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  1. Atopic dermatitis (AD) prevalence has considerably increased worldwide in recent years. Studying indoor environments is particularly relevant, especially in industrialised countries where many people spend 80%...

    Authors: Ana M Vicedo-Cabrera, Luís García-Marcos, Agustín Llopis-González, Ángel López-Silvarrey-Varela, Izaskun Miner-Canflanca, José Batlles-Garrido, Alfredo Blanco-Quiros, Rosa María Busquets-Monge, Carlos Díaz-Vazquez, Carlos González-Díaz, Antonio Martínez-Gimeno, Francisco Guillén-Grima, Alberto Arnedo-Pena and María Morales-Suárez-Varela
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:890
  2. Taxation of alcohol-containing products may effectively reduce alcohol consumption. However, whether alcohol taxation may lead to a decrease in alcohol-attributed disease mortality (ADM) remains unclear. The o...

    Authors: Chih-Ming Lin and Tzai-Hung Wen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:889
  3. Nigeria is one of the major African countries in which incidences of polio infection persist in spite of several eradication efforts. The preponderance of paralytic poliomyelitis particularly in the northern p...

    Authors: Omoyemi O Ogwumike, Bashir Kaka and Ade F Adeniyi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:888
  4. The increasing number of older road users represents a public health issue because older individuals are more susceptible to traffic injury and mortality than the general population. This study investigated th...

    Authors: Takashi Nagata, Ayako Takamori, Hans-Yngve Berg and Marie Hasselberg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:887
  5. Alcohol use among adolescents has become a major public health problem in the past decade and has large short- and long-term consequences on their health. The aim of this systematic review was to provide an ov...

    Authors: Leenke Visser, Andrea F de Winter and Sijmen A Reijneveld
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:886
  6. Emergency planning in the UK has grown considerably in recent years, galvanised by the threat of terrorism. However, deficiencies in NHS emergency planning were identified and the evidence-base that underpins ...

    Authors: Andrew CK Lee, Wendy Phillips, Kirsty Challen and Steve Goodacre
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:884
  7. Breast cancer incidence within an area is usually proportional to the area’s income level. High-income areas have shown the highest incidence rates and since 2003, negative trends. As for mortality, rates are ...

    Authors: Carlos Anselmo Lima, Margareth Rose Uchoa Rangel, Matheus Macedo-Lima and Angela Maria da Silva
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:883
  8. Incorrect perceptions of high rates of peer alcohol and tobacco use are predictive of increased personal use in student populations. Correcting misperceptions by providing feedback has been shown to be an effe...

    Authors: Claudia R Pischke, Hajo Zeeb, Guido van Hal, Bart Vriesacker, John McAlaney, Bridgette M Bewick, Yildiz Akvardar, Francisco Guillén-Grima, Olga Orosova, Ferdinand Salonna, Ondrej Kalina, Christiane Stock, Stefanie M Helmer and Rafael T Mikolajczyk
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:882
  9. In developed countries, regular breakfast consumption is inversely associated with excess weight and directly associated with better dietary and improved physical activity behaviors. Our objective was to descr...

    Authors: Monika Arora, Gaurang P Nazar, Vinay K Gupta, Cheryl L Perry, K Srinath Reddy and Melissa H Stigler
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:881
  10. Physical activity (PA) has been identified as a central component in the promotion of health. PA programs can provide a low cost intervention opportunity, encouraging PA behavioral change while worksites have ...

    Authors: Julian D Pillay, Tracy L Kolbe-Alexander, Karin I Proper, Willem van Mechelen and Estelle V Lambert
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:880
  11. As the rate of overweight among children is rising there is a need for evidence-based research that will clarify what the best interventional strategies to normalize weight development are. The overall aim of ...

    Authors: Jenny Önnerfält, Lena-Karin Erlandsson, Kristina Orban, Malin Broberg, Christina Helgason and Kristina Thorngren-Jerneck
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:879
  12. Most health economic evaluations of childhood vaccination only capture the health and short-term economic benefits. Measuring broader, long-term effects of vaccination on productivity and externalities could p...

    Authors: Rohan Deogaonkar, Raymond Hutubessy, Inge van der Putten, Silvia Evers and Mark Jit
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:878
  13. Segmented service delivery with consequent inefficiencies in health systems was one of the main concerns raised during scaling up of disease-specific programs in the last two decades. The organized response to...

    Authors: Manju Rani, Sharmin Nusrat and Laura H Hawken
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:877
  14. Because of the magnitude of the global tobacco epidemic, the World Health Organisation developed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), an international legally binding treaty to control tobacco u...

    Authors: Marc C Willemsen, Maja Kiselinova, Gera E Nagelhout, Luk Joossens and Ronald A Knibbe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:876
  15. Although data from longitudinal studies are sparse, effort-reward imbalance (ERI) seems to affect work ability. However, the potential pathway from restricted work ability to ERI must also be considered. There...

