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  1. Few researchers have the data required to adequately understand how the school environment impacts youth health behaviour development over time.

    Authors: Scott T Leatherdale, K Stephen Brown, Valerie Carson, Ruth A Childs, Joel A Dubin, Susan J Elliott, Guy Faulkner, David Hammond, Steve Manske, Catherine M Sabiston, Rachel E Laxer, Chad Bredin and Audra Thompson-Haile
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:331
  2. Although food and nutrient consumption among the Japanese population, known to have one of the longest life expectancies in the world, has changed markedly after World War II, little is known about the influen...

    Authors: Rei Otsuka, Hiroshi Yatsuya and Koji Tamakoshi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:328
  3. Despite being the third largest tobacco producer in the world, Brazil has developed a comprehensive tobacco control policy that includes a broad restriction on both advertising and smoking in indoor public pla...

    Authors: Analice Gigliotti, Valeska C Figueiredo, Clarice S Madruga, Ana CPR Marques, Ilana Pinsky, Raul Caetano, Vera Luiza da Costa e Silva, Martin Raw and Ronaldo Laranjeira
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:327
  4. Childhood and adolescent overweight is a recognized public health concern as the prevalence is already high and continues to increase. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between socioeco...

    Authors: Jin-Won Noh, Young-eun Kim, In-Hwan Oh and Young Dae Kwon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:324
  5. Obesity is a growing public health concern in Canada. Excess weight is particularly a concern among youth given that obesity in youth predicts obesity in adulthood. Eating behaviors, both inside and outside th...

    Authors: Heather G Lillico, David Hammond, Steve Manske and Donna Murnaghan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:323
  6. Aboriginal Australians experience a disproportionately high burden of alcohol-related harm compared to the general Australian population. Alcohol treatment approaches that simultaneously target individuals and...

    Authors: Bianca Calabria, Anton Clifford, Miranda Rose and Anthony P Shakeshaft
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:322
  7. Stress-related eating is associated with unhealthy eating and drinking habits and an increased risk of obesity among adults, but less is known about factors related to stress-driven eating behaviour among chil...

    Authors: Anne Jääskeläinen, Nina Nevanperä, Jouko Remes, Fanni Rahkonen, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin and Jaana Laitinen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:321
  8. The pattern of obesity in relation to socioeconomic status is of public health concern. This study investigates whether the association between height and obesity in children is affected by their socioeconomic...

    Authors: Lifoter K Navti, Uta Ferrari, Emmanuel Tange, Susanne Bechtold-Dalla Pozza and Klaus G Parhofer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:320
  9. Tuberculosis is a global emergency predominantly affecting developing countries. HIV has been the single most important reason for acquisition of tuberculosis for many patients. Conversely, tuberculosis can re...

    Authors: Getahun Asres Alemie and Feseha Gebreselassie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:319
  10. Child safety restraints are effective measures in protecting children from an injury while traveling in a car. However, the rate of child restraint use is extremely low in Chinese cities. Parent drivers could ...

    Authors: Xiaojun Chen, Jingzhen Yang, Corinne Peek-Asa and Liping Li
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:318
  11. Despite an increasing body of knowledge concerning gender and lifestyle factors as determinants of sickness absence in well-developed countries, the relationship between these variables has not been elucidated...

    Authors: Fabiana Maluf Rabacow, Renata Bertazzi Levy, Paulo Rossi Menezes, Olinda do Carmo Luiz, Ana Maria Malik and Alex Burdorf
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:317
  12. The influence of visual exposure to health-related behaviours, such as smoking, is increasingly acknowledged in the public health literature. Social contagion or normalisation is thought to operate through the...

    Authors: Amber L Pearson, Daniel Nutsford and George Thomson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:300
  13. The literature from developed countries suggests a relationship between alcohol use and quality of life and social engagement, where harmful drinkers have lower quality of life and less social engagement. Desp...

    Authors: Priscilla Martinez, Lars Lien, Anne Landheim, Paul Kowal and Thomas Clausen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:316
  14. Many households own, use and spend money on many malaria preventive tools, some of which are inappropriate and ineffective in preventing malaria. This is despite the promotion of use of effective preventive me...

