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  1. A large proportion of unmarried teenage mothers in Uganda face physical, psychological, and social problems after pregnancy and childbirth, such as obstetric complications, lack of education, and stigmatisatio...

    Authors: Joanne N Leerlooijer, Arjan ER Bos, Robert AC Ruiter, Miranda AJ van Reeuwijk, Liesbeth E Rijsdijk, Nathan Nshakira and Gerjo Kok
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:816
  2. Body mass index assessment using self-reported height and weight (BMIsr) can encounter refusals and under/over-reporting while for assessment with measured data (BMIm) refusals can be more frequent. This could...

    Authors: Nearkasen Chau, Kénora Chau, Aurélie Mayet, Michèle Baumann, Stéphane Legleye and Bruno Falissard
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:815
  3. The treatment of noncommunicable diseases (NCD), like coronary heart disease or type 2 diabetes mellitus, causes rising costs for the health system. Physical activity is supposed to reduce the risk for these d...

    Authors: Miriam Reiner, Christina Niermann, Darko Jekauc and Alexander Woll
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:813
  4. Growing mortality differences between socioeconomic groups have been reported in both Finland and elsewhere. While health behaviours and other lifestyle factors are important in contributing to health differen...

    Authors: Kristiina Manderbacka, Riina Peltonen, Sonja Lumme, Ilmo Keskimäki, Lasse Tarkiainen and Pekka Martikainen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:812
  5. The abuse of alcoholic beverages leads to numerous negative consequences in Taiwan, as around the world. Alcohol abuse not only contributes to cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes and cancer, but it ...

    Authors: Chun-Yuan Yeh, Li-Ming Ho, Jie-Min Lee and Jhe-Yo Hwang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:810
  6. Iraqi Kurdistan region is one of the areas where female genital mutilation is reportedly widely practiced but inadequately studied. The aim of this study was to determine (i) the prevalence of female genital m...

    Authors: Berivan A Yasin, Namir G Al-Tawil, Nazar P Shabila and Tariq S Al-Hadithi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:809
  7. Understanding fluctuations in lifestyle indicators is important to identify relevant time periods to intervene in order to promote a healthy lifestyle; however, objective assessment of multiple lifestyle indic...

    Authors: Mads F Hjorth, Jean-Philippe Chaput, Kim Michaelsen, Arne Astrup, Inge Tetens and Anders Sjödin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:808
  8. Public child healthcare doctors and nurses, and primary school teachers play a pivotal role in the detection and reporting of child abuse, because they encounter almost all children in the population during th...

    Authors: Manuela WA Schols, Corine de Ruiter and Ferko G Öry
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:807
  9. Childhood injury is the second leading cause of death for infants aged 1–5 years in the United Kingdom (UK) and most unintentional injuries occur in the home. We explored mothers’ knowledge and awareness of ch...

    Authors: Ashrafunnesa Khanom, Rebecca A Hill, Sinead Brophy, Kelly Morgan, Frances Rapport and Ronan Lyons
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:806
  10. Firefighters suffer from high prevalence of obesity, substandard fitness, and cardiovascular-related deaths. There have been a limited number of firefighter health promotion programs that have been developed a...

    Authors: Walker SC Poston, Christopher K Haddock, Sara A Jahnke, Nattinee Jitnarin and R Sue Day
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:805
  11. Stigma is a barrier to HIV prevention and treatment. There is a limited understanding of the types of stigma facing people living with HIV (PLHIV) on antiretroviral therapy (ART). We describe the stigma trajec...

    Authors: Martin Mbonye, Sarah Nakamanya, Josephine Birungi, Rachel King, Janet Seeley and Shabbar Jaffar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:804
  12. Compared to participation rates among general populations, participation of people with chronic illness in the labour market lags behind. This is undesirable, both from the perspective of individuals’ well-bei...

    Authors: Mieke Rijken, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Joop Schippers and Peter P Groenewegen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:803
  13. Despite the introduction of free antiretroviral therapy (ART), the use of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) services remains persistently low in many African countries. This study investigates how prior ...

    Authors: Annabelle South, Alison Wringe, Yusufu Kumogola, Raphael Isingo, Rose Manyalla, Caoimhe Cawley, Basia Zaba, Jim Todd and Mark Urassa
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:802
  14. In 2008–2009 the South African National Tuberculosis (TB) Program (NTP) implemented a national pilot project, the TB Tracer Project, aiming to decrease default rates and improve patient outcomes. The current s...

    Authors: Claire C Bristow, Laura Jean Podewils, Liza Ellen Bronner, Nonkqubela Bantubani, Martie van der Walt, Annatjie Peters and David Mametja
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:801
  15. Air pollution has been extensively and consistently linked with mortality. However, no study has investigated the health effects of air pollution on length of survival among diagnosed respiratory cancer patients.

    Authors: Xiaohui Xu, Sandie Ha, Haidong Kan, Hui Hu, Barbara A Curbow and Claudia TK Lissaker
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:800
  16. There is increasing interest in promoting young people’s health by modifying the school environment. However, existing research offers little guidance on how the school context enables or constrains students’ ...

