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  1. There is limited knowledge on the prevalence of disease in total populations. Such studies have historically been difficult to conduct but the development of health data registers has facilitated large-scale s...

    Authors: Axel C Carlsson, Per Wändell, Urban Ösby, Ramin Zarrinkoub, Björn Wettermark and Gunnar Ljunggren
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:670
  2. High consumption of refined carbohydrate, in particular sugar, has been identified as a possible contributory factor in greater risk of excess weight gain. In spite of data limitations, one recent paper sugges...

    Authors: Wavne Rikkers, David Lawrence, Katherine Hafekost, Francis Mitrou and Stephen R Zubrick
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:668

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2013 13:1134

  3. The ‘Be the Best You Can Be’ (BtBYCB) program is a school-based intervention designed to foster positive physical, psychological, and social development via empowering young people to take ownership over their...

    Authors: Martyn Standage, Sean P Cumming and Fiona B Gillison
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:666
  4. The past decade has seen a vast increase in empirical research investigating associations between social capital and health outcomes. Literature reviews reveal ‘generalized trust’ and ‘social participation’ to...

    Authors: Giuseppe N Giordano, Juan Merlo, Henrik Ohlsson, Maria Rosvall and Martin Lindström
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:665
  5. Hyperuricemia (HUA) is a potential risk factor for developing insulin resistance, hypertension, dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disease. Therefore, we studied the prevalence of HUA and associated risk factors ...

    Authors: Ling Qiu, Xin-qi Cheng, Jie Wu, Jun-ting Liu, Tao Xu, Hai-tao Ding, Yan-hong Liu, Zeng-mei Ge, Ya-jing Wang, Hui-juan Han, Jing Liu and Guang-jin Zhu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:664
  6. Observational studies have indicated that high calcium intake may prevent colorectal cancer, but as for randomized trials the results are inconclusive. Meanwhile, limited data on the link between serum calcium...

    Authors: Wahyu Wulaningsih, Karl Michaelsson, Hans Garmo, Niklas Hammar, Ingmar Jungner, Göran Walldius, Mats Lambe, Lars Holmberg and Mieke Van Hemelrijck
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:663
  7. Despite large disparities in health outcomes between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, detailed evidence on the health and lifestyle characteristics of older Aboriginal Australians is lacking. The aim...

    Authors: Lina Gubhaju, Bridgette J McNamara, Emily Banks, Grace Joshy, Beverley Raphael, Anna Williamson and Sandra J Eades
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:661
  8. Research on demand-side health care financing approaches such as output-based aid (OBA) programs have focused on evaluating the role of the programs improving such outcomes as utilization of services and quali...

    Authors: Rebecca Njuki, Francis Obare, Charlotte Warren, Timothy Abuya, Jerry Okal, Wilson Mukuna, Lucy Kanya, Ian Askew, Piet Bracke and Ben Bellows
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:660
  9. It has been shown that gender equity has a positive impact on the everyday activities of people (decision making, income allocation, application and observance of norms/rules) which affect their health. Gender...

    Authors: José Fernández-Sáez, Maria Teresa Ruiz-Cantero, Marta Guijarro-Garví, Mercedes Carrasco-Portiño, Victoria Roca-Pérez, Elisa Chilet-Rosell and Carlos Álvarez-Dardet
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:659
  10. Health literacy has become an increasingly important concept in public health. We sought to develop a comprehensive measure of health literacy capable of diagnosing health literacy needs across individuals and...

    Authors: Richard H Osborne, Roy W Batterham, Gerald R Elsworth, Melanie Hawkins and Rachelle Buchbinder
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:658
  11. The existing literature on weight management interventions targeting physical activity and healthy eating in mental health care appears to provide only limited evidence. The aim of the study was to examine the...

    Authors: Nick Verhaeghe, Els Clays, Carine Vereecken, Jan De Maeseneer, Lea Maes, Cornelis Van Heeringen, Dirk De Bacquer and Lieven Annemans
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:657
  12. The onset of inadequate behaviors leading to the development of risk factors for chronic diseases is known to occur early in life. An effective program for health promotion should therefore focus on children a...

    Authors: José L Peñalvo, Gloria Santos-Beneit, Mercedes Sotos-Prieto, Ramona Martínez, Carla Rodríguez, Manuel Franco, Pedro López-Romero, Stuart Pocock, Juliana Redondo and Valentín Fuster
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:656
  13. Work-related stress is associated with a variety of mental and emotional problems and can lead to substantial economic costs due to lost productivity, absenteeism or the inability to work. There is a considera...

    Authors: Elena Heber, David Daniel Ebert, Dirk Lehr, Stephanie Nobis, Matthias Berking and Heleen Riper
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:655
  14. Self-rated health (SRH) has been widely studied to assess health inequalities in both developed and developing countries. However, no studies have been performed in Central Asia. The aim of the study was to as...