    Authors: Obinna Onwujekwe, Enyi Etiaba, Nkoli Uguru, Benjamin Uzochukwu and Alex Adjagba
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:315
  15. As part of site development for clinical trials in novel TB vaccines, a cohort of infants was enrolled in eastern Uganda to estimate the incidence of tuberculosis. The study introduced several mortality reduct...

    Authors: Patrick Nabongo, Suzanne Verver, Elizabeth Nangobi, Ronald Mutunzi, Anne Wajja, Harriet Mayanja-Kizza, Dan Kadobera, Edward Galiwango, Robert Colebunders and Philippa Musoke
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:314
  16. Childhood overweight has noticeable psychological and social consequences for the child and leads to an increased risk of mortality and morbidity later in life. With the high prevalence of overweight in childr...

    Authors: Kristian Traberg Larsen, Tao Huang, Niels Christian Møller, Lars Bo Andersen and Mathias Ried-Larsen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:313
  17. Several studies have shown a protective association of moderate alcohol intake with mortality. However, it remains unclear whether this relationship could be due to misclassification confounding. As psychosoci...

    Authors: Esther Ruf, Jens Baumert, Christa Meisinger, Angela Döring and Karl-Heinz Ladwig
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:312
  18. Visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is a unique pathogenic fatty deposit, in that it is closely correlated with risk of cardiovascular diseases. The present study is to investigate the usefulness of neck circumferen...

    Authors: Hong-Xing Li, Fen Zhang, Dong Zhao, Zhong Xin, Shu-Qin Guo, Shu-Mei Wang, Jian-Jun Zhang, Jun Wang, Yan Li, Guang-Ran Yang and Jin-Kui Yang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:311
  19. Obesity and stress are among the most common lifestyle-related health problems. Most of the current disease prevention and management models are not satisfactorily cost-effective and hardly reach those who nee...

    Authors: Raimo Lappalainen, Essi Sairanen, Elina Järvelä, Sanni Rantala, Riitta Korpela, Sampsa Puttonen, Urho M Kujala, Tero Myllymäki, Katri Peuhkuri, Elina Mattila, Kirsikka Kaipainen, Aino Ahtinen, Leila Karhunen, Jussi Pihlajamäki, Heli Järnefelt, Jaana Laitinen…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:310
  20. The purpose of this paper is to portray the views of key stakeholders on the potential impacts of Samoa’s free trade negotiations and agreements, on health and wellbeing in Samoa.

    Authors: Jacinta Fa’alili-Fidow, Judith McCool and Teuila Percival
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:309
  21. Many studies have investigated the impact of a wide range of social events on suicide-related behaviour. However, these studies have predominantly examined national events. The aim of this study is to provide ...

    Authors: Vasiliy S Usenko, Sergey N Svirin, Yan N Shchekaturov and Eduard D Ponarin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:308
  22. The impact of reduced kidney function in children is substantial. End-stage kidney disease (ESKD), the most severe form of chronic kidney disease (CKD), is a devastating illness associated with substantially i...

    Authors: Germaine Wong, Meredith Medway, Madeleine Didsbury, Allison Tong, Robin Turner, Fiona Mackie, Steven McTaggart, Amanda Walker, Sarah White, Kirsten Howard, Siah Kim and Jonathan C Craig
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:307
  23. Promotion of institutional delivery is a key intervention in reducing maternal mortality and improving maternal and neonatal health. This study explored factors associated with institutional delivery in rural ...

    Authors: Sudesh Raj Sharma, Amod Kumar Poudyal, Bharat Mani Devkota and Sarswoti Singh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:306
  24. Change of job could be a strategy in vocational rehabilitation when return to the original job is not possible, but research is very limited concerning the effects of job mobility on the future vocational situ...

