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Archives of Public Health

Issue 1/2021

Content (231 Articles)

Equipping community health workers with digital tools for pandemic response in LMICs

Anam Shahil Feroz, Adeel Khoja, Sarah Saleem

The use of non-prescribed antibiotics; prevalence estimates in low-and-middle-income countries. A systematic review and meta-analysis

Neusa F. Torres, Buyisile Chibi, Desmond Kuupiel, Vernon P. Solomon, Tivani P. Mashamba-Thompson, Lyn E. Middleton

Disentangling depression in Belgian higher education students amidst the first COVID-19 lockdown (April-May 2020)

Jeroen De Man, Veerle Buffel, Sarah van de Velde, Piet Bracke, Guido F. Van Hal, Edwin Wouters, Sylvie Gadeyne, Hanne P. J. Kindermans, Mathilde Joos, Sander Vanmaercke, Vlaamse Vereniging van Studenten, Anne-Sophie Nyssen, Ninon Puttaert, Dries Vervecken, Marlies Van Guyse

Context matters in understanding the vulnerability of women: perspectives from southwestern Uganda

  • Open Access
  • Commentary

Neema Murembe, Teddy Kyomuhangi, Kimberly Manalili, Florence Beinempaka, Primrose Nakazibwe, Clare Kyokushaba, Basil Tibanyendera, Jennifer L. Brenner, Eleanor Turyakira

Predictors of institutional delivery service utilization among women of reproductive age in Senegal: a population-based study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Betregiorgis Zegeye, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Dina Idriss-Wheelr, Olanrewaju Oladimeji, Comfort Z. Olorunsaiye, Sanni Yaya

Community engagement in public health: a bibliometric mapping of global research

Ming Yuan, Han Lin, Hengqin Wu, Mingchuan Yu, Juan Tu, Yong Lü

A service-learning experience in a free medical centre for undocumented migrants and homeless people

  • Open Access
  • Research

Giulia Civitelli, Marica Liddo, Irene Mutta, Bianca Maisano, Gianfranco Tarsitani, Maurizio Marceca, Gonzalo Castro Cedeno, Salvatore Geraci

The spatial transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in China under the prevention and control measures at the early outbreak

Jianli Liu, Yuan Zhou, Chuanyu Ye, Guangming Zhang, Feng Zhang, Chunjuan Song

Correction to: Disability-adjusted life years and mortality rate attributed to unsafe sex and drug use for AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa countries

Farid Najafi, Fatemeh Khosravi Shadmani, Mojtaba Ghalandari, Mitra Darbandi

Effectiveness of different types of mental simulation in the weight loss process based on a perseverance study among people with different BMI

Wojciech Styk, Szymon Zmorzyński, Waldemar Klinkosz

Relationship between body image, anxiety, food-specific inhibitory control, and emotional eating in young women with abdominal obesity: a comparative cross-sectional study

Zhong-Hua He, Ming-De Li, Chan-Jun Liu, Xiao-Yue Ma

Indicators of guideline-concordant care in lung cancer defined with a modified Delphi method and piloted in a cohort of over 5,800 cases

  • Open Access
  • NSCLC
  • Research

Anita Andreano, Maria Grazia Valsecchi, Antonio Giampiero Russo, Salvatore Siena, Milena Andruccioli, Antonio Ardizzoia, Agnese Assi, Alessandro Baisi, Amedeo Vittorio Bedini, Giordano Beretta, Maurizio Bersani, Francesco Bertagna, Elisabetta Berti, Alessandro Bertolini, Anna Bettini, Mario Bignardi, Francesco Bini, Claudio Bnà, Francesca Bono, Daniele Bonora Ottoni, Andrea Borghesi, Paolo Borghetti, Antonio Brunelli, Alberto Buffoli, Carlo Cacioppo, Angelomaria Calati, Anna Calcagno, Sabrina Casagrande, Clelia Casartelli, Massimo Castellani, Antonino Castro, Gianpiero Catalano, Laura Catena, Giovanni Luca Ceresoli, Massimiliano Cergnul, Gianluigi Ciocia, Annamaria Colombo, Barbara Conti, Daniela Corti, Diego Cortinovis, Claudio Cozzi, Flavio Crippa, Andrea De Monte, Daniela De Candis, Domenico De Toma, Filippo De Marinis, Biancamaria DiMarco, Franca Di Nuovo, Claudio Doglioni, Valentina Fabbris, Paolo Faccioli, Daniele Fagnani, Gabriella Farina, Laura Fariselli, Virginio Filipazzi, Francesca Franzi, Paolo Frata, Ana Maria Samanes Gajate, Gianstefano Gardani, Massimo Gasparini, Monica Giordano, Fabrizio Grignani, Claudio Landoni, Carlo Lombardi, Fabrizio Lombardi, Andrea Luciani, Lorenzo Stefano Maffioli, Roberta Marchione, Paola Mariani, Anna Maspero, Fausto Meriggi, Aurora Miedico, Patrizia Morbini, Giovanni Muriana, Giulio Orlandoni, Enrica Paris, Paolo Pedrazzoli, Giuseppe Pepe, Ezio Pezzica, Fabio Piccoli, Gianpaolo Pinotti, Antonello Quadri, Andrea Ravasio, Franco Ravenna, Elisabetta Ricchiuti, Davide Rinaldo, Gianni Roda, Gerolamo Rossi, Armando Santoro, Carlo Pietro Soatti, Francesco Stiglich, Luca Tagliabue, Valeria Tirelli, Andrea Tironi, Maurizio Tomirotti, Laura Lavinia Travaini, Giovanni Ucci, Adriano Vaghi, Angelo Vanzulli, Giulia Veronesi, Isabella Vittimberga, Claudia Zambelli

Making the case for strong health information systems during a pandemic and beyond

Andrea E. Schmidt, Linda A. Abboud, Petronille Bogaert

Mediating role diet self-efficacy plays in the relationship between social support and diet self-management for patients with type 2 diabetes

Li Yang, Kun Li, Yan Liang, Qiuli Zhao, Dan Cui, Xuemei Zhu

Health status and health behaviour of the Hungarian homeless people

  • Open Access
  • Research

Emese Nagy-Borsy, Zsolt Vági, Petra Skerlecz, Blanka Szeitl, István Kiss, Zsuzsa Rákosy

Sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression-based violence in Catalan universities: qualitative findings from university students and staff

Elena María Gallardo-Nieto, Aitor Gómez, Regina Gairal-Casadó, María del Mar Ramis-Salas

Policy-makers’ views on translating burden of disease estimates in health policies: bridging the gap through data visualization

  • Open Access
  • Research

Amelia Lundkvist, Ziad El-Khatib, Nikhila Kalra, Tomas Pantoja, Katherine Leach-Kemon, Christian Gapp, Tanja Kuchenmüller

How beneficiaries see complex health interventions: a practice review of the Most Significant Change in ten countries

  • Open Access
  • Methodology

Kendra Tonkin, Hilah Silver, Juan Pimentel, Anne Marie Chomat, Ivan Sarmiento, Loubna Belaid, Anne Cockcroft, Neil Andersson

Publisher Correction to: The gender gap and healthcare: associations between gender roles and factors affecting healthcare access in Central Malawi, June–August 2017

  • Open Access
  • Publisher Correction

Amee D. Azad, Anthony G. Charles, Qian Ding, Amber W. Trickey, Sherry M. Wren

Understanding the role of lady health workers in improving access to eye health services in rural Pakistan – findings from a qualitative study

  • Open Access
  • Care
  • Research

Stevens Bechange, Elena Schmidt, Anna Ruddock, Itfaq Khaliq Khan, Munazza Gillani, Anne Roca, Imran Nazir, Robina Iqbal, Sandeep Buttan, Muhammed Bilal, Leena Ahmed, Emma Jolley

