Issue 1/2008
Content (429 Articles)
Design of a RCT evaluating the (cost-) effectiveness of a lifestyle intervention for male construction workers at risk for cardiovascular disease: The Health under Construction study
Iris F Groeneveld, Karin I Proper, Allard J van der Beek, Cor van Duivenbooden, Willem van Mechelen
The relationship between smokers' motivation to quit and intensity of tobacco control at the population level: a comparison of five European countries
Jochen René Thyrian, Demosthenes B Panagiotakos, Evangelos Polychronopoulos, Robert West, Witold Zatonski, Ulrich John
Health problems and help-seeking in a nationwide sample of operational Norwegian ambulance personnel
Tom Sterud, Erlend Hem, Øivind Ekeberg, Bjørn Lau
A systematic review of school-based sexual health interventions to prevent STI/HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
Virginia A Paul-Ebhohimhen, Amudha Poobalan, Edwin R van Teijlingen
Correlates of tobacco cessation counseling among Hispanic physicians in the US: A cross-sectional survey study
Francisco G Soto Mas, Héctor G Balcázar, Julia Valderrama Alberola, Chiehwen Ed Hsu
Suicide mortality trends by sex, age and method in Taiwan, 1971–2005
Jin-Jia Lin, Tsung-Hsueh Lu
Presentations of patients of poisoning and predictors of poisoning-related fatality: Findings from a hospital-based prospective study
Hsin-Ling Lee, Hung-Jung Lin, Steve Ting-Yuan Yeh, Chih-Hsien Chi, How-Ran Guo
Mental health literacy and attitudes in a Swedish community sample – Investigating the role of personal experience of mental health care
Karin M Dahlberg, Margda Waern, Bo Runeson
Traditional values of virginity and sexual behaviour in rural Ethiopian youth: results from a cross-sectional study
Mitike Molla, Yemane Berhane, Bernt Lindtjørn
Age at disability onset and self-reported health status
Eric W Jamoom, Willi Horner-Johnson, Rie Suzuki, Elena M Andresen, Vincent A Campbell
Barriers and enablers in the management of tuberculosis treatment in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a qualitative study
Mette Sagbakken, Jan C Frich, Gunnar Bjune
Cost-effectiveness of a workplace intervention for sick-listed employees with common mental disorders: design of a randomized controlled trial
Sandra H van Oostrom, Johannes R Anema, Berend Terluin, Henrica CW de Vet, Dirk L Knol, Willem van Mechelen
The 2003 Australian Breast Health Survey: survey design and preliminary results
Elmer V Villanueva, Sandra Jones, Caroline Nehill, Simone Favelle, David Steel, Donald Iverson, Helen Zorbas
Correlations of knowledge and preference of medical students for a specialty career: a case-study of youth health care
Marc BM Soethout, Olle TJ ten Cate, Gerrit van der Wal
A systematic review of delay in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
Dag Gundersen Storla, Solomon Yimer, Gunnar Aksel Bjune
Effects of neighbourhood income on reported body mass index: an eight year longitudinal study of Canadian children
Lisa N Oliver, Michael V Hayes
Psychiatric disorders and urbanization in Germany
Jack Dekker, Jaap Peen, Jurrijn Koelen, Filip Smit, Robert Schoevers
Establishing a nationwide emergency department-based syndromic surveillance system for better public health responses in Taiwan
Tsung-Shu Joseph Wu, Fuh-Yuan Frank Shih, Muh-Yong Yen, Jiunn-Shyan Julian Wu, Shiou-Wen Lu, Kevin Chi-Ming Chang, Chao Hsiung, Jr-How Chou, Yu-Tseng Chu, Hang Chang, Chan-Hsien Chiu, Fu-Chiang Richard Tsui, Michael M Wagner, Ih-Jen Su, Chwan-Chuen King
The SMILE study: a study of medical information and lifestyles in Eindhoven, the rationale and contents of a large prospective dynamic cohort study
Marjan van den Akker, Mark G Spigt, Lore De Raeve, Ben van Steenkiste, Job FM Metsemakers, Ernst J van Voorst, Hein de Vries
Is it worth investing in mental health promotion and prevention of mental illness? A systematic review of the evidence from economic evaluations
Ingrid Zechmeister, Reinhold Kilian, David McDaid
Reanalysis of updated mortality among vinyl and polyvinyl chloride workers: Confirmation of historical evidence and new findings
Valerio Gennaro, Marcello Ceppi, Paolo Crosignani, Fabio Montanaro
Methodologies used to estimate tobacco-attributable mortality: a review
Mónica Pérez-Ríos, Agustín Montes
Lifestyle behaviors, obesity, and perceived health among men with and without a diagnosis of prostate cancer: A population-based, cross-sectional study
Laura Q Rogers, Kerry S Courneya, Rammarayan Paragi-Gururaja, Stephen J Markwell, Remi Imeokparia
What was retained? The assessment of the training for the peer trainers' course on short and long term basis
Vildan Mevsim, Dilek Guldal, Nilgun Ozcakar, Ozge Saygin
Identification of patients for clinical risk assessment by prediction of cardiovascular risk using default risk factor values
Tom Marshall
Self-poisoning in rural Sri Lanka: small-area variations in incidence
Celie Manuel, David J Gunnell, Wim van der Hoek, Andrew Dawson, Ishika K Wijeratne, Flemming Konradsen
Systematic screening for unsafe driving due to medical conditions: Still debatable
Sandy Leproust, Emmanuel Lagarde, L Rachid Salmi
Status and perspectives of hospital mortality in a public urban Hellenic hospital, based on a five-year review
Iordanis N Papadopoulos, Maria Papaefthymiou, Leonidas Roumeliotis, Vasilios G Panagopoulos, Anna Stefanidou, Anastasia Kostaki
Where to deliver? Analysis of choice of delivery location from a national survey in India
Amardeep Thind, Amir Mohani, Kaberi Banerjee, Fred Hagigi
Women with learning disabilities and access to cervical screening: retrospective cohort study using case control methods
Fiona Reynolds, Debbi Stanistreet, Peter Elton
Lost opportunities in HIV prevention: programmes miss places where exposures are highest
Ingvild F Sandøy, Seter Siziya, Knut Fylkesnes
Does economic development contribute to sex differences in ischaemic heart disease mortality? Hong Kong as a natural experiment using a case-control study
C Mary Schooling, Tai Hing Lam, Sai Yin Ho, Kwok Hang Mak, Gabriel M Leung
Socio-economic class, rurality and risk of cutaneous melanoma by site and gender in Sweden
Beatriz Pérez-Gómez, Nuria Aragonés, Per Gustavsson, Virginia Lope, Gonzalo López-Abente, Marina Pollán
Attitudes to colorectal cancer screening among ethnic minority groups in the UK
Kathryn A Robb, Ijeoma Solarin, Emily Power, Wendy Atkin, Jane Wardle
Rating neighborhoods for older adult health: results from the African American Health study
Elena M Andresen, Theodore K Malmstrom, Fredric D Wolinsky, Mario Schootman, J Philip Miller, Douglas K Miller
Pattern of medical waste management: existing scenario in Dhaka City, Bangladesh
M Manzurul Hassan, Shafiul Azam Ahmed, K Anisur Rahman, Tarit Kanti Biswas
A hidden HIV epidemic among women in Vietnam
Thu Anh Nguyen, Pauline Oosterhoff, Anita Hardon, Hien Nguyen Tran, Roel A Coutinho, Pamela Wright
Impacts of the Finnish service screening programme on breast cancer rates
Ahti Anttila, Tytti Sarkeala, Timo Hakulinen, Sirpa Heinävaara
Relationship between soy and isoflavone intake and periodontal disease: The Freshmen in Dietetic Courses Study II
Keiko Tanaka, Satoshi Sasaki, Kentaro Murakami, Hitomi Okubo, Yoshiko Takahashi, Yoshihiro Miyake
Changes in health and primary health care use of Moroccan and Turkish migrants between 2001 and 2005: a longitudinal study
Majda Lamkaddem, Peter M Spreeuwenberg, Walter L Devillé, Marleen Foets, Peter P Groenewegen
The influence of active coping and perceived stress on health disparities in a multi-ethnic low income sample
Jennifer M Watson, Henrietta L Logan, Scott L Tomar
Can the concept of Health Promoting Schools help to improve students' health knowledge and practices to combat the challenge of communicable diseases: Case study in Hong Kong?
Albert Lee, Martin CS Wong, Vera MW Keung, Hilda SK Yuen, Frances Cheng, Jennifer SY Mok
Somatic health among heroin addicts before and during opioid maintenance treatment: a retrospective cohort study
Ivar Skeie, Mette Brekke, Morten Lindbæk, Helge Waal
The association between socioeconomic position, use of revascularization procedures and five-year survival after recovery from acute myocardial infarction
Maria Rosvall, Basile Chaix, John Lynch, Martin Lindström, Juan Merlo
Parents' perceived vulnerability and perceived control in preventing Meningococcal C infection: a large-scale interview study about vaccination
Danielle RM Timmermans, Lidewij Henneman, Remy A Hirasing, Gerrit van der Wal
Sense of coherence and diabetes: A prospective occupational cohort study
Anne M Kouvonen, Ari Väänänen, Stephen A Woods, Tarja Heponiemi, Aki Koskinen, Salla Toppinen-Tanner
A longitudinal study of environmental tobacco smoke exposure in children: Parental self reports versus age dependent biomarkers
Carme Puig, Oscar Garcia-Algar, Toni Monleon, Roberta Pacifici, Piergiorgio Zuccaro, Jordi Sunyer, Cecilia Figueroa, Simona Pichini, Oriol Vall
Working conditions, self-perceived stress, anxiety, depression and quality of life: A structural equation modelling approach
Bin Nordin Rusli, Bin Abdin Edimansyah, Lin Naing
Hepatitis B virus infection among pregnant women in Taiwan: Comparison between women born in Taiwan and other southeast countries
Ching-Chiang Lin, Hsiu-Shu Hsieh, Yu-Jie Huang, Yeou-Lih Huang, Ming-Kun Ku, Hsin-Chia Hung
Investigating socio-economic-demographic determinants of tobacco use in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Ali Yawar Alam, Azhar Iqbal, Khalif Bile Mohamud, Ronald E Laporte, Ashfaq Ahmed, Sania Nishtar
Spread pattern of the first dengue epidemic in the city of Salvador, Brazil
Florisneide R Barreto, Maria Gloria Teixeira, Maria da Conceição N Costa, Marilia S Carvalho, Mauricio L Barreto
Risk factors for maternal death in the highlands of rural northern Tanzania: a case-control study
Bjørg Evjen-Olsen, Sven Gudmund Hinderaker, Rolv Terje Lie, Per Bergsjø, Peter Gasheka, Gunnar Kvåle
What explains between-school differences in rates of sexual experience?
