...

    Authors: Emily Carter, Jennifer Bryce, Jamie Perin and Holly Newby
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:788

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