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  1. Effective communication is a critical function within any public health system. Social media has enhanced communication between individuals and organizations and has the potential to augment public health comm...

    Authors: Rosemary Thackeray, Brad L Neiger, Amanda K Smith and Sarah B Van Wagenen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:242
  2. Pandemic influenza may exacerbate existing scarcity of life-saving medical resources. As a result, decision-makers may be faced with making tough choices about who will receive care and who will have to wait o...

    Authors: Diego S Silva, Jennifer L Gibson, Ann Robertson, Cécile M Bensimon, Sachin Sahni, Laena Maunula and Maxwell J Smith
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:241
  3. It has been estimated that 430,000 children under 15 years of age were newly infected with HIV in 2008, and more than 71% are living in sub-Saharan Africa. In the absence of intervention to prevent mother-to-c...

    Authors: Dagnachew Muluye, Desalegn Woldeyohannes, Mucheye Gizachew and Moges Tiruneh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:240
  4. Most of the studies investigating the prevalence of asthma in various countries have focused on children below the age of 15 years or adults above the age of 18 years. There is limited knowledge concerning the...

    Authors: Mohammed O Al Ghobain, Mohamad S Al-Hajjaj and Mohamad S Al Moamary
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:239
  5. Japan provides universal health insurance to all legal residents. Prior research has suggested that immigrants to Japan disproportionately lack health insurance coverage, but no prior study has used rigorous m...

    Authors: S Pilar Suguimoto, Masako Ono-Kihara, Mitchell D Feldman and Masahiro Kihara
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:238
  6. Cervical cancer screening is not yet standard of care of women attending HIV care clinics in Africa and presents operational challenges that need to be addressed.

    Authors: Apollinaire Horo, Antoine Jaquet, Didier K Ekouevi, Badian Toure, Patrick A Coffie, Benjamin Effi, Eugene Messou, Albert Minga, Raoul Moh, Mamourou Kone, François Dabis and Annie J Sasco
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:237
  7. An increasing proportion of the population lives in one-person households. The authors examined whether living alone predicts the use of antidepressant medication and whether socioeconomic, psychosocial, or be...

    Authors: Laura Pulkki-Råback, Mika Kivimäki, Kirsi Ahola, Kaisla Joutsenniemi, Marko Elovainio, Helena Rossi, Sampsa Puttonen, Seppo Koskinen, Erkki Isometsä, Jouko Lönnqvist and Marianna Virtanen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:236
  8. Apart from basic determinants, appropriate child care practices are important in prevention of growth faltering and undernutrition. Providing safe and appropriate quality complementary foods is crucial to chil...

    Authors: Mekitie Wondafrash, Tseganeh Amsalu and Mirkuzie Woldie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:235
  9. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has substantially decreased mortality and HIV-related morbidity. However, other morbidities appear to be more common among PLHIV than in the general population. This study aimed to...

    Authors: Fakhrul M Islam, Jianyun Wu, James Jansson and David P Wilson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:234
  10. Australian Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders (Indigenous Australians) smoke at much higher rates than non-Indigenous people and smoking is an important contributor to increased disease, hospital a...

    Authors: Julia V Marley, David Atkinson, Carmel Nelson, Tracey Kitaura, Dennis Gray, Sue Metcalf, Richard Murray and Graeme P Maguire
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:232
  11. Young girls in sub Saharan Africa are reported to have higher rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection compared to boys in the same age group. Knowledge of HIV status amongst high schools learners...

    Authors: Ayesha BM Kharsany, Mukelisiwe Mlotshwa, Janet A Frohlich, Nonhlanhla Yende Zuma, Natasha Samsunder, Salim S Abdool Karim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:231
  12. Studies of the relationship between sports activity and smoking among adolescents and young adults report contradictory results. We examined the association between sports activity (intensity and type of sport...

    Authors: Ville M Mattila, Susanna Raisamo, Harri Pihlajamäki, Matti Mäntysaari and Arja Rimpelä
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:230
  13. Cases of polio in India declined after the implementation of the polio eradication programme especially in these recent years. The programme includes surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) to detect and...

    Authors: Rie R Yotsu, Katharine Abba, Helen Smith and Abhijit Das
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:229
  14. The benefits of breakfast during childhood and adolescence have been reported previously though few studies have considered family structure inequalities in breakfast consumption. The proportion of young peopl...

    Authors: Kate A Levin, Joanna Kirby and Candace Currie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:228
  15. Coronary heart disease and stroke are leading causes of mortality and ill health in Scotland, and clear associations have been found in previous studies between air pollution and cardiovascular disease. This s...

    Authors: Lorna J Willocks, Abita Bhaskar, Colin N Ramsay, Duncan Lee, David H Brewster, Colin M Fischbacher, James Chalmers, George Morris and E Marian Scott
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:227
  16. As a result of the 1994 genocide and AIDS, Rwanda has a crisis of orphans. In 2005, the Ministry of Local Governance and Social Affairs of Rwanda has reported one million vulnerable children. Many of these are...

    Authors: Joseph Ntaganira, Laura J Hass, Sheila Hosner, Lisanne Brown and Nancy B Mock
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:225
  17. Children of substance-abusing parents are at risk for developing psychosocial development problems. In Germany it is estimated that approx. 2.65 million children are affected by parental substance abuse or dep...

    Authors: Sonja Bröning, Annika Wiedow, Lutz Wartberg, Sylvia Ruths, Andrea Haevelmann, Sally-Sophie Kindermann, Diana Moesgen, Ines Schaunig-Busch, Michael Klein and Rainer Thomasius
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:223
  18. Conflicting results have been recently reported evaluating the relationship between pneumococcal vaccination and the risk of thrombotic vascular events. This study assessed the clinical effectiveness of the 23...

    Authors: Angel Vila-Corcoles, Olga Ochoa-Gondar, Teresa Rodriguez-Blanco, Antonia Gutierrez-Perez, Angel Vila-Rovira, Frederic Gomez, Xavier Raga, Cinta de Diego, Eva Satue and Elisabet Salsench
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:222
  19. AIDS continues to spread at an estimated 2.6 new million infections per year, making the prevention of HIV transmission a critical public health issue. The dramatic growth in global resources for AIDS has prod...

    Authors: Peter Amico, Benjamin Gobet, Carlos Avila-Figueroa, Christian Aran and Paul De Lay
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:221
  20. Diarrhea is recognized as a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children under 5 years of age in low- and middle-income countries yet updated estimates of diarrhea incidence by age for these countri...

    Authors: Christa L Fischer Walker, Jamie Perin, Martin J Aryee, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto and Robert E Black
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:220
  21. Although occupational stress is an identified predictor of depressive symptoms, the mechanism behind the association is not well understood. The purpose of this study was to examine how psychological capital (...

    Authors: Li Liu, Ying Chang, Jialiang Fu, Jiana Wang and Lie Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:219
  22. During the post-communist transition period, political, economic, and social changes affected the lifestyles of the Lithuanian population, including their nutritional habits. However, people of lower socio-eco...

    Authors: Vilma Kriaucioniene, Jurate Klumbiene, Janina Petkeviciene and Edita Sakyte
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:218
  23. Young people in disadvantaged neighbourhoods are often the focus of concerns about anti-social behaviour (ASB). There is inconsistent evidence to support the hypothesis that perceptions of ASB (PASB) are assoc...

    Authors: Matt Egan, Lyndal Bond, Ade Kearns and Carol Tannahill
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:217
  24. Sexual offences are a global public health concern. Recent changes in the law in England and Wales have dramatically altered the legal landscape of sexual offences, but sexual assaults where the victim is volu...

    Authors: Clare Gunby, Anna Carline, Mark A Bellis and Caryl Beynon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:216
  25. Research regarding socio-economic differences in alcohol and drug use in adolescence yields mixed results. This study hypothesizes that (1) when using education type as a proxy of one's social status, clear di...

    Authors: Hans Berten, Dries Cardoen, Ruben Brondeel and Nicole Vettenburg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:215
  26. The development and use of performance indicators (PI) in the field of public mental health care (PMHC) has increased rapidly in the last decade. To gain insight in the current state of PI for PMHC in nations ...

    Authors: Steve Lauriks, Marcel CA Buster, Matty AS de Wit, Onyebuchi A Arah and Niek S Klazinga
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:214
  27. Alcohol use is an important risk factor for morbidity, mortality and social harm among adolescents. There is paucity of data on alcohol use among high school students in Ethiopia. This study aimed to determine...

    Authors: Ayalu A Reda, Asmamaw Moges, Berhanu Y Wondmagegn and Sibhatu Biadgilign
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:213
  28. Research has indicated that depression prevention programs attenuate the development of symptoms of depression in adolescents. To implement these programs on a large scale, implementation in a school setting w...

    Authors: Karlijn CM Kindt, Rinka van Zundert and Rutger CME Engels
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:212
  29. Cardiovascular inflammation is a key contributor to the development of atherosclerosis and the prediction of cardiovascular events among healthy women. An emerging literature suggests biomarkers of inflammatio...

    Authors: Cheryl R Clark, Paul M Ridker, Mark J Ommerborn, Carrie E Huisingh, Brent Coull, Julie E Buring and Lisa F Berkman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:211
  30. Sub-Saharan Africa faces a rapid spread of diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2) but its potentially specific characteristics are inadequately defined. In this hospital-based study in Kumasi, Ghana, we aimed at chara...

    Authors: Ina Danquah, George Bedu-Addo, Karl-Johann Terpe, Frank Micah, Yaw A Amoako, Yaw A Awuku, Ekkehart Dietz, Markus van der Giet, Joachim Spranger and Frank P Mockenhaupt
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:210
  31. The promotion of health and the interventions in community health continue to be one of the pending subjects of our health system. The most prevalent health problems (cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes....

    Authors: Maria-Antonia Campo Osaba, José-Luis Del Val, Carolina Lapena, Vicencia Laguna, Araceli García, Olga Lozano, Ziortza Martín, Rómulo Rodriguez, Enriqueta Borrás, Francesc Orfila and María Teresa Tierno
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:209
  32. Objectively measured physical activity is low in British children, and declines as childhood progresses. Observational studies suggest that dog-walking might be a useful approach to physical activity promotion...

    Authors: Philippa S Yam, Ryan Morrison, Viki Penpraze, Carri Westgarth, Dianne S Ward, Nanette Mutrie, Pippa Hutchison, David Young and John J Reilly
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:208
  33. Tobacco consumption peak in developed countries has passed, however, it is on the increase in many developing countries. Apart from cigarettes, consumption of local hand-rolled cigarettes such as bidi and rokok d...

    Authors: Wan Maria Nabillah Ghani, Ishak Abdul Razak, Yi Hsin Yang, Norain Abu Talib, Noriaki Ikeda, Tony Axell, Prakash C Gupta, Yujiro Handa, Norlida Abdullah and Rosnah Binti Zain
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:207
  34. Pedometers provide a simple, cost effective means of motivating individuals to increase walking yet few studies have considered if short term changes in walking behaviour can be maintained in the long-term. Th...

    Authors: Claire F Fitzsimons, Graham Baker, Stuart R Gray, Myra A Nimmo and Nanette Mutrie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:206
  35. This research was a part of a contestable rapid response initiative launched by the Health Research Council of New Zealand and the Ministry of Health in response to the 2009 influenza A pandemic. The aim was t...

    Authors: Lesley Gray, Carol MacDonald, Brenda Mackie, Douglas Paton, David Johnston and Michael G Baker
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:205
  36. Asthma is a major cause of disability, health resource utilization and poor quality of life world-wide. We set out to generate estimates of the global burden of asthma in adults, which may inform the developme...

    Authors: Teresa To, Sanja Stanojevic, Ginette Moores, Andrea S Gershon, Eric D Bateman, Alvaro A Cruz and Louis-Philippe Boulet
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:204

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  37. Little is known as to how health-related quality of life (HRQoL) when measured by generic instruments such as EQ-5D differ across smokers, ex-smokers and never-smokers in the general population; whether the ov...

    Authors: Matthias Vogl, Christina M Wenig, Reiner Leidl and Subhash Pokhrel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:203
  38. Unexplained Chronic Fatigue is a medical condition characterized by the presence of persistent, severe and debilitating medically unexplained fatigue, leading to impaired functioning and lower quality of life....

    Authors: Marta Marques, Véronique De Gucht, Stan Maes and Isabel Leal
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:202
  39. Studies on the prevalence of multimorbidity, defined as having two or more chronic conditions, have predominantly focused on the elderly. We estimated the prevalence and specific patterns of multimorbidity acr...

    Authors: Calypse B Agborsangaya, Darren Lau, Markus Lahtinen, Tim Cooke and Jeffrey A Johnson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:201
  40. Physical inactivity, unhealthy dietary habits, smoking and high alcohol consumption are recognized risk factors for cardiovascular disease and cancer. Web-based health risk assessments with tailored feedback s...

    Authors: Eva K Laan, Roderik A Kraaijenhagen, Niels Peek, Wim B Busschers, Marije Deutekom, Patrick M Bossuyt, Karien Stronks and Marie-Louise Essink-Bot
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:200
  41. Compared to those in higher socioeconomic groups, diabetic patients in lower socioeconomic groups have less favourable metabolic control and experience more diabetes-related complications. They encounter speci...

    Authors: Charlotte Vissenberg, Vera Nierkens, Paul JM Uitewaal, Diana Geraci, Barend JC Middelkoop, Giel Nijpels and Karien Stronks
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:199
  42. In all countries people of lower socioeconomic status evaluate their health more poorly. Yet in reporting overall health, individuals consider multiple domains that comprise their perceived health state. Consi...

    Authors: Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Jennifer Anne Stewart Williams, Lynn Itani and Somnath Chatterji
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:198
  43. The prevention of unintended pregnancies among HIV positive women is a neglected strategy in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Women who want to avoid unintended pregnancies can do this by using a modern contracepti...

    Authors: Sarah Credé, Theresa Hoke, Deborah Constant, Mackenzie S Green, Jennifer Moodley and Jane Harries
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:197
  44. Although several studies have reported that symptoms of nicotine dependence can occur after limited exposure to smoking, the majority of research on nicotine dependence has focused on adult smokers. Insufficie...

    Authors: Marloes Kleinjan, Frank Vitaro, Brigitte Wanner, Johannes Brug, Regina JJM Van den Eijnden and Rutger CME Engels
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:196
  45. Substance use is among the key public health threats that find its genesis during adolescence. Timing of puberty has been lately researched as a potential predictor of subsequent substance abuse. The present s...

    Authors: Ban Al-Sahab, Chris I Ardern, Mazen J Hamadeh and Hala Tamim
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:195
  46. Supermarkets play a major role in influencing the food purchasing behaviours of most households. Snack food exposures within these stores may contribute to higher levels of consumption and ultimately to increa...

    Authors: Lukar E Thornton, Adrian J Cameron, Sarah A McNaughton, Anthony Worsley and David A Crawford
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:194
  47. Research in the past decade has revealed average to poor menstrual health among many Iranian girls. The present study investigated the effectiveness of a health promotion project on improving menstrual health ...

    Authors: Moloud Fakhri, Zeinab Hamzehgardeshi, Nayereh Azam Hajikhani Golchin and Abdulhay Komili
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:193
  48. An increased interest is observed in broadening community pharmacists' role in public health. To date, little information has been gathered in Canada on community pharmacists' perceptions of their role in heal...

    Authors: Marie-Claude Laliberté, Sylvie Perreault, Nicole Damestoy and Lyne Lalonde
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:192

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