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  1. Previous studies have characterized an increasing trend of double burden households, or households with individuals experiencing both undernutrition and obesity, in countries undergoing a nutrition transition....

    Authors: Janet M Wojcicki
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1124
  2. Human immunodeficiency virus infection is a global crisis that represents a serious health threat, particularly among younger people. Various studies show that both orphan and non-orphan adolescents and youths...

    Authors: Takele Menna, Ahmed Ali and Alemayehu Worku
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1120
  3. In February 2012, the Lesotho Ministry of Health launched a national voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) program. To assess the motivations for seeking VMMC, a cross-sectional mixed methods study was co...

    Authors: Laura Skolnik, Sharon Tsui, Tigistu Adamu Ashengo, Virgile Kikaya and Mainza Lukobo-Durrell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1119
  4. Adolescence in girls has been recognized as a special period marked with the onset of menarche. Even though menstruation is a natural process, it is associated with misconceptions, malpractices and challenges ...

    Authors: Teketo Kassaw Tegegne and Mitike Molla Sisay
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1118
  5. Initiatives to promote early diagnosis include raising public awareness of signs and symptoms of cancer and addressing barriers to seeking medical help about cancer. Awareness of signs and symptoms of cancer a...

    Authors: Gill Hubbard, Iona Macmillan, Anne Canny, Liz Forbat, Richard D Neal, Ronan E O’Carroll, Sally Haw and Richard G Kyle
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1117
  6. Media content has been shown to influence public understandings of second-hand smoke. Since 2007 there has been legislation prohibiting smoking in all enclosed public places throughout the United Kingdom (UK)....

    Authors: Shona Hilton, Karen Wood, Josh Bain, Chris Patterson, Sheila Duffy and Sean Semple
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1116
  7. Immigrant women living with HIV generally have worse adherence to medical treatment and follow-up when compared to native women and immigrant or native men. The general aim of this study was to improve healthc...

    Authors: Anne Guionnet, Bárbara Navaza, Belén Pizarro de la Fuente, María Jesús Pérez-Elías, Fernando Dronda, Rogelio López-Vélez and José A Pérez-Molina
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1115
  8. Participation in physical activities provides students with opportunities for social interaction and social skills development. The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations of students’ recess...

    Authors: Henna L Haapala, Mirja H Hirvensalo, Kaarlo Laine, Lauri Laakso, Harto Hakonen, Anna Kankaanpää, Taru Lintunen and Tuija H Tammelin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1114
  9. There is concern of avian influenza virus (AIV) infections in humans. Subsistence hunters may be a potential risk group for AIV infections as they frequently come into close contact with wild birds and the aqu...

    Authors: Nadia A Charania, Ian D Martin, Eric N Liberda, Richard Meldrum and Leonard JS Tsuji
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1113
  10. There is conflicting evidence of the healthy migrant effect with respect to mental health. This study aims to determine if there are differences in mental health and service use between Australian-born and for...

    Authors: Melanie Straiton, Janet F Grant, Helen R Winefield and Anne Taylor
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1111
  11. Bacteria affect oral health, but few studies have systematically examined the role of bacterial communities in oral diseases. We examined this relationship in a large population-based Chinese cancer screening ...

    Authors: Guoqin Yu, Bruce A Dye, Mitchell H Gail, Jianxin Shi, Vanja Klepac-Ceraj, Bruce J Paster, Guo-Qing Wang, Wen-Qiang Wei, Jin-Hu Fan, You-Lin Qiao, Sanford M Dawsey, Neal D Freedman and Christian C Abnet
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1110
  12. Systematically planning appropriate medical coverage for mass-participation running events is a challenge that has received relatively little attention in the medical literature, despite its potentially severe...

    Authors: Clive M Tan, Ian Wern Tan, Wai Leong Kok, Melvin C Lee and Vernon J Lee
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1109
  13. Although lifestyle interventions have shown to be effective in reducing the risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus, maintenance of achieved results is difficult, as participants often experience relapse after the i...

    Authors: Ellen BM Elsman, Joanne N Leerlooijer, Josien ter Beek, Geerke Duijzer, Sophia C Jansen, Gerrit J Hiddink, Edith JM Feskens and Annemien Haveman-Nies
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1108
  14. Parents are the main decision makers for their children vaccinations. This fact makes parents’ immunization knowledge and practices as predictor factors for immunization uptake and timeliness. The aim of this ...

    Authors: Ammar Ihsan Awadh, Mohamed Azmi Hassali, Omer Qutaiba Al-lela, Siti Halimah Bux, Ramadan M Elkalmi and Hazrina Hadi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1107
  15. There is an ongoing debate on the potential association between obesity and atopy. However, no previous studies have investigated whether this relationship depends on sex and smoking status in Chinese adults.

