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  1. Intimate partner violence (IPV) around the time of pregnancy is a recognized global health problem with damaging consequences. However, little is known about the effect of violence assessment and intervention ...

    Authors: Lena Henriksen, Eva Marie Flaathen, Jeanette Angelshaug, Lisa Garnweidner-Holme, Milada Cvancarova Småstuen, Josef Noll, Angela Taft, Berit Schei and Mirjam Lukasse
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:724
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  2. In the context of an ageing population and an increase in the appearance of chronic diseases, the commitment of caregivers makes it possible for people confronted with disease to remain at home. Over time, the...

    Authors: Marie-Conception Leocadie, Hélène Lefebvre and Monique Rothan-Tondeur
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:714
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  3. In Singapore, a densely urbanised Asian society, more than 80% of the population stays in public housing estates and the majority (90%) own their own homes. For the needy who cannot afford home ownership, publ...

    Authors: Liang En Wee, Lian Leng Low, Julian Thumboo, Angelique Chan and Kheng Hock Lee
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:713
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  4. Adolescence is a period of elevated stress sensitivity, which places adolescents at increased risk of developing mental health problems such as burnout, depression, anxiety, and externalizing problems. Early i...

    Authors: Amanda W. G. van Loon, Hanneke E. Creemers, Simone Vogelaar, Nadira Saab, Anne C. Miers, P. Michiel Westenberg and Jessica J. Asscher
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:712
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  5. To mitigate air pollution-related health risks and target interventions towards the populations bearing the greatest risks, the City Health Outlook (CHO) project aims to establish multi-scale, long-lasting, re...

    Authors: Lu Liang, Peng Gong, Na Cong, Zhichao Li, Yu Zhao and Ying Chen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:711
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  6. The changes in China’s family planning policy in recent years have led to changes in the age structure of pregnant women, and the prevalence of postpartum depression (PPD) is also on the rise. Cognitive Behavi...

    Authors: Mei Sun, Siyuan Tang, Jiarui Chen, Ying Li, Wenhui Bai, Virginia Plummer, Louisa Lam, Chunxiang Qin and Wendy M. Cross
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:710
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  7. The combined association of physical activity and sedentary behavior with adverse health factors is not yet clear in the literature. A combined analysis of physical activity level and sedentary behavior may pr...

    Authors: Venicius Dantas da Silva, Sheilla Tribess, Joilson Meneguci, Jeffer Eidi Sasaki, Cíntia Aparecida Garcia-Meneguci, José Ailton Oliveira Carneiro and Jair Sindra Virtuoso Jr
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:709
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  8. A population-based approach to healthcare goes beyond the traditional biomedical model and addresses the importance of cross-sectoral collaboration in promoting health of communities. By establishing partnersh...

    Authors: Mohammad Shahzad, Ross Upshur, Peter Donnelly, Aamir Bharmal, Xiaolin Wei, Patrick Feng and Adalsteinn D. Brown
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:708
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  9. Fruit and vegetable consumption was considered a protective effect against cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases (CVDs). This study aimed to project the reduction in the CVD burden under different scenar...

    Authors: Xiuting Mo, Ruoyan Tobe Gai, Kimi Sawada, Yoshimutsu Takahashi, Sharon E. Cox, Takeo Nakayama and Rintaro Mori
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:707
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  10. Whilst people with intellectual disability grow older, evidence has emerged internationally about the largely unmet health needs of this specific ageing population. Health checks have been implemented in some ...

    Authors: Annette Bauer, Laurence Taggart, Jill Rasmussen, Chris Hatton, Lesley Owen and Martin Knapp
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:706
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  11. Air pollution is becoming an increased burden to the world. Previous studies have confirmed its effects on adverse birth outcomes, but few associated with premature small for gestational age (SGA). We report a...

    Authors: Shushu Li, Huaiyan Wang, Haiting Hu, Zeying Wu, Kejin Chen and Zhilei Mao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:705
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  12. In the Gaza strip, diarrhea is one of main reasons for children visiting primary healthcare centers. Hence, we investigate predictors of the diarrheal illness and health care-seeking behavior among different a...

    Authors: Samer Abuzerr, Simin Nasseri, Masud Yunesian, Mahdi Hadi, Amir Hossein Mahvi, Ramin Nabizadeh and Ayman Abu Mustafa
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:704
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  13. In an effort to complement the current chemotherapy based schistosomiasis control interventions in Shinyanga district, community knowledge, perceptions and water contact practices were qualitatively assessed u...

