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  1. HIV/AIDS is a major public health problem in Ethiopia. University students are often a young and sexually active group that is at risk of acquiring and transmitting HIV. We assessed risky HIV sexual behaviors ...

    Authors: Desalegn Woldeyohannes, Yehenew Asmamaw, Solomon Sisay, Werissaw Hailesselassie, Kidist Birmeta and Zinaye Tekeste
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:121
  2. The mental health of the offspring of immigrants is a major public health concern. In this study, we examined associations of multicultural status and parental country of birth with adolescent mental health in...

    Authors: Jinwook Bahk, Agnus M. Kim and Young-Ho Khang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:116
  3. Sickness absence has been shown to be a risk marker for severe future health outcomes, such as disability retirement and premature death. However, it is poorly understood how all-cause and diagnosis-specific s...

    Authors: Minna Mänty, Tea Lallukka, Jouni Lahti, Olli Pietiläinen, Mikko Laaksonen, Eero Lahelma and Ossi Rahkonen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:114
  4. Amidst an Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic of unprecedented magnitude in west Africa, concerns about the risk of importing EVD led to the introduction of programs for the screening and monitoring of travelle...

    Authors: Jocelyn Chan, Mahomed Patel, Sean Tobin and Vicky Sheppeard
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:113
  5. Despite increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and related conditions, evaluations of health interventions indicate that Black/African American women are less likely to benefit than their white counte...

    Authors: Alison G. M. Brown, Linda B. Hudson, Kenneth Chui, Nesly Metayer, Namibia Lebron-Torres, Rebecca A. Seguin and Sara C. Folta
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:112
  6. Evidence suggests that family meals influence food intakes and behaviours, which in turn impact children’s eating habits, diets and health. Mealtimes therefore offer potential as settings for health promotion....

    Authors: Eloise-kate V. Litterbach, Karen J. Campbell and Alison C. Spence
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:111
  7. This study’s purpose was to understand associations between water, sanitation, and child growth.

    Authors: Kirk A. Dearden, Whitney Schott, Benjamin T. Crookston, Debbie L. Humphries, Mary E. Penny and Jere R. Behrman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:110
  8. Dental care is extremely costly and beyond most people means in developing countries. The primary aim of this study was to determine the impact of out-of-pocket payments for dental care on household finances i...

    Authors: Eduardo Bernabé, Mohd Masood and Marko Vujicic
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:109
  9. Evidence shows the positive influence of moderate and vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and negative influence of sedentary time on health and academic achievement. Although schools can significantly contribut...

    Authors: Kerli Mooses, Katrin Mägi, Eva-Maria Riso, Maarja Kalma, Priit Kaasik and Merike Kull
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:108
  10. Hypertension is the primary out-auditory adverse outcome caused due to occupational noise exposure. This study investigated the associations of noise exposure in an occupational setting with blood pressure and...

    Authors: Shuchang Chen, Yaqin Ni, Lei Zhang, Liya Kong, Luying Lu, Zhangping Yang, Luoxian Yang, Xuhui Zhang and Yimin Zhu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:107
  11. Obesity and other nutrition-related chronic disease rates are high in American Indian (AI) populations, and an urgent need exists to identify evidence-based strategies for prevention and treatment. Multi-level...

    Authors: Joel Gittelsohn, Brittany Jock, Leslie Redmond, Sheila Fleischhacker, Thomas Eckmann, Sara N. Bleich, Hong Loh, Elizabeth Ogburn, Preety Gadhoke, Jacqueline Swartz, Marla Pardilla and Benjamin Caballero
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:105
  12. Couple HIV Counseling and Testing (CHCT) is one of the key preventive strategies used to reduce the spread of HIV. In Uganda, HIV prevalence among married/living together is 7.2% among women and 7.6% among men...

    Authors: Victoria Nannozi, Eric Wobudeya, Nicholas Matsiko and Jacqueline Gahagan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:104
  13. Onchocerciasis is a severe parasitic infestation which causes disabling skin and subcutaneous tissue changes. Current global estimates suggest that it accounts for 1135.7 disability adjusted life years (DALYs)...

