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  1. Tuberculosis (TB) is a major issue in prisons of low and middle income countries where TB incidence rates are much higher in prison populations as compared with the general population. In the Rio de Janeiro (R...

    Authors: Alexandra Sanchez, Veronique Massari, Germano Gerhardt, Ana Beatriz Espinola, Mahinda Siriwardana, Luiz Antonio B Camacho and Bernard Larouzé
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:983
  2. Representative data about the frequency of child maltreatment is needed in order to estimate the extent of the problem in the wider population as well as to provide the basis for interpretation of frequency ra...

    Authors: Benjamin Iffland, Elmar Brähler, Frank Neuner, Winfried Häuser and Heide Glaesmer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:980
  3. Tobacco use over the life-course threatens to increase disease burden in older adulthood, including lower income countries like Ghana. This paper describes demographic, socioeconomic, health risks and life sat...

    Authors: Alfred E Yawson, Akosua Baddoo, Nana Ayegua Hagan-Seneadza, Benedict Calys-Tagoe, Sandra Hewlett, Phyllis Dako-Gyeke, George Mensah, Nadia Minicuci, Nirmala Naidoo, Somnath Chatterji, Paul Kowal and Richard Biritwum
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:979
  4. This paper describes the systematic development of a text-driven and a video-driven web-based computer-tailored intervention aimed to prevent obesity among normal weight and overweight adults. We hypothesize t...

    Authors: Michel Jean Louis Walthouwer, Anke Oenema, Katja Soetens, Lilian Lechner and Hein De Vries
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:978
  5. Information on the part that poor food-hygiene practices play a role in the development of diarrhea in low socioeconomic urban communities is lacking. This study was therefore aimed at assessing the contributi...

    Authors: Rina Agustina, Tirta P Sari, Soemilah Satroamidjojo, Ingeborg MJ Bovee-Oudenhoven, Edith JM Feskens and Frans J Kok
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:977
  6. Depression is a common and mostly undertreated problem in patients with chronic diseases. However, population-based studies on the association between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and subsequen...

    Authors: Tzung-Yi Tsai, Hanoch Livneh, Ming-Chi Lu, Pang-Yau Tsai, Pei-Chun Chen and Fung-Chang Sung
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:976
  7. To assess the prevalence of obesity and major physical examination items including dental caries, myopia, pinworm, hematuria, and proteinuria among school children in Hualien, Taiwan. In addition, the health s...

    Authors: Chia-Hsiang Chu, Jen-Hung Wang, Rong-Hwa Jan, Chih-Hao Huang and Ching-Feng Cheng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:975
  8. Two overweight prevention interventions were developed to be offered by preventive Youth Health Care (YHC) in addition to the currently applied overweight prevention protocol to parents of 0-3 year old childre...

    Authors: Hein Raat, Mirjam K Struijk, Teun Remmers, Eline Vlasblom, Amy van Grieken, Suzanne ML Broeren, Saskia J te Velde, Maaike Beltman, Magda M Boere-Boonekamp and Monique P L’Hoir
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:974
  9. In order to develop effective preventive strategies, knowledge of trends in socioeconomic and geographical differences in risk factor levels is important. The objective of this study was to examine social and ...

    Authors: Steinar Krokstad, Linda Ernstsen, Erik R Sund, Johan Håkon Bjørngaard, Arnulf Langhammer, Kristian Midthjell, Turid Lingaas Holmen, Jostein Holmen, Håvard Thoen and Steinar Westin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:973
  10. Evidence based parenting programmes can improve parenting skills and the behaviour of children exhibiting, or at risk of developing, antisocial behaviour. In order to develop a public policy for delivering the...

    Authors: Geoff Lindsay and Steve Strand
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:972
  11. Health risk behaviours known to result in poorer outcomes in adulthood are generally established in late childhood and adolescence. These ‘risky’ behaviours include smoking, alcohol and illicit drug use and se...

    Authors: Kerri E McPherson, Susan Kerr, Antony Morgan, Elizabeth McGee, Francine M Cheater, Jennifer McLean and James Egan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:971
  12. Community food programs (CFPs) provide an important safety-net for highly food insecure community members in the larger settlements of the Canadian Arctic. This study identifies who is using CFPs and why, draw...

