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  1. Dental caries (decay) is the most prevalent disease of childhood. It is often left untreated and can impact negatively on general health, and physical, developmental, social and learning outcomes. Similar to o...

    Authors: Andrea M de Silva-Sanigorski, Elizabeth Waters, Hanny Calache, Michael Smith, Lisa Gold, Mark Gussy, Anthony Scott, Kathleen Lacy and Monica Virgo-Milton
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:505
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  2. Studies centered on the detection of cognitive impairment and its relationship to cardiovascular risk factors in elderly people have gained special relevance in recent years. Knowledge of the cardiovascular ri...

    Authors: M Victoria Perea-Bartolome, Ricardo García-García, Valentina Ladera-Fernández, Sara Mora-Simón, María C Patino-Alonso, Tita J Almanza-Guerra, Cristina Agudo-Conde, M Paz Muriel-Diez and Emiliano Rodríguez-Sánchez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:504
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  3. Inexpensive, reliable objective methods are needed to measure physical activity (PA) in large scale trials. This study compared the number of pedometer step counts with accelerometer data in pregnant women in ...

    Authors: Tarja I Kinnunen, Peter WG Tennant, Catherine McParlin, Lucilla Poston, Stephen C Robson and Ruth Bell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:501
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  4. Ethnic differences in body fat distribution contribute to ethnic differences in cardiovascular morbidities and diabetes. However few data are available on differences in fat distribution in Asian children from...

    Authors: Ailing Liu, Nuala M Byrne, Masaharu Kagawa, Guansheng Ma, Kallaya Kijboonchoo, Lara Nasreddine, Bee Koon Poh, Mohammad Noor Ismail and Andrew P Hills
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:500
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  5. Few prospective cohort studies have assessed the association between social capital and mortality. The studies were conducted only in Western countries and did not use the same social capital indicators. The p...

    Authors: Jun Aida, Katsunori Kondo, Hiroshi Hirai, S V Subramanian, Chiyoe Murata, Naoki Kondo, Yukinobu Ichida, Kokoro Shirai and Ken Osaka
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:499
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  6. China ranks second among the 22 high burden countries for tuberculosis. A modeling exercise showed that reduction of indoor air pollution could help advance tuberculosis control in China. However, the associat...

    Authors: Xiaohong Kan, Chen-Yuan Chiang, Donald A Enarson, Wenhua Chen, Jianan Yang and Genwang Chen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:498
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  7. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) constitutes a major public health problem in China and worldwide. We aimed to examine classical risk factors and their magnitudes for CVD in a Chinese cohort with over 20 years fol...

    Authors: Jingfeng Ji, Enchun Pan, Jianxin Li, Jichun Chen, Jie Cao, Dongling Sun, Xiangfeng Lu, Shufeng Chen, Dongfeng Gu, Xiufang Duan, Xigui Wu and Jianfeng Huang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:497
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  8. Stepping Stones training aims to help individuals explore sexual relationships and recognize gender inequalities, the structural drivers of the HIV epidemic, in order to understand risk behaviours and to seek ...

    Authors: Janet E Bradley, Parinita Bhattacharjee, Banadakoppa M Ramesh, Meghna Girish and Arup K Das
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:496
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  9. Face washing is important to interrupt the transmission of trachoma, the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. We aimed to assess the household and personal factors that affected water use and face ...

    Authors: Morgan Rog, Bonnielin Swenor, Luis C Cajas-Monson, Wilson Mchiwe, Steven Kiboko, Harran Mkocha and Sheila West
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:495
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  10. The prevalence of social-emotional and behavioral problems is estimated to be 8 to 9% among preschool children. Effective early detection tools are needed to promote the provision of adequate care at an early ...

    Authors: Ingrid Kruizinga, Wilma Jansen, Alice S Carter and Hein Raat
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:494
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  11. Smoking rates remain unacceptably high among individuals who are socially disadvantaged. Social and community service organisations (SCSO) are increasingly interested in providing smoking cessation support to ...

    Authors: Jamie Bryant, Billie Bonevski, Christine Paul, Jon O'Brien and Wendy Oakes
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:493
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  13. There is a rising prevalence of excessive weight gain in pregnancy and an increasing number of pregnant women who are overweight or obese at the start of the pregnancy. Excessive weight gain during pregnancy i...

    Authors: Fiona Campbell, Maxine Johnson, Josie Messina, Louise Guillaume and Elizabeth Goyder
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:491
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  14. Although some studies in Tanzania have addressed the question of sexuality and STIs among adolescents, mostly those aged 15 - 19 years, evidence on how multiple sexual partners influence condom use among 10 - ...

