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  1. Sedentary behavior is associated with health risks and academic under-achievement in children. Still, children spend a large part of their waking hours sitting at a desk at school. Recent short-term studies de...

    Authors: A. (Lex) E. Q. van Delden, Guido P. H. Band and Joris P. J. Slaets

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:70

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  2. Men who have sex with men (MSM), female sex workers (FSW) have critical needs for effective HIV prevention tools. This study identified perspectives of MSM, FSW and policy makers on the needs for, barriers to,...

    Authors: G. Emmanuel, M. Folayan, G. Undelikwe, B. Ochonye, T. Jayeoba, A. Yusuf, B. Aiwonodagbon, C. Bilali, P. Umoh, K. Ojemeiri and A. Kalaiwo

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:69

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  3. Traditional postpartum practices are intended to provide care to mothers, but there is mixed evidence concerning their impact on postpartum depression (PPD). It remains unknown if there is a unique impact of p...

    Authors: Katherine LeMasters, Nafeesa Andrabi, Lauren Zalla, Ashley Hagaman, Esther O. Chung, John A. Gallis, Elizabeth L. Turner, Sonia Bhalotra, Siham Sikander and Joanna Maselko

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:68

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  4. As HIV cure research advances, there is an increasing need for community engagement in health research, especially in low- and middle-income countries with ongoing clinical trials. Crowdsourcing contests provi...

    Authors: Yang Zhao, Suzanne Day, Nancy S. Yang, Huanyu Bao, Linghua Li, Allison Mathews and Joseph D. Tucker

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:67

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  5. Despite the many HIV testing models implemented in Africa, the level of HIV testing uptake remains relatively poor, especially among men. The HIV self-testing (HIVST) model offers an additional approach for en...

    Authors: Mbuzeleni Hlongwa, Tivani Mashamba-Thompson, Sizwe Makhunga, Claudine Muraraneza and Khumbulani Hlongwana

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:66

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  6. Young sexual minority men in the United States have a high incidence rate of HIV infection. Early intervention among this group, that is timed to precede or coincide with sexual initiation, is of critical impo...

    Authors: Lisa M. Kuhns, Robert Garofalo, Marco Hidalgo, Sabina Hirshfield, Cynthia Pearson, Josh Bruce, D. Scott Batey, Asa Radix, Uri Belkind, Haomiao Jia and Rebecca Schnall

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:65

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  7. Health risks linked with dioxin in fish remain a complex policy issue. Fatty Baltic fish contain persistent pollutants, but they are otherwise healthy food. We studied the health benefits and risks associated ...

    Authors: Jouni T. Tuomisto, Arja Asikainen, Päivi Meriläinen and Päivi Haapasaari

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:64

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  8. Disease-causing poverty is a serious problem in rural China, where social capital can mediate the disease—poverty relationship. However, there is no generally accepted reliable, robust and viable measure of so...

    Authors: Lizheng Xu, Min Guo, Stephen Nicholas, Long Sun, Fan Yang and Jian Wang

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:63

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  9. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is one of the major public health challenges generating a relevant burden. High-risk groups, including people who inject drugs (PWID), are at serious risk for developing HCV. ...

    Authors: Masoud Behzadifar, Meysam Behzadifar and Nicola Luigi Bragazzi

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:62

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  10. Health literacy (HL) is defined as the knowledge and competences of people to meet the complex demands of health in modern society. It is an important factor in ensuring positive health outcomes, yet Iceland i...

    Authors: Sonja Stelly Gustafsdottir, Arun K. Sigurdardottir, Solveig A. Arnadottir, Gudmundur T. Heimisson and Lena Mårtensson

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:61

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  11. Marked disparities by socioeconomic status in the risk of potentially avoidable hospitalization for chronic illnesses have been observed in many contexts, including those with universal health coverage. Less w...

    Authors: Neeru Gupta, Dan L. Crouse and Adele Balram

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:60

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  12. Very few programs aimed at improving body image among adolescent boys have been effective, and there is still no clear evidence as to what will work for universal prevention of eating disorders and body dissat...