    Authors: James D Ford, Marie-Pierre Lardeau, Hilary Blackett, Susan Chatwood and Denise Kurszewski
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:970
  13. Evidence on the effect of community social capital on suicide mortality rates is fragmentary and inconsistent. The present study aims to determine whether geographic variations in suicide mortality across the ...

    Authors: Anton E Kunst, Carolien van Hooijdonk, Mariël Droomers and Johan P Mackenbach
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:969
  14. European men who have sex with men (MSM) continue to be disproportionally affected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Several factors are contributing to the rates of new HIV infections among MSM. The ...

    Authors: Wim Vanden Berghe, Christiana Nöstlinger, Harm Hospers and Marie Laga
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:968
  15. Recent lifestyle approaches to physical activity have included the promotion of domestic physical activities such as do-it-yourself or home maintenance, gardening and housework. Although it is acknowledged tha...

    Authors: Marie H Murphy, Paul Donnelly, Gavin Breslin, Simon Shibli and Alan M Nevill
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:966
  16. The cost of cigarettes has been cited as a motivating factor for smokers to quit smoking, and a cigarette tax increase is an effective way to increase the cost of cigarettes. Scholars have suggested that smoke...

    Authors: Kelvin Choi and Raymond G Boyle
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:965
  17. China enacted a policy to ban smoking in hospitals. The Chinese Association for Tobacco Control (CATC) developed a program to help hospitals implement this policy. They conducted a program and an assessment in...

    Authors: Frances A Stillman, Michelle R Kaufman, Anjie Zhen, Jingyan Yang, Jiangbo Wang and Na Zhao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:964
  18. There are repeated calls to build better cycling paths in Australian cities if the proportion of people cycling is to increase. Yet the full range of transport, health, environmental and economic impacts of ne...

    Authors: Chris Rissel, Stephen Greaves, Li Ming Wen, Anthony Capon, Melanie Crane and Chris Standen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:963
  19. Workers on coke oven plants may be exposed to potentially carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), particularly during work on the ovens tops. Two cohorts, employees of National Smokeless Fuels (N...

    Authors: Brian G Miller, Emma Doust, John W Cherrie and J Fintan Hurley
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:962
  20. There is large body of knowledge to support the importance of early interventions to improve child health and development. Nonetheless, it is important to identify cost-effective blends of preventive intervent...

    Authors: Raziye Salari, Helena Fabian, Ron Prinz, Steven Lucas, Inna Feldman, Amanda Fairchild and Anna Sarkadi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:961
  21. A small but growing body of research indicates that progress in reducing child malnutrition is substantially uneven from place to place, even down to the district level within countries. Yet child malnutrition...

    Authors: Dickson A Amugsi, Maurice B Mittelmark and Anna Lartey
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:960
  22. The federal campaign Wir gegen Viren [Us against viruses] promoted hygiene in Germany during the influenza A H1N1 pandemic in 2009. The intervention aimed to encourage people to protect themselves against respira...

    Authors: Gerald Meilicke, Klaus Riedmann, Walter Biederbick, Ute Müller, Traugott Wierer and Cornelius Bartels
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:959
  23. Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first six months can have a significant impact on reducing child morbidity and mortality rates. The objective of this study was to compare the determinants of and trends i...

    Authors: Vishnu Khanal, Kay Sauer and Yun Zhao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:958
  24. Stress has been shown to be a determinant of weight change and risk for obesity. To date, there is scarce evidence that stressful life events and their severity contribute to changes in body weight. We studied...

    Authors: Karin I Proper, H Susan J Picavet, Rik P Bogers, WM Monique Verschuren and Wanda JE Bemelmans
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:957
  25. Despite well-established medical recommendations, many cardiac patients do not exercise regularly either independently or through formal cardiac prevention and rehabilitation programs (CPRP). This non-adherenc...

    Authors: Orna Reges, Noa Vilchinsky, Morton Leibowitz, Abdulrahem Khaskia, Morris Mosseri and Jeremy D Kark
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:956
  26. The prevention of eating disorders and disordered eating are increasingly recognized as public health priorities. Challenges in this field included moving from efficacy to effectiveness and developing an integ...

