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  1. The past decade has witnessed a growing body of research on welfare state characteristics and health inequalities but the picture is, despite this, inconsistent. We aim to review this research by focusing on t...

    Authors: Kersti Bergqvist, Monica Åberg Yngwe and Olle Lundberg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1234
  2. There is some evidence in the literature that emphasising fish consumption may assist with weight loss. The aim was to assess the effects of advice to consume 2 fish meals per week in a weight loss diet.

    Authors: Linda C Tapsell, Marijka J Batterham, Karen E Charlton, Elizabeth P Neale, Yasmine C Probst, Jane E O’Shea, Rebecca L Thorne, Qingsheng Zhang and Jimmy Chun Yu Louie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1231
  3. Hypertension is an important and modifiable cardiovascular risk factor that remains under-detected and under-treated, especially in the older individuals. Community-led interventions that integrate primary hea...

    Authors: Chenglin Ye, Gary Foster, Janusz Kaczorowski, Larry W Chambers, Ricardo Angeles, Francine Marzanek-Lefebvre, Stephanie Laryea, Lehana Thabane and Lisa Dolovich
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1230
  4. Chronic pain is common in Europe and elsewhere and its under treatment confers a substantial burden on individuals, employers, healthcare systems and society in general. Indeed, the personal and socioeconomic ...

    Authors: Harald Breivik, Elon Eisenberg and Tony O’Brien
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1229
  5. Māori and Pacific Island people have significantly higher smoking rates compared to the rest of the New Zealand population. The main aim of this paper is to describe how knowledge of Indigenous people’s practi...

    Authors: Marewa Glover, Amber Bosman, Annemarie Wagemakers, Anette Kira, Chris Paton and Nathan Cowie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1228
  6. Despite the popularity of hypnotherapy for smoking cessation, the efficacy of this method is unclear. We aimed to investigate the efficacy of a single-session of group hypnotherapy for smoking cessation compar...

    Authors: Maria Dickson-Spillmann, Severin Haug and Michael P Schaub
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1227
  7. Exhaled breath temperature has been suggested as a new method to detect and monitor pathological processes in the respiratory system. The putative mechanism of this approach is based upon changes in the blood ...

    Authors: Esmée Bijnens, Nicky Pieters, Harrie Dewitte, Bianca Cox, Bram G Janssen, Nelly Saenen, Evi Dons, Maurice P Zeegers, Luc Int Panis and Tim S Nawrot
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1226
  8. The first objective of this study was to investigate the public perceptions of private water and alternative sources with respect to safety, quality, testing and treatment in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), Ca...

    Authors: Steven M Roche, Andria Jones-Bitton, Shannon E Majowicz, Katarina D M Pintar and David Allison
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1225
  9. Low levels of cardiorespiratory fitness are associated with high risk of non-communicable diseases and all-cause mortality. Physical activity level is the primary determinant of cardiorespiratory fitness in ad...

    Authors: Kirstine Hoj Obling, Kristian Overgaard, Lise Juul and Helle Terkildsen Maindal
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1224
  10. There is strong evidence based on previous studies that ethnicity and socioeconomic status are important determinants of diversity in the occurrence of diabetes. However, the independent roles of socioeconomic...

    Authors: Seyed Morteza Shamshirgaran, Louisa Jorm, Hilary Bambrick and Annemarie Hennessy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1223
  11. Tuberculosis remains the major debilitating public health problem in Ethiopia. However, studies to understand the patients’ perspectives on the illness and their health-seeking behavior have been few in the co...

    Authors: Meseret Senbeto, Sebsibe Tadesse, Takele Tadesse and Tesfahun Melesse
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1222
  12. A large number of studies have investigated the motivation behind health care workers (HCWs) taking the influenza vaccine. But with the appearance of pandemic influenza, it became important to better analyse t...

    Authors: Roberta Bonfiglioli, Michela Vignoli, Dina Guglielmi, Marco Depolo and Francesco Saverio Violante
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1221
  13. Health insurance is improving access to quality health care in Ghana. However, there are implementation challenges which call for reform of the current health insurance system. There is no doubt that reforming...

    Authors: Peter Agyei-Baffour, Regina Oppong and Daniel Boateng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1220
  14. People want to be well informed and ask for more information regarding their health. The public can use different sources (i.e. the Internet, health care providers, friends, family, television, radio, and news...

    Authors: Irene A Harmsen, Gemma G Doorman, Liesbeth Mollema, Robert AC Ruiter, Gerjo Kok and Hester E de Melker
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1219
  15. The idea that behaviour can be influenced at population level by altering the environments within which people make choices (choice architecture) has gained traction in policy circles. However, empirical evide...

    Authors: Gareth J Hollands, Ian Shemilt, Theresa M Marteau, Susan A Jebb, Michael P Kelly, Ryota Nakamura, Marc Suhrcke and David Ogilvie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1218
  16. Diabetes affects both individuals and their families and has an impact on economic and social development of a country. Information on the availability, cost, and quality of medical care for diabetes is mostly...