    Authors: Teckla Angelo, Safari M. Kinung’hi, Jorum Buza, Joseph R. Mwanga, Henry Curtis Kariuki and Shona Wilson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:703
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  14. Social inclusion is a human right for all people, including people with mental illness. It is also an important part of recovery from mental illness. In Timor-Leste, no research has investigated the social exp...

    Authors: Teresa Hall, Ritsuko Kakuma, Lisa Palmer, Harry Minas, João Martins and Michelle Kermode
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:702
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  15. Parental support is an important element in overweight prevention programs for children. The purpose of this study was to examine everyday life situations in which mothers encounter difficulties encouraging he...

    Authors: Emilie L. M. Ruiter, Gerdine A. J. Fransen, Gerard R. M. Molleman, Michelle J. H. M. Hoeijmakers, Koos van der Velden and Rutger C. M. E. Engels
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:701
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  16. Little is known about the long-term shifts in distributions of three abdominal-obesity-related indicators, waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHpR) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) among Chinese adu...

    Authors: Xiwen Qian, Chang Su, Bing Zhang, Guoyou Qin, Huijun Wang and Zhenyu Wu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:700
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  17. The majority of empirical studies focus on a single Social Determinant of Health (SDH) when analysing health inequalities. We go beyond this by exploring how the combination of education (micro level) and hous...

    Authors: Jordi Gumà, Aïda Solé-Auró and Bruno Arpino
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:699
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  18. While schools have potential to contribute to children’s health and healthy behaviour, embedding health promotion within complex school systems is challenging. The ‘Healthy Primary School of the Future’ (HPSF)...

    Authors: N. H. M. Bartelink, P. van Assema, M. W. J. Jansen, H. H. C. M. Savelberg, G. F. Moore, J. Hawkins and S. P. J. Kremers
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:698
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  19. Many studies have demonstrated positive effects of physical activity on children’s health such as improved cardiorespiratory function and decreased obesity. Physical activity has also been found to have positi...

    Authors: Kenji Takehara, Togoobaatar Ganchimeg, Akihito Kikuchi, Lkagvasuren Gundegmaa, Lkagvasuren Altantsetseg, Ai Aoki, Takemune Fukuie, Kazuya Suwabe, Shagdar Bat-Erdene, Masashi Mikami, Rintaro Mori and Hideaki Soya
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:697
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  20. Obstetrical fistula (OF) is a public health challenge that is among the previously neglected components of maternal health in the developing world. The condition, which in the recent past has increasingly draw...

    Authors: John Bosco Bomboka, Mary Gorrethy N-Mboowa and Jennifer Nakilembe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:696
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Malaria remains endemic in Ghana despite several interventions. Studies have demonstrated very high levels of asymptomatic malaria parasitaemia in both under-five and school-age children. Mass testing, treatme...

    Authors: Ignatius Cheng Ndong, Daniel Okyere, Juliana Yartey Enos, Alfred Amambua-Ngwa, Corinne Simone C. Merle, Alexander Nyarko, Kwadwo Ansah Koram and Collins Stephan Ahorlu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:695
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  22. This study was initiated to evaluate, for the first time, the performance and quality of the influenza-like illness (ILI) surveillance system in Tunisia.

    Authors: Rihab Yazidi, Wafa Aissi, Hind Bouguerra, Mariem Nouira, Ghassen Kharroubi, Latifa Maazaoui, Mokhtar Zorraga, Naima Abdeddaiem, Sadok Chlif, Awatef El Moussi, Mohamed Ali Ben Hadj Kacem, Mohamed Ali Snoussi, Wissem Ghawar, Makram Koubaa, Lauren Polansky, Margaret McCarron…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:694
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  23. A high level of workplace social capital (WSC) may contribute to the protection of employees’ health. We hypothesized that a participatory workplace intervention would increase the level of WSC defined as vert...

    Authors: Elisabeth Framke, Ole Henning Sørensen, Jacob Pedersen, Thomas Clausen, Vilhelm Borg and Reiner Rugulies
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:693
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  24. Intimate partner violence can have a devastating impact on victims’ psychological and physical health and ability to maintain and preserve interpersonal relationships. The aim of the current study is to empiri...

    Authors: Dayna M. Maniccia and Janel M. Leone
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:692
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  25. The prevalence of periodontal disease is increasing among elderly individuals in Japan. Reports on the risk factors for tooth loss have included socioeconomic status (SES); however, few studies have addressed ...