The effects of weight fluctuation on the components of metabolic syndrome: a 16-year prospective cohort study in South Korea

Young Ran Chin, Eun Sun So

Short-term impact of the COVID-19 confinement measures on health behaviours and weight gain among adults in Belgium

Sabine Drieskens, Nicolas Berger, Stefanie Vandevijvere, Lydia Gisle, Elise Braekman, Rana Charafeddine, Karin De Ridder, Stefaan Demarest

A population-based study of health-promoting behaviors and their predictors in Iranian males, 2019

  • Open Access
  • Research

Fovziye Sanaati, Mehrnaz Geranmayeh, Zahra Behboodi Moghadam, Armin Zareiyan, Keshvar Samadaee Gelehkolaee, Mojgan Mirghafourvand

Food intake and cardiometabolic risk factors in rural Uganda

Therese L. F. Holmager, Dan W. Meyrowitsch, Silver Bahendeka, Jannie Nielsen

Variability in daily or weekly working hours and self-reported mental health problems in Korea, Korean working condition survey, 2017

Hye-Eun Lee, Myoung-Hee Kim, Min Choi, Hyoung-Ryoul Kim, Ichiro Kawachi

Evaluating level of adherence to nicotine replacement therapy and its impact on smoking cessation: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  • Open Access
  • Systematic review

Amanual Getnet Mersha, Parivash Eftekhari, Michelle Bovill, Daniel Nigusse Tollosa, Gillian Sandra Gould

Collaborating in a penta-helix structure within a community based participatory research programme: ‘Wrestling with hierarchies and getting caught in isolated downpipes’

  • Open Access
  • Research

Katarina Sjögren Forss, Anders Kottorp, Margareta Rämgård

A retrospective analysis of the health and social situation of homeless people in Berlin: study protocol

  • Open Access
  • Study protocol

Sonia Lech, Liane Schenk, Jenny De la Torre Castro, Daniel Schindel

The usability of Jordan stillbirths and neonatal deaths surveillance (JSANDS) system: results of focus group discussions

  • Open Access
  • Research

Yousef S. Khader, Khulood K. Shattnawi, Nihaya Al-Sheyab, Mohammad Alyahya, Anwar Batieha

Effectiveness of mass treatment of Schistosoma mansoni infection in socially vulnerable areas of a state in northeastern Brazil, 2011–2014

Flávia Silvestre Outtes Wanderley, Ulisses Montarroyos, Cristine Bonfim, Carolina Cunha-Correia

Psychosocial rehabilitation experiences of women victims of armed conflict in Montes de María, Colombia

  • Open Access
  • Research

Laura Camila Sarmiento-Marulanda, Amira Ayleen Aguilera-Char, Catalina González-Gil, Wilson López-López

The cost-effectiveness of government actions to reduce sodium intake through salt substitutes in Vietnam

Colman Taylor, Annet C. Hoek, Irene Deltetto, Adrian Peacock, Do Thi Phuong Ha, Michael Sieburg, Dolly Hoang, Kathy Trieu, Laura K. Cobb, Stephen Jan, Jacqui Webster

Redistributing ill-defined causes of death – a case study from the BURDEN 2020-project in Germany

Annelene Wengler, Heike Gruhl, Dietrich Plaß, Janko Leddin, Alexander Rommel, Elena von der Lippe

Maternal healthcare utilization and full immunization coverage among 12–23 months children in Benin: a cross sectional study using population-based data

Eugene Budu, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Ebenezer Agbaglo, Ebenezer Kwesi Armah-Ansah, Kwamena Sekyi Dickson, Thomas Hormenu, John Elvis Hagan Jr, Collins Adu, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

Infant and young child feeding practices in Ethiopia: analysis of socioeconomic disparities based on nationally representative data

  • Open Access
  • Research

Nigatu Regassa Geda, Cindy Xin Feng, Bonnie Janzen, Rein Lepnurm, Carol J. Henry, Susan J. Whiting

Stakeholder analysis of childhood obesity prevention policies in Iran

Shahnaz Taghizadeh, Rahim Khodayari Zarnag, Mahdieh Abbasalizad Farhangi

Incidence of and improvement in inappropriate parental behaviors of mothers with young children: a retrospective cohort study conducted in collaboration with a local government

Takehiro Arai, Aya Goto, Mitsuko Komatsu, Seiji Yasumura

Does health literacy affect the uptake of annual physical check-ups?: Results from the 2017 US health information national trends survey

  • Open Access
  • Research

Hee Yun Lee, Sooyoung Kim, Jessica Neese, Mi Hwa Lee

Health-related quality of life of multiple sclerosis patients: a European multi-country study

Laurenske A. Visser, Celine Louapre, Carin A. Uyl-de Groot, William K. Redekop

Socioeconomic status, well-being and mortality: a comprehensive life course analysis of panel data, Germany, 1984-2016

  • Open Access
  • Research

Diego Montano

Factors that facilitate multigenerational exchanges in regional locations: a cross‐sectional study in Niigata City, Japan

  • Open Access
  • Research

Kumiko Morita, Minako Kobayashi, Rieko Aoki, Hitomi Nagamine, Harumi Yamamoto, Fumi Ohtake, Mika Hoki, Hiroko Sumita, Kayo Maruyama, Kayoko Mitsuhashi, Akiko Sasaki

Essential newborn care practice and its associated factors in Southwest Ethiopia

  • Open Access
  • Care
  • Research

Haimanot Abebe, Daniel Adane, Solomon Shitu

Validation of a search strategy for randomized clinical trials related to periodontitis

  • Open Access
  • Methodology

Amanda Oliveira Lyrio, Simone Seixas da Cruz, Isaac Suzart Gomes-Filho, Viviane Seixas Silva Silveira, Elivan Silva Souza, Josicélia Estrela Tuy Batista, Ana Claudia Morais Godoy Figueiredo, Mauricio Gomes Pereira

Delayed breast feeding initiation increases the odds of colostrum avoidance among mothers in Northwest Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Maezu G/slassie, Zelalem Nigussie Azene, Abuhay Mulunesh, Tesfa Sewunet Alamneh

Combining self-reported and objectively measured survey data to improve hypertension prevalence estimates: Portuguese experience

Irina Kislaya, Andreia Leite, Julian Perelman, Ausenda Machado, Ana Rita Torres, Hanna Tolonen, Baltazar Nunes

Youth sport participation and physical activity in rural communities

  • Open Access
  • Research

Debra K. Kellstedt, Michaela A. Schenkelberg, Ann M. Essay, Mary J. Von Seggern, Richard R. Rosenkranz, Gregory J. Welk, Robin High, David A. Dzewaltowski

Determinants of short birth interval among women in South Gondar, Ethiopia: community-based unmatched case-control study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Gedefaye Nibret Mihretie, Fentahun Yenealem Beyene, Bekalu Getnet Kassa, Alemu Degu Ayele, Tewachew Muche Liyeh, Binyam Minuye Birihane

Childbirth at home and associated factors in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  • Open Access
  • Research

Asteray Assmie Ayenew, Azezu Asres Nigussie, Biruk Ferede Zewdu

Global research activity on antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals

  • Open Access
  • Research

Waleed M. Sweileh

Impact of current or past physical activity level on functional capacities and body composition among elderly people: a cross-sectional analysis from the YMCA study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Fanny Buckinx, Éva Peyrusqué, Jordan Granet, Mylène Aubertin-Leheudre

Time to early initiation of postnatal care service utilization and its predictors among women who gave births in the last 2 years in Ethiopia: a shared frailty model

  • Open Access
  • Care
  • Research

Ayal Debie, Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema

The politicians’ perspectives on participation in mammographic screening: an interview-based study from a region in Sweden

Maria Norfjord van Zyl, Per Tillgren, Margareta Asp

Individual and community-level determinants of childhood vaccination in Ethiopia

Setegn Muche Fenta, Haile Mekonnen Fenta

Caregivers: the potential infection resources for the sustaining epidemic of hand, foot, and mouth disease/herpangina in Guangdong, China?