    Authors: David Sánchez-Carracedo, Gemma López-Guimerà, Jordi Fauquet, Juan Ramón Barrada, Montserrat Pàmias, Joaquim Puntí, Mireia Querol and Esther Trepat
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:955
  27. Survivors of bacterial meningitis and septicaemia can experience a range of after-effects. There is little published research on the needs and provision of aftercare for children surviving bacterial meningitis...

    Authors: Laura J Clark, Linda Glennie, Suzanne Audrey, Matthew Hickman and Caroline L Trotter
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:954
  28. Recently both the UK and US governments have advocated the use of financial incentives to encourage healthier lifestyle choices but evidence for the cost-effectiveness of such interventions is lacking. Our aim...

    Authors: Mary Anne T Dallat, Ruth F Hunter, Mark A Tully, Karen J Cairns and Frank Kee
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:953
  29. Retirement is a major life transition during which people restructure everyday activities; however little is known about this. The primary aim of the Life After Work study is to comprehensively measure changes...

    Authors: Carol A Maher, Nicola W Burton, Jannique GZ van Uffelen, Wendy J Brown, Judy A Sprod and Tim S Olds
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:952
  30. The prevalence of tobacco smoking among homeless people can reach more than 90%, with related morbidity and mortality being high. However, research in this area is scarce. This study aims to explore smoking an...

    Authors: Laura Garner and Elena Ratschen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:951
  31. Although there have been a wide range of epidemiological studies examining the impact of patterns of alcohol consumption among adolescents, there remains considerable variability in both defining these pattern...

    Authors: Valeria Siciliano, Lorena Mezzasalma, Valentina Lorenzoni, Stefania Pieroni and Sabrina Molinaro
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:950
  32. Alcohol is responsible for a large and growing proportion of the global burden of disease, as well as being the cause of social problems. Brief interventions are one component of comprehensive policy measures ...

    Authors: Jim McCambridge, Marcus Bendtsen, Nadine Karlsson, Ian R White and Preben Bendtsen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:949
  33. Several measurement tools have been developed to measure health literacy. The tools vary in their approach and design, but few have focused on comprehensive health literacy in populations. This paper describes...

    Authors: Kristine Sørensen, Stephan Van den Broucke, Jürgen M Pelikan, James Fullam, Gerardine Doyle, Zofia Slonska, Barbara Kondilis, Vivian Stoffels, Richard H Osborne and Helmut Brand
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:948
  34. Survival from breast cancer remains lower in Estonia than in most other European countries. More advanced stage and larger tumors that have impact on survival may be a result of delay in seeking help for breas...

    Authors: Kaire Innos, Peeter Padrik, Vahur Valvere, Evelyn Eelma, Riina Kütner, Jaak Lehtsaar and Mare Tekkel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:947
  35. The incidence of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated anal cancer is increasing in men who have sex with men (MSM). Screening for the presumed cancer precursor, high-grade anal squamous intraepithelial lesion...

    Authors: Dorothy A Machalek, Andrew E Grulich, Richard J Hillman, Fengyi Jin, David J Templeton, Sepehr N Tabrizi, Suzanne M Garland, Garrett Prestage, Kirsten McCaffery, Kirsten Howard, Winnie Tong, Christopher K Fairley, Jennifer Roberts, Annabelle Farnsworth and I Mary Poynten
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:946
  36. We implemented a community based interventional health screening for individuals located within one mile of a 54 metric tons release of liquid chlorine following a 16 tanker car train derailment on 6 January, ...

    Authors: Kathleen A Clark, Debjani Chanda, Pallavi Balte, Wilfried J Karmaus, Bo Cai, John Vena, Andrew B Lawson, Lawrence C Mohr, James J Gibson and Erik R Svendsen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:945
  37. Although surveillance data are limited in the US Affiliated Pacific, Alaska, and Hawaii, existing data suggest that the prevalence of childhood obesity is similar to or in excess of other minority groups in th...