    Authors: Matthias Bethge, Friedrich Michael Radoschewski and Christoph Gutenbrunner
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:875
  16. Hearing difficulties constitute the most common cause of disability globally. Yet, studies on people with hearing difficulties regarding socio-economic status (SES), work, long-term unemployment, sickness abse...

    Authors: Pernilla Videhult Pierre, Anders Fridberger, Anders Wikman and Kristina Alexanderson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:874
  17. In Canada, two vaccines that have demonstrated high efficacy against infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) types −16 and −18 are available. The HPV-6/11/16/18 vaccine provides protection against genital wa...

    Authors: Michele Kohli, Donna Lawrence, Jennifer Haig, Andrea Anonychuk and Nadia Demarteau
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:872
  18. The implementation of evidence based clinical practice guidelines on self-management interventions to patients with chronic diseases is a complex process. A multifaceted strategy may offer an effective knowled...

    Authors: Lucie Brosseau, George A Wells, Glen P Kenny, Robert Reid, Andreas Maetzel, Peter Tugwell, Maria Huijbregts, Carolyn McCullough, Gino De Angelis and Lily Chen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:871
  19. Health care planning for pandemic influenza is a challenging task which requires predictive models by which the impact of different response strategies can be evaluated. However, current preparedness plans and...

    Authors: Mart Lambertus Stein, James W Rudge, Richard Coker, Charlie van der Weijden, Ralf Krumkamp, Piya Hanvoravongchai, Irwin Chavez, Weerasak Putthasri, Bounlay Phommasack, Wiku Adisasmito, Sok Touch, Le Minh Sat, Yu-Chen Hsu, Mirjam Kretzschmar and Aura Timen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:870
  20. In Australia, the 2009 epidemic of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 resulted in increased admissions to intensive care. The annual contribution of influenza to use of intensive care is difficult to estimate, as many peo...

    Authors: Andrea Schaffer, David Muscatello, Michelle Cretikos, Robin Gilmour, Sean Tobin and James Ward
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:869
  21. The prevalence of obesity and overweight is highest among ethnic minority groups in Western countries. The objective of this study is to examine the contribution of ethnicity and beliefs of parents about overw...

    Authors: Paul L Kocken, Yvonne Schönbeck, Lidewij Henneman, A Cecile JW Janssens and Symone B Detmar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:867
  22. Identifying risk factors for Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) infections in Ontario will assist public health authorities to design effective control and prevention programs to reduce the burden of SE infections. Our ...

    Authors: Csaba Varga, Dean Middleton, Ryan Walton, Rachel Savage, Mary-Kathryn Tighe, Vanessa Allen, Rafiq Ahmed and Laura Rosella
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:866
  23. The increasing trend of premarital sexual experience and unintended pregnancies in Malaysia warrants sustained and serious attention. The sensitivities of sex-related issues in a Muslim-majority country create...

    Authors: Li Ping Wong
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:865
  24. No previous study has examined the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and explored the influence of immigration status and acculturation on overweight/obesity among the Portuguese immigrants to Luxembou...

    Authors: Ala’a Alkerwi, Nicolas Sauvageot, Sybil Pagny, Jean Beissel, Charles Delagardelle and Marie-Lise Lair
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:864
  25. The declining prevalence of Active School Transportation (AST) has been accompanied by a decrease in independent mobility internationally. The objective of this study was to compare family demographics and AST...

    Authors: George Mammen, Guy Faulkner, Ron Buliung and Jennifer Lay
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:862
  26. In previous studies the authors have found sick leave to be a predictor of future sick leave, unemployment and disability pension. Although sick leave reflects underlying health problems, some studies have sug...

    Authors: Hanna Hultin, Christina Lindholm, Mauricio Malfert and Jette Möller
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:861
  27. It is well known that the prevalence of asthma has been reported to increase in many places around the world during the last decades. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify and review studies of asth...

    Authors: Yangzong Yangzong, Zumin Shi, Per Nafstad, Lise Lund Håheim, Ouzhu Luobu and Espen Bjertness
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:860
  28. Aortic aneurysm and dissection are important causes of death in older people. Ruptured aneurysms show catastrophic fatality rates reaching near 80%. Few population-based mortality studies have been published i...

    Authors: Augusto Hasiak Santo, Pedro Puech-Leão and Mariana Krutman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:859
  29. Up to date information on poisoning trends is important. This study reports the epidemiology of all hospitalized acute poisonings in Oslo, including mortality, follow-up referrals, and whether the introduction...

    Authors: Cathrine Lund, Brita Teige, Per Drottning, Birgitte Stiksrud, Tor Olav Rui, Marianne Lyngra, Øivind Ekeberg, Dag Jacobsen and Knut Erik Hovda
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:858
  30. The number of people with a chronic disease will strongly increase in the next decades. Therefore, prevention of disease becomes increasingly important. The aim of this systematic review was to identify factor...