Jundi Liu, Yan Chen, Peipei Hu, Lin Gan, Qimin Tan, Xinqiao Huang, Zhanzhong Ma, Cuiji Lin, Dawei Wu, Xun Zhu, Dingmei Zhang

Determinants of under-five mortality in the high mortality regions of Ethiopia: mixed-effect logistic regression analysis

Misganaw Gebrie Worku, Achamyeleh Birhanu Teshale, Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema

Validation of the Arabic version of the “12-item short-form health survey” (SF-12) in a sample of Lebanese adults

  • Open Access
  • Research

Chadia Haddad, Hala Sacre, Sahar Obeid, Pascale Salameh, Souheil Hallit

Associations between socioprovincial factors and self-reported mental disorders among students from grade 4 to 8 in rural China

Ming Guan

Disparities in the quality of and access to services in children with autism spectrum disorders: a structural equation modeling

Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi, Kamal Gholipour, Hassan Shahrokhi, Ayyoub Malek, Akbar Ghiasi, Hamid Pourasghari, Shabnam Iezadi

The influence of late retirement on health outcomes among older adults in the policy context of delayed retirement initiative: an empirical attempt of clarifying identification bias

  • Open Access
  • Research

Jiannan Li, Bocong Yuan, Junbang Lan

Chronic disease multimorbidity among the Canadian population: prevalence and associated lifestyle factors

  • Open Access
  • Research

Nigatu Regassa Geda, Bonnie Janzen, Punam Pahwa

Identification of a prognostic long noncoding RNA signature in lung squamous cell carcinoma: a population-based study with a mean follow-up of 3.5 years

  • Open Access
  • Research

Rongjiong Zheng, Mengdi Zheng, Mingming Wang, Feijie Lu, Meiling Hu

Adverse childhood experiences and psychological distress among higher education students in Southeast Nigeria: an institutional-based cross-sectional study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Olaoluwa Samson Agbaje, Chinwe Patience Nnaji, Evelyn Nwanebe Nwagu, Cylia Nkechi Iweama, Prince Christian Ifeanachor Umoke, Lawretta Eyuche Ozoemena, Charles Chike Abba

Influence of physical activity and postural habits in schoolchildren with scoliosis

Sanderson José Costa de Assis, Geronimo José Bouzas Sanchis, Clécio Gabriel de Souza, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli

Socioeconomic, urban‐rural and sex‐based inequality in infant mortality rate: evidence from 2013 Yemen demographic and health survey

  • Open Access
  • Research

Betregiorgis Zegeye, Gebretsadik Shibre, Jemal Haidar, Gorems Lemma

Calculation and internal validation of a new synthetic and autocorrelate index to combine the determinants of health of a population

  • Open Access
  • Methodology

Domenico Tebala, Giovanni Domenico Tebala

The physical and mental impact of surviving sepsis – a qualitative study of experiences and perceptions among a Swedish sample

Sabine Apitzsch, Lotta Larsson, Anna-Karin Larsson, Adam Linder

Education can modify the long term impact of early childhood famine exposure on adulthood economic achievement: a historical cohort study among the survivors of the great Ethiopian famine 1983–85

  • Open Access
  • Research

Kalkidan Hassen Abate, Misra Abdullahi, Fedlu Abdulhay, Getachew Arage, Mohammed Mecha, Mohammed Yenuss, Habtamu Hassen, Tefera Belachew

Knowledge, attitude and behaviour of university students regarding salt and iodine: a multicentre cross-sectional study in six countries in Europe and Asia

Georgios Marakis, Antonios Katsioulis, Lamprini Kontopoulou, Anke Ehlers, Katharina Heimberg, Karen Ildico Hirsch-Ernst, Tomaž Langerholc, Hanna Adamska, Ewa Matyjaszczyk, K. D. Renuka Silva, K. A. Chathurika Madumali, Tai-Sheng Yeh, Ling-Jan Chiou, Mei-Jen Lin, Georgios Karpetas, Anke Weissenborn

The effect of education based on health belief model on promoting preventive behaviors of hypertensive disease in staff of the Iran University of Medical Sciences

Nemam Ali Azadi, Arash Ziapour, Javad Yoosefi Lebni, Seyed Fahim Irandoost, Jaffar Abbas, Fakhreddin Chaboksavar

Factors associated with early antenatal care attendance among women in Papua New Guinea: a population‐based cross‐sectional study

  • Open Access
  • Care
  • Research

Abdul-Aziz Seidu

Comparison of appropriateness of Nutri-Score and other front-of-pack nutrition labels across a group of Moroccan consumers: awareness, understanding and food choices

Hassan Aguenaou, Laila El Ammari, Maryam Bigdeli, Amina El Hajjab, Houria Lahmam, Saloua Labzizi, Hasnae Gamih, Anouar Talouizte, Chaimae Serbouti, Khalid El Kari, Hasnae Benkirane, Hicham El Berri, Ayoub AL-Jawaldeh, Abdelhakim Yahyane

Detecting anxiety and depression among people with limited literacy living with chronic low back pain in Nigeria: adaptation and validation of the hospital anxiety and depression scale

Chinonso Nwamaka Igwesi-Chidobe, Rosemary C. Muomah, Isaac Olubunmi Sorinola, Emma Louise Godfrey

Conducting national burden of disease studies in small countries in Europe– a feasible challenge?

  • Open Access
  • Commentary

Sarah Cuschieri, Elena Pallari, Natasa Terzic, Ala’a Alkerwi, Rannveig Sigurvinsdottir, Inga Dora Sigfusdottir, Brecht Devleesschauwer

Determinants of adherence to COVID-19 measures among the Belgian population: an application of the protection motivation theory

Joris Adriaan Frank van Loenhout, Kirsten Vanderplanken, Bénédicte Scheen, Stephan Van den Broucke, Isabelle Aujoulat

Discontinuation rate and associated factors among contraceptive implant users in Kersa district, southwestern Ethiopia

Gali Nega, Muluemebet Abera, Afework Tadele

Converging or diverging trajectories of mortality under one year of age in the Baltic States: a comparison with the European Union

  • Open Access
  • Research

Agnieszka Genowska, Birute Strukcinskiene, Anita Villerusa, Jerzy Konstantynowicz

Prevalence and associated factors of dyslipidaemia among university workers in Southeast Nigeria: a cross-sectional study

Adaobi M. Okafor, Elizabeth K. Ngwu, Rufina N.B. Ayogu

Differences in regional distribution and inequality in health-resource allocation on institutions, beds, and workforce: a longitudinal study in China

  • Open Access
  • Care
  • Research

Enhong Dong, Jie Xu, Xiaoting Sun, Ting Xu, Lufa Zhang, Tao Wang

Development of a patient safety care activity scale for clinical nurses in Korea

  • Open Access
  • Care
  • Research

Ya Ki Yang

The need for translation and cultural adaptation of audiology questionnaires to enable the development of hearing healthcare policies in the Pacific Islands: a Samoan perspective

Annette Kaspar, Sione Pifeleti, Carlie Driscoll

Health insurance coverage and maternal healthcare services utilization in Jordan: evidence from the 2017–18 Jordan demographic and health survey

  • Open Access
  • Research

Petula Fernandes, Emmanuel Kolawole Odusina, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Komlan Kota, Sanni Yaya

