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  1. Early maternal age at first birth and elevated parity may have long-term consequences for the health of women as they age. Both are known risk factors for obstetrical complications with lifelong associated mor...

    Authors: Catherine M Pirkle, Ana Carolina Patrício de Albuquerque Sousa, Beatriz Alvarado and Maria-Victoria Zunzunegui
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:293
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Parents often fail to correctly perceive their children’s weight status, but no studies have examined the association between parental weight status perception and longitudinal BMIz change (BMI standardized to...

    Authors: Sanne MPL Gerards, Jessica S Gubbels, Pieter C Dagnelie, Stef PJ Kremers, Annette Stafleu, Nanne K de Vries and Carel Thijs
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:291
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  3. Epidemiologic studies show a curvilinear relationship between inadequate sleep (< 7 or > 8 hours) and obesity (Body Mass Index > 30 kg/m2), which have enormous public health impact.

    Authors: Girardin Jean-Louis, Natasha J Williams, Daniel Sarpong, Abhishek Pandey, Shawn Youngstedt, Ferdinand Zizi and Gbenga Ogedegbe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:290
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  4. Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death related to HIV worldwide. This study analyzes the survival of People Living with HIV (PLHIV) reporting cough without bacteriological confirmation of TB and ident...

    Authors: Maria Fátima de Pessoa Militão Albuquerque, Isabella Coimbra, Joanna d’Arc Batista, Magda Maruza, Ricardo A A Ximenes, Heloísa R Lacerda, Demócrito B Miranda-Filho, Marcela L Santos and Laura C Rodrigues
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:289
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  5. In the Netherlands, human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination is part of a national program equally accessible for all girls invited for vaccination. To assess possible inequalities in vaccine uptake, we investig...

    Authors: Madelief Mollers, Karin Lubbers, Symen K Spoelstra, Willibrord CM Weijmar-Schultz, Toos Daemen, Tjalke A Westra, Marianne AB van der Sande, Hans W Nijman, Hester E de Melker and Adriana Tami
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:288
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Physical activities are important for children and adolescents, especially asthmatics. A significant proportion is considered less active than their non-asthmatic peers and mother’s beliefs about asthma are th...

    Authors: Fabianne MNA Dantas, Marco AV Correia Jr, Almerinda R Silva, Décio M Peixoto, Emanuel SC Sarinho and José A Rizzo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:287
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  7. Family planning programs have recently undergone a fundamental shift from being focused on women only to focusing on men individually, or on both partners. However, contraceptive use among married men has rema...

    Authors: Allen Kabagenyi, Patricia Ndugga, Stephen Ojiambo Wandera and Betty Kwagala
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:286
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  8. Bowel disorders have destructive impacts on the patients social and mental aspects of life and can cause emotional distress. The risk of developing bowel incontinence also increases with age. The rate of incid...

    Authors: Mahmoud Torabi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:285
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  9. The link between physical activity (PA) and prevention of disease, maintenance of independence, and improved quality of life in older adults is supported by strong evidence. However, there is a lack of data on...

    Authors: Hilde Lohne-Seiler, Bjorge H Hansen, Elin Kolle and Sigmund A Anderssen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:284
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  10. The few studies that have examined whether metropolitan-level ethnic residential segregation is associated with obesity among Hispanics are mixed. The segmented assimilation theory, which suggests patterns of ...

    Authors: Kiarri N Kershaw and Sandra S Albrecht
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:283
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  11. The disclosure of widespread sexual abuse committed by professional educators and clergymen in institutions in Germany ignited a national political debate, in which special attention was paid to church-run ins...

    Authors: Nina Spröber, Thekla Schneider, Miriam Rassenhofer, Alexander Seitz, Hubert Liebhardt, Lilith König and Jörg M Fegert
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:282
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  12. Stroke is the leading cause of disability among adults in the United States. The association of patients’ pre-event socioeconomic status (SES) with post-stroke disability is not well understood. We examined th...

    Authors: Janet Prvu Bettger, Xin Zhao, Cheryl Bushnell, Louise Zimmer, Wenqin Pan, Linda S Williams and Eric D Peterson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:281
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  13. Over 45% of American women 20–39 years old are at risk for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other health conditions because they are overweight or obese. The prevalence of overweight and obesity is...

