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  1. In order to improve the transition from an intention to a change in health behaviour, action planning is a frequently used behavioural change method. The quality of action plans in terms of instrumentality and...

    Authors: Dominique Alexandra Reinwand, Rik Crutzen, Vera Storm, Julian Wienert, Tim Kuhlmann, Hein de Vries and Sonia Lippke
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:317
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  2. Obesity is a multifactorial abnormality which has an underlying genetic control but requires environmental influences to trigger. Numerous epidemiological studies have examined the roles of physical inactivity...

    Authors: Chunxiao Liao, Wenjing Gao, Weihua Cao, Jun Lv, Canqing Yu, Shengfeng Wang, Bin Zhou, Zengchang Pang, Liming Cong, Zhong Dong, Fan Wu, Hua Wang, Xianping Wu, Guohong Jiang, Xiaojie Wang, Binyou Wang…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:311
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  3. Measles remains a major public health concern in Thailand despite the introduction of vaccination since 1984. Similar to other countries, Thailand has experienced numerous measles outbreaks including adult com...

    Authors: Siriphan Gonwong, Thippawan Chuenchitra, Patchariya Khantapura, Dilara Islam and Carl J. Mason
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:309
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  4. The financial burden of cancers has profound effects and there is a clear need to explore the issue from different perspectives and for different population groups. This study aimed at investigating inpatient ...

    Authors: Ting Zhao, Jing Cheng, Jing Chai, Rui Feng, Han Liang, Xingrong Shen, Rui Sha and Debin Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:308
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  6. Physical activity in leisure time is often considered to have favourable effects on the risk of low back pain (LBP), but demonstrating a definite association in epidemiological studies has proven difficult. Th...

    Authors: Ingrid Heuch, Ivar Heuch, Knut Hagen and John-Anker Zwart
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:306
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  8. Integration of physical activity (PA) into the classroom may be an effective way of promoting the learning and academic achievement of children at elementary school. This paper describes the research design an...

    Authors: Mona Have, Jacob Have Nielsen, Anne Kær Gejl, Martin Thomsen Ernst, Kjeld Fredens, Jan Toftegaard Støckel, Niels Wedderkopp, Sidsel Louise Domazet, Claire Gudex, Anders Grøntved and Peter Lund Kristensen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:304
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  9. To determine the clinical effectiveness of statins on cardiovascular mortality in practice, observational studies are needed. Control for confounding is essential in any observational study. Falsification end-...

    Authors: Maarten J. Bijlsma, Stijn Vansteelandt, Fanny Janssen and Eelko Hak
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:303
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  10. Failure and delay in initial treatment contact for mental disorders has been recognized as an important public health problem. According to the concept of mental health literacy, recognition of symptoms is cru...

    Authors: Machi Suka, Takashi Yamauchi and Hiroki Sugimori
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:301
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  11. The majority of studies investigating associations between physical activity and mental health in adolescents have been cross-sectional in design. Potential associations between physical activity and mental he...

    Authors: Martin L. Van Dijk, Hans H. C. M. Savelberg, Peter Verboon, Paul A. Kirschner and Renate H. M. De Groot
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:300
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  12. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies affect more than two million people worldwide. In 2011, based on recent scientific evidence and the low effectiveness of current strategies, the World Health Organization recom...

    Authors: Samara Fernandes de Barros and Marly Augusto Cardoso
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:299
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  13. Work-related injuries resulting in long-term sickness certification can have serious consequences for injured workers, their families, society, compensation schemes, employers and healthcare service providers....

    Authors: Rasa Ruseckaite, Alex Collie, Maatje Scheepers, Bianca Brijnath, Agnieszka Kosny and Danielle Mazza
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:298
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  15. Metabolic syndrome (MS) comprises a set of conditions that are risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. Numerous epidemiological studies on MS have been conducted, but there has not been a system...

    Authors: Ri Li, Wenchen Li, Zhijun Lun, Huiping Zhang, Zhi Sun, Joseph Sam Kanu, Shuang Qiu, Yi Cheng and Yawen Liu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:296
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  17. Han and Mongolian populations constitute approximately 96 % of the population of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and the two ethnic groups have different genetic backgrounds and lifestyle. We aim to assess t...

    Authors: Guoju Li, Hailing Wang, Ke Wang, Wenrui Wang, Fen Dong, Yonggang Qian, Haiying Gong, Guodong Xu, Yanlong Li, Li Pan, Bin Wang, Guangjin Zhu and Guangliang Shan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:294
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  18. In the Czech Republic, two-dose immunization against mumps achieves 98 % coverage. The routine reporting detects mumps cases, clinical complications, and hospital admissions in unvaccinated but also in vaccina...

