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  1. Unsafe abortions are a serious public health problem and a major human rights issue. In low-income countries, where restrictive abortion laws are common, safe abortion care is not always available to women in ...

    Authors: Ulrika Rehnström Loi, Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson, Elisabeth Faxelid and Marie Klingberg-Allvin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:139
  2. HIV voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) utilization remains low in many sub-Saharan African countries, particularly in remote rural settings. We sought to identify factors associated with service awareness ...

    Authors: Heather N Paulin, Meridith Blevins, John R Koethe, Nicole Hinton, Lara ME Vaz, Alfredo E Vergara, Abraham Mukolo, Elisée Ndatimana, Troy D Moon, Sten H Vermund and C William Wester
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:132
  3. Although there are several studies to investigate the smoking behaviors among rural-to-urban Chinese migrants, no study has focused individually on this population in Shanghai. This study was performed to esti...

    Authors: Yao Liu, Huijiang Song, Tianying Wang, Tianhao Wang, Hua Yang, Jian Gong, Yao Shen, Wei Dai, Jing Zhou, Shanzhu Zhu and Zhigang Pan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:131
  4. Healthy children achieve better educational outcomes which, in turn, are associated with improved health later in life. The World Health Organization’s Health Promoting Schools (HPS) framework is a holistic ap...

    Authors: Rebecca Langford, Christopher Bonell, Hayley Jones, Theodora Pouliou, Simon Murphy, Elizabeth Waters, Kelli Komro, Lisa Gibbs, Daniel Magnus and Rona Campbell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:130
  5. During the first wave of the H1N1 influenza pandemic in 2009, Aboriginal populations in Canada experienced disproportionate rates of infection, particularly in the province of Manitoba. To protect those though...

    Authors: S Michelle Driedger, Ryan Maier, Chris Furgal and Cindy Jardine
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:128
  6. A 2011 report by the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Human Services documented disparities in its Latino and American Indian populations on multiple individual-level health indicators. However, r...

    Authors: Carolyn A Mendez-Luck, Jeffrey W Bethel, R Turner Goins, Marc B Schure and Elizabeth McDermott
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:127
  7. Cooking over open fires using solid fuels is both common practice throughout much of the world and widely recognized to contribute to human health, environmental, and social problems. The public health burden ...

    Authors: Katherine L Dickinson, Ernest Kanyomse, Ricardo Piedrahita, Evan Coffey, Isaac J Rivera, James Adoctor, Rex Alirigia, Didier Muvandimwe, MacKenzie Dove, Vanja Dukic, Mary H Hayden, David Diaz-Sanchez, Adoctor Victor Abisiba, Dominic Anaseba, Yolanda Hagar, Nicholas Masson…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:126
  8. People with low socioeconomic status (SES) and some ethnic minorities are often underrepresented in lifestyle programmes. Therefore, a lifestyle programme was developed especially targeting these groups. Devel...

    Authors: Dorit Teuscher, Andrea J Bukman, Agnes Meershoek, Reint Jan Renes, Edith JM Feskens and Marleen A van Baak
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:125
  9. Civilization has produced lifestyle changes; currently, people ingest more calories than are expended, resulting in obesity. This study assessed the association between dietary habits, physical activities, and...

    Authors: Jenny Vilchis-Gil, Marcia Galván-Portillo, Miguel Klünder-Klünder, Miguel Cruz and Samuel Flores-Huerta
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:124
  10. The association between obesity and back pain has mainly been studied in high-income settings with inconclusive results, and data from older populations and developing countries are scarce. The aim of this stu...

    Authors: Ai Koyanagi, Andrew Stickley, Noe Garin, Marta Miret, Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos, Matilde Leonardi, Seppo Koskinen, Aleksander Galas and Josep Maria Haro
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:123
  11. Poor socio-economic conditions fuel seasonal migration of adult males from Northwestern Ethiopia, but behavioral and other migration-related changes increase their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. This study examine...

    Authors: Kassa Tiruneh, Belaynew Wasie and Hector Gonzalez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:122
  12. Existing physical activity surveys have not been validated for use with low-income overweight and obese young mothers. This study aimed to validate the Pregnancy Infection and Nutrition 3 (PIN3) physical activ...