    Authors: Nobue Nakahori, Michikazu Sekine, Masaaki Yamada, Takashi Tatsuse, Hideki Kido and Michio Suzuki
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:691
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. Lung function is lower in people with disadvantaged socio-economic position (SEP) and is associated with hazardous health behaviours and exposures. The associations are likely to be interactive, for example, e...

    Authors: Caroline Carney and Michaela Benzeval
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:690
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  27. Reproductive health is a part of a comprehensive definition of complete physical, mental and social well-being. Sex education is an important aspect of public health. Ignorance, due to the lack of sex educatio...

    Authors: Damian Warzecha, Iwona Szymusik, Bronislawa Pietrzak, Katarzyna Kosinska-Kaczynska, Janusz Sierdzinski, Nicole Sochacki-Wojcicka and Miroslaw Wielgos
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:689
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  28. The health benefits of physical exercise have been shown to be important in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases in patients with hypertension, dyslipidaemia or diabetes. However, few strategies have demo...

    Authors: David C. Missud, Elsa Parot-Schinkel, Laurent Connan, Bruno Vielle and Jean-François Huez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:688
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  29. To achieve the goal of measles eradication, all WHO member countries should continuously monitor the status of measles elimination. This work aims to characterize measles outbreaks in Iran from 2014 to 2016 an...

    Authors: Naser Piri, Manoochehr Karami, Leili Tapak, Seyed Mohsen Zahraei and Younes Mohammadi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:687
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  30. Traditional exercise [supervised exercise (SE)] intervention has been proved to be one of the most effective ways to improve metabolic health. However, most exercise interventions were on a high-cost and small...

    Authors: Yue Fang, Yunsheng Ma, Dandan Mo, Shunxing Zhang, Mi Xiang and Zhiruo Zhang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:686
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  31. Hepatitis G virus (HGV) infection transmitted from blood donors is a concern in China, as many articles about HGV infection in Chinese blood donors from different provinces have been published. This study aime...

    Authors: Taiwu Wang, Juecai Chen, Qi Zhang, Xia Huang, Nanzhen Xie, Jinhai Zhang, Tongjian Cai, Yao Zhang and Hongyan Xiong
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:685
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  32. Frequent users of emergency medical services (EMS) comprise a disproportionate percentage of emergency department (ED) visits. EDs are becoming increasingly overwhelmed and a portion of use by frequent callers...

    Authors: Gina Agarwal, Janice Lee, Brent McLeod, Sabnam Mahmuda, Michelle Howard, Krista Cockrell and Ricardo Angeles
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:684
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  33. An awareness campaign set to accompany the Global Maternal Sepsis Study (GLOSS) was launched in 2017. In order to better develop and evaluate the campaign, we sought to understand the factors that influence aw...

    Authors: Vanessa Brizuela, Mercedes Bonet, João Paulo Souza, Özge Tunçalp, Kasisomayajula Viswanath and Ana Langer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:683
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  34. Type 2 diabetes is increasing globally, with the highest burden in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) such as the Philippines. Developing effective interventions could improve detection, prevention, and t...

    Authors: Gina Agarwal, Ricardo N. Angeles, Lisa Dolovich, Janusz Kaczorowski, Jessica Gaber, Dale Guenter, Floro Dave Arnuco, Hilton Y. Lam, Lehana Thabane, Daria O’Reilly, Rodelin M. Agbulos, Rosemarie S. Arciaga, Jerome Barrera, Elgie Gregorio, Servando Halili Jr, Norvie Jalani…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:682
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  35. Positive youth development (PYD) models are effective in improving adolescent sexual health. Adolescent programs including peer educators, parents and the wider community also demonstrate effectiveness in impr...

    Authors: Brianna C. S. Crocker, Sabrina W. Pit, Vibeke Hansen, Franklin John-Leader and Mary Louise Wright
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:681
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  36. Worldwide, roughly 80% of adolescents fail to meet World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations regarding physical activity, though there is substantial variation in adolescent physical activity prevalence ...

    Authors: Dominic Weinberg, Gonneke W. J. M. Stevens, Jens Bucksch, Jo Inchley and Margaretha de Looze
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:680
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  37. In 2014, Alberta, Canada broke new ground in having the first provincial healthcare policy and procedure for advance care planning (ACP), the process of communicating and documenting a person’s future healthca...