    Authors: Tsi Njim and Leopold Ndemnge Aminde
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:103
  14. Canadian youth exhibit a number of risky behaviours, some of which are associated with overweight and obesity. The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of 15 modifiable risk behaviours in a larg...

    Authors: Rachel E. Laxer, Ross C. Brownson, Joel A. Dubin, Martin Cooke, Ashok Chaurasia and Scott T. Leatherdale
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:102
  15. The Asia-Pacific region is home to nearly half of the world’s population. The region has seen a recent rapid increase in the prevalence of obesity, type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The present syste...

    Authors: P. Ranasinghe, Y. Mathangasinghe, R. Jayawardena, A. P. Hills and A. Misra
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:101
  16. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration can set standards for cigarettes that could include reducing their nicotine content. Such a standard should improve public health without causing unintended serious conseq...

    Authors: Sophia I. Allen, Jonathan Foulds, Gladys N. Pachas, Susan Veldheer, Corinne Cather, Nour Azzouz, Shari Hrabovsky, Ahmad Hameed, Jessica Yingst, Erin Hammett, Jennifer Modesto, Nicolle M. Krebs, Junjia Zhu, Jason Liao, Joshua E. Muscat, John Richie…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:100
  17. Despite the global decline in death rates of children younger than five years old, the risk of a child dying before turning five years of age remains highest in the WHO African Region. The problem of child dea...

    Authors: Zelalem Alamrew Anteneh, Kassawmar Andargie and Molalign Tarekegn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:99
  18. A decline in the prevalence of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure has been observed in the United States of America (USA) during the past few decades. Nevertheless, nearly half of non-smoking students are still e...

    Authors: Florian Fischer and Alexander Kraemer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:98
  19. Low-income African American adults are disproportionately affected by obesity and are also least likely to engage in recommended levels of physical activity (Flegal et al. JAMA 303(3):235-41, 2010; Tucker et a...

    Authors: Andrea S. Richardson, Wendy M. Troxel, Madhumita B. Ghosh-Dastidar, Robin Beckman, Gerald P. Hunter, Amy S. DeSantis, Natalie Colabianchi and Tamara Dubowitz
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:97
  20. Environmental pollution is a risk factor for cardiorespiratory diseases. Energy generated by thermoelectric power plants (TEPP) represents a relevant source of pollution. The aim of this study was to evaluate ...

    Authors: Tamara Ugarte-Avilés, Carlos Manterola, Ricardo Cartes-Velásquez and Tamara Otzen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:96
  21. In many low- and middle-income countries, community health volunteers (CHVs) are employed as a key element of the public health system in rural areas with poor accessibility. However, few studies have assessed...

    Authors: Yeonji Ma, Heunghee Kim, Yinseo Cho, Jaeeun Lee, Joseph Kwami Degley, Abdul-Ghaffa Adam, Gyuhong Lee, Hoonsang Lee and Seungman Cha
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:95
  22. An increase of sedentary behaviors far from the Mediterranean lifestyle is happening in spite of the impact on health. The aims of this study were to describe sedentary behaviors in children and adolescents.

    Authors: Juan Mielgo-Ayuso, Raquel Aparicio-Ugarriza, Adrian Castillo, Emma Ruiz, Jose M. Avila, Javier Aranceta-Bartrina, Angel Gil, Rosa M. Ortega, Lluis Serra-Majem, Gregorio Varela-Moreiras and Marcela González-Gross
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:94
  23. Ready-to-eat meals (to eat in, to take away or to be delivered) sold by food outlets are often more energy dense and nutrient poor compared with meals prepared at home, making them a reasonable target for publ...

    Authors: Frances C. Hillier-Brown, Carolyn D. Summerbell, Helen J. Moore, Wendy L. Wrieden, Jean Adams, Charles Abraham, Ashley Adamson, Vera Araújo-Soares, Martin White and Amelia A. Lake
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:93
  24. As the first meal of the day, breakfast plays an important role in supplying energy and nutrients, which are critical to working and learning activities. A three-phase crossover study was designed to investiga...