    Authors: Mei-Wei Chang, Susan Nitzke, Roger Brown and Ken Resnicow
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:280
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  14. Childhood obesity has become a serious public health threat worldwide due to its many short- and long-term adverse health effects. We assessed the association between weight status and metabolic co-morbidities...

    Authors: Hyunjung Lim, Hong Xue and Youfa Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:279
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  15. The WHO health systems Building Blocks framework has become ubiquitous in health systems research. However, it was not developed as a research instrument, but rather to facilitate investments of resources in h...

    Authors: Sandra Mounier-Jack, Ulla K Griffiths, Svea Closser, Helen Burchett and Bruno Marchal
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:278
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  16. Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and aims at reducing childhood morbidity and...

    Authors: Augustine Kiplagat, Richard Musto, Damas Mwizamholya and Domenica Morona
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:277
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  18. Excessive body weight, low physical activity and excessive sedentary time in youth are major public health concerns. A new generation of video games, the ones that require physical activity to play the games –...

    Authors: Monique Simons, Mai JM Chinapaw, Maaike van de Bovenkamp, Michiel R de Boer, Jacob C Seidell, Johannes Brug and Emely de Vet
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:275
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  19. Special events are common community-based strategies for health promotion. This paper presents findings from a systematic literature review on the impact of special events to promote breast, cervical or colore...

    Authors: Cam Escoffery, Kirsten C Rodgers, Michelle C Kegler, Regine Haardörfer, David H Howard, Shuting Liang, Erika Pinsker, Katherine B Roland, Jennifer D Allen, Marcia G Ory, Roshan Bastani, Maria E Fernandez, Betsy C Risendal, Theresa L Byrd and Gloria D Coronado
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:274
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  20. The quality and quantity of social relationships are associated with depression but there is less evidence regarding which aspects of social relationships are most predictive. We evaluated the relative magnitu...

    Authors: Steven D Barger, Nadine Messerli-Bürgy and Jürgen Barth
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:273
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. An association between parental separation or divorce occurring in childhood and increased psychological distress in adulthood is well established. However relatively little is known about why this association...

    Authors: Rebecca E Lacey, Mel Bartley, Hynek Pikhart, Mai Stafford and Noriko Cable
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:272
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  22. Physicians have an elevated risk of experiencing suicidal thoughts, which might be due to work-related factors. However, the hierarchical work positions as well as work-related health differ among resident and...

    Authors: Mari Eneroth, Marie Gustafsson Sendén, Lise T Løvseth, Karin Schenck-Gustafsson and Ann Fridner
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:271
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  23. This study evaluated the performance of a new weight estimation strategy (Mercy Method) with four existing weight-estimation methods (APLS, ARC, Broselow, and Nelson) in children from Ouelessebougou, Mali.

    Authors: Alassane Dicko, Mohamed Lamine Alhousseini, Bouran Sidibé, Moussa Traoré and Susan M Abdel-Rahman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:270
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  24. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global public health concern and its surveillance is a fundamental tool for monitoring the development of AMR. In 1998, the Nepalese Ministry of Health (MOH) launched ...

    Authors: Sarala Malla, Shyam Prakash Dumre, Geeta Shakya, Palpasa Kansakar, Bhupraj Rai, Anowar Hossain, Gopinath Balakrish Nair, M John Albert, David Sack, Stephen Baker and Motiur Rahman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:269
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  25. Whooping cough is a communicable disease whose incidence has increased in recent years in some countries with vaccination. Since 1981, in Catalonia (Spain), cases must be reported to the Public Health Departme...

    Authors: Inma Crespo, Núria Soldevila, Pilar Muñoz, Pere Godoy, Gloria Carmona and Angela Domínguez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:268
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  26. Chlamydia trachomatis infection is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the western countries; its prevalence in the conservative Muslim population of Saudi Arabia is not known, but it is gene...