    Authors: Xiao Luo, Yupeng Wang, Zhiqiang Wang, Xiao-hua Zhou, Jing Zhao, Jianing Suo, Xiaohui Dong and Meina Liu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1105
  16. Literature suggests that children’s educational achievement is associated with their health status and the socioeconomic position of their parents. Few studies have investigated this association in adolescence...

    Authors: Ellen Uiters, Erica Maurits, Mariël Droomers, Marieke Zwaanswijk, Robert A Verheij and Fons van der Lucht
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1104
  17. Few international studies examine public bicycle share programs (PBSP) health impacts. We describe the protocol for the International Bikeshare Impacts on Cycling and Collisions Study (IBICCS).

    Authors: Daniel Fuller, Lise Gauvin, Anne-Sophie Dubé, Meghan Winters, Kay Teschke, Elizabeth T Russo, Andi Camden, Carol Mee and Steven Marc Friedman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1103
  18. The association between food insecurity and mental health is established. Increasingly, associations between drought and mental health and drought and food insecurity have been observed in a number of countrie...

    Authors: Sharon Friel, Helen Berry, Huong Dinh, Léan O’Brien and Helen L Walls
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1102
  19. Current approaches for estimating social mixing patterns and infectious disease transmission at mass gatherings have been limited by various constraints, including low participation rates for volunteer-based r...

    Authors: Jeanette J Rainey, Anil Cheriyadat, Richard J Radke, Julie Suzuki Crumly and Daniel B Koch
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1101
  20. Physical inactivity is a significant predictor of several chronic diseases, becoming more prevalent as people age. Since the aging population increases demands on healthcare budgets, effectively stimulating ph...

    Authors: Denise A Peels, Rudolf R Hoogenveen, Talitha L Feenstra, Rianne HJ Golsteijn, Catherine Bolman, Aart N Mudde, Gerrie CW Wendel-Vos, Hein de Vries and Lilian Lechner
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1099
  21. Herpes zoster vaccine (HZV) is not publicly funded in the province of Alberta, Canada. We estimated vaccine coverage among those aged 60 years or older for 2013, as well as vaccine utilization rates per hundre...

    Authors: Xianfang C Liu, Kimberley A Simmonds, Margaret L Russell and Lawrence W Svenson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1098
  22. The chronic cumulative nature of caries makes treatment needs a severe problem in adults. Despite the fact that oral diseases occur in social contexts, there are few studies using multilevel analyses focusing ...

    Authors: Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Georgios Tsakos, Aubrey Sheiham, Georgia Costa de Souza and Richard G Watt
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1097
  23. Women from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to attend cervical screening, but further understanding of ethnic inequalities in cervical screening uptake is yet to be established. This study aimed to ...

    Authors: Christine Ekechi, Adeola Olaitan, Rosie Ellis, Jacob Koris, Adaugo Amajuoyi and Laura AV Marlow
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1096
  24. Health literacy is a multidimensional concept covering a range of cognitive and social skills necessary for participation in health care. Knowledge of health literacy levels in general populations and how heal...

    Authors: Anne Bo, Karina Friis, Richard H Osborne and Helle Terkildsen Maindal
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1095
  25. An association between depressive symptoms and features of built environment has been reported in the literature. A remaining research challenge is the development of methods to efficiently capture pertinent e...

    Authors: Yu-Tzu Wu, Paul Nash, Linda E Barnes, Thais Minett, Fiona E Matthews, Andy Jones and Carol Brayne
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1094
  26. The diversity of the Swedish population has increased substantially over the past three decades. The aim of this study was to assess whether living in an ethnic enclave is associated with risk of diabetes mell...

    Authors: Briana Mezuk, Klas Cederin, Xinjun Li, Kristen Rice, Kenneth S Kendler, Jan Sundquist and Kristina Sundquist
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1093
  27. More than 200 students and teachers at a boarding school in Shanghai developed acute gastroenteritis in December, 2012. The transmission mode remained largely unknown. An immediate epidemiological investigatio...

    Authors: Caoyi Xue, Yifei Fu, Weiping Zhu, Yi Fei, Linying Zhu, Hong Zhang, Lifeng Pan, Hongmei Xu, Yong Wang, Wenqin Wang and Qiao Sun
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1092
  28. To evaluate prospectively the relationship between white, or whole grain bread, and glycemic index, or glycemic load from diet and weight change in a Mediterranean cohort.

    Authors: Carmen de la Fuente-Arrillaga, Miguel Angel Martinez-Gonzalez, Itziar Zazpe, Zenaida Vazquez-Ruiz, Silvia Benito-Corchon and Maira Bes-Rastrollo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1091
  29. Tuberculosis (TB) patients who are co-infected with HIV are at greater risk of mortality. Nevertheless, not all countries achieved sustainable and TB and HIV collaboration to describe the burden of both diseas...