Association of breastfeeding and risk of metabolic syndrome and its components in postmenopausal parous women: Korea national health and nutrition examination survey (2010 ~ 2016)

Jusuk Lee, Taehong Kim

Association between water and sanitation and soil-transmitted helminthiases: Analysis of the Brazilian National Survey of Prevalence (2011–2015)

Kasandra Isabella Helouise Mingoti Poague, Sueli Aparecida Mingoti, Léo Heller

The nature of food promotions over one year in circulars from leading Belgian supermarket chains

  • Open Access
  • Research

Stefanie Vandevijvere, Iris Van Dam

Different configurations of the two-step floating catchment area method for measuring the spatial accessibility to hospitals for people living with disability: a cross-sectional study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Behzad Kiani, Alireza Mohammadi, Robert Bergquist, Nasser Bagheri

Utilization of preventive care among migrants and non-migrants in Germany: results from the representative cross-sectional study ‘German health interview and examination survey for adults (DEGS1)’

Anne Starker, Claudia Hövener, Alexander Rommel

Women empowerment and uptake of antenatal care services : A meta-analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys from 33 Sub-Saharan African countries

  • Open Access
  • Care
  • Research

Gebretsadik Shibre, Betregiorgis Zegeye, Helena Yeboah, Ghose Bisjawit, Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Sanni Yaya

Accelerated failure-time model with weighted least-squares estimation: application on survival of HIV positives

Yesuf Abdela Mustefa, Ding-Geng Chen

Neonatal healthcare-associated infections in Brazil: systematic review and meta-analysis

Felipe Teixeira de Mello Freitas, Anna Paula Bise Viegas, Gustavo Adolfo Sierra Romero

Essential newborn care practice and associated factors among health care providers in Northeast Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

  • Open Access
  • Care
  • Research

Gebrehana Ashenef, Akine Eshete, Betregiorgis Zegeye, Tadesse Tsehay Tarekegn, Mitku Mammo Taderegew

Associations of early marriage and early childbearing with anemia among adolescent girls in Ethiopia: a multilevel analysis of nationwide survey

Fentanesh Nibret Tiruneh, Mesfin Wogayehu Tenagashaw, Degnet Teferi Asres, Hirut Assaye Cherie

Individual and community-level determinants of poor tetanus toxoid immunization among pregnant women in Ethiopia using data from 2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey; multilevel analysis

Alemneh Mekuriaw Liyew, Hiwotie Getaneh Ayalew

Predictors of modern contraceptive usage among sexually active rural women in Ethiopia: A multi-level analysis

Setegn Muche Fenta, Shewayiref Geremew Gebremichael

Adequacy of prenatal care services and associated factors in Southern Ethiopia

Afework Tadele, Bekelu Teka

Identifying key environmental barriers experienced by persons with mild, moderate, or severe disability in Bankim Health District, Cameroon: a policy-targeted secondary analysis of data obtained with the World Bank and WHO model disability survey

  • Open Access
  • Research

Lindsay Lee, Ferdinand Mou, Alphonse Um Boock, Carolina Fellinghauer, Mirjam Kohls, Alarcos Cieza, Carla Sabariego

Body mass index, subjective body shape, and suicidal ideation among community-dwelling Korean adults

Chae Eun Yong, Young Bum Kim, Jiyoung Lyu

New hepatitis C virus infection, re-infection and associated risk behaviour in male Irish prisoners: a cohort study, 2019

Des Crowley, Gordana Avramovic, Walter Cullen, Collette Farrell, Anne Halpin, Mary Keevans, Eamon Laird, Tina McHugh, Susan McKiernan, Sarah Jayne Miggin, Ross Murtagh, Eileen O. Connor, Marie O’Meara, Deirdre O. Reilly, John S. Lambert

Correction to: Adverse childhood experiences and psychological distress among higher education students in Southeast Nigeria: an institutional-based cross-sectional study

  • Open Access
  • Correction

Olaoluwa Samson Agbaje, Chinwe Patience Nnaji, Evelyn Nwanebe Nwagu, Cylia Nkechi Iweama, Prince Christian Ifeanachor Umoke, Lawretta Eyuche Ozoemena, Charles Chike Abba

Documenting HIV research-utilization activities, outputs and outcomes: examples and lessons learned from Project SOAR

Samuel Kalibala, Irit Sinai, Tara Nutley

The everyday life situation of caregivers to family members who have had a stroke and received the rehabilitation intervention F@ce in Uganda

Gunilla Margareta Eriksson, Julius Tunga Kamwesiga, Susanne Guidetti

The association between opioids, environmental, demographic, and socioeconomic indicators and COVID-19 mortality rates in the United States: an ecological study at the county level

Fares Qeadan, Nana Akofua Mensah, Benjamin Tingey, Rona Bern, Tracy Rees, Erin Fanning Madden, Christina A. Porucznik, Kevin English, Trenton Honda

Urban-rural disparities in wife-beating attitude among married women: a decomposition analysis from the 2017 Senegal Continuous Demographic and Health Survey

Betregiorgis Zegeye, Gebretsadik Shibre, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Mpho Keetile, Sanni Yaya

Tracking progress in anthropometric failure among under-five children in Ethiopia: a geospatial and multilevel analysis

Binyam Tariku Seboka, Samuel Hailegebreal, Delelegn Emwodew Yehualashet, Abel Desalegn Demeke

Correction to: Women empowerment and uptake of antenatal care services: A meta-analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys from 33 Sub-Saharan African countries

  • Open Access
  • Correction

Gebretsadik Shibre, Betregiorgis Zegeye, Helena Yeboah, Ghose Bisjawit, Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Sanni Yaya

A systematic review of prediction models to diagnose COVID-19 in adults admitted to healthcare centers

  • Open Access
  • COVID-19
  • Systematic review

Médéa Locquet, Anh Nguyet Diep, Charlotte Beaudart, Nadia Dardenne, Christian Brabant, Olivier Bruyère, Anne-Françoise Donneau

The reasons why patients abscond from public hospitals in southeastern Iran: a qualitative study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Mahnaz Moradpour, Mohammadreza Amiresmaili, Mahmood Nekoei-Moghadam, Tania Dehesh

Idiopathic scoliosis and associated factors among school children: a school-based screening in Ethiopia

Moges Gashaw, Balamurugan Janakiraman, Gashaw Jember Belay

Is functional fitness performance a useful predictor of risk of falls among community-dwelling older adults?

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Hsin-Hung Ho, I-Yao Fang, Yi-Chien Yu, Yi-Ping Huang, I-Ling Kuo, Li-Ting Wang, Ming-Chueh Tsai, Shao-Hsi Chang, Ming-Chun Hsueh

Assessment of intention to use contraceptive methods with spatial distributions and associated factors among women in Ethiopia: evidence from EDHS 2016

Girma Gilano, Samuel Hailegebreal

Epidemiological factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus: evidence from the Global Burden of Disease

Artur Kotwas, Beata Karakiewicz, Paulina Zabielska, Sylwia Wieder-Huszla, Anna Jurczak

Cause of death for patients with breast cancer: discordance between death certificates and medical files, and impact on survival estimates

Hava Izci, Tim Tambuyzer, Jessica Vandeven, Jérôme Xicluna, Hans Wildiers, Kevin Punie, Nynke Willers, Eva Oldenburger, Els Van Nieuwenhuysen, Patrick Berteloot, Ann Smeets, Ines Nevelsteen, Anne Deblander, Harlinde De Schutter, Patrick Neven, Geert Silversmit, Freija Verdoodt

Use of health care services by people with substance use disorders in Belgium: a register-based cohort study

