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  1. There have been only a few region-level ecological studies conducted in Canada investigating enteric infections in humans. Our study objectives were to 1) assess the spatial clustering of Salmonella enterica sero...

    Authors: Csaba Varga, David L Pearl, Scott A McEwen, Jan M Sargeant, Frank Pollari and Michele T Guerin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1078
  2. Alcohol is a significant risk factor for injuries. This study addresses 1) whether the risk of alcohol related injury increases with frequency of heavy episodic drinking (HED) in a linear fashion, and 2) wheth...

    Authors: Ingeborg Rossow, Stig Tore Bogstrand, Øivind Ekeberg and Per Trygve Normann
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1076
  3. Although the benefits of physical activity have been well-established, a significant number of children and adolescents in the U.S. do not meet the recommended levels of daily physical activity. Parental influ...

    Authors: Zeynep Isgor, Lisa M Powell and Youfa Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1075
  4. The European Union (EU) health mandate was initially defined in the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. The twentieth anniversary of the Treaty offers a unique opportunity to take stock of EU health actions by giving a...

    Authors: Nicole Rosenkötter, Timo Clemens, Kristine Sørensen and Helmut Brand
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1074
  5. The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity poses a major threat to public health. Intervention strategies for healthy food choices potentially reduce obesity rates. Reviews of the effectiveness of int...

    Authors: Colin Bos, Ivo A Van der Lans, Frank J Van Rijnsoever and Hans CM Van Trijp
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1073
  6. Excess intake of sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been shown to result in weight gain. To address the growing epidemic of obesity, one option is to combine programmes that target individual behaviour chang...

    Authors: Maria A Cabrera Escobar, J Lennert Veerman, Stephen M Tollman, Melanie Y Bertram and Karen J Hofman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1072
  7. Physical activity and sitting time independently contribute to chronic disease risk, though little work has focused on aspirational health outcomes. The purpose of this study was to examine associations betwee...

    Authors: Richard R Rosenkranz, Mitch J Duncan, Sara K Rosenkranz and Gregory S Kolt
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1071
  8. Recent studies suggest that lactation has long-term effects on risk for cardiovascular disease in women, but the effects on cardiovascular mortality are less well known.

    Authors: Tone Natland Fagerhaug, Siri Forsmo, Geir Wenberg Jacobsen, Kristian Midthjell, Lene Frost Andersen and Tom Ivar Lund Nilsen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1070
  9. Previous epidemiologic studies have demonstrated an association between uric acid and hypertension. Our objective was to conduct a prospective cohort study with a nested randomised controlled trial (RCT in coh...

    Authors: Kun Song, Yuan Wang, Guolin Wang, Qing Zhang, Huanli Jiao, Guowei Huang and Wenli Lu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1069
  10. Few studies have examined plain water consumption among US adults. This study evaluated the consumption of plain water (tap and bottled) and total water among US adults by age group (20-50y, 51-70y, and ≥71y),...

    Authors: Adam Drewnowski, Colin D Rehm and Florence Constant
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1068
  11. To support parents in improving the health of their young children, examples of effective parenting practices for a healthy diet, physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) are needed. This study explo...

    Authors: Sara De Lepeleere, Ann DeSmet, Maïté Verloigne, Greet Cardon and Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1067
  12. Associations between type A behaviour pattern (TABP) and injuries are inconsistent. These inconsistencies may be due to different effects of various components of TABP, namely time urgency/impatience, hostilit...

    Authors: Hongying Shi, Xinjun Yang, Jingjing Wang, Haiyang Xi, Chenping Huang, Jincai He, Maoping Chu and Guihua Zhuang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1066
  13. Data on the psychosocial burden of human papillomavirus (HPV)-related diseases other than cervical cancer are scarce. The objectives of this study were to measure and compare the psychosocial burden and the im...

    Authors: Géraldine Dominiak-Felden, Catherine Cohet, Samantha Atrux-Tallau, Hélène Gilet, Amanda Tristram and Alison Fiander
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1065
  14. In China, obesity is expected to increase rapidly in both urban and rural areas. However, there have been no comprehensive reports on secular trends in obesity prevalence among Chinese adults in urban Shanghai...