Marion Henderson, Isabella Butcher, Daniel Wight, Lisa Williamson, Gillian Raab
An investigation of the population impact of variation in HbA1clevels in older people in England and Wales: From a population based multi-centre longitudinal study
Lu Gao, Fiona E Matthews, Lincoln A Sargeant, Carol Brayne, MRC CFAS
Intimate partner violence against women in rural Vietnam - different socio-demographic factors are associated with different forms of violence: Need for new intervention guidelines?
Nguyen Dang Vung, Per-Olof Ostergren, Gunilla Krantz
Cancer mortality differences among urban and rural residents in Lithuania
Giedre Smailyte, Juozas Kurtinaitis
Social inequalities in changes in health-related behaviour among Slovak adolescents aged between 15 and 19: A longitudinal study
Ferdinand Salonna, Jitse P van Dijk, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Maria Sleskova, Johan W Groothoff, Sijmen A Reijneveld
Key health promotion factors among male members of staff at a higher educational institution: A cross-sectional postal survey
Alena Vasianovich, Edwin R van Teijlingen, Garth Reid, Neil W Scott
Comparing estimates of influenza-associated hospitalization and death among adults with congestive heart failure based on how influenza season is defined
Carolyn Sandoval, Stephen D Walter, Paul Krueger, Mark B Loeb
The long-term hospitalization experience following military service in the 1991 Gulf War among veterans remaining on active duty, 1994–2004
Tomoko I Hooper, Samar F DeBakey, Barbara E Nagaraj, Kimberly S Bellis, Besa Smith, Tyler C Smith, Gary D Gackstetter
Social contact networks for the spread of pandemic influenza in children and teenagers
Laura M Glass, Robert J Glass
Gender, socio-economic status and metabolic syndrome in middle-aged and old adults
Ana C Santos, Shah Ebrahim, Henrique Barros
"That is why I stopped the ART": Patients' & providers' perspectives on barriers to and enablers of HIV treatment adherence in a South African workplace programme
Mison Dahab, Salome Charalambous, Robin Hamilton, Katherine Fielding, Karina Kielmann, Gavin J Churchyard, Alison D Grant
Traditional circumcision during manhood initiation rituals in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: a pre-post intervention evaluation
Karl Peltzer, Ayanda Nqeketo, George Petros, Xola Kanta
Prevalence of HIV, Herpes Simplex Virus-2, and Syphilis in male sex partners of pregnant women in Peru
Jesse L Clark, Kelika A Konda, Cesar V Munayco, Monica Pún, Andres G Lescano, Segundo R Leon, Jose Pajuelo, Luis Suarez-Ognio, Jeffrey D Klausner, Thomas J Coates, Carlos F Cáceres
Monitoring trends in socioeconomic health inequalities: it matters how you measure
Young-Ho Khang, Sung-Cheol Yun, John W Lynch
An investigation of the smoking behaviours of parents before, during and after the birth of their children in Taiwan
Shu-Fang Shih, Likwang Chen, Chi Pang Wen, Wei-Chih Yang, Yaw-Tang Shih
Sputum microscopy for the diagnosis of HIV-associated pulmonary tuberculosis in Tanzania
Mecky Matee, Lillian Mtei, Tarja Lounasvaara, Wendy Wieland-Alter, Richard Waddell, Johnson Lyimo, Muhammad Bakari, Kisali Pallangyo, C Fordham von Reyn
Health information seeking on the Internet: a double divide? Results from a representative survey in the Paris metropolitan area, France, 2005–2006
Emilie Renahy, Isabelle Parizot, Pierre Chauvin
Psychometric evaluation of the Problem Areas in Diabetes (PAID) survey in Southern, rural African American women with Type 2 diabetes
Stephania T Miller, Tom A Elasy
How effective is good domestic kitchen hygiene at reducing diarrhoeal disease in developed countries? A systematic review and reanalysis of the UK IID study
Anna Stenberg, Clare Macdonald, Paul R Hunter
The association of urinary cadmium with sex steroid hormone concentrations in a general population sample of US adult men
Andy Menke, Eliseo Guallar, Meredith S Shiels, Sabine Rohrmann, Shehzad Basaria, Nader Rifai, William G Nelson, Elizabeth A Platz
The Sandwell Project: A controlled evaluation of a programme of targeted screening for prevention of cardiovascular disease in primary care
Tom Marshall, Paul Westerby, Jenny Chen, Mary Fairfield, Jenny Harding, Ruth Westerby, Rajai Ahmad, John Middleton
Daylight saving time transitions and hospital treatments due to accidents or manic episodes
Tuuli A Lahti, Jari Haukka, Jouko Lönnqvist, Timo Partonen
Depression and termination of pregnancy (induced abortion) in a national cohort of young Australian women: the confounding effect of women's experience of violence
Angela J Taft, Lyndsey F Watson
Scale Development: Factors Affecting Diet, Exercise, and Stress Management (FADESM)
Mei-Wei Chang, Roger Brown, Susan Nitzke
Japanese cancer patient participation in and satisfaction with treatment-related decision-making: A qualitative study
Yoshiko Watanabe, Miyako Takahashi, Ichiro Kai
Baseline assessment of prevalence and geographical distribution of HPV types in Chile using self-collected vaginal samples
Catterina Ferreccio, Alejandro Corvalán, Paula Margozzini, Paola Viviani, Claudia González, Ximena Aguilera, Patti E Gravitt
The prevalence of self-reported deliberate self harm in Irish adolescents
Carolyn Morey, Paul Corcoran, Ella Arensman, Ivan J Perry
Reduction in young male suicide in Scotland
Cameron Stark, Diane Stockton, Rob Henderson
Disclosure experience and associated factors among HIV positive men and women clinical service users in southwest Ethiopia
Kebede Deribe, Kifle Woldemichael, Mekitie Wondafrash, Amaha Haile, Alemayehu Amberbir
Vaccination coverage in children can be estimated from health insurance data
Helen Kalies, Rebekka Redel, Rudolf Varga, Martin Tauscher, Rüdiger von Kries
Negotiating the transition from adolescence to motherhood: Coping with prenatal and parenting stress in teenage mothers in Mulago hospital, Uganda
Dan K Kaye
Obesity and cardio-metabolic risk factors in urban adults of Benin: Relationship with socio-economic status, urbanisation, and lifestyle patterns
Roger Sodjinou, Victoire Agueh, Benjamin Fayomi, Hélène Delisle
An investigation into the prevalence of dog bites to primary school children in Trinidad
Karla Georges, Abiodun Adesiyun
Social correlates of cigarette smoking among Icelandic adolescents: A population-based cross-sectional study
Alfgeir L Kristjansson, Inga D Sigfusdottir, John P Allegrante, Asgeir R Helgason
Analysis of oral cancer epidemiology in the US reveals state-specific trends: implications for oral cancer prevention
Karl Kingsley, Susan O'Malley, Marcia Ditmyer, Michelle Chino
Sense of coherence and attrition during four-year follow-up in cohorts of permanent and non-permanent Finnish employees
Virpi Liukkonen, Pekka Virtanen, Mika Kivimäki, Jaana Pentti, Jussi Vahtera
Rationale, design, and analysis of combined Brazilian household budget survey and food intake individual data
R Sichieri, RA Pereira, A Martins, ABPA Vasconcellos, A Trichopoulou
Adolescents' health and health behaviour as predictors of injury death. A prospective cohort follow-up of 652,530 person-years
Ville M Mattila, Jari Parkkari, Leena Koivusilta, Tapio Nummi, Pekka Kannus, Arja Rimpelä
Self-management of type 2 diabetes mellitus: a qualitative investigation from the perspective of participants in a nurse-led, shared-care programme in the Netherlands
Albine Moser, Harry van der Bruggen, Guy Widdershoven, Cor Spreeuwenberg
Exposure to the tsunami disaster, PTSD symptoms and increased substance use – an Internet based survey of male and female residents of Switzerland
Stefan Vetter, Astrid Rossegger, Wulf Rossler, Jonathan I Bisson, Jerome Endrass
Undocumented migrants lack access to pregnancy care and prevention
Hans Wolff, Manuella Epiney, Ana P Lourenco, Michael C Costanza, Jacqueline Delieutraz-Marchand, Nicole Andreoli, Jean-Bernard Dubuisson, Jean-Michel Gaspoz, Olivier Irion
Positive deviance control-case life history: a method to develop grounded hypotheses about successful long-term avoidance of infection
Samuel R Friedman, Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, Milagros Sandoval, Holly Hagan, Don C Des Jarlais
Validity of parental work information on the birth certificate
Jean D Brender, Lucina Suarez, Peter H Langlois
Estimating the burden of rhodesiense sleeping sickness during an outbreak in Serere, eastern Uganda
Eric M Fèvre, Martin Odiit, Paul G Coleman, Mark EJ Woolhouse, Susan C Welburn
Prevalence and correlates of tobacco use amongst junior collegiates in twin cities of western Nepal: A cross-sectional, questionnaire-based survey
Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, PV Kishore, Jagadish Paudel, Ritesh G Menezes
A 6 year Geohelminth infection profile of children at high altitude in Western Nepal
Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay, Godwin Wilson, Kiran Chawla, Binu VS, PG Shivananda
Impact of methodological "shortcuts" in conducting public health surveys: Results from a vaccination coverage survey
Elizabeth T Luman, Mariana Sablan, Shannon Stokley, Mary M McCauley, Kate M Shaw
Surveillance study of vector species on board passenger ships, Risk factors related to infestations
Varvara A Mouchtouri, Rimma Anagnostopoulou, Anna Samanidou-Voyadjoglou, Kalliopi Theodoridou, Chrissi Hatzoglou, Jenny Kremastinou, Christos Hadjichristodoulou
Neighbourhood perceptions of physical activity: a qualitative study
Louise N Burgoyne, Catherine Woods, Rosarie Coleman, Ivan J Perry
Gender, school and academic year differences among Spanish university students at high-risk for developing an eating disorder: An epidemiologic study
Ana R Sepulveda, Jose A Carrobles, Ana M Gandarillas
The Infant Feeding Activity and Nutrition Trial (INFANT) an early intervention to prevent childhood obesity: Cluster-randomised controlled trial
Karen Campbell, Kylie Hesketh, David Crawford, Jo Salmon, Kylie Ball, Zoë McCallum
Paternal psychosocial work conditions and mental health outcomes: A case-control study
Stefania Maggi, Aleck Ostry, James Tansey, James Dunn, Ruth Hershler, Lisa Chen, Clyde Hertzman
Acupuncture, chiropractic and osteopathy use in Australia: a national population survey
Charlie CL Xue, Anthony L Zhang, Vivian Lin, Ray Myers, Barbara Polus, David F Story
A comparison of four scoring methods based on the parent-rated Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire as used in the Dutch preventive child health care system
Mathilde R Crone, Anton GC Vogels, Femke Hoekstra, Philip DA Treffers, Sijmen A Reijneveld
Extrapulmonary tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus, and foreign birth in North Carolina, 1993 – 2006
Aaron M Kipp, Jason E Stout, Carol Dukes Hamilton, Annelies Van Rie
Prevalence of prehypertension and associated cardiovascular risk profiles among prediabetic Omani adults
Shyam Sundar Ganguly, Mohammed Ali Al-Shafaee, Kamlesh Bhargava, Kalyan Kanti Duttagupta
Hospitalizations associated with rotavirus gastroenteritis in Spain, 2001–2005
Ana López-de-Andrés, Rodrigo Jiménez-García, Pilar Carrasco-Garrido, Alejandro Alvaro-Meca, Patricia Graciela Galarza, Ángel Gil de Miguel
Chronic disease mortality associated with infectious agents: A comparative cohort study of migrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel and Germany
Jördis J Ott, Ari M Paltiel, Volker Winkler, Heiko Becher
Life style related to blood pressure and body weight in adolescence: Cross sectional data from the Young-HUNT study, Norway
Magnus H Fasting, Tom IL Nilsen, Turid L Holmen, Torstein Vik
Socioeconomic position and risk of short-term weight gain: Prospective study of 14,619 middle-aged men and women
Lisa R Purslow, Elizabeth H Young, Nicholas J Wareham, Nita Forouhi, Eric J Brunner, Robert N Luben, Ailsa A Welch, Kay-Tee Khaw, Shelia A Bingham, Manjinder S Sandhu
The effectiveness of brief personalized normative feedback in reducing alcohol-related problems amongst University students: protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Teresa Moreira, David R Foxcroft
Evaluating human papillomavirus vaccination programs in Canada: should provincial healthcare pay for voluntary adult vaccination?
Marco Llamazares, Robert J Smith
Risk factors for childhood obesity: shift of the entire BMI distribution vs. shift of the upper tail only in a cross sectional study
André M Toschke, Rüdiger von Kries, Andreas Beyerlein, Simon Rückinger
Calculating expected years of life lost for assessing local ethnic disparities in causes of premature death
Tomás J Aragón, Daphne Y Lichtensztajn, Brian S Katcher, Randy Reiter, Mitchell H Katz
Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in population-based studies: Systematic review
Qiu-Li Zhang, Dietrich Rothenbacher
The influences of Taiwan's generic grouping price policy on drug prices and expenditures: Evidence from analysing the consumption of the three most-used classes of cardiovascular drugs
Chi-Liang Chen, Likwang Chen, Wei-Chih Yang
The influence of multi-morbidity and self-reported socio-economic standing on the prevalence of depression in an elderly Hong Kong population
Samuel YS Wong, Stewart W Mercer, Jean Woo, Jason Leung
Stages of development and injury: An epidemiological survey of young children presenting to an emergency department
Kirsty MacInnes, David H Stone
Reliability of medical students' vaccination histories for immunisable diseases
Sabine Wicker, Regina Allwinn, René Gottschalk, Holger F Rabenau
Epidemiological analysis of injury in Shandong Province, China
Jixiang Ma, Xiaolei Guo, Aiqiang Xu, Jiyu Zhang, Chongqi Jia
Why do people fail to turn good intentions into action? The role of executive control processes in the translation of healthy eating intentions into action in young Scottish adults
Julia L Allan, Marie Johnston, Neil Campbell
Parents' concerns about children are highly prevalent but often not confirmed by child doctors and nurses
Sijmen A Reijneveld, Gea de Meer, Carin H Wiefferink, Matty R Crone
Age differences in mental health literacy
Louise Farrer, Liana Leach, Kathleen M Griffiths, Helen Christensen, Anthony F Jorm
Psychological, social and biological determinants of ill health (pSoBid): Study Protocol of a population-based study
Yoga N Velupillai, Chris J Packard, G David Batty, Vladimir Bezlyak, Harry Burns, Jonathan Cavanagh, Kevin Deans, Ian Ford, Agnes McGinty, Keith Millar, Naveed Sattar, Paul Shiels, Carol Tannahill
Sex and the city: Differences in disease- and disability-free life years, and active community participation of elderly men and women in 7 cities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Angela MC Rose, Anselm J Hennis, Ian R Hambleton
The body politic: the relationship between stigma and obesity-associated disease
Peter Muennig
Reasons for not using smoking cessation aids
Beatrice Gross, Leonie Brose, Anja Schumann, Sabina Ulbricht, Christian Meyer, Henry Völzke, Hans-Jürgen Rumpf, Ulrich John
Promoting prevention with economic arguments – The case of Finnish occupational health services
Eila Kankaanpää, Aki Suhonen, Hannu Valtonen
The area-based social patterning of injuries among 10 to 19 year olds Changes over time in the Stockholm County
Anne-Mari Reimers, Antonio Ponce de Leon, Lucie Laflamme
Viral hepatitis in Germany: poor vaccination coverage and little knowledge about transmission in target groups
Karl Schenkel, Doris Radun, Viviane Bremer, Nikolaus Bocter, Osamah Hamouda
Rapid increases in obesity in Jamaica, compared to Nigeria and the United States
Ramón A Durazo-Arvizu, Amy Luke, Richard S Cooper, Guichan Cao, Lara Dugas, Adebowale Adeyemo, Michael Boyne, Terrence Forrester
Smoking in context – a multilevel approach to smoking among females in Helsinki
Sakari Karvonen, Petteri Sipilä, Pekka Martikainen, Ossi Rahkonen, Mikko Laaksonen
Estimating the costs of school closure for mitigating an influenza pandemic
Md Z Sadique, Elisabeth J Adams, William J Edmunds
Predictors of early sexual initiation among a nationally representative sample of Nigerian adolescents
Adesegun O Fatusi, Robert W Blum
Verifiability of diagnostic categories and work ability in the context of disability pension award: A survey on "gatekeeping" among general practitioners in Norway
Rein Overland, Simon Overland, Kristian Nyborg Johansen, Arnstein Mykletun
Learning from a Rapid Health Impact Assessment of a proposed maternity service reconfiguration in the English NHS
Greg Fell, Sophie Haroon
What they fill in today, may not be useful tomorrow: Lessons learned from studying Medical Records at the Women hospital in Tabriz, Iran
Faramarz Pourasghar, Hossein Malekafzali, Alireza Kazemi, Johan Ellenius, Uno Fors
Obesity and prevalence of chronic diseases in the 1999–2000 Italian National Health Survey
Stefano Calza, Adriano Decarli, Monica Ferraroni
Reproductive health and pregnancy outcomes among French gulf war veterans
Catherine Verret, Mathe-Aline Jutand, Catherine De Vigan, Marion Bégassat, Lynda Bensefa-Colas, Patrick Brochard, Roger Salamon
The ENDORSE study: Research into environmental determinants of obesity related behaviors in Rotterdam schoolchildren
Klazine van der Horst, Anke Oenema, Petra van de Looij-Jansen, Johannes Brug
Impact of five years of peer-mediated interventions on sexual behavior and sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya
Stanley Luchters, Matthew F Chersich, Agnes Rinyiru, Mary-Stella Barasa, Nzioki King'ola, Kishorchandra Mandaliya, Wilkister Bosire, Sam Wambugu, Peter Mwarogo, Marleen Temmerman
Chinese version of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey: cross-cultural instrument adaptation
Ping-Ling Chen, Hung-Yi Chiou, Yi-Hua Chen
Intentional injury reported by young people in the Federated States of Micronesia, Kingdom of Tonga and Vanuatu
Ben J Smith, Philayrath Phongsavan, Dale Bampton, Genevieve Peacocke, Mercedes Gilmete, Drew Havea, Tien Chey, Adrian E Bauman
Proposal of a framework for evaluating military surveillance systems for early detection of outbreaks on duty areas
Jean-Baptiste Meynard, Herve Chaudet, Andrew D Green, Henry L Jefferson, Gaetan Texier, Daniel Webber, Bruce Dupuy, Jean-Paul Boutin
Suicide among adults aged 30–49: A psychological autopsy study in Hong Kong
Paul WC Wong, Wincy SC Chan, Eric YH Chen, Sandra SM Chan, YW Law, Paul SF Yip
Patterns of coronary heart disease mortality over the 20th century in England and Wales: Possible plateaus in the rate of decline
Steven Allender, Peter Scarborough, Martin O'Flaherty, Simon Capewell
Factors predicting drop out from, and retention in, specialist drug treatment services: A case control study in the North West of England
Caryl M Beynon, Alison M McMinn, Adam JE Marr
Development and validation of psychosocial determinants measures of physical activity among Iranian adolescent girls
Ashraf Pirasteh, Alireza Hidarnia, Ali Asghari, Soghrate Faghihzadeh, Fazlollah Ghofranipour
Prevalence of high frequency hearing loss consistent with noise exposure among people working with sound systems and general population in Brazil: A cross-sectional study
Regina P El Dib, Edina MK Silva, José F Morais, Virgínia FM Trevisani
Cancer patterns among children of Turkish descent in Germany: A study at the German Childhood Cancer Registry
Jacob Spallek, Claudia Spix, Hajo Zeeb, Peter Kaatsch, Oliver Razum
Are hygiene and public health interventions likely to improve outcomes for Australian Aboriginal children living in remote communities? A systematic review of the literature
Elizabeth McDonald, Ross Bailie, David Brewster, Peter Morris
Tackling tuberculosis patients' internalized social stigma through patient centred care: An intervention study in rural Nicaragua
Jean Macq, Alejandro Solis, Guillermo Martinez, Patrick Martiny
Sexual uses of alcohol and drugs and the associated health risks: A cross sectional study of young people in nine European cities
Mark A Bellis, Karen Hughes, Amador Calafat, Montse Juan, Anna Ramon, José A Rodriguez, Fernando Mendes, Susanne Schnitzer, Penny Phillips-Howard
The perceived impact of location privacy: A web-based survey of public health perspectives and requirements in the UK and Canada
Philip AbdelMalik, Maged N Kamel Boulos, Ray Jones
Malaria treatment in the retail sector: Knowledge and practices of drug sellers in rural Tanzania
Manuel W Hetzel, Angel Dillip, Christian Lengeler, Brigit Obrist, June J Msechu, Ahmed M Makemba, Christopher Mshana, Alexander Schulze, Hassan Mshinda
Timing of therapy for latent tuberculosis infection among immigrants presenting to a U.S. public health clinic: a retrospective study
Kathleen R Page, Yukari C Manabe, Akintoye Adelakun, Lynn Federline, Wendy Cronin, James D Campbell, Susan E Dorman
Does transition from an unstable labour market position to permanent employment protect mental health? Results from a 14-year follow-up of school-leavers
Ieva Reine, Mehmed Novo, Anne Hammarström
Implications for registry-based vaccine effectiveness studies from an evaluation of an immunization registry: A cross-sectional study
Barbara E Mahon, Kimberly M Shea, Nancy N Dougherty, Anita M Loughlin
Risk factors for incomplete vaccination and missed opportunity for immunization in rural Mozambique
Jagrati V Jani, Caroline De Schacht, Ilesh V Jani, Gunnar Bjune
Prescription of medicines by medical students of Karachi, Pakistan: A cross-sectional study
Syed Nabeel Zafar, Reema Syed, Sana Waqar, Faria A Irani, Sarah Saleem
Changes in undergraduate student alcohol consumption as they progress through university
Bridgette M Bewick, Brendan Mulhern, Michael Barkham, Karen Trusler, Andrew J Hill, William B Stiles
The longitudinal relationship between job mobility, perceived organizational justice, and health
Mats Liljegren, Kerstin Ekberg
Depression, anxiety, stress, social interaction and health-related quality of life in men and women with unexplained chest pain
Annika Janson Fagring, Karin I Kjellgren, Annika Rosengren, Lauren Lissner, Karin Manhem, Catharina Welin
Secular trends in height and weight among children and adolescents of the Seychelles, 1956–2006
Pedro Marques-Vidal, George Madeleine, Sarah Romain, Anne Gabriel, Pascal Bovet
Do advertisements for antihypertensive drugs in Australia promote quality prescribing? A cross-sectional study
Brett D Montgomery, Peter R Mansfield, Geoffrey K Spurling, Alison M Ward
Public engagement on global health challenges
Emma RM Cohen, Hassan Masum, Kathryn Berndtson, Vicki Saunders, Tom Hadfield, Dilzayn Panjwani, Deepa L Persad, Gunjeet S Minhas, Abdallah S Daar, Jerome A Singh, Peter A Singer
18-month occurrence of severe events among early diagnosed HIV-infected children before antiretroviral therapy in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: A cohort study
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Impact of socio-economic factors on stroke prevalence among urban and rural residents in Mainland China
Fei Xu, Lap Ah Tse, XiaoMei Yin, Ignatius Tak-sun Yu, Sian Griffiths
Predictors of overweight and obesity in five to seven-year-old children in Germany: Results from cross-sectional studies
Christian J Apfelbacher, Adrian Loerbroks, John Cairns, Heidrun Behrendt, Johannes Ring, Ursula Krämer
Targeting physical activity promotion in general practice: Characteristics of inactive patients and willingness to change
Gonzalo Grandes, Alvaro Sánchez, Jesús Torcal, Ricardo Ortega Sánchez-Pinilla, Kepa Lizarraga, Javier Serra
'People pull the rug from under your feet': barriers to successful public health programmes
Deborah Ritchie, Wendy Gnich, Odette Parry, Steve Platt
Waterpipe smoking in students: Prevalence, risk factors, symptoms of addiction, and smoke intake. Evidence from one British university
Daniel Jackson, Paul Aveyard
Internal validity of a household food security scale is consistent among diverse populations participating in a food supplement program in Colombia
Michelle Hackett, Hugo Melgar-Quinonez, Martha C Alvarez Uribe
High prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes and abnormal glucose tolerance in the Iranian urban population: Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study
Farzad Hadaegh, Mohammad Reza Bozorgmanesh, Asghar Ghasemi, Hadi Harati, Navid Saadat, Fereidoun Azizi
Tuberculosis suspicion and knowledge among private and public general practitioners: Questionnaire Based Study in Oman
Abdullah A Al-Maniri, Omar A Al-Rawas, Fatmah Al-Ajmi, Ayesha De Costa, Bo Eriksson, Vinod K Diwan
Population tobacco control interventions and their effects on social inequalities in smoking: placing an equity lens on existing systematic reviews
Caroline Main, Sian Thomas, David Ogilvie, Lisa Stirk, Mark Petticrew, Margaret Whitehead, Amanda Sowden
Contribution of smoking and air pollution exposure in urban areas to social differences in respiratory health
Tamara Schikowski, Dorothee Sugiri, Verena Reimann, Beate Pesch, Ulrich Ranft, Ursula Krämer
An integrated model of care to counter high incidence of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases in men who have sex with men – initial analysis of service utilizers in Zurich
David LB Schwappach, Philip Bruggmann
Job strain — Attributable depression in a sample of working Australians: Assessing the contribution to health inequalities
Anthony D LaMontagne, Tessa Keegel, Deborah Vallance, Aleck Ostry, Rory Wolfe
Less healthy, but more active: Opposing selection biases when recruiting older people to a physical activity study through primary care
Tess J Harris, Christina R Victor, Iain M Carey, Rika Adams, Derek G Cook
Doctors' personal health care choices: A cross-sectional survey in a mixed public/private setting
Julie Y Chen, Eileen YY Tse, Tai Pong Lam, Donald KT Li, David VK Chao, Chi Wai Kwan
Use of residential wood heating in a context of climate change: a population survey in Québec (Canada)
Diane Bélanger, Pierre Gosselin, Pierre Valois, Belkacem Abdous
Growing old at home – A randomized controlled trial to investigate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of preventive home visits to reduce nursing home admissions: study protocol [NCT00644826]
Steffen Fleischer, Gudrun Roling, Katrin Beutner, Stephanie Hanns, Johann Behrens, Tobias Luck, Bettina Kuske, Matthias C Angermeyer, Steffi G Riedel-Heller, Sven Heinrich, Hans-H König, Christine Lautenschläger
Strategies to improve global influenza surveillance: A decision tool for policymakers
Melinda Moore, Edward Chan, Nicole Lurie, Agnes Gereben Schaefer, Danielle M Varda, John A Zambrano
Italian multicenter study on infection hazards during dental practice: Control of environmental microbial contamination in public dental surgeries
Paolo Castiglia, Giorgio Liguori, Maria Teresa Montagna, Christian Napoli, Cesira Pasquarella, Margherita Bergomi, Leila Fabiani, Silvano Monarca, Stefano Petti
Obesity prevention in child care: A review of U.S. state regulations
Sara E Benjamin, Angie Cradock, Elizabeth M Walker, Meghan Slining, Matthew W Gillman
C-reactive protein, established risk factors and social inequalities in cardiovascular disease – the significance of absolute versus relative measures of disease
Maria Rosvall, Gunnar Engström, Göran Berglund, Bo Hedblad
Prevalence and social environment of cigarette smoking in Cyprus youth
Costas A Christophi, Ourania Kolokotroni, Hillel R Alpert, Charles W Warren, Nathan R Jones, Philip Demokritou, Gregory N Connolly
Post-graduation migration intentions of students of Lebanese medical schools: a survey study
Elie A Akl, Nancy Maroun, Stella Major, Claude Afif, Abir Abdo, Jacques Choucair, Mazen Sakr, Carl K Li, Brydon JB Grant, Holger J Schünemann
Healthcare workers' attitudes towards working during pandemic influenza: A multi method study
Heather Draper, Sue Wilson, Jonathan Ives, Christine Gratus, Sheila Greenfield, Jayne Parry, Judith Petts, Tom Sorell
Association between television viewing and the risk of metabolic syndrome in a community-based population
Pei-Chia Chang, Tsai-Chung Li, Ming-Tsang Wu, Chiu-Shong Liu, Chia-Ing Li, Ching-Chu Chen, Wen-Yuan Lin, Shin-Yuh Yang, Cheng-Chieh Lin
Health and survival of young children in southern Tanzania
Joanna RM Armstrong Schellenberg, Mwifadhi Mrisho, Fatuma Manzi, Kizito Shirima, Conrad Mbuya, Adiel K Mushi, Sosthenes Charles Ketende, Pedro L Alonso, Hassan Mshinda, Marcel Tanner, David Schellenberg
Household disaster preparedness and information sources: Rapid cluster survey after a storm in New South Wales, Australia
Michelle Cretikos, Keith Eastwood, Craig Dalton, Tony Merritt, Frank Tuyl, Linda Winn, David Durrheim
The challenge of comprehensively mapping children's health in a nation-wide health survey: Design of the German KiGGS-Study
Bärbel-Maria Kurth, Panagiotis Kamtsiuris, Heike Hölling, Martin Schlaud, Rüdiger Dölle, Ute Ellert, Heidrun Kahl, Hiltraud Knopf, Michael Lange, Gert BM Mensink, Hannelore Neuhauser, Angelika Schaffrath Rosario, Christa Scheidt-Nave, Liane Schenk, Robert Schlack, Heribert Stolzenberg, Michael Thamm, Wulf Thierfelder, Ute Wolf
Risk factors for low birthweight in the public-hospitals at Peshawar, NWFP-Pakistan
Sareer Badshah, Linda Mason, Kenneth McKelvie, Roger Payne, Paulo JG Lisboa
Adverse childhood experiences and prescription drug use in a cohort study of adult HMO patients
Robert F Anda, David W Brown, Vincent J Felitti, Shanta R Dube, Wayne H Giles
Comparing factors affecting commencement and cessation of betel quid chewing behavior in Taiwanese adults
Shue-Fang Yap, Pei-Shan Ho, Hsiao-Ching Kuo, Yi-Hsin Yang
Obesity prevalence from a European perspective: a systematic review
Anne Berghöfer, Tobias Pischon, Thomas Reinhold, Caroline M Apovian, Arya M Sharma, Stefan N Willich
Tuberculosis screening of travelers to higher-incidence countries: A cost-effectiveness analysis
Michael Tan, Dick Menzies, Kevin Schwartzman
Determinants of cognitive function in childhood: A cohort study in a middle income context
Darci N Santos, Ana Marlúcia O Assis, Ana Cecília S Bastos, Letícia M Santos, Carlos Antonio ST Santos, Agostino Strina, Matildes S Prado, Naomar M Almeida-Filho, Laura C Rodrigues, Mauricio L Barreto
Environment And Genetics in Lung cancer Etiology (EAGLE) study: An integrative population-based case-control study of lung cancer
Maria Teresa Landi, Dario Consonni, Melissa Rotunno, Andrew W Bergen, Alisa M Goldstein, Jay H Lubin, Lynn Goldin, Michael Alavanja, Glen Morgan, Amy F Subar, Ilona Linnoila, Fabrizio Previdi, Massimo Corno, Maurizia Rubagotti, Barbara Marinelli, Benedetta Albetti, Antonio Colombi, Margaret Tucker, Sholom Wacholder, Angela C Pesatori, Neil E Caporaso, Pier Alberto Bertazzi
The prevalence and correlates of physical inactivity among adults in Ho Chi Minh City
Oanh TH Trinh, Nguyen D Nguyen, Michael J Dibley, Philayrath Phongsavan, Adrian E Bauman
Vouchers for scaling up insecticide-treated nets in Tanzania: Methods for monitoring and evaluation of a national health system intervention
Kara Hanson, Rose Nathan, Tanya Marchant, Hadji Mponda, Caroline Jones, Jane Bruce, Godlove Stephen, Jo Mulligan, Hassan Mshinda, Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg
Physical activity as a possible mechanism behind the relationship between green space and health: A multilevel analysis
Jolanda Maas, Robert A Verheij, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Peter P Groenewegen
Do 'alternative' help-seeking strategies affect primary care service use? A survey of help-seeking for mental distress
Katja Rüdell, Kamaldeep Bhui, Stefan Priebe
Relationship between parental locus of control and caries experience in preschool children – cross-sectional survey
Erika Lenčová, Hynek Pikhart, Zdeněk Broukal, Georgios Tsakos
Opinions of married women about potential causes and triggers of intimate partner violence against women. A cross-sectional investigation in an Iranian city
Behrooz Hamzeh, Mirtaghi Garousi Farshi, Lucie Laflamme
The cumulative effect of core lifestyle behaviours on the prevalence of hypertension and dyslipidemia
Raquel Villegas, Patricia M Kearney, Ivan J Perry
(Cost)effectiveness of life review for Older Adults: Design of a randomized controlled trial
Anne Margriet Pot, Anne-Sophie Melenhorst, Simone Onrust, Ernst T Bohlmeijer
Gatekeepers of health: A qualitative assessment of child care centre staff's perspectives, practices and challenges to enteric illness prevention and management in child care centres
Marsha Taylor, Cindy L Adams, Andrea Ellis
The positive association between number of children and obesity in Iranian women and men: Results from the National Health Survey
Enayatollah Bakhshi, Mohammad Reza Eshraghian, Kazem Mohammad, Abbas Rahimi Foroushani, Hojat Zeraati, Akbar Fotouhi, Fraidon Siassi, Behjat Seifi
Mental health (GHQ12; CES-D) and attitudes towards the value of work among inmates of a semi-open prison and the long-term unemployed in Luxembourg
Michèle Baumann, Raymond Meyers, Etienne Le Bihan, Claude Houssemand
Factors associated with self-rated health status in university students: a cross-sectional study in three European countries
Rafael T Mikolajczyk, Patrick Brzoska, Claudia Maier, Veronika Ottova, Sabine Meier, Urszula Dudziak, Snezhana Ilieva, Walid El Ansari
Vitalum study design: RCT evaluating the efficacy of tailored print communication and telephone motivational interviewing on multiple health behaviors
Hilde M van Keulen, Ilse Mesters, Johannes Brug, Marlein Ausems, Marci Campbell, Ken Resnicow, Paul J Zwietering, Gerard van Breukelen, Willem van Mechelen, Johan L Severens, Hein de Vries
A survey of local health promotion initiatives for older people in Wales
Maggie Hendry, Nefyn H Williams, Clare Wilkinson
What explains between-school differences in rates of smoking?
Marion Henderson, Russell Ecob, Daniel Wight, Charles Abraham
The 10/66 Dementia Research Group's fully operationalised DSM-IV dementia computerized diagnostic algorithm, compared with the 10/66 dementia algorithm and a clinician diagnosis: a population validation study
Martin J Prince, Juan Llibre de Rodriguez, L Noriega, A Lopez, Daisy Acosta, Emiliano Albanese, Raul Arizaga, John RM Copeland, Michael Dewey, Cleusa P Ferri, Mariella Guerra, Yueqin Huang, KS Jacob, ES Krishnamoorthy, Paul McKeigue, Renata Sousa, Robert J Stewart, Aquiles Salas, Ana Luisa Sosa, Richard Uwakwa
Contributions to early HIV diagnosis among patients linked to care vary by testing venue
Michael S Lyons, Christopher J Lindsell, DeAnna A Hawkins RN, Dana L Raab RN, Alexander T Trott, Carl J Fichtenbaum
Prevalence of comorbidity of chronic diseases in Australia
Gillian E Caughey, Agnes I Vitry, Andrew L Gilbert, Elizabeth E Roughead
The burden of community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly: the Spanish EVAN-65 Study
Olga Ochoa-Gondar, Angel Vila-Córcoles, Cinta de Diego, Victoria Arija, Monica Maxenchs, Montserrat Grive, Enrique Martin, Josep L Pinyol
SWITCH: rationale, design, and implementation of a community, school, and family-based intervention to modify behaviors related to childhood obesity
Joey C Eisenmann, Douglas A Gentile, Gregory J Welk, Randi Callahan, Sarah Strickland, Monica Walsh, David A Walsh
Clinical and cost-effectiveness of computerised cognitive behavioural therapy for depression in primary care: Design of a randomised trial
L Esther de Graaf, Sylvia AH Gerhards, Silvia MAA Evers, Arnoud Arntz, Heleen Riper, Johan L Severens, Guy Widdershoven, Job FM Metsemakers, Marcus JH Huibers
Lack of adequate sun protection for children with oculocutaneous albinism in South Africa
Patricia M Lund, Julie S Taylor
Prevalence and pattern of HIV-related malnutrition among women in sub-Saharan Africa: a meta-analysis of demographic health surveys
Olalekan A Uthman
Race/ethnicity and validity of self-reported pneumococcal vaccination
Nancy P Gordon, Pascale M Wortley, James A Singleton, Teresa Y Lin, Barbara H Bardenheier
Chronic disease risk factors, healthy days and medical claims in South African employees presenting for health risk screening
Tracy L Kolbe-Alexander, Chris Buckmaster, Craig Nossel, Liezel Dreyer, Fiona Bull, Timothy D Noakes, Estelle V Lambert
Disclosing intimate partner violence to health care clinicians - What a difference the setting makes: A qualitative study
Jane Liebschutz, Tracy Battaglia, Erin Finley, Tali Averbuch
Social inequalities in self-rated health by age: Cross-sectional study of 22 457 middle-aged men and women
Emily McFadden, Robert Luben, Sheila Bingham, Nicholas Wareham, Ann-Louise Kinmonth, Kay-Tee Khaw
Cost-utility of a walking programme for moderately depressed, obese, or overweight elderly women in primary care: a randomised controlled trial
Narcis Gusi, Maria C Reyes, Jose L Gonzalez-Guerrero, Emilio Herrera, Jose M Garcia
Determinants of neonatal mortality in Indonesia
Christiana R Titaley, Michael J Dibley, Kingsley Agho, Christine L Roberts, John Hall
Seat belt use among rear passengers: validity of self-reported versus observational measures
Francesco Zambon, Ugo Fedeli, Maria Marchesan, Elena Schievano, Antonio Ferro, Paolo Spolaore
A randomized controlled trial to evaluate self-determination theory for exercise adherence and weight control: rationale and intervention description
Marlene N Silva, David Markland, Cláudia S Minderico, Paulo N Vieira, Margarida M Castro, Sílvia R Coutinho, Teresa C Santos, Margarida G Matos, Luís B Sardinha, Pedro J Teixeira
Participants' perspective on maintaining behaviour change: a qualitative study within the European Diabetes Prevention Study
Linda Penn, Suzanne M Moffatt, Martin White
Delayed Treatment of Diagnosed Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Taiwan
Jimmy PS Chern, Duan-Rung Chen, Tzai-Hung Wen
The risk of pathogenic intestinal parasite infections in Kisii Municipality, Kenya
Robert M Nyarango, Peninah A Aloo, Ephantus W Kabiru, Benson O Nyanchongi
Observations from behind the bar: changing patrons' behaviours in response to smoke-free legislation in Scotland
Shona Hilton, Jane Cameron, Alice MacLean, Mark Petticrew
Psychosocial risk factors in home and community settings and their associations with population health and health inequalities: A systematic meta-review
Matt Egan, Carol Tannahill, Mark Petticrew, Sian Thomas
Lot quality survey: an appealing method for rapid evaluation of vaccine coverage in developing countries – experience in Turkey
Banu Cakir, Sarp Uner, Fehminaz Temel, Levent Akin
Incidence of human brucellosis in a rural area in Western Greece after the implementation of a vaccination programme against animal brucellosis
Eleni Jelastopulu, Christos Bikas, Chrysanthos Petropoulos, Michalis Leotsinidis
Lack of basic and luxury goods and health-related dysfunction in older persons; Findings from the longitudinal SMILE study
Daniëlle AI Groffen, Hans Bosma, Marjan van den Akker, Gertrudis IJM Kempen, Jacques TM van Eijk
Impact of social ties on self reported health in France: Is everyone affected equally?
Zoë Heritage, Richard G Wilkinson, Olivier Grimaud, Kate E Pickett
The effect of maternal anthropometric characteristics and social factors on gestational age and birth weight in Sudanese newborn infants
Eltahir M Elshibly, Gerd Schmalisch
Viral hepatitis and HIV-associated tuberculosis: Risk factors and TB treatment outcomes in Thailand
Chawin Sirinak, Wanitchaya Kittikraisak, Duangporn Pinjeesekikul, Pricha Charusuntonsri, Phinai Luanloed, La-ong Srisuwanvilai, Sriprapa Nateniyom, Somsak Akksilp, Sirirat Likanonsakul, Wanchai Sattayawuthipong, Channawong Burapat, Jay K Varma
Health-related quality of life among general practice patients with differing chronic diseases in Germany: Cross sectional survey
Hong-Mei Wang, Martin Beyer, Jochen Gensichen, Ferdinand M Gerlach
Survey of public knowledge about Echinococcus multilocularisin four European countries: Need for proactive information
Daniel Hegglin, Fabio Bontadina, Sandra Gloor, Thomas Romig, Peter Deplazes, Peter Kern
Smoking patterns and sociodemographic factors associated with tobacco use among Chinese rural male residents: a descriptive analysis
Tingzhong Yang, Fuzhong Li, Xiaozhao Yang, Zhenyi Wu, Xiangxian Feng, Yibo Wang, Xuhui Wang, Abu Saleh M Abdullah
Knowledge and perceptions of diabetes in a semi-urban Omani population
Mohammed A Al Shafaee, Sulaiman Al-Shukaili, Syed Gauher A Rizvi, Yahya Al Farsi, Mushtaq A Khan, Shyam S Ganguly, Mustafa Afifi, Samir Al Adawi
The characterisation of sexual behaviour in Chinese male university students who have sex with other men: A cross-sectional study
Liming Cong, Masako Ono-Kihara, Guozhang Xu, Qiaoqin Ma, Xiaohong Pan, Dandan Zhang, Takayuki Homma, Masahiro Kihara
Metabolic Syndrome as a Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor: Patients Evaluated in Primary Care
Joan-Josep Cabré, Francisco Martín, Bernardo Costa, Josep L Piñol, Josep L Llor, Yolanda Ortega, Josep Basora, Marta Baldrich, Rosa Solà, Jordi Daniel, Josep Ma Hernández, Judit Saumell, Jordi Bladé, Ramon Sagarra, Teresa Basora, Dolors Montañés, Joan L Frigola, Angel Donado-Mazarrón, Maria Teresa García-Vidal, Isabel Sánchez-Oro, Josep M de Magriñà, Ana Urbaneja, Francisco Barrio, Jesús Vizcaíno, Josep M Sabaté, Irene Pascual, Vanesa Revuelta
Women with learning disabilities and Read coding: Lessons from a cohort study
Fiona Reynolds, Debbi L Stanistreet
Risk factors for bone mineral density at the calcaneus in 40–59 year-old male workers: A cross-sectional study in Korea
Hyun-Ju Seo, Soo-Geun Kim, Chong-Soon Kim
Socio-economic factors explain differences in public health-related variables among women in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study
Md Mobarak H Khan, Alexander Kraemer
Use of traditional complementary and alternative medicine for HIV patients in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Karl Peltzer, Natalie Friend-du Preez, Shandir Ramlagan, Henry Fomundam
Predicting the onset and persistence of episodes of depression in primary health care. The predictD-Spain study: Methodology
Juan Ángel Bellón, Berta Moreno-Küstner, Francisco Torres-González, Carmen Montón-Franco, María Josefa GildeGómez-Barragán, Marta Sánchez-Celaya, Miguel Ángel Díaz-Barreiros, Catalina Vicens, Juan de Dios Luna, Jorge A Cervilla, Blanca Gutierrez, María Teresa Martínez-Cañavate, Bárbara Oliván-Blázquez, Ana Vázquez-Medrano, María Soledad Sánchez-Artiaga, Sebastia March, Emma Motrico, Victor Manuel Ruiz-García, Paulette Renée Brangier-Wainberg, María del Mar Muñoz-García, Irwin Nazareth, Michael King
A school-based intervention to reduce overweight and inactivity in children aged 6–12 years: study design of a randomized controlled trial
Wilma Jansen, Hein Raat, Evelien Joosten-van Zwanenburg, Ivo Reuvers, Ron van Walsem, Johannes Brug
Child mental health differences amongst ethnic groups in Britain: a systematic review
Anna Goodman, Vikram Patel, David A Leon
The 'Walking for Wellbeing in the West' randomised controlled trial of a pedometer-based walking programme in combination with physical activity consultation with 12 month follow-up: rationale and study design
Claire F Fitzsimons, Graham Baker, Annemarie Wright, Myra A Nimmo, Catharine Ward Thompson, Ruth Lowry, Catherine Millington, Rebecca Shaw, Elisabeth Fenwick, David Ogilvie, Joanna Inchley, Charlie E Foster, Nanette Mutrie
Adapting a generic tuberculosis control operational guideline and scaling it up in China: a qualitative case study
Xiaolin Wei, John D Walley, Xinyuan Liang, Feiying Liu, Xiulei Zhang, Renzhong Li
Chronic disease prevalence and associations in a cohort of Australian men: The Florey Adelaide Male Ageing Study (FAMAS)
Sean A Martin, Matthew T Haren, Anne W Taylor, Sue M Middleton, Gary A Wittert
Association between invasive cancer of the cervix and HIV-1 infection in Tanzania: the need for dual screening
Crispin Kahesa, Julius Mwaiselage, Henry R Wabinga, Twalib Ngoma, Joan N Kalyango, Charles AS Karamagi
Voluntary HIV counselling and testing among men in rural western Uganda: Implications for HIV prevention
Francis M Bwambale, Sarah N Ssali, Simon Byaruhanga, Joan N Kalyango, Charles AS Karamagi
Nonlinear pattern of pulmonary tuberculosis among migrants at entry in Kuwait: 1997–2006
Saeed Akhtar, Hameed GHH Mohammad
Predictors of adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected persons: a prospective study in Southwest Ethiopia
Alemayehu Amberbir, Kifle Woldemichael, Sofonias Getachew, Belaineh Girma, Kebede Deribe
The rate of TB-HIV co-infection depends on the prevalence of HIV infection in a community
Daniel G Datiko, Mohammed A Yassin, Luelseged T Chekol, Lopisso E Kabeto, Bernt Lindtjørn
Study Protocol – Metabolic syndrome, vitamin D and bone status in South Asian women living in Auckland, New Zealand: A randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind vitamin D intervention
Pamela R von Hurst, Welma Stonehouse, Christophe Matthys, Cathryn Conlon, Marlena C Kruger, Jane Coad
Young adult and middle age mortality in Butajira demographic surveillance site, Ethiopia: lifestyle, gender and household economy
Mesganaw Fantahun, Yemane Berhane, Ulf Högberg, Stig Wall, Peter Byass
Unintentional injuries in the rural population of Twiserkan, Iran: A cross-sectional study on their incidence, characteristics and preventability
Forouzan Rezapur-Shahkolai, Mohsen Naghavi, Mohammadreza Shokouhi, Lucie Laflamme
Global measure of satisfaction with psychosocial work conditions versus measures of specific aspects of psychosocial work conditions in explaining sickness absence
Torsten Munch-Hansen, Joanna Wieclaw, Esben Agerbo, Niels Westergaard-Nielsen, Jens Peter Bonde
Prevalence of diabetes mellitus and the performance of a risk score among Hindustani Surinamese, African Surinamese and ethnic Dutch: a cross-sectional population-based study
Navin R Bindraban, Irene GM van Valkengoed, Gideon Mairuhu, Frits Holleman, Joost BL Hoekstra, Bob PJ Michels, Richard P Koopmans, Karien Stronks
Influenza vaccination coverage rates in five European countries during season 2006/07 and trends over six consecutive seasons
Patricia R Blank, Matthias Schwenkglenks, Thomas D Szucs
Physical activity among adolescents and barriers to delivering physical education in Cornwall and Lancashire, UK: A qualitative study of heads of PE and heads of schools
Spencer Earl Boyle, Georgina L Jones, Stephen J Walters
Patterns of motivations and ways of quitting smoking among Polish smokers: A questionnaire study
Alicja Sieminska, Krzysztof Buczkowski, Ewa Jassem, Katarzyna Lewandowska, Romana Ucinska, Marta Chelminska
Factors associated with hypertension prevalence, unawareness and treatment among Costa Rican elderly
Ericka Méndez-Chacón, Carolina Santamaría-Ulloa, Luis Rosero-Bixby
Safe storage of pesticides in Sri Lanka – Identifying important design features influencing community acceptance and use of safe storage devices
Manjula Weerasinghe, Ravi Pieris, Michael Eddleston, Wim van der Hoek, Andrew Dawson, Flemming Konradsen
Male and Female Adult Population Health Status in China: A Cross-Sectional National Survey
Jing Shi, Meina Liu, Qiuju Zhang, Mingshan Lu, Hude Quan
A comparison of populations vaccinated in a public service and in a private hospital setting in the same area
Elisabetta Pandolfi, Maria C Graziani, Roberto Ieraci, Giovanni Cavagni, Alberto E Tozzi
Sugar-added beverages consumption among kindergarten children of Crete: effects on nutritional status and risk of obesity
Manolis Linardakis, Katerina Sarri, Maria-Styliani Pateraki, Manolis Sbokos, Anthony Kafatos
Psychosocial working conditions and the risk of depression and anxiety disorders in the Danish workforce
Joanna Wieclaw, Esben Agerbo, Preben Bo Mortensen, Hermann Burr, Finn Tuchsen, Jens Peter Bonde
Variability in the performance of preventive services and in the degree of control of identified health problems: A primary care study protocol
Bonaventura Bolíbar, Clara Pareja, M Pilar Astier-Peña, Julio Morán, Teresa Rodríguez-Blanco, Magdalena Rosell-Murphy, Manuel Iglesias, Sebastián Juncosa, Juanjo Mascort, Concepció Violan, Rosa Magallón, Javier Apezteguia
Prevalence of obesity in primary care using different anthropometric measures – Results of the German Metabolic and Cardiovascular Risk Project (GEMCAS)
Hans Hauner, Peter Bramlage, Christian Lösch, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Heribert Schunkert, Jürgen Wasem, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Susanne Moebus
Institutional trust and alcohol consumption in Sweden: The Swedish National Public Health Survey 2006
Johanna Ahnquist, Martin Lindström, Sarah P Wamala
Health promotion services for lifestyle development within a UK hospital – Patients' experiences and views
Charlotte L Haynes
The epidemiology of dependency among urban-dwelling older people in the Dominican Republic; a cross-sectional survey
Daisy Acosta, Ruth Rottbeck, Guillermina Rodríguez, Cleusa P Ferri, Martin J Prince
HIV and AIDS related knowledge, sources of information, and reported need for further education among dental students in Sudan- a cross sectional study
Elwalid Fadul Nasir, Anne Nordrehaug Åstrøm, Jamil David, Rouf Wahab Ali
Ethnic differences in Internal Medicine referrals and diagnosis in the Netherlands
Loes C Lanting, Aart H Bootsma, Steven WJ Lamberts, Johan P Mackenbach, Inez MA Joung
Lung cancer mortality in towns near paper, pulp and board industries in Spain: a point source pollution study
Susana Monge-Corella, Javier García-Pérez, Nuria Aragonés, Marina Pollán, Beatriz Pérez-Gómez, Gonzalo López-Abente
Alcohol use as a risk factor for tuberculosis – a systematic review
Knut Lönnroth, Brian G Williams, Stephanie Stadlin, Ernesto Jaramillo, Christopher Dye
Fitness, motor competence and body composition as correlates of adolescent neck/shoulder pain: an exploratory cross-sectional study
Mark C Perry, Leon M Straker, Peter B O'Sullivan, Anne J Smith, Beth Hands
Required muscle mass for preventing lifestyle-related diseases in Japanese women
Masae Miyatani, Hiroshi Kawano, Kei Masani, Yuko Gando, Kenta Yamamoto, Michiya Tanimoto, Taewoong Oh, Chiyoko Usui, Kiyoshi Sanada, Mitsuru Higuchi, Izumi Tabata, Motohiko Miyachi
Health related quality of life measured by SF-36: a population-based study in Shanghai, China
Rui Wang, Cheng Wu, Yanfang Zhao, Xiaoyan Yan, Xiuqiang Ma, Meijing Wu, Wenbin Liu, Zheng Gu, June Zhao, Jia He
Mental health among children seeking asylum in Denmark – the effect of length of stay and number of relocations: a cross-sectional study
Signe S Nielsen, Marie Norredam, Karen L Christiansen, Carsten Obel, Jørgen Hilden, Allan Krasnik
Some peace of mind: assessing a pilot intervention to promote mental health among widows of injecting drug users in north-east India
Michelle Kermode, Alexandra Devine, Prabha Chandra, Bernice Dzuvichu, Thomhood Gilbert, Helen Herrman
HIV/AIDS awareness and risk behaviour among pregnant women in Semey, Kazakhstan, 2007
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Regional differences in mortality in Greece (1984–2004): The case of Thrace
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Ultra-brief intervention for problem drinkers: research protocol
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Parental use of the Internet to seek health information and primary care utilisation for their child: a cross-sectional study
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Problem drinking and exceeding guidelines for 'sensible' alcohol consumption in Scottish men: associations with life course socioeconomic disadvantage in a population-based cohort study
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Cardiovascular disease in a cohort exposed to the 1940–45 Channel Islands occupation
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Relationship between multimorbidity and physical activity: Secondary analysis from the Quebec health survey
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Health-related characteristics and preferred methods of receiving health education according to dominant language among Latinos Aged 25 to 64 in a large Northern California health plan
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Fish consumption and its motives in households with versus without self-reported medical history of CVD: A consumer survey from five European countries
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All-cause mortality in the Aberdeen 1921 birth cohort: Effects of socio-demographic, physical and cognitive factors
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Worldwide food recall patterns over an eleven month period: A country perspective
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Association between fertility and HIV status: what implications for HIV estimates?
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Sensitivity to electricity – Temporal changes in Austria
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"Obesity" and "Clinical Obesity" Men's understandings of obesity and its relation to the risk of diabetes: A qualitative study
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The relationship between a less gender-stereotypical parenthood and alcohol-related care and death: A registry study of Swedish mothers and fathers
Anna Månsdotter, Mona Backhans, Johan Hallqvist
Factors associated with adolescent cigarette smoking in Greece: Results from a cross sectional study (GYTS Study)
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"We're not short of people telling us what the problems are. We're short of people telling us what to do": An appraisal of public policy and mental health
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A community intervention trial of multimodal suicide prevention program in Japan: A Novel multimodal Community Intervention program to prevent suicide and suicide attempt in Japan, NOCOMIT-J
Yutaka Ono, Shuichi Awata, Hideharu Iida, Yasushi Ishida, Naoki Ishizuka, Hiroto Iwasa, Yuichi Kamei, Yutaka Motohashi, Atsuo Nakagawa, Jun Nakamura, Nobuyuki Nishi, Kotaro Otsuka, Hirofumi Oyama, Akio Sakai, Hironori Sakai, Yuriko Suzuki, Miyuki Tajima, Eriko Tanaka, Hidenori Uda, Naohiro Yonemoto, Toshihiko Yotsumoto, Naoki Watanabe
Area-level poverty and preterm birth risk: A population-based multilevel analysis
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Obstacles to prompt and effective malaria treatment lead to low community-coverage in two rural districts of Tanzania
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Can colorectal cancer mass-screening organization be evidence-based? Lessons from failures: The experimental and pilot phases of the Lazio program
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An analysis of hospital preparedness capacity for public health emergency in four regions of China: Beijing, Shandong, Guangxi, and Hainan
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Secular changes in height, weight and body mass index in Hong Kong Children
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Malaria prevalence and mosquito net coverage in Oromia and SNNPR regions of Ethiopia
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Social differences in smoking and snuff use among Norwegian adolescents: A population based survey
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Determinants of health-related quality of life in elderly in Tehran, Iran
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Waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio of Hong Kong Chinese children
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The impact of a minimal smoking cessation intervention for pregnant women and their partners on perinatal smoking behaviour in primary health care: A real-life controlled study
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Evidence, Theory and Context: Using intervention mapping to develop a worksite physical activity intervention
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Born in Bradford, a cohort study of babies born in Bradford, and their parents: Protocol for the recruitment phase
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Physical activity as an aid to smoking cessation during pregnancy: Two feasibility studies
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Association between regular participation in sports and leisure time behaviors in Brazilian adolescents: A cross-sectional study
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Prevalence of obesity and abdominal obesity in the Lausanne population
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Bed net ownership, use and perceptions among women seeking antenatal care in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): Opportunities for improved maternal and child health
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Process factors explaining the ineffectiveness of a multidisciplinary fall prevention programme: A process evaluation
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Alcohol use and misuse: What are the contributions of occupation and work organization conditions?
Alain Marchand
Attitudes towards those bereaved by a suicide: a population-based, cross-sectional study in rural Japan
Sachiko Minamizono, Yutaka Motohashi, Masako Yamaji, Yoshihiro Kaneko
Medico-legal reasoning in disability assessment: A focus group and validation study
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Low wintertime vitamin D levels in a sample of healthy young adults of diverse ancestry living in the Toronto area: associations with vitamin D intake and skin pigmentation
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Correlates of susceptibility to smoking among Mexican origin youth residing in Houston, Texas: A cross-sectional analysis
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The potential for measles transmission in England
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Assessing the unintended health impacts of road transport policies and interventions: translating research evidence for use in policy and practice
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Socio-economic status and overall and cause-specific mortality in Sweden
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Pulmonary tuberculosis among people living with HIV/AIDS attending care and treatment in rural northern Tanzania
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End-digits preference for self-reported height depends on language
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Efficacious, effective, and embedded interventions: Implementation research in infectious disease control
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Border malaria in China: knowledge and use of personal protection by minority populations and implications for malaria control: a questionnaire-based survey
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Changing dental caries and periodontal disease patterns among a cohort of Ethiopian immigrants to Israel: 1999–2005
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Breast and bowel cancer screening uptake patterns over 15 years for UK south Asian ethnic minority populations, corrected for differences in socio-demographic characteristics
Ala Szczepura, Charlotte Price, Anil Gumber
Factors influencing psychological distress during a disease epidemic: Data from Australia's first outbreak of equine influenza
Melanie R Taylor, Kingsley E Agho, Garry J Stevens, Beverley Raphael
Social relationships and HRQL: A cross-sectional survey among older Italian adults
Antonio Giulio de Belvis, Maria Avolio, Lorella Sicuro, Aldo Rosano, Elide Latini, Gianfranco Damiani, Walter Ricciardi
A pilot randomised controlled trial of the feasibility of using body scan and isometric exercises for reducing urge to smoke in a smoking cessation clinic
Lemees Al-Chalabi, Neha Prasad, Lucy Steed, Sarah Stenner, Paul Aveyard, Jane Beach, Michael Ussher
Screening for type 2 diabetes is feasible, acceptable, but associated with increased short-term anxiety: A randomised controlled trial in British general practice
Paul Park, Rebecca K Simmons, A Toby Prevost, Simon J Griffin
Party package travel: alcohol use and related problems in a holiday resort: a mixed methods study
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Physical activity, exercise and self-rated health: a population-based study from Sweden
Marita Södergren, Jan Sundquist, Sven-Erik Johansson, Kristina Sundquist
Working conditions and Work-Family Conflict in German hospital physicians: psychosocial and organisational predictors and consequences
Isabelle Fuß, Matthias Nübling, Hans-Martin Hasselhorn, David Schwappach, Monika A Rieger
Gender difference in knowledge of tuberculosis and associated health-care seeking behaviors: a cross-sectional study in a rural area of China
Jianming Wang, Yang Fei, Hongbing Shen, Biao Xu
The reliability of the twelve-item general health questionnaire (GHQ-12) under realistic assumptions
Matthew Hankins
Spatial effects of mosquito bednets on child mortality
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Stressful life events and current psychological distress are associated with self-reported hypertension but not with true hypertension: results from a cross-sectional population-based study
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Geographic variation and effect of area-level poverty rate on colorectal cancer screening
Min Lian, Mario Schootman, Shumei Yun
Awareness of breast cancer risk factors and practice of breast self examination among high school students in Turkey
Özgül Karayurt, Dilek Özmen, Aynur Çakmakçi Çetinkaya
Surveillance for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in China from 2006 to 2007
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Spatial point analysis based on dengue surveys at household level in central Brazil
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Factors associated with improvement in disability-adjusted life years in patients with HIV/AIDS
Clara Bermudez-Tamayo, Jose Jesus Martin Martin, Isabel Ruiz-Pérez, Antonio Olry de Labry Lima
Female homicidal strangulation in urban South Africa
Shahnaaz Suffla, Ashley Van Niekerk, Najuwa Arendse
Caries prevalence and tooth loss in Hungarian adult population: results of a national survey
Melinda Madléna, Péter Hermann, Marianna Jáhn, Pál Fejérdy
Drugs and herbs given to prevent hepatotoxicity of tuberculosis therapy: systematic review of ingredients and evaluation studies
Qin Liu, Paul Garner, Yang Wang, Binghua Huang, Helen Smith
Active play and screen time in US children aged 4 to 11 years in relation to sociodemographic and weight status characteristics: a nationally representative cross-sectional analysis
Sarah E Anderson, Christina D Economos, Aviva Must
Adherence to physical activity recommendations and the influence of socio-demographic correlates – a population-based cross-sectional study
Patrick Bergman, Andrej M Grjibovski, Maria Hagströmer, Adrian Bauman, Michael Sjöström
Public knowledge and attitudes towards Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination
Charlotte Devereaux Walsh, Aradhana Gera, Meeraj Shah, Amit Sharma, Judy E Powell, Sue Wilson
Help-seeking before and after episodes of self-harm: a descriptive study in school pupils in England
Sarah Fortune, Julia Sinclair, Keith Hawton
Food consumption patterns in the Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada: a cross-sectional telephone survey
Andrea Nesbitt, Shannon Majowicz, Rita Finley, Frank Pollari, Katarina Pintar, Barbara Marshall, Angela Cook, Jan Sargeant, Jeff Wilson, Carl Ribble, Lewinda Knowles
Which factors engage women in deprived neighbourhoods to participate in exercise referral schemes?
Melanie Schmidt, Saida Absalah, Vera Nierkens, Karien Stronks
The epidemiology of Varicella Zoster Virus infection in Italy
Giovanni Gabutti, Maria C Rota, Marcello Guido, Antonella De Donno, Antonino Bella, Marta L Ciofi degli Atti, Pietro Crovari
Personal and professional challenges in the management of deliberate self-poisoning patients in rural Sri Lanka: a qualitative study of rural hospital doctors' experiences and perceptions
Lalith Senarathna, Jon Adams, Dhammika De Silva, Nick A Buckley, Andrew H Dawson
Incidence rates of in-hospital carpal tunnel syndrome in the general population and possible associations with marital status
Stefano Mattioli, Alberto Baldasseroni, Stefania Curti, Robin MT Cooke, Antonella Bena, Giovanna de Giacomi, Marco dell'Omo, Pirous Fateh-Moghadam, Carla Melani, Marco Biocca, Eva Buiatti, Giuseppe Campo, Francesca Zanardi, Francesco S Violante
Correlates of illicit methadone use in New York City: A cross-sectional study
Danielle C Ompad, Crystal M Fuller, Christina A Chan, Victoria Frye, David Vlahov, Sandro Galea
Careers in ecstasy use: do ecstasy users cease of their own accord? Implications for intervention development
Gjalt-Jorn Ygram Peters, Gerjo Kok, Herman P Schaalma
Development and evaluation of a leadership training program for public health emergency response: results from a Chinese study
Chongjian Wang, Sheng Wei, Hao Xiang, Jing Wu, Yihua Xu, Li Liu, Shaofa Nie
Racial and ethnic differences in personal cervical cancer screening amongst post-graduate physicians: Results from a cross-sectional survey
Joseph S Ross, Marcella Nuñez-Smith, Beverly A Forsyth, Julie R Rosenbaum
An evaluation of alcohol attendances to an inner city emergency department before and after the introduction of the UK Licensing Act 2003
AJ Durnford, TJ Perkins, JM Perry
Asthma beliefs among mothers and children from different ethnic origins living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
QM van Dellen, WMC van Aalderen, PJE Bindels, FG Öry, J Bruil, K Stronks
Determinants of vaccination coverage in rural Nigeria
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Diagnosis of sustainable collaboration in health promotion – a case study
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The non-linear risk of mortality by income level in a healthy population: US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey mortality follow-up cohort, 1988–2001
David H Rehkopf, Lisa F Berkman, Brent Coull, Nancy Krieger
The impact of education on risk factors and the occurrence of multimorbidity in the EPIC-Heidelberg cohort
Gabriele Nagel, Richard Peter, Stefanie Braig, Silke Hermann, Sabine Rohrmann, Jakob Linseisen
Barriers for introducing HIV testing among tuberculosis patients in Jogjakarta, Indonesia: a qualitative study
Yodi Mahendradhata, Riris Andono Ahmad, Pierre Lefèvre, Marleen Boelaert, Patrick Van der Stuyft
Assessment of measles immunity among infants in Maputo City, Mozambique
Jagrati V Jani, Carol Holm-Hansen, Tufária Mussá, Arlinda Zango, Ivan Manhiça, Gunnar Bjune, Ilesh V Jani
Determinants of non attendance to mammography program in a region with high voluntary health insurance coverage
Magdalena Esteva, Joana Ripoll, Alfonso Leiva, Carmen Sánchez-Contador, Francisca Collado
Physical activity and dietary behaviour in a population-based sample of British 10-year old children: the SPEEDY study (Sport, Physical activity and Eating behaviour: Environmental Determinants in Young people)
Esther MF van Sluijs, Paula ML Skidmore, Kim Mwanza, Andrew P Jones, Alison M Callaghan, Ulf Ekelund, Flo Harrison, Ian Harvey, Jenna Panter, Nicolas J Wareham, Aedin Cassidy, Simon J Griffin
Risk factors for overweight and obesity, and changes in body mass index of Chinese adults in Shanghai
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Legionella species colonization of water distribution systems, pools and air conditioning systems in cruise ships and ferries
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Chlamydia trachomatis prevalence in undocumented migrants undergoing voluntary termination of pregnancy: a prospective cohort study
Hans Wolff, Ana Lourenço, Patrick Bodenmann, Manuella Epiney, Monique Uny, Nicole Andreoli, Olivier Irion, Jean-Michel Gaspoz, Jean-Bernard Dubuisson
Cigarette and waterpipe smoking among adolescents in Estonia: HBSC survey results, 1994–2006
Kersti Pärna, Janika Usin, Inge Ringmets
Delayed treatment of tuberculosis patients in rural areas of Yogyakarta province, Indonesia
Yodi Mahendradhata, Bobby M Syahrizal, Adi Utarini
The future impact of population growth and aging on coronary heart disease in China: projections from the Coronary Heart Disease Policy Model-China
Andrew Moran, Dong Zhao, Dongfeng Gu, Pamela Coxson, Chung-Shiuan Chen, Jun Cheng, Jing Liu, Jiang He, Lee Goldman
Availability of healthier options in traditional and nontraditional rural fast-food outlets
Jennifer S Creel, Joseph R Sharkey, Alex McIntosh, Jenna Anding, J Charles Huber Jr
Clinical governance and research ethics as barriers to UK low-risk population-based health research?
Edwin R van Teijlingen, Flora Douglas, Nicola Torrance
Differentials of fertility in North and South Gondar zones, northwest Ethiopia: A comparative cross-sectional study
Getu Degu Alene, Alemayehu Worku
Nanoquartz in Late Permian C1 coal and the high incidence of female lung cancer in the Pearl River Origin area: a retrospective cohort study
Linwei Tian, Shifeng Dai, Jianfang Wang, Yunchao Huang, Suzanne C Ho, Yiping Zhou, Donald Lucas, Catherine P Koshland
The Active plus protocol: systematic development of two theory- and evidence-based tailored physical activity interventions for the over-fifties
Maartje M van Stralen, Gerjo Kok, Hein de Vries, Aart N Mudde, Catherine Bolman, Lilian Lechner
The distinctive profile of risk factors of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in comparison with other head and neck cancer types
AS Abdulamir, RR Hafidh, N Abdulmuhaimen, F Abubakar, KA Abbas
Participation of traditional birth attendants in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV services in two rural districts in Zimbabwe: a feasibility study
Freddy Perez, Khin Devi Aung, Theresa Ndoro, Barbara Engelsmann, François Dabis
Implementation of a workplace smoking ban in bars: The limits of local discretion
Theresa Montini, Lisa A Bero
Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and the metabolic syndrome in middle-aged men and women in Gothenburg, Sweden
Lennart Welin, Annika Adlerberth, Kenneth Caidahl, Henry Eriksson, Per-Olof Hansson, Saga Johansson, Annika Rosengren, Kurt Svärdsudd, Catharina Welin, Lars Wilhelmsen
Obesity among Scottish 15 year olds 1987–2006: prevalence and associations with socio-economic status, well-being and worries about weight
Helen Sweeting, Patrick West, Robert Young
Risk factors for developing a cutaneous injection-related infection among injection drug users: a cohort study
Elisa Lloyd-Smith, Evan Wood, Ruth Zhang, Mark W Tyndall, Julio SG Montaner, Thomas Kerr
The effectiveness of "Exercise on Prescription" in stimulating physical activity among women in ethnic minority groups in the Netherlands: protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Karen Hosper, Marije Deutekom, Prof Karien Stronks
Low utilization of health care services following screening for hypertension in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania): a prospective population-based study
Pascal Bovet, Jean-Pierre Gervasoni, Mashombo Mkamba, Marianna Balampama, Christian Lengeler, Fred Paccaud
Sexual abstinence behavior among never-married youths in a generalized HIV epidemic country: evidence from the 2005 Côte d'Ivoire AIDS indicator survey
Alain K Koffi, Kazuo Kawahara
Small individual loans and mental health: a randomized controlled trial among South African adults
Lia CH Fernald, Rita Hamad, Dean Karlan, Emily J Ozer, Jonathan Zinman
Go4it; study design of a randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation of a multidisciplinary group intervention for obese adolescents for prevention of diabetes mellitus type 2
Geesje H Hofsteenge, Marijke JM Chinapaw, Peter JM Weijs, Maurits W van Tulder, Henriette A Delemarre-van de Waal
Blood pressure patterns in relation to geographic area of residence: a cross-sectional study of adolescents in Kogi state, Nigeria
Chukwunonso ECC Ejike, Chidi E Ugwu, Lawrence US Ezeanyika, Ayo T Olayemi
Gambling problems in the family – A stratified probability sample study of prevalence and reported consequences
Hanne Gro Wenzel, Anita Øren, Inger Johanne Bakken
How healthy are chronically ill patients after eight years of homeopathic treatment? – Results from a long term observational study
Claudia M Witt, Rainer Lüdtke, Nils Mengler, Stefan N Willich
The use of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in children and adolescents as an outcome criterion to evaluate family oriented support for young carers in Germany: an integrative review of the literature
Jörg große Schlarmann, Sabine Metzing-Blau, Wilfried Schnepp
Planning ahead in public health? A qualitative study of the time horizons used in public health decision-making
David C Taylor-Robinson, Beth Milton, Ffion Lloyd-Williams, Martin O'Flaherty, Simon Capewell
Hepatitis A, B and C viral co-infections among HIV-infected adults presenting for care and treatment at Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tumaini J Nagu, Muhammad Bakari, Mecky Matee
Physical activity and persistent low back pain and pelvic pain post partum
Ingrid M Mogren
Determinants of infant growth in Eastern Uganda: a community-based cross-sectional study
Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen, Thorkild Tylleskär, Henry Wamani, Charles Karamagi, James K Tumwine
Three-year follow-up of physical activity in Norwegian youth from two ethnic groups: associations with socio-demographic factors
Åse Sagatun, Elin Kolle, Sigmund A Anderssen, Magne Thoresen, Anne Johanne Søgaard
(S)Partners for Heart Health: a school-based program for enhancing physical activity and nutrition to promote cardiovascular health in 5thgrade students
Joseph J Carlson, Joey C Eisenmann, Karin A Pfeiffer, Kathleen B Jager, Scott T Sehnert, Kimbo E Yee, Rita A Klavinski, Deborah L Feltz
The impact of overweight and obesity on health-related quality of life in childhood – results from an intervention study
Nora Wille, Michael Erhart, Christiane Petersen, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer
Influenza vaccination among healthcare workers in a multidisciplinary University hospital in Italy
Susanna Esposito, Samantha Bosis, Claudio Pelucchi, Elena Tremolati, Caterina Sabatini, Margherita Semino, Paola Marchisio, Francesco della Croce, Nicola Principi
High prevalence of obesity, central obesity and abnormal glucose tolerance in the middle-aged Finnish population
Timo E Saaristo, Noël C Barengo, Eeva Korpi-Hyövälti, Heikki Oksa, Hannu Puolijoki, Juha T Saltevo, Mauno Vanhala, Jouko Sundvall, Liisa Saarikoski, Markku Peltonen, Jaakko Tuomilehto
Miller Early Childhood Sustained Home-visiting (MECSH) trial: design, method and sample description
Lynn Kemp, Elizabeth Harris, Catherine McMahon, Stephen Matthey, Graham Vimpani, Teresa Anderson, Virginia Schmied
What needs to change to increase chlamydia screening in general practice in Australia? The views of general practitioners
Jane S Hocking, Rhian M Parker, Natasha Pavlin, Christopher K Fairley, Jane M Gunn
Sickness absence and self-reported health a population-based study of 43,600 individuals in central Sweden
Hans-G Eriksson, Anna-Sophia von Celsing, Rolf Wahlström, Lotta Janson, Viktoria Zander, Thorne Wallman
Implementation of a national anti-tuberculosis drug resistance survey in Tanzania
Timothy M Chonde, Basra Doulla, Frank van Leth, Sayoki GM Mfinanga, Nyagosya Range, Fred Lwilla, Saidi M Mfaume, Armand van Deun, Matteo Zignol, Frank G Cobelens, Saidi M Egwaga
Smoking characteristics of Polish immigrants in Dublin
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Patterns of knowledge and condom use among population groups: results from the 2005 Ethiopian behavioral surveillance surveys on HIV
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