    Authors: Lynne R Wilken, Rachel Novotny, Marie K Fialkowski, Carol J Boushey, Claudio Nigg, Yvette Paulino, Rachael Leon Guerrero, Andrea Bersamin, Don Vargo, Jang Kim and Jonathan Deenik
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:944
  38. In Ethiopia, undernutrition among women on antiretroviral therapy has been a major challenge to achieve the full impact of intervention. Twenty seven percent and 17% of reproductive age Ethiopian women are chr...

    Authors: Tsegazeab Hailu Hadgu, Walelegn Worku, Desalegn Tetemke and Hailemariam Berhe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:943
  39. Child maltreatment is recognized as a widespread problem with huge implications for mental health and quality of life. Studies have repeatedly shown that victims of child maltreatment report significantly more...

    Authors: Froukje Snoeren, Cees Hoefnagels, Silvia MAA Evers and Francien Lamers-Winkelman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:942
  40. High school dropout and long-term sickness absence/disability pension in young adulthood are strongly associated. We investigated whether common risk factors in adolescence may confound this association.

    Authors: Karin A A De Ridder, Kristine Pape, Koenraad Cuypers, Roar Johnsen, Turid Lingaas Holmen, Steinar Westin and Johan Håkon Bjørngaard
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:941
  41. Mathematical and computational models provide valuable tools that help public health planners to evaluate competing health interventions, especially for novel circumstances that cannot be examined through obse...

    Authors: John J Grefenstette, Shawn T Brown, Roni Rosenfeld, Jay DePasse, Nathan TB Stone, Phillip C Cooley, William D Wheaton, Alona Fyshe, David D Galloway, Anuroop Sriram, Hasan Guclu, Thomas Abraham and Donald S Burke
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:940
  42. We developed a Dutch outpatient multidisciplinary group treatment (Go4it) for obese adolescents, including cognitive behavioural therapy and education on healthy dietary and physical activity behaviour. This s...

    Authors: Geesje H Hofsteenge, Peter JM Weijs, Henriette A Delemarre-van de Waal, Maartje de Wit and Mai JM Chinapaw
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:939
  43. The effect of urban sprawl on body weight in Finland is not well known. To provide more information, we examined whether body mass index (BMI) and the prevalence of overweight are associated with an individual...

    Authors: Simo Näyhä, Tiina Lankila, Arja Rautio, Markku Koiranen, Tuija H Tammelin, Anja Taanila, Jarmo Rusanen and Jaana Laitinen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:938
  44. In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, more than one-third of admissions to the two paediatric hospitals are attributable to four infectious syndromes: dengue, diarrhoeal disease, acute respiratory infection, and hand,...

    Authors: Katherine L Anders, Nguyet Minh Nguyen, Nguyen Thi Van Thuy, Nguyen Trong Hieu, Hoa L Nguyen, Nguyen Thi Hong Tham, Phan Thi Thanh Ha, Le Bich Lien, Nguyen Van Vinh Chau and Cameron P Simmons
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:937
  45. The global trend of increased life expectancy and increased prevalence of chronic and degenerative diseases will impact on health systems. To identify effective intervention and prevention strategies, greater ...

    Authors: Alan James, Michael Hunter, Leon Straker, John Beilby, Romola Bucks, Tim Davis, Robert H Eikelboom, David Hillman, Jennie Hui, Joe Hung, Matthew Knuiman, David A Mackey, Robert U Newton, Lyle J Palmer and AW Bill Musk
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:936
  46. Family planning is an important public health intervention with numerous potential health benefits for all women. One of those key benefits is the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, through the...

    Authors: Kevin R O’Reilly, Caitlin E Kennedy, Virginia A Fonner and Michael D Sweat
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:935
  47. Public health strategies that focus on legislative and policy change involving chronic disease risk factors such as unhealthy diet and physical inactivity have the potential to prevent chronic diseases and imp...

    Authors: Anita Kothari, Dana Gore, Marjorie MacDonald, Gayle Bursey, Diane Allan and Jennifer Scarr
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:934
  48. South Asian babies born in developed countries are generally lighter than babies from other ethnic groups born in the same country. While the mean birth weight of Caucasian babies in the Netherlands has increa...

    Authors: Jeroen A de Wilde, Stef van Buuren and Barend JC Middelkoop
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:931

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