    Authors: Xuhong Hou, Yu Liu, Huijuan Lu, Xiaojing Ma, Cheng Hu, Yuqian Bao and Weiping Jia
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1064
  15. Lifestyles such as unhealthy diets and the lack of physical activity have been contributed to the increased prevalence of obesity. In 2012, the world health organization published the first global recommendati...

    Authors: Catalina Medina, Ian Janssen, Ismael Campos and Simón Barquera
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1063
  16. Perception of Masculinity plays an important role in men’s lifestyles and health behaviors. Although, the importance of masculinity has been widely discussed in men’s health literature, very little is known ab...

    Authors: Zahra Fazli Khalaf, Wah Yun Low, Behzad Ghorbani and Effat Merghati Khoei
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1062
  17. This study investigated the role of key individual- and community-level determinants to explore persisting racial/ethnic disparities in breast cancer stage at diagnosis in California during 1990 and 2000.

    Authors: Yvonne N Flores, Pamela L Davidson, Terry T Nakazono, Daisy C Carreon, Cynthia M Mojica and Roshan Bastani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1061
  18. Dental caries remains one of the most common chronic diseases of adolescents. In Australia there have been few epidemiological studies of the caries experience of adolescents with most surveys focusing on chil...

    Authors: John Skinner, George Johnson, Claire Phelan and Anthony Blinkhorn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1060
  19. Men who have sex with men (MSM) who also report transactional sex (male sex workers or MSWs) are known to be at higher risk for HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The study aimed to profile socio-...

    Authors: Prakash Narayanan, Anjana Das, Guy Morineau, Parimi Prabhakar, Gururaj Rao Deshpande, Raman Gangakhedkar and Arun Risbud
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1059
  20. Exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy, whether as active smoking or by exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS), is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes including low birth weight (LBW) and small for gest...

    Authors: Hayfaa A Wahabi, Ahmed A Mandil, Rasmieh A Alzeidan, Ahmed A Bahnassy and Amel A Fayed
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1058
  21. Excessive time spent in sedentary behaviours (sitting or lying with low energy expenditure) is associated with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and some cancers. Desk-based office ...

    Authors: David W Dunstan, Glen Wiesner, Elizabeth G Eakin, Maike Neuhaus, Neville Owen, Anthony D LaMontagne, Marj Moodie, Elisabeth AH Winkler, Brianna S Fjeldsoe, Sheleigh Lawler and Genevieve N Healy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1057
  22. Educational attainment has been shown to influence access to and quality of health care. However, the influence of educational attainment on decision-making at the end of life with possible or certain life-sho...

    Authors: Kenneth Chambaere, Judith AC Rietjens, Joachim Cohen, Koen Pardon, Reginald Deschepper, H Roeline W Pasman and Luc Deliens
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1055
  23. Walking is the most popular form of physical activity among older people and for community-dwelling older people walking for errands is especially important. The aim of this study is to examine the association...

    Authors: Li-Tang Tsai, Merja Rantakokko, Erja Portegijs, Anne Viljanen, Milla Saajanaho, Johanna Eronen and Taina Rantanen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1054
  24. Prior research has shown increased risk of injury for female employees compared to male employees after controlling for job and tasks, but have not explored whether this increased risk might be moderated by ma...

    Authors: Jessica T Kubo, Mark R Cullen, Manisha Desai and Sepideh Modrek
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1053
  25. Inequities in both health status and coverage of health services are considered important barriers to achieving Millennium Development Goal 4. Community-based health promotion is a strategy that is believed to...

    Authors: Jennifer A Callaghan-Koru, Bareng AS Nonyane, Tanya Guenther, Deborah Sitrin, Reuben Ligowe, Emmanuel Chimbalanga, Evelyn Zimba, Fannie Kachale, Rashed Shah and Abdullah H Baqui
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1052
  26. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of cardiovascular risk factors that greatly increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Regular exercise improves the risk profile, but most peop...

    Authors: Melanie I Stuckey, Sheree Shapiro, Dawn P Gill and Robert J Petrella
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1051
  27. Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first six months of life is critical for the wellbeing of the child. In the mean while, timely initiation and starting nutritionally-adequate, safe, age-appropriate comple...