    Authors: Akmaral K Abikulova, Kazbek A Tulebaev, Aikan A Akanov, Botagoz S Turdalieva, Sundetgali B Kalmahanov, Ainur B Kumar, Aigulsum K Izekenova, Bakhyt A Mussaeva and Andrej M Grjibovski
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:654
  15. Despite high obesity prevalence rates, few low-income midlife women participate in weight loss maintenance trials. This pilot study aims to assess the effectiveness of two weight loss maintenance interventions...

    Authors: Carmen D Samuel-Hodge, Larry F Johnston, Ziya Gizlice, Beverly A Garcia, Sara C Lindsley, Alison D Gold, Danielle F Braxton and Thomas C Keyserling
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:653
  16. Few studies regarding Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) towards medicines among school teachers have been carried out in Nepal. Obtaining baseline KAP is important to note deficiencies and plan appropriat...

    Authors: Nisha Jha, Omi Bajracharya and P Ravi Shankar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:652
  17. Regulation of the pharmaceutical sector is a challenging task for most governments in the developing countries. In Tanzania, this task falls under the Food and Drugs Authority and the Pharmacy Council. In 2010...

    Authors: Amani Thomas Mori, Eliangiringa Amos Kaale and Peter Risha
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:651
  18. Deciding on an appropriate level for taxes on tobacco products is a critical issue in tobacco control. The aim of the present study was to describe the critical price points for packs for smokers of each pack ...

    Authors: Michelle Scollo, Linda Hayes and Melanie Wakefield
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:650
  19. Efforts to increase physical activity in youth need to consider which activities are most likely to be sustained over time in order to promote lifelong participation in physical activity. The Monitoring Activi...

    Authors: Mathieu Bélanger, Isabelle Caissie, Jacinthe Beauchamp, Jennifer O’Loughlin, Catherine Sabiston and Michelina Mancuso
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:649
  20. Short sleep duration has been shown to associate with increased risk of obesity. Childhood obesity is more prevalent among underserved minority children. The study measured the sleep duration of underserved mi...

    Authors: William W Wong, Christina L Ortiz, Debra Lathan, Louis A Moore, Karen L Konzelmann, Anne L Adolph, E O’Brian Smith and Nancy F Butte
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:648
  21. The Taiwan CDC provided free oseltamivir to all patients with influenza infections confirmed by rapid testing or who had clinical warning symptoms during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic in Taiwan. However, os...

    Authors: Chia-Hung Liu, Jiun-Ling Wang, Chia-Ping Su, Jen-Hsiang Chuang, Chia-Hsuin Chang and Mei-Shu Lai
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:646
  22. Breastfeeding has numerous health benefits. In 2010, the province of Newfoundland and Labrador had the lowest breastfeeding initiation rate (64.0%) in Canada. Formula feeding is associated with well-known heal...

    Authors: Kimberly Bonia, Laurie Twells, Beth Halfyard, Valerie Ludlow, Leigh Anne Newhook and Janet Murphy-Goodridge
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:645
  23. High prevalence rates of hazardous and harmful alcohol use have been found in a hospital outpatient setting in South Africa. Hospital settings are a particularly valuable point of contact for the delivery of b...

    Authors: Supa Pengpid, Karl Peltzer, Linda Skaal and Hendry Van der Heever
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:644
  24. The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is generally recognized to be the direct cause of cervical cancer. The development of effective anti-HPV vaccines, included in the portfolio of recommended vaccinations for any g...

    Authors: Piergiorgio Crosignani, Antonella De Stefani, Gaetano Maria Fara, Andrea M Isidori, Andrea Lenzi, Carlo Antonio Liverani, Alberto Lombardi, Francesco Saverio Mennini, Giorgio Palu’, Sergio Pecorelli, Andrea P Peracino, Carlo Signorelli and Gian Vincenzo Zuccotti
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:642
  25. Having a low level of education has been associated with worse physical performance. However, it is unclear whether this association varies by age, gender or the occupational categories of manual and non-manua...

    Authors: Anna-Karin Welmer, Ingemar Kåreholt, Elisabeth Rydwik, Sara Angleman and Hui-Xin Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:641
  26. The Alberta Immunization Program offers a vaccine against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) free of charge to all girls in Grades 5 and 9. The vaccine is provided in two different service delivery models dependin...

    Authors: Richard Musto, Jodi E Siever, J Cyne Johnston, Judy Seidel, M Sarah Rose and Deborah A McNeil
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:640
  27. Attentive eating means eating devoid of distraction and increasing awareness and memory for food being consumed. Encouraging individuals to eat more attentively could help reduce calorie intake, as a strong ev...

    Authors: Eric Robinson, Suzanne Higgs, Amanda J Daley, Kate Jolly, Deborah Lycett, Amanda Lewis and Paul Aveyard
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:639
  28. Prepared food sources, including fast food restaurants and carry-outs, are common in low-income urban areas. These establishments provide foods high in calories, sugar, fat, and sodium. The aims of the study w...

    Authors: Seung Hee Lee-Kwan, Sonja Goedkoop, Rachel Yong, Benjamin Batorsky, Vanessa Hoffman, Jayne Jeffries, Mohamed Hamouda and Joel Gittelsohn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:638
  29. To optimize the vaccination coverage rates in the general population, the status of coverage rates and the reasons for non-vaccination need to be understood. Therefore, the objective of this study was to asses...

    Authors: Shuangsheng Wu, Peng Yang, Haiyue Li, Chunna Ma, Yi Zhang and Quanyi Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:636
  30. Lifestyle plays an important role in the development of diabetic retinopathy. The lifestyle in Guangzhou is different from other cities in China as the Cantonese prefer eating rice porridge, but not spicy food...

    Authors: Jiao Wang, Ru-Yi Zhang, Rong-Ping Chen, Jia Sun, Rui Yang, Xiao-Yun Ke, Hui Chen and De-Hong Cai
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:633
  31. Psychosocial assessment and depression screening is now recommended for all women who are pregnant or have recently given birth in Australia. Existing studies which have examined the extent of participation by...

    Authors: Nicole Reilly, Sheree Harris, Deborah Loxton, Catherine Chojenta, Peta Forder, Jeannette Milgrom and Marie-Paule Austin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:632
  32. Population-based self-reported data on off-label medicine use independent from health care provisions are lacking. The purpose of this study is to investigate off-label medicine use in children and adolescents...

    Authors: Hildtraud Knopf, Ingrid-Katharina Wolf, Giselle Sarganas, Wanli Zhuang, Wolfgang Rascher and Antje Neubert
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:631
  33. It has been well documented that obesity is closely associated with metabolic syndrome (MetS). Although body mass index (BMI) is the most frequently used method to assess overweightness and obesity, this metho...

    Authors: Pengju Liu, Fang Ma, Huiping Lou and Yanping Liu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:629
  34. Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often have organ dysfunction and resulting poor quality of life; however, in China little information is available regarding factors that affect their...

    Authors: Lei Zhang, Peian Lou, Yanan Zhu, Peipei Chen, Pan Zhang, Jiaxi Yu, Ning Zhang, Na Chen, Hongmin Wu and Jing Zhao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:627
  35. This pragmatic evaluation investigated the effectiveness of the Children’s Health, Activity and Nutrition: Get Educated! (CHANGE!) Project, a cluster randomised intervention to promote healthy weight using an ...

    Authors: Stuart J Fairclough, Allan F Hackett, Ian G Davies, Rebecca Gobbi, Kelly A Mackintosh, Genevieve L Warburton, Gareth Stratton, Esther MF van Sluijs and Lynne M Boddy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:626
  36. Black men who have sex with men (MSM) are disproportionately burdened by HIV/AIDS. Despite this burden there has been a shortage of research on HIV interventions for black MSM. This article provides a comprehe...

    Authors: Cathy Maulsby, Greg Millett, Kali Lindsey, Robin Kelley, Kim Johnson, Daniel Montoya and David Holtgrave
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:625
  37. Exposure to traumatic war events may lead to a reduction in quality of life for many years. Research suggests that these impairments may be associated with posttraumatic stress symptoms; however, wars also hav...

    Authors: Aleksandra Matanov, Domenico Giacco, Marija Bogic, Dean Ajdukovic, Tanja Franciskovic, Gian Maria Galeazzi, Abdulah Kucukalic, Dusica Lecic-Tosevski, Nexhmedin Morina, Mihajlo Popovski, Matthias Schützwohl and Stefan Priebe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:624
  38. The prescription of statins is an evidence-based treatment to reduce the risk of cardiovascular events in patients with elevated cardiovascular risk or with a cardiovascular disorder (CVD). In spite of this, m...

    Authors: Heidemarie Keller, Oliver Hirsch, Petra Kaufmann-Kolle, Tanja Krones, Annette Becker, Andreas C Sönnichsen, Erika Baum and Norbert Donner-Banzhoff
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:623
  39. Early sexual initiation increases the risk of HIV infection and other sexually transmitted diseases. This study aimed to determine age at first sexual initiation and associated factors among youths in south we...

    Authors: Marelign Tilahun and Gistane Ayele
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:622
  40. Previous studies have found associations between various health factors and behaviors and mental disorders. However, knowledge of such associations with disability pension (DP) due to mental diagnoses is scarc...

    Authors: Åsa Samuelsson, Annina Ropponen, Kristina Alexanderson and Pia Svedberg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:621
  41. Walking interventions have been shown to have a positive impact on physical activity (PA) levels, health and wellbeing for adult and older adult populations. There has been very little work carried out to expl...

    Authors: Fiona Mitchell, Craig Melville, Kirsten Stalker, Lynsay Matthews, Alex McConnachie, Heather Murray, Andrew Walker and Nanette Mutrie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:620
  42. Despite efforts to promote HIV counseling and testing (HCT) among couples, few couples know their own or their partners’ HIV status. We assessed trends in HCT uptake among married individuals in Rakai district...

    Authors: Joseph KB Matovu, Julie Denison, Rhoda K Wanyenze, Joseph Ssekasanvu, Fredrick Makumbi, Emilio Ovuga, Nuala McGrath and David Serwadda
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:618

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2017 17:326

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