    Authors: Zhenchuang Tang, Na Zhang, Ailing Liu, Dechun Luan, Yong Zhao, Chao Song and Guansheng Ma
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:92
  25. Mental health problems (MHP) are the leading cause of disability worldwide. The inverse association between socioeconomic position (SEP) and MHP has been well documented. There is prospective evidence that fac...

    Authors: Caroline S. Duchaine, Ruth Ndjaboué, Manon Levesque, Michel Vézina, Xavier Trudel, Mahée Gilbert-Ouimet, Clermont E. Dionne, Benoît Mâsse, Neil Pearce and Chantal Brisson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:91
  26. Homeless men are highly vulnerable to acquisition of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) compared to the general population. In Brazil, a country of continental dimensions, the extent of HCV infection in this populati...

    Authors: Priscilla Martins Ferreira, Rafael Alves Guimarães, Christiane Moreira Souza, Lara Cristina da Cunha Guimarães, Cleiciane Vieira de Lima Barros, Karlla Antonieta Amorim Caetano, Giovanni Rezza, Lila Spadoni and Sandra Maria Brunini
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:90
  27. One way to facilitate the translation of research into the occupational health service practice is through clinical practice guidelines. To increase the implementability of guidelines it is important to includ...

    Authors: Lydia Kwak, Charlotte WÃ¥hlin, Kjerstin Stigmar and Irene Jensen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:89
  28. Comprehensive smoke-free policy in the alcohol and other drug (AOD) setting provides an opportunity to reduce tobacco related harms among clients and staff. This study aimed to examine within AOD services: sta...

    Authors: Eliza Skelton, Billie Bonevski, Flora Tzelepis, Anthony Shakeshaft, Ashleigh Guillaumier, Adrian Dunlop, Sam McCrabb and Kerrin Palazzi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:87
  29. In aggregate studies, ecological indices are used to study the influence of socioeconomic status on health. Their main limitation is ecological bias. This study assesses the misclassification of individual soc...

    Authors: Josephine Bryere, Carole Pornet, Nane Copin, Ludivine Launay, Gaëlle Gusto, Pascale Grosclaude, Cyrille Delpierre, Thierry Lang, Olivier Lantieri, Olivier Dejardin and Guy Launoy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:86
  30. The challenges of delivering interventions for pregnant smokers have been poorly documented. Also, the process of promoting a physical activity intervention for pregnant smokers has not been previously recorde...

    Authors: Nikoletta Giatras, Elisabeth Wanninkhof, Miranda Leontowitsch, Beth Lewis, Adrian Taylor, Sue Cooper and Michael Ussher
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:85
  31. Trained community health workers (CHW) enhance access to essential primary health care services in contexts where the health system lacks capacity to adequately deliver them. In Liberia, the Ebola outbreak fur...

    Authors: Kendra Siekmans, Salim Sohani, Tamba Boima, Florence Koffa, Luay Basil and Saïd Laaziz
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:84
  32. This study examined associations between alcohol outlet access and alcohol intake, depressive symptoms score and risk of depression among women residing in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Victoria, Australia.

    Authors: Karen E. Lamb, Lukar E. Thornton, Megan Teychenne, Catherine Milte, Ester Cerin and Kylie Ball
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:83
  33. It is important to determine whether unhealthy behaviours might influence transitions out of employment from midlife to old age, given the anticipated need for adults to work for longer. Our aim was to determi...

    Authors: Gareth Hagger-Johnson, Ewan Carr, Emily Murray, Stephen Stansfeld, Nicola Shelton, Mai Stafford and Jenny Head
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:82
  34. Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has been linked to an increased risk of obesity, but not much is known about the mechanisms behind this association. The objective of this ...

    Authors: M. Pia Chaparro, Gail G. Harrison, May C. Wang, Edmund Y. W. Seto and Anne R. Pebley
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:81
  35. Reducing sedentary behaviour may have important health implications. This study evaluated the potential enablers and barriers for outcomes of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) designed to evaluate a pragmati...