    Authors: Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Andreas Lechner, Uta Ferrari, Guenter Froeschl, Louis W Niessen, Jochen Seissler and Dewan Shamsul Alam
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1217
  17. Helicobacter pylori is an important global pathogen infecting approximately 50% of the world’s population. This study was undertaken in order to estimate the prevalence rate of Helicobacter pylori infections a...

    Authors: Nilufer Ozaydin, Sinan A Turkyilmaz and Sanda Cali
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1215
  18. The relationship between socioeconomic position and obesity has been clearly established, however, the extent to which specific behavioural factors mediate this relationship is less clear. This study aimed to ...

    Authors: Emma Gearon, Kathryn Backholer, Allison Hodge and Anna Peeters
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1214
  19. The global increase in the prevalence of NCD’s is accompanied by an increase in risk factors for these diseases such as insufficient physical activity and poor nutritional habits. The main aims of this researc...

    Authors: Tracy L Kolbe-Alexander, Jaco Conradie and Estelle V Lambert
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1213
  20. Diabetes mellitus is an increasingly prevalent metabolic disorder that is associated with substantial disease burden. Australia has an opportunity to improve ways of caring for the growing number of people wit...

    Authors: Matthew J Leach, Leonie Segal, Adrian Esterman, Caroline Armour, Robyn McDermott and Tim Fountaine
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1212
  21. Recent outbreaks of measles and polio in low-income countries illustrate that conventional methods for estimating vaccination coverage do not adequately identify susceptible children. Immune markers of protect...

    Authors: Kyla T Hayford, Mohammed S Shomik, Hassan M Al-Emran, William J Moss, David Bishai and Orin S Levine
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1211
  22. Metabolic functions may operate as important biophysiological mechanisms through which social relationships affect health. It is unclear how social embeddedness or the lack thereof is related to risk of metabo...

    Authors: Yang Claire Yang, Ting Li and Yinchun Ji
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1210
  23. Breast cancer is the commonest cancer in women worldwide. Although programmes promoting breast cancer awareness are being carried out throughout Sri Lanka, few have targeted school students. We conducted this ...

    Authors: Hasanthika M Ranasinghe, Nilakshika Ranasinghe, Chaturaka Rodrigo, Rohini De A Seneviratne and Senaka Rajapakse
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1209
  24. Unhealthy lifestyles contribute to the development of cardiovascular risk factors, whose incidence is increasing among children and adolescents. The Program SI! is a long-term, multi-target behavioral interven...

    Authors: José L Peñalvo, Mercedes Sotos-Prieto, Gloria Santos-Beneit, Stuart Pocock, Juliana Redondo and Valentín Fuster
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1208
  25. With both a high need for recovery (NFR) and overweight and obesity being a potential burden for organizations (e.g. productivity loss and sickness absence), the aim of this paper was to examine the associatio...

    Authors: Robine E van der Starre, Jennifer K Coffeng, Ingrid JM Hendriksen, Willem van Mechelen and Cécile RL Boot
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1207
  26. The present study aimed to explore a longitudinal relationship between fruit and vegetable consumption in adolescence and two health-related outcomes (i.e., self-rated health and mental health) in early adulth...

    Authors: Yuriko Takaoka and Norito Kawakami
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1206
  27. Childhood overweight and obesity is a global public health concern. For girls in particular, being overweight or obese during pre-adolescence (aged 7–11 years) has intergenerational implications for both the m...

    Authors: Joanna May Kesten, Noel Cameron and Paula Louise Griffiths
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1205
  28. Shift work has been hypothesized as a risk factor for obesity. In this study, we investigated the association between current shift work and body mass index (BMI) among female nurses in Korea. The relationship...

    Authors: Min-Ju Kim, Kuk-Hui Son, Hyun-Young Park, Dong-Ju Choi, Chang-Hwan Yoon, Hea-Young Lee, Eun-Young Cho and Myeong-Chan Cho
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1204
  29. A diet rich in fruit, vegetables and dietary fibre and low in fat is associated with reduced risk of chronic disease. This review aimed to estimate the effectiveness of interventions to promote healthy diet fo...

    Authors: Nawaraj Bhattarai, A Toby Prevost, Alison J Wright, Judith Charlton, Caroline Rudisill and Martin C Gulliford
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1203
  30. Application of emollients is a widespread traditional newborn care practice in many low and middle-income countries (LMICs) and may have the potential to decrease infection and consequent mortality in preterm ...

    Authors: Rehana A Salam, Jai K Das, Gary L Darmstadt and Zulfiqar A Bhutta
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13(Suppl 3):S31

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 3

  31. Injection drug use is a major public health problem. Oral health problems and the appearance of dental disease among injection drug users (IDUs) are caused by their lifestyle. The aim of the present study was ...

    Authors: Zorica Terzic Supic, Ranko Petrovic, Milena Santric Milicevic, Goran Trajkovic and Zoran Bukumiric
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1202
  32. The evidence-based Dutch Obesity Intervention in Teenagers (DOiT) program is a school-based obesity prevention program for 12 to 14-year olds attending the first two years of prevocational education. This pape...

