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  1. Independent mobility describes the freedom of children to travel and play in public spaces without adult supervision. The potential benefits for children are significant such as social interactions with peers,...

    Authors: Stephanie Schoeppe, Mitch J Duncan, Hannah M Badland, Melody Oliver and Matthew Browne
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:91
  2. Childhood immunisation is a cost-effective activity in health. Immunisation of children has contributed to reducing child morbidity and mortality. In the last two decades, global deaths from vaccine-preventabl...

    Authors: Dennis Odai Laryea, Emmanuel Abbeyquaye Parbie and Ebenezer Frimpong
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:90
  3. Asymptomatic Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) is associated with greater risk of acute cardiovascular events. This study aims to determine the cost-effectiveness of one time only PAD screening using Ankle Bra...

    Authors: Anil Vaidya, Manuela A Joore, Arina J ten Cate-Hoek, Hugo ten Cate and Johan L Severens
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:89
  4. Poverty is associated with increased risk of active tuberculosis (TB) disease onset, but the relation between household income and TB treatment outcomes is not well understood. The objective of this study was ...

    Authors: Mamuka Djibuti, Eka Mirvelashvili, Nutsa Makharashvili and Matthew J Magee
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:88
  5. Obesity is a global public health problem. There are a range of treatments available with varying short and long term success rates. One option is the use of anti-obesity medication the prescription of which h...

    Authors: Lynsey Patterson, Frank Kee, Carmel Hughes and Dermot O’Reilly
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:87
  6. Although diabetes is recognized as an emerging disease in African and Middle East, few population-based surveys have been conducted in this region. We performed a national survey to estimate the prevalence of ...

    Authors: Habiba Ben Romdhane, Samir Ben Ali, Wafa Aissi, Pierre Traissac, Hajer Aounallah-Skhiri, Souha Bougatef, Bernard Maire, Francis Delpeuch and Noureddine Achour
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:86
  7. While extensive research has been conducted on bullying and victimization in western countries, research is lacking in low- and middle-income settings. This study focused on bullying victimization in Peru. It ...

    Authors: Benjamin T Crookston, Ray M Merrill, Stephanie Hedges, Cameron Lister, Joshua H West and P Cougar Hall
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:85
  8. This study explored community perceptions of cultural beliefs and practices that may increase sexual risk behaviour of adolescents, to understand more about meaning they hold within the culture and how they ex...

    Authors: Milka Juma, Ian Askew, Jane Alaii, L Kay Bartholomew and Bart van den Borne
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:84
  9. Substance use problems in childhood and adolescence can severely impact youth’s physical and mental well-being. When substance use is initiated early, the risk for moving from hazardous substance use to substa...

    Authors: Sonja Bröning, Peter-Michael Sack, Monika Thomsen, Martin Stolle, Astrid Wendell, Julian Stappenbeck and Rainer Thomasius
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:83
  10. Physical activity (PA) and sleep are related to cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and their risk factors. The interrelationship between these behaviors has been studied, but there remain questions regarding the as...

    Authors: Heini Wennman, Erkki Kronholm, Timo Partonen, Asko Tolvanen, Markku Peltonen, Tommi Vasankari and Katja Borodulin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:82
  11. The continued presence of stigma and its persistence even in areas where HIV prevalence is high makes it an extraordinarily important, yet difficult, issue to eradicate. The study aimed to assess current and e...

    Authors: Monika ML dos Santos, Pieter Kruger, Shaun E Mellors, Gustaaf Wolvaardt and Elna van der Ryst
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:80
  12. Swaziland has the highest HIV prevalence in the world – 32% of adults are currently living with HIV — and many Swazis are chronically food insecure — in 2011 one in four Swazis required food aid from the World...

    Authors: Rebecca Fielding-Miller, Zandile Mnisi, Darrin Adams, Stefan Baral and Caitlin Kennedy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:79
  13. Deaths and injuries on the road remain a major cause of premature death among young people across the world. Routinely collected data usually focuses on the mechanism of road traffic collisions and basic demog...

    Authors: Paul Pilkington, Emma Bird, Selena Gray, Elizabeth Towner, Sarah Weld and Mary-Ann McKibben
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:78
  14. Evidence has been synthesized to determine hindering and facilitating factors associated with the work participation of adults with developmental dyslexia (DD), classified according to the International Classi...

    Authors: Joost de Beer, Josephine Engels, Yvonne Heerkens and Jac van der Klink
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:77
  15. Support groups for children in troubled families are available in a majority of Swedish municipalities. They are used as a preventive effort for children in families with different parental problems such as ad...