Luk Van Baelen, Els Plettinckx, Jérôme Antoine, Karin De Ridder, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Lies Gremeaux

Analysis of factors contributing to occupational health inequality in Korea: a cross-sectional study using nationally representative survey data

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Eunjeong Noh, Young-Ho Khang

Exploring the socio-economic determinants of educational inequalities in diarrhoea among under-five children in low- and middle-income countries: a Fairlie decomposition analysis

Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Olukemi Grace Adebola, Natisha Dukhi, Omon Stellamaris Fagbamigbe, Olalekan A. Uthman

Predictors of time-to-death on children in Tigray regional state, Ethiopia: a retrospective cross sectional study

Gebru Gebremeskel Gebrerufael, Bsrat Tesfay Hagos

Blood lead and cadmium levels are negatively associated with bone mineral density in young female adults

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Jianfeng Lu, Ji Lan, Xiao’e Li, Zhongxin Zhu

Effectiveness of message-framing to improve oral health behaviors and dental plaque among pregnant women

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Masoumeh Divdar, Marzieh Araban, Akbar Babaei Heydarabadi, Bahman Cheraghian, L. A. R. Stein

Healthcare workers’ behaviors on infection prevention and control and their determinants during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study based on the theoretical domains framework in Wuhan, China

Qiuxia Yang, Xuemei Wang, Qian Zhou, Li Tan, Xinping Zhang, Xiaoquan Lai

Association between health literacy and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Zhao-ya Fan, Yuan Yang, Fan Zhang

Establishing a controlled hookworm human infection (CHHI) model for Africa: A report from the stakeholders meeting held in Lambaréné, Gabon, November 10–11, 2019

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Ayodele Alabi, Mosarrof Hussain, Marie-Astrid Hoogerwerf, Christine Ndong Mengome, Moses Egesa, Emmanuella Driciru, Linda J. Wammes, Yvonne C. M. Kruize, Erliyani Sartono, Ayola Akim Adegnika, Peter G. Kremsner, Maria Yazdanbakhsh, Selidji Todagbe Agnandji

The effect of antenatal depression on birth weight among newborns in South Gondar zone, Northwest Ethiopia: a population-based prospective cohort study

Getnet Mihretie Beyene, Telake Azale, Kassahun Alemu Gelaye, Tadesse Awoke Ayele

Levels of physical activity in four domains and affective wellbeing before and during the Covid-19 pandemic

Eliane S. Engels, Michael Mutz, Yolanda Demetriou, Anne K. Reimers

Factors associated with childhood diarrheal in Ethiopia; a multilevel analysis

Setegn Muche Fenta, Teshager Zerihun Nigussie

Socio-economic and geographical inequalities in adolescent fertility rate in Ghana, 1993–2014

Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Eugene Budu, Henry Ofori Duah, Joshua Okyere, Abdul-Aziz Seidu

SARS-CoV-2 PCR and antibody testing for an entire rural community: methods and feasibility of high-throughput testing procedures

Ayesha Appa, Gabriel Chamie, Aenor Sawyer, Kimberly Baltzell, Kathryn Dippell, Salu Ribeiro, Elias Duarte, Joanna Vinden, CLIAHUB Consortium, Jonathan Kramer-Feldman, Shahryar Rahdari, Doug MacIntosh, Katherine Nicholson, Jonathan Im, Diane Havlir, Bryan Greenhouse

Recommendations to plan a national burden of disease study

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Romana Haneef, Jürgen Schmidt, Anne Gallay, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Ian Grant, Alexander Rommel, Grant MA Wyper, Herman Van Oyen, Henk Hilderink, Thomas Ziese, John Newton

Trends and socioeconomic factors in smoking and alcohol consumption among Chinese people: evidence from the 2008–2018 National Health Service Surveys in Jiangsu Province

Kehui Liu, Yan Ding, Xiang Lu, Zhonghua Wang

Measuring functioning and disability using household surveys: metric properties of the brief version of the WHO and World Bank model disability survey

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Carla Sabariego, Carolina Fellinghauer, Lindsay Lee, Aleksandra Posarac, Jerome Bickenbach, Nenad Kostanjsek, Somnath Chatterji, Kaloyan Kamenov, Alarcos Cieza

Health insurance enrollment strategies during the Affordable Care Act (ACA): a scoping review on what worked and for whom

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Angelo Ercia, Nga Le, Runguo Wu

Medication safety knowledge, attitude, and practice among hospital pharmacists in tertiary care hospitals in Saudi Arabia: a multi-center study

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Azizah AL-Mutairi, Isamme AlFayyad, Youssef Altannir, Mohamad Al-Tannir

Factors associated with length of stay and treatment outcome of Ebola patients treated at an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone during the peak period of the West African Ebola outbreak 2013–2016

Jia Bainga Kangbai, Christian Heumann, Michael Hoelscher, Foday Sahr, Guenter Froeschl

Depression remains a neglected public health problem among pregnant women in Northwest Ethiopia

Getnet Mihretie Beyene, Telake Azale, Kassahun Alemu Gelaye, Tadesse Awoke Ayele

Observed magnitude and trends in socioeconomic and geographic area inequalities in obesity prevalence among non-pregnant women in Chad: evidence from three waves of Chad demographic and health surveys

Gebretsadik Shibre, Betregiorgis Zegeye, Gashaw Garedew Woldeamanuiel, Wassie Negash, Gorems Lemma, Mitku Mamo Taderegew

Understanding the complexities of antibiotic prescribing behaviour in acute hospitals: a systematic review and meta-ethnography

Gosha Wojcik, Nicola Ring, Corrienne McCulloch, Diane S. Willis, Brian Williams, Kalliopi Kydonaki

“I was eating more fruits and veggies than I have in years”: a mixed methods evaluation of a fresh food prescription intervention

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Cole Heasley, Becca Clayton, Jade Muileboom, Anna Schwanke, Sujani Rathnayake, Abby Richter, Matthew Little

Women’s knowledge and attitude towards cervical cancer preventive measures and associated factors In South Gondar Zone, Amhara Region, North Central Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

Yilkal Tafere, Tezera Jemere, Tsion Desalegn, Addisu Melak

Pregnancy complications, substance abuse, and prenatal care predict birthweight in adolescent mothers

Miriam Hacker, Christine Firk, Kerstin Konrad, Kerstin Paschke, Joseph Neulen, Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann, Brigitte Dahmen

Burden of non-communicable diseases in Cyprus, 1990–2017: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study

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Periklis Charalampous, Elena Pallari, Stefanos Tyrovolas, Nicos Middleton, Mary Economou, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Juanita A. Haagsma

Self-harm prevalence and associated factors among street children in Mashhad, North East of Iran

Lida Jarahi, Maliheh Dadgarmoghaddam, Atiyeh Naderi, AmirAli Moodi Ghalibaf

Abortion care in a pandemic: an analysis of the number and social profile of people requesting and receiving abortion care during the first COVID-19 lockdown (March 16 to June 14, 2020) in Flanders, Belgium

Leen De Kort, Jonas Wood, Edwin Wouters, Sarah Van de Velde

Health professional’s job satisfaction and its determinants in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Bekahegn Girma, Jemberu Nigussie, Alemayehu Molla, Moges Mareg

“… I would have left that man long time ago but, …” exploring circumstances of and motivators for repeat adolescent birth in Eastern Uganda

Dinah Amongin, Frank Kaharuza, Claudia Hanson, Annettee Nakimuli, Susan Mutesi, Lenka Benova, Lynn Atuyambe

Spatial distribution and determinants of iron supplementation among pregnant women in Ethiopia: a spatial and multilevel analysis

