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  1. Safe management of faeces (SMoF) and environmental contamination by faecal pathogens have been extensively researched although the SMoF in under-five children has been perennially neglected perhaps due to the ...

    Authors: Olufemi Oludare Aluko, Olusegun Temitope Afolabi, Emmanuel Abiodun Olaoye, Adeyinka Daniel Adebayo, Seun Oladele Oyetola and Oluwaseun Olamide Abegunde
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:178
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2017 17:243

  2. Social differences among adolescents in physical activity and sedentary behaviour have been identified but are not well explained. The current study aimed to identify socioeconomic, family and school-related a...

    Authors: Johanne Langlois, Abdou Y Omorou, Anne Vuillemin, Serge Briançon and Edith Lecomte
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:175
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  3. Physical inactivity is one of the leading causes of chronic disease in Canadian adults. With less than 50% of Canadian adults reaching the recommended amount of daily physical activity, there is an urgent need...

    Authors: Dawn P. Gill, Wendy Blunt, Cassandra Bartol, Roseanne W. Pulford, Ashleigh De Cruz, P. Karen Simmavong, Adam Gavarkovs, Ian Newhouse, Erin Pearson, Bayley Ostenfeldt, Barbi Law, Kristina Karvinen, Pertice Moffit, Gareth Jones, Cori Watson, Guangyong Zou…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:173
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  4. Diarrheal disease is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in low and middle income countries with children being disproportionately affected. Project SHINE (Sanitation & Hygiene INnovation in Education) is...

    Authors: Erin Hetherington, Matthijs Eggers, Joyce Wamoyi, Jennifer Hatfield, Mange Manyama, Susan Kutz and Sheri Bastien
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:172
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  5. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) screening has taken on new importance as a result of updated guidelines and new curative therapies. Relatively few studies have assessed HCV infection in homeless populations, and a min...

    Authors: Kimberly Page, Michelle Yu, Jennifer Cohen, Jennifer Evans, Martha Shumway and Elise D. Riley
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:171
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  6. Weight loss in individuals at high risk of diabetes is an effective prevention method and a major component of the currently prevailing diabetes prevention strategies. The aim of the present study was to inves...

    Authors: Adina L. Feldman, Simon J. Griffin, Amy L. Ahern, Grainne H. Long, Lars Weinehall, Eva Fhärm, Margareta Norberg and Patrik Wennberg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:170
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  7. Extensive work has focused on the effects of nutrition label information on consumer behavior on the one hand, and on the effects of packaging graphics on the other hand. However, little work has examined how ...

    Authors: Aner Tal, Stina Niemann and Brian Wansink
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:169
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2017 17:268

  8. Men who have sex with men (MSM) are a high-risk group for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. In China, the vast majority of MSM feel forced to marry or plan ...

    Authors: Xiufang Li, Beichuan Zhang, Juan Wang, Yang Li, Xianhong Li, Peiheng Yu, Minghua Liu and Xinqiao Liu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:168
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  9. Despite the undisputed public health benefits of routine vaccination, adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) remain a concern. As most adverse events are mild, they may be under-reported; this may underl...

    Authors: Jana Danova, Aneta Kocourkova and Alexander M. Celko
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:167
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  10. Farmers are exposed to multiple air contaminants that may interact with tobacco smoking in the development of respiratory diseases. Farmers are currently considered to smoke less than non-farmers, but precise ...

    Authors: Pauline Roux, Alicia Guillien, Thibaud Soumagne, Ophélie Ritter, Jean-Jacques Laplante, Cécile Travers, Jean-Charles Dalphin, Gérard Peiffer, Lucie Laurent and Bruno Degano
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:166
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  11. Previous studies have found mixed results about cigarette and alcohol consumption patterns among rural-to-urban migrants. Moreover, there are limited longitudinal data about consumption patterns in this popula...

    Authors: Alvaro Taype-Rondan, Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz, Germán F. Alvarado, Robert H. Gilman, Liam Smeeth and J. Jaime Miranda
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:165
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  13. Crack cocaine smoking is associated with an array of negative health consequences, including cuts and burns from unsafe pipes, and infectious diseases such as HIV. Despite the well-established and researched h...

    Authors: Amy Prangnell, Huiru Dong, Patricia Daly, M. J. Milloy, Thomas Kerr and Kanna Hayashi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:163
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  14. Mental disorders are associated with high costs for productivity loss, sickness absence and unemployment. A participatory supportive return to work (RTW) program was developed in order to improve RTW among wor...

