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  1. The Chinese government has increased the funding for public health in 2009 and experimentally applied a contract service policy (could be seen as a counterpart to family medicine) in 15 counties to promote pub...

    Authors: Huixuan Zhou, Shengfa Zhang, Weijun Zhang, Fugang Wang, You Zhong, Linni Gu, Zhiyong Qu and Donghua Tian
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:199
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  2. Screening for type 2 diabetes helps detect previously unknown diabetes and identify people with pre-diabetes, but the adverse impact of such screening on individuals labelled as pre-diabetes or classified as n...

    Authors: Yanlei Zhang, Feng Ning, Jianping Sun, Zengchang Pang, Xiaoyong Wang, Anil Kapur, Harri Sintonen and Qing Qiao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:198
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  3. To date, research and promotion regarding advance care planning (ACP) has targeted those with serious illness or the elderly, thereby ignoring healthy young adults. The purpose of this study was to explore you...

    Authors: Dio Kavalieratos, Natalie C Ernecoff, Jessica Keim-Malpass and Howard B Degenholtz
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:197
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  4. Overweight and obesity are major health problems worldwide. This protocol describes the HEALTHI (Healthy Eating and Active LifesTyle Health Intervention) Program, a 12-week randomised-controlled weight-loss in...

    Authors: Anne Hattar, Martin S Hagger and Sebely Pal
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:196
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  5. The Tanzanian Government started scaling up its antiretroviral treatment (ART) program from referral, regional and district hospitals to primary health care facilities in October 2004. In 2010, most ART clinic...

    Authors: Francis Levira, Abela Mpobela Agnarson, Honorati Masanja, Basia Zaba, Anna Mia Ekström and Anna Thorson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:195
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  6. In Poland, like in other European countries and in accordance with the global trend, the number of computer users and people who have access to the Internet has increased considerably. The study investigates t...

    Authors: Maria Magdalena Bujnowska-Fedak
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:194
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  7. Herpes zoster (HZ) or “shingles” is common in persons aged 50 years or over. HZ is characterised by a painful dermatological rash which typically resolves in approximately one month. Persistent pain for months...

    Authors: Adam Gater, Mathieu Uhart, Rachael McCool and Emmanuelle Préaud
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:193
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  8. Hemodialysis services in Vietnam are being decentralised outside of tertiary hospitals. To identify the challenges to infection control standards for the prevention of bloodborne infections including hepatitis...

    Authors: Cuong Minh Duong, Dariusz Piotr Olszyna and Mary-Louise McLaws
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:192
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  9. Globally, diarrhea is the second leading cause of death among children under five. In Brazil, mortality due to diarrhea underwent a significant reduction in recent decades principally due to expansion of the p...

    Authors: Ana Lúcia Escobar, Carlos EA Coimbra Jr, James R Welch, Bernardo L Horta, Ricardo Ventura Santos and Andrey M Cardoso
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:191
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  10. During the 2009-2010 A(H1N1) pandemic, many people did not seek care quickly enough, failed to take a full course of antivirals despite being authorised to receive them, and were not vaccinated. Understanding ...

    Authors: Helena Rubinstein, Afrodita Marcu, Lucy Yardley and Susan Michie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:190
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  11. Little is known about preschool parents’ cognitions, barriers, supports and modeling of key obesogenic behaviors, including breakfast, fruit and vegetable consumption, sugary beverage intake, feeding practices...

    Authors: Jennifer Martin-Biggers, Kim Spaccarotella, Nobuko Hongu, Gayle Alleman, John Worobey and Carol Byrd-Bredbenner
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:189
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  12. Depressive symptoms in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have attracted much attention in recent years, and negatively affect the health of diabetic patients in numerous ways. This study evaluated ...

    Authors: Linchuang Wang, Rui Song, Zhigang Chen, Jun Wang and Feng Ling
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:188
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  13. The Ethiopian TB control programme relies on passive case finding of TB cases. The predominantly rural-based population in Ethiopia has limited access to health facilities creating barriers to TB services. An ...

    Authors: Olivia Tulloch, Sally Theobald, Fukushi Morishita, Daniel G Datiko, Girum Asnake, Tadesse Tesema, Habiba Jamal, Paulos Markos, Luis E Cuevas and Mohammed A Yassin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:187
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  14. Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) are major health concerns in South Africa. According to the life cycle approach NCD prevention strategies should target children. Educators are important external factors influ...

    Authors: Marjanne Senekal, Zibuyile Seme, Anniza de Villiers and Nelia P Steyn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:186
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  15. Lyme disease (LD) is a vector-borne disease that is endemic in many temperate countries, including Switzerland, and is currently emerging in Canada. This study compares the importance of knowledge, exposure an...

    Authors: Cécile Aenishaenslin, Pascal Michel, André Ravel, Lise Gern, François Milord, Jean-Philippe Waaub and Denise Bélanger
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:185
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  16. Illegal commercial plasma and blood donation activities in the late 1980s and early 1990s caused a large number of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections in rural areas of China. In the present study, we aimed to ...