    Authors: Berber Koopmans, Mark MJ Nielen, François G Schellevis and Joke C Korevaar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:856
  31. Integration of oral health promotion into general health care has been highly recommended by the World Health Organization. Primary-care physicians can as part of their general health care promote and contribu...

    Authors: Sepideh Rabiei, Simin Z Mohebbi, Kristiina Patja and Jorma I Virtanen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:855
  32. Dengue, a mosquito-borne febrile viral disease, is found in tropical and sub-tropical regions and is now extending its range to temperate regions. The spread of the dengue viruses mainly depends on vector popu...

    Authors: Muhammad Shahzad Sarfraz, Nitin K Tripathi, Taravudh Tipdecho, Thawisak Thongbu, Pornsuk Kerdthong and Marc Souris
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:853
  33. The Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) has been used extensively in the study of illness perceptions across different populations. Only few confirmatory factor analytic (CFA) studies of the quest...

    Authors: Patrick Brzoska, Yüce Yilmaz-Aslan, Eda Sultanoglu, Bülent Sultanoglu and Oliver Razum
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:852
  34. The activitystat hypothesis proposes that when physical activity or energy expenditure is increased or decreased in one domain, there will be a compensatory change in another domain to maintain an overall, sta...

    Authors: Sjaan Gomersall, Carol Maher, Kevin Norton, Jim Dollman, Grant Tomkinson, Adrian Esterman, Coralie English, Nicole Lewis and Tim Olds
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:851
  35. The continuous increase in number of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) represents a serious health and economic burden. HIV positive individuals with oral lesions have significantly lower oral health-related...

    Authors: Saad A Khan, Jayanthy Moorthy, Hanan Omar and Syed Shahzad Hasan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:850
  36. Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is a common condition worldwide that has many negative effects on people who were afflicted with it, especially on their health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The Epworth S...

    Authors: Shunquan Wu, Rui Wang, Xiuqiang Ma, Yanfang Zhao, Xiaoyan Yan and Jia He
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:849
  37. Although Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is effective for Unexplained Physical Symptoms (UPS), some therapists in clinical practice seem to believe that CBT outcome will diminish if psychiatric comorbidity ...

    Authors: Lyonne NL Zonneveld, Yanda R van Rood, Cornelis G Kooiman, Reinier Timman, Adriaan van ’t Spijker and Jan JV Busschbach
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:848
  38. Although various HIV prevention programs targeting men who have sex with men (MSM) are operating in China, whether and how these programs are being utilized is unclear. This study explores participation of HIV...

    Authors: Wei Ma, H Fisher Raymond, Erin C Wilson, Willi McFarland, Hongyan Lu, Xianbin Ding, Rongrong Lu, Xiaoyan Ma, Dongyan Xia, Jing Xu, Xiong He, Liangui Feng, Song Fan, Xuefeng Li, Jiangping Sun, Yujiang Jia…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:847
  39. The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the Australian co-regulatory system in limiting children’s exposure to unhealthy television food advertising by measuring compliance with mandator...

    Authors: Michele Roberts, Simone Pettigrew, Kathy Chapman, Caroline Miller and Pascale Quester
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:846
  40. There are many immigrants in the Swedish workforce, but knowledge of their general and work-related health is limited. The aim of this register-based study was to explore whether documented migrant residents i...

    Authors: Bo Johansson, Magnus Helgesson, Ingvar Lundberg, Tobias Nordquist, Ola Leijon, Per Lindberg and Eva Vingård
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:845
  41. Epidemiological studies suggest an association between obesity and asthma in adults and children. Asthma diagnosis criteria are different among studies. The aim of this study was to test the influence of asthm...

    Authors: Andrea Antunes Cetlin, Manoel Romeu Gutierrez, Heloísa Bettiol, Marco Antônio Barbieri and Elcio Oliveira Vianna
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:844
  42. This study describes the patterns and socioeconomic influences of tobacco use among adults in tobacco-cultivating regions of rural southwest China.

    Authors: Le Cai, Xinan Wu, Abhinav Goyal, Yuntao Han, Wenlong Cui, Xia Xiao, Jianhui He, Keying Zhao, Ying Song and Feng Jiao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:842
  43. Studies of the effects of environmental interventions on physical activity should include valid measures of physical activity before and after the intervention. Baseline data collection can be difficult when t...

    Authors: Lin Yang, Simon Griffin, Cheryl Chapman and David Ogilvie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:841
  44. Studies among adults show an association between abuse and Body Mass Index (BMI) status. When an aberrant BMI status as a consequence of abuse is already prevalent in adolescence, early detection and treatment...

    Authors: Jorien Veldwijk, Karin I Proper, Henriëtte B Hoeven-Mulder and Wanda JE Bemelmans
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:840

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