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  1. In Pacific Island countries and territories, the burden of road traffic injuries and their attendant risks are considered significant but are poorly quantified. As with other low and middle-income countries, u...

    Authors: Josephine Herman, Shanthi Ameratunga and Rod Jackson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:479
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Social inequity in perinatal and maternal health is a well-documented health problem even in countries with a high level of social equality. We aimed to study whether the effect of birthplace on perinatal and ...

    Authors: Charlotte Overgaard, Morten Fenger-Grøn and Jane Sandall
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:478
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. Increasing intakes of fruits and vegetables intake, in tandem with reducing consumption of energy-dense and nutrient poor foods and beverages are dietary priorities to prevent chronic disease. Although most ad...

    Authors: Deborah A Kerr, Christina M Pollard, Peter Howat, Edward J Delp, Mark Pickering, Katherine R Kerr, Satvinder S Dhaliwal, Iain S Pratt, Janine Wright and Carol J Boushey
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:477
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  4. Few studies have examined associations between access to health care and childhood vaccine coverage in remote communities that lack motorised transport. This study assessed whether travel time to health facili...

    Authors: Yemisrach B Okwaraji, Kim Mulholland, JoannaRMArmstrong Schellenberg, Gashaw Andarge, Mengesha Admassu and Karen M Edmond
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:476
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Primary maternal infection with cytomegalovirus (CMV), parvovirus B19 (B19V), and varicella-zoster virus (VZV) may result in adverse pregnancy outcomes like congenital infection or foetal loss. Women working i...

    Authors: Gini G C van Rijckevorsel, Lian P M J Bovée, Marjolein Damen, Gerard J B Sonder, Maarten F Schim van der Loeff and Anneke van den Hoek
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:475
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Noncommunicable diseases are an increasing health concern worldwide, but particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This study quantified and compared education- and wealth-based inequalities in the pre...

    Authors: Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Nicole Bergen, Shanthi Mendis, Sam Harper, Emese Verdes, Anton Kunst and Somnath Chatterji
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:474
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Understanding the health policy formulation process over the years has focused on the content of policy to the neglect of context. This had led to several policy initiatives having a still birth or ineffective...

    Authors: Anthony Seddoh and Samuel Akortey Akor
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12(Suppl 1):S10
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 1

  8. Health care system reform is a major issue in many countries and therefore how to evaluate the effects of changes is incredibly important. This study measured residents’ satisfaction with community health care...

    Authors: Zhijian Li, Jiale Hou, Lin Lu, Shenglan Tang and Jin Ma
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12(Suppl 1):S9
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 1

  9. An increasingly number of low- and middle-income countries have developed and implemented a national policy towards universal coverage of healthcare for their citizens over the past decade. Among them is China...

    Authors: Shenglan Tang, Jingjing Tao and Henk Bekedam
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12(Suppl 1):S8
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 1

  10. One of the challenges to maintain an agenda for universal coverage and equitable health system is to develop effective structuring and management of health financing. Global experiences with different systems ...

    Authors: Hong Teck Chua and Julius Chee Ho Cheah
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12(Suppl 1):S7
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 1

  11. Thailand has achieved universal health coverage since 2002 through the implementation of the Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS) for 47 million of the population who were neither private sector employees nor gover...

    Authors: Supon Limwattananon, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Kanjana Tisayaticom, Tawekiat Boonyapaisarncharoen and Phusit Prakongsai
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12(Suppl 1):S6
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 1

  12. Achieving universal coverage as an objective needs to confront the reality of multiple mechanisms, with healthcare financing and provision occurring in both public and private settings. South Africa has both l...

    Authors: Alex M van den Heever
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12(Suppl 1):S5
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 1

  14. In the health systems literature one can see discussions about the trade off between the equity achievable by the system and its efficiency. Essentially it is argued that as greater health equity is achieved, ...

    Authors: Daniel D Reidpath, Anna Elisabet Olafsdottir, Subhash Pokhrel and Pascale Allotey
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12(Suppl 1):S3
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 1

  17. Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a serious public health issue and is associated with significant adverse health outcomes. The current study was undertaken to: 1) explore physicians’ and nurses...

    Authors: Charlene E Beynon, Iris A Gutmanis, Leslie M Tutty, C Nadine Wathen and Harriet L MacMillan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:473
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. Tuberculosis (TB) surveillance systems have some pitfalls outside of a National Tuberculosis Program and lack of efficient surveillance hampers accurate epidemiological quantification of TB burden.

    Authors: Lorenza Melosini, Umberto Vetrano, Federico L Dente, Michele Cristofano, Mauro Giraldi, Luciano Gabbrielli, Federica Novelli, Ferruccio Aquilini, Laura Rindi, Francesco Menichetti, Giulia Freer and Pierluigi L Paggiaro
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:472
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. Current estimates place just under one quarter of adolescents in Australia as overweight or obese. Adolescence has been identified as a critical period for the development of obesity, yet despite this recognit...

    Authors: Leon M Straker, Kyla L Smith, Ashley A Fenner, Deborah A Kerr, Alexandra McManus, Melissa C Davis, Angela M Fielding, Tim S Olds, Martin S Hagger, Anne J Smith and Rebecca A Abbott
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:471
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  20. Individuals who are sick and unable to work may receive wage replacement benefits from an insurer. For these provisions, a disability evaluation is required. This disability evaluation is criticised for lack o...

    Authors: Jessica Anner, Urban Schwegler, Regina Kunz, Bruno Trezzini and Wout de Boer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:470
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  21. Since 2005, Cambodia’s national tuberculosis programme has been conducting active case finding (ACF) with mobile radiography units, targeting household contacts of TB patients in poor and vulnerable communitie...

    Authors: Mao Tan Eang, Peou Satha, Rajendra Prasad Yadav, Fukushi Morishita, Nobuyuki Nishikiori, Pieter van-Maaren and Catharina Lambregts-van Weezenbeek
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:469
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Treatment of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is a key component in U.S. tuberculosis control, assisted by recent improvements in LTBI diagnostics and therapeutic regimens. Effectiveness of LTBI therapy, h...

    Authors: Neela D Goswami, Lara Beth Gadkowski, Carla Piedrahita, Deborah Bissette, Marshall Alex Ahearn, Michela LM Blain, Truls Østbye, Jussi Saukkonen and Jason E Stout
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:468
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Domestic violence (DV) against women is a serious human rights abuse and well recognised global public health concern. The occurrence of DV is negatively associated with the educational level of spouses but st...

    Authors: Daniel Rapp, Beate Zoch, M Mobarak H Khan, Thorsten Pollmann and Alexander Krämer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:467
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Previous studies have demonstrated links between cardiovascular disease and physical inactivity and poor air quality, which are both associated with neighborhood greenness. However, no studies have directly in...

    Authors: Gavin Pereira, Sarah Foster, Karen Martin, Hayley Christian, Bryan J Boruff, Matthew Knuiman and Billie Giles-Corti
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:466
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Since the completion of three clinical trials indicating that voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) is an effective method to reduce men’s chances of acquiring HIV, use of the procedure has been advocated...

    Authors: Charlene N Muzyka, Laura H Thompson, Andrea E Bombak, S Michelle Driedger and Robert Lorway
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:465
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  26. Community food programs (CFPs), including soup kitchens and food banks, are a recent development in larger settlements in the Canadian Arctic. Our understanding of utilization of these programs is limited as f...

    Authors: James Ford, Marie-Pierre Lardeau and Will Vanderbilt
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:464
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. India has around 2.27 million adults living with HIV/AIDS who face several challenges in the medical management of their disease. Stigma, discrimination and psychosocial issues are prevalent. The objective of ...

    Authors: Bimal Charles, Lakshmanan Jeyaseelan, Arvind Kumar Pandian, Asirvatham Edwin Sam, Mani Thenmozhi and Visalakshi Jayaseelan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:463
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. Indigenous Australians suffer substantially poorer oral health than their non-Indigenous counterparts and new approaches are needed to address these disparities. Previous work in Port Augusta, South Australia,...

    Authors: Eleanor J Parker, Gary Misan, Alwin Chong, Helen Mills, Kaye Roberts-Thomson, Alice M Horowitz and Lisa M Jamieson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:461
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  31. Study-based global health interventions, especially those that are conducted on an international or multi-site basis, frequently require site-specific adaptations in order to (1) respond to socio-cultural diff...

    Authors: Sebastian Kevany, Gertrude Khumalo-Sakutukwa, Oliver Murima, Alfred Chingono, Precious Modiba, Glenda Gray, Heidi Van Rooyen, Khalifa Mrumbi, Jessie Mbwambo, Surinda Kawichai, Suwat Chariyalertsak, Chonlisa Chariyalertsak, Elizabeth Paradza, Marta Mulawa, Kathryn Curran, Katherine Fritz…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:459
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  32. Five observational studies from Canada found an association between seasonal influenza vaccine receipt and increased risk of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 infection. This association remains unexplained. Althou...

    Authors: Natasha S Crowcroft and Laura C Rosella
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:458
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. Fatigue and burnout are two concepts often linked in the literature. However, regardless of their commonalities they should be approached as distinct concepts. The current and ever-growing reforms regarding th...

    Authors: Vasilios Raftopoulos, Andreas Charalambous and Michael Talias
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:457
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. Alcohol and other drug use and misuse is a significant problem amongst Polish youth. The SFP10-14 is a family-based prevention intervention that has positive results in US trials, but questions remain about th...

    Authors: Katarzyna Okulicz-Kozaryn and David R Foxcroft
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:319
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  35. Although the current Clinical Practice Guideline recommend Motivational Interviewing for use with smokers not ready to quit, the strength of evidence for its use is rated as not optimal. The purpose of the pre...

    Authors: Delwyn Catley, Kari Jo Harris, Kathy Goggin, Kimber Richter, Karen Williams, Christi Patten, Ken Resnicow, Edward Ellerbeck, Andrea Bradley-Ewing, Domonique Malomo and Robin Liston
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:456
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  36. While strong and consistent evidence supports the role of lifestyle modification in the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes (T2DM), the best strategies for program implementation to support lifestyle ...

    Authors: Steven T Johnson, Clark Mundt, Allison Soprovich, Lisa Wozniak, Ronald C Plotnikoff and Jeffrey A Johnson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:455
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  37. Data on effect of regular liver function monitoring during anti-TB treatment is limited in China. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of scheduled liver function monitoring on identification of asymptomat...

    Authors: Shanshan Wu, Yinyin Xia, Xiaozhen Lv, Yuan Zhang, Shaowen Tang, Zhirong Yang, Dehua Tu, Peiyuan Deng, Shiming Cheng, Xiaomeng Wang, Yanli Yuan, Feiying Liu, Daiyu Hu and Siyan Zhan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:454
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. School is a multi-cultural setting where students need social, material, physical, and mental resources to attain school achievement. But they are often lacking, especially for immigrant students. In an early ...

    Authors: Kénora Chau, Michèle Baumann, Bernard Kabuth and Nearkasen Chau
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:453
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Climate change is among the major challenges for health this century, and adaptation to manage adverse health outcomes will be unavoidable. The risks in Ontario – Canada’s most populous province – include incr...

    Authors: Jaclyn A Paterson, James D Ford, Lea Berrang Ford, Alexandra Lesnikowski, Peter Berry, Jim Henderson and Jody Heymann
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:452
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Frequent illness and injury among workers with high body mass index (BMI) can raise the costs of employee healthcare and reduce workforce maintenance and productivity. These issues are particularly important i...

    Authors: Jonathan Peake, Susan Gargett, Michael Waller, Ruth McLaughlin, Tegan Cosgrove, Gary Wittert, Peter Nasveld and Peter Warfe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:451
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Around the globe, school closures were used sporadically to mitigate the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. However, such closures can detrimentally impact economic and social life.

    Authors: Ozgur M Araz, Paul Damien, David A Paltiel, Sean Burke, Bryce van de Geijn, Alison Galvani and Lauren Ancel Meyers
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:449
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. A growing body of scientific research is suggesting that end-of-life care and decision making may differ between age groups and that elderly patients may be the most vulnerable to exclusion of due care at the ...

    Authors: Kenneth Chambaere, Judith A C Rietjens, Tinne Smets, Johan Bilsen, Reginald Deschepper, H Roeline W Pasman and Luc Deliens
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:447
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Japanese suicide rate is one of the highest among industrialized nations, especially following the economic crisis of the 1990s, with more than 30000 suicides every year since 1998. Previous studies have point...

    Authors: Mayumi Ohnishi, Rieko Nakao, Ryokko Kawasaki, Akiko Nitta, Yukari Hamada and Hideyuki Nakane
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:446
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is associated with increased risk of morbidity and premature mortality. Among those at high risk, incidence can be halved through healthy changes in behaviour. Information about genetic a...

    Authors: Job G Godino, Esther MF van Sluijs, Theresa M Marteau, Stephen Sutton, Stephen J Sharp and Simon J Griffin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:444
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  46. Despite concerns about its health and social consequences, little is known about the prevalence of illicit opioid use in New York City. Individuals who misuse heroin and prescription opioids are known to bear ...

    Authors: Jennifer McNeely, Marc N Gourevitch, Denise Paone, Sharmila Shah, Shana Wright and Daliah Heller
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:443
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. In highly populated African urban areas where access to clean water is a challenge, water source contamination is one of the most cited risk factors in a cholera epidemic. During the rainy season, where there ...

    Authors: Miguel A Luque Fernandez, Michael Schomaker, Peter R Mason, Jean F Fesselet, Yves Baudot, Andrew Boulle and Peter Maes
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:442
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. In Kenya, infant mortality rate increased from 59 deaths per 1000 live births in 1988 to 78 deaths per 1000 live births by 2003. This was an increase of about 32 percent in 15 years. The reasons behind this up...

    Authors: Sam W Wafula, Lawrence DE Ikamari and Boniface O K’Oyugi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:441
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Obesity is a major global epidemic and a burden to society and health systems. It is well known risk factor for a number of chronic medical conditions with high morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to pro...

    Authors: Luciana Bahia, Evandro Silva Freire Coutinho, Laura Augusta Barufaldi, Gabriela de Azevedo Abreu, Thainá Alves Malhão, Camila Pepe Ribeiro de Souza and Denizar Vianna Araujo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:440
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. The energy requirement of species at each trophic level in an ecological pyramid is a function of the number of organisms and their average mass. Regarding human populations, although considerable attention is...

    Authors: Sarah Catherine Walpole, David Prieto-Merino, Phil Edwards, John Cleland, Gretchen Stevens and Ian Roberts
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:439
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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