    Authors: Patricia D. Biondo, Seema King, Barinder Minhas, Konrad Fassbender and Jessica E. Simon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:679
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  38. The total number of people with dementia is increasing worldwide, due to our aging society. Without a disease-modifying drug available, risk reduction strategies are to date the only promising way to reduce de...

    Authors: Irene Heger, Kay Deckers, Martin van Boxtel, Marjolein de Vugt, KlaasJan Hajema, Frans Verhey and Sebastian Köhler
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:678
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  39. Home delivery is the most frequent childbirth practice in Ethiopia and brings health risks for many mothers and their babies which in turn affecting the whole families. Characterizing the spatial variations an...

    Authors: Araya Mesfin Nigatu, Kassahun Alemu Gelaye, Degefie Tibebe Degefie and Abraham Yeneneh Birhanu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:677
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. This section defined time use (TU) research, illustrating its relevance for public health. TUR in the health context is the study of health-enhancing and health-compromising behaviours that are assessed across...

    Authors: Adrian Bauman, Michael Bittman and Jonathan Gershuny
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 2):607
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 2

  41. Exercise interventions are typically delivered to people with cancer and survivors via supervised clinical rehabilitation. However, motivating and maintaining activity changes outside of the clinic setting rem...

    Authors: Sjaan R. Gomersall, Tina L. Skinner, Elisabeth Winkler, Genevieve N. Healy, Elizabeth Eakin and Brianna Fjeldsoe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 2):542
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 2

  42. Relatively little is known about how total sedentary time is accumulated in different domains and if correlates of sedentary time differ across domains. Time use surveys present a unique opportunity to study s...

    Authors: Anne Loyen, Josephine Y. Chau, Judith G. M. Jelsma, Femke van Nassau and Hidde P. van der Ploeg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 2):538
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 2

  43. The last few years have seen renewed interest in use-of-time recalls in epidemiological studies, driven by a focus on the 24-h day [including sleep, sitting, and light physical activity (LPA)] rather than just...

    Authors: Charles E. Matthews, David Berrigan, Beate Fischer, Sjaan R. Gomersall, Andrea Hillreiner, Youngwon Kim, Michael F. Leitzmann, Pedro Saint-Maurice, Timothy S. Olds and Gregory J. Welk
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 2):478
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 2

  44. The central aim was to examine the accuracy of the full range of daily activities recorded in self-report time-use diaries against data from two objective passive data collection devices (wearable camera and acce...

    Authors: Teresa Harms, Jonathan Gershuny, Aiden Doherty, Emma Thomas, Karen Milton and Charlie Foster
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 2):455
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 2

  45. Over the last 150 years, advanced economies have seen the burden of disease shift to non-communicable diseases. The risk factors for these diseases are often co-morbidities associated with unhealthy weight. Th...

    Authors: Michael Bittman, Eimear Cleary, Charlotte Wilkinson-Bibicos and Jonathan Gershuny
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 2):454
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 2

  46. Behaviour has diverse economic, social and health consequences. Linking time spent in different daily activities to energy expenditure (EE) is one way of investigating the health and physiological consequences...

    Authors: Teresa Harms, David Berrigan and Jonathan Gershuny
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 2):453
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 2

  47. Differences in how shift workers accumulate physical activity (PA) while at work and in leisure time, on days when they are working at night, during the day, or on non-work days, are largely unexplored. The ai...

    Authors: Tracy L. Kolbe-Alexander, Sjaan Gomersall, Bronwyn Clark, Luciana Torquati, Toby Pavey and Wendy J. Brown
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 2):452
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 2

  48. This Supplement aims to raise awareness and knowledge of how time use surveys may be applied to studying health behaviours such as physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and eating. This commentary provides a...

    Authors: Josephine Y. Chau, Sjaan R. Gomersall, Hidde P. van der Ploeg and Karen Milton
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 2):451
    Content type: Introduction Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 2

  49. Recently, a small number of studies have suggested that gains in fitness and reductions in body fat achieved during the school term are reversed or stagnate during the holiday period. This may be associated wi...

    Authors: Tim Olds, Carol Maher and Dorothea Dumuid
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19(Suppl 2):450
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 19 Supplement 2

  50. Animal data suggest that jet fuels such as JP-8 are associated with hearing deficits when combined with noise and that the effect is more pronounced than with noise exposure alone. Some studies suggest periphe...

    Authors: Adrian Fuente, Louise Hickson, Thais C. Morata, Warwick Williams, Asaduzzaman Khan and Eduardo Fuentes-Lopez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:675
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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