    Authors: Annemi Skerfving, Fredrik Johansson and Tobias H Elgán
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:76
  16. Pregnancy is a major life event for women and often connected with changes in diet and lifestyle and natural gestational weight gain. However, excessive weight gain during pregnancy may lead to postpartum weig...

    Authors: Anne von Ruesten, Anne Lise Brantsæter, Margaretha Haugen, Helle Margrete Meltzer, Kirsten Mehlig, Anna Winkvist and Lauren Lissner
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:75
  17. The overuse of antibiotics is becoming an increasing concern. Antibiotic resistance, which increases both the burden of disease, and the cost of health services, is perhaps the most profound impact of antibiot...

    Authors: Arwa Alumran, Xiang-Yu Hou, Jiandong Sun, Abdullah A Yousef and Cameron Hurst
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:73
  18. Leading medical organizations have called on primary care pediatricians to take a central role in the prevention of childhood obesity. Weight counseling typically has not been incorporated into routine pediatr...

    Authors: Amy A Gorin, James Wiley, Christine McCauley Ohannessian, Dominica Hernandez, Autherene Grant and Michelle M Cloutier
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:72
  19. Diabetes self-care by patients has been shown to assist in the reduction of disease severity and associated medical costs. We compared the effectiveness of two different diabetes self-care interventions on gly...

    Authors: Samuel N Forjuoh, Jane N Bolin, John C Huber Jr, Ann M Vuong, Omolola E Adepoju, Janet W Helduser, Dawn S Begaye, Anne Robertson, Darcy M Moudouni, Timethia J Bonner, Kenneth R McLeroy and Marcia G Ory
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:71
  20. The UK has one of the highest fatality rates for deaths from fire-related injuries in children aged 0–14 years; these injuries have the steepest social gradient of all injuries in the UK. Children’s centres pr...

    Authors: Toity Deave, Elizabeth Towner, Elaine McColl, Richard Reading, Alex Sutton, Carol Coupland, Nicola Cooper, Jane Stewart, Mike Hayes, Emma Pitchforth, Michael Watson and Denise Kendrick
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:69
  21. Almost half of adult men in Viet Nam are current smokers, a smoking prevalence that is the second highest among South East Asian countries (SEAC). Although Viet Nam has a strong public health delivery system, ...

    Authors: Donna Shelley, Tuo-Yen Tseng, Hieu Pham, Linh Nguyen, Sarah Keithly, Frances Stillman and Nam Nguyen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:68
  22. To achieve globally or regionally defined accelerated disease control, elimination and eradication (ADC/E/E) goals against vaccine-preventable diseases requires complementing national routine immunization prog...

    Authors: Gian Gandhi and Patrick Lydon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:67
  23. Effective screening programs are urgently needed to provide undiagnosed hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected individuals with therapy. This systematic review of characteristics and outcomes of screening programs f...

    Authors: Freke R Zuure, Anouk T Urbanus, Miranda W Langendam, Charles W Helsper, Charlotte HSB van den Berg, Udi Davidovich and Maria Prins
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:66
  24. Oral health is an integral component of general health and well-being. While edentulism has been examined in relation to socioeconomic status, rural residency, chronic disease and mental health, no study that ...

    Authors: Daniel M Saman, Andrine Lemieux, Oscar Arevalo and May Nawal Lutfiyya
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:65
  25. Two rounds of integrated biological and behavioural assessment (IBBA) surveys were done among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Andhra Pradesh during 2006 and 2009. Avahan, the India AIDS initiative, funded b...

    Authors: G Anil Kumar, Rakhi Dandona, Ramesh Poluru, S Anil Chandran, Michel Alary and Lalit Dandona
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:64
  26. To develop evidence-based interventions promoting healthy active lifestyles among young children and their parents, a greater understanding is needed of the correlates of physical activity and screen time in t...

    Authors: Valerie Carson, Andrei Rosu and Ian Janssen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:61
  27. Initiatives such as the Country Countdown to 2015 Conference on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have provided countries with high maternal and child deaths like Zambia a platform to assess progress, discus...

    Authors: Victor M Mukonka, Sarai Malumo, Penelope Kalesha, Mary Nambao, Rodgers Mwale, Kasonde Mwinga, Mary Katepa-Bwalya, Olusegan Babaniyi, Elizabeth Mason, Caroline Phiri and Pauline K Wamulume
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:60
  28. This study evaluates the effects of an intervention performed by youth health care professionals on child health behaviors. The intervention consisted of offering healthy lifestyle counseling to parents of ove...

    Authors: Amy van Grieken, Carry M Renders, Lydian Veldhuis, Caspar WN Looman, Remy A Hirasing and Hein Raat
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:59
  29. Flying foxes (megachiroptera) and insectivorous microbats (microchiroptera) are the known reservoirs for a range of recently emerged, highly pathogenic viruses. In Australia there is public health concern rela...

    Authors: Beverley J Paterson, Michelle T Butler, Keith Eastwood, Patrick M Cashman, Alison Jones and David N Durrheim
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:58
  30. The prevalence of obesity in men in the UK is amongst the highest in Europe but men are less likely than women to use existing weight loss programmes. Developing weight management programmes which are appealin...

    Authors: Kate Hunt, Cindy M Gray, Alice Maclean, Susan Smillie, Christopher Bunn and Sally Wyke
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:50
  31. In France, 2–15% of the population is affected annually by influenza, which causes significant socioeconomic disruption. Nevertheless, despite its importance for policy makers, few published studies have evalu...

    Authors: Maria Laura Silva, Lionel Perrier, Hans-Martin Späth, Isidore Grog, Anne Mosnier, Nathalie Havet and Jean Marie Cohen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:56
  32. The number of Master of Public Health (MPH) programmes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is increasing, but questions have been raised regarding the relevance of their outcomes and impacts on context...

    Authors: Prisca AC Zwanikken, Lucy Alexander, Nguyen Thanh Huong, Xu Qian, Laura Magana Valladares, Nazar A Mohamed, Xiao Hua Ying, Maria Cecilia Gonzalez-Robledo, Le Cu Linh, Marwa SE Abuzaid Wadidi, Hanan Tahir, Sunisha Neupane and Albert Scherpbier
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:55
  33. Young people in sub-Saharan Africa are affected by the HIV pandemic to a greater extent than young people elsewhere and effective HIV-preventive intervention programmes are urgently needed. The present article...

    Authors: Leif Edvard Aarø, Catherine Mathews, Sylvia Kaaya, Anne Ruhweza Katahoire, Hans Onya, Charles Abraham, Knut-Inge Klepp, Annegreet Wubs, Sander Matthijs Eggers and Hein de Vries
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:54
  34. College or university is a critical period regarding unhealthy changes in eating behaviours in students. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore which factors influence Belgian (European) universit...

    Authors: Tom Deliens, Peter Clarys, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij and Benedicte Deforche
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:53
  35. Activities to decrease the burden of tuberculosis (TB) among people living with HIV (PLHIV) include intensified TB case-finding (ICF), Isoniaizid (INH) preventive therapy (IPT) and infection control in health-...

    Authors: Amenu Wesen Denegetu and Bethabile Lovely Dolamo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:52
  36. Prevention of alcohol, drug and tobacco misuse by young people is a key public health priority. There is a need to develop the evidence base through rigorous evaluations of innovative approaches to substance m...

    Authors: Jeremy Segrott, David Gillespie, Jo Holliday, Ioan Humphreys, Simon Murphy, Ceri Phillips, Hayley Reed, Heather Rothwell, David Foxcroft, Kerenza Hood, Zoe Roberts, Jonathan Scourfield, Claire Thomas and Laurence Moore
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:49
  37. Pre-diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are associated with an unhealthy lifestyle and pose extremely high costs to the healthcare system. In this study, we aim to explore whether individual...

    Authors: Wu Yi Liu, Da Jiang Lu, Xia Ming Du, Jian Qin Sun, Jun Ge, Ren Wei Wang, Ru Wang, Jun Zou, Chang Xu, Jie Ren, Xin Fei Wen, Yang Liu, Shu Mei Cheng, Xiao Tan, Satu Pekkala, Eveliina Munukka…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:48
  38. Despite decades of nutrition education, the prevalence of unhealthy dietary patterns is still high and inequalities in intake between high and low socioeconomic groups still exist. Therefore, it is important t...

    Authors: Linda Springvloet, Lilian Lechner and Anke Oenema
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:47
  39. People with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in low-income countries face many problems during treatment, and cure rates are low. The purpose of the study was (a) to identify and document the problem...

    Authors: Sushil C Baral, Yeshoda Aryal, Rekha Bhattrai, Rebecca King and James N Newell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:46
  40. Influenza vaccination eligibility and uptake among homeless adults has not been previously assessed in the UK. This cross-sectional survey aimed to measure the proportion of homeless people visited by an NHS o...

    Authors: Alistair Story, Robert W Aldridge, Tat Gray, Stan Burridge and Andrew C Hayward
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:44

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