    Authors: Ashenafi Shumey, Meaza Demissie and Yemane Berhane
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1050
  28. The social environment is a fundamental determinant of early child development and, in turn, early child development is a determinant of health, well-being, and learning skills across the life course. Redistri...

    Authors: Meta van den Heuvel, Jessica Hopkins, Anne Biscaro, Cinntha Srikanthan, Andrea Feller, Sven Bremberg, Nienke Verkuijl, Boudien Flapper, Elizabeth Lee Ford-Jones and Robin Williams
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1049
  29. Dengue disease surveillance and vector surveillance are presumed to detect dengue outbreaks at an early stage and to save – through early response activities – resources, and reduce the social and economic imp...

    Authors: Hans-Christian Stahl, Vicki Marie Butenschoen, Hien Tinh Tran, Ernesto Gozzer, Ronald Skewes, Yodi Mahendradhata, Silvia Runge-Ranzinger, Axel Kroeger and Andrew Farlow
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1048
  30. The introduction of antiretroviral therapy in 1996 improved the longevity and wellbeing of peoples living with HIV in the industrialized world including children. This survival benefit of antiretroviral therap...

    Authors: Aregay Gebremedhin, Solomon Gebremariam, Fisaha Haile, Berhe Weldearegawi and Carla Decotelli
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1047
  31. Secondary school can be a stressful period for adolescents, having to cope with many life changes. Very little research has been conducted on the mental health status of secondary school pupils in South East A...

    Authors: Dat Tan Nguyen, Christine Dedding, Tam Thi Pham and Joske Bunders
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1046
  32. In 2009, a unified definition of metabolic syndrome (MetS) was proposed, of which, the glycemic component is defined on the basis of fasting plasma glucose (FPG) level. Recently, the American Diabetes Associat...

    Authors: Xingxing Sun, Tingting Du, Rui Huo, Xuefeng Yu and Lixian Xu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1045
  33. We aimed to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of an individualized, long-term support lifestyle counseling approach in promoting healthy physical activity, improving dietary and sleeping behaviors, and pr...

    Authors: Päivi Valve, Susanna Lehtinen-Jacks, Tiina Eriksson, Matti Lehtinen, Pirjo Lindfors, Marja-Terttu Saha, Arja Rimpelä and Susanna Anglé
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1044
  34. Non-communicable Disease (NCD) is increasingly burdening developing countries including Indonesia. However only a few intervention studies on NCD control in developing countries are reported. This study aims t...

    Authors: Fatwa Sari Tetra Dewi, Hans Stenlund, V Utari Marlinawati, Ann Öhman and Lars Weinehall
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1043
  35. Several epidemiological studies have observed an increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) among subjects with a higher consumption of red and processed meat. Heme iron intake has been directly associa...

    Authors: Jose Candido Fernandez-Cao, Victoria Arija, Nuria Aranda, Monica Bullo, Josep Basora, Miguel Angel Martínez-González, Javier Díez-Espino and Jordi Salas-Salvadó
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1042
  36. The epidemiology of infection with multiple human papillomavirus (HPV) types in female adolescents is poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to explore the epidemiology of infection with multiple HPV...

    Authors: Rosane Ribeiro Figueiredo Alves, Marília Dalva Turchi, Lyana Elias Santos, Eleuse Machado de Britto Guimarães, Mônica Maria Danda Garcia, Mirian Socorro Cardoso Seixas, Luisa Lina Villa, Maria Cecília Costa, Marise Amaral Rebouças Moreira and Maria de Fátima da Costa Alves
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1041
  37. High Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) prevalence have been reported in populations that do not regularly access health centres for sexually transmissible infections (STI) testing. We revi...

    Authors: Belinda Hengel, Muhammad S Jamil, Jacqueline K Mein, Lisa Maher, John M Kaldor and Rebecca J Guy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1040
  38. Socioeconomic status is strongly associated with obesity. Current economic circumstances are also independently associated with self-reported weight status in Finnish civil servants. We aimed to examine three ...

