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  1. Socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular disease are pervasive, yet much remains to be understood about how they originate. The objective of this study was to explore the relations of socioeconomic status ...

    Authors: Gerrit van den Berg, Manon van Eijsden, Tanja G M Vrijkotte and Reinoud J B J Gemke
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:591
  2. Research shows that obesity prevention has to start early. Targeting interventions towards subgroups of individuals who are predisposed, but yet normal weight, may prove more effective in preventing overweight...

    Authors: Nanna Julie Olsen, Tine Buch-Andersen, Mina Nicole Händel, Louise Mai Østergaard, Jeanett Pedersen, Charlotte Seeger, Maria Stougaard, Maria Trærup, Kate Livemore, Erik Lykke Mortensen, Claus Holst and Berit Lilienthal Heitmann
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:590
  3. Records kept as a result of the implementation of Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) and the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) constitute a public inventory of industrie...

    Authors: Gonzalo López-Abente, Javier García-Pérez, Pablo Fernández-Navarro, Elena Boldo and Rebeca Ramis
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:589
  4. The extent to which patients follow treatments as prescribed is pivotal to treatment success. An exceptionally high level (> 95%) of HIV medication adherence is required to suppress viral replication and prote...

    Authors: Gareth Jones, Kim Hawkins, Rebecca Mullin, Tamás Nepusz, Declan P Naughton, Paschal Sheeran and Andrea Petróczi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:587
  5. Excessive alcohol use is a significant problem in rural and remote Australia. The factors contributing to patterns of alcohol use have not been adequately explained, yet the geographic variation in rates sugge...

    Authors: Kerry J Inder, Tonelle E Handley, Michael Fitzgerald, Terry J Lewin, Clare Coleman, David Perkins and Brian J Kelly
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:586
  6. Scientific evidence supports decision-making on the use of implantable medical devices (IMDs) in clinical practice, but IMDs are thought to be far less investigated than drugs. In the USA, studies have shown t...

    Authors: Laure Huot, Evelyne Decullier, Karen Maes-Beny and Francois R Chapuis
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:585
  7. Injuries to working age adults are common and place a considerable burden on health services accounting for more than 10% of GP sick notes and 14% of those claiming benefits because they are unable to work in ...

    Authors: Denise Kendrick, Yana Vinogradova, Carol Coupland, Nicola Christie, Ronan A Lyons and Elizabeth L Towner
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:584
  8. Residential mobility is common in families with young children; however, its impact on the social development of children is unclear. We examined associations between the number, timing and type of house moves...

    Authors: Alice R Rumbold, Lynne C Giles, Melissa J Whitrow, Emily J Steele, Christopher E Davies, Michael J Davies and Vivienne M Moore
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:583
  9. Most preschool centers provide two 30-min sessions of gross-motor/outdoor playtime per preschool day. Within this time frame, children accumulate most of their activity within the first 10 min. This paper desc...

    Authors: Sofiya Alhassan, Ogechi Nwaokelemeh, Albert Mendoza, Sanyog Shitole, Melicia C Whitt-Glover and Antronette K Yancey
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:582
  10. Although physical inactivity has been linked with numerous chronic health conditions and overall mortality, the majority of English adults report doing insufficient physical activity. To increase population ph...

    Authors: Emma Solomon, Tim Rees, Obioha C Ukoumunne and Melvyn Hillsdon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:581
  11. Many epidemiological and public health surveys report increasing difficulty obtaining high participation rates. We conducted a pilot follow-up study to determine whether a mailed or telephone survey would bett...

    Authors: Carissa M Rocheleau, Paul A Romitti, Stacey Hockett Sherlock, Wayne T Sanderson, Erin M Bell and Charlotte Druschel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:579
  12. The Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) is one of the most powerful and cost-effective public health programmes to improve child survival. We assessed challenges and enablers for the programme in South Af...

    Authors: Charles Shey Wiysonge, Nthombenhle J Ngcobo, Prakash M Jeena, Shabir A Madhi, Barry D Schoub, Anthony Hawkridge, Muki S Shey and Gregory D Hussey
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:578
  13. The American short form Patient Activation Measure (PAM) is a 13-item instrument which assesses patient (or consumer) self-reported knowledge, skills and confidence for self-management of one’s health or chron...

    Authors: Jany Rademakers, Jessica Nijman, Lucas van der Hoek, Monique Heijmans and Mieke Rijken
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:577
  14. Mass gatherings require a decision from public health authorities on how to monitor infectious diseases during the event. The appropriate level of enhanced surveillance depends on parameters like the scale of ...