    Authors: Mor Zohar, Lidji Moshe, Chemtob Daniel, Cedar Noa and Grotto Itamar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1090

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  30. To investigate how household background factors affect parental behavior during pandemic influenza-related school closures, we determined associations between such factors and three parental attitudes: “caring...

    Authors: Mitsuo Uchida, Minoru Kaneko and Shigeyuki Kawa
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1089
  31. Physical inactivity, sitting behaviour, and mental health problems are detrimental to health-related quality of life but typically are considered as independent determinants. This study tested how these factor...

    Authors: Amanda L Rebar, Mitch J Duncan, Camille Short and Corneel Vandelanotte
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1088
  32. The psychometric properties of the Korean Short Form-12 Health Survey, version 2 (SF-12 v2) have not been assessed in the general population. Therefore, the aim of our study was to evaluate the psychometric pr...

    Authors: Seon-Ha Kim, Min-Woo Jo, Jeonghoon Ahn, Minsu Ock, Sangjin Shin and Jooyeon Park
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1086
  33. Dengue is a public health problem that presents complexity in its dissemination. The physical means of spreading and the dynamics of the spread between municipalities need to be analyzed to guide effective pub...

    Authors: Hugo Saba, Vera C Vale, Marcelo A Moret and José Garcia V Miranda
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1085
  34. While previous research has indicated that unhealthy lifestyle is associated with sickness absence, this association may be confounded by occupational class. To avoid this potential confounding, we examined th...

    Authors: Helle Gram Quist, Birthe L Thomsen, Ulla Christensen, Thomas Clausen, Andreas Holtermann, Jakob B Bjorner and Lars L Andersen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1084
  35. Parenting programs have been highlighted as a way of supporting and empowering parents. As programs designed to promote children’s health and well-being are scarce, a new health-promotion program, All Children...

    Authors: Malin Ulfsdotter, Pia Enebrink and Lene Lindberg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1083
  36. Suicide is a major public health problem for adolescents in South Africa, and also affects those associated with them. Peers become more important during adolescence and can be a significant source of social s...

    Authors: Hilda N Shilubane, Robert AC Ruiter, Arjan ER Bos, Priscilla S Reddy and Bart van den Borne
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1081
  37. Obesity and high blood pressure (BP) are public health problems all over the world. Some studies have reported a positive association between them in children and adolescents. The purpose of this study was to ...

    Authors: Jing Dong, Xiao-Lei Guo, Zi-Long Lu, Xiao-Ning Cai, Hui-Cheng Wang, Ji-Yu Zhang, Liu-Xia Yan and Ai-Qiang Xu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1080
  38. The main aim of this study, using a spatial-temporal model, is to analyse the link between a deprivation index and the incidence of prostate and cervical cancer in the Girona Health Region (GHR).

    Authors: Gemma Renart Vicens, Marc Saez Zafra, Judit Moreno-Crespi, Bernat C Serdà Ferrer and Rafael Marcos-Gragera
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1079
  39. Dengue fever (DF) has been emerging in Hanoi over the last decade. Both DF epidemiology and climate in Hanoi are strongly seasonal. This study aims at characterizing the seasonality of DF in Hanoi and its link...

    Authors: Thi Thanh Toan Do, Pim Martens, Ngoc Hoat Luu, Pamela Wright and Marc Choisy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1078
  40. Strategies to improve infant and young child nutrition in low- and middle- income countries need to be implemented at scale. We contextualised and packaged successful strategies into a feasible intervention fo...

    Authors: Kissa BM Kulwa, Roosmarijn Verstraeten, Kimberley P Bouckaert, Peter S Mamiro, Patrick W Kolsteren and Carl Lachat
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1077
  41. Females’ genital mutilation (FGM) is one of the harmful traditional practices affecting the health of women and children. It has a long-term physiological, sexual and psychological effect on women. It remains ...

    Authors: Daniel Bogale, Desalegn Markos and Muhammedawel Kaso
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1076
  42. Musculoskeletal disorders have a profound impact on individual health, sickness absence and early retirement, particularly in physically demanding occupations. Demographics are changing in the developed countr...

    Authors: Lars-Kristian Lunde, Markus Koch, Stein Knardahl, Morten Wærsted, Svend Erik Mathiassen, Mikael Forsman, Andreas Holtermann and Kaj Bo Veiersted
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1075
  43. Serious and long-lasting psychiatric consequences can be found in children and adolescents following earthquake, including the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although researchers have bee...

    Authors: Yali Tian, Thomas KS Wong, Jiping Li and Xiaolian Jiang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1073

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