    Authors: Wenjiao Yin, Changhong Huang, Feng Qiu, Li Liu, Feng Wang, Jikun Zhou, Yong Zhang and Shengli Bi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:184
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  18. Smoking prevalence varies over time and place due to various social, environmental and policy influences. However, its spatio-temporal patterns at small-area level are poorly understood. This paper attempts to...

    Authors: Gang Meng, K Stephen Brown and Mary E Thompson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:182
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  19. This study aimed to evaluate the association between tobacco control policies and trends in smoking cessation according to gender, age and educational level in Lithuania in 1994–2010.

    Authors: Jurate Klumbiene, Edita Sakyte, Janina Petkeviciene, Ritva Prattala and Anton E Kunst
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:181
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  20. Psychosocial stress at work has been recognised as one of the most important factors behind the increase in sick leave due to stress-related mental disorders. It is therefore important to be able to measure pe...

    Authors: Emina Hadzibajramovic, Gunnar Ahlborg Jr, Anna Grimby-Ekman and Åsa Lundgren-Nilsson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:180
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  21. Breakfast cereals exhibit a wide variability in nutritional quality, and differences are not easily grasped by consumers. A simplified nutritional information system might contribute to help consumers make hea...

    Authors: Chantal Julia, Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot, Pauline Ducrot, Sandrine Péneau, Mathilde Touvier, Caroline Méjean and Serge Hercberg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:179
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  22. Evidence from epidemiological studies has demonstrated that a shorter or longer duration of nighttime sleep may increase the risk of metabolic syndrome. Little is known about the association between daily slee...

    Authors: Jing Wu, Guiqiang Xu, Lijun Shen, Yanmei Zhang, Lulu Song, Siyi Yang, Handong Yang, Yuan Liang, Tangchun Wu and Youjie Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:178
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  23. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death among homeless people. This study examines CVD risk factors and 30-year CVD risk in a population of homeless individuals with mental illness.

    Authors: Agnes Gozdzik, Roxana Salehi, Patricia O’Campo, Vicky Stergiopoulos and Stephen W Hwang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:165
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  24. Despite societal efforts to alleviate the challenges, caregiving seems to constitute a substantial burden and source of stress for many families of older adults in Japan. However, precise information on the ph...

    Authors: Yasuko Torimoto-Sasai, Ayumi Igarashi, Takashi Wada, Yasuko Ogata and Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:177
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  25. Childhood obesity has become an alarming worldwide increasing public health problem. The earlier adiposity rebound occurs, the greater the risk of becoming obese during puberty and adolescence. It has been spe...

    Authors: Vicente Martínez-Vizcaino, Jorge Mota, Montserrat Solera-Martínez, Blanca Notario-Pacheco, Natalia Arias-Palencia, Jorge Cañete García-Prieto, Alberto González-García, Celia Álvarez-Bueno and Mairena Sánchez-López
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:176
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  26. Data on non-specific effects of BCG vaccination in well described, general population African cohorts is scanty. We report the effects of BCG vaccination on post-neonatal infant and post-infancy mortality in a...

    Authors: Victoria Nankabirwa, James K Tumwine, Proscovia M Mugaba, Thorkild Tylleskär and Halvor Sommerfelt
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:175
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  27. Walking is recognized as an easily accessible mode of physical activity and is therefore supported as a strategy to promote health and well-being. To complement walking, pedometers have been identified as a us...

    Authors: Julian D Pillay, Hidde P van der Ploeg, Tracy L Kolbe-Alexander, Karin I Proper, Maartje van Stralen, Simone A Tomaz, Willem van Mechelen and Estelle V Lambert
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:174
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  28. Variations in physical activity (PA) across nations may be driven by socioeconomic position. As national incomes increase, car ownership becomes within reach of more individuals. This report characterizes asso...

    Authors: David A Shoham, Lara R Dugas, Pascal Bovet, Terrence E Forrester, Estelle V Lambert, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Dale A Schoeller, Soren Brage, Ulf Ekelund, Ramon A Durazo-Arvizu, Richard S Cooper and Amy Luke
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:173
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  29. Aggregated measures are often employed when prevalence, risk factors and consequences of alcohol use in the population are monitored. In order to avoid time-dependent bias in aggregated measures, reference per...

    Authors: Ann Kristin Knudsen and Jens Christoffer Skogen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:172
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  30. The role of yogurt consumption in the development of metabolic syndrome (MetS) is not fully understood and the available epidemiologic evidence is scarce. The aim of our study was to assess the association bet...

    Authors: Carmen Sayón-Orea, Maira Bes-Rastrollo, Amelia Martí, Adriano M Pimenta, Nerea Martín-Calvo and Miguel A Martínez-González
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:170
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  31. Skin cancer is an increasingly important global public health problem. Mass media is a key source of skin cancer information. We examined how media coverage of skin cancer has changed over time as a consequenc...

    Authors: Jennifer E McWhirter and Laurie Hoffman-Goetz
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:169
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  32. Emerging novel influenza outbreaks have increasingly been a threat to the public and a major concern of public health departments. Real-time data in seamless surveillance systems such as health insurance claim...