    Authors: Karin Nordström, Kerstin Ekberg, Tomas Hemmingsson and Gun Johansson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:305
  25. The aims of tuberculosis (TB) control programme are to detect TB cases and treat them to disrupt transmission, decrease mortality and avert the emergence of drug resistance. In 1992, DOTS strategy was started ...

    Authors: Shallo Daba Hamusse, Meaza Demissie and Bernt Lindtjørn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:304
  26. Reducing health inequalities is a top priority of the public health agendas in Europe. The EPHE project aims to analyse the added value of a community-based interventional programme based on EPODE methodology,...

    Authors: Krystallia Mantziki, Achilleas Vassilopoulos, Gabriella Radulian, Jean-Michel Borys, Hugues du Plessis, Maria João Gregório, Pedro Graça, Stefaan de Henauw, Svetoslav Handjiev, Tommy LS Visscher and Jacob C Seidell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:303
  27. Adequate dietary intake is essential to maintain good health. This is particularly true for the elderly. This study investigated the dietary intakes of seniors residing in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) and as...

    Authors: Jing Yan, Lin Liu, Barbara Roebothan, Ann Ryan, Zhi Chen, Yanqing Yi and Peizhong Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:302
  28. Ethiopia is a developing country with a demographic profile dominated by young population with in the ages of 15–24, constituting one third of the total population. Only little has been explored about the role...

    Authors: Elias Legesse Negeri
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:301
  29. While research continues into indicators such as preventable and amenable mortality in order to evaluate quality, access, and equity in the healthcare, it is also necessary to continue identifying the areas of...

    Authors: Andreu Nolasco, José Antonio Quesada, Joaquín Moncho, Inmaculada Melchor, Pamela Pereyra-Zamora, Nayara Tamayo-Fonseca, Miguel Angel Martínez-Beneito and Oscar Zurriaga
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:299
  30. People with pre-diabetes are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Measurements of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among pre-diabetics enable the health care providers ...

    Authors: Norliza Ibrahim, Foong Ming Moy, Intan Attikah Nur Awalludin, Zainudin Ali and Ikram Shah Ismail
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:298
  31. One approach to preventing opioid overdose, a leading cause of premature, preventable mortality, is to provide overdose education and naloxone distribution (OEND). Two outstanding issues for OEND implementatio...

    Authors: Maya Doe-Simkins, Emily Quinn, Ziming Xuan, Amy Sorensen-Alawad, Holly Hackman, Al Ozonoff and Alexander Y Walley
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:297
  32. Of the estimated 800,000 adults living with HIV in Zambia in 2011, roughly half were receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART). As treatment scale up continues, information on the care provided to patients after ...

    Authors: Callie A Scott, Hari S Iyer, Kelly McCoy, Crispin Moyo, Lawrence Long, Bruce A Larson and Sydney Rosen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:296
  33. Previous studies have suggested an association between sleep duration and cancer. However, the information on sleep duration regard to risk of lung cancer is scanty.

    Authors: Maria K Luojus, Soili M Lehto, Tommi Tolmunen, Arja T Erkkilä and Jussi Kauhanen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:295
  34. Understanding HIV testing behaviour is vital to developing evidence-based policy and programming that supports optimal HIV care, support, and prevention. This has not been investigated among younger gay, bisex...

    Authors: Nathan J Lachowsky, Peter JW Saxton, Nigel P Dickson, Anthony J Hughes, Alastair JS Summerlee and Cate E Dewey
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:294
  35. Early maternal age at first birth and elevated parity may have long-term consequences for the health of women as they age. Both are known risk factors for obstetrical complications with lifelong associated mor...

    Authors: Catherine M Pirkle, Ana Carolina Patrício de Albuquerque Sousa, Beatriz Alvarado and Maria-Victoria Zunzunegui
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:293
  36. An inequitable distribution of parks and other ‘green spaces’ could exacerbate health inequalities if people on lower incomes, who are already at greater risk of preventable diseases, have poorer access.

    Authors: Thomas Astell-Burt, Xiaoqi Feng, Suzanne Mavoa, Hannah M Badland and Billie Giles-Corti
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:292
  37. Parents often fail to correctly perceive their children’s weight status, but no studies have examined the association between parental weight status perception and longitudinal BMIz change (BMI standardized to...