    Authors: Mei-Wei Chang, Derek Hales, Roger Brown, Dianne Ward, Ken Resnicow and Susan Nitzke
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:121
  13. Prevalence of The transmitted HIV drug resistance (THDR) has been reported in many countries. In China, the low level THDR was found in only a few provinces. To know the transmitted HIV drug resistance in east...

    Authors: Hongxiong Guo, Xiaoqin Xu, Haiyang Hu, Ying Zhou, Haitao Yang, Tao Qiu, Gengfeng Fu and Xiping Huan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:120
  14. The ‘Supporting Teachers And childRen in Schools’ (STARS) study is a cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management (TCM) programme as a public health interven...

    Authors: Lorraine Hansford, Siobhan Sharkey, Vanessa Edwards, Obioha Ukoumunne, Sarah Byford, Brahm Norwich, Stuart Logan and Tamsin Ford
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:119
  15. Young women in Kenya experience a higher risk of mistimed and unwanted pregnancy compared to older women. However, contraceptive use among youth remains low. Known barriers to uptake include side effects, acce...

    Authors: Rhoune Ochako, Mwende Mbondo, Stephen Aloo, Susan Kaimenyi, Rachel Thompson, Marleen Temmerman and Megan Kays
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:118
  16. Generic drugs (GDs) offer a way to reduce health spending without sacrificing quality. Despite this, there are doubts as to their acceptance by the population. This work aims to assess perceptions of GDs among...

    Authors: Elene P Nardi, Marcos B Ferraz, Geraldo RC Pinheiro, Sérgio C Kowalski and Emilia I Sato
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:117
  17. Health effects of pesticides are easily diagnosed when acute poisonings occurs, nevertheless, consequences from chronic exposure can only be observed when neuropsychiatric, neurodegenerative or oncologic patho...

    Authors: Muriel Ramírez-Santana, Liliana Zúñiga, Sebastián Corral, Rodrigo Sandoval, Paul TJ Scheepers, Koos Van der Velden, Nel Roeleveld and Floria Pancetti
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:116
  18. Adults living in the sunny Australian climate are at high risk of skin cancer, but vitamin D deficiency (defined here as a serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentration of less than 50 nmol/L) is also comm...

    Authors: Mica Hartley, Samuel Hoare, Fiona E Lithander, Rachel E Neale, Prue H Hart, Shelley Gorman, Peter Gies, Jill Sherriff, Ashwin Swaminathan, Lawrence J Beilin, Trevor A Mori, Laura King, Lucinda J Black, Kushani Marshall, Fan Xiang, Candy Wyatt…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:115
  19. The Parenting Guidelines for Adolescent Alcohol Use were developed to support parents in reducing adolescent alcohol misuse. The aims of this paper were to: (1) validate an online parent self-assessment survey as...

    Authors: Marie B H Yap, Anthony F Jorm and Dan I Lubman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:114
  20. Viral and atypical bacterial pathogens play an important role in respiratory tract infection. Using the Pneumoslide IgM test, the presented study explored the aetiology of community-acquired pneumonia and inve...

    Authors: Keping Chen, Runqing Jia, Li Li, Chuankun Yang and Yan Shi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:113
  21. Excluding patients with cough less than two weeks from screening for TB which is the current practice of TB control program in Ethiopia may result in delayed diagnosis thereby increasing transmission risk to o...

    Authors: Endale Eliso, Girmay Medhin and Mulugeta Belay
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:112
  22. It is increasingly recognized that standing represents a simple solution to extended periods of sitting. However, it is currently unknown whether workplace standing time is prospectively associated with a lowe...

    Authors: Jean-Philippe Chaput, Travis J Saunders, Mark S Tremblay, Peter T Katzmarzyk, Angelo Tremblay and Claude Bouchard
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:111
  23. Consumers increasingly choose food supplements in addition to their diet. Research on supplement users finds they are likely to be female, older and well-educated; Furthermore, supplement users are often chara...

    Authors: Jessica Aschemann-Witzel and Klaus G Grunert
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:110
  24. Smoking cessation interventions for hospitalized smokers are effective in promoting smoking cessation, but only if the tobacco dependence treatment continues after the patient leaves the hospital. Sustaining t...