    Authors: Ta-Chien Chan, Yung-Chu Teng and Jing-Shiang Hwang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:168
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  33. The misuse of alcohol and other drugs among young people, especially students, is a growing global phenomenon. In traditional Nigerian society, different locally-produced alcoholic beverages served complex rol...

    Authors: Emeka W Dumbili
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:167
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  34. HIV and negative coping mechanisms have a cyclical relationship. HIV infections may lead to the adoption of coping strategies, which may have undesired, negative consequences. We present data on the various co...

    Authors: Amos Laar, Abubakar Manu, Matilda Laar, Angela El-Adas, Richard Amenyah, Kyeremeh Atuahene, Dave Quarshie, Andrew Anthony Adjei and Isabella Quakyi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:166
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  36. Flood is common in China and causes extensive loss of property and human lives. Elderly is a vulnerable population prone to the detrimental impacts of floods. This survey aims to investigate the health status ...

    Authors: Jun Wu, Jian Xiao, Tong Li, Xiaoshan Li, Huamin Sun, Eric PF Chow, Yihua Lu, Tian Tian, Xiaoyan Li, Qi Wang, Xun Zhuang and Lei Zhang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:163
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  37. Physical activity (PA) public health programming has been widely used in Mexico; however, few studies have documented individual and organizational factors that might be used to evaluate their public health im...

    Authors: Edtna Jauregui, Ann M Pacheco, Erica G Soltero, Teresia M O’Connor, Cynthia M Castro, Paul A Estabrooks, Lorna H McNeill and Rebecca E Lee
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:162
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  39. Understanding social disparities in obesity are presently an essential element in establishing public health priorities. However, the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and obesity has not been ass...

    Authors: Leilei Pei, Yue Cheng, Yijun Kang, Shuyi Yuan and Hong Yan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:160
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  40. In Western countries, many children are affected by the separation of their parents. Our main objective was to assess the possible impact of parental separation family structure on certain aspects of somatic h...

    Authors: Nadine Kacenelenbogen, Michèle Dramaix-Wilmet, Marco Schetgen and Michel Roland
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:159
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  41. There is an average negative mental health effect for individuals who experience divorce. Little is known whether the pattern of such divorce effects varies within couples. We study whether the husband and wif...

    Authors: Christiaan WS Monden, Niina Metsä-Simola, Saska Saarioja and Pekka Martikainen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:158
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  42. The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between demographic and socioeconomic characteristics and engaging in multiple risk behaviours among adolescents in Republic of Serbia.

    Authors: Katarina Boričić, Snežana Simić and Jelena Marinković Erić
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:157
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  43. Health in All Policies (HiAP) is a form of intersectoral action that aims to include the promotion of health in government initiatives across sectors. To date, there has been little study of economic considera...

    Authors: Andrew D Pinto, Agnes Molnar, Ketan Shankardass, Patricia J O’Campo and Ahmed M Bayoumi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:171
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  44. Many children do not engage in recommended levels of physical activity (PA), highlighting the need to find ways to increase children’s PA. Process evaluations play an important role in improving the science of...

    Authors: Russell Jago, Simon J Sebire, Ben Davies, Lesley Wood, Kathryn Banfield, Mark J Edwards, Jane E Powell, Alan A Montgomery, Janice L Thompson and Kenneth R Fox
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:156
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  46. Physical inactivity increases the risk of many chronic diseases including coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes and some cancers. It is recommended that adults should undertake at least 150 minutes of modera...

    Authors: Suzanne Audrey, Ashley R Cooper, William Hollingworth, Chris Metcalfe, Sunita Procter, Adrian Davis, Rona Campbell, Fiona Gillison and Sarah E Rodgers
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:154
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  47. The number of waterpipe tobacco smokers has been increasing worldwide. Smokers can be exposed to a number of toxicants, some of which are metals. The aim of this study is to quantitatively determine if the wat...

    Authors: Akeel T Al-Kazwini, Adi J Said and Stephanie Sdepanian
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:153
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  48. A lack of physical activity and excessive sitting can contribute to poor physical health and wellbeing. The high percentage of the UK adult population in employment, and the prolonged sitting associated with d...

    Authors: Jennifer Hall, Louise Mansfield, Tess Kay and Alison K McConnell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:152
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  49. Hepatitis B and C (HBV, HCV) infections are associated with high morbidity and mortality. Many countries with traditionally low prevalence (such as UK) are now planning interventions (screening, vaccination, a...

    Authors: John A Owiti, Trisha Greenhalgh, Lorna Sweeney, Graham R Foster and Kamaldeep S Bhui
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:151
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  50. Populations living in urban areas experience greater health inequalities as well as higher absolute burdens of illness. It is well-established that a range of social and environmental factors determine these d...

    Authors: Neil R Smith, Daniel J Lewis, Amanda Fahy, Sandra Eldridge, Stephanie JC Taylor, Derek G Moore, Charlotte Clark, Stephen A Stansfeld and Steven Cummins
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:150
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