    Authors: Anja Takla, Edward Velasco and Justus Benzler
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:576
  15. There is a great variability in licit prescription drug use in the population and among patients. Factors other than purely medical ones have proven to be of importance for the prescribing of licit drugs. For ...

    Authors: Kristine Thorell, Jessica Skoog, Andrzej Zielinski, Lars Borgquist and Anders Halling
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:575
  16. Health promotion is critical for community and family health. Health-promoting behaviours provide solutions for maintaining and promoting health. Although several studies have addressed the frequency and diffe...

    Authors: Azam Baheiraei, Mojgan Mirghafourvand, Eesa Mohammadi and Sakineh Mohammad-Alizadeh Charandabi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:573
  17. To quantify the contribution of locally implemented prevention programmes in contributing to reductions in treatment and care costs by averting HIV infections among those who inject drugs this study calculates...

    Authors: Mingjian J Ni, Li Ping Fu, Xue Ling Chen, Xiao Yuan Hu and Kim Wheeler
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:572
  18. Globally, efforts aimed at the prevention of childhood obesity have led to the implementation of a range of school-based interventions. This study assessed whether augmenting physical activity (PA) within the ...

    Authors: Erik Sigmund, Walid El Ansari and Dagmar Sigmundová
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:570
  19. The HIV/AIDS pandemic remains a leading challenge for global health. Although condoms are acknowledged for their key role on preventing HIV transmission, low and inappropriate use of condoms persists in Tanzan...

    Authors: Amon Exavery, Godfrey M Mubyazi, Jovitha Rugemalila, Adiel K Mushi, Julius J Massaga, Hamisi M Malebo, Filemon Tenu, Joyce K Ikingura, Sia Malekia, Emmanuel A Makundi, Acleus SM Ruta, John W Ogondiek, Victor Wiketye and Mwelecele N Malecela
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:569
  20. Recently, an infant and child feeding index (ICFI) constructed on brief recalls of breastfeeding, feeding frequency and food diversification was assumed to provide long-term prediction about child feeding prac...

    Authors: Jing-Qiu Ma, Li-Li Zhou, Yan-Qi Hu, Jin-Rong Liu, Shan-Shan Liu, Jie Zhang and Xiao-Yang Sheng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:568
  21. Previous studies indicated that type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) might be associated with the risk of cancer. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between T2DM and the risk of developing com...

    Authors: Pian-Hong Zhang, Zhong-Wen Chen, Duo Lv, Yu-Yang Xu, Wei-Ling Gu, Xu-Hui Zhang, Yuan-Luo Le, Hong-hong Zhu and Yi-Min Zhu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:567
  22. Poor sleep tends to be patterned by sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors. The aim of this study was to examine the associations of sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors with sleep duration and insom...

    Authors: Tea Lallukka, Laura Sares-Jäske, Erkki Kronholm, Katri Sääksjärvi, Annamari Lundqvist, Timo Partonen, Ossi Rahkonen and Paul Knekt
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:565
  23. Poor childhood nutrition is a more pervasive and insidious risk factor for lifestyle-related chronic disease than childhood obesity. Parents find it difficult to address the reported barriers to optimal child ...

    Authors: Kerith Duncanson, Tracy Burrows and Clare Collins
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:564
  24. Environmental factors play a very important role in the child development process, especially in a situation like that of Iraq. Thirteen years of economic sanctions followed by the 2003 war and 8 years of unst...

    Authors: Hasanain Faisal Ghazi, Zaleha Md Isa, Syed Aljunid, Shamsul Azhar Shah, Azmi Mohd Tamil and Mohammed A Abdalqader
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:562
  25. Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are among the leading causes of mortality in Vietnam. However, mortality data collection systems in Vietnam in general and for RTIs in particular, remain inconsistent and incomplet...

    Authors: Anh D Ngo, Chalapati Rao, Nguyen Phuong Hoa, Damian G Hoy, Khieu Thi Quynh Trang and Peter S Hill
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:561
  26. Little is known about the characteristics of boys who become fathers at young age. Some studies have suggested that antisocial adolescents are more likely to be young fathers. The aim of this study was to exam...

    Authors: Venla Lehti, Andre Sourander, Lauri Sillanmäki, Hans Helenius, Tuula Tamminen, Kirsti Kumpulainen and Fredrik Almqvist
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:560
  27. The health of the agricultural population has been previously explored, particularly in relation to the farming exposures and among professionally active individuals. However, few studies specifically focused ...