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Chilot Desta Agegnehu, Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema, Achamyeleh Birhanu Teshale, Adugnaw Zeleke Alem, Yigizie Yeshaw, Sewnet Adem Kebede, Alemneh Mekuriaw Liyew

Citizens, doctors, politicians - who´s an expert in times of COVID-19? A survey in Austria and Germany

Dagmar Schaffler-Schaden, Juergen Herfert, James O´Brien, Tim Johansson, Alexander Seymer, Stephan Ludwig, Thomas Stöggl, Juergen Osterbrink, Maria Flamm, Antje van der Zee-Neuen

A cross-sectional study on the impact of the prevention and control response of the COVID-19 pandemic on minor’s orthopedic trauma in Shanghai

Chuang Qian, Yiming Zheng, Junrong Meng, Hao Li, Dahui Wang

Availability and use of personal protective equipment and satisfaction of healthcare professionals during COVID-19 pandemic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Wakgari Deressa, Alemayehu Worku, Workeabeba Abebe, Muluken Gizaw, Wondwossen Amogne

Correction to: Rapid establishment of a national surveillance of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Belgium

Nina Van Goethem, Aline Vilain, Chloé Wyndham-Thomas, Jessika Deblonde, Nathalie Bossuyt, Tinne Lernout, Javiera Rebolledo Gonzalez, Sophie Quoilin, Vincent Melis, Dominique Van Beckhoven

Disability and COVID-19: ensuring no one is left behind

Alarcos Cieza, Kaloyan Kamenov, Ola Abu Al Ghaib, Alessandra Aresu, Somnath Chatterji, Facundo Chavez, Jarrod Clyne, Nathalie Drew, Michelle Funk, Andrea Guzman, Eleonora Guzzi, Chapal Khasnabis, Bente Mikkelsen, Ren Minghui, Gopal Mitra, Priyanka Narahari, Gisela Nauk, Alice Priddy, Alaa Sabeh, Maria Soledad Cisternas Reyes, Javier Vasquez, Roxana Widmer-Iliescu

Breast self-examination practice among women in Africa: a systematic review and Meta-analysis

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Wubareg Seifu, Liyew Mekonen

Optimal strategies for COVID-19 prevention from global evidence achieved through social distancing, stay at home, travel restriction and lockdown: a systematic review

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Tadele Girum, Kifle Lentiro, Mulugeta Geremew, Biru Migora, Sisay Shewamare, Mulugeta Shegaze Shimbre

Maternal age at first childbirth and under-five morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa: analysis of cross-sectional data of 32 countries

Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

Correction to: Spatial distribution and determinants of iron supplementation among pregnant women in Ethiopia: a spatial and multilevel analysis

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Chilot Desta Agegnehu, Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema, Achamyeleh Birhanu Teshale, Adugnaw Zeleke Alem, Yigizie Yeshaw, Sewnet Adem Kebede, Alemneh Mekuriaw Liyew

Substance use and HIV stage at entry into care among people with HIV

Canada Parrish, Bridget M. Whitney, Robin M. Nance, Nancy Puttkammer, Paul Fishman, Katerina Christopoulos, Julia Fleming, Sonya Heath, William Christopher Mathews, Geetanjali Chander, Richard D. Moore, Sonia Napravnik, Allison Webel, Joseph Delaney, Heidi M. Crane, Mari M. Kitahata

Assessing parents’ awareness about children’s “first thousand days of life”: a descriptive and analytical study

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Fatemeh Bagheri, Nouzar Nakhaee, Yones Jahani, Reza Khajouei

Cervical cancer screening using HPV tests on self-samples: attitudes and preferences of women participating in the VALHUDES study

Hélène De Pauw, Gilbert Donders, Steven Weyers, Philippe De Sutter, Jean Doyen, Wiebren A. A. Tjalma, Davy Vanden Broeck, Eliana Peeters, Severien Van Keer, Alex Vorsters, Marc Arbyn

A pooled prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in South Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

Babatope O. Adebiyi, Ferdinand C. Mukumbang

Socio-economic inequalities in the chronic diseases management among Chinese adults aged 45 years and above: a cross sectional study

Jing Guo, Jiasen Li, Kehui Huang, Ning Huang, Xing Lin Feng

Magnitude and associated factors of caesarean section deliveries among women who gave birth in Southwest Ethiopia: institutional-based cross-sectional study

Ayenew Mose, Haimanot Abebe

A mixed-methods study exploring adherence to the referral of severely sick children in primary health care in Southern Ethiopia

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Habtamu Beyene, Dejene Hailu, Henok Tadele, Lars Åke Persson, Della Berhanu

Understanding the mechanisms generating outcomes in a Danish peer support intervention for socially vulnerable people with type 2-diabetes: a realist evaluation

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Stine Dandanell Garn, Charlotte Glümer, Sarah Fredsted Villadsen, Gritt Marie Hviid Malling, Ulla Christensen

Long-acting reversible contraception utilization and associated factors among women in extended postpartum period in southern Ethiopia

Yibeltal Mesfin, Abraham Wallelign

Exposure to interparental violence and justification of intimate partner violence among women in sexual unions in sub-Saharan Africa

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Richard Gyan Aboagye, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Bernard Yeboah-Asiamah Asare, Prince Peprah, Isaac Yeboah Addo, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

Payment mechanism for institutional births in Nepal

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Ashish KC, Mats Målqvist, Amit Bhandari, Rejina Gurung, Omkar Basnet, Avinash K Sunny

On the timing of interventions to preserve hospital capacity: lessons to be learned from the Belgian SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in 2020

Christel Faes, Niel Hens, Marius Gilbert

A cross-sectional survey of a public, evidence-based multimodal program for cognitive health in older adults

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Barbara Studer-Luethi, Maria Brasser, Simon Lusti, Rahel Schaerli

Seroprevalence of coxsackievirus A16 antibody among people of various age groups: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Peng Li, Yan Chen, An Tang, Fan Gao, Jian-Bo Yan

Prevalence and predictors of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in east Africa: evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies published from 2005 to 2020

Hussein Mukasa Kafeero, Dorothy Ndagire, Ponsiano Ocama, Ali Kudamba, Abdul Walusansa, Hakim Sendagire

Use of artificial intelligence for public health surveillance: a case study to develop a machine Learning-algorithm to estimate the incidence of diabetes mellitus in France

Romana Haneef, Sofiane Kab, Rok Hrzic, Sonsoles Fuentes, Sandrine Fosse-Edorh, Emmanuel Cosson, Anne Gallay

Effects of dietary and health factors on nutritional status of children in pastoral settings in Borana, southern Ethiopia, August–October 2015

Bekele Megersa, Abebe Haile, Uriel Kitron

Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice of mothers/caregivers on infant and young child feeding in Assosa Woreda, Assosa Zone, Benshangul Gumuz Region, Western Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

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Dawit Getachew Assefa, Tigist Tekle Woldesenbet, Wondowsen Molla, Eden Dagnachew Zeleke, Timsel Girma Simie

Factors affecting the initiation and continuation of maternal health service utilization among women who delivered in the past one year in Enemay district, East Gojjam, Ethiopia

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Anguach Shitie, Zelalem Nigussie Azene

Protocol for an evaluation of the Designing Communities to Support Healthy Living in Aging Residents Study

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Jodie A. Stearns, Hui Ren, John C. Spence, Hayford Avedzi, Karen K. Lee

“I don’t know if we’ll ever live in harmony”: a mixed-methods exploration of the unmet needs of Syrian adolescent girls in protracted displacement in Lebanon

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Colleen M. Davison, Hayley Watt, Saja Michael, Susan A. Bartels

National Nutrition Communication Campaign in Indonesia: a cross-sectional study of factors associated with exposure

