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  1. 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
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  3. 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
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  4. 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
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  5. 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
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  6. 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
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  7. 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
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  8. 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
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  9. 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
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  10. 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
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  11. 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
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  12. 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
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  13. 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
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  14. 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
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  15. 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
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  16. 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
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  17. 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
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  18. 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
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  19. 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
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  20. 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
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  21. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. 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
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  23. 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
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  25. 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
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  26. 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
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  27. 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
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  28. 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
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  29. 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
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  30. 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
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  31. 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
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  32. 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
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  33. 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
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  34. 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
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  35. 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
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  36. 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
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  37. 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
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  39. 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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  40. Community mobilization among female sex workers (SWs) is recognized as an effective strategy to empower SWs and increase their uptake of health services. Activities focus on increasing social cohesion between ...

    Authors: Sibongile Mtetwa, Joanna Busza, Calum Davey, Ramona Wong-Gruenwald and Frances Cowan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:787
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  42. This study examines the nature of disparities in cardiovascular risk by exploring chronic stressors and other cardiovascular risk factors on youth of African descent who are integrating into an industrialized ...

    Authors: Cheryl Zlotnick, Hadass Goldblatt, Efrat Shadmi, Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Omer Taychaw
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:785
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  43. Implementation of cotrimoxazole prophylaxis (CTX-p) among HIV-exposed infants (HEI) is poor in southern Africa. We conducted a study to investigate barriers to delivery of CTX-p to HEI in Zimbabwe at each step...

    Authors: Euphemia L. Sibanda, Sarah Bernays, Ian V. D. Weller, James G. Hakim and Frances M. Cowan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:784
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  45. In China, there has been a dramatic increase in overweight and obesity among children and adolescents in recent decades. However, little longitudinal studies reported BMI in relation to the risk for hypertensi...

    Authors: Jiao Wang, Yanna Zhu, Jin Jing, Yajun Chen, Jincheng Mai, Stephen H.S. Wong, John O’Reilly and Lu Ma
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:782
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  46. Mortality levels and patterns are significant indicators of population health, and are of importance to prioritize the goals of health systems and efficient resource allocation. We ascertained the decadal tran...

    Authors: Sanjay Kumar Rai, Arti Gupta, Rahul Srivastava, Mohan Bairwa, Puneet Misra, Shashi Kant and Chandrakant S. Pandav
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:781
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  47. A growing body of evidence suggests that psychological stress is an independent cardiovascular risk factor. Obesity prevalence shows accelerating trends worldwide, and is known to be associated with a range of...

    Authors: Janinne Ortega-Montiel, Carlos Posadas-Romero, Wendy Ocampo-Arcos, Aida Medina-Urrutia, Guillermo Cardoso-Saldaña, Esteban Jorge-Galarza and Rosalinda Posadas-Sánchez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:780
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  48. Participation in electronic media use among 2–3 year olds is high and associated with adverse health and developmental outcomes. This study sought to test the feasibility and potential efficacy of a family-bas...

    Authors: Trina Hinkley, Dylan P. Cliff and Anthony D. Okely
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:779
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  49. Some studies suggest that transitions to and from daylight saving time (DST) have an influence on acute myocardial infarction (AMI) incidence. However, the available publications have a number of limitations e...

    Authors: Inge Kirchberger, Kathrin Wolf, Margit Heier, Bernhard Kuch, Wolfgang von Scheidt, Annette Peters and Christa Meisinger
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:778
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  50. Sex work has shifted from brothels to entertainment establishments (EEs) in Asia. Men who patronise EEs could act as a bridging population for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and sexually transmitted infect...

    Authors: Raymond Boon Tar Lim, Mee Lian Wong, Poh Huat Tan and Mandy Govender
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:777
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