    Authors: Joanna Rachel Doley, Siân Alexandra McLean, Scott Griffiths and Zali Yager

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:59

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  14. Rabies has a worldwide distribution in continental regions of Africa, Asia and the Latin America. Globally, the case fatality rate is 100% once a clinical sign is developed. Poor public awareness towards rabie...

    Authors: Weldegerima Gebremedhin Hagos, Kindie Fentahun Muchie, Goyitom Gebremdehn Gebru, Gebreamlak Gebremariam Mezgebe, Kebede Ambaye Reda and Berihun Assefa Dachew

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:57

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  15. Urban parks play an important role in promoting physical activity (PA) among adults and especially among older city residents. According to the socioecological approach the association of physical environments...

    Authors: Petra Wagner, Yan Ping Duan, Ru Zhang, Hagen Wulff and Walter Brehm

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:55

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  16. To analyze the trend of lower extremity major amputations (MA) among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in the Regions of Spain from year 2001 until 2015.

    Authors: María del Cristo Rodríguez Pérez, Chiara Chines, Arturo J. Pedrero García, Djeniffer Sousa, Francisco J. Cuevas Fernández, Itahisa Marcelino-Rodríguez, Santiago Domínguez Coello and Antonio Cabrera de León

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:54

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  17. Pulmonary diseases are a common and costly cause of 30-day readmissions. Few studies have focused on the difference in risk for rehospitalization between men and women in older patients. In this study we analy...

    Authors: Alessandra Buja, Anna De Polo, Elisa De Battisti, Milena Sperotto, Tatjana Baldovin, Silvia Cocchio, Patrizia Furlan, Mario Saia, Maria Luisa Scapellato, Guido Viel, Vincenzo Baldo, Chiara Bertoncello and Mark Ebell

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:53

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  18. Perceived neighborhood characteristics, including satisfaction with one’s neighborhood as a place to live, are associated with lower obesity rates and more favorable cardiovascular risk factor profiles. Yet, f...

    Authors: Tiffany L. Gary-Webb, Natalie Suder Egnot, Alvin Nugroho, Tamara Dubowitz and Wendy M. Troxel

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:52

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  19. In the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) programs targeting women are implemented. In the context of the ‘Mawe Tatu’ program more equitable in...

    Authors: Wyvine Ansima Bapolisi, Giovanfrancesco Ferrari, Clara Blampain, Jean Makelele, Lenneke Kono-Tange, Ghislain Bisimwa and Sonja Merten

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:51

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  20. The Kids save lives statement recommends annual Basic Life Support (BLS) training for school children but the implementation is challenging. Trainings should be easy to realise and every BLS training should be...

    Authors: Christoph Süss-Havemann, Janina Kosan, Thomas Seibold, Nils Martin Dibbern, Anne Daubmann, Jens Christian Kubitz and Stefanie Beck

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:50

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  23. It was highlighted that in the original article [1] the selection process was not described clearly enough to avoid confusion under the heading of the Target of Outcomes in the Methods section.

    Authors: Nadeeka Chandraratne, Miwa Yamaguchi, Susantha Indrawansa, Nalika Gunawardena, Keisuke Kuwahara, Zobida Islam, Yohei Kawasaki, Tetsuya Mizoue and Diyanath Samarasinghe

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:47

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    The original article was published in BMC Public Health 2019 19:893

  24. The increasing adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems enables automated, large scale, and meaningful analysis of regional population health. We explored how EHR systems could inform surveillance of...

    Authors: Timothy Bergquist, Vikas Pejaver, Noah Hammarlund, Sean D. Mooney and Stephen J. Mooney

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:46

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  25. Despite the recent increase in HIV infections among adolescents, little is known about their HIV knowledge and perceptions. This study, therefore, sought to examine the factors associated with comprehensive HI...

    Authors: Titilope Badru, Jefferson Mwaisaka, Hadiza Khamofu, Chinedu Agbakwuru, Oluwasanmi Adedokun, Satish Raj Pandey, Patrick Essiet, Ezekiel James, Annie Chen-Carrington, Timothy D. Mastro, Sani H. Aliyu and Kwasi Torpey

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:45

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  26. The prevalence of non-communicable diseases, and associated morbidity and mortality, is increasing rapidly in low and middle-income countries where health systems often have limited access and lower quality of...