    Authors: Lieke Lammerts, Johanna M. van Dongen, Frederieke G. Schaafsma, Willem van Mechelen and Johannes R. Anema
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:162
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  15. Convergence of sectoral programs is important for scaling up essential maternal and child health and nutrition interventions. In India, these interventions are implemented by two government programs – Integrat...

    Authors: Sunny S. Kim, Rasmi Avula, Rajani Ved, Neha Kohli, Kavita Singh, Mara van den Bold, Suneetha Kadiyala and Purnima Menon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:161
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  16. Maternal mortality is noticeably high in sub-Saharan African countries including Ethiopia. Continuous nationwide systematic evaluation and assessment of the problem helps to design appropriate policy and strat...

    Authors: Gizachew Assefa Tessema, Caroline O. Laurence, Yohannes Adama Melaku, Awoke Misganaw, Sintayehu A. Woldie, Abiye Hiruye, Azmeraw T. Amare, Yihunie Lakew, Berihun M. Zeleke and Amare Deribew
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:160
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  17. Despite the high prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity enrolment to weight management programs remains difficult, time consuming, costly and has limited effectiveness. The aim of this paper was to exp...

    Authors: Kamila Davidson and Helen Vidgen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:159
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  18. Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection has been causally linked to six cancers, and many disproportionately affect minorties. This study reports on the development and effectiveness of an intervention aimed at i...

    Authors: Maureen Sanderson, Juan R. Canedo, Dineo Khabele, Mary K. Fadden, Cynthia Harris, Katina Beard, Marilyn Burress, Helen Pinkerton, Cynthia Jackson, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Margaret K. Hargreaves and Pamela C. Hull
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:158
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  19. From the Theory of Planned Behaviour perspective, sexual intention is determined by a permissive attitude, perception of social norms and perceived self-efficacy in performing sexual activity. The aim of this ...

    Authors: Noor Azimah Muhammad, Khadijah Shamsuddin, Rahmah Mohd Amin, Khairani Omar and Ramayah Thurasamy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:157
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  20. Tobacco smoking is the main cause of lung cancer, but it is not the sole causal factor. Significant proportions of workers are smokers and exposed to occupational lung carcinogens. This study aims to systemati...

    Authors: Mohamad El Zoghbi, Pascale Salameh, Isabelle Stücker, Patrick Brochard, Fleur Delva and Aude Lacourt
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:156
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  21. Alcohol media literacy programs seek to mitigate the potentially harmful effects of alcohol advertising on children’s drinking intentions and behaviours through equipping them with skills to challenge media me...

    Authors: Chloe S. Gordon, Lisa K. Kervin, Sandra C. Jones and Steven J. Howard
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:155
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  22. In order to help workers with long-term sickness absence return to work (RTW), it is important to understand factors that either impede or facilitate employee’s reintegration into the labour force. The aim of ...

    Authors: Lise Aasen Haveraaen, Lisebet Skeie Skarpaas and Randi Wågø Aas
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:154
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  23. Hong Kong is non-signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, and has no systematic domestic policies committed to the rights of asylum-seekers and refugees (ASRs). This creates a tenuous se...

    Authors: William Chi Wai Wong, Sealing Cheung, Heidi Yin Hai Miu, Julie Chen, Kelley Ann Loper and Eleanor Holroyd
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:153
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  24. Cervical cancer (CC) and genital warts (GW) are a significant public health issue in Venezuela. Our objective was to assess the cost-effectiveness of the two available vaccines, bivalent and quadrivalent, agai...

    Authors: Ariel Esteban Bardach, Osvaldo Ulises Garay, María Calderón, Andrés Pichón-Riviére, Federico Augustovski, Sebastián García Martí, Paula Cortiñas, Marino Gonzalez, Laura T. Naranjo, Jorge Alberto Gomez and Joaquín Enzo Caporale
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:152
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  25. The prevalence, characteristics, and trends in obesity, overweight, and malnutrition among children and adolescents in 2010 and 2014 in Shenyang, China was described.

    Authors: Lingling Zhai, Youdan Dong, Yinglong Bai, Wei Wei and Lihong Jia
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:151
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  27. Individual-level health outcomes are shaped by environmental risk conditions. Norms figure prominently in socio-behavioural theories yet spatial variations in health-related norms have rarely been investigated...

    Authors: Suzanne J. Carroll, Catherine Paquet, Natasha J. Howard, Neil T. Coffee, Robert J. Adams, Anne W. Taylor, Theo Niyonsenga and Mark Daniel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:149
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  28. Brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) is an independent predictor of cardiovascular events and mortality. However, there is no related data on the association of baPWVwith coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CW...