    Authors: Annalijn I Conklin, Nita G Forouhi, Marc Suhrcke, Paul Surtees, Nicholas J Wareham and Pablo Monsivais
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1039
  39. The exposure to air pollution has negative effects on human health, increasing the risk of respiratory diseases, such as asthma. Few data are yet available on the epidemiology of childhood asthma in some areas...

    Authors: Giancarlo Ripabelli, Manuela Tamburro, Michela Lucia Sammarco, Guglielmo de Laurentiis and Andrea Bianco
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1038
  40. The linkage between the socio-economic inequality and HIV outcomes was analysed using data from a population-based household survey that employed multistage-stratified sampling. The goal is to help refocus att...

    Authors: Njeri Wabiri and Negussie Taffa
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1037
  41. Natural disasters represent an increasing threat both in terms of incidence and severity as a result of climate change. Although much is known about individual responses to disasters, much less is known about ...

    Authors: Lisa Gibbs, Elizabeth Waters, Richard A Bryant, Philippa Pattison, Dean Lusher, Louise Harms, John Richardson, Colin MacDougall, Karen Block, Elyse Snowdon, Hugh Colin Gallagher, Vikki Sinnott, Greg Ireton and David Forbes
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1036
  42. India currently has more than 60 million people with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) and this is predicted to increase by nearly two-thirds by 2030. While management of those with T2DM is important, preventing...

    Authors: Thirunavukkarasu Sathish, Emily D Williams, Naanki Pasricha, Pilvikki Absetz, Paula Lorgelly, Rory Wolfe, Elezebeth Mathews, Zahra Aziz, Kavumpurathu Raman Thankappan, Paul Zimmet, Edwin Fisher, Robyn Tapp, Bruce Hollingsworth, Ajay Mahal, Jonathan Shaw, Damien Jolley…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1035
  43. This paper describes early results of an integrated maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) program in Northern Nigeria where child mortality rates are two to three times higher than in the southern states....

    Authors: Sally E Findley, Omolara T Uwemedimo, Henry V Doctor, Cathy Green, Fatima Adamu and Godwin Y Afenyadu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1034
  44. Overweight and obese children are likely to develop serious health problems. Among children in the U.S., Latino children are affected disproportionally by the obesity epidemic. Niños Sanos, Familia Sana (Healt...

    Authors: Adela de la Torre, Banafsheh Sadeghi, Richard D Green, Lucia L Kaiser, Yvette G Flores, Carlos F Jackson, Ulfat Shaikh, Linda Whent and Sara E Schaefer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1033
  45. The prevalence of type-2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome are increasing in the developing world; we assessed their prevalence among the urban middle class in Bangladesh.

    Authors: Nazmus Saquib, Masuma Akter Khanam, Juliann Saquib, Shuchi Anand, Glenn M Chertow, Michele Barry, Tahmeed Ahmed and Mark R Cullen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1032
  46. Tuberculosis (TB) patients who smoke tobacco are at an increased risk for adverse TB treatment outcomes. This study describes tobacco use patterns among newly diagnosed TB patients, their readiness to quit, an...

    Authors: Goedele MC Louwagie and Olalekan A Ayo-Yusuf
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1031
  47. Early reports of the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic (pH1N1) indicated that a disproportionate burden of illness fell on First Nations reserve communities. In addition, the impact of the pandemic on different c...

    Authors: Michael E Green, Sabrina T Wong, Josée G Lavoie, Jeff Kwong, Leonard MacWilliam, Sandra Peterson, Guoyuan Liu and Alan Katz
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1029
  48. The Patient Activation Measure (PAM) consists of 13 items and assesses patient (or consumer) self-reported knowledge, skills, and confidence for self-management of one’s health or chronic condition. The aim of...

    Authors: Jördis M Zill, Sarah Dwinger, Levente Kriston, Anja Rohenkohl, Martin Härter and Jörg Dirmaier
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1027
  49. The clinical and economic burden associated with invasive and non-invasive pneumococcal and non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) diseases is substantial in the Latin America and Caribbean region, where pneu...

    Authors: Jorge Alberto Gomez, Juan Carlos Tirado, Aldo Amador Navarro Rojas, Maria Mercedes Castrejon Alba and Oleksandr Topachevskyi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1025

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