    Authors: Ashley Sharp, Nick Riches, Annastesia Mims, Sweetness Ntshalintshali, David McConalogue, Paul Southworth, Callum Pierce, Philip Daniels, Muhindo Kalungero, Futhi Ndzinisa, Ekta Elston, Valephi Okello and John Walley

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:44

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  27. Violence exposure in adolescence is associated with a range of poor health and social outcomes, including both the perpetration and experience of violence in later intimate relationships. However, there is lit...

    Authors: Karen Devries, Jenny Parkes, Louise Knight, Elizabeth Allen, Sophie Namy, Simone Datzberger, Winifred Nalukenge, Lydia Atuhaire, Nambusi Kyegombe, Eddy Walakira, Janet Seeley, Helen A. Weiss and Dipak Naker

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:43

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  28. Overweight and obesity are important risk factors for chronic non-communicable diseases, and their prevalence is on the rise worldwide. This study seeks to describe the prevalence and predictors of overweight ...

    Authors: Rachel A. Klabunde, Felippe Lazar Neto, Andressa Louzada, Ricardo Faé de Moura, Fernando Morelli Calixto, Goodarz Danaei and Marcia C. Castro

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:42

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  29. Diabetes and its complications including foot ulcer constitute a global public health challenge attributing to a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. Foot ulcer is one of the long-term complication of...

    Authors: Tadesse Tolossa, Belayneh Mengist, Diriba Mulisa, Getahun Fetensa, Ebisa Turi and Amanuel Abajobir

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:41

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  30. Heart disease and stroke are among the leading causes of death in Native Americans. Knowledge of heart attack and stroke symptomology are essential for prompt identification of symptoms and for appropriate act...

    Authors: Jared C. Van Hooser, Krista L. Rouse, Mandy L. Meyer, Amanda M. Siegler, Beth M. Fruehauf, Elliot H. Ballance, Sarah M. Solberg, Michael J. Dibble and M. Nawal Lutfiyya

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:40

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  31. Of all lifestyle behaviours, smoking caused the most deaths in the last century. Because of the time lag between the act of smoking and dying from smoking, and because males generally take up smoking before fe...

    Authors: Maarten Wensink, Jesús-Adrián Alvarez, Silvia Rizzi, Fanny Janssen and Rune Lindahl-Jacobsen

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:39

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  32. Families resettling to the U.S. from conflict-affected countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) face countless challenges. These families must cope with experiences of armed conflict and forced mig...

    Authors: Lindsay Stark, Mackenzie V. Robinson, Ilana Seff, Wafa Hassan and Carine Allaf

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:38

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  33. Alcohol consumption, even at low-levels, can not be guaranteed as safe or risk free. Specifically, the 2009 Australian National Health and Medical Research Council drinking guidelines recommend that adults sho...

    Authors: Janette Mugavin, Sarah MacLean, Robin Room and Sarah Callinan

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:37

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  36. The Philippines is facing a rapidly rising HIV epidemic among young men who have sex with men (MSM). Testing rates among young populations is poor. HIV self-testing (HIVST) is a promising strategy to address t...

    Authors: Jesal Gohil, Emmanuel S. Baja, Tyrone Reden Sy, Ernest Genesis Guevara, Charlotte Hemingway, Paul Mark B. Medina, Leila Coppens, Godofreda V. Dalmacion and Miriam Taegtmeyer

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:34

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  37. “Active aging” is an inclusive term and has been defined from a variety of aspects in different domains throughout the literature. The aim of this review was to identify those aspects that play significant rol...

    Authors: Azadeh Lak, Parichehr Rashidghalam, Phyo K. Myint and Hamid R. Baradaran

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:33

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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2020 20:101

  38. People in socially disadvantaged groups face a myriad of challenges to their health. Discrimination, based on group status such as gender, immigration generation, race/ethnicity, or religion, are a well-docume...

