Issue 1/2016
Content (56 Articles)
Prevalence of using non prescribed medications in economically deprived rural population of Pakistan
Abdul Haseeb, Muhammad Bilal
Dietary intake patterns and nutritional status of women of reproductive age in Nepal: findings from a health survey
Shiva Bhandari, Jamuna Tamrakar Sayami, Pukar Thapa, Matina Sayami, Bishnu Prasad Kandel, Megha Raj Banjara
Validity and reliability of a modified english version of the physical activity questionnaire for adolescents
Daniel Aggio, Stuart Fairclough, Zoe Knowles, Lee Graves
Prevalence and associated factors of clinical manifestations of vitamin a deficiency among preschool children in asgede-tsimbla rural district, north Ethiopia, a community based cross sectional study
Tesfalem Abrha, Yonas Girma, Kebede Haile, Mezgebe Hailu, Mengistu Hailemariam
Factors associated to the use of insecticide treated nets and intermittent preventive treatment for malaria control during pregnancy in Cameroon
Ngimuh Leonard, Fokam Bertrand Eric, Anchang-Kimbi K. Judith, Wanji Samuel
Individual and community-level factors associated with introduction of prelacteal feeding in Ethiopia
Abate Bekele Belachew, Alemayehu Bayray Kahsay, Yemane Gabremariam Abebe
Prevalence of herbal medicine use and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care at public health facilities in Hossana Town, Southern Ethiopia: facility based cross sectional study
Tariku Laelago, Tadele Yohannes, Fiseha Lemango
Assessment of iodine status among pregnant women in a rural community in ghana - a cross sectional study
David L. Simpong, Patrick Adu, Rashid Bashiru, Martin T. Morna, Francis A. Yeboah, Kafui Akakpo, Richard K. D. Ephraim
Latrine access and utilization among people with limited mobility: A cross sectional study
Berhanu Asfaw, Muluken Azage, Gebremedhin Berhe Gebregergs
Vitamin A status and body pool size of infants before and after consuming fortified home-based complementary foods
Sam Newton, Seth Owusu-Agyei, Kwaku Poku Asante, Esi Amoaful, Emmanuel Mahama, Samuel Kofi Tchum, Martha Ali, Kwame Adjei, Christopher R. Davis, Sherry A. Tanumihardjo
Validity of self-reported out-of-school physical activity among Finnish 11-year-old children
Suvi Määttä, Teija Nuutinen, Carola Ray, Johan G. Eriksson, Elisabete Weiderpass, Eva Roos
Nutritional status of children 0–59 months in selected intervention communities in northern Ghana from the africa RISING project in 2012
Mary Glover-Amengor, Isaac Agbemafle, Lynda Larmkie Hagan, Frank Peget Mboom, Gladys Gamor, Asamoah Larbi, Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon
Nearly half of preschool children are stunted in Dembia district, Northwest Ethiopia: a community based cross-sectional study
Amare Tariku, Haile Woldie, Abel Fekadu, Akilew Awoke Adane, Ayanaw Tsega Ferede, Segenet Yitayew
The dangers to children from coconut tree trauma, in KiraKira, Solomon Islands: a retrospective clinical audit
Rajan Rehan, Peter D. Jones, Hashim Abdeen, Heddi Rowas, Jasryn Dhaliwal
Sustainable employability for older workers: an explorative survey of belgian companies
Mathieu Verbrugghe, Yoline Kuipers, Bart Vriesacker, Ilse Peeters, Katrien Mortelmans
Healthy together Victoria and childhood obesity—a methodology for measuring changes in childhood obesity in response to a community-based, whole of system cluster randomized control trial
Claudia Strugnell, Lynne Millar, Andrew Churchill, Felice Jacka, Colin Bell, Mary Malakellis, Boyd Swinburn, Steve Allender
Height for age z score and cognitive function are associated with Academic performance among school children aged 8–11 years old
Demewoz Haile, Dabere Nigatu, Ketema Gashaw, Habtamu Demelash
Eating quickly is associated with waist-to-height ratio among Japanese adolescents: a cross-sectional survey
Hirotaka Ochiai, Takako Shirasawa, Hinako Nanri, Rimei Nishimura, Masaaki Matoba, Hiromi Hoshino, Akatsuki Kokaze
Social, economic and environmental risk factors for acute lower respiratory infections among children under five years of age in Rwanda
Jean-Modeste Harerimana, Leatitia Nyirazinyoye, Dana R. Thomson, Joseph Ntaganira
Protocol of the Belgian food consumption survey 2014: objectives, design and methods
Sarah Bel, Sofie Van den Abeele, Thérésa Lebacq, Cloë Ost, Loes Brocatus, Charlotte Stiévenart, Eveline Teppers, Jean Tafforeau, Koenraad Cuypers
Iodine in commercial edible iodized salts and assessment of iodine exposure in Sri Lanka
Meththika Vithanage, Indika Herath, S. S. Achinthya, Tharanga Bandara, Lakshika Weerasundara, S. S. Mayakaduwa, Yohan Jayawardhana, Prasanna Kumarathilaka
The geographic pattern of Belgian mortality: can socio-economic characteristics explain area differences?
Wanda M. J. Van Hemelrijck, Didier Willaert, Sylvie Gadeyne
Acute mountain sickness among tourists visiting the high-altitude city of Lhasa at 3658 m above sea level: a cross-sectional study
Gonggalanzi, Labasangzhu, Per Nafstad, Hein Stigum, Tianyi Wu, Øyvind Drejer Haldorsen, Kristoffer Ommundsen, Espen Bjertness
Safety and practicability of using mid-upper arm circumference as a discharge criterion in community based management of severe acute malnutrition in children aged 6 to 59 months programmes
Paul J. Binns, Nancy M. Dale, Theresa Banda, Chrissy Banda, Bina Shaba, Mark Myatt
Analysis of Non-communicable disease prevention policies in five Sub-Saharan African countries: Study protocol
Pamela A. Juma, Shukri F. Mohamed, Jennifer Wisdom, Catherine Kyobutungi, Samuel Oti
Association between pregnancy exposure to air pollution and birth weight in selected areas of Norway
Sviatlana Panasevich, Siri Eldevik Håberg, Geir Aamodt, Stephanie J. London, Hein Stigum, Wenche Nystad, Per Nafstad
Treatment for substance use disorders: the Belgian Treatment Demand Indicator registration protocol
Jérôme Antoine, Karin De Ridder, Els Plettinckx, Peter Blanckaert, Lies Gremeaux
Evaluating the neonatal BCG vaccination programme in Ireland
Cara Usher, Roisin Adams, Susanne Schmitz, Jennifer Kieran, Darina O’Flanagan, Joan O’Donnell, Kevin Connolly, Brenda Corcoran, Karina Butler, Michael Barry, Cathal Walsh
Assessing the sensitivity and representativeness of the Belgian Sentinel Network of Laboratories using test reimbursement data
Nicolas Berger, Gaetan Muyldermans, Yves Dupont, Sophie Quoilin
International pooled study on diet and bladder cancer: the bladder cancer, epidemiology and nutritional determinants (BLEND) study: design and baseline characteristics
Maria E. Goossens, Fatima Isa, Maree Brinkman, David Mak, Raoul Reulen, Anke Wesselius, Simone Benhamou, Cristina Bosetti, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Angela Carta, Md Farouk Allam, Klaus Golka, Eric J. Grant, Xuejuan Jiang, Kenneth C. Johnson, Margaret R. Karagas, Eliane Kellen, Carlo La Vecchia, Chih-Ming Lu, James Marshall, Kirsten Moysich, Hermann Pohlabeln, Stefano Porru, Gunnar Steineck, Marianne C. Stern, Li Tang, Jack A. Taylor, Piet van den Brandt, Paul J. Villeneuve, Kenji Wakai, Elisabete Weiderpass, Emily White, Alicja Wolk, Zuo-Feng Zhang, Frank Buntinx, Maurice P. Zeegers
Persistent misunderstandings about evidence-based (sorry: informed!) policy-making
Pierre-Olivier Bédard, Mathieu Ouimet
The LifeLines Cohort Study: a resource providing new opportunities for environmental epidemiology
Wilma L. Zijlema, Nynke Smidt, Bart Klijs, David W. Morley, John Gulliver, Kees de Hoogh, Salome Scholtens, Judith G. M. Rosmalen, Ronald P. Stolk
Undernutrition and associated factors among adults living with Human Immune Deficiency Virus in Dembia District, northwest Ethiopia: an institution based cross-sectional study
Anbesaw Mitiku, Tadesse Awoke Ayele, Mekonen Assefa, Amare Tariku
Incident reporting systems: a comparative study of two hospital divisions
Tanya Hewitt, Samia Chreim, Alan Forster
Association between socioeconomic status of mothers, food security, food safety practices and the double burden of malnutrition in the Lalitpur district, Nepal
Mahesh Sarki, Aileen Robertson, Alexandr Parlesak
Leisure time physical activity in Estonian population: adherence to physical activity recommendations and relationships with overweight
Maie Tali, Peeter Lusmägi, Eve Unt
Accounting for multimorbidity can affect the estimation of the Burden of Disease: a comparison of approaches
Henk B. M. Hilderink, Marjanne H. D. Plasmans, Bianca E. P. Snijders, Hendriek C. Boshuizen, M. J. J. C. (René) Poos, Coen H. van Gool
Mothers screening for malnutrition by mid-upper arm circumference is non-inferior to community health workers: results from a large-scale pragmatic trial in rural Niger
Franck G.B. Alé, Kevin P.Q. Phelan, Hassan Issa, Isabelle Defourny, Guillaume Le Duc, Geza Harczi, Kader Issaley, Sani Sayadi, Nassirou Ousmane, Issoufou Yahaya, Mark Myatt, André Briend, Thierry Allafort-Duverger, Susan Shepherd, Nikki Blackwell
Association between distorted body image and changes in weight status among normal weight preadolescents in Japan: a population-based cohort study
Takako Shirasawa, Hirotaka Ochiai, Hinako Nanri, Rimei Nishimura, Keiichiro Ikeda, Hiromi Hoshino, Akatsuki Kokaze
Incidence of sickness absence by type of employment contract: one year follow-up study in Spanish salaried workers
Elena Zaballa, José Miguel Martínez, Xavier Duran, Constança Albertí, David Gimeno Ruiz de Porras, Fernando G. Benavides
Implementing Smarter Lunchrooms Makeovers in New York state middle schools: an initial process evaluation
Laura N. Thomas, Tisa F. Hill, Alisha Gaines, Jamie S. Dollahite
Human biomonitoring of heavy metals in the vicinity of non-ferrous metal plants in Ath, Belgium
Sébastien Fierens, Javiera Rebolledo, Ann Versporten, Ethel Brits, Vincent Haufroid, Pierre De Plaen, An Van Nieuwenhuyse
Socio-demographic, personal, environmental and behavioral correlates of different modes of transportation to work among Norwegian parents
Oline Anita Bjørkelund, Hanna Degerud, Elling Bere
Physical activity and sedentary behavior in Belgium (BNFCS2014): design, methods and expected outcomes
Thérésa Lebacq, Cloë Ost, Sarah Bel, Loes Brocatus, Eveline Teppers, Koenraad Cuypers, Jean Tafforeau, Karin A. A. De Ridder
Estimate of adolescent alcohol use in China: a meta-analysis
Yonghua Feng, Ian M. Newman
Iodine deficiency and associated factors among school children: a cross-sectional study in Ethiopia
Sintayehu Hailu, Mamo Wubshet, Haile Woldie, Amare Tariku
Belgian hand hygiene campaigns in ICU, 2005–2015
Sylvanus Fonguh, Annie Uwineza, Boudewijn Catry, Anne Simon
Promoting public health through nutrition labeling - a study in Brazil
Sônia Maria Fernandes da Costa Souza, Kenio Costa Lima, Maria do Socorro Costa Feitosa Alves
Under-five mortality among displaced populations in Meheba refugee camp, Zambia, 2008–2014
Nachela Malisenti Chelwa, Rosemary Ndonyo Likwa, Jeremiah Banda
Multidisciplinary management of breast cancer
Anne-France Leclerc, Guy Jerusalem, Martine Devos, Jean-Michel Crielaard, Didier Maquet
Research and lobbying conflicting on the issue of a front-of-pack nutrition labelling in France
Chantal Julia, Serge Hercberg
The diabesity health economic crisis—the size of the crisis in a European island state following a cross-sectional study
Sarah Cuschieri, Josanne Vassallo, Neville Calleja, Nikolai Pace, Janice Abela, Bader A. Ali, Fatemah Abdullah, Elizier Zahra, Julian Mamo
Characterization of heavy users of skin care products among Norwegian women from 2003 to 2011
Boel Aniansson, Marit B. Veierød, Charlotta Rylander, Eiliv Lund, Torkjel M. Sandanger
Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of physical activity levels among South African adults in Cape Town and Mount Frere communities in 2008-2009
Pasmore Malambo, Andre P. Kengne, Estelle V. Lambert, Anniza De Villiers, Thandi Puoane
A review and framework for understanding the potential impact of poor solid waste management on health in developing countries
Abdhalah K. Ziraba, Tilahun Nigatu Haregu, Blessing Mberu
Phase III evaluation of the insecticidal efficacy and durability of a deltamethrin-treated polypropylene long-lasting net LifeNet®, in comparison with long-lasting nets made from polyester and polyethylene: study protocol
Patrick Tungu, Louisa A. Messenger, Matthew J. Kirby, Wema Sudi, William Kisinza, Mark Rowland