    Authors: Wafa Fageeh, Sami Badawood, Hanin Al Thagafi, Muhammad Yasir, Esam Azhar, Suha Farraj, Mona Alomary, Moneerah Alsaeed, Soonham Yaghmoor and Taha Kumosani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:267
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  27. The child mortality rate is a good indicator of development. High levels of infectious diseases and high child mortality make the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) one of the most challenging environments for...

    Authors: Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Tumwaka P Mandungu, Kisumbula Mbela, Kikhela PD Nzita, Banza B Kalambayi, Kalambayi P Kayembe and Jacques B O Emina
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:266
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  28. The success of HIV care strongly depends upon skills of the healthcare worker. Vietnam has a punitive history towards HIV and even though this has changed recently, persons living with HIV are still facing dis...

    Authors: Michael Platten, Ha N Pham and Huy V Nguyen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:265
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  29. Breakfast consumption is important to health; however, adolescents often skip breakfast, and an increased understanding of the breakfast consumption patterns of adolescents is needed. The purpose of this study...

    Authors: Barbara Mullan, Cara Wong, Emily Kothe, Kathleen O’Moore, Kristen Pickles and Kirby Sainsbury
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:264
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  30. Over the past years, Q fever has become a major public health problem in the Netherlands, with a peak of 2,357 human cases in 2009. In the first instance, Q fever was mainly a local problem of one province wit...

    Authors: Marloes Bults, Desirée Beaujean, Clementine Wijkmans, Jan Hendrik Richardus and Hélène Voeten
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:263
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  31. Although good progress has been achieved in expanding immunization of children in China, disparities exist across different provinces. Information gaps both from the service supply and demand sides hinder time...

    Authors: Li Chen, Wei Wang, Xiaozhen Du, Xiuqin Rao, Michelle Helena van Velthoven, Ruikan Yang, Lin Zhang, Jeanne Catherine Koepsell, Ye Li, Qiong Wu and Yanfeng Zhang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:262
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  32. Key life periods have been associated with changes in physical activity (PA). This study investigated (1) how PA changes when primary school children transfer to secondary school, (2) if school environmental c...

    Authors: Femke De Meester, Delfien Van Dyck, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Benedicte Deforche and Greet Cardon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:261
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  33. With the increasing number of people surviving into old age in Africa, dementia is becoming an important public health problem. Understanding the social dynamics of dementia in resource-poor settings is critic...

    Authors: Declare Mushi, Amen Rongai, Stella-Maria Paddick, Catherine Dotchin, Chauka Mtuya and Richard Walker
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:260
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  34. Podoconiosis is non-filarial elephantiasis of the lower legs. It is more commonly found in tropical Africa, Central and South America, and northwest India. In Ethiopia, a few non-governmental organizations pro...

    Authors: Abreham Tamiru, Girmay Tsegay, Moges Wubie, Molla Gedefaw, Sara Tomczyk and Fasil Tekola-Ayele
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:259
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  35. The stigma of schizophrenia constitutes a major barrier to early detection and treatment of this illness. Anti-stigma education has been welcomed to reduce stigma among the general public. This study examined ...

    Authors: Yiwei Ling, Mayumi Watanabe, Hatsumi Yoshii and Kouhei Akazawa
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:258
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  36. The report of the fifth national tuberculosis (TB) epidemiological survey in P. R. China, 2010, roughly showed that pulmonary TB (PTB) prevalence was higher in western China than in central and eastern China. ...

    Authors: Xin-Xu Li, Li-Xia Wang, Hui Zhang, Shi-Wen Jiang, Qun Fang, Jia-Xu Chen and Xiao-Nong Zhou
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:257
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  37. Psychological distress (PD) in students is under-investigated, since its prevalence can be high in certain subgroups of students and it has been seen to be associated with other mental health issues and academ...

    Authors: Thomas Saïas, Enguerrand du Roscoät, Laurentine Véron, Romain Guignard, Jean-Baptiste Richard, Stéphane Legleye, Fanny Sauvade, Viviane Kovess and François Beck
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:256
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  38. Recent epidemiological studies have found that the prevalence of high blood pressure (BP) has significantly increased among children and adolescents. The aim of this study was to examine the associations betwe...