    Authors: Karine Pérès, Fanny Matharan, Michèle Allard, Hélène Amieva, Isabelle Baldi, Pascale Barberger-Gateau, Valérie Bergua, Isabelle Bourdel-Marchasson, Cécile Delcourt, Alexandra Foubert-Samier, Annie Fourrier-Réglat, Maryse Gaimard, Sonia Laberon, Cécilia Maubaret, Virginie Postal, Chantal Chantal…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:558
  28. In low and middle income countries, public perceptions of drinking water safety are relevant to promotion of household water treatment and to household choices over drinking water sources. However, most studie...

    Authors: Jim A Wright, Hong Yang, Ulrike Rivett and Stephen W Gundry
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:556
  29. Relating Information on causes of deaths to implementation of health interventions provides vital information for program planning and evaluation. This paper from Ballabgarh Health and Demographic Surveillance...

    Authors: Anand Krishnan, Nawi Ng, Suresh K Kapoor, Chandrakant S Pandav and Peter Byass
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:555
  30. The combination of adverse social indicators and a predominantly youthful population puts Nigeria, and indeed many countries of sub-Sahara Africa, at the risk of explosion in the number of youth coming in cont...

    Authors: Olayinka Atilola
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:554
  31. Many human infections are transmitted through contact with animals (zoonoses), including household pets. Although pet ownership is common in most countries and non-pet owners may have frequent contact with pet...

    Authors: Jason W Stull, Andrew S Peregrine, Jan M Sargeant and J Scott Weese
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:553
  32. Policies targeting obesogenic environments and behaviours are critical to counter rising obesity rates and lifestyle-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Policies are likely to be most effective and endur...

    Authors: Helen Mavoa, Gade Waqa, Marj Moodie, Peter Kremer, Marita McCabe, Wendy Snowdon and Boyd Swinburn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:552
  33. Lifestyle behaviours, such as healthy diet, physical activity and sedentary behaviour, are key elements of healthy ageing and important modifiable risk factors in the prevention of chronic diseases. Little is ...

    Authors: Marita Södergren, Sarah A McNaughton, Jo Salmon, Kylie Ball and David A Crawford
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:551
  34. Following recruitment of a private sector company, an 8 week lunchtime walking intervention was implemented to examine the effect of the intervention on modifiable cardiovascular disease risk factors, and furt...

    Authors: Daniel K Brown, Jo L Barton, Jules Pretty and Valerie F Gladwell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:550
  35. Patients who are hospitalized with a first or recurrent stroke often are discharged with new medications or adjustment to the doses of pre-admission medications, which can be confusing and pose safety issues i...

    Authors: Elizabeth G Sides, Louise O Zimmer, Leslie Wilson, Wenqin Pan, DaiWai M Olson, Eric D Peterson and Cheryl Bushnell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:549
  36. Malaysia has been at the forefront of the development and scale up of One-Stop Crisis Centres (OSCC) - an integrated health sector model that provides comprehensive care to women and children experiencing phys...

    Authors: Manuela Colombini, Susannah H Mayhew, Siti Hawa Ali, Rashidah Shuib and Charlotte Watts
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:548
  37. Tobacco smoking is a well-recognised risk factor for many diseases [1]. This study assesses the extent of smoking-attributable hospitalisation in the Northern Territory (NT) Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal popul...

    Authors: Sabine LM Pircher, Shu Qin Li and Steven L Guthridge
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:545
  38. The study was carried out to record adverse pregnancy outcomes and to obtain information about sex ratio at birth in rural especially tribal areas in the State of Maharashtra, India. Although the tribal popula...

    Authors: Prakash Prabhakarrao Doke, Madhusudan Vamanrao Karantaki and Shailesh Rajaram Deshpande
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:543
  39. Recent terrorist attacks and natural disasters have led to an increased awareness of the importance of emergency planning. However, the extent to which emergency planners can access or use evidence remains unc...

    Authors: Kirsty Challen, Andrew CK Lee, Andrew Booth, Paolo Gardois, Helen Buckley Woods and Steve W Goodacre
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:542
  40. Stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness are strongly linked to suffering, disability and poverty. In order to protect the rights of those with mental disorders and to sensitively develop servi...

    Authors: Jim Crabb, Robert C Stewart, Demoubly Kokota, Neil Masson, Sylvester Chabunya and Rajeev Krishnadas
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:541
  41. Excessive engagement in screen time has several immediate and long-term health implications among pre-school children. However, little is known about the factors that influence screen time in this age group. T...

    Authors: Valerie Carson and Ian Janssen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:539

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