    Authors: Joshua G. Rivenbark and Mathieu Ichou

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:31

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  39. Despite known associations between different aspects of sexual health, it is not clear how patterning of adverse sexual health varies across the general population. A better understanding should contribute tow...

    Authors: Alison Parkes, Michael Waltenberger, Catherine Mercer, Anne Johnson, Kaye Wellings and Kirstin Mitchell

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:14

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  40. Young people account for more than a quarter of new HIV infections in the US, with the majority of cases among young men who have sex with men; young transgender women are also vulnerable to infection. Substan...

    Authors: Lisa M. Kuhns, Niranjan Karnik, Anna Hotton, Abigail Muldoon, Geri Donenberg, Kristin Keglovitz, Moira McNulty, John Schneider, Faith Summersett-Williams and Robert Garofalo

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:30

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  41. Compared to the general population in Uganda, fishing communities suffer greater burden of HIV/AIDS. We determined the level of comprehensive knowledge on HIV prevention and its associated factors among fishin...

    Authors: Leocadia Kwagonza, Lilian Bulage, Paul Edward Okello, Joy Kusiima, Daniel Kadobera and Alex Riolexus Ario

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:29

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  42. The Nepal School Meals Program reached 600,000 schoolchildren in basic education in 2017 and plays a key role in the government’s strategy to increase children’s academic and nutritional outcomes. A large part...

    Authors: Rachana Manandhar Shrestha, Pepijn Schreinemachers, Mamta Gurung Nyangmi, Manoj Sah, Judy Phuong, Shraddha Manandhar and Ray-Yu Yang

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:28

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  43. Africans immigrants in the United States are the least-studied immigrant group, despite the research and policy efforts to address health disparities within immigrant communities. Although their healthcare exp...

    Authors: Ogbonnaya I. Omenka, Dennis P. Watson and Hugh C. Hendrie

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:27

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  44. From 2000 to 2008, in urban areas in Spain, adolescent fertility and abortion rates underwent unprecedented increases, consecutive to intensive immigration from developing countries. To address unmet needs for...

    Authors: Elia Diez, Maria J. Lopez, Gloria Perez, Irene Garcia-Subirats, Laia Nebot, Ramon Carreras and Joan R. Villalbi

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:26

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  45. A large number of students at a school in Guangzhou city developed a sudden onset of symptoms of diarrhea and vomiting. To help control the outbreak, we conducted an epidemiological investigation to determine ...

    Authors: Ying Lu, Mengmeng Ma, Hui Wang, Dahu Wang, Chun Chen, Qinlong Jing, Jinmei Geng, Tiegang Li, Zhoubin Zhang and Zhicong Yang

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:25

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  46. Increasing medicines availability and affordability is a key goal of Brazilian health policies. “Farmácia Popular” (FP) Program is one of the government’s key strategies to achieve this goal. Under FP, antihypert...

    Authors: Isabel Cristina Martins Emmerick, Mônica Rodrigues Campos, Rondineli Mendes da Silva, Luisa Arueira Chaves, Andréa Dâmaso Bertoldi, Dennis Ross-Degnan and Vera Lucia Luiza

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:24

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  47. Drug use and risky driving is associated with sensation seeking. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between use of psychoactive substances and levels of the sensation seeking personality ...

    Authors: Ragnhild E. G. Jamt, Hallvard Gjerde, Håvard Furuhaugen, Giovanni Romeo, Vigdis Vindenes, Jan G. Ramaekers and Stig T. Bogstrand

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:23

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  48. Sedentary behavior (SB) and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) are important issues in occupational health. Developing a questionnaire to concurrently assess workers’ SB and CRF could fundamentally improve epidem...

    Authors: Tomoaki Matsuo, Rina So and Masaya Takahashi

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:22

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  49. Participation in organised sport and physical activity contributes to health-enhancing levels of leisure time physical activity. In Australia, 58% of children aged 0–14 years participated at least once a week ...

    Authors: L. J. Reece, C. McInerney, K. Blazek, B. C. Foley, L. Schmutz, B. Bellew and A. E. Bauman

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:19

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