    Authors: Renata Kuciene and Virginija Dulskiene
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:255
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  39. New technologies could facilitate changes in lifestyle and improve public health. However, no large randomized, controlled studies providing scientific evidence of the benefits of their use have been made. The...

    Authors: José I Recio-Rodríguez, Carlos Martín-Cantera, Natividad González-Viejo, Amparo Gómez-Arranz, Maria S Arietaleanizbeascoa, Yolanda Schmolling-Guinovart, Jose A Maderuelo-Fernandez, Diana Pérez-Arechaederra, Emiliano Rodriguez-Sanchez, Manuel A Gómez-Marcos and Luis García-Ortiz
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:254
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  40. Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in the United States and in most European countries. Cardiovascular health, as defined by the American Heart Association, is comprised of seven health me...

    Authors: Georgina E Crichton, Merrill F Elias, Adam Davey, Nicolas Sauvageot, Charles Delagardelle, Jean Beissel and Ala’a Alkerwi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:253
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  41. Adolescent girls continue to fall victim to unintended pregnancy and its consequences, with particular problems arising in low income countries. Awareness about methods of contraception is an important step to...

    Authors: Yohannes Adama Melaku, Yemane Berhane, John Kinsman and Hailemariam Lemma Reda
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:252
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  42. Tobacco advertising and product promotions have been largely banned in the UK but point of sale (POS) tobacco advertising is one of the few places where tobacco products may be legitimately advertised. POS dis...

    Authors: Sally Haw, Amanda Amos, Douglas Eadie, John Frank, Laura MacDonald, Anne Marie MacKintosh, Andy MacGregor, Martine Miller, Jamie Pearce, Clare Sharp, Martine Stead, Catherine Tisch and Winfried van der Sluijs
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:251
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  43. Smoking rates in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples remain high, with limited impact of government measures for many subgroups. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate di...

    Authors: Gillian S Gould, Kerrianne Watt, Leah Stevenson, Andy McEwen, Yvonne Cadet-James and Alan R Clough
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:250
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  44. Diet-related noncommunicable diseases represent a major global public health challenge, and require a multisectoral policy response. However, the use of trade policy in this context has met with varied success...

    Authors: Anne Marie Thow, Reginald Annan, Laudina Mensah and Syeda Nafisa Chowdhury
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:249
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  45. In India, HIV prevention programs have focused on female sex workers’ (FSWs’) sexual practices vis-à-vis commercial partners leading to important gains in HIV prevention. However, it has become apparent that f...

    Authors: Sandra Mary Travasso, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra, Niranjan Saggurti and Suneeta Krishnan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:248
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  46. Petrochemical industries have been identified as important sources of emissions of chemical substances, and adverse health outcomes have been reported for residents who live nearby. The purpose of the current ...

    Authors: Ya-Mei Chen, Wan-Yu Lin and Chang-Chuan Chan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:247
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  47. Filipino Americans have low rates of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening and high CRC mortality. To reduce this disparity, we conducted a dissemination trial in which we offered two levels of technical assistanc...

    Authors: Annette E Maxwell, Leda L Danao, Reggie T Cayetano, Catherine M Crespi and Roshan Bastani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:246
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  48. The purpose of this study was to estimate the incidence of fatal and non-fatal Low Speed Vehicle Run Over (LSVRO) events among children aged 0–15 years in Queensland, Australia, at a population level.

    Authors: Bronwyn R Griffin, Kerrianne Watt, Belinda A Wallis, Linda E Shields and Roy M Kimble
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:245
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  49. Housing has been a relatively neglected site for public health action. However, it remains a place where human beings spend the most part of their day. As a result, the quality of housing has consequences for ...

    Authors: Emilia Asuquo Udofia, Alfred E Yawson, Kwesi Adu Aduful and Francis Mulekya Bwambale
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:244
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  50. Young Adult Males (YAMs) in rural Australia are poorly studied with respect to overweight and obesity. Firstly, we explored the feasibility of recruiting 17–25 year old YAMs to obtain baseline data on overweig...

    Authors: Kumara Mendis, Tanya Forster, Karen Paxton, Karen Hyland, Jason Yelverton, Rick McLean, Joseph Canalese, Anthony Brown and Katharine Steinbeck
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:243
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