    Authors: Amon Exavery, Angelina M Lutambi, Godfrey M Mubyazi, Khadija Kweka, Godfrey Mbaruku and Honorati Masanja
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:490
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  17. Understanding and measuring mental health and wellbeing amongst teenagers has recently become a priority. The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) is validated for measuring mental wellbeing in p...

    Authors: Aileen Clarke, Tim Friede, Rebecca Putz, Jacquie Ashdown, Steven Martin, Amy Blake, Yaser Adi, Jane Parkinson, Pamela Flynn, Stephen Platt and Sarah Stewart-Brown
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:487
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  18. Few cohort studies have been conducted in low and middle-income countries to investigate non-communicable diseases among school-aged children. This article aims to describe the methodology of two birth cohorts...

    Authors: Antônio A Silva, Marco A Barbieri, Viviane C Cardoso, Rosângela F Batista, Vanda M Simões, Elcio O Vianna, Manoel R Gutierrez, Maria L Figueiredo, Nathalia A Silva, Thaís S Pereira, Juliana D Rodriguez, Sônia R Loureiro, Valdinar S Ribeiro and Heloisa Bettiol
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:486
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  19. Over the past decade, accelerometers have increased in popularity as an objective measure of physical activity in free-living individuals. Evidence suggests that objective measures, rather than subjective tool...

    Authors: Lauren B Sherar, Pippa Griew, Dale W Esliger, Ashley R Cooper, Ulf Ekelund, Ken Judge and Chris Riddoch
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:485
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  20. Several suicide and suicidal behaviour risk factors are highly prevalent in asylum seekers, but there is little insight into the suicide death rate and the suicidal behaviour incidence in this population. The ...

    Authors: Simone Goosen, Anton E Kunst, Karien Stronks, Irene EA van Oostrum, Daan G Uitenbroek and Ad JFM Kerkhof
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:484
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  21. A large proportion of disease burden is attributed to behavioural risk factors. However, funding for public health programs in Australia remains limited. Government and non-government organisations are interes...

    Authors: Dominique A Cadilhac, Anne Magnus, Lauren Sheppard, Toby B Cumming, Dora C Pearce and Rob Carter
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:483
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  22. The Australian Government launched a mass media campaign in 2009 to raise awareness of the harms and costs associated risky drinking among young Australians. The aim of this study was to assess if young people...

    Authors: Caroline van Gemert, Paul Dietze, Judy Gold, Rachel Sacks-Davis, Mark Stoové, Hassan Vally and Margaret Hellard
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:482
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  23. In the post-Soviet period, Russian working-age men have suffered unusually high mortality rates. Earlier quantitative work found that part of this is attributable to hazardous and harmful patterns of alcohol c...

    Authors: Lyudmila Saburova, Katherine Keenan, Natalia Bobrova, David A Leon and Diana Elbourne
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:481
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  24. Although the Internet is a promising medium to offer lifestyle interventions to large amounts of people at relatively low costs and effort, actual exposure rates of these interventions fail to meet the high ex...

    Authors: Francine Schneider, Liesbeth ADM van Osch, Stef PJ Kremers, Daniela N Schulz, Mathieu JG van Adrichem and Hein de Vries
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:480
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  25. Up-to-date data tracking of national smoking patterns and cessation-related behaviour is required to evaluate and inform tobacco control strategies. The Smoking Toolkit Study (STS) was designed for this role. ...

    Authors: Jennifer A Fidler, Lion Shahab, Oliver West, Martin J Jarvis, Andy McEwen, John A Stapleton, Eleni Vangeli and Robert West
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:479
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  26. For hospital accreditation and health promotion reasons, we examined whether the 22-item Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) could be applied to evaluate job strain of individual hospital employees and to determin...

    Authors: Tsair-Wei Chien, Wen-Pin Lai, Hsien-Yi Wang, Sen-Yen Hsu, Roberto Vasquez Castillo, How-Ran Guo, Shih-Chung Chen and Shih-Bin Su
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:478
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  29. In the UK public concern about the safety of the combined measles, mumps and rubella [MMR] vaccine continues to impact on MMR coverage. Whilst the sharp decline in uptake has begun to level out, first and seco...

    Authors: Cath Jackson, Francine M Cheater, Wendy Harrison, Rose Peacock, Hilary Bekker, Robert West and Brenda Leese
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:475
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  30. In Germany, measles vaccination coverage with two doses is not yet sufficient to prevent regional outbreaks. Among the 16 German federal states, vaccination coverage was lowest in Bavaria with 85% in 2008. Fro...

    Authors: Maria Wadl, Anette Siedler, Wolfgang Krämer, Maria E Haindl, Stephan Gebrande, Irene Krenn-Lanzl, Annette Mankertz and Wolfgang Hautmann
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:474
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  32. It is widely accepted that patient generates overall satisfaction with medical service and sub satisfaction on the basis of response to patient's trust in medical service and response to patient's attitude tow...