    Authors: Hana Orlíková, Marek Malý, Pavla Lexová, Helena Šebestová, Radomíra Limberková, Lucie Jurzykowská and Jan Kynčl
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:293
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  19. Smoking is more than twice as common among the most disadvantaged socioeconomic groups in England compared to the most affluent and is a major contributor to health-related inequalities. The United Kingdom (UK...

    Authors: Kirk Allen, Chris Kypridemos, Lirije Hyseni, Anna B. Gilmore, Peter Diggle, Margaret Whitehead, Simon Capewell and Martin O’Flaherty
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:292
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  20. Metabolically healthy obese (MHO) phenotype may present with distinct characteristics compared with those with a metabolically unhealthy obese phenotype. Epidemiologic data on the distribution of these conditi...

    Authors: Albert Goday, Eva Calvo, Luis Alberto Vázquez, Elena Caveda, Teresa Margallo, Carlos Catalina-Romero and Jesús Reviriego
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:248
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  21. Area-based health inequalities may partly be explained by higher levels of area disorder in deprived areas. Area disorder may cause safety concerns and hence impair health. This study assessed how, for whom an...

    Authors: Daniëlle Kramer, Janneke Harting and Anton E. Kunst
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:291
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  22. Reducing smoking in pregnancy is a policy priority in many countries and as a result there has been a rise in the development of services to help pregnant women to quit. A wide range of professionals are invol...

    Authors: Kate Flemming, Hilary Graham, Dorothy McCaughan, Kathryn Angus, Lesley Sinclair and Linda Bauld
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:290
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  23. About 30 % of the patients initiated on antiretroviral therapy in Zambia default treatment. Some of these patients later restart treatment; however, the characteristics of these patients have not been well des...

    Authors: Chama Mulubwa, Oliver Mweemba, Patrick Katayamoyo and Hikabasa Halwindi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:289
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  24. Gender disparities in China are concentrated in poor rural areas and among poor households. The difference in intelligence between boys and girls is less clear in rural China. The purpose of this paper was to ...

    Authors: Chao Li, Ni Zhu, Lingxia Zeng, Shaonong Dang, Jing Zhou, Yijun Kang, Yang Yang and Hong Yan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:288
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  25. China is facing an emerging epidemic of syphilis, and the cities in south China are most affected. Knowledge is a key factor in the prevention of syphilis infection, however, little is reported about how much ...

    Authors: Xiaobing Wu, Fuchang Hong, Lina Lan, Chunlai Zhang, Tiejian Feng and Yingzhou Yang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:287
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  26. School gardening programmes are increasingly popular, with suggested benefits including healthier eating and increased physical activity. Our objectives were to understand the health and well-being impacts of ...

    Authors: Heather Ohly, Sarah Gentry, Rachel Wigglesworth, Alison Bethel, Rebecca Lovell and Ruth Garside
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:286
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2016 16:1051

  27. Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) face a double burden of disease, with a high prevalence of household food insecurity and childhood micronutrient deficiencies, accompanied by a burgeoning incre...

    Authors: Karen E. Charlton, Joanna Russell, Emma Gorman, Quentin Hanich, Aurélie Delisle, Brooke Campbell and Johann Bell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:285
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  28. Despite the strategic development plan by the authorities for the Orang Asli, there are six subtribes of which their population numbers are small (less than 700). These minorities were not included in most of ...

    Authors: Tuan Azlin Tuan Abdul Aziz, Lay Kek Teh, Muhd Hanis Md Idris, Zakaria Bannur, Lydiatul Shima Ashari, Adzrool Idzwan Ismail, Aminuddin Ahmad, Kamarudzaman Md Isa, Fadzilah Mohd Nor, Thuhairah Hasrah Abdul Rahman, Syahrul Azlin Binti Shaari, Hamid Jan Jan Mohamed, Nornazliya Mohamad and Mohd Zaki Salleh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:284
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  29. The political influence of the food industry, referred to as corporate political activity (CPA), represents a potential barrier to the development and implementation of effe...

    Authors: Melissa Mialon, Boyd Swinburn, Steven Allender and Gary Sacks
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:283
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2021 21:1172

  30. Neighbourhood socioeconomic status (SES) has been shown to be related to health status and overweight independent of individual SES. However, results about the association between neighbourhood SES and physica...

    Authors: Rahel Bürgi, Laura Tomatis, Kurt Murer and Eling D. de Bruin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:282
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  31. Out of pocket payments are the predominant method of financing healthcare in many developing countries, which can result in impoverishment and financial catastrophe for those affected. In 2010, WHO estimated t...

    Authors: Shifa Salman Habib, Shagufta Perveen and Hussain Maqbool Ahmed Khuwaja
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:281
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  32. Health literacy has become an important health policy and health promotion agenda item in recent years. It had been seen as a means to reduce health disparities and a critical empowerment strategy to increase ...

    Authors: Shu-Fang Shih, Chieh-Hsing Liu, Li-Ling Liao and Richard H. Osborne
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:280
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  33. Both adolescent substance use and adolescent depression are major public health problems, and have the tendency to co-occur. Thousands of articles on adolescent substance use or depression have been published....