    Authors: Zachary Z Reid, Susan Regan, Jennifer HK Kelley, Joanna M Streck, Thomas Ylioja, Hilary A Tindle, Yuchiao Chang, Douglas E Levy, Elyse R Park, Daniel E Singer, Kelly M Carpenter, Michele Reyen and Nancy A Rigotti
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:109
  25. The revised World Health Organization’s International Health Regulations (2005) request a timely and all-hazard approach towards surveillance, especially at the subnational level. We discuss three questions of...

    Authors: Alexandra Ziemann, Nicole Rosenkötter, Luis Garcia-Castrillo Riesgo, Matthias Fischer, Alexander Krämer, Freddy K Lippert, Gernot Vergeiner, Helmut Brand and Thomas Krafft
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:107
  26. Illicit drug injecting is a well-established risk factor for morbidity and mortality. However, a limited number of prospective studies have examined the independent effect of unstable housing on mortality amon...

    Authors: Rebecca Zivanovic, MJ Milloy, Kanna Hayashi, Huiru Dong, Christy Sutherland, Thomas Kerr and Evan Wood
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:106
  27. Most projections of type 2 diabetes (T2D) prevalence are simply based on demographic change (i.e. ageing). We developed a model to predict future trends in T2D prevalence in Tunisia, explicitly taking into acc...

    Authors: Olfa Saidi, Martin O’Flaherty, Nadia Ben Mansour, Wafa Aissi, Olfa Lassoued, Simon Capewell, Julia A Critchley, Dhafer Malouche and Habiba Ben Romdhane
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:104
  28. Brazil has one of the highest adolescent fertility rates in the world. Income inequality has been frequently linked to overall adolescent health, but studies that analyzed its association with adolescent ferti...

    Authors: Alexandre DP Chiavegatto Filho and Ichiro Kawachi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:103
  29. The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) implemented in Western Kenya a mobile Health tool that uses text messages to coordinate Community Health Worker (CHW) activities around antenatal care (ANC) and Prevention...

    Authors: Ivy Mushamiri, Chibulu Luo, Casey Iiams-Hauser and Yanis Ben Amor
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:102
  30. Despite positive changes in the health of the population of Poland, compared to the EU average, the average life expectancy in 2011 was 5 years shorter for males and 2.2 years shorter for females. The immediat...

    Authors: Irena Maniecka-Bryła, Marek Bryła, Paweł Bryła and Małgorzata Pikala
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:101
  31. As children now spend increasing amounts of time in out-of-home care, care providers play an important role in promoting positive health behaviors. Little is currently known about providers’ perceptions and be...

    Authors: Kathryn R Hesketh, Esther MF van Sluijs, Rachel E Blaine, Elsie M Taveras, Matthew W Gillman and Sara E Benjamin Neelon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:100
  32. Bullying is a recognized social problem within child populations. Engagement in childhood bullying often occurs in settings that are away from adult supervision, such as en route to and from school. Bullying e...

    Authors: Ioana Cozma, Atif Kukaswadia, Ian Janssen, Wendy Craig and William Pickett
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:99
  33. Concurrency and serial monogamy may increase risk for STIs when gaps fall within the infectious period. This study examined the association between early sexual debut and concurrent or serial sexual partnering...

    Authors: Brianna M Magnusson, Jennifer A Nield and Kate L Lapane
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:98
  34. Breast cancer is the most common cause of death from cancer in women in less developed regions. Therefore, the objective of this study was to provide data on the temporal trends in female breast cancer mortali...

    Authors: Carolina Maciel Reis Gonzaga, Ruffo Freitas-Junior, Maria-Paula Curado, Ana-Luiza Lima Sousa, José-Augusto Souza-Neto and Marta Rovery Souza
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:96
  35. Childhood obesity is an increasing health problem globally. Overweight and obesity may be established as early as 2–5 years of age, highlighting the need for evidence-based effective prevention and treatment p...

    Authors: Christine Delisle, Sven Sandin, Elisabet Forsum, Hanna Henriksson, Ylva Trolle-Lagerros, Christel Larsson, Ralph Maddison, Francisco B Ortega, Jonatan R Ruiz, Kristin Silfvernagel, Toomas Timpka and Marie Löf
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:95
  36. The Study of Cardiovascular Risk in Adolescents (Portuguese acronym, “ERICA”) is a multicenter, school-based country-wide cross-sectional study funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, which aims at estimat...