    Authors: Liyang Tang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:472
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  33. In the United States, a dedicated property tax describes the legal authority given to a local jurisdiction to levy and collect a tax for a specific purpose. We investigated for an association of locally dedica...

    Authors: Peggy A Honoré, Peter J Fos, Xueyuan Wang and Ramal Moonesinghe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:471
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  35. Factors which determine the development of atopy and the observed rural-urban gradient in its prevalence are not fully understood. High body mass index (BMI) has been associated with asthma and potentially ato...

    Authors: Irene A Larbi, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Abena S Amoah, Benedicta B Obeng, Michael D Wilson, Maria Yazdanbakhsh and Daniel A Boakye
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:469
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  36. There are many differences in culture, community identity, community participation, and ownership between communities in Western and Asian countries; thus, it is difficult to adopt the results of community int...

    Authors: Keeho Park, Woi Hyun Hong, Su Yeon Kye, Euichul Jung, Myung-hyun Kim and Hyeong Geun Park
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:468
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  37. Routine exposure to chemical contaminants in workplace is a cause for concern over potential health risks to workers. In Pakistan, reports on occupational exposure and related health risks are almost non-exist...

    Authors: Atif Kamal, Mazhar Qayyum, Iqbal U Cheema and Audil Rashid
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:467
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  38. This study was conducted to evaluate perceptions of healthcare workers (HCW) and parents regarding hand-hygiene and effectiveness of measures for increasing hand-hygiene adherence, in a children's hospital in ...

    Authors: Marta L Ciofi degli Atti, Alberto E Tozzi, Gaetano Ciliento, Manuel Pomponi, Silvia Rinaldi and Massimiliano Raponi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:466
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  41. Tuberculosis remains a major public health problem in India with the country accounting for 1 in 5 of all TB cases reported globally. An advocacy, communication and social mobilisation project for Tuberculosis...

    Authors: Vishnu Vardhan Kamineni, Tahir Turk, Nevin Wilson, Srinath Satyanarayana and Lakbir Singh Chauhan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:463
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  42. Each year rotavirus gastroenteritis results in thousands of paediatric hospitalisations and primary care visits in the Netherlands. While two vaccines against rotavirus are registered, routine immunisation of ...

    Authors: Mark H Rozenbaum, Marie-Josee J Mangen, Carlo Giaquinto, Jan C Wilschut, Eelko Hak and Maarten J Postma
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:462
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  44. In order to reduce fatal self-poisoning legislation was introduced in the UK in 1998 to restrict pack sizes of paracetamol sold in pharmacies (maximum 32 tablets) and non-pharmacy outlets (maximum 16 tablets),...

    Authors: Keith Hawton, Helen Bergen, Sue Simkin, Ella Arensman, Paul Corcoran, Jayne Cooper, Keith Waters, David Gunnell and Navneet Kapur
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:460
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  45. Childhood obesity is associated with serious physiological and psychological consequences including type 2 diabetes, higher rates of depression and low self-esteem. With the population of overweight and obese ...

    Authors: Beverly Walpole, Elizabeth Dettmer, Barbara Morrongiello, Brian McCrindle and Jill Hamilton
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:459
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  46. In the last decade, there has been increasing interest in the health effects of sedentary behavior, which is often assessed using self-report sitting-time questions. The aim of this qualitative study was to do...

    Authors: Jannique GZ van Uffelen, Kristiann C Heesch, Robert L Hill and Wendy J Brown
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:458
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  47. Socioeconomic inequalities in health are a global problem, not only among the adult population but also among children. However, studies concerning young children especially are rare. The aim of this study was...

    Authors: Sanna M Siponen, Riitta S Ahonen, Piia H Savolainen and Katri P Hämeen-Anttila
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:457
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  48. Nicaragua has made progress in the reduction of the under-five mortality since 1980s. Data for the national trends indicate that this poor Central American country is on track to reach the Millennium Developme...

    Authors: Wilton Pérez, Rodolfo Peña, Lars-Åke Persson and Carina Källestål
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:455
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  49. Schools may have important effects on students' and staff's health. Rather than treating schools merely as sites for health education, 'school-environment' interventions treat schools as settings which influen...

    Authors: Chris Bonell, Angela Harden, Helene Wells, Farah Jamal, Adam Fletcher, Mark Petticrew, James Thomas, Margaret Whitehead, Rona Campbell, Simon Murphy and Laurence Moore
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:453
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  50. In developed countries, perinatal death is known to cause major emotional and social effects on mothers. However, little is known about these effects in low income countries which bear the brunt of perinatal m...

    Authors: Kaniz Gausia, Allisyn C Moran, Mohammed Ali, David Ryder, Colleen Fisher and Marge Koblinsky
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2011 11:451
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