    Authors: Yao Zheng, Lirong Liang, Tianbang Qin, Guang Yang, Shasha An, Yang Wang, Zhifang Li, Zhongda Shao, Xiuping Zhu, Taicheng Yao, Shouling Wu and Jun Cai
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:148
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  29. In June 2015, an expert consensus guidance statement was published recommending that office workers accumulate 2–4 h of standing and light activity daily and take regular breaks from prolonged sitting. This pa...

    Authors: Benjamin Gardner, Lee Smith and Louise Mansfield
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:47
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  30. There are about 70 small islands in the Aegean and Ionian Sea, of less than 300 Km2 and 5000 inhabitants each, comprising a total population of more than 75,000 individuals with geographical and socioeconomic cha...

    Authors: Chris J. Kapelios, Ioannis Kyriazis, Ioannis Ioannidis, Charilaos Dimosthenopoulos, Erifili Hatziagelaki and Stavros Liatis
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:147
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  31. Rubella infection can affect several organs and cause birth defects that are responsible for congenital rubella syndrome (CRS). Congenital hearing loss is the most common symptom of this syndrome, occurring in...

    Authors: Cristina Caroça, Vera Vicente, Paula Campelo, Maria Chasqueira, Helena Caria, Susana Silva, Paulo Paixão and João Paço
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:146
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  32. Recruitment of participants with obesity is a real challenge. To reduce time and costs in similar projects, we investigated various recruiting strategies used in a longitudinal family study with respect to the...

    Authors: Sarah Bergmann, Anja Keitel-Korndörfer, Katharina Herfurth-Majstorovic, Verena Wendt, Annette M. Klein, Kai von Klitzing and Matthias Grube
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:145
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  33. Designing evidence-based interventions to address socioeconomic disparities in health and health behaviours requires a better understanding of the specific explanatory mechanisms. We aimed to investigate a com...

    Authors: Nelli Hankonen, Matti T. J. Heino, Emilia Kujala, Sini-Tuuli Hynynen, Pilvikki Absetz, Vera Araújo-Soares, Katja Borodulin and Ari Haukkala
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:144
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  34. South Africa has a large domestically funded HIV programme with highly saturated coverage levels for most prevention and treatment interventions. To further optimise its allocative efficiency, we designed a no...

    Authors: Calvin Chiu, Leigh F. Johnson, Lise Jamieson, Bruce A. Larson and Gesine Meyer-Rath
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:143
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  35. The adolescent (ages 15–19) and young adult (ages 20–24) years are a crucial time as many sexual and reproductive health (SRH) transitions take place in these years. The study of youth SRH transitions in sub-S...

    Authors: Ilene S. Speizer, David Guilkey, Lisa M. Calhoun, Meghan Corroon and Rick O’Hara
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:142
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  36. Work-related stress is highly prevalent in the educational sector. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an organizational level, participatory intervention on need for recovery and...

    Authors: Roosmarijn M. C. Schelvis, Noortje M. Wiezer, Allard J. van der Beek, Jos W. R. Twisk, Ernst T. Bohlmeijer and Karen M. Oude Hengel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:141
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  37. Research suggests that living in fuel poverty and cold homes contributes to poor physical and mental health, and that interventions targeted at those living in poor quality housing may lead to health improveme...

    Authors: Charlotte N. B. Grey, Shiyu Jiang, Christina Nascimento, Sarah E. Rodgers, Rhodri Johnson, Ronan A. Lyons and Wouter Poortinga
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:140
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  38. There is an increasing trend toward international migration worldwide. With it comes a challenge for public health and public funded health care systems to meet the migrating population’s health needs. Men who...

    Authors: Susanne Strömdahl, Fredrik Liljeros, Anna Ekéus Thorson, Kristina Ingemarsdotter Persson and Birger C. Forsberg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:139
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  39. Internet addiction (IA) is a common problem found in young Asians. This study aimed to study the influence of IA and online activities on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in young Vietnamese. This study ...

    Authors: Bach Xuan Tran, Le Thi Huong, Nguyen Duc Hinh, Long Hoang Nguyen, Bao Nguyen Le, Vuong Minh Nong, Vu Thi Minh Thuc, Tran Dinh Tho, Carl Latkin, Melvyn WB Zhang and Roger CM Ho
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:138
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  40. Engaging young adults for the purpose of communicating health risks associated with nicotine and tobacco use can be challenging since they comprise a population heavily targeted with appealing marketing by the...