    Authors: Stuart J. H. Biddle, Charlotte L. Edwardson, Trish Gorely, Emma G. Wilmot, Thomas Yates, Myra A. Nimmo, Kamlesh Khunti and Melanie J. Davies
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:80
  36. With an increasing prevalence of obesity in young children globally, there is an urgent need for the development of effective early interventions. A previous Healthy Beginnings Trial using a nurse-led home vis...

    Authors: Li Ming Wen, Chris Rissel, Louise A. Baur, Alison J. Hayes, Huilan Xu, Anna Whelan, Myna Hua, Miranda Shaw and Philayrath Phongsavan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:79
  37. Innovation contests call on non-experts to help solve problems. While these contests have been used extensively in the private sector to increase engagement between organizations and clients, there is little d...

    Authors: Wei Zhang, David Schaffer, Lai Sze Tso, Songyuan Tang, Weiming Tang, Shujie Huang, Bin Yang and Joseph D. Tucker
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:78
  38. Reducing the prevalence of obesity and chronic disease are important priorities. Maori and Pacific Islander communities living in Australia have higher rates of obesity and chronic disease than the wider Austr...

    Authors: Seema Mihrshahi, Lisa Vaughan, Nicola Fa’avale, Shreenika De Silva Weliange, Inez Manu-Sione and Lisa Schubert
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:77
  39. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant public health issue that affects 1 in 3 women globally and a similarly large number of women in Nepal. Over the past decade, important policy and programmatic s...

    Authors: Cari Jo Clark, Rachael A. Spencer, Binita Shrestha, Gemma Ferguson, J. Michael Oakes and Jhumka Gupta
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:75
  40. Web-based nutritional education programmes appear to be comparable to those delivered face-to-face. However, no existing web-based nutrition education or similar programme has yet been evaluated with considera...

    Authors: Saki Nakamura, Takayo Inayama and Takashi Arao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:74
  41. In Canada, active tuberculosis (TB) disease rates remain disproportionately higher among the Indigenous population, especially among the Inuit in the north. We used mathematical modeling to evaluate how interv...

    Authors: Ashleigh R. Tuite, Victor Gallant, Elaine Randell, Annie-Claude Bourgeois and Amy L. Greer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:73
  42. The objective of this population-based, large sample size study was to investigate the socioeconomic inequality of overweight and obesity among the elderly in Iran.

    Authors: Alireza Raeisi, Mohammadbagher Mehboudi, Hossein Darabi, Iraj Nabipour, Bagher Larijani, Neda Mehrdad, Ramin Heshmat, Gita Shafiee, Farshad Sharifi and Afshin Ostovar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:72
  43. Abnormalities in the clinical markers of metabolic syndrome (MS) are associated with the development of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and some cancers. MS prevalence in Korea increased betw...

    Authors: Binh Thang Tran, Bo Yoon Jeong and Jin-Kyoung Oh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:71
  44. Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a diverse and culturally-rich country with severe infrastructural and health problems. Tuberculosis (TB) is widespread, and the number of cases with drug resistance is rising. Treatme...

    Authors: Tanya Diefenbach-Elstob, David Plummer, Robert Dowi, Sinba Wamagi, Bisato Gula, Keyanato Siwaeya, Daniel Pelowa, Peter Siba and Jeffrey Warner
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:70
  45. Induced abortion (IA) has shown social inequality related to birthplace and education with higher rates of IAs in immigrant and in less educated women relative to their native and highly educated counterparts....

    Authors: Yolanda González-Rábago, Elena Rodriguez-Alvarez, Luisa N. Borrell and Unai Martín
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:69
  46. Explicit labelling of lower strength alcohol products could reduce alcohol consumption by attracting more people to buy and drink such products instead of higher strength ones. Alternatively, it may lead to mo...

    Authors: Ian Shemilt, Vivien Hendry and Theresa M. Marteau
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:29

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