Leiema Hunt, Abigail Norton, Chantel Daines, Evie Friedbaum, Danica Topham, Ryan Moffat, Scott Torres, Mary Linehan, Hafiza Jusril, Cougar Hall, Benjamin Crookston, Josh West

Oral self-care behavior and its influencing factors in a sample of school children from Central Iran

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Iraj Zareban, Mahmood Karimy, Marzieh Araban, Daniel Delaney

Determinants of smokeless tobacco use and prevalence among Sudanese adolescents

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Mohammed Othman, Nik Daliana Nik Farid, Nasrin Aghamohammadi, Mahmoud Danaee

Determinants of uptake of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria with sulfadoxine pyrimethamine in pregnancy: a cross-sectional analytical study in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis of Ghana

Francis Anto, Christabel Ayepah, Elizabeth Awini, Langbong Bimi

Predictors of physical activity among women in Bojnourd, north east of Iran: Pender’s health promotion model

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Seyedeh Belin Tavakoly Sany, Mohammad Vahedian Shahroodi, Zahra Hosseini Khaboshan, Arezoo Orooji, Habibollah Esmaeily, Alireza Jafari, Mohammad Tajfard

Does descending health resources reform impact patient low-level hospital selection behavior? Evidence from Zhejiang, China

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Zesheng SUN, Shuhong WANG, Hongjun ZHAO, Xu ZHOU, Ludan ZHANG, Jiongping SHI

The global hepatitis delta virus (HDV) epidemic: what gaps to address in order to mount a public health response?

Tomoyuki Hayashi, Yumie Takeshita, Yvan J.-F. Hutin, Hande Harmanci, Philippa Easterbrook, Sarah Hess, Judith van Holten, Ena Oghenekaro Oru, Shuichi Kaneko, Cihan Yurdaydin, Marc Bulterys

Using the QI Maturity Tool – Modified Ontario Version to assess the state of QI maturity in Ontario’s public health units

Madelyn P. Law, Alex Berry, Nicole Clarke, Graham Hay, Caitlin Muhl, Kelly Pilato, Danielle Hunter, Anna Larson

Factors influencing the uptake of intermittent preventive treatment among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel analysis

Eugene Kofuor Maafo Darteh, Kwamena Sekyi Dickson, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Bernard Afriyie Owusu, Joshua Okyere, Tarif Salihu, Vincent Bio Bediako, Eugene Budu, Wonder Agbemavi, Jane Odurowaah Edjah, Abdul-Aziz Seidu

Investigating the COVID-19 related behaviors in the public transport system

Fatemeh Bakhtari Aghdam, Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani, Kavous Shahsavarinia, Fatemeh Jafari, Leila Jahangiry, Neda Gilani

Evaluation of a school-based dissemination of the movement guidelines for young children in Hong Kong: Study protocol

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Catherine M. Capio, Catalina S. M. Ng, Kevin K. H. Chung, Rachel A. Jones, Cindy H. P. Sit

Conceptual causal framework to assess the effect of SARS-CoV-2 variants on COVID-19 disease severity among hospitalized patients

Nina Van Goethem, Ben Serrien, Mathil Vandromme, Chloé Wyndham-Thomas, Lucy Catteau, Ruben Brondeel, Sofieke Klamer, Marjan Meurisse, Lize Cuypers, Emmanuel André, Koen Blot, Herman Van Oyen

Factors associated with access to condoms and sources of condoms during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa

Obasanjo Afolabi Bolarinwa

The relevance of target product profiles for manufacturers, experiences from the World Health Organization initiative for point-of-care testing for sexually transmitted infections

Maurine Murtagh, Karel Blondeel, Rosanna W. Peeling, James Kiarie, Igor Toskin

One year of laboratory-based COVID-19 surveillance system in Belgium: main indicators and performance of the laboratories (March 2020–21)

Marjan Meurisse, Adrien Lajot, Yves Dupont, Marie Lesenfants, Sofieke Klamer, Javiera Rebolledo, Tinne Lernout, Mathias Leroy, Arnaud Capron, Johan Van Bussel, Sophie Quoilin, Emmanuel Andre, Kaat Kehoe, Luc Waumans, Jos Van Acker, Olivier Vandenberg, Sigi Van den Wijngaert, Ann Verdonck, Lize Cuypers, Dieter Van Cauteren

Poorer mental well-being and prior unmet need for mental healthcare: a longitudinal population-based study on men in Sweden

Sara Olsson, Bo Burström, Gunnel Hensing, Jesper Löve

Factors influencing access and utilization of health services among older people during the COVID − 19 pandemic: a scoping review

Peivand Bastani, Mohammadtaghi Mohammadpour, Mahnaz Samadbeik, Misagh Bastani, Giampiero Rossi-Fedele, Madhan Balasubramanian

Health disparities in chronic back pain and associated mortality seen in ischemic cardiac disease: a commentary

Ashruta Patel

Time to first antenatal care visit among pregnant women in Ethiopia: secondary analysis of EDHS 2016; application of AFT shared frailty models

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Kenaw Derebe Fentaw, Setegn Muche Fenta, Hailegebrael Birhan Biresaw, Solomon Sisay Mulugeta

Are wheezing, asthma and eczema in children associated with mother’s health during pregnancy? Evidence from an Australian birth cohort

Kabir Ahmad, Enamul Kabir, Gail M. Ormsby, Rasheda Khanam

Association among dysmenorrhea and activity limitation and participation restrictions in adult women: a cross-sectional study, Brazil -2017

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Luana Brito dos Santos, Caroline Wanderley Souto Ferreira, Caroline Gomes Gonçalves, Mikaela Aparecida de Oliveira Xavier, Jardelina Hermecina Dantas, Isabelle Ribeiro Barbosa, Saionara Maria Aires da Câmara, Diego Dantas

The prior infection with SARS-CoV-2 study (PICOV) in nursing home residents and staff - study protocol description and presentation of preliminary findings on symptoms.

Maria E. Goossens, Kristof Y. Neven, Pieter Pannus, Cyril Barbezange, Isabelle Thomas, Steven Van Gucht, Katelijne Dierick, Marie-Noëlle Schmickler, Mathieu Verbrugghe, Nele Van Loon, Kevin K Ariën, Arnaud Marchant, Stanislas Goriely, Isabelle Desombere

Incidence and predictors of under-five mortality in East Africa using multilevel Weibull regression modeling

Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema, Achamyeleh Birhanu Teshale, Zemenu Tadesse Tessema

Bio-surveillance of environmental pollutants in the population of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): a small pilot study

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Trésor Bayebila Menanzambi, Patrice Dufour, Catherine Pirard, Jean Nsangu, Jean-Pierre Mufusama, Jérémie Mbinze Kindenge, Roland Marini Djang’eing’a, Corinne Charlier

The rights (and responsibilities) of the public to advance health through research

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Fabrice Jotterand, Ryan Spellecy, Reza Shaker

Experiences from cross-cultural collaboration in health campaigns in Tanzania: a qualitative study

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Olav Johannes Hovland, Ane Falnes Hole, Mercy Grace Chiduo, Berit Johannessen

Editorial commentary: public mental health and racism in Europe

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Patrick Cloos, Johan Bilsen

The application of the QALY measure in the assessment of the effects of health interventions on an older population: a systematic scoping review

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Ewa Kocot, Paulina Kotarba, Katarzyna Dubas-Jakóbczyk

“I had to change my attitude”: narratives of most significant change explore the experience of universal home visits to pregnant women and their spouses in Bauchi State, Nigeria

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Loubna Belaid, Umaira Ansari, Khalid Omer, Yagana Gidado, Muhammed Chadi Baba, Lois Ezekiel Daniel, Neil Andersson, Anne Cockcroft