    Authors: Alexander V. Prokhorov, Tamara C. Machado, Karen S. Calabro, Elizabeth A. Vanderwater, Damon J. Vidrine, Keryn P. Pasch, Salma K. Marani, Meredith Buchberg, Aditya Wagh, Sophia C. Russell, Katarzyna W. Czerniak, Gabrielle C. Botello, Mackenzie H. Dobbins, Georges E. Khalil and Cheryl L. Perry
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:137
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  41. Prevalence of chronic diseases and unhealthy lifestyle behaviors among the adult population of Puerto Rico (PR) is high; however, few epidemiological studies have been conducted to address these. We aimed to d...

    Authors: Josiemer Mattei, José F. Rodríguez-Orengo, Martha Tamez, Francheska Corujo, Aida Claudio, Héctor Villanueva, Hannia Campos, Walter C. Willett, Katherine L. Tucker and Carlos F. Ríos-Bedoya
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:136
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  42. Early diagnosis of syphilis and timely treatment can effectively reduce ongoing syphilis transmission and morbidity. We examined the factors associated with the early diagnosis of syphilis to inform syphilis s...

    Authors: Ngai Sze Wong, Shujie Huang, Heping Zheng, Lei Chen, Peizhen Zhao, Joseph D. Tucker, Li Gang Yang, Beng Tin Goh and Bin Yang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:135
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  43. Currently, family planning metrics derived from nationally-representative household surveys such as the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) categorise women into those desiring to space or limit (permanently ...

    Authors: Yovitha Sedekia, Rose Nathan, Kathryn Church, Silas Temu, Claudia Hanson, Joanna Schellenberg and Tanya Marchant
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:134
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  44. Refined grains and white rice have been associated with elevated risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). In this study, we sought to quantify the effect of white rice intake on incident T2DM in two prospectiv...

    Authors: Asieh Golozar, Davood Khalili, Arash Etemadi, Hossein Poustchi, Akbar Fazeltabar, Firoozeh Hosseini, Farin Kamangar, Masoud Khoshnia, Farhad Islami, Farzad Hadaegh, Paul Brennan, Paolo Boffetta, Christian C. Abnet, Sanford M. Dawsey, Fereidoun Azizi, Reza Malekzadeh…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:133
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  45. The Netherlands, because of the sustained and systematic attention it paid to migrant and minority health issues during the last quarter of the twentieth century, has been depicted as being progressive in its ...

    Authors: Alana Helberg-Proctor, Agnes Meershoek, Anja Krumeich and Klasien Horstman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:132
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  46. According to the Bangladesh National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTP), the proportion of childhood tuberculosis (TB) among all reported cases is only 3%. This is considerably lower compared to other high-bur...

    Authors: Ziaul Islam, Kazi Istiaque Sanin and Tahmeed Ahmed
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:131
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  47. Sub-Saharan Africa is undergoing an epidemiological transition from a predominance of infectious diseases to non-communicable and lifestyle related conditions. However, the pace of this transition and the patt...

    Authors: R. Zoleko Manego, G. Mombo-Ngoma, M. Witte, J. Held, M. Gmeiner, T. Gebru, B. Tazemda, J. Mischlinger, M. Groger, B. Lell, A. A. Adegnika, S. T. Agnandji, P. G. Kremsner, B. Mordmüller, M. Ramharter and P. B. Matsiegui
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:130
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  48. Research into social root-causes of poor health within segregated Roma communities in Central and Eastern Europe, i.e. research into how, why and by whom high health-endangering settings and exposures are main...

    Authors: Andrej Belak, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Jitse P. van Dijk and Sijmen A. Reijneveld
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:128
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  49. The incidence of breast cancer in Asia is increasing because of urbanization and lifestyle changes. In the developing countries in Asia, women present at late stages, and mortality is high. Mammographic screen...

    Authors: Marianne Lee, Shivaani Mariapun, Nadia Rajaram, Soo-Hwang Teo and Cheng-Har Yip
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:127
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  50. In children, abdominal obesity is a better predictor of the presence of cardiovascular risk factors than body mass index (BMI)-defined obesity. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of abdominal obesity in the G...

    Authors: Maria Hassapidou, Themistoklis Tzotzas, Evangelia Makri, Ioannis Pagkalos, Ioannis Kaklamanos, Efthymios Kapantais, Annet Abrahamian, Antonis Polymeris and Konstantinos Tziomalos
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:126
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