    Authors: Katia Vergetti Bloch, Moyses Szklo, Maria Cristina C Kuschnir, Gabriela de Azevedo Abreu, Laura Augusta Barufaldi, Carlos Henrique Klein, Maurício TL de Vasconcelos, Glória Valéria da Veiga, Valeska C Figueiredo, Adriano Dias, Ana Julia Pantoja Moraes, Ana Luiza Lima Souza, Ana Mayra Andrade de Oliveira, Beatriz D’Argord Schaan, Bruno Mendes Tavares, Cecília Lacroix de Oliveira…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:94

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  37. Schools are important arenas for interventions among children as health promoting initiatives in childhood is expected to have substantial influence on health and well-being in adulthood. In countries with com...

    Authors: Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen, Rikke Krølner, Laust Hvas Mortensen, Marie Birk Jørgensen and Finn Diderichsen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:93
  38. Use of communication theories in the development of pictorial health warning labels (graphic warning labels) for cigarette packaging might enhance labels’ impact on motivation to quit, but research has been li...

    Authors: Erin L Mead, Joanna E Cohen, Caitlin E Kennedy, Joseph Gallo and Carl A Latkin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:92
  39. Men who have sex with men (MSM) have become a high-risk group of HIV infection in China. To date, little is known regarding the psychological characteristics in Chinese MSM, especially the prevalence of suicid...

    Authors: Hongquan Chen, Yang Li, Lixin Wang and Beichuan Zhang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:91
  40. Tobacco smoke exposure harms children and adults. Yet, 40% of children worldwide are exposed to tobacco smoke in their homes. Such widespread parental failure to protect children is puzzling, and may be relate...

    Authors: Laura Rosen and Inessa Kostjukovsky
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:90
  41. Behavioral risk factors such as tobacco use, unhealthy diet, insufficient physical activity and the harmful use of alcohol are known and modifiable contributors to a number of NCDs and health mediators. The pu...

    Authors: Fan Wu, Yanfei Guo, Somnath Chatterji, Yang Zheng, Nirmala Naidoo, Yong Jiang, Richard Biritwum, Alfred Yawson, Nadia Minicuci, Aaron Salinas-Rodriguez, Betty Manrique-Espinoza, Tamara Maximova, Karl Peltzer, Nancy Phaswanamafuya, James J Snodgrass, Elizabeth Thiele…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:88
  42. The diabetes prevalence increases at an alarming rate around the world and understanding disparities in occurrence, care management, and health outcomes may be a starting point towards achieving more effective...

    Authors: Paola Ballotari, Stefania Caroli, Francesca Ferrari, Gabriele Romani, Greci Marina, Antonio Chiarenza, Valeria Manicardi and Paolo Giorgi Rossi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:87
  43. Access to fruit and vegetables (FV) is associated with adolescents’ FV consumption. However, little is known about implementation of strategies to increase access to FV at schools. We examined the implementati...

    Authors: Anne Kristine Aarestrup, Thea Suldrup Jørgensen, Sanne Ellegaard Jørgensen, Deanna M Hoelscher, Pernille Due and Rikke Krølner
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:86
  44. Online social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have grown rapidly in popularity, with opportunities for interaction enhancing their health promotion potential. Such platforms are being used fo...

    Authors: Hilary J Veale, Rachel Sacks-Davis, Emma RN Weaver, Alisa E Pedrana, Mark A Stoové and Margaret E Hellard
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:85
  45. One of the biggest challenges in subsidizing premiums of poor households for community health insurance is the identification and selection of these households. Generally, poverty assessments in developing cou...

    Authors: Germain Savadogo, Aurelia Souarès, Ali Sié, Divya Parmar, Gilles Bibeau and Rainer Sauerborn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:84
  46. Flu vaccination is recommended annually for high risk groups. However, in Ireland, free access to vaccination is not universal for those in high risk groups; the vaccine and consultation are only free for thos...

    Authors: Sheena M Mc Hugh, John Browne, Ciaran O’Neill and Patricia M Kearney
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:83

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