The association between childhood neighborhood relationship and mental health in middle and later life: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

Jian Sun, Hongye Luo, Chaofan Li, Qianqiang Wang

Individual and community-level factors associated with modern contraceptive use among adolescent girls and young women in Ethiopia: a multilevel analysis of 2016 Ethiopia demographic and health survey

Samuel Hailegebreal, Binyam Tariku Seboka, Mohammedjud Hassen Ahmed, Gizaw Hailiye Teferi, Zegaye Regasa, Beemnet Tekabe, Sewunet Sako, Girma Gilano

Complementary feeding practices and associated factors among mothers of children aged 6-23 months in Ethiopia: Secondary data analysis of Ethiopian mini demographic and health survey 2019

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Sewunet Sako Shagaro, Be’emnet Tekabe Mulugeta, Temesgen Dileba Kale

Phased repatriation of Lebanese expatriates stranded abroad during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic

Dalal Youssef, Atika Berry, Nada Ghosn, Mahmoud Zalzali, Riad Fadlallah, Linda Abou-Abbas, Hamad Hassan

Prevalence of severe adverse events among health professionals after receiving the first dose of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 coronavirus vaccine (Covishield) in Togo, March 2021

Yao Rodion Konu, Fifonsi Adjidossi Gbeasor-Komlanvi, Mouhoudine Yerima, Arnold Junior Sadio, Martin Kouame Tchankoni, Wendpouire Ida Carine Zida-Compaore, Josée Nayo-Apetsianyi, Kossivi Agbélénko Afanvi, Sibabe Agoro, Mounerou Salou, Dadja Essoya Landoh, Atany B. Nyansa, Essohanam Boko, Moustafa Mijiyawa, Didier Koumavi Ekouevi

Cross-national comparisons of health indicators require standardized definitions and common data sources

Hanna Tolonen, Jaakko Reinikainen, Päivikki Koponen, Hanna Elonheimo, Luigi Palmieri, Mariken J. Tijhuis

Prevalence and factors associated with fertility desire among HIV-positive women in Rwanda in the context of improved life expectancy

François Niragire, Celestin Ndikumana, Marie Gaudence Nyirahabimana, Dieudonne Uwizeye

Prevalence and predictors of different patterns of hypertension among adults aged 20–60 years in rural communities of Southeast Nigeria: a cross-sectional study

Rufina N. B. Ayogu, Mmesoma G. Ezeh, Adaobi M. Okafor

Community residents’ preferences for chronic disease management in Primary Care Facilities in China: a stated preference survey

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Xianglin Li, Mingzhu Jiang, Yingying Peng, Xiao Shen, Erping Jia, Juyang Xiong

District health network policy in Iran: the role of ideas, interests, and institutions (3i framework) in a nutshell

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Vahid Yazdi-Feyzabadi, Mohammad Bazyar, Sara Ghasemi

Quality of life among Syrian refugees in Germany: a cross-sectional pilot study

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Feras Al Masri, Mattea Müller, Josefine Nebl, Theresa Greupner, Andreas Hahn, Dorothee Straka

Prevalence of anemia and its associated factors among married women in 19 sub-Saharan African countries

Betregiorgis Zegeye, Felix Emeka Anyiam, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Eugene Budu, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Sanni Yaya

Sexual and reproductive health knowledge, sexual attitudes, and sexual behaviour of university students: Findings of a Beijing-Based Survey in 2010-2011

Ming Guan

Burden of puerperal sepsis and its associated factors in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Abenezer Melkie, Enyew Dagnew

Development of an acceptable indigenous food diet for Pedi children under five years in early childhood development centers in rural Limpopo, South Africa

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Gundo Nepfumbada, Tafadzwa Dzinamarira, Tivani Phosa Mashamba-Thompson

Learning our lesson: using past policies to improve digital and ethnic inequalities beyond the pandemic

Mel Ramasawmy, Lydia Poole, Amitava Banerjee

Prevalence and determinants of Anemia among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and Meta-analysis

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Meseret Belete Fite, Nega Assefa, Bizatu Mengiste

Coping with interoperability in the development of a federated research infrastructure: achievements, challenges and recommendations from the JA-InfAct

Juan González-García, Francisco Estupiñán-Romero, Carlos Tellería-Orriols, Javier González-Galindo, Luigi Palmieri, Andrea Faragalli, Ivan Pristās, Jakov Vuković, Janis Misinš, Irisa Zile, Enrique Bernal-Delgado, Brigid Unim, Flavia Carle, Rosaria Gesuita, Damir Ivanković, Marko Brkić, Jelena Dimnjaković, Jane Lyons, Ronan Lyons, Zeynep Ors, Metka Zaletel, Paulo Nogueira, Luís Velez Lapão, Håkon Haaheim, Petronille Bogaert, Linda Abboud, Herman van Oyen

Effect of commuting on the risk of COVID-19 and COVID-19-induced anxiety in Japan, December 2020

Hajime Ando, Kazunori Ikegami, Tomohisa Nagata, Seiichiro Tateishi, Hisashi Eguchi, Mayumi Tsuji, Shinya Matsuda, Yoshihisa Fujino, Akira Ogami

Impact of COVID-19 on maternal healthcare in Africa and the way forward

Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Carolyne Njue

Knowledge, attitude, performance, and determinant factors of Vitamin D deficiency prevention behaviours among Iranian pregnant women

Farideh Aghaei, Alireza Heidarnia, Hamid Allahverdipour, Mohammad Eslami, Saeideh Ghaffarifar

Differences between health technology assessment topics in high- and middle-income countries: a scoping review

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Sepehr Ghazinoory, Basireh Majidi, Shohreh Nasri, Mohammad Ehsan Zandi, Hosein Farrokhi, Majid Javedani, Majid Barzanouni

Interpreting a standardized and normalized measure of neighborhood socioeconomic status for a better understanding of health differences

Masayoshi Oka

An integrative model of patients’ perceived value of healthcare service quality in North Cyprus

  • Open Access
  • Research

Mert Sanıl, Fehiman Eminer

Maternity waiting home as a potential intervention for reducing the maternal mortality ratio in El Salvador: an observational case study

Hee sang Yoon, Chong-Sup Kim

Overview of national health reporting in the EU and quality criteria for public health reports – results of the Joint Action InfAct

Martin Thissen, Stefanie Seeling, Peter Achterberg, Angela Fehr, Luigi Palmieri, Mariken J. Tijhuis, Brigid Unim, Thomas Ziese

Willingness of dentists in the United Arab Emirates to perform restorative and surgical treatments for patients infected with hepatitis C

Suhail H Al-Amad

Comparison of metabolic syndrome prevalence using four different definitions – a population-based study in Finland

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  • Research

Elsi Haverinen, Laura Paalanen, Luigi Palmieri, Alicia Padron-Monedero, Isabel Noguer-Zambrano, Rodrigo Sarmiento Suárez, Hanna Tolonen

Promoting outdoor recreation among older adults in Sweden – a theoretical and empirical foundation for the development of an intervention

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  • Research

Magnus Zingmark, Rosemarie Ankre, Sandra Wall-Reinius

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Keynote webinar | Spotlight on functional neurological disorder

FND perplexes and frustrates patients and physicians alike. Limited knowledge and insufficient awareness delays diagnosis and treatment, and many patients feel misunderstood and stigmatized. How can you recognize FND and what are the treatment options?

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Keynote webinar | Spotlight on innovations in retinal disease

Retinal diseases are a significant cause of vision impairment and blindness worldwide, but the diagnostic and treatment landscape is rapidly evolving. Explore groundbreaking advances in retinal imaging and gene therapy, before taking a deep dive into emerging treatments for wet AMD.

Prof. Giuseppe Querques
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