    Authors: Femke van Nassau, Amika S Singh, Willem van Mechelen, Theo GWM Paulussen, Johannes Brug and Mai JM Chinapaw
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1201
  33. Prisoners have extremely high rates of smoking with rates 3–4 times higher than the general community. Many prisoners have used heroin. The aims of this study were to investigate the impact of heroin use on sm...

    Authors: Devon Indig, Alex D Wodak, Robyn L Richmond, Tony G Butler, Vicki A Archer and Kay A Wilhelm
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1200
  34. The use of khat among youths can be harmful leading to decreased academic performance, increased risk of contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases or other psychiatric symptoms. It is believed to...

    Authors: Marelign Tilahun and Gistane Ayele
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1199
  35. The metabolic syndrome (MS) is a complex of risk factors for cardiovascular disease. This syndrome increases the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality. It has been demonstrated that ...

    Authors: Fernanda de Carvalho Vidigal, Josefina Bressan, Nancy Babio and Jordi Salas-Salvadó
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1198
  36. Physical activity patterns have been shown to change significantly across the transition to retirement. As most older adults approach retirement as part of a couple, a better understanding of how spousal pairs...

    Authors: Inka Barnett, Cornelia Guell and David Ogilvie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1197
  37. Cervical screening is currently recommended every two years in sexually active women aged 18-20 to 69 years in Australia. Direct replacement of conventional cytology with liquid-based cytology (LBC) for cervic...

    Authors: Nayyereh Aminisani, Bruce K Armstrong and Karen Canfell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1196
  38. There is a rapidly growing public awareness of mental health problems among Vietnamese secondary school students. This study aims to determine the prevalence of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation, to i...

    Authors: Dat Tan Nguyen, Christine Dedding, Tam Thi Pham, Pamela Wright and Joske Bunders
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1195
  39. Self-reported body weight is often used for calculation of Body Mass Index because it is easy to collect. Little is known about sources of error introduced by using bathroom scales to measure weight at home. T...

    Authors: Meredith Yorkin, Kim Spaccarotella, Jennifer Martin-Biggers, Virginia Quick and Carol Byrd-Bredbenner
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1194
  40. The incidences of childhood overweight and obesity have increased substantially and with them the prevalence of associated somatic and psychiatric health problems. Therefore, it is important to identify modifi...

    Authors: Matthias Grube, Sarah Bergmann, Anja Keitel, Katharina Herfurth-Majstorovic, Verena Wendt, Kai von Klitzing and Annette M Klein
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1193
  41. The physical and social environments at schools are related to students’ moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) levels. The purpose of this study was to explore the interactive effects of the school phy...

    Authors: Brenton Button, Stephen Trites and Ian Janssen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1191
  42. Numerous worksite health promotion program (WHPPs) have been implemented the past years to improve employees’ health and lifestyle (i.e., physical activity, nutrition, smoking, alcohol use and relaxation). Res...

    Authors: Debbie Wierenga, Luuk H Engbers, Pepijn Van Empelen, Saskia Duijts, Vincent H Hildebrandt and Willem Van Mechelen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1190
  43. To date, only a small amount of research on bonding/bridging social capital has separately examined their effects on health though they have been thought to have differential effects on health outcomes. By usi...

    Authors: Yoko Kishimoto, Etsuji Suzuki, Toshihide Iwase, Hiroyuki Doi and Soshi Takao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1189
  44. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) involves assessing how proposals may alter the determinants of health prior to implementation and recommends changes to enhance positive and mitigate negative impacts. HIAs growi...

    Authors: Fiona Haigh, Fran Baum, Andrew L Dannenberg, Mark F Harris, Ben Harris-Roxas, Helen Keleher, Lynn Kemp, Richard Morgan, Harrison NG Chok, Jeff Spickett and Elizabeth Harris
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1188
  45. Early childhood is recognised as a key developmental phase with implications for social, academic, health and wellbeing outcomes in later childhood and indeed throughout the adult lifespan. Community level dat...

    Authors: Lisa Marks Woolfson, Rosemary Geddes, Stephanie McNicol, Josephine N Booth and John Frank
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1187
  46. The transtheoretical model (TTM) is a common framework for studies of smoking cessation. Using the TTM, several instruments were developed to measure to what extent interventions could make changes in people’s...

    Authors: Fatemeh Sarbandi, Shamsaddin Niknami, Alireza Hidarnia, Ebrahim Hajizadeh and Ali Montazeri
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1186
  47. Management of Type 1 diabetes comes with substantial personal and psychological demands particularly during adolescence, placing young people at significant risk for mental health problems. Supportive parentin...

    Authors: Naomi J Hackworth, Jan Matthews, Kylie Burke, Zvezdana Petrovic, Britt Klein, Elisabeth A Northam, Michael Kyrios, Lisa Chiechomski and Fergus J Cameron
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1185
  48. In high income countries, vaccine-preventable diseases have been greatly reduced through routine vaccination programs. Despite this success, many parents question, and a small proportion even refuse vaccinatio...

    Authors: Irene A Harmsen, Liesbeth Mollema, Robert AC Ruiter, Theo GW Paulussen, Hester E de Melker and Gerjo Kok
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1183

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