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  1. The challenge of an aging population in the society makes it important to find strategies to promote health for all. The aim of this study is to evaluate if repeated health coaching in terms of motivational in...

    Authors: Klas-Göran Sahlen, Helene Johansson, Lennarth Nyström and Lars Lindholm
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:199
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  2. Status of premarital sex, unintended pregnancy and associated factors among Chinese graduate students remain unclear. And unmarried graduate students’ needs of family planning services seem to be ignored. In t...

    Authors: Yuanzhong Zhou, Chengliang Xiong, Jinwen Xiong, Xuejun Shang, Guohui Liu, Meimei Zhang and Pin Yin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:198
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  3. Physical inactivity and overweight are major threats to public health. However, it is not well understood to what extent physical activity might counteract the harmful effects of overweight on functioning. Thu...

    Authors: Vivian Lindholm, Jouni Lahti, Ossi Rahkonen, Eero Lahelma and Tea Lallukka
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:197
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  4. Sedentary behaviour in general and sitting time in particular is an emerging global health concern. The aim of this study was to provide data on the prevalence of sitting time in German adults and to examine s...

    Authors: Birgit Wallmann-Sperlich, Jens Bucksch, Sylvia Hansen, Peter Schantz and Ingo Froboese
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:196
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  6. Mongolia has a high and increasing burden of hypertension and related disease, with cardiovascular diseases among the leading causes of death. Yet little is known about the knowledge, attitudes and practices o...

    Authors: Alessandro R Demaio, Dugee Otgontuya, Maximilian de Courten, Ib C Bygbjerg, Palam Enkhtuya, Dan W Meyrowitsch and Janchiv Oyunbileg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:194
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  7. Sickness absence due to common mental disorders (such as depression, anxiety disorder, adjustment disorder) is a problem in many Western countries. Long-term sickness absence leads to substantial societal and ...

    Authors: Karlijn M van Beurden, Evelien P M Brouwers, Margot C W Joosen, Berend Terluin, Jac J L van der Klink and Jaap van Weeghel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:193
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  8. Obesity and hypertension and their associated health complications disproportionately affect communities of color and people of lower socioeconomic status. Recruitment and retention of these populations in res...

    Authors: Erica T Warner, Russell E Glasgow, Karen M Emmons, Gary G Bennett, Sandy Askew, Bernard Rosner and Graham A Colditz
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:192
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  9. There is a lack of evidence around the effectiveness of school-based interventions designed to raise adolescents’ cancer awareness. To address this deficit this study assessed the impact of an intervention del...

    Authors: Richard G Kyle, Liz Forbat, Petra Rauchhaus and Gill Hubbard
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:190
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  10. In many countries, low Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) screening rates among young people in primary-care have encouraged screening programs outside of clinics. Nucleic acid amplificatio...

    Authors: Muhammad S Jamil, Jane S Hocking, Heidi M Bauer, Hammad Ali, Handan Wand, Kirsty Smith, Jennifer Walker, Basil Donovan, John M Kaldor and Rebecca J Guy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:189
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  12. The perceived risks and benefits of smoking may play an important role in determining adolescents’ susceptibility to initiating smoking. Our study examined the perceived risks and benefits of smoking among ado...

    Authors: Umesh Raj Aryal, Max Petzold and Alexandra Krettek
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:187
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  13. Abuse of women occurs in every society of the world. Increased information about the prevalence in industrialized countries, like Norway, is required to make strategies to prevent abuse. Our aim was to investi...

    Authors: Marie Flem Sørbø, Hilde Grimstad, Johan Håkon Bjørngaard, Berit Schei and Mirjam Lukasse
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:186
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  14. Over-the-counter-medication (OTC-medication) use during pregnancy can be potentially harmful for the fetus. To successfully counsel the patient it is important to know if the patient is at risk. In this study ...

    Authors: Gwenny MPJ Verstappen, Elise J Smolders, Janna M Munster, Jan G Aarnoudse and Eelko Hak
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:185
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  15. African, Caribbean and other Black (ACB) people are a priority group for HIV prevention in Canada, but little is known about the epidemiology of HIV risk in this population. This paper helps fill the knowledge...

    Authors: Shamara Baidoobonso, Greta R Bauer, Kathy Nixon Speechley and Erica Lawson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:184
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  16. The HIV epidemic in Russia is concentrated among injection drug users (IDUs). This is especially true for St. Petersburg where high HIV incidence persists among the city’s estimated 80,000 IDUs. Although steri...

    Authors: Ekaterina V Fedorova, Roman V Skochilov, Robert Heimer, Patricia Case, Leo Beletsky, Lauretta E Grau, Andrey P Kozlov and Alla V Shaboltas
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:183
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  17. Gait speed is a strong predictor of a wide range of adverse health outcomes in older adults. Mean values for gait speed in community-dwelling older adults vary substantially depending on population characteris...

    Authors: Cintia Regina Ruggero, Tereza Lofredo Bilton, Luiza Faria Teixeira, Juliane de Lemos Armada Ramos, Sandra Regina Alouche, Rosangela Correa Dias and Monica Rodrigues Perracini
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:182
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  18. Knowledge of a sex partner’s HIV serostatus can influence sexual behavior and inform harm-reduction strategies. We sought to determine how often Peruvian men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (...

    Authors: Sharita Nagaraj, Eddy R Segura, Jesus Peinado, Kelika A Konda, Patricia Segura, Martin Casapia, Abner Ortiz, Silvia M Montano, Jesse L Clark, Jorge Sanchez and Javier R Lama
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:181
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  19. To examine the benefits of physical activity (PA) on diseases with a long developmental period, it is important to determine reliability of long-term PA recall.

    Authors: Ashley Wilder Smith, Kathleen A Cronin, Heather Bowles, Gordon Willis, David R Jacobs, Rachel Ballard-Barbash and Richard P Troiano
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:180
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  20. Relatively little knowledge is available to date about health literacy among the general population in Europe. It is important to gain insights into health literacy competences among the general population, as...

    Authors: Iris van der Heide, Jany Rademakers, Maarten Schipper, Mariël Droomers, Kristine Sørensen and Ellen Uiters
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:179
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  21. The leading cause of mortality in Mongolia is Non-Communicable Disease. Alcohol is recognised by the World Health Organization as one of the four major disease drivers and so, in order to better understand and...

    Authors: Alessandro R Demaio, Otgontuya Dugee, Maximillian de Courten, Ib C Bygbjerg, Palam Enkhtuya and Dan W Meyrowitsch
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:178
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Especially children at risk for asthma are sensitive to the detrimental health effects of passive smoke (PS) exposure, like respiratory complaints and allergic sensitisation. Therefore, effective prevention of...

    Authors: Sasha G Hutchinson, Ilse Mesters, Gerard van Breukelen, Jean WM Muris, Frans JM Feron, S Katharine Hammond, Constant P van Schayck and Edward Dompeling
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:177
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  23. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is of increasing importance with about one in four people estimated to be diagnosed with COPD during their lifetime. None of the existing medications for COPD has b...

    Authors: Helen Viggers, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Tristram Ingham, Ralph Chapman, Gina Pene, Cheryl Davies, Ann Currie, Nevil Pierse, Helen Wilson, Jane Zhang, Michael Baker and Julian Crane
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:176
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  24. The Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service® (GHS) is a population-wide telephone-based program aimed at assisting adults to implement lifestyle improvements. It is a relatively uncommon example of the tr...

    Authors: Blythe J O’Hara, Philayrath Phongsavan, Elizabeth G Eakin, Elizabeth Develin, Joanne Smith, Mark Greenaway and Adrian E Bauman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:175
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  25. Alcohol and other drug (AOD) use among poor Black African and Coloured women in South Africa compounds their sexual risk for HIV. Given South Africa’s history of ethnic disparities, ethnic differences in sex r...

    Authors: Bronwyn Myers, Tracy L Kline, Felicia A Browne, Tara Carney, Charles Parry, Kim Johnson and Wendee M Wechsberg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:174
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  26. Urban slums in developing countries that are not recognized by the government often lack legal access to municipal water supplies. This results in the creation of insecure “informal” water distribution systems...

    Authors: Ramnath Subbaraman, Shrutika Shitole, Tejal Shitole, Kiran Sawant, Jennifer O’Brien, David E Bloom and Anita Patil-Deshmukh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:173
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  27. The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies Guinea-Bissau as having severe vitamin A deficiency (VAD). To date, no national survey has been conducted. We assessed vitamin A status among children in rural Gu...

    Authors: Niels Danneskiold-Samsøe, Ane Bærent Fisker, Mathias Jul Jørgensen, Henrik Ravn, Andreas Andersen, Ibraima Djogo Balde, Christian Leo-Hansen, Amabelia Rodrigues, Peter Aaby and Christine Stabell Benn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:172
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  29. African Americans are disproportionately exposed to cigarette advertisements, particularly for menthol brands. Tobacco industry documents outline strategic efforts to promote menthol cigarettes to African Amer...

    Authors: Amanda L Dauphinee, Juliana R Doxey, Nina C Schleicher, Stephen P Fortmann and Lisa Henriksen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:170
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  30. The excess burden of hypertension among blacks has been a prominent feature of the heath disparities literature, and many scientists presume it to be a stable and inevitable phenomenon. The underlying causes o...

    Authors: Pedro Ordúñez, Jay S Kaufman, Mikhail Benet, Alain Morejon, Luis C Silva, David A Shoham and Richard S Cooper
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:169
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  31. Perinatal mortality is one of the serious challenges in meeting maternal and child Millennium Development Goals in developing countries. Identifying its predictors is an important step to develop focused and a...

    Authors: Gashaw Andargie, Yemane Berhane, Alemayehu Worku and Yigzaw Kebede
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:168
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  33. Despite the major public health impact of diabetes, recent population-based data regarding its prevalence and comorbidity are sparse.

    Authors: Yong Du, Christin Heidemann, Antje Gößwald, Patrick Schmich and Christa Scheidt-Nave
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:166
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  34. Many interventions aiming to increase children’s physical activity have been developed and implemented in a variety of settings, and these interventions have previously been reviewed; however the focus of thes...

    Authors: Helen Brown, Clare Hume, Natalie Pearson and Jo Salmon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:165
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  35. Role conflict can motivate behavior change. No prior studies have explored the association between parent/smoker role conflict and readiness to quit. The objective of the study is to assess the association of ...

    Authors: Joan Friebely, Nancy A Rigotti, Yuchiao Chang, Nicole Hall, Victoria Weiley, Janelle Dempsey, Bethany Hipple, Emara Nabi-Burza, Sybil Murphy, Heide Woo and Jonathan P Winickoff
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:164
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  36. The high educated live longer and healthier lives when compared to the low educated. Physical fitness as a health indicator reflects the level of physical activity along with other health-influencing factors s...

    Authors: Kaisa R Pulkkinen, Tomi Mäkinen, Heli Valkeinen, Ritva Prättälä and Katja Borodulin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:163
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  37. Several studies have reported the following as determining factors for the adoption of healthy lifestyles among undergraduate students: gender, socioeconomic level, prior lifestyles, environment, parental life...

    Authors: Víctor Manuel Mendoza-Núñez, Cecilia Mecalco-Herrera, Cosme Ortega-Ávila, Laura Mecalco-Herrera, Juan Luis Soto-Espinosa and Mario Alfredo Rodríguez-León
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:162
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  38. Previous reports on the prevalence of neural tube defects (NTDs) in China did not include cases of NTDs that were less than 28 weeks of gestational age (GA) and hence did not accurately reflect the total preva...

    Authors: Xiaohong Li, Jun Zhu, Yanping Wang, Dezhi Mu, Li Dai, Guangxuan Zhou, Qi Li, He Wang, Mingrong Li and Juan Liang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:161
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  39. South Asian Canadians experience disproportionately high rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The goal of this qualitative study was to determine the feasibility of implementing a sustainable, culturally ada...

    Authors: Charlotte A Jones, Alykhan Nanji, Shefina Mawani, Shahnaz Davachi, Leanne Ross, Ardene Vollman, Sandeep Aggarwal, Kathryn King-Shier and Norman Campbell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:160
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  40. In South Africa, poverty and the dual epidemics of HIV and tuberculosis underscore the need for prevention efforts for obesity. The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of obesity in a cohort of So...

    Authors: Handan Wand and Gita Ramjee
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:159
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  41. Variation in the implementation of complex multilevel interventions can impact on their delivery and outcomes. Few suicide prevention interventions, especially multilevel interventions, have included evaluatio...

    Authors: Fiona M Harris, Margaret Maxwell, Rory C O’Connor, James Coyne, Ella Arensman, András Székely, Ricardo Gusmão, Claire Coffey, Susana Costa, Zoltan Cserháti, Nicole Koburger, Chantal van Audenhove, David McDaid, Julia Maloney, Peeter Värnik and Ulrich Hegerl
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:158
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  42. To plan for a community case management (CCM) program after the implementation of the Free Health Care Initiative (FHCI), we assessed health care seeking for children with diarrhoea, malaria and pneumonia in 4...

    Authors: Theresa Diaz, Asha S George, Sowmya R Rao, Peter S Bangura, John B Baimba, Shannon A McMahon and Augustin Kabano
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:157
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  43. Few studies have evaluated health impacts, especially biomarker changes, following implementation of a new environmental policy. This study examined changes in water fluoride, urinary fluoride (UF), and bone m...

    Authors: Shaoxian Chen, Boling Li, Shao Lin, Yixiang Huang, Xinhua Zhao, Min Zhang, Yuan Xia, Xiaoheng Fang, Junyi Wang, Syni-An Hwang and Shouyi Yu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:156
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  44. There is a lack of research examining patient-perceived empathy and its effect on low-literacy patients’ understanding of health information. This study investigated the moderating effect of patient-perceived ...

    Authors: Cheng-I Chu and Chia-Chih Alex Tseng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:155
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  45. The Summit of Independent European Vaccination Experts (SIEVE) recommended in 2007 that efforts be made to improve healthcare workers’ knowledge and beliefs about vaccines, and their attitudes towards them, to...

    Authors: Raúl Herzog, Mª José Álvarez-Pasquin, Camino Díaz, José Luis Del Barrio, José Manuel Estrada and Ángel Gil
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:154
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  46. Return to work (RTW) after sick leave is considered necessary to support the employees’ health. Cooperation between employees and employers may encourage employees’ RTW, but is hampered by bottlenecks that we ...

    Authors: Nicole Hoefsmit, Angelique de Rijk and Inge Houkes
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:153
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  48. Epidemiological information on the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections in different regions is a prerequisite to develop appropriate control strategies. Therefore, this present study was conducted to...

    Authors: Teklu Wegayehu, Tsegaye Tsalla, Belete Seifu and Takele Teklu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:151
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  49. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is largely preventable and prevention expenditures are relatively low. The randomised controlled SPRING-trial (SPRING-RCT) shows that cardiovascular risk management by practice nur...

    Authors: Ans H Tiessen, Karin M Vermeulen, Jan Broer, Andries J Smit and Klaas van der Meer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:148
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  50. The basis for this study is the fact that instrument error increases the variance of the distribution of body mass index (BMI). Combined with a defined cut-off value this may impact upon the estimated proporti...

    Authors: Anna Biehl, Ragnhild Hovengen, Haakon E Meyer, Jøran Hjelmesæth, Jørgen Meisfjord, Else-Karin Grøholt, Mathieu Roelants and Bjørn Heine Strand
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:146
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