    Authors: Shi-Heng Wang, Yijun Ding, Weizhong Zhao, Yung-Hsiang Huang, Roger Perkins, Wen Zou and James J. Chen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:279
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  34. This study aims to evaluate the awareness, treatment, control rate of type 2 diabetes and its risk factors among Chinese community elderly, and also examine the changing trend for the past decade.

    Authors: Miao Liu, Jianhua Wang, Yao He, Bin Jiang, Lei Wu, Yiyan Wang, Zhang Di and Jing Zeng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:278
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  35. With the rapid proliferation of new gambling technology and online gambling opportunities, there is a concern that online gambling could have a significant impact on public health, particularly for adolescents...

    Authors: Tara Elton-Marshall, Scott T. Leatherdale and Nigel E. Turner
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:277
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  36. South Africa is one of the 22 high tuberculosis burden countries that contribute 80 % of the global tuberculosis cases. Tuberculosis is infectious and due to its rapid and easy transmission route poses a threa...

    Authors: Pamela Naidoo, Leickness Simbayi, Demetre Labadarios, Yoliswa Ntsepe, Nwabisa Bikitsha, Gadija Khan, Ronel Sewpaul, Sizulu Moyo and Thomas Rehle
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:276
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  37. The adverse impact of obesity has been extensively studied in the general population; however, the added risk of obesity on trauma-related mortality remains controversial. This study investigated and compared ...

    Authors: Jung-Fang Chuang, Cheng-Shyuan Rau, Pao-Jen Kuo, Yi-Chun Chen, Shiun-Yuan Hsu, Hsiao-Yun Hsieh and Ching-Hua Hsieh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:275
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  39. There is concern about the lack of diversity in children’s diets, particularly low intakes of fruit and vegetables and high intakes of unhealthy processed food. This may be a factor in the rising prevalence of...

    Authors: Sissel H. Helland, Elling Bere and Nina Cecilie Øverby
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:273
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  40. Students are vulnerable to Internet addiction (IA). Influences of cognitions based on the Health Belief Model (HBM) and perceived number of peers with IA (PNPIA) affecting students’ IA, and mediating effects i...

    Authors: Yanhong Wang, Anise M. S. Wu and Joseph T. F. Lau
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:272
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  43. The Medical Research Council (MRC) Framework for complex interventions highlights the need to explore interactions between components of complex interventions, but this has not yet been fully explored within c...

    Authors: Fiona M. Harris, Margaret Maxwell, Rory O’Connor, James C. Coyne, Ella Arensman, Claire Coffey, Nicole Koburger, Ricardo Gusmão, Susana Costa, András Székely, Zoltan Cserhati, David McDaid, Chantal van Audenhove and Ulrich Hegerl
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:268
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  44. Despite an increasing number of studies on the factors mediating the impact of the economic recession on mental health, research beyond the individual employment status is scarce. Our objectives were to invest...

    Authors: Juan Antonio Córdoba-Doña, Antonio Escolar-Pujolar, Miguel San Sebastián and Per E. Gustafsson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:267
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  45. Bangladesh is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change (CC). A basic understanding of public perception on vulnerability, attitude and the risk in relation to CC and health will provide strategic...

    Authors: Md Iqbal Kabir, Md Bayzidur Rahman, Wayne Smith, Mirza Afreen Fatima Lusha, Syed Azim and Abul Hasnat Milton
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:266
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  47. Effective task-shifting interventions targeted at reducing the global cardiovascular disease (CVD) epidemic in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are urgently needed.

    Authors: Panniyammakal Jeemon, Gitanjali Narayanan, Dimple Kondal, Kashvi Kahol, Ashok Bharadwaj, Anil Purty, Prakash Negi, Sulaiman Ladhani, Jyoti Sanghvi, Kuldeep Singh, Deksha Kapoor, Nidhi Sobti, Dorothy Lall, Sathyaprakash Manimunda, Supriya Dwivedi, Gurudyal Toteja…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:264
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  48. Women living with HIV have increased prevalence of medical and psychological comorbidities that could be adversely affected by alcohol consumption. Little is known about their unique motivations for drinking o...

    Authors: Robert L. Cook, Christa L. Cook, Manju Karki, Kathleen M. Weber, Kathleen A. Thoma, Chelsea M. Loy, Lakshmi Goparaju and Bridgett Rahim-Williams
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:263
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  50. Korea has the highest suicide rate in the OECD and is one of the few OECD countries whose suicide rates have not decreased in recent years. To address these issues, we investigated the effects of weight contro...

    Authors: Yeong Jun Ju, Kyu-Tae Han, Tae-Hoon Lee, Woorim Kim, Jeong Hun Park and Eun-Cheol Park
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:259
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