    Authors: Sanne MPL Gerards, Jessica S Gubbels, Pieter C Dagnelie, Stef PJ Kremers, Annette Stafleu, Nanne K de Vries and Carel Thijs
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:291
  38. Epidemiologic studies show a curvilinear relationship between inadequate sleep (< 7 or > 8 hours) and obesity (Body Mass Index > 30 kg/m2), which have enormous public health impact.

    Authors: Girardin Jean-Louis, Natasha J Williams, Daniel Sarpong, Abhishek Pandey, Shawn Youngstedt, Ferdinand Zizi and Gbenga Ogedegbe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:290
  39. Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death related to HIV worldwide. This study analyzes the survival of People Living with HIV (PLHIV) reporting cough without bacteriological confirmation of TB and ident...

    Authors: Maria Fátima de Pessoa Militão Albuquerque, Isabella Coimbra, Joanna d’Arc Batista, Magda Maruza, Ricardo A A Ximenes, Heloísa R Lacerda, Demócrito B Miranda-Filho, Marcela L Santos and Laura C Rodrigues
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:289
  40. In the Netherlands, human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination is part of a national program equally accessible for all girls invited for vaccination. To assess possible inequalities in vaccine uptake, we investig...

    Authors: Madelief Mollers, Karin Lubbers, Symen K Spoelstra, Willibrord CM Weijmar-Schultz, Toos Daemen, Tjalke A Westra, Marianne AB van der Sande, Hans W Nijman, Hester E de Melker and Adriana Tami
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:288
  41. Physical activities are important for children and adolescents, especially asthmatics. A significant proportion is considered less active than their non-asthmatic peers and mother’s beliefs about asthma are th...

    Authors: Fabianne MNA Dantas, Marco AV Correia Jr, Almerinda R Silva, Décio M Peixoto, Emanuel SC Sarinho and José A Rizzo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:287
  42. Family planning programs have recently undergone a fundamental shift from being focused on women only to focusing on men individually, or on both partners. However, contraceptive use among married men has rema...

    Authors: Allen Kabagenyi, Patricia Ndugga, Stephen Ojiambo Wandera and Betty Kwagala
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:286
  43. Bowel disorders have destructive impacts on the patients social and mental aspects of life and can cause emotional distress. The risk of developing bowel incontinence also increases with age. The rate of incid...

    Authors: Mahmoud Torabi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:285
  44. The link between physical activity (PA) and prevention of disease, maintenance of independence, and improved quality of life in older adults is supported by strong evidence. However, there is a lack of data on...

    Authors: Hilde Lohne-Seiler, Bjorge H Hansen, Elin Kolle and Sigmund A Anderssen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:284
  45. The few studies that have examined whether metropolitan-level ethnic residential segregation is associated with obesity among Hispanics are mixed. The segmented assimilation theory, which suggests patterns of ...

    Authors: Kiarri N Kershaw and Sandra S Albrecht
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:283
  46. The disclosure of widespread sexual abuse committed by professional educators and clergymen in institutions in Germany ignited a national political debate, in which special attention was paid to church-run ins...

    Authors: Nina Spröber, Thekla Schneider, Miriam Rassenhofer, Alexander Seitz, Hubert Liebhardt, Lilith König and Jörg M Fegert
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:282
  47. Stroke is the leading cause of disability among adults in the United States. The association of patients’ pre-event socioeconomic status (SES) with post-stroke disability is not well understood. We examined th...

    Authors: Janet Prvu Bettger, Xin Zhao, Cheryl Bushnell, Louise Zimmer, Wenqin Pan, Linda S Williams and Eric D Peterson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:281
  48. The WHO health systems Building Blocks framework has become ubiquitous in health systems research. However, it was not developed as a research instrument, but rather to facilitate investments of resources in h...

    Authors: Sandra Mounier-Jack, Ulla K Griffiths, Svea Closser, Helen Burchett and Bruno Marchal
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:278

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