Issue 1/2014
Content (1327 Articles)
Using Q-methodology to explore people’s health seeking behavior and perception of the quality of primary care services
Nazar P Shabila, Namir G Al-Tawil, Tariq S Al-Hadithi, Egbert Sondorp
Prevalence of hepatitis C in a Swiss sample of men who have sex with men: whom to screen for HCV infection?
Axel J Schmidt, Luis Falcato, Benedikt Zahno, Andrea Burri, Stephan Regenass, Beat Müllhaupt, Philip Bruggmann
Dental caries and erosion status of 12-year-old Hong Kong children
Shinan Zhang, Alex MH Chau, Edward CM Lo, Chun-Hung Chu
The frequency of osteogenic activities and the pattern of intermittence between periods of physical activity and sedentary behaviour affects bone mineral content: the cross-sectional NHANES study
Sebastien FM Chastin, Oleksii Mandrichenko, Dawn A Skelton
Brushing behavior among young adolescents: does perceived severity matter
Parisa Kasmaei, Farkhondeh Amin Shokravi, Alireza Hidarnia, Ebrahim Hajizadeh, Zahra Atrkar-Roushan, Kambiz Karimzadeh Shirazi, Ali Montazeri
Watching sport on television, physical activity, and risk of obesity in older adults
Mark Hamer, Richard Weiler, Emmanuel Stamatakis
Spatio-temporal analysis on enterovirus cases through integrated surveillance in Taiwan
Ta-Chien Chan, Jing-Shiang Hwang, Rung-Hung Chen, Chwan-Chuen King, Po-Huang Chiang
Beyond BMI: The “Metabolically healthy obese” phenotype & its association with clinical/subclinical cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality -- a systematic review
Lara L Roberson, Ehimen C Aneni, Wasim Maziak, Arthur Agatston, Theodore Feldman, Maribeth Rouseff, Thinh Tran, Michael J Blaha, Raul D Santos, Andrei Sposito, Mouaz H Al-Mallah, Ron Blankstein, Matthew J Budoff, Khurram Nasir
Equity in adherence to and effect of prenatal food and micronutrient supplementation on child mortality: results from the MINIMat randomized trial, Bangladesh
Rubina Shaheen, Peter Kim Streatfield, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Lars Lindholm, Lars Åke Persson
A qualitative comparative analysis of well-managed school sanitation in Bangladesh
Christie Chatterley, Amy Javernick-Will, Karl G Linden, Kawser Alam, Laure Bottinelli, Mohini Venkatesh
A longitudinal study of the impact of chronic psychological stress on health-related quality of life and clinical biomarkers: protocol for the Australian Healthy Aging of Women Study
Charrlotte Seib, Eliza Whiteside, Janice Humphreys, Kathryn Lee, Patrick Thomas, Lisa Chopin, Gabrielle Crisp, Angela O’Keeffe, Michael Kimlin, Andrew Stacey, Debra Anderson
Influence of health behaviours on the incidence of infection and allergy in adolescents: the AFINOS cross-sectional study
Esther Nova, David Martínez-Gómez, Sonia Gómez-Martínez, Ana M Veses, Maria E Calle, Oscar L Veiga, Ascensión Marcos
State of non-communicable diseases in Nepal
Gajananda Prakash Bhandari, Mirak Raj Angdembe, Meghnath Dhimal, Sushma Neupane, Choplal Bhusal
Masculinity, social context and HIV testing: an ethnographic study of men in Busia district, rural eastern Uganda
Godfrey E Siu, Daniel Wight, Janet A Seeley
A review of life expectancy and infant mortality estimations for Australian Aboriginal people
Bronwen Phillips, Stephen Morrell, Richard Taylor, John Daniels
Rationale and study design of the Japan environment and children’s study (JECS)
Toshihiro Kawamoto, Hiroshi Nitta, Katsuyuki Murata, Eisaku Toda, Naoya Tsukamoto, Manabu Hasegawa, Zentaro Yamagata, Fujio Kayama, Reiko Kishi, Yukihiro Ohya, Hirohisa Saito, Haruhiko Sago, Makiko Okuyama, Tsutomu Ogata, Susumu Yokoya, Yuji Koresawa, Yasuyuki Shibata, Shoji Nakayama, Takehiro Michikawa, Ayano Takeuchi, Hiroshi Satoh
Associations between alcohol use disorders and adherence to antiretroviral treatment and quality of life amongst people living with HIV/AIDS
Bach Xuan Tran, Long Thanh Nguyen, Cuong Duy Do, Quyen Le Nguyen, Rachel Marie Maher
Experience of physical violence and mental health among young men and women: a population-based study in Sweden
Maria Fridh, Martin Lindström, Maria Rosvall
Semiparametric models for malaria rapid diagnosis test result
Dawit G Ayele, Temesgen T Zewotir, Henry G Mwambi
Correlates of perceived health related quality of life in obese, overweight and normal weight older adults: an observational study
Cinzia Giuli, Roberta Papa, Roberta Bevilacqua, Elisa Felici, Cristina Gagliardi, Fiorella Marcellini, Marco Boscaro, Marco De Robertis, Eugenio Mocchegiani, Emanuela Faloia, Giacomo Tirabassi
Physical activity and sedentary behavior among adolescents in rural South Africa: levels, patterns and correlates
Lisa K Micklesfield, Titilola M Pedro, Kathleen Kahn, John Kinsman, John M Pettifor, Stephen Tollman, Shane A Norris
The importance of providing counselling and financial support to patients receiving treatment for multi-drug resistant TB: mixed method qualitative and pilot intervention studies
Sushil C Baral, Yeshoda Aryal, Rekha Bhattrai, Rebecca King, James N Newell
Effect of aerobic exercise and low carbohydrate diet on pre-diabetic non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in postmenopausal women and middle aged men – the role of gut microbiota composition: study protocol for the AELC randomized controlled trial
Wu Yi Liu, Da Jiang Lu, Xia Ming Du, Jian Qin Sun, Jun Ge, Ren Wei Wang, Ru Wang, Jun Zou, Chang Xu, Jie Ren, Xin Fei Wen, Yang Liu, Shu Mei Cheng, Xiao Tan, Satu Pekkala, Eveliina Munukka, Petri Wiklund, Yan Qiu Chen, Qing Gu, Zheng Chang Xia, Jun Jun Liu, Wen Bin Liu, Xue Bo Chen, Yi Min Zhang, Rui Li, Ronald J H Borra, Jia Xin Yao, Pei Jie Chen, Sulin Cheng
Musculoskeletal pain and effort-reward imbalance- a systematic review
Peter Koch, Anja Schablon, Ute Latza, Albert Nienhaus
A complex breastfeeding promotion and support intervention in a developing country: study protocol for a randomized clinical trial
Mona Nabulsi, Haya Hamadeh, Hani Tamim, Tamar Kabakian, Lama Charafeddine, Nadine Yehya, Durriyah Sinno, Saadieh Sidani
Influenza vaccines and influenza antiviral drugs in Africa: are they available and do guidelines for their use exist?
Jazmin Duque, Meredith L McMorrow, Adam L Cohen
Validation of public health competencies and impact variables for low- and middle-income countries
Prisca AC Zwanikken, Lucy Alexander, Nguyen Thanh Huong, Xu Qian, Laura Magana Valladares, Nazar A Mohamed, Xiao Hua Ying, Maria Cecilia Gonzalez-Robledo, Le Cu Linh, Marwa SE Abuzaid Wadidi, Hanan Tahir, Sunisha Neupane, Albert Scherpbier
Efficacy of family mediation and the role of family violence: study protocol
Helen Cleak, Margot Schofield, Andrew Bickerdike
Intimate partner violence among women with mental health-related activity limitations: a Canadian population based study
Janice Du Mont, Tonia Forte
Preventing substance misuse: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of the Strengthening Families Programme 10–14 UK (SFP 10–14 UK)
Jeremy Segrott, David Gillespie, Jo Holliday, Ioan Humphreys, Simon Murphy, Ceri Phillips, Hayley Reed, Heather Rothwell, David Foxcroft, Kerenza Hood, Zoe Roberts, Jonathan Scourfield, Claire Thomas, Laurence Moore
Factors influencing tobacco use treatment patterns among Vietnamese health care providers working in community health centers
Donna Shelley, Tuo-Yen Tseng, Hieu Pham, Linh Nguyen, Sarah Keithly, Frances Stillman, Nam Nguyen
Messages that increase women’s intentions to abstain from alcohol during pregnancy: results from quantitative testing of advertising concepts
Kathryn E France, Robert J Donovan, Carol Bower, Elizabeth J Elliott, Janet M Payne, Heather D’Antoine, Anne E Bartu
Food items contributing most to variation in antioxidant intake; a cross-sectional study among Norwegian women
Samera Azeem Qureshi, Annette Christin Lund, Marit Bragelien Veierød, Monica Hauger Carlsen, Rune Blomhoff, Lene Frost Andersen, Giske Ursin
Effect size and cost-effectiveness estimates of breast and cervical cancer screening reminders by population size through complete enumeration of Japanese local municipalities
Shigekazu Komoto, Yuji Nishiwaki, Tomonori Okamura, Hideo Tanaka, Toru Takebayashi
Socioeconomic factors associated with trajectories of caring by young and mid-aged women: a cohort study
Leigh Tooth, Gita Mishra
Mental health problems in the 10thgrade and non-completion of upper secondary school: the mediating role of grades in a population-based longitudinal study
Åse Sagatun, Sonja Heyerdahl, Tore Wentzel-Larsen, Lars Lien
All-Wales licensed premises intervention (AWLPI): a randomised controlled trial to reduce alcohol-related violence
Simon C Moore, Claire O’Brien, Mohammed Fasihul Alam, David Cohen, Kerenza Hood, Chao Huang, Laurence Moore, Simon Murphy, Rebecca Playle, Vaseekaran Sivarajasingam, Irena Spasic, Anne Williams, Jonathan Shepherd
The Be Our Ally Beat Smoking (BOABS) study, a randomised controlled trial of an intensive smoking cessation intervention in a remote aboriginal Australian health care setting
Julia V Marley, David Atkinson, Tracey Kitaura, Carmel Nelson, Dennis Gray, Sue Metcalf, Graeme P Maguire
Strengthening the perception-assessment tools for dengue prevention: a cross-sectional survey in a temperate region (Madeira, Portugal)
Teresa Nazareth, Rosa Teodósio, Graça Porto, Luzia Gonçalves, Gonçalo Seixas, Ana Clara Silva, Carla Alexandra Sousa
Influenza vaccination, inverse care and homelessness: cross-sectional survey of eligibility and uptake during the 2011/12 season in London
Alistair Story, Robert W Aldridge, Tat Gray, Stan Burridge, Andrew C Hayward
Determinants of eating behaviour in university students: a qualitative study using focus group discussions
Tom Deliens, Peter Clarys, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Benedicte Deforche
A cross-sectional study of the environment, physical activity, and screen time among young children and their parents
Valerie Carson, Andrei Rosu, Ian Janssen
An argument against the focus on Community Resilience in Public Health
Peter Allmark, Sadiq Bhanbhro, Tom Chrisp
A population-based study of edentulism in the US: does depression and rural residency matter after controlling for potential confounders?
Daniel M Saman, Andrine Lemieux, Oscar Arevalo, May Nawal Lutfiyya
“There is hunger in my community”: a qualitative study of food security as a cyclical force in sex work in Swaziland
Rebecca Fielding-Miller, Zandile Mnisi, Darrin Adams, Stefan Baral, Caitlin Kennedy
Investigation of an Influenza A (H3N2) outbreak in evacuation centres following the Great East Japan earthquake, 2011
Taro Kamigaki, Jin Seino, Kentaro Tohma, Nao Nukiwa-Soma, Kanako Otani, Hitoshi Oshitani
Updating the evidence base on the operational costs of supplementary immunization activities for current and future accelerated disease control, elimination and eradication efforts
Gian Gandhi, Patrick Lydon
Victimization of Peruvian adolescents and health risk behaviors: young lives cohort
Benjamin T Crookston, Ray M Merrill, Stephanie Hedges, Cameron Lister, Joshua H West, P Cougar Hall
The changing food outlet distributions and local contextual factors in the United States
Hsin-Jen Chen, Youfa Wang
Promoting sexual and reproductive health among adolescents in southern and eastern Africa (PREPARE): project design and conceptual framework
Leif Edvard Aarø, Catherine Mathews, Sylvia Kaaya, Anne Ruhweza Katahoire, Hans Onya, Charles Abraham, Knut-Inge Klepp, Annegreet Wubs, Sander Matthijs Eggers, Hein de Vries
Economic burden of seasonal influenza B in France during winter 2010-2011
Maria Laura Silva, Lionel Perrier, Hans-Martin Späth, Isidore Grog, Anne Mosnier, Nathalie Havet, Jean Marie Cohen
Cross sectional survey of human-bat interaction in Australia: public health implications
Beverley J Paterson, Michelle T Butler, Keith Eastwood, Patrick M Cashman, Alison Jones, David N Durrheim
Holding a country countdown to 2015 conference on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – the Zambian experience
Victor M Mukonka, Sarai Malumo, Penelope Kalesha, Mary Nambao, Rodgers Mwale, Kasonde Mwinga, Mary Katepa-Bwalya, Olusegan Babaniyi, Elizabeth Mason, Caroline Phiri, Pauline K Wamulume
Why the MDGs need good governance in pharmaceutical systems to promote global health
Jillian Clare Kohler, Tim Ken Mackey, Natalia Ovtcharenko
Patterns of condom use by men who have sex with men before and after the Avahan intervention in Andhra Pradesh state of India
G Anil Kumar, Rakhi Dandona, Ramesh Poluru, S Anil Chandran, Michel Alary, Lalit Dandona
Behavioral and technological interventions targeting glycemic control in a racially/ethnically diverse population: a randomized controlled trial
Samuel N Forjuoh, Jane N Bolin, John C Huber Jr, Ann M Vuong, Omolola E Adepoju, Janet W Helduser, Dawn S Begaye, Anne Robertson, Darcy M Moudouni, Timethia J Bonner, Kenneth R McLeroy, Marcia G Ory
Assessing the construct validity and reliability of the parental perception on antibiotics (PAPA) scales
Arwa Alumran, Xiang-Yu Hou, Jiandong Sun, Abdullah A Yousef, Cameron Hurst
Adherence of pregnant women to Nordic dietary guidelines in relation to postpartum weight retention: results from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study
Anne von Ruesten, Anne Lise Brantsæter, Margaretha Haugen, Helle Margrete Meltzer, Kirsten Mehlig, Anna Winkvist, Lauren Lissner
An exploratory survey measuring stigma and discrimination experienced by people living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa: the People Living with HIV Stigma Index
Monika ML dos Santos, Pieter Kruger, Shaun E Mellors, Gustaaf Wolvaardt, Elna van der Ryst
Household income and poor treatment outcome among patients with tuberculosis in Georgia: a cohort study
Mamuka Djibuti, Eka Mirvelashvili, Nutsa Makharashvili, Matthew J Magee
Time to presentation, pattern and immediate health effects of alleged child sexual abuse at two tertiary hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Timketa Girgira, Birkneh Tilahun, Tigist Bacha
Influence of patients’ disease knowledge and beliefs about medicines on medication adherence: findings from a cross-sectional survey among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Palestine
Waleed M Sweileh, Sa’ed H Zyoud, Rawan J Abu Nab’a, Mohammed I Deleq, Mohammed I Enaia, Sana’a M Nassar, Samah W Al-Jabi
Cost-utility analysis of a randomized controlled weight loss trial among lactating overweight/obese women
Lars A Hagberg, Hilde K Brekke, Fredrik Bertz, Anna Winkvist
Promotion of a healthy lifestyle among 5-year-old overweight children: health behavior outcomes of the 'Be active, eat right’ study
Amy van Grieken, Carry M Renders, Lydian Veldhuis, Caspar WN Looman, Remy A Hirasing, Hein Raat
Association of weight misperception with weight loss in a diabetes prevention program
Andrea L Hernan, Vincent L Versace, Tiina Laatikainen, Erkki Vartiainen, Edward D Janus, James A Dunbar
Formative research to develop a community-based intervention for chronic disease prevention in Guatemalan school-age children
Paola Letona, Manuel Ramirez-Zea, Benjamin Caballero, Joel Gittelsohn
Planning for the future: cancer incidence projections in Switzerland up to 2019
Elisabetta Rapiti, Sandrine Guarnori, Bert Pastoors, Raymond Miralbell, Massimo Usel
Urban, semi-urban and rural difference in the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in Shaanxi province, northwestern China: a population-based survey
Shaoyong Xu, Jie Ming, Chao Yang, Bin Gao, Yi Wan, Ying Xing, Lei Zhang, Qiuhe Ji
Tuberculosis case finding and isoniazid preventive therapy among people living with HIV at public health facilities of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional facility based study
Amenu Wesen Denegetu, Bethabile Lovely Dolamo
Obesity and overweight in Bangladeshi children and adolescents: a scoping review
Sholeh Rahman, Md Tauhidul Islam, Dewan S Alam
Factors influencing work participation of adults with developmental dyslexia: a systematic review
Joost de Beer, Josephine Engels, Yvonne Heerkens, Jac van der Klink
Understanding the social context of fatal road traffic collisions among young people: a qualitative analysis of narrative text in coroners’ records
Paul Pilkington, Emma Bird, Selena Gray, Elizabeth Towner, Sarah Weld, Mary-Ann McKibben
Implementing and evaluating the German adaptation of the “Strengthening Families Program 10 - 14“– a randomized-controlled multicentre study
Sonja Bröning, Peter-Michael Sack, Monika Thomsen, Martin Stolle, Astrid Wendell, Julian Stappenbeck, Rainer Thomasius
Cultural practices and sexual risk behaviour among adolescent orphans and non-orphans: a qualitative study on perceptions from a community in western Kenya
Milka Juma, Ian Askew, Jane Alaii, L Kay Bartholomew, Bart van den Borne
Screen or not to screen for peripheral arterial disease: guidance from a decision model
Anil Vaidya, Manuela A Joore, Arina J ten Cate-Hoek, Hugo ten Cate, Johan L Severens
Timeliness of childhood vaccine uptake among children attending a tertiary health service facility-based immunisation clinic in Ghana
Dennis Odai Laryea, Emmanuel Abbeyquaye Parbie, Ebenezer Frimpong
Hand hygiene compliance and associated factors among health care providers in Gondar University Hospital, Gondar, North West Ethiopia
Nura Muhammed Abdella, Mekuriaw A Tefera, Abebaw E Eredie, Timothy F Landers, Yewunetu D Malefia, Kefyalew Addis Alene
Public knowledge and preventive behavior during a large-scale Salmonella outbreak: results from an online survey in the Netherlands
Lex van Velsen, Desirée JMA Beaujean, Julia EWC van Gemert-Pijnen, Jim E van Steenbergen, Aura Timen
Multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating implementation of a fire prevention Injury Prevention Briefing in children’s centres: study protocol
Toity Deave, Elizabeth Towner, Elaine McColl, Richard Reading, Alex Sutton, Carol Coupland, Nicola Cooper, Jane Stewart, Mike Hayes, Emma Pitchforth, Michael Watson, Denise Kendrick
Physical activity and sleep profiles in Finnish men and women
Heini Wennman, Erkki Kronholm, Timo Partonen, Asko Tolvanen, Markku Peltonen, Tommi Vasankari, Katja Borodulin
The relationship between BMI and the prescription of anti-obesity medication according to social factors: a population cross sectional study
Lynsey Patterson, Frank Kee, Carmel Hughes, Dermot O’Reilly
Diabetes mellitus in North West Ethiopia: a community based study
Solomon Mekonnen Abebe, Yemane Berhane, Alemayehu Worku, Abebayehu Assefa
Ownership and use of long-lasting insecticidal nets for malaria prevention in Butajira area, south-central Ethiopia: complex samples data analysis
Adugna Woyessa, Wakgari Deressa, Ahmed Ali, Bernt Lindtjørn
Chronic effects of ambient air pollution on respiratory morbidities among Chinese children: a cross-sectional study in Hong Kong
Yang Gao, Emily YY Chan, Liping Li, Patrick WC Lau, Tze Wai Wong
Planned development and evaluation protocol of two versions of a web-based computer-tailored nutrition education intervention aimed at adults, including cognitive and environmental feedback
Linda Springvloet, Lilian Lechner, Anke Oenema
The positive outlook study- a randomised controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of an online self-management program targeting psychosocial issues for men living with HIV: a study protocol
Tanya Millard, Julian Elliott, Sean Slavin, Karalyn McDonald, Sally Rowell, Sonya Girdler
Objective assessment of urban built environment related to physical activity — development, reliability and validity of the China Urban Built Environment Scan Tool (CUBEST)
Meng Su, Yu-kun Du, Qing-min Liu, Yan-jun Ren, Ichiro Kawachi, Jun Lv, Li-ming Li
Prevalence of Clostridium difficilein raw beef, cow, sheep, goat, camel and buffalo meat in Iran
Ebrahim Rahimi, Mohammad Jalali, J Scott Weese
A survey of undernutrition in children under three years of age in rural Western China
Leilei Pei, Lin Ren, Hong Yan
Epidemiological characteristics of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis in Nanchang, China: a retrospective study
Chang-hui Xiong, Yan Yan, Zhen Liao, Shi-hui Peng, Hai-rong Wen, Yan-xia Zhang, Shu-hua Chen, Jian Li, Hai-ying Chen, Xiao-wu Feng, Hui-qing Yao, Li Huang, Li Zhang
The return-to-work process of individuals sick-listed because of whiplash-associated disorder: a three-year follow-up study in a Danish cohort of long-term sickness absentees
Sarah Biering-Sørensen, Anne Møller, Christian DG Stoltenberg, Jonas W Holm, Peder G Skov
Toxic metal levels in children residing in a smelting craft village in Vietnam: a pilot biomonitoring study
Alison P Sanders, Sloane K Miller, Viet Nguyen, Jonathan B Kotch, Rebecca C Fry
Youth-Physical Activity Towards Health: evidence and background to the development of the Y-PATH physical activity intervention for adolescents
Sarahjane Belton, Wesley O’ Brien, Sarah Meegan, Catherine Woods, Johann Issartel
Use of flavoured cigarettes in Poland: data from the global adult tobacco survey (2009–2010)
Dorota Kaleta, Bukola Usidame, Anna Szosland-Fałtyn, Teresa Makowiec-Dąbrowska
Estimation of salt intake by 24-hour urinary sodium excretion: a cross-sectional study in Yantai, China
Jianwei Xu, Maobo Wang, Yuanyin Chen, Baojie Zhen, Junrong Li, Wenbo Luan, Fujiang Ning, Haiyun Liu, Jixiang Ma, Guansheng Ma
Sickness absence and disability pension due to otoaudiological diagnoses: risk of premature death – a nationwide prospective cohort study
Emilie Friberg, Ulf Rosenhall, Kristina Alexanderson
Theory of planned behaviour variables and objective walking behaviour do not show seasonal variation in a randomised controlled trial
Stefanie L Williams, David P French
Reliability and validity of the modified child and adolescent physical activity and nutrition survey (CAPANS-C) questionnaire examining potential correlates of physical activity participation among Chinese-Australian youth
Claudia Strugnell, Andre Renzaho, Kate Ridley, Cate Burns
Connection to mental health care upon community reentry for detained youth: a qualitative study
Matthew C Aalsma, James R Brown, Evan D Holloway, Mary A Ott
Nondaily smoking: a population-based, longitudinal study of stability and predictors
Elisabeth Kvaavik, Tilmann von Soest, Willy Pedersen
Process evaluation of an up-scaled community based child obesity treatment program: NSW Go4Fun®
Debra Welsby, Binh Nguyen, Blythe J O’Hara, Christine Innes-Hughes, Adrian Bauman, Louise L Hardy
Changes in exposure to ‘life stressors’ in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, 2002 to 2008
Matthew Stevens, Yin Paradies
Family group conferencing in youth care: characteristics of the decision making model, implementation and effectiveness of the Family Group (FG) plans
Jessica J Asscher, Sharon Dijkstra, Geert Jan JM Stams, Maja Deković, Hanneke E Creemers
Important periods of weight development in childhood: a population-based longitudinal study
Kari Glavin, Mathieu Roelants, Bjørn Heine Strand, Pétur B Júlíusson, Kari Kveim Lie, Sølvi Helseth, Ragnhild Hovengen
What type of rural? Assessing the variations in life expectancy at birth at small area-level for a small population province using classes of locally defined settlement types
Mikiko Terashima, Judith Read Guernsey, Pantelis Andreou
Can food vouchers improve nutrition and reduce health inequalities in low-income mothers and young children: a multi-method evaluation of the experiences of beneficiaries and practitioners of the Healthy Start programme in England
Alison McFadden, Josephine M Green, Victoria Williams, Jenny McLeish, Felicia McCormick, Julia Fox-Rushby, Mary J Renfrew
Evaluation of support group interventions for children in troubled families: study protocol for a quasi-experimental control group study
Annemi Skerfving, Fredrik Johansson, Tobias H Elgán
‘Get Healthy, Stay Healthy’: protocol for evaluation of a lifestyle intervention delivered by text-message following the Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service®
Brianna Fjeldsoe, Philayrath Phongsavan, Adrian Bauman, Ana Goode, Genevieve Maher, Elizabeth Eakin
Effects of organisational-level interventions at work on employees’ health: a systematic review
Diego Montano, Hanno Hoven, Johannes Siegrist
The web of silence: a qualitative case study of early intervention and support for healthcare workers with mental ill-health
Sandra E Moll
Chronic disease burden associated with overweight and obesity in Ireland: the effects of a small BMI reduction at population level
Karen Kearns, Anne Dee, Anthony P Fitzgerald, Edel Doherty, Ivan J Perry
The influence of HIV disease events/stages on smoking attitudes and behaviors: project STATE (Study of Tobacco Attitudes and Teachable Events)
Damon J Vidrine, Faith E Fletcher, Meredith K Buchberg, Yisheng Li, Roberto C Arduino, Ellen R Gritz
Associations between socioeconomic, parental and home environment factors and fruit and vegetable consumption of children in grades five and six in British Columbia, Canada
Adrienne Attorp, Jenny E Scott, Ann C Yew, Ryan E Rhodes, Susan I Barr, Patti-Jean Naylor
Prevalence of congenital heart defect in Guangdong province, 2008-2012
Li Wu, Bing Li, Jianhong Xia, Cunwei Ji, Zhijiang Liang, Yuanzhu Ma, Shiyun Li, Yuntao Wu, Youjie Wang, Qingguo Zhao
Lower vitamin D status is more common among Saudi adults with diabetes mellitus type 1 than in non-diabetics
Nasser M Al-Daghri, Omar S Al-Attas, Majed S Alokail, Khalid M Alkharfy, Sobhy M Yakout, Naji J Aljohani, Hanan Al Fawaz, Abdulrahman SM Al-Ajlan, Eman S Sheshah, Mansour Al-Yousef, Mohammad Alharbi
Prevalence of depression among people with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cross sectional study in Palestine
Waleed M Sweileh, Hanadi M Abu-Hadeed, Samah W Al-Jabi, Sa’ed H Zyoud
Physical health-related quality of life predicts disability pension due to musculoskeletal disorders: seven years follow-up of the Hordaland Health Study Cohort
Inger Haukenes, Erlend H Farbu, Trond Riise, Grethe S Tell
The association of depression and anxiety with glycemic control among Mexican Americans with diabetes living near the U.S.-Mexico border
Darla E Kendzor, Minxing Chen, Belinda M Reininger, Michael S Businelle, Diana W Stewart, Susan P Fisher-Hoch, Anne R Rentfro, David W Wetter, Joseph B McCormick
The science of epidemiology and the methods needed for public health assessments: a review of epidemiology textbooks
Hebe N Gouda, John W Powles
Perceived pros and cons of smoking and quitting in hard-core smokers: a focus group study
Jeroen Bommelé, Tim M Schoenmakers, Marloes Kleinjan, Barbara van Straaten, Elske Wits, Michelle Snelleman, Dike van de Mheen
Prevalence and correlates of psychological distress in a large and diverse public sector workforce: baseline results from Partnering Healthy@Work
Lisa Jarman, Angela Martin, Alison Venn, Petr Otahal, Roscoe Taylor, Brook Teale, Kristy Sanderson
The role and utilisation of public health evaluations in Europe: a case study of national hand hygiene campaigns
Jonathan R Latham, Anna-Pelagia Magiorakos, Dominique L Monnet, Sophie Alleaume, Olov Aspevall, Alexander Blacky, Michael Borg, Maria Ciurus, Ana Cristina Costa, Robert Cunney, Mojca Dolinšek, Uga Dumpis, Sabine Erne, Olafur Gudlaugsson, Dana Hedlova, Elisabeth Heisbourg, Jette Holt, Natalia Kerbo, Nina Kristine Sorknes, Outi Lyytikäinen, Helena C Maltezou, Stavroula Michael, Maria Luisa Moro, Christiane Reichardt, Maria Stefkovicova, Emese Szilágyi, Rolanda Valinteliene, Rossitza Vatcheva-Dobrevska, Natacha Viseur, Andreas Voss, Suzette Woodward, Laura Cordier, Andreas Jansen
WalkMore: a randomized controlled trial of pedometer-based interventions differing on intensity messages
Catrine Tudor-Locke, Damon L Swift, John M Schuna Jr., Amber T Dragg, Allison B Davis, Corby K Martin, William D Johnson, Timothy S Church
Emotional and instrumental feeding practices of Dutch mothers regarding foods eaten between main meals
Lieke GM Raaijmakers, Dorus WM Gevers, Dorit Teuscher, Stef PJ Kremers, Patricia van Assema
Do early onset and pack-years of smoking increase risk of type II diabetes?
Sun Jung Kim, Sun Ha Jee, Jung Mo Nam, Woo Hyun Cho, Jae-Hyun Kim, Eun-Cheol Park
The economic burden of angina on households in South Asia
Khurshid Alam, Ajay Mahal
Associations between children’s independent mobility and physical activity
Stephanie Schoeppe, Mitch J Duncan, Hannah M Badland, Melody Oliver, Matthew Browne
Assessment of occupational injuries among Addis Ababa city municipal solid waste collectors: a cross-sectional study
Daniel Bogale, Abera kumie, Worku Tefera
Steps to Growing Up Healthy: a pediatric primary care based obesity prevention program for young children
Amy A Gorin, James Wiley, Christine McCauley Ohannessian, Dominica Hernandez, Autherene Grant, Michelle M Cloutier
Prevalence of diabetes in Northern African countries: the case of Tunisia
Habiba Ben Romdhane, Samir Ben Ali, Wafa Aissi, Pierre Traissac, Hajer Aounallah-Skhiri, Souha Bougatef, Bernard Maire, Francis Delpeuch, Noureddine Achour
Light smoking at base-line predicts a higher mortality risk to women than to men; evidence from a cohort with long follow-up
Margaret A Hurley
Cost-effectiveness of reducing salt intake in the Pacific Islands: protocol for a before and after intervention study
Jacqui Webster, Wendy Snowdon, Marj Moodie, Satu Viali, Jimaima Schultz, Colin Bell, Mary-Anne Land, Shauna Downs, Anthea Christoforou, Elizabeth Dunford, Federica Barzi, Mark Woodward, Bruce Neal
Predictors of long-term change of a physical activity promotion programme in primary care
Alvaro Sanchez, Gonzalo Grandes, Ricardo Ortega Sánchez-Pinilla, Jesus Torcal, Imanol Montoya
Stable time patterns of railway suicides in Germany: comparative analysis of 7,187 cases across two observation periods (1995–1998; 2005–2008)
Karoline Lukaschek, Jens Baumert, Natalia Erazo, Karl-Heinz Ladwig
Queer quit: a pilot study of a smoking cessation programme tailored to gay men
Maria Dickson-Spillmann, Robin Sullivan, Benedikt Zahno, Michael P Schaub
Patterns of alcohol consumption and risky sexual behavior: a cross-sectional study among Ugandan university students
Vikas Choudhry, Anette Agardh, Martin Stafström, Per-Olof Östergren
The INSPIRED study: a randomised controlled trial of the Whole Person Model of disease self-management for people with type 2 diabetes
David M Clarke, Donita E Baird, Dinali N Perera, Virginia L Hagger, Helena J Teede
Effects of financial incentives on motivating physical activity among older adults: results from a discrete choice experiment
Muhammad Assad Farooqui, Yock-Theng Tan, Marcel Bilger, Eric A Finkelstein
Methods and feasibility of collecting occupational data for a large population-based cohort study in the United States: the reasons for geographic and racial differences in stroke study
Leslie A MacDonald, LeaVonne Pulley, Misty J Hein, Virginia J Howard
A cross-sectional, population-based study measuring comorbidity among people living with HIV in Ontario
Claire E Kendall, Jenna Wong, Monica Taljaard, Richard H Glazier, William Hogg, Jaime Younger, Douglas G Manuel
Assessment of the prevalence of intestinal parasitosis and associated risk factors among primary school children in Chencha town, Southern Ethiopia
Ashenafi Abossie, Mohammed Seid
Perceived family support regarding condom use and condom use among secondary school female students in Limbe urban city of Cameroon
Elvis E Tarkang
Protocol for the DREAM Project (Diabetes Research, Education, and Action for Minorities): a randomized trial of a community health worker intervention to improve diabetic management and control among Bangladeshi adults in NYC
Nadia Islam, Lindsey Riley, Laura Wyatt, S Darius Tandon, Michael Tanner, Runi Mukherji-Ratnam, Mariano Rey, Chau Trinh-Shevrin
Chinese immigrant parents’ vaccination decision making for children: a qualitative analysis
Linda DL Wang, Wendy WT Lam, Joseph T Wu, Qiuyan Liao, Richard Fielding
Parent and child interactions with two contrasting anti-obesity advertising campaigns: a qualitative analysis
Samantha L Thomas, Timothy Olds, Simone Pettigrew, Heather Yeatman, Jim Hyde, Christine Dragovic
No difference in sexual behavior of adolescent girls following Human Papilloma Virus vaccination: a case study two districts in Uganda; Nakasongola and Luwero
Judith Caroline Aujo, Sabrina Bakeera-Kitaka, Sarah Kiguli, Florence Mirembe
Elementary school children’s recess schedule and dietary intake at lunch: a community-based participatory research partnership pilot study
Monica Hunsberger, Paul McGinnis, Jamie Smith, Beth Ann Beamer, Jean O’Malley
Evaluating the effects of the Lunchtime Enjoyment Activity and Play (LEAP) school playground intervention on children’s quality of life, enjoyment and participation in physical activity
Brendon P Hyndman, Amanda C Benson, Shahid Ullah, Amanda Telford
Family planning practice and predictors of risk of inconsistent condom use among HIV-positive women on anti-retroviral therapy in Cambodia
Naomi Nakaie, Sovanna Tuon, Ikuma Nozaki, Fuzuki Yamaguchi, Yuri Sasaki, Kazuhiro Kakimoto
Syndemics of syphilis, HCV infection, and methamphetamine use along the east coast of China
Meizhen Liao, Dianmin Kang, Xiaorun Tao, Catherine Cox, Yuesheng Qian, Guoyong Wang, Cui Yang, XiaoYan Zhu, Na Zhang, Zhenqiang Bi, Yujiang Jia
A randomized controlled trial to investigate the impact of a low glycemic index (GI) diet on body mass index in obese adolescents
Alice PS Kong, Kai Chow Choi, Ruth SM Chan, Kris Lok, Risa Ozaki, Albert M Li, Chung Shun Ho, Michael HM Chan, Mandy Sea, C Jeyakumar Henry, Juliana CN Chan, Jean Woo
Per capita sugar consumption and prevalence of diabetes mellitus – global and regional associations
Praveen Weeratunga, Sayumi Jayasinghe, Yashasvi Perera, Ganga Jayasena, Saroj Jayasinghe
High prevalence of exposure to the child welfare system among street-involved youth in a Canadian setting: implications for policy and practice
Brittany Barker, Thomas Kerr, Gerald Taiaiake Alfred, Michelle Fortin, Paul Nguyen, Evan Wood, Kora DeBeck
Factors influencing social and health outcomes after motor vehicle crash injury: an inception cohort study protocol
Jagnoor Jagnoor, Fiona Blyth, Belinda Gabbe, Sarah Derrett, Soufiane Boufous, Michael Dinh, Robert Day, Gregory Button, Mark Gillett, Tony Joseph, Michael Nicholas, Rebecca Ivers, Chris G Maher, Simon Willcock, Justin Kenardy, Alex Collie, Ian D Cameron
Marital status shows a strong protective effect on long-term mortality among first acute myocardial infarction-survivors with diagnosed hyperlipidemia – findings from the MONICA/KORA myocardial infarction registry
Philip Andrew Quinones, Inge Kirchberger, Margit Heier, Bernhard Kuch, Ines Trentinaglia, Andreas Mielck, Annette Peters, Wolfgang von Scheidt, Christa Meisinger
Gaps in Indigenous disadvantage not closing: a census cohort study of social determinants of health in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand from 1981–2006
Francis Mitrou, Martin Cooke, David Lawrence, David Povah, Elena Mobilia, Eric Guimond, Stephen R Zubrick
The contributing role of physical education in youth’s daily physical activity and sedentary behavior
Senlin Chen, Youngwon Kim, Zan Gao
Explaining socio-economic differences in intention to smoke among primary school children
Henricus-Paul Cremers, Anke Oenema, Liesbeth Mercken, Math Candel, Hein de Vries
Objectively assessed recess physical activity in girls and boys from high and low socioeconomic backgrounds
Georges Baquet, Nicola D Ridgers, Aurélie Blaes, Julien Aucouturier, Emmanuel Van Praagh, Serge Berthoin
Local discrepancies in measles vaccination opportunities: results of population-based surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa
Lise Grout, Nolwenn Conan, Aitana Juan Giner, Northan Hurtado, Florence Fermon, Alexandra N’Goran, Emmanuel Grellety, Andrea Minetti, Klaudia Porten, Rebecca F Grais
The prevalence of urethral and rectal Mycoplasma genitalium among men who have sex with men in China, a cross-sectional study
Bing-jie Zheng, Yue-ping Yin, Yan Han, Mei-qin Shi, Ning Jiang, Zhi Xiang, Rui-xing Yu, Guo-yi Zhang, Xiang-sheng Chen
Vaccination coverage and its determinants among migrant children in Guangdong, China
Ke Han, Huizhen Zheng, Zhixiong Huang, Quan Qiu, Hong Zeng, Banghua Chen, Jianxiong Xu
Social and health policies or interventions to tackle health inequalities in European cities: a scoping review
Mariona Pons-Vigués, Èlia Diez, Joana Morrison, Sergio Salas-Nicás, Rasmus Hoffmann, Bo Burstrom, Jitse P van Dijk, Carme Borrell
Incidence rates of sickness absence related to mental disorders: a systematic literature review
Carolyn S Dewa, Desmond Loong, Sarah Bonato, Hiske Hees
Quality appraisal of generic self-reported instruments measuring health-related productivity changes: a systematic review
Cindy YG Noben, Silvia MAA Evers, Frans J Nijhuis, Angelique E de Rijk
Development and feasibility of a home-based education model for families of children with sickle cell disease
Catherine Hoyt Drazen, Regina Abel, Terianne Lindsey, Allison A King
Experiences of the parents caring for their children during a tuberculosis outbreak in high school: a qualitative study
Shaoru Zhang, Wei Ruan, Yingqun Li, Xiangni Wang, Xing Wang
Vitamin D status among patients visiting a tertiary care center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: a retrospective review of 3475 cases
Hanan Alfawaz, Hani Tamim, Shmeylan Alharbi, Saleh Aljaser, Waleed Tamimi
Socioeconomic position across the lifecourse & allostatic load: data from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 cohort study
Tony Robertson, Frank Popham, Michaela Benzeval
Under five diarrhea among model household and non model households in Hawassa, South Ethiopia: a comparative cross-sectional community based survey
Fekadeselassie Berhe, Yemane Berhane
Systematic review on what works, what does not work and why of implementation of mobile health (mHealth) projects in Africa
Clara B Aranda-Jan, Neo Mohutsiwa-Dibe, Svetla Loukanova
Pattern and severity of early childhood caries in Southern Italy: a preschool-based cross-sectional study
Carmelo GA Nobile, Leonzio Fortunato, Aida Bianco, Claudia Pileggi, Maria Pavia
Body mass index, blood pressure, and glucose and lipid metabolism among permanent and fixed-term workers in the manufacturing industry: a cross-sectional study
Mariko Inoue, Masahide Minami, Eiji Yano
Trends in access to water supply and sanitation in 31 major sub-Saharan African cities: an analysis of DHS data from 2000 to 2012
Mike R Hopewell, Jay P Graham
Tobacco smoking in Mongolia: findings of a national knowledge, attitudes and practices study
Alessandro R Demaio, Jessica Nehme, Dugee Otgontuya, Dan Wolf Meyrowitsch, Palam Enkhtuya
Moderating influences of baseline activity levels in school physical activity programming for children: the Ready for Recess project
Pedro F Saint-Maurice, Gregory J Welk, Daniel W Russell, Jennifer Huberty
Evaluation of GoGirlGo!; A practitioner based program to improve physical activity
Jennifer L Huberty, Danae M Dinkel, Michael W Beets
A prospective cohort study of stroke mortality and arsenic in drinking water in Bangladeshi adults
Mahfuzar Rahman, Nazmul Sohel, Mohammad Yunus, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Samar Kumar Hore, Khalequ Zaman, Abbas Bhuiya, Peter Kim Streatfield
Chlamydia trachomatis infection rates among a cohort of mobile soldiers stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 2005–2010
Shilpa Hakre, Robert J Oyler, Kenneth A Ferrell, Fang Li, Nelson L Michael, Paul T Scott, Bruno P Petruccelli
Timing of antiretroviral therapy and regimen for HIV-infected patients with tuberculosis: the effect of revised HIV guidelines in Malawi
Hannock Tweya, Anne Ben-Smith, Mike Kalulu, Andreas Jahn, Wingston Ng’ambi, Elizabeth Mkandawire, Layout Gabriel, Sam Phiri
Prevalence of vancomycin resistant Enterococci and associated risk factors among clients with and without HIV in Northwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
Wondwossen Abebe, Mengistu Endris, Moges Tiruneh, Feleke Moges
Biological health or lived health: which predicts self-reported general health better?
Cristina Bostan, Cornelia Oberhauser, Gerold Stucki, Jerome Bickenbach, Alarcos Cieza
Community awareness of stroke in Accra, Ghana
Eric S Donkor, Mayowa O Owolabi, Patrick Bampoh, Thor Aspelund, Vilmundur Gudnason
Actor-partner effects associated with experiencing intimate partner violence or coercion among male couples enrolled in an HIV prevention trial
Kristin M Wall, Patrick S Sullivan, David Kleinbaum, Rob Stephenson
Ethnic disparities in acquiring 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza: a case–control study
Debeka Navaranjan, Laura C Rosella, Jeffrey C Kwong, Michael Campitelli, Natasha Crowcroft
Television viewing through ages 2-5 years and bullying involvement in early elementary school
Marina Verlinden, Henning Tiemeier, René Veenstra, Cathelijne L Mieloo, Wilma Jansen, Vincent WV Jaddoe, Hein Raat, Albert Hofman, Frank C Verhulst, Pauline W Jansen
I Move: systematic development of a web-based computer tailored physical activity intervention, based on motivational interviewing and self-determination theory
Stijn AH Friederichs, Anke Oenema, Catherine Bolman, Janneke Guyaux, Hilde M van Keulen, Lilian Lechner
A cluster randomised controlled trial of an intervention to promote healthy lifestyle habits to school leavers: study rationale, design, and methods
Fiona Gillison, Martyn Standage, Bas Verplanken
Implementing a free school-based fruit and vegetable programme: barriers and facilitators experienced by pupils, teachers and produce suppliers in the Boost study
Anne Kristine Aarestrup, Rikke Krølner, Thea Suldrup Jørgensen, Alexandra Evans, Pernille Due, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen
Causes of death and associated risk factors among climacteric women from Southern Brazil: a population based-study
Verônica Colpani, Karen Oppermann, Poli Mara Spritzer
Post-intervention effects on screen behaviours and mediating effect of parental regulation: the HEalth In Adolescents study – a multi-component school-based randomized controlled trial
Ingunn H Bergh, Maartje M van Stralen, Mona Bjelland, May Grydeland, Nanna Lien, Knut-Inge Klepp, Sigmund A Anderssen, Yngvar Ommundsen
The informed consent in Southern Italy does not adequately inform parents about infant vaccination
Francesco Attena, Amanda Valdes Abuadili, Sara Marino
Nutrition and physical activity randomized control trial in child care centers improves knowledge, policies, and children’s body mass index
Abbey Alkon, Angela A Crowley, Sara E Benjamin Neelon, Sherika Hill, Yi Pan, Viet Nguyen, Roberta Rose, Eric Savage, Nina Forestieri, Linda Shipman, Jonathan B Kotch
Where is the gap?: the contribution of disparities within developing countries to global inequalities in under-five mortality
Agbessi Amouzou, Naoko Kozuki, Davidson R Gwatkin
A systematic review of special events to promote breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening in the United States
Cam Escoffery, Kirsten C Rodgers, Michelle C Kegler, Regine Haardörfer, David H Howard, Shuting Liang, Erika Pinsker, Katherine B Roland, Jennifer D Allen, Marcia G Ory, Roshan Bastani, Maria E Fernandez, Betsy C Risendal, Theresa L Byrd, Gloria D Coronado
The use of a modified Delphi approach to engage stakeholders in zoonotic disease research priority setting
Kate Sawford, Navneet K Dhand, Jenny-Ann LML Toribio, Melanie R Taylor
Use of traditional medicines to cope with climate-sensitive diseases in a resource poor setting in Bangladesh
Md Aminul Haque, Valérie R Louis, Revati Phalkey, Rainer Sauerborn
Towards a minimal generic set of domains of functioning and health
Alarcos Cieza, Cornelia Oberhauser, Jerome Bickenbach, Somnath Chatterji, Gerold Stucki
Socioeconomic patterns of overweight, obesity but not thinness persist from childhood to adolescence in a 6 -year longitudinal cohort of Australian schoolchildren from 2007 to 2012
Jennifer A O’Dea, Hueiwen Chiang, Louisa R Peralta
Faith and HIV prevention: the conceptual framing of HIV prevention among Pentecostal Batswana teenagers
Elias Mpofu, Fidelis Nkomazana, Jabulani A Muchado, Lovemore Togarasei, Jeffrey Bart Bingenheimer
“We are used to this”: a qualitative assessment of the perceptions of and attitudes towards air pollution amongst slum residents in Nairobi
Kanyiva Muindi, Thaddaeus Egondi, Elizabeth Kimani-Murage, Joacim Rocklov, Nawi Ng
Active transport between home and school assessed with GPS: a cross-sectional study among Dutch elementary school children
Dirk Dessing, Sanne I de Vries, Jamie MA Graham, Frank H Pierik
Effectiveness of a primary care-based intervention to reduce sitting time in overweight and obese patients (SEDESTACTIV): a randomized controlled trial; rationale and study design
Carme Martín-Borràs, Maria Giné-Garriga, Elena Martínez, Carlos Martín-Cantera, Elisa Puigdoménech, Mercè Solà, Eva Castillo, Angela Mª Beltrán, Anna Puig-Ribera, José Manuel Trujillo, Olga Pueyo, Javier Pueyo, Beatriz Rodríguez, Noemí Serra-Paya
Healthcare experiences of gender diverse Australians: a mixed-methods, self-report survey
Damien W Riggs, Katrina Coleman, Clemence Due
From the parents’ perspective: a user-satisfaction survey of immunization services in Guatemala
Lissette Barrera, Silas Pierson Trumbo, Pamela Bravo-Alcántara, Martha Velandia-González, M Carolina Danovaro-Holliday
Factors associated with non-utilization of child immunization in Pakistan: evidence from the Demographic and Health Survey 2006-07
Ayesha Siddiqa Bugvi, Rahla Rahat, Rubeena Zakar, Muhammad Zakria Zakar, Florian Fischer, Muazzam Nasrullah, Riffat Manawar
Obesogenic environments: a systematic review of the association between the physical environment and adult weight status, the SPOTLIGHT project
Joreintje D Mackenbach, Harry Rutter, Sofie Compernolle, Ketevan Glonti, Jean-Michel Oppert, Helene Charreire, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Johannes Brug, Giel Nijpels, Jeroen Lakerveld
The lipid profile of HIV-infected patients receiving antiretroviral therapy in a rural Cameroonian population
Cavin Epie Bekolo, Modestine Becker Nguena, Leonard Ewane, Patrick Sylvestre Bekoule, Basile Kollo
Effect of home-based interventions on virologic outcomes in adults receiving antiretroviral therapy in Africa: a meta-analysis
Nathaniel Chishinga, Peter Godfrey-Faussett, Katherine Fielding, Helen Ayles
Hypertension education and adherence in South Africa: a cost-effectiveness analysis of community health workers
Thomas A Gaziano, Melanie Bertram, Stephen M Tollman, Karen J Hofman
Workplace gender composition and psychological distress: the importance of the psychosocial work environment
Sofia Elwér, Klara Johansson, Anne Hammarström
Measuring the health systems impact of disease control programmes: a critical reflection on the WHO building blocks framework
Sandra Mounier-Jack, Ulla K Griffiths, Svea Closser, Helen Burchett, Bruno Marchal
An analysis of changes in mobility and safety of older drivers associated with a specific older driver on-road licensing test: a population study
Michael D Keall, Esther Woodbury
Elevated depressive symptoms and adolescent injury: examining associations by injury frequency, injury type, and gender
Mark Asbridge, Sunday Azagba, Donald B Langille, Daniel Rasic
Evaluating the effectiveness of a training program that builds teachers’ capability to identify and appropriately refer middle and high school students with mental health problems in Brazil: an exploratory study
Marlene A Vieira, Ary A Gadelha, Taís S Moriyama, Rodrigo A Bressan, Isabel A Bordin
Vaccination coverage of children aged 12-23 months in Gaziantep, Turkey: comparative results of two studies carried out by lot quality technique: what changed after family medicine?
Birgul Ozcirpici, Neriman Aydin, Ferhat Coskun, Hakan Tuzun, Servet Ozgur
The economic impact of diabetes through lost labour force participation on individuals and government: evidence from a microsimulation model
Deborah Schofield, Michelle M Cunich, Rupendra N Shrestha, Megan E Passey, Lennert Veerman, Emily J Callander, Simon J Kelly, Robert Tanton
A cross-sectional study identifying the pattern of factors related to psychological intimate partner violence exposure in Slovenian family practice attendees: what hurt them the most
Polona Selic, Igor Svab, Nena Kopcavar Gucek
Traditional and cyberbullying victimization as correlates of psychosocial distress and barriers to a healthy lifestyle among severely obese adolescents – a matched case–control study on prevalence and results from a cross-sectional study
Ann DeSmet, Benedicte Deforche, Anne Hublet, Ann Tanghe, Evi Stremersch, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij
Adult total wellness: group differences based on sitting time and physical activity level
Faisal A Barwais, Thomas F Cuddihy, L Michaud Tomson
Health responses to a new high-voltage power line route: design of a quasi-experimental prospective field study in the Netherlands
Jarry T Porsius, Liesbeth Claassen, Tjabe Smid, Fred Woudenberg, Danielle RM Timmermans
Knowledge and perceptions of brucellosis in the pastoral communities adjacent to Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda
Catherine Kansiime, Anthony Mugisha, Fredrick Makumbi, Samuel Mugisha, Innocent B Rwego, Joseph Sempa, Suzanne N Kiwanuka, Benon B Asiimwe, Elizeus Rutebemberwa
Incidence of paediatric fatal and non-fatal low speed vehicle run over events in Queensland, Australia: eleven year analysis
Bronwyn R Griffin, Kerrianne Watt, Belinda A Wallis, Linda E Shields, Roy M Kimble
Association between obesity and metabolic co-morbidities among children and adolescents in South Korea based on national data
Hyunjung Lim, Hong Xue, Youfa Wang
The health-related quality of life among pre-diabetics and its association with body mass index and physical activity in a semi-urban community in Malaysia- a cross sectional study
Norliza Ibrahim, Foong Ming Moy, Intan Attikah Nur Awalludin, Zainudin Ali, Ikram Shah Ismail
Early maternal age at first birth is associated with chronic diseases and poor physical performance in older age: cross-sectional analysis from the International Mobility in Aging Study
Catherine M Pirkle, Ana Carolina Patrício de Albuquerque Sousa, Beatriz Alvarado, Maria-Victoria Zunzunegui
Factors associated with recent HIV testing among younger gay and bisexual men in New Zealand, 2006-2011
Nathan J Lachowsky, Peter JW Saxton, Nigel P Dickson, Anthony J Hughes, Alastair JS Summerlee, Cate E Dewey
Factors associated with place of delivery in rural Nepal
Sudesh Raj Sharma, Amod Kumar Poudyal, Bharat Mani Devkota, Sarswoti Singh
Measuring visual exposure to smoking behaviours: a viewshed analysis of smoking at outdoor bars and cafés across a capital city’s downtown area
Amber L Pearson, Daniel Nutsford, George Thomson
Are psychosocial stressors associated with the relationship of alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality?
Esther Ruf, Jens Baumert, Christa Meisinger, Angela Döring, Karl-Heinz Ladwig
Accuracy of body fat percent and adiposity indicators cut off values to detect metabolic risk factors in a sample of Mexican adults
Nayeli Macias, Amado D Quezada, Mario Flores, Mauro E Valencia, Edgar Denova-Gutiérrez, Manuel Quiterio-Trenado, Katia Gallegos-Carrillo, Simon Barquera, Jorge Salmerón
Perceptions of quality of life among Ugandan patients living with HIV: a qualitative study
Doris Mutabazi-Mwesigire, Janet Seeley, Faith Martin, Achilles Katamba
Population impact of a high cardiovascular risk management program delivered by village doctors in rural China: design and rationale of a large, cluster-randomized controlled trial
Lijing L Yan, Weigang Fang, Elizabeth Delong, Bruce Neal, Eric D Peterson, Yining Huang, Ningling Sun, Chen Yao, Xian Li, Stephen MacMahon, Yangfeng Wu
Longitudinal study of long-term smoking behaviour by biomarker-supported determination of exposure to smoke
Anthony Cunningham, Johan Sommarström, Ajit S Sisodiya, Graham Errington, Krishna Prasad
A preliminary investigation into diet adequacy in senior residents of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: a cross-sectional study
Jing Yan, Lin Liu, Barbara Roebothan, Ann Ryan, Zhi Chen, Yanqing Yi, Peizhong Wang
Promoting health equity in European children: Design and methodology of the prospective EPHE (Epode for the Promotion of Health Equity) evaluation study
Krystallia Mantziki, Achilleas Vassilopoulos, Gabriella Radulian, Jean-Michel Borys, Hugues du Plessis, Maria João Gregório, Pedro Graça, Stefaan de Henauw, Svetoslav Handjiev, Tommy LS Visscher, Jacob C Seidell
Trends in TB case notification over fifteen years: the case notification of 25 Districts of Arsi Zone of Oromia Regional State, Central Ethiopia
Shallo Daba Hamusse, Meaza Demissie, Bernt Lindtjørn
Sick leave and the impact of job-to-job mobility on the likelihood of remaining on the labour market - a longitudinal Swedish register study
Karin Nordström, Kerstin Ekberg, Tomas Hemmingsson, Gun Johansson
Health and wealth in children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease (K-CAD study)
Germaine Wong, Meredith Medway, Madeleine Didsbury, Allison Tong, Robin Turner, Fiona Mackie, Steven McTaggart, Amanda Walker, Sarah White, Kirsten Howard, Siah Kim, Jonathan C Craig
Trade and health in Samoa: views from the insiders
Jacinta Fa’alili-Fidow, Judith McCool, Teuila Percival
Effectiveness of a one-year multi-component day-camp intervention for overweight children: study protocol of the Odense overweight intervention study (OOIS)
Kristian Traberg Larsen, Tao Huang, Niels Christian Møller, Lars Bo Andersen, Mathias Ried-Larsen
Two year mortality and associated factors in a cohort of children from rural Uganda
Patrick Nabongo, Suzanne Verver, Elizabeth Nangobi, Ronald Mutunzi, Anne Wajja, Harriet Mayanja-Kizza, Dan Kadobera, Edward Galiwango, Robert Colebunders, Philippa Musoke
Quality of life and social engagement of alcohol abstainers and users among older adults in South Africa
Priscilla Martinez, Lars Lien, Anne Landheim, Paul Kowal, Thomas Clausen
The influence of lifestyle and gender on sickness absence in Brazilian workers
Fabiana Maluf Rabacow, Renata Bertazzi Levy, Paulo Rossi Menezes, Olinda do Carmo Luiz, Ana Maria Malik, Alex Burdorf
Parents’ experience with child safety restraint in China
Xiaojun Chen, Jingzhen Yang, Corinne Peek-Asa, Liping Li
Common types of tuberculosis and co-infection with HIV at private health institutions in Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
Getahun Asres Alemie, Feseha Gebreselassie
Contribution of socioeconomic status, stature and birth weight to obesity in Sub-Saharan Africa: cross-sectional data from primary school-age children in Cameroon
Lifoter K Navti, Uta Ferrari, Emmanuel Tange, Susanne Bechtold-Dalla Pozza, Klaus G Parhofer
The prevalence of eating behaviors among Canadian youth using cross-sectional school-based surveys
Heather G Lillico, David Hammond, Steve Manske, Donna Murnaghan
Influences of socioeconomic factors on childhood and adolescent overweight by gender in Korea: cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative sample
Jin-Won Noh, Young-eun Kim, In-Hwan Oh, Young Dae Kwon
How smokers may react to cigarette taxes and price increases in Brazil: data from a national survey
Analice Gigliotti, Valeska C Figueiredo, Clarice S Madruga, Ana CPR Marques, Ilana Pinsky, Raul Caetano, Vera Luiza da Costa e Silva, Martin Raw, Ronaldo Laranjeira
Can gender difference in prescription drug use be explained by gender-related morbidity?: a study on a Swedish population during 2006
Jessica Skoog, Patrik Midlöv, Lars Borgquist, Jan Sundquist, Anders Halling
HIV related risk behaviours among taxi drivers and their assistants in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: descriptive cross-sectional survey
Yihunie Lakew, Habtamu Tamene
The COMPASS study: a longitudinal hierarchical research platform for evaluating natural experiments related to changes in school-level programs, policies and built environment resources
Scott T Leatherdale, K Stephen Brown, Valerie Carson, Ruth A Childs, Joel A Dubin, Susan J Elliott, Guy Faulkner, David Hammond, Steve Manske, Catherine M Sabiston, Rachel E Laxer, Chad Bredin, Audra Thompson-Haile
Sedentary behavior and health outcomes among older adults: a systematic review
Leandro Fornias Machado de Rezende, Juan Pablo Rey-López, Victor Keihan Rodrigues Matsudo, Olinda do Carmo Luiz
Socio-demographic and lifestyle factors for child’s physical growth and adiposity rebound of Japanese children: a longitudinal study of the 21st century longitudinal survey in newborns
Yoko Franchetti, Hiroo Ide
Abuse against elderly in India – The role of education
Vegard Skirbekk, KS James
Setting the stage for chronic health problems: cumulative childhood adversity among homeless adults with mental illness in Vancouver, British Columbia
Michelle L Patterson, Akm Moniruzzaman, Julian M Somers
Trends in television time, non-gaming PC use and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity among German adolescents 2002–2010
Jens Bucksch, Joanna Inchley, Zdenek Hamrik, Emily Finne, Petra Kolip
Protocol for the implementation and evaluation of a community-based intervention seeking to reduce dietary salt intake in Lithgow, Australia
Mary-Anne Land, Paul Jeffery, Jacqui Webster, Michelle Crino, John Chalmers, Mark Woodward, Caryl Nowson, Wayne Smith, Victoria Flood, Bruce Neal
Association of socioeconomic status in childhood with major depression and generalized anxiety disorder: results from the World Mental Health Japan survey 2002–2006
Manami Ochi, Takeo Fujiwara, Rie Mizuki, Norito Kawakami
Perceived problems with computer gaming and internet use among adolescents: measurement tool for non-clinical survey studies
Bjørn E Holstein, Trine Pagh Pedersen, Pernille Bendtsen, Katrine Rich Madsen, Charlotte Riebeling Meilstrup, Line Nielsen, Mette Rasmussen
Socioeconomic and demographic factors modify the association between informal caregiving and health in the Sandwich Generation
Elizabeth K Do, Steven A Cohen, Monique J Brown
Adapting a community-based ART delivery model to the patients’ needs: a mixed methods research in Tete, Mozambique
Freya Rasschaert, Tom Decroo, Daniel Remartinez, Barbara Telfer, Faustino Lessitala, Marc Biot, Baltazar Candrinho, Wim Van Damme
The challenges and successes of implementing a sustainable antimicrobial resistance surveillance programme in Nepal
Sarala Malla, Shyam Prakash Dumre, Geeta Shakya, Palpasa Kansakar, Bhupraj Rai, Anowar Hossain, Gopinath Balakrish Nair, M John Albert, David Sack, Stephen Baker, Motiur Rahman
Evaluation of the Mercy weight estimation method in Ouelessebougou, Mali
Alassane Dicko, Mohamed Lamine Alhousseini, Bouran Sidibé, Moussa Traoré, Susan M Abdel-Rahman
A comparison of risk and protective factors related to suicide ideation among residents and specialists in academic medicine
Mari Eneroth, Marie Gustafsson Sendén, Lise T Løvseth, Karin Schenck-Gustafsson, Ann Fridner
Parental separation and adult psychological distress: an investigation of material and relational mechanisms
Rebecca E Lacey, Mel Bartley, Hynek Pikhart, Mai Stafford, Noriko Cable
Social relationship correlates of major depressive disorder and depressive symptoms in Switzerland: nationally representative cross sectional study
Steven D Barger, Nadine Messerli-Bürgy, Jürgen Barth
Spatial modelling and mapping of female genital mutilation in Kenya
Thomas NO Achia
Factors influencing the implementation of integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) by healthcare workers at public health centers & dispensaries in Mwanza, Tanzania
Augustine Kiplagat, Richard Musto, Damas Mwizamholya, Domenica Morona
A community based prevention of weight gain intervention (Mothers In Motion) among young low-income overweight and obese mothers: design and rationale
Mei-Wei Chang, Susan Nitzke, Roger Brown, Ken Resnicow
The association between socioeconomic status and disability after stroke: Findings from the Adherence eValuation After Ischemic stroke Longitudinal (AVAIL) registry
Janet Prvu Bettger, Xin Zhao, Cheryl Bushnell, Louise Zimmer, Wenqin Pan, Linda S Williams, Eric D Peterson
Child sexual abuse in religiously affiliated and secular institutions: a retrospective descriptive analysis of data provided by victims in a government-sponsored reappraisal program in Germany
Nina Spröber, Thekla Schneider, Miriam Rassenhofer, Alexander Seitz, Hubert Liebhardt, Lilith König, Jörg M Fegert
Accelerometer-determined physical activity and self-reported health in a population of older adults (65–85 years): a cross-sectional study
Hilde Lohne-Seiler, Bjorge H Hansen, Elin Kolle, Sigmund A Anderssen
Equity in human papilloma virus vaccination uptake?: sexual behaviour, knowledge and demographics in a cross-sectional study in (un)vaccinated girls in the Netherlands
Madelief Mollers, Karin Lubbers, Symen K Spoelstra, Willibrord CM Weijmar-Schultz, Toos Daemen, Tjalke A Westra, Marianne AB van der Sande, Hans W Nijman, Hester E de Melker, Adriana Tami
Parental perception of child’s weight status and subsequent BMIz change: the KOALA birth cohort study
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Retention in care, resource utilization, and costs for adults receiving antiretroviral therapy in Zambia: a retrospective cohort study
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Tailoring a family-based alcohol intervention for Aboriginal Australians, and the experiences and perceptions of health care providers trained in its delivery
Bianca Calabria, Anton Clifford, Miranda Rose, Anthony P Shakeshaft
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Occupational rehabilitation programs for musculoskeletal pain and common mental health disorders: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial
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Characteristics linked to the reduction of stigma towards schizophrenia: a pre-and-post study of parents of adolescents attending an educational program
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Podoconiosis patients’ willingness to pay for treatment services in Northwest Ethiopia: potential for cost recovery
Abreham Tamiru, Girmay Tsegay, Moges Wubie, Molla Gedefaw, Sara Tomczyk, Fasil Tekola-Ayele
Social representation and practices related to dementia in Hai District of Tanzania
Declare Mushi, Amen Rongai, Stella-Maria Paddick, Catherine Dotchin, Chauka Mtuya, Richard Walker
Changes in physical activity during the transition from primary to secondary school in Belgian children: what is the role of the school environment?
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Q fever in the Netherlands: public perceptions and behavioral responses in three different epidemiological regions: a follow-up study
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An examination of the demographic predictors of adolescent breakfast consumption, content, and context
Barbara Mullan, Cara Wong, Emily Kothe, Kathleen O’Moore, Kristen Pickles, Kirby Sainsbury
Knowledge of HIV and factors associated with attitudes towards HIV among final-year medical students at Hanoi medical university in Vietnam
Michael Platten, Ha N Pham, Huy V Nguyen
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Chlamydia trachomatisinfection among female inmates at Briman prison in Saudi Arabia
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The status and correlates of depression and anxiety among breast-cancer survivors in Eastern China: a population-based, cross-sectional case–control study
Feng Wang, Jiajia Liu, Liyuan Liu, Fei Wang, Zhongbing Ma, Dezong Gao, Qiang Zhang, Zhigang Yu
Descriptive epidemiological study of food intake among Japanese adults: analyses by age, time and birth cohort model
Rei Otsuka, Hiroshi Yatsuya, Koji Tamakoshi
Parental encouragement of healthy behaviors: adolescent weight status and health-related quality of life
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School travel mode, parenting practices and physical activity among UK Year 5 and 6 children
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Associations between inadequate sleep and obesity in the US adult population: analysis of the national health interview survey (1977–2009)
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Impact of some types of mass gatherings on current suicide risk in an urban population: statistical and negative binominal regression analysis of time series
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Cost savings of reduced constipation rates attributed to increased dietary fiber intakes: a decision-analytic model
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Adherence to physical activity guidelines in older adults, using objectively measured physical activity in a population-based study
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Farmers' knowledge, practices and injuries associated with pesticide exposure in rural farming villages in Tanzania
Elikana E Lekei, Aiwerasia V Ngowi, Leslie London
Stress and cardiometabolic manifestations among Saudi students entering universities: a cross-sectional observational study
Nasser M Al-Daghri, Abdulaziz Al-Othman, Omar S Al-Attas, Khalid M Alkharfy, Majed S Alokail, Abdulmajeed Albanyan, Shaun Sabico, George P Chrousos
How adolescents perceive their communities: a qualitative study that explores the relationship between health and the physical environment
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Community perception on biomedical research: A case study of malariometric survey in Korogwe District, Tanga Region, Tanzania
Isolide S Massawe, John P Lusingu, Rachel N Manongi
Adherence to antiretroviral therapy and its associated factors among children at South Wollo Zone Hospitals, Northeast Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
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Modelling the effects of media during an influenza epidemic
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Metropolitan-level ethnic residential segregation, racial identity, and body mass index among U.S. Hispanic adults: a multilevel cross-sectional study
Kiarri N Kershaw, Sandra S Albrecht
Bowel disorders and its spatial trend in Manitoba, Canada
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Neck circumference as a measure of neck fat and abdominal visceral fat in Chinese adults
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Making progress: the role of cancer councils in Australia in indigenous cancer control
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A study on knowledge, attitude, and practice towards premarital carrier screening among adults attending primary healthcare centers in a region in Oman
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Do low-income neighbourhoods have the least green space? A cross-sectional study of Australia’s most populous cities
Thomas Astell-Burt, Xiaoqi Feng, Suzanne Mavoa, Hannah M Badland, Billie Giles-Corti
A random spatial sampling method in a rural developing nation
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Mortality risk associated with underweight: a census-linked cohort of 31,578 individuals with up to 32 years of follow-up
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Be smart against cancer! A school-based program covering cancer-related risk behavior
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“I don’t see an added value for myself”: a qualitative study exploring the social cognitive variables associated with influenza vaccination of Belgian, Dutch and German healthcare personnel
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Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus, syphilis, hepatitis B and C in blood donations in Namibia
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Health-related quality of life is not impaired in children with undetected as well as diagnosed celiac disease: a large population based cross-sectional study
Anna Myléus, Solveig Petersen, Annelie Carlsson, Solveig Hammarroth, Lotta Högberg, Anneli Ivarsson
Analysing the socioeconomic determinants of hypertension in South Africa: a structural equation modelling approach
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Sexual health is dead in my body: participatory assessment of sexual health determinants by refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands
Ines Keygnaert, Nicole Vettenburg, Kristien Roelens, Marleen Temmerman
Awareness of physical activity in healthy middle-aged adults: a cross-sectional study of associations with sociodemographic, biological, behavioural, and psychological factors
Job G Godino, Clare Watkinson, Kirsten Corder, Stephen Sutton, Simon J Griffin, Esther MF van Sluijs
Development and validation of a tool to assess the physical and social environment associated with physical activity among adults in Sri Lanka
Shreenika H De Silva Weliange, Dulitha Fernando, Jagath Gunatilake
The effectiveness and applicability of different lifestyle interventions for enhancing wellbeing: the study design for a randomized controlled trial for persons with metabolic syndrome risk factors and psychological distress
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Working with men to prevent intimate partner violence in a conflict-affected setting: a pilot cluster randomized controlled trial in rural Côte d’Ivoire
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The effects of food advertising and cognitive load on food choices
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Characteristics of smokers who have never tried to quit: evidence from the British Opinions and Lifestyle Survey
Aarohi Sharma, Lisa Szatkowski
Efficacy of a combined contraceptive regimen consisting of condoms and emergency contraception pills
Rui Zhao, Jun-Qing Wu, Yu-Yan Li, Ying Zhou, Hong-Lei Ji, Yi-Ran Li
Does the primary screening test influence women’s anxiety and intention to screen for cervical cancer? A randomized survey of Norwegian women
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Antiretroviral drug expenditure, pricing and judicial demand: an analysis of federal procurement data in Brazil from 2004–2011
Jing Luo, Maria A Oliveira, Mariana BC Ramos, Aurélio Maia, Claudia GS Osorio-de-Castro
Effectiveness of a complex intervention in reducing the prevalence of smoking among adolescents: study design of a cluster-randomized controlled trial
Alfonso Leiva, Andreu Estela, Maties Torrent, Amador Calafat, Miquel Bennasar, Aina Yáñez
Industrial air pollution in rural Kenya: community awareness, risk perception and associations between risk variables
Eunice Omanga, Lisa Ulmer, Zekarias Berhane, Michael Gatari
Snacking patterns, diet quality, and cardiovascular risk factors in adults
Theresa A Nicklas, Carol E O’Neil, Victor L Fulgoni III
Traditional healers and the potential for collaboration with the national tuberculosis programme in Vanuatu: results from a mixed methods study
Kerri Viney, Penelope Johnson, Markleen Tagaro, Saen Fanai, Nguyen N Linh, Paul Kelly, David Harley, Adrian Sleigh
Follow-up in healthy schoolchildren and in adolescents with DOWN syndrome: psycho-environmental and genetic determinants of physical activity and its impact on fitness, cardiovascular diseases, inflammatory biomarkers and mental health; the UP&DOWN Study
José Castro-Piñero, Ana Carbonell-Baeza, David Martinez-Gomez, Sonia Gómez-Martínez, Verónica Cabanas-Sánchez, Catalina Santiago, Ana M Veses, Fernando Bandrés, Ana Gonzalez-Galo, Félix Gomez-Gallego, Oscar L Veiga, Jonatan R Ruiz, Ascensión Marcos
The prevalence of naturally acquired swimming ability among children in Bangladesh: a cross sectional survey
Aminur Rahman, Michael Linnan, Saidur Rahman Mashreky, Mohammad Jahangir Hossain, Fazlur Rahman
Assessment of risky sexual behaviors and risk perception among youths in Western Ethiopia: the influences of family and peers: a comparative cross-sectional study
Elias Legesse Negeri
Predictors of sickness absence in college and university educated self-employed: a historic register study
Liesbeth EC Wijnvoord, Jac JL Van der Klink, Michiel R De Boer, Sandra Brouwer
The usefulness of “corrected” body mass index vs. self-reported body mass index: comparing the population distributions, sensitivity, specificity, and predictive utility of three correction equations using Canadian population-based data
Daniel J Dutton, Lindsay McLaren
Non-adherence to self-care practices & medication and health related quality of life among patients with type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study
Farzana Saleh, Shirin J Mumu, Ferdous Ara, Md Abdul Hafez, Liaquat Ali
Development of health risk-based metrics for defining a heatwave: a time series study in Brisbane, Australia
Shilu Tong, Xiao Yu Wang, Gerry FitzGerald, David McRae, Gerard Neville, Vivienne Tippett, Peter Aitken, Ken Verrall
Healthy eating and lifestyle in pregnancy (HELP): a protocol for a cluster randomised trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a weight management intervention in pregnancy
Elinor John, Dunla M Cassidy, Rebecca Playle, Karen Jewell, David Cohen, Donna Duncan, Robert G Newcombe, Monica Busse, Eleri Owen-Jones, Nefyn Williams, Mirella Longo, Amanda Avery, Sharon A Simpson
Using the community-based health planning and services program to promote skilled delivery in rural Ghana: socio-demographic factors that influence women utilization of skilled attendants at birth in Northern Ghana
Evelyn Sakeah, Henry V Doctor, Lois McCloskey, Judith Bernstein, Kojo Yeboah-Antwi, Samuel Mills
Work ability of Chinese migrant workers: the influence of migration characteristics
Lu Han, Leiyu Shi, Liming Lu, Li Ling
Individual, facility, and program factors affecting retention in a national weight management program
Bonnie Spring, Min-Woong Sohn, Sara M Locatelli, Sattar Hadi, Leila Kahwati, Frances M Weaver
Loneliness and health risk behaviours among Russian and U.S. adolescents: a cross-sectional study
Andrew Stickley, Ai Koyanagi, Roman Koposov, Mary Schwab-Stone, Vladislav Ruchkin
Protective factors against suicide among young-old Chinese outpatients
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Building on the EGIPPS performance assessment: the multipolar framework as a heuristic to tackle the complexity of performance of public service oriented health care organisations
Bruno Marchal, Tom Hoerée, Valéria Campos da Silveira, Sara Van Belle, Nuggehalli S Prashanth, Guy Kegels
Health promotion interventions for increasing stroke awareness in ethnic minorities: a systematic review of the literature
Paolo Gardois, Andrew Booth, Elizabeth Goyder, Tony Ryan
The Carriage Of Multiresistant Bacteria After Travel (COMBAT) prospective cohort study: methodology and design
Maris S Arcilla, Jarne M van Hattem, Martin CJ Bootsma, Perry J van Genderen, Abraham Goorhuis, Constance Schultsz, Ellen E Stobberingh, Henri A Verbrugh, Menno D de Jong, Damian C Melles, John Penders
Effects of short-term radiation emitted by WCDMA mobile phones on teenagers and adults
Soo Beom Choi, Min Kyung Kwon, Jai Won Chung, Jee Soo Park, KilSoo Chung, Deok Won Kim
Untying chronic pain: prevalence and societal burden of chronic pain stages in the general population - a cross-sectional survey
Winfried Häuser, Frederik Wolfe, Peter Henningsen, Gabriele Schmutzer, Elmar Brähler, Andreas Hinz
Using an autologistic regression model to identify spatial risk factors and spatial risk patterns of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in Mainland China
Yan-Chen Bo, Chao Song, Jin-Feng Wang, Xiao-Wen Li
On your feet: protocol for a randomized controlled trial to compare the effects of pole walking and regular walking on physical and psychosocial health in older adults
Juliette O Fritschi, Wendy J Brown, Jannique GZ van Uffelen
A pragmatic, randomized, controlled study evaluating the impact of access to smoking cessation pharmacotherapy coverage on the proportion of successful quitters in a Canadian population of smokers motivated to quit (ACCESSATION)
Peter Selby, Gerald Brosky, Paul Oh, Vincent Raymond, Carmen Arteaga, Suzanne Ranger
Asthma prevalence, knowledge, and perceptions among secondary school pupils in rural and urban coastal districts in Tanzania
Meshack Shimwela, Julius Chacha Mwita, Michael Mwandri, Godfrey Mutashambara Rwegerera, Yohana Mashalla, Ferdinand Mugusi
Sexual assault while too intoxicated to resist: a general population study of Norwegian teenage girls
Hilde Pape
The impact of televised tobacco control advertising content on campaign recall: Evidence from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) United Kingdom Survey
Sol Richardson, Ann McNeill, Tessa E Langley, Michelle Sims, Anna Gilmore, Lisa Szatkowski, Robert Heath, Geoffrey T Fong, Sarah Lewis
Behavioural factors associated with diarrhea among adults over 18 years of age in Beijing, China
Chunna Ma, Shuangsheng Wu, Peng Yang, Haiyue Li, Song Tang, Quanyi Wang
Sweetened beverage consumption and the risk of hyperuricemia in Mexican adults: a cross-sectional study
Joacim Meneses-Leon, Edgar Denova-Gutiérrez, Susana Castañón-Robles, Victor Granados-García, Juan O Talavera, Berenice Rivera-Paredez, Gerardo G Huitrón-Bravo, Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez, Manuel Quiterio-Trenado, Samantha E Rudolph, Jorge Salmerón
Care-seeking and appropriate treatment for childhood acute respiratory illness: an analysis of Demographic and Health Survey and Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey datasets for high-mortality countries
Emily M Mosites, Alastair I Matheson, Eli Kern, Lisa E Manhart, Saul S Morris, Stephen E Hawes
A stakeholder analysis of the perceived outcomes of developing and implementing England’s obesity strategy 2008–2011
Corinna Hawkes, Amy L Ahern, Susan A Jebb
Impact of additional counselling sessions through phone calls on smoking cessation outcomes among smokers in Penang State, Malaysia
Ali Qais Blebil, Syed Azhar Syed Sulaiman, Mohamed Azmi Hassali, Juman Abdulelah Dujaili, Alfian Mohamed Zin
Interaction of body mass index and hemoglobin concentration on blood pressure among pregnant women in Guangxi, China
Qiuan Zhong, Jiangyan Xu, Yingquan Long, Yingying Deng, Jinlan Hu, Xiaofei Li, Xiaoqiang Qiu
Home visits to improve breast health knowledge and screening practices in a less privileged area in Jordan
Hana Taha, Lennarth Nyström, Raeda Al-Qutob, Vanja Berggren, Hamideh Esmaily, Rolf Wahlström
Spatial distribution, work patterns, and perception towards malaria interventions among temporary mobile/migrant workers in artemisinin resistance containment zone
Khin Thet Wai, Myat Phone Kyaw, Tin Oo, PeThet Zaw, Myat Htut Nyunt, Moe Thida, Thar Tun Kyaw
Expanded program of immunization coverage and associated factors among children age 12 – 23 months in Arba Minch town and Zuria District, Southern Ethiopia, 2013
Worku Animaw, Wondimagegn Taye, Behailu Merdekios, Marilign Tilahun, Gistane Ayele
Increasing the effectiveness of the Diabetes Prevention Program through if-then plans: study protocol for the randomized controlled trial of the McGill CHIP Healthy Weight Program
Bärbel Knäuper, Elena Ivanova, Zhen Xu, Melodie Chamandy, Ilka Lowensteyn, Lawrence Joseph, Aleksandra Luszczynska, Steven Grover
Alcohol marketing in televised international football: frequency analysis
Jean Adams, James Coleman, Martin White
Community perceptions of unintentional child injuries in Makwanpur district of Nepal: a qualitative study
Puspa Raj Pant, Elizabeth Towner, Paul Pilkington, Matthew Ellis, Dharma Manandhar
Tuberculosis patients’ knowledge and beliefs about tuberculosis: a mixed methods study from the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu
Kerri A Viney, Penelope Johnson, Markleen Tagaro, Saen Fanai, Nguyen N Linh, Paul Kelly, David Harley, Adrian Sleigh
An examination of exposure and avoidance behavior related to second-hand cigarette smoke among adolescent girls in Canada
Jennifer Schwartz, Raquel B Graham, Chris G Richardson, Chizimuzo T Okoli, Laura L Struik, Joan L Bottorff
A cross-sectional analysis of the effects of residential greenness on blood pressure in 10-year old children: results from the GINIplus and LISAplus studies
Iana Markevych, Elisabeth Thiering, Elaine Fuertes, Dorothea Sugiri, Dietrich Berdel, Sibylle Koletzko, Andrea von Berg, Carl-Peter Bauer, Joachim Heinrich
Changes in the selected reproductive health indicators among married women of reproductive age in low performing areas of Bangladesh: findings from an evaluation study
Rukhsana Gazi, Humayun Kabir, Nirod Chandra Saha
Focus on vulnerable populations and promoting equity in health service utilization ––an analysis of visitor characteristics and service utilization of the Chinese community health service
Xiaoxin Dong, Ling Liu, Shiyi Cao, Huajie Yang, Fujian Song, Chen Yang, Yanhong Gong, Yunxia Wang, Xiaoxu Yin, Xing Xu, Jun Xie, Yi Sun, Zuxun Lu
The role of childhood social position in adult type 2 diabetes: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
Jitka Pikhartova, David Blane, Gopalakrishnan Netuveli
Relationship between arsenic skin lesions and the age of natural menopause
Fakir Md Yunus, Musarrat Jabeen Rahman, Md Zahidul Alam, Samar Kumar Hore, Mahfuzar Rahman
Impacts of hot and cold spells differ for acute and chronic ischaemic heart diseases
Hana Davídkovová, Eva Plavcová, Jan Kynčl, Jan Kyselý
Cardiorespiratory fitness and the incidence of type 2 diabetes: a cohort study of Japanese male athletes
Yuki Someya, Sachio Kawai, Yoshimitsu Kohmura, Kazuhiro Aoki, Hiroyuki Daida
Common risk factor approach to address socioeconomic inequality in the oral health of preschool children – a prospective cohort study
Loc G Do, Jane A Scott, W Murray Thomson, John W Stamm, Andrew J Rugg-Gunn, Steven M Levy, Ching Wong, Gemma Devenish, Diep H Ha, A John Spencer
The likelihood of khat chewing serving as a neglected and reverse ‘gateway’ to tobacco use among UK adult male khat chewers: a cross sectional study
Saba Kassim, Nikki Rogers, Kelly Leach
Exposure to nature versus relaxation during lunch breaks and recovery from work: development and design of an intervention study to improve workers’ health, well-being, work performance and creativity
Jessica de Bloom, Ulla Kinnunen, Kalevi Korpela
Objectively determined habitual physical activity in South African adolescents: the PAHL study
Sandra N Wushe, Sarah J Moss, Makama A Monyeki
Component costs of foodborne illness: a scoping review
Taylor McLinden, Jan M Sargeant, M Kate Thomas, Andrew Papadopoulos, Aamir Fazil
Validity of SC-StepRx pedometer-derived moderate and vigorous physical activity during treadmill walking and running in a heterogeneous sample of children and youth
Travis John Saunders, Casey Ellen Gray, Michael Marc Borghese, Allison McFarlane, Afekwo Mbonu, Zachary Michael Ferraro, Mark Stephen Tremblay
Setting policy priorities to address eating disorders and weight stigma: views from the field of eating disorders and the US general public
Rebecca M Puhl, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, S Bryn Austin, Joerg Luedicke, Kelly M King
Social relationships and health related behaviors among older US adults
Richard G Watt, Anja Heilmann, Wael Sabbah, Tim Newton, Tarani Chandola, Jun Aida, Aubrey Sheiham, Michael Marmot, Ichiro Kawachi, Georgios Tsakos
Hombre Seguro(Safe Men): a sexual risk reduction intervention for male clients of female sex workers
Eileen V Pitpitan, Claudia V Chavarin, Shirley J Semple, Carlos Magis-Rodriguez, Steffanie A Strathdee, Thomas L Patterson
Ferritin levels and risk of metabolic syndrome: meta-analysis of observational studies
Victoria Abril-Ulloa, Gemma Flores-Mateo, Rosa Solà-Alberich, Begoña Manuel-y-Keenoy, Victoria Arija
Utility of telephone survey methods in population-based health studies of older adults: an example from the Alberta Older Adult Health Behavior (ALERT) study
Jeff K Vallance, Dean T Eurich, Paul A Gardiner, Lorian M Taylor, Gillian Stevens, Steven T Johnson
Screening premorbid metabolic syndrome in community pharmacies: a cross-sectional descriptive study
Maria Angeles Via-Sosa, Cristina Toro, Pere Travé, Marian A March
Lessons from the implementation of LLIN distribution campaign in Ilorin Kwara State, Nigeria
Abiodun Obembe, Okorie Okogbue Anyaele, Adedayo Olatunbosun Oduola
No increase in new users of blood glucose-lowering drugs in Norway 2006–2011: a nationwide prescription database study
Hanne Strøm, Randi Selmer, Kåre I Birkeland, Henrik Schirmer, Tore Julsrud Berg, Anne Karen Jenum, Kristian Midthjell, Christian Berg, Lars Christian Stene
Stability and change in alcohol habits of different socio-demographic subgroups - a cohort study
Lovisa Sydén, Peter Wennberg, Yvonne Forsell, Anders Romelsjö
Knowledge, attitude and practices regarding HIV/AIDS among adult fishermen in coastal areas of Karachi
Mubashir Zafar, Nighat Nisar, Masood Kadir, Zafar Fatmi, Zeeshan Ahmed, Kashif Shafique
Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of older adults about pneumococcal immunization, a Public Health Agency of Canada/Canadian Institutes of Health Research Influenza Research Network (PCIRN) investigation
Amy Schneeberg, Julie A Bettinger, Shelly McNeil, Brian J Ward, Marc Dionne, Curtis Cooper, Brenda Coleman, Mark Loeb, Ethan Rubinstein, Janet McElhaney, David W Scheifele, Scott A Halperin
How can knowledge exchange portals assist in knowledge management for evidence-informed decision making in public health?
Emma Quinn, Carmen Huckel-Schneider, Danielle Campbell, Holly Seale, Andrew J Milat
Deprivation, clubs and drugs: results of a UK regional population-based cross-sectional study of weight management strategies
Clare Relton, Jessica Li, Mark Strong, Michelle Holdsworth, Richard Cooper, Mark Green, Paul Bissell
An international survey of pain in adolescents
Michael Steven Swain, Nicholas Henschke, Steven James Kamper, Inese Gobina, Veronika Ottová-Jordan, Christopher Gerard Maher
Individualized and institutionalized residential place-based discrimination and self-rated health: a cross-sectional study of the working-age general population in Osaka city, Japan
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Prevalence and factors associated with hardcore smoking in Poland: Findings from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (2009–2010)
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Fariel Ishaak, Nanne Karel de Vries, Kees van der Wolf
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Suicidal behaviour across the African continent: a review of the literature
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Consumption of sweet foods and mammographic breast density: a cross-sectional study
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Samson Gebremedhin, Aregash Samuel, Girma Mamo, Tibebu Moges, Tsehai Assefa
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Gillian M Craig, Louise M Joly, Alimuddin Zumla
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Melaku Haile, Shimeles Ololo, Berhane Megersa
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Associations between perceived and observational physical environmental factors and the use of walking paths: a cross-sectional study
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Jacqueline H Doumit, Ramzi N Nasser, Dimitri R Hanna
Health and social support services to HIV/AIDS infected individuals in Tanzania: employees and employers perceptions
Telemu Kassile, Honest Anicetus, Raphael Kukula, Bruno P Mmbando
Compliance potential mapping: a tool to assess potential contributions of walking towards physical activity guidelines
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Optimizing data collection for public health decisions: a data mining approach
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Social determinants and lifestyle risk factors only partially explain the higher prevalence of food insecurity among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the Australian state of Victoria: a cross-sectional study
Alison Markwick, Zahid Ansari, Mary Sullivan, John McNeil
Changes in the profiles of smokers seeking cessation treatment and in its effectiveness in Galicia (Spain) 2001–10
Elisardo Becoña, Ana López-Durán, Elena Fernández del Río, Úrsula Martínez
What works in practice: user and provider perspectives on the acceptability, affordability, implementation, and impact of a family-based intervention for child overweight and obesity delivered at scale
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A meta-analysis of risk factors for depression in adults and children after natural disasters
Bihan Tang, Xu Liu, Yuan Liu, Chen Xue, Lulu Zhang
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Esther Buregyeya, Bart Criel, Fred Nuwaha, Robert Colebunders
Physical fitness and mental health impact of a sport-for-development intervention in a post-conflict setting: randomised controlled trial nested within an observational study of adolescents in Gulu, Uganda
Justin Richards, Charlie Foster, Nick Townsend, Adrian Bauman
A randomized clinical trial of an integrated behavioral self-management intervention Simultaneously Targeting Obesity and Pain: the STOP trial
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Longitudinal changes in health behaviours and body weight among Swedish school children - associations with age, gender and parental education – the SCIP school cohort
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Pennie Dodds, Rebecca Wyse, Jannah Jones, Luke Wolfenden, Christophe Lecathelinais, Amanda Williams, Sze Lin Yoong, Meghan Finch, Nicole Nathan, Karen Gillham, John Wiggers
Conceptual model for dietary behaviour change at household level: a ‘best-fit’ qualitative study using primary data
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Cohort study on clustering of lifestyle risk factors and understanding its association with stress on health and wellbeing among school teachers in Malaysia (CLUSTer) – a study protocol
Foong Ming Moy, Victor Chee Wai Hoe, Noran Naqiah Hairi, Brian Buckley, Petra A Wark, David Koh, HB(as) Bueno-de-Mesquita, Awang M Bulgiba
Prevalence of anemia among under-5 children in the Ghanaian population: estimates from the Ghana demographic and health survey
Joycelyne E Ewusie, Clement Ahiadeke, Joseph Beyene, Jemila S Hamid
Patient satisfaction and uptake of private-sector run malaria diagnosis clinics in a post-conflict district in Sri Lanka
Deepika Fernando, Nipun Lakshitha de Silva, Isabella Ackers, Rabindra Abeyasinghe, Pandu Wijeyaratne, Senaka Rajapakse
Trends in Sri Lankan cause-specific adult mortality 1950–2006
Chiranthika Vithana, Christine Linhart, Richard Taylor, Stephen Morrell, Syed Azim
Do physical activity and dietary smartphone applications incorporate evidence-based behaviour change techniques?
Artur Direito, Leila Pfaeffli Dale, Emma Shields, Rosie Dobson, Robyn Whittaker, Ralph Maddison
Effectiveness of a school-community linked program on physical activity levels and health-related quality of life for adolescent girls
Meghan M Casey, Jack T Harvey, Amanda Telford, Rochelle M Eime, Amanda Mooney, Warren R Payne
Fluid intake survey among schoolchildren in Belgium
Christelle Senterre, Michèle Dramaix, Isabelle Thiébaut
A conceptual model for worksite intelligent physical exercise training - IPET - intervention for decreasing life style health risk indicators among employees: a randomized controlled trial
Gisela Sjøgaard, Just Bendix Justesen, Mike Murray, Tina Dalager, Karen Søgaard
Associations between impulsivity, aggression, and suicide in Chinese college students
Lin Wang, Chang Zhi He, Yun Miao Yu, Xiao Hui Qiu, Xiu Xian Yang, Zheng Xue Qiao, Hong Sui, Xiong Zhao Zhu, Yan Jie Yang
Years of life lost to incarceration: inequities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians
Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Steve Kanters, Eric Druyts, Kabirraaj Toor, Katherine A Muldoon, John W Farquhar, Edward J Mills
A Markov chain model for studying suicide dynamics: an illustration of the Rose theorem
Paul Siu Fai Yip, Bing Kwan So, Ichiro Kawachi, Yi Zhang
The HIV epidemic and prevention response in Tigrai, Ethiopia: a synthesis at sub-national level
GebreAb Barnabas, Elisabetta Pegurri, Hiwot Haile Selassie, Warren Naamara, Samuel Zemariam
Growth effects of exclusive breastfeeding promotion by peer counsellors in sub-Saharan Africa: the cluster-randomised PROMISE EBF trial
Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen, Debra Jackson, Lars Thore Fadnes, Victoria Nankabirwa, Abdoulaye Hama Diallo, Tanya Doherty, Carl Lombard, Sonja Swanvelder, Jolly Nankunda, Vundli Ramokolo, David Sanders, Henry Wamani, Nicolas Meda, James K Tumwine, Eva-Charlotte Ekström, Philippe Van de Perre, Chipepo Kankasa, Halvor Sommerfelt, Thorkild Tylleskär
Parent-reported measures of child health and wellbeing in same-sex parent families: a cross-sectional survey
Simon R Crouch, Elizabeth Waters, Ruth McNair, Jennifer Power, Elise Davis
Estimation of leisure time physical activity and sedentary behaviour among school adolescents in Nepal
Susan Paudel, Narayan Subedi, Ramjee Bhandari, Ramesh Bastola, Rakshya Niroula, Amod Kumar Poudyal
Barriers for recess physical activity: a gender specific qualitative focus group exploration
Charlotte Skau Pawlowski, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Jasper Schipperijn, Jens Troelsen
Socioeconomic and demographic factors are associated with dietary patterns in a cohort of young Brazilian adults
Soraia Pinheiro Machado Arruda, Antônio Augusto Moura da Silva, Gilberto Kac, Marcelo Zubaran Goldani, Heloisa Bettiol, Marco Antônio Barbieri
Individual and household-level predictors of health related quality of life among middle-aged people in rural Mid-east China: a cross-sectional study
Jianfang Zhou, Xiaomei Ru, Norman Hearst
Determinants of neonatal mortality in Pakistan: secondary analysis of Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2006–07
Yasir Bin Nisar, Michael J Dibley
How to engage type-2 diabetic patients in their own health management: implications for clinical practice
Guendalina Graffigna, Serena Barello, Chiara Libreri, Claudio A Bosio
Factors associated with alcohol and/or drug use at sexual debut among sexually active university students: cross-sectional findings from Lebanon
Lilian A Ghandour, Farah Mouhanna, Rola Yasmine, Faysal El Kak
Population attributable fraction of type 2 diabetes due to physical inactivity in adults: a systematic review
Hashel Al Tunaiji, Jennifer C Davis, Dawn C Mackey, Karim M Khan
Population correlates of circulating mercury levels in Korean adults: the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey IV
Seongbeom Cho, David R Jacobs Jr, Kyong Park
What interventions are effective on reducing inequalities in maternal and child health in low- and middle-income settings? A systematic review
Beibei Yuan, Mats Målqvist, Nadja Trygg, Xu Qian, Nawi Ng, Sarah Thomsen
Spatial epidemiology and climatic predictors of paediatric dengue infections captured via sentinel site surveillance, Phnom Penh Cambodia 2011–2012
Andrew A Lover, Philippe Buchy, Anne Rachline, Duch Moniboth, Rekol Huy, Chour Y Meng, Yee Sin Leo, Kdan Yuvatha, Ung Sophal, Ngan Chantha, Bunthin Y, Veasna Duong, Sophie Goyet, Jeremy L Brett, Arnaud Tarantola, Philippe Cavailler
Correlates of consistent condom use among recently initiated and traditionally circumcised men in the rural areas of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
Anam Nyembezi, Robert AC Ruiter, Bart van den Borne, Sibusiso Sifunda, Itumeleng Funani, Priscilla Reddy
The psychometric properties of the AUDIT: a survey from a random sample of elderly Swedish adults
Håkan Källmén, Peter Wennberg, Mats Ramstedt, Mats Hallgren
Overweight and obese adults have low intentions of seeking weight-related care: a cross-sectional survey
Jacqueline Tol, Ilse C Swinkels, Dinny H De Bakker, Cindy Veenhof, Jaap C Seidell
Interrelationships among sedentary time, sleep duration, and the metabolic syndrome in adults
Donna Saleh, Ian Janssen
Performance of 21 HPV vaccination programs implemented in low and middle-income countries, 2009–2013
Joël Ladner, Marie-Hélène Besson, Mariana Rodrigues, Etienne Audureau, Joseph Saba
Relationship between self-reported sleep quality and metabolic syndrome in general population
Noriyuki Okubo, Masashi Matsuzaka, Ippei Takahashi, Kaori Sawada, Satoshi Sato, Naoki Akimoto, Takashi Umeda, Shigeyuki Nakaji
An exploratory review of HIV prevention mass media campaigns targeting men who have sex with men
Rebecca S French, Chris Bonell, Kaye Wellings, Peter Weatherburn
Socio-demographic, medical and social-cognitive correlates of physical activity behavior among older adults (45–70 years): a cross-sectional study
Ilse Mesters, Stefanie Wahl, Hilde M Van Keulen
Pandemic preparedness: perceptions of vulnerable migrants in Thailand towards WHO-recommended non-pharmaceutical interventions: a cross-sectional study
Jason Hickey, Anita J Gagnon, Nigoon Jitthai
Worldwide research productivity in the field of electronic cigarette: a bibliometric analysis
Sa’ed H Zyoud, Samah W Al-Jabi, Waleed M Sweileh
Understanding the main barriers to immunization in Colombia to better tailor communication strategies
Diego Alejandro García L, Martha Velandia-González, Silas Pierson Trumbo, M Cristina Pedreira, Pamela Bravo-Alcántara, M Carolina Danovaro-Holliday
Maternal education, anthropometric markers of malnutrition and cognitive function (ELSA-Brasil)
Larissa Fortunato Araújo, Luana Giatti, Dora Chor, Valéria Maria Azeredo Passos, Sandhi Maria Barreto
Negative life events and migraine: a cross-sectional analysis of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) baseline data
Itamar S Santos, André R Brunoni, Alessandra C Goulart, Rosane H Griep, Paulo A Lotufo, Isabela M Benseñor
Preference, acceptability and implications of the rapid hepatitis C screening test among high-risk young people who inject drugs
Benjamin Hayes, Alya Briceno, Alice Asher, Michelle Yu, Jennifer L Evans, Judith A Hahn, Kimberly Page
Associations between objectively assessed child and parental physical activity: a cross-sectional study of families with 5–6 year old children
Russell Jago, Simon J Sebire, Lesley Wood, Laura Pool, Jesmond Zahra, Janice L Thompson, Deborah A Lawlor
Physical activity, screen time and obesity status in a nationally representative sample of Maltese youth with international comparisons
Andrew Decelis, Russell Jago, Kenneth R Fox
Vector control programs in Saint Johns County, Florida and Guayas, Ecuador: successes and barriers to integrated vector management
Diana P Naranjo, Whitney A Qualls, Hugo Jurado, Juan C Perez, Rui-De Xue, Eduardo Gomez, John C Beier
Use of antibiotics in rural and urban regions in the Netherlands: an observational drug utilization study
Josta de Jong, Jens HJ Bos, Tjalling W de Vries, Lolkje TW de Jong-van den Berg
Bibliometric analysis of regional Latin America's scientific output in Public Health through SCImago Journal & Country Rank
Grisel Zacca-González, Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Benjamín Vargas-Quesada, Félix de Moya-Anegón
The economic burden of pediatric gastroenteritis to Bolivian families: a cross-sectional study of correlates of catastrophic cost and overall cost burden
Rachel M Burke, Emily R Smith, Rebecca Moritz Dahl, Paulina A Rebolledo, Maria del Carmen Calderón, Beatriz Cañipa, Edgar Chavez, Rolando Pinto, Luis Tamayo, Carlos Terán, Ángel Veizaga, Remy Zumaran, Volga Iñiguez, Juan S Leon
Age-specific prevalence of human papilloma virus infection among Nigerian women
Sally N Akarolo-Anthony, Ayo O Famooto, Eileen O Dareng, Olayinka B Olaniyan, Richard Offiong, Cosette M Wheeler, Clement A Adebamowo
Comparing women pharmacy consumers’ experiences with weight loss treatment in Victoria and Nottingham: a cross-sectional study
Souhiela Fakih, Jennifer L Marriott, Helen Boardman, Claire Anderson, Safeera Y Hussainy
Epidemiology of neurodegenerative diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review
Alain Lekoubou, Justin B Echouffo-Tcheugui, Andre P Kengne
Factors influencing voluntary premarital medical examination in Zhejiang province, China: a culturally-tailored health behavioral model analysis
Yaming Gu, Lu Li, Chi Zhou, Tingzhong Yang, Hengjin Dong
Patient perception of understanding health education and instructions has moderating effect on glycemic control
Gin-Den Chen, Chien-Ning Huang, Yi-Sun Yang, Chin-Yin Lew-Ting
Evaluation of AFP surveillance indicators in polio-free Ghana, 2009–2013
John Kofi Odoom, Nana Afia Asante Ntim, Badu Sarkodie, James Addo, Keren Minta-Asare, Evangeline Obodai, Miriam Eshun, Vincent V Ahove, Stanley Diamenu, Michael Adjabeng, Jacob Arthur-Quarm, Jacob S Barnor
The key actors maintaining elders in functional autonomy in Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso)
Abdramane Berthé, Lalla Berthé-Sanou, Serge Somda, Blahima Konaté, Hervé Hien, Fatoumata Tou, Maxime Drabo, Fatoumata Badini-Kinda, Jean Macq
Capacity building efforts and perceptions for wildlife surveillance to detect zoonotic pathogens: comparing stakeholder perspectives
Jessica S Schwind, Tracey Goldstein, Kate Thomas, Jonna AK Mazet, Woutrina A Smith
Happy@Work: protocol for a web-based randomized controlled trial to improve mental well-being among an Asian working population
Qi Yuan, Su Liu, Szehang Tang, Dexing Zhang
Lifestyle factors and multimorbidity: a cross sectional study
Martin Fortin, Jeannie Haggerty, José Almirall, Tarek Bouhali, Maxime Sasseville, Martin Lemieux
The WERO group stop smoking competition: main outcomes of a pre- and post- study
Marewa Glover, Anette Kira, Dudley Gentles, Nathan Cowie, Chris Paton, Warren Moetara
Epidemiologic studies of modifiable factors associated with cognition and dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis
May A Beydoun, Hind A Beydoun, Alyssa A Gamaldo, Alison Teel, Alan B Zonderman, Youfa Wang
Prevalence and factors associated with HIV infection among injection drug users at methadone clinics in Taipei, Taiwan
Yung-Feng Yen, Muh-Yong Yen, Ting Lin, Lan-Huei Li, Xiao-Ru Jiang, Pesus Chou, Chung-Yeh Deng
Low birth weight and environmental tobacco smoke increases the risk of wheezing in adolescents: a retrospective cohort study
Meng-Hung Lin, James L Caffrey, Yu-Sheng Lin, Pau-Chung Chen, Ching-Chun Lin, Wen-Chao Ho, Trong-Neng Wu, Ruey-Shiung Lin
Relationship between psychosocial stress and hypertension among Ghanaians in Amsterdam, the Netherlands – the GHAIA study
Bernard Agyei, Mary Nicolaou, Linda Boateng, Henriette Dijkshoorn, Bert-Jan van den Born, Charles Agyemang
Increasing the provision of mental health care for vulnerable, disaster-affected people in Bangladesh
Nazmun Nahar, Yulia Blomstedt, Beidi Wu, Istiti Kandarina, Laksono Trisnantoro, John Kinsman
HIV associated hypocalcaemia among diarrheic patients in northwest Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
Beyene Moges, Bemnet Amare, Timoki Yabutani, Afework Kassu
Barriers and facilitators to HPV vaccination of young women in high-income countries: a qualitative systematic review and evidence synthesis
Harriet Batista Ferrer, Caroline Trotter, Matthew Hickman, Suzanne Audrey
A prospective analysis of the effect of neighbourhood and individual social capital on changes in self-rated health of people with chronic illness
Geeke Waverijn, Mary K Wolfe, Sigrid Mohnen, Mieke Rijken, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Peter Groenewegen
The OPtimising HEalth LIterAcy (Ophelia) process: study protocol for using health literacy profiling and community engagement to create and implement health reform
Roy W Batterham, Rachelle Buchbinder, Alison Beauchamp, Sarity Dodson, Gerald R Elsworth, Richard H Osborne
Wanting to attend isn’t just wanting to quit: why some disadvantaged smokers regularly attend smoking cessation behavioural therapy while others do not: a qualitative study
Fiona E Benson, Karien Stronks, Marc C Willemsen, Nina MM Bogaerts, Vera Nierkens
Knowledge and acceptability of Chlamydia trachomatis screening among pregnant women and their partners; a cross-sectional study
Monique TR Pereboom, Evelien R Spelten, Judith Manniën, G Ingrid JG Rours, Servaas A Morré, François G Schellevis, Eileen K Hutton
Worker compensation injuries among the Aboriginal population of British Columbia, Canada: incidence, annual trends, and ecological analysis of risk markers, 1987–2010
Andrew Jin, M Anne George, Mariana Brussoni, Christopher E Lalonde
Drinking water source and human Toxoplasma gondii infection in the United States: a cross-sectional analysis of NHANES data
Whitney S Krueger, Elizabeth D Hilborn, Reagan R Converse, Timothy J Wade
Coincidence of diabetes mellitus and hypertension in a semi-urban Cameroonian population: a cross-sectional study
Jean-Claude Katte, Anastase Dzudie, Eugene Sobngwi, Eta N Mbong, Gerard Tama Fetse, Charles Kouam Kouam, Andre-Pascal Kengne
Extreme heat and cultural and linguistic minorities in Australia: perceptions of stakeholders
Alana Hansen, Monika Nitschke, Arthur Saniotis, Jill Benson, Yan Tan, Val Smyth, Leigh Wilson, Gil-Soo Han, Lillian Mwanri, Peng Bi
Physical activity barriers and facilitators among working mothers and fathers
Emily L Mailey, Jennifer Huberty, Danae Dinkel, Edward McAuley
Quality of life in individuals living with HIV/AIDS attending a public sector antiretroviral service in Cape Town, South Africa
Mweete D Nglazi, Sacha J West, Joel A Dave, Naomi S Levitt, Estelle V Lambert
Socio-environmental drivers and suicide in Australia: Bayesian spatial analysis
Xin Qi, Wenbiao Hu, Kerrie Mengersen, Shilu Tong
Stakeholders’ perceptions on factors influencing male involvement in prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV services in Blantyre, Malawi
Alinane Linda Nyondo, Angela Faith Chimwaza, Adamson Sinjani Muula
Associations between the built environment, total, recreational, and transit-related physical activity
Eric de Sa, Chris I Ardern
Is the association between high strain work and depressive symptoms modified by private life social support: a cohort study of 1,074 Danish employees?
Ida EH Madsen, Anette FB Jorgensen, Marianne Borritz, Martin L Nielsen, Reiner Rugulies
Enhancing life prospects of socially vulnerable youth through sport participation: a mixed methods study
Sabina Super, Niels Hermens, Kirsten Verkooijen, Maria Koelen
Environmental and cultural correlates of physical activity parenting practices among Latino parents with preschool-aged children: Niños Activos
Teresia M O’Connor, Ester Cerin, Rebecca E Lee, Nathan Parker, Tzu-An Chen, Sheryl O Hughes, Jason A Mendoza, Tom Baranowski
Educational differences in cigarette smoking among adult population in Estonia, 1990–2010: does the trend fit the model of tobacco epidemic?
Kersti Pärna, Mari-Liis Pürjer, Inge Ringmets, Mare Tekkel
The characteristics, implementation and effects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health promotion tools: a systematic literature search
Janya McCalman, Komla Tsey, Roxanne Bainbridge, Kevin Rowley, Nikki Percival, Lynette O’Donoghue, Jenny Brands, Mary Whiteside, Jenni Judd
A household survey on screening practices of household contacts of smear positive tuberculosis patients in Vietnam
Thuy Hoang Thi Thanh, Sy Dinh Ngoc, Nhung Nguyen Viet, Hung Nguyen Van, Peter Horby, Frank GJ Cobelens, Heiman FL Wertheim
Cardiovascular disease medication health literacy among Indigenous peoples: design and protocol of an intervention trial in Indigenous primary care services
Sue Crengle, Janet Smylie, Margaret Kelaher, Michelle Lambert, Susan Reid, Joanne Luke, Ian Anderson, Jennie Harré Hindmarsh, Matire Harwood
Midlife insomnia and subsequent mortality: the Hordaland health study
Børge Sivertsen, Ståle Pallesen, Nick Glozier, Bjørn Bjorvatn, Paula Salo, Grethe S Tell, Reidun Ursin, Simon Øverland
Transition overtime in household latrine use in rural Bangladesh: a longitudinal cohort study
Tahera Akter, Abu RMM Ali, Nepal C Dey
Application of geographical information system (GIS) technology in the control of Buruli ulcer in Ghana
Ernest Kenu, Vincent Ganu, Benedict NL Calys-Tagoe, Gerald AB Yiran, Margaret Lartey, Richard Adanu
Estimating the number of homeless deaths in France, 2008–2010
Cécile Vuillermoz, Albertine Aouba, Lise Grout, Stéphanie Vandentorren, Fanny Tassin, Layla Vazifeh, Walid Ghosn, Eric Jougla, Grégoire Rey
Health Impact Assessment in New South Wales & Health in All Policies in South Australia: differences, similarities and connections
Toni Delany, Patrick Harris, Carmel Williams, Elizabeth Harris, Fran Baum, Angela Lawless, Deborah Wildgoose, Fiona Haigh, Colin MacDougall, Danny Broderick, Ilona Kickbusch
Risk assessment for Thai population: benchmark dose of urinary and blood cadmium levels for renal effects by hybrid approach of inhabitants living in polluted and non-polluted areas in Thailand
Muneko Nishijo, Yasushi Suwazono, Werawan Ruangyuttikarn, Kowit Nambunmee, Witaya Swaddiwudhipong, Kazuhiro Nogawa, Hideaki Nakagawa
Discontinuation of anti-hypertensive drugs increases 11-year cardiovascular mortality risk in community-dwelling elderly (the Bambuí Cohort Study of Ageing)
Maria Lea Correa Leite, Joselia OA Firmo, Antonio Ignacio Loyola Filho, Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa
Assessment of HIV testing among young methamphetamine users in Muse, Northern Shan State, Myanmar
Yu Mon Saw, Krishna C Poudel, Nang Pann Ei Kham, Nyein Chan, Jessica E Cope, Kyi Mar Wai, Soe Tun, Thu Nandar Saw
Evaluation of a modular scalable system for silver-ager located in assisted living homes in Austria – study protocol of the ModuLAAr ambient assisted living project
Christian Siegel, Barbara Prazak-Aram, Johannes Kropf, Michael Kundi, Thomas Dorner
Urban food insecurity in the context of high food prices: a community based cross sectional study in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Tesfay Birhane, Solomon Shiferaw, Seifu Hagos, Katia Sarla Mohindra
The association between obesity and blood pressure in Thai public school children
Penmat Sukhonthachit, Wichai Aekplakorn, Chatrapa Hudthagosol, Chutima Sirikulchayanonta
Traditional alcohol production and use in three provinces in Vietnam: an ethnographic exploration of health benefits and risks
Bich Ngoc Luu, Thi Thieng Nguyen, Ian M Newman
Associations between number of sick-leave days and future all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a population-based cohort study
Emma Björkenstam, Gunilla Ringbäck Weitoft, Christina Lindholm, Charlotte Björkenstam, Kristina Alexanderson, Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz
Weight loss referrals for adults in primary care (WRAP): protocol for a multi-centre randomised controlled trial comparing the clinical and cost-effectiveness of primary care referral to a commercial weight loss provider for 12 weeks, referral for 52 weeks, and a brief self-help intervention [ISRCTN82857232]
Amy L Ahern, Paul N Aveyard, Jason CG Halford, Adrian Mander, Lynne Cresswell, Simon R Cohn, Marc Suhrcke, Tim Marsh, Ann M Thomson, Susan A Jebb
Parental perceived neighborhood attributes: associations with active transport and physical activity among 10–12 year old children and the mediating role of independent mobility
Femke De Meester, Delfien Van Dyck, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Greet Cardon
Public knowledge and beliefs about dementia risk reduction: a national survey of Australians
Ben J Smith, Suha Ali, Henry Quach
Individual education, area income, and mortality and recurrence of myocardial infarction in a Medicare cohort: the National Longitudinal Mortality Study
Sean A Coady, Norman J Johnson, Jahn K Hakes, Paul D Sorlie
Lower health literacy predicts smoking relapse among racially/ethnically diverse smokers with low socioeconomic status
Diana W Stewart, Miguel Ángel Cano, Virmarie Correa-Fernández, Claire Adams Spears, Yisheng Li, Andrew J Waters, David W Wetter, Jennifer Irvin Vidrine
Cost-effectiveness of programs to eliminate disparities in elderly vaccination rates in the United States
Constantinos I Michaelidis, Richard K Zimmerman, Mary Patricia Nowalk, Kenneth J Smith
An exploration of Early Childhood Education students’ knowledge and preparation to facilitate physical activity for preschoolers: a cross-sectional study
Olivia JM Martyniuk, Patricia Tucker
What happens to coroners’ recommendations for improving public health and safety? Organisational responses under a mandatory response regime in Victoria, Australia
Georgina Sutherland, Celia Kemp, Lyndal Bugeja, Graham Sewell, Jane Pirkis, David M Studdert
Older adults’ reporting of specific sedentary behaviors: validity and reliability
Jelle Van Cauwenberg, Veerle Van Holle, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Neville Owen, Benedicte Deforche
Factors associated with prolonged non-nutritive sucking habits in two cohorts of Brazilian children
Marcela Maia-Nader, Camilla Silva de Araujo Figueiredo, Felipe Pinheiro de Figueiredo, Antônio Augusto Moura da Silva, Erika Bárbara Abreu Fonseca Thomaz, Maria Conceição Pereira Saraiva, Marco Antonio Barbieri, Heloisa Bettiol
Gender-based differences in the high-risk sexual behaviours of young people aged 15-29 in Melilla (Spain): a cross-sectional study
Esperanza Romero-Estudillo, Emilio González-Jiménez, María C Mesa-Franco, Inmaculada García-García
Chronic mountain sickness in Chinese Han males who migrated to the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau: application and evaluation of diagnostic criteria for chronic mountain sickness
Chunhua Jiang, Jian Chen, Fuyu Liu, Yongjun Luo, Gang Xu, Hai-Ying Shen, Yuqi Gao, Wenxiang Gao
Predicting fruit consumption: the role of habits, previous behavior and mediