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  1. Low socio-economic status combined with other risk factors affects a person's physical and psychosocial health from childhood to adulthood. The societal impact of these problems is huge, and the consequences c...

    Authors: Jamila Mejdoubi, Silvia van den Heijkant, Elle Struijf, Frank van Leerdam, Remy HiraSing and Alfons Crijnen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:823
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  2. The public health system in England is currently facing dramatic change. Renewed attention has recently been paid to the best approaches for tackling the health inequalities which remain entrenched within Brit...

    Authors: Lois C Orton, Ffion Lloyd-Williams, David C Taylor-Robinson, May Moonan, Martin O'Flaherty and Simon Capewell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:821
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. The rate of macrosomia (birth weight≥4, 000 g) increased over the past four decades in many parts of the world. Macrosomia is associated not only with higher risks of maternal and neonatal complications but al...

    Authors: Yanyu Lu, Jun Zhang, Xinrong Lu, Wei Xi and Zhu Li
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:818
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  6. Infant mortality rate (IMR) is a key public health indicator. Maternal age is a well-known determinant of pregnancy and delivery complications and of infant morbidity and mortality. In Italy the Infant Mortali...

    Authors: Walter Mazzucco, Rosanna Cusimano, Maurizio Macaluso, Claudio La Scola, Giovanna Fiumanò, Salvatore Scondotto, Achille Cernigliaro, Giovanni Corsello, Giuseppe La Torre and Francesco Vitale
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:817
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  7. Use of information campaigns and educational interventions directed to citizens and supported by physicians, aimed at promoting the appropriate use of medicines, have been evaluated by several studies with con...

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    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:816
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  8. Improving the lifestyle of overweight and obese adults is of increasing interest in view of its role in several chronic diseases. Interventions aiming at overweight or weight-related chronic diseases suffer fr...

    Authors: Brenda AJ Berendsen, Marike RC Hendriks, Evert ALM Verhagen, Nicolaas C Schaper, Stef PJ Kremers and Hans HCM Savelberg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:815
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  9. Métis are descendants of early 17th century relationships between North American Indians and Europeans. This study's objectives were: (1) to compare the health status of the Métis people to all other residents of...

    Authors: Patricia J Martens, Judith G Bartlett, Heather J Prior, Julianne Sanguins, Charles A Burchill, Elaine MJ Burland and Sheila Carter
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:814
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  10. The aim of this prospective study was to determine the incidence of type 1 diabetes mellitus in 15-34-year-aged Lithuanian males and females during 1991 - 2008

    Authors: Rytas Ostrauskas, Rimantas Žalinkevičius, Nijolė Jurgevičienė, Lina Radzevičienė and Lina Lašaitė
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:813
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  11. Kenya experienced rapid scale up of HIV testing and counselling services in government health services from 2001. We set out to examine the human resource policy implications of scaling up HIV testing and coun...

    Authors: Miriam Taegtmeyer, Tim Martineau, Jane H Namwebya, Annrita Ikahu, Carol W Ngare, James Sakwa, David G Lalloo and Sally Theobald
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:812
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  12. Despite the increase in the number of clinical trials in low and middle income countries (LMICs), there has been little serious discussion of whether First in Human (FIH; phase 0 and phase 1) clinical trials s...

    Authors: Lydia Kapiriri, James V Lavery, Peter A Singer, Hassan Mshinda, Lorne Babiuk and Abdallah S Daar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:811
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  13. Alcohol misuse by young people is an important public health issue, and has led to the development of a range of prevention interventions. Evidence concerning the most effective approaches to intervention desi...

    Authors: Heather Rothwell and Jeremy Segrott
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:810
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  15. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of MetS on arterial stiffness in a longitudinal study.

    Authors: Chia-Ing Li, Sharon LR Kardia, Chiu-Shong Liu, Wen-Yuan Lin, Chih-Hsueh Lin, Yi-Dar Lee, Fung-Chang Sung, Tsai-Chung Li and Cheng-Chieh Lin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:808
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  16. The most efficient sexual behavior for HIV transmission is unprotected receptive anal intercourse. However, it is unclear what role heterosexual unprotected anal sex is playing in the world's worst HIV epidemi...

    Authors: Seth C Kalichman, Steven D Pinkerton, Michael P Carey, Demetria Cain, Vuyelwa Mehlomakulu, Kate B Carey, Leickness C Simbayi, Kelvin Mwaba and Ofer Harel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:807
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  17. The Global Immunization Vision and Strategy (GIVS) (2006-2015) aims to reach and sustain high levels of vaccine coverage, provide immunization services to age groups beyond infancy and to those currently not r...

    Authors: David W Brown, Anthony Burton, Marta Gacic-Dobo, Rouslan I Karimov, Jos Vandelaer and Jean Marie Okwo-Bele
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:806
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  20. Conduct disorders are the most common psychiatric disorders in children and may persist into adulthood in about 50% of cases. The costs to society are high and impact many public sector agencies. Parenting pro...

    Authors: Eva-Maria Bonin, Madeleine Stevens, Jennifer Beecham, Sarah Byford and Michael Parsonage
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:803
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  21. Problematic Internet use (PIU) is a growing problem in Chinese adolescents. Little is known about associations of PIU with physical and psychological health. This study was designed to investigate the prevalen...

    Authors: Hui Cao, Ying Sun, Yuhui Wan, Jiahu Hao and Fangbiao Tao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:802
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  23. Workplace violence (WPV) is an occupational health hazard in both low and high income countries. To design WPV prevention programs, prior knowledge and understanding of conditions in the targeted population ar...

    Authors: Maria T Couto, Per Tillgren and Maja Söderbäck
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:800
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  24. To estimate trends in leisure time physical activity and physical fitness between 1987-2006 in older Spanish people.

    Authors: Domingo Palacios-Ceña, Cristina Alonso-Blanco, Rodrigo Jiménez-Garcia, Valentin Hernández-Barrera, Pilar Carrasco-Garrido, Elena Pileño-Martinez and Cesar Fernández-de-las-Peñas
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:799
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  25. Variability in health behaviours is an important cause of socioeconomic health disparities. Socioeconomic differences in health behaviours are poorly understood. Previous studies have examined whether (single)...

    Authors: Bob C Mulder, Marijn de Bruin, Hanneke Schreurs, Erik JC van Ameijden and Cees MJ van Woerkum
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:798
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  26. Previous Australian research has highlighted disparities in community perceptions of the threat posed by terrorism. A study with a large sample size is needed to examine reported concerns and anticipated respo...

    Authors: Garry Stevens, Kingsley Agho, Melanie Taylor, Alison L Jones, Jennifer Jacobs, Margo Barr and Beverley Raphael
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:797
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  27. Recent years have seen a number of attempts to reduce the stigma related to mental illness; the media can play a significant role in perpetuating this stigma. This paper analyses trends in newspaper coverage o...

    Authors: Robert Goulden, Elizabeth Corker, Sara Evans-Lacko, Diana Rose, Graham Thornicroft and Claire Henderson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:796
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  28. Research about the relationship between premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and major depression is limited. This study examined the relationship between moderate to severe PMS and major depression in a population-bas...

    Authors: Christine Forrester-Knauss, Elisabeth Zemp Stutz, Carine Weiss and Sibil Tschudin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:795
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  29. Prehypertension and prediabetes are major risk factors of cardiovascular disease, and their combined presence may result in more serious cardiovascular outcomes than expected with either prehypertension or pre...

    Authors: Jie Wu, Wen-hua Yan, Ling Qiu, Xin-qi Chen, Xiu-zhi Guo, Wei Wu, Liang-yu Xia, Xu-zhen Qin, Yan-hong Liu, Hai-tao Ding, Shao-mei Han, Cheng-li Xu and Guang-jin Zhu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:794
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  30. The few studies that have attempted to estimate the future cost of caring for people with dementia in Australia are typically based on total prevalence and the cost per patient over the average duration of ill...

    Authors: Victor Vickland, Joel Werner, Thomas Morris, Geoff McDonnell, Brian Draper, Lee-Fay Low and Henry Brodaty
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:793
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  33. Child growth is internationally recognized as an important indicator of nutritional status and health in populations. Child under-nutrition is estimated to be the largest contributor to global burden of diseas...

    Authors: Muhammad Umair Mushtaq, Sibgha Gull, Usman Khurshid, Ubeera Shahid, Mushtaq Ahmad Shad and Arif Mahmood Siddiqui
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:790
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  34. The Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) was designed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to measure, compare, and analyze the burden of various diseases. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first stu...

    Authors: Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Mohammad R Rasouli, Alexander R Vaccaro, Soheil Saadat, Mohammad R Zarei and Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:789
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  36. Measures of premature mortality have been used to guide debates on future health priorities and to monitor the population health status. Standard expected years of life lost (SEYLL) is one of the methods used ...

    Authors: Ricard Gènova-Maleras, Ferrán Catalá-López, Nerea Fernández de Larrea-Baz, Elena Álvarez-Martín and Consuelo Morant-Ginestar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:787
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  37. Cigarette smoking is a tough addiction to break. Therefore, improved approaches to smoking cessation are necessary. The electronic-cigarette (e-Cigarette), a battery-powered electronic nicotine delivery device...

    Authors: Riccardo Polosa, Pasquale Caponnetto, Jaymin B Morjaria, Gabriella Papale, Davide Campagna and Cristina Russo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:786
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  38. Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been associated with several disorders of the genital tract, skin and oropharynx. The aims of our study were to evaluate the prevalence of HPV infection in women between 15 and 5...

    Authors: Andrea Piana, Giovanni Sotgiu, Paolo Castiglia, Stefania Pischedda, Clementina Cocuzza, Giampiero Capobianco, Vincenzo Marras, Salvatore Dessole and Elena Muresu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:785
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  39. Childhood tuberculosis (TB) has been neglected in the fight against TB. Despite implementation of Directly Observed Treatment Shortcourse (DOTS) program in public and private hospitals in Indonesia since 2000,...

    Authors: Trisasi Lestari, Ari Probandari, Anna-Karin Hurtig and Adi Utarini
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:784
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  40. Cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) were collected as part of a randomised controlled trial of a multi-component intervention to reduce smoking among male prisoners. Cross-sectional baseline data on CVRF were c...

    Authors: Robyn L Richmond, Kay A Wilhelm, Devon Indig, Tony G Butler, Vicki A Archer and Alex D Wodak
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:783
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  42. The role of young maternal age as a determinant of adverse child health outcomes is controversial, with existing studies providing conflicting results. This work assessed the association between adolescent chi...

    Authors: María C Restrepo-Méndez, Aluísio JD Barros, Iná S Santos, Ana MB Menezes, Alicia Matijasevich, Fernando C Barros and Cesar G Victora
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:781
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  43. Objective of the study was to assess the effects of strategies to integrate targeted priority population, health and nutrition interventions into health systems on patient health outcomes and health system eff...

    Authors: Rifat Atun, Thyra E de Jongh, Federica V Secci, Kelechi Ohiri, Olusoji Adeyi and Josip Car
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:780
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  44. Understanding injection practices is crucial for evidence-based development of intervention initiatives. This study explored the extent of injection use and injection safety practices in primary care hospitals...

    Authors: AK Azad Chowdhury, Tapash Roy, ABM Faroque, Sitesh C Bachar, Muhammad Asaduzzaman, Nishat Nasrin, Nahid Akter, Hamidur Rahman Gazi, Abul Kalam Lutful Kabir, Masuma Parvin and Claire Anderson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:779
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  45. Despite the availability of a dual therapy treatment protocol and infant feeding guidelines designed to prevent mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, of the over 1 million babies born in South Africa ea...

    Authors: Karl Peltzer, Deborah Jones, Stephen M Weiss and Elisa Shikwane
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:778
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  46. The aim of the School site, Play Spot, Active transport, Club fitness and Environment (SPACE) Study was to develop, document, and assess a comprehensive intervention in local school districts that promote ever...

    Authors: Mette Toftager, Lars B Christiansen, Peter L Kristensen and Jens Troelsen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:777
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  47. Cleaners constitute a job group with poor health and low socioeconomic resources. Therefore, there is a great need for scientifically documented health promoting initiatives for cleaners. However, both workpla...

    Authors: Marie Birk Jørgensen, John Ektor-Andersen, Gisela Sjøgaard, Andreas Holtermann and Karen Søgaard
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:776
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  48. Osteoporosis is a serious health problem that worsens the quality of life and the survival rate of individuals with this disease on account the osteoporotic fractures. Studies have long focused on women, and i...

    Authors: Marta Zwart, Rafael Azagra, Gloria Encabo, Amada Aguye, Genís Roca, Sílvia Güell, Núria Puchol, Emili Gene, Francesc López-Expósito, Silvia Solà, Sergio Ortiz, Pilar Sancho, Liz Abado, Milagros Iglesias, Jesus Pujol-Salud and Adolf Diez-Perez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:775
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  49. The practice of tattooing and piercing has expanded in western society. In order to verify young adults' knowledge of the risk and practices related to body art, an investigation was conducted among freshmen o...

    Authors: Alessia Quaranta, Christian Napoli, Fabrizio Fasano, Claudio Montagna, Giuseppina Caggiano and Maria Teresa Montagna
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:774
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Accurate and timely regional data on smoking trends allow tobacco control interventions to be targeted at the areas most in need and facilitate the evaluation of such interventions. Electronic primary care dat...

    Authors: Tessa E Langley, Lisa C Szatkowski, Stephen Wythe and Sarah A Lewis
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:773
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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