    Authors: Farah Jamal, Adam Fletcher, Angela Harden, Helene Wells, James Thomas and Chris Bonell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:798
  17. Body Mass Index (BMI) is used as a useful population-level measure of overweight and obesity. It is used as the same for both sexes and for all ages of adults. The relationship between BMI and body fat percent...

    Authors: Chathuranga Ranasinghe, Prasanna Gamage, Prasad Katulanda, Nalinda Andraweera, Sithira Thilakarathne and Praveen Tharanga
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:797
  18. The psychosocial work environment can benefit and harm mental health. Poor psychosocial work environments and high level work-family conflict are both associated with poor mental health, yet little is known ab...

    Authors: Catherine R Mackenzie, Dominic Keuskamp, Anna M Ziersch, Fran E Baum and Jennie Popay
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:796
  19. Preschools offer high potential for preventive interventions. However, little is known about the structure of preschool programmes to promote physical activity (PA) in preschoolers although almost all children...

    Authors: Elena Sterdt, Natalie Pape, Silke Kramer, Michael Urban, Rolf Werning and Ulla Walter
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:795
  20. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and correlates of physical activity counseling among physicians and nurses working in primary health care in Brazil.

    Authors: Alex Antonio Florindo, Gregore Iven Mielke, Grace Angélica de Oliveira Gomes, Luiz Roberto Ramos, Mário Maia Bracco, Diana C Parra, Eduardo J Simoes, Felipe Lobelo and Pedro Curi Hallal
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:794
  21. A few studies have investigated tracking of dietary patterns or nutrient intake in pre-school children, but no studies have been identified examining tracking of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB), fruit and vege...

    Authors: Mona Bjelland, Anne Lise Brantsæter, Margaretha Haugen, Helle Margrete Meltzer, Wenche Nystad and Lene Frost Andersen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:793
  22. Secondhand smoke exposure (SHSe) harms children’s health, yet effective interventions to reduce child SHSe in the home and car have proven difficult to operationalize in pediatric practice. A multilevel interv...

    Authors: Stephen J Lepore, Jonathan P Winickoff, Beth Moughan, Tyra C Bryant-Stephens, Daniel R Taylor, David Fleece, Adam Davey, Uma S Nair, Melissa Godfrey and Bradley N Collins
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:792
  23. In the current context of diversity and coexistence of HIV testing approaches, limited information exists on test recipient’s views of HIV testing services and programme attributes that could ease the testing ...

    Authors: Juan Hoyos, María José Belza, Sonia Fernández-Balbuena, María Elena Rosales-Statkus, José Pulido and Luis de la Fuente
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:791
  24. E-health has become a burgeoning field in which health professionals and health consumers create and seek information. E-health refers to internet-based health care and information delivery and seeks to improv...

    Authors: Victor Minichiello, Saifur Rahman, Tinashe Dune, John Scott and Gary Dowsett
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:790
  25. Prevalence rates of overweight and obesity have increased in German children and adolescents in the last three decades. Adolescents with extreme obesity represent a distinct risk group. On the basis of data ob...

    Authors: Martin Wabitsch, Anja Moss, Thomas Reinehr, Susanna Wiegand, Wieland Kiess, André Scherag, Reinhard Holl, Rolf Holle and Johannes Hebebrand
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:789
  26. Downhill skiing is part of active life style in many residents of Alpine regions. However, only very little information is available whether downhill skiing on a regular basis is associated with a healthier li...

    Authors: Martin Burtscher, Thomas Bodner, Johannes Burtscher, Gerhard Ruedl, Martin Kopp and Gregor Broessner
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:788
  27. Recently attention has begun to focus not only on assessing the effectiveness of interventions to tackle mental health problems, but also on measures to prevent physical co-morbidity. Individuals with mental h...

    Authors: A-La Park, David McDaid, Prisca Weiser, Carolin Von Gottberg, Thomas Becker and Reinhold Kilian
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:787
  28. Understanding people’s views about HIV transmission by investigating a specific population may help to design effective HIV prevention strategies. In addition, knowing the inherent sexual practices of such a p...

    Authors: Edith AM Tarimo, Thecla W Kohi, Muhammad Bakari and Asli Kulane
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:785
  29. Research suggests that the growing prevalence of obesity may be related to the influence of the health behaviours of peers. We look at clustering of exercise and eating behaviours amongst a previously unstudie...

    Authors: Kieron J Barclay, Christofer Edling and Jens Rydgren
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:784
  30. Environmental barriers are associated with disability-related outcomes in older people but little is known of the effect of environmental barriers on mortality. The aim of this study was to examine whether obj...

    Authors: Merja Rantakokko, Timo Törmäkangas, Taina Rantanen, Maria Haak and Susanne Iwarsson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:783
  31. Worldwide, there were 650,000 multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases in 2010, and in 2008 the World Health Organization estimated that 150,000 deaths occurred annually due to MDR-TB. Ethiopia is 15th amo...

    Authors: Selamawit Hirpa, Girmay Medhin, Belaineh Girma, Muluken Melese, Alemayehu Mekonen, Pedro Suarez and Gobena Ameni
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:782
  32. Upstream social determinants of health (SDH) have become widely acknowledged as lying at the root of poor health outcomes in Canada and globally. The Commission on the Social Determinants of Health maintains t...

    Authors: Kelly E Kenney and Spencer Moore
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:781
  33. There is a paucity of research on predictors for drinking during pregnancy among women in Sweden and reported prevalence rates differ considerably between studies conducted at different antenatal care centres....

    Authors: Janna Skagerström, Siw Alehagen, Elisabet Häggström-Nordin, Kristofer Årestedt and Per Nilsen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:780
  34. India has the world’s highest total number of under-five deaths of any nation. While progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4 has been documented at the state level, little information is available for g...

    Authors: Mark Minnery, Eliana Jimenez-Soto, Sonja Firth, Kim-Huong Nguyen and Andrew Hodge
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:779
  35. Childsmile School adopts a directed-population approach to target fluoride varnish applications to 20% of the primary one (P1) population in priority schools selected on the basis of the proportion of enrolled...

    Authors: Lynn Brewster, Andrea Sherriff and Lorna Macpherson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:778
  36. Diabetes is one of the most widespread chronic disease. Although many medications are available for the treatment and prevention of diabetes, many people turn to nutritional supplements (NSs). In these years, ...

    Authors: Loredana Covolo, Michela Capelli, Elisabetta Ceretti, Donatella Feretti, Luigi Caimi and Umberto Gelatti
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:777
  37. A considerable percentage of flight crew reports to be fatigued regularly. This is partly caused by irregular and long working hours and the crossing of time zones. It has been shown that persistent fatigue ca...

    Authors: Alwin van Drongelen, Allard J van der Beek, Hynek Hlobil, Tjabe Smid and Cécile RL Boot
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:776
  38. Diarrheal illness remains a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality, with the majority of deaths occurring in children <5 years of age. Lack of resources often prohibits the evaluation of outbreak char...

    Authors: KA Alexander and JK Blackburn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:775
  39. There is a dearth of evidence regarding the impact of urban regeneration projects on public health, particularly the nature and degree to which urban regeneration impacts upon health-related behaviour change. ...

    Authors: Mark A Tully, Ruth F Hunter, Helen McAneney, Margaret E Cupples, Michael Donnelly, Geraint Ellis, George Hutchinson, Lindsay Prior, Michael Stevenson and Frank Kee
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:774
  40. Volunteering has been advocated by the United Nations, and American and European governments as a way to engage people in their local communities and improve social capital, with the potential for public healt...

    Authors: Caroline E Jenkinson, Andy P Dickens, Kerry Jones, Jo Thompson-Coon, Rod S Taylor, Morwenna Rogers, Clare L Bambra, Iain Lang and Suzanne H Richards
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:773
  41. Alcohol consumption, smoking and weight problems are common risk factors for different health problems. We examine how these risk factors are associated with the use of health care services.

    Authors: Kaire Vals, Raul-Allan Kiivet and Mall Leinsalu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:772
  42. Although reported condom use between female sex workers and their clients is high in Ethiopia, condom use with regular, non-paying partners remains low, posing a substantial risk of HIV infection to sex worker...

    Authors: Alyssa Mooney, Aklilu Kidanu, Heather M Bradley, Evelyn Kuor Kumoji, Caitlin E Kennedy and Deanna Kerrigan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:771
  43. The Fogarty International Center (FIC) has supported research capacity development for over twenty years. While the mission of FIC is supporting and facilitating global health research conducted by U.S. and in...

    Authors: Sara Bennett, Ligia Paina, Freddie Ssengooba, Douglas Waswa and James M M’Imunya
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:770
  44. The prevalence of obesity is increasing rapidly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) as their populations become exposed to obesogenic environments. The transition from an agrarian to an industrial and ...

    Authors: Amina Aitsi-Selmi, Ruoling Chen, Martin J Shipley and Michael G Marmot
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:769
  45. Ethnic minority women from low-income countries who live in high-income countries are more physically inactive than ethnic majority women in those countries. At the same time, they can be harder to reach with ...

    Authors: Marieke A Hartman, Vera Nierkens, Stephan W Cremer, Karien Stronks and Arnoud P Verhoeff
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:768
  46. Air pollution is known to be a leading cause of respiratory symptoms. Many cross-sectional studies reported that air pollution caused respiratory disease in Japanese individuals in the 1960s. Japan has laws re...

    Authors: Takako Tanaka, Masaharu Asai, Yorihide Yanagita, Tsuyoshi Nishinakagawa, Naomi Miyamoto, Kenji Kotaki, Yudai Yano, Ryo Kozu, Sumihisa Honda and Hideaki Senjyu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:766
  47. Disclosure of HIV status has become an entry criterion for prevention of mother to child transmission programs in resource-constrained countries. However, little has been explored about the prevalence of, barr...

    Authors: Endalew Gemechu Sendo, Amsale Cherie and Tadese Asfaw Erku
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:765

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