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  1. Fruit and vegetable intake has been found to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, certain types of cancer and diabetes mellitus. It is possible that antioxidants play a large part in this protective effe...

    Authors: Samera Azeem Qureshi, Annette Christin Lund, Marit Bragelien Veierød, Monica Hauger Carlsen, Rune Blomhoff, Lene Frost Andersen and Giske Ursin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:45
  2. Client reminders are known to increase cancer screening attendance rates. However, there are significant costs associated with them, and their effect by population size is unknown.

    Authors: Shigekazu Komoto, Yuji Nishiwaki, Tomonori Okamura, Hideo Tanaka and Toru Takebayashi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:43
  3. Influenza viruses cause significant morbidity and mortality in Africa, particularly among high-risk groups, but influenza vaccines and antiviral drugs may not be commonly available and used. The main aim of th...

    Authors: Jazmin Duque, Meredith L McMorrow and Adam L Cohen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:41
  4. Physical inactivity is increasing among children and adolescents and may be contributing to the increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity. This study examines physical activity and sedentary behavior pat...

    Authors: Lisa K Micklesfield, Titilola M Pedro, Kathleen Kahn, John Kinsman, John M Pettifor, Stephen Tollman and Shane A Norris
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:40
  5. Community participation is mandatory in the prevention of Dengue outbreaks. Taking public views into account is crucial to guide more effective planning and quicker community participation in preventing campai...

    Authors: Teresa Nazareth, Rosa Teodósio, Graça Porto, Luzia Gonçalves, Gonçalo Seixas, Ana Clara Silva and Carla Alexandra Sousa
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:39
  6. Overweight and obesity among young, adult women are increasing problems in Sweden as in many other countries. The postpartum period may be a good opportunity to improve eating habits and lose weight in a susta...

    Authors: Lars A Hagberg, Hilde K Brekke, Fredrik Bertz and Anna Winkvist
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:38
  7. Breastfeeding has countless benefits to mothers, children and community at large, especially in developing countries. Studies from Lebanon report disappointingly low breastfeeding exclusivity and continuation ...

    Authors: Mona Nabulsi, Haya Hamadeh, Hani Tamim, Tamar Kabakian, Lama Charafeddine, Nadine Yehya, Durriyah Sinno and Saadieh Sidani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:36
  8. Obesity is a complex multifactorial disease, which also has an impact on quality of life. The aim of this paper is to identify the correlates of perceived health related quality of life in obese, overweight an...

    Authors: Cinzia Giuli, Roberta Papa, Roberta Bevilacqua, Elisa Felici, Cristina Gagliardi, Fiorella Marcellini, Marco Boscaro, Marco De Robertis, Eugenio Mocchegiani, Emanuela Faloia and Giacomo Tirabassi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:35
  9. The Great East Japan Earthquake of magnitude 9.0 that struck on 11 March 2011 resulted in more than 18000 deaths or cases of missing persons. The large-scale tsunami that followed the earthquake devastated man...

    Authors: Taro Kamigaki, Jin Seino, Kentaro Tohma, Nao Nukiwa-Soma, Kanako Otani and Hitoshi Oshitani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:34
  10. Uptake of HIV testing by men remains low in high prevalence settings in many parts of Africa. By focusing on masculinity, this study explores the social context and relations that shape men’s access to HIV tes...

    Authors: Godfrey E Siu, Daniel Wight and Janet A Seeley
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:33
  11. Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (Indigenous Australians) smoke at much higher rates than non-Indigenous people and smoking is an important contributor to increased disease, hospital ad...

    Authors: Julia V Marley, David Atkinson, Tracey Kitaura, Carmel Nelson, Dennis Gray, Sue Metcalf and Graeme P Maguire
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:32
  12. More than 75% of the total of Ethiopia is malarious. Therefore, malaria is a leading public health problem in Ethiopia. This study aims to identify socio-economic, geographic and demographic factors contributi...

    Authors: Dawit G Ayele, Temesgen T Zewotir and Henry G Mwambi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:31
  13. Public awareness-raising campaigns targeting alcohol use during pregnancy are an important part of preventing prenatal alcohol exposure and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Despite this, there is little eviden...

    Authors: Kathryn E France, Robert J Donovan, Carol Bower, Elizabeth J Elliott, Janet M Payne, Heather D’Antoine and Anne E Bartu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:30
  14. In Sweden mental ill-health has increased among the young, especially among young women. Our aim was to investigate the association between experience of physical violence during the past year and self rated p...

    Authors: Maria Fridh, Martin Lindström and Maria Rosvall
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:29
  15. Interventions to support people with hypertension in attending clinics and taking their medication have potential to improve outcomes, but delivery on a wide scale and at low cost is challenging. Some trials e...

    Authors: Kirsty Bobrow, Thomas Brennan, David Springer, Naomi S Levitt, Brian Rayner, Mosedi Namane, Ly-Mee Yu, Lionel Tarassenko and Andrew Farmer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:28
  16. We examined the association of alcohol use disorders (AUD) with adherence to and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) outcomes of antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV/AIDS patients.

    Authors: Bach Xuan Tran, Long Thanh Nguyen, Cuong Duy Do, Quyen Le Nguyen and Rachel Marie Maher
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:27
  17. Although multifaceted community-based programmes have been widely developed, there remains a paucity of evaluation of the effectiveness of multifaceted injury prevention programmes implemented in different set...

    Authors: Zhi-Juan Cao, Yue Chen and Shu-Mei Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:26
  18. There is global concern over significant threats from a wide variety of environmental hazards to which children face. Large-scale and long-term birth cohort studies are needed for better environmental manageme...

    Authors: Toshihiro Kawamoto, Hiroshi Nitta, Katsuyuki Murata, Eisaku Toda, Naoya Tsukamoto, Manabu Hasegawa, Zentaro Yamagata, Fujio Kayama, Reiko Kishi, Yukihiro Ohya, Hirohisa Saito, Haruhiko Sago, Makiko Okuyama, Tsutomu Ogata, Susumu Yokoya, Yuji Koresawa…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:25
  19. Hypertension is a global public health challenge. National prevalence estimates can conceal important differences in prevalence in subnational areas. This paper aims to develop a consistent set of national and...

    Authors: Steve Barron, Kevin Balanda, John Hughes and Lorraine Fahy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:24
  20. The prevalence of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) is still unknown in Nepal. The Ministry of Health and Population, Government of Nepal has not yet formulated policy regarding NCDs in the absence of evidence ...

    Authors: Gajananda Prakash Bhandari, Mirak Raj Angdembe, Meghnath Dhimal, Sushma Neupane and Choplal Bhusal
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:23
  21. Prisons continue to fuel tuberculosis (TB) epidemics particularly in settings where access to TB screening and prevention services is limited. Malaysia is a middle-income country with a relatively high incarce...

    Authors: Haider Abdulrazzaq Abed Al-Darraji, Adeeba Kamarulzaman and Frederick L Altice
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:22
  22. Alcohol-related violence in and in the vicinity of licensed premises continues to place a considerable burden on the United Kingdom’s (UK) health services. Robust interventions targeted at licensed premises ar...

    Authors: Simon C Moore, Claire O’Brien, Mohammed Fasihul Alam, David Cohen, Kerenza Hood, Chao Huang, Laurence Moore, Simon Murphy, Rebecca Playle, Vaseekaran Sivarajasingam, Irena Spasic, Anne Williams and Jonathan Shepherd
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:21
  23. Some health behaviours are liable to affect the incidence of allergies and/or common infections in young people; however, the extent and ways in which these might occur are mostly unknown. This study examines ...

    Authors: Esther Nova, David Martínez-Gómez, Sonia Gómez-Martínez, Ana M Veses, Maria E Calle, Oscar L Veiga and Ascensión Marcos
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:19
  24. Financial stress may have adverse health effects. The main aim of this study was to investigate whether having a cash margin and living alone or cohabiting is associated with incident cardiovascular disease (C...

    Authors: Axel C Carlsson, Bengt Starrin, Bruna Gigante, Karin Leander, Mai-Lis Hellenius and Ulf de Faire
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:17
  25. School drop-out is a problem all over the world with adverse life-course consequences. The aim of this paper is to study how internalising and externalising problems in the 10th grade are associated with non-comp...

    Authors: Åse Sagatun, Sonja Heyerdahl, Tore Wentzel-Larsen and Lars Lien
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:16
  26. In 2002/03 the Queensland Government responded to high rates of alcohol-related harm in discrete Indigenous communities by implementing alcohol management plans (AMPs), designed to include supply and harm redu...

    Authors: Alan R Clough, Michelle S Fitts, Jan A Robertson, Anthony Shakeshaft, Adrian Miller, Christopher M Doran, Reinhold Muller, Valmae Ypinazar, David Martin, Robyn McDermott, Rob Sanson-Fisher, Simon Towle, Stephen A Margolis and Caryn West
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:15
  27. A subgroup has emerged within the obese that do not display the typical metabolic disorders associated with obesity and are hypothesized to have lower risk of complications. The purpose of this review was to a...

    Authors: Lara L Roberson, Ehimen C Aneni, Wasim Maziak, Arthur Agatston, Theodore Feldman, Maribeth Rouseff, Thinh Tran, Michael J Blaha, Raul D Santos, Andrei Sposito, Mouaz H Al-Mallah, Ron Blankstein, Matthew J Budoff and Khurram Nasir
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:14
  28. A balanced diet is fundamental for healthy growth and development of children. The aim of this study was to document and evaluate the dietary intake of Cypriot children aged 6–18 years (y) against recommendati...

    Authors: Michael J Tornaritis, Elena Philippou, Charalambos Hadjigeorgiou, Yiannis A Kourides, Adamos Panayi and Savvas C Savva
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:13
  29. Chlamydia infection is the most common notifiable sexually transmitted infection (STI) in Australia and mostly affects young people (15 – 25 years). This paper presents baseline data from a randomised controll...

    Authors: Melissa Kang, Arlie Rochford, S Rachel Skinner, Adrian Mindel, Marianne Webb, Jenny Peat and Tim Usherwood
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:12
  30. Severe epidemics of enterovirus have occurred frequently in Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Cambodia, and China, involving cases of pulmonary edema, hemorrhage and encephalitis, and an effective vaccine has not b...

    Authors: Ta-Chien Chan, Jing-Shiang Hwang, Rung-Hung Chen, Chwan-Chuen King and Po-Huang Chiang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:11
  31. Despite advancements in our understanding of the importance of stress reduction in achieving good health, we still only have limited insight into the impact of stress on cellular function. Recent studies have ...

    Authors: Charrlotte Seib, Eliza Whiteside, Janice Humphreys, Kathryn Lee, Patrick Thomas, Lisa Chopin, Gabrielle Crisp, Angela O’Keeffe, Michael Kimlin, Andrew Stacey and Debra Anderson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:9
  32. Oral health is a basis for general health and well-being and affects physical and psychological aspects of the human life. The aim of this study was to determine the power of the health belief model in general...

    Authors: Parisa Kasmaei, Farkhondeh Amin Shokravi, Alireza Hidarnia, Ebrahim Hajizadeh, Zahra Atrkar-Roushan, Kambiz Karimzadeh Shirazi and Ali Montazeri
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:8
  33. Continued management of sanitation and hygiene services, post-intervention, is a global challenge, particularly in the school-setting. This situation threatens anticipated impacts of school sanitation and hygi...

    Authors: Christie Chatterley, Amy Javernick-Will, Karl G Linden, Kawser Alam, Laure Bottinelli and Mohini Venkatesh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:6
  34. Evidence is often missing on social differentials in effects of nutrition interventions. We evaluated the adherence to and effect of prenatal food and micronutrient supplementations on mortality before the age...

    Authors: Rubina Shaheen, Peter Kim Streatfield, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Lars Lindholm and Lars Åke Persson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:5
  35. Sedentary behaviours, defined as non exercising seated activities, have been shown to have deleterious effects on health. It has been hypothesised that too much sitting time can have a detrimental effect on bo...

    Authors: Sebastien FM Chastin, Oleksii Mandrichenko and Dawn A Skelton
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:4
  36. While the numbers of hepatitis-C-virus (HCV) infections among men who have sex with men (MSM) who are co-infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are on the rise, with vast evidence for sexual tran...

    Authors: Axel J Schmidt, Luis Falcato, Benedikt Zahno, Andrea Burri, Stephan Regenass, Beat Müllhaupt and Philip Bruggmann
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:3
  37. Information on health seeking behavior and beneficiaries’ perception of the quality of primary care can help policy makers to set strategies to improve health system. With scarcity of research on this particul...

    Authors: Nazar P Shabila, Namir G Al-Tawil, Tariq S Al-Hadithi and Egbert Sondorp
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:2
  38. Significant variation exists in published Aboriginal mortality and life expectancy (LE) estimates due to differing and evolving methodologies required to correct for inadequate recording of Aboriginality in de...

    Authors: Bronwen Phillips, Stephen Morrell, Richard Taylor and John Daniels
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1
  39. Cotinine levels provide a valid measure of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). The goal of this study was to examine exposure to tobacco smoke among smoking and nonsmoking Israeli adults and to iden...

    Authors: Hagai Levine, Tamar Berman, Rebecca Goldsmith, Thomas Göen, Judith Spungen, Lena Novack, Yona Amitai, Tamy Shohat and Itamar Grotto
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1241
  40. Burnout is the result of prolonged workplace exposure to chronic stress factors and may present itself in one of the following subtypes: “frenetic”, “under-challenged” and “worn-out”. The aims of the present s...

    Authors: Jesús Montero-Marín, Javier Prado-Abril, José Miguel Carrasco, Ángela Asensio-Martínez, Santiago Gascón and Javier García-Campayo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1240
  41. Nepal has made substantial progress in reducing under-five mortality and is on track to achieve Millennium Development Goal 4, but advances in neonatal health are less encouraging. The objectives of this study...

    Authors: Deepak Paudel, Ishwar B Shrestha, Matthias Siebeck and Eva A Rehfuess
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1239
  42. Patients with Tuberculosis (TB) are a vulnerable group for acquiring HIV infection. Therefore, countries with a concentrated HIV epidemic and high prevalence of TB should provide adequate information about HIV...

    Authors: Cesar Ugarte-Gil, Mario Ponce, Carlos Zamudio, Luz Canaza, Frine Samalvides and Carlos Seas
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1237
  43. Men who have sex with men in Viet Nam have been under-studied as a high-risk group for HIV infection, and this population’s percentage and determinants of HIV testing have not been comprehensively investigated.

    Authors: Macarena Cecilia García, Quyen Le Duong, Licelot Eralte Mercer, Samantha Beth Meyer and Paul Russell Ward
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1236
  44. During Rwanda’s genocide period in 1994, about 800,000 people were killed. People were murdered, raped and seriously injured. This retrospective study investigated prevalence and frequency of traumatic episode...

    Authors: Lawrence Rugema, Ingrid Mogren, Joseph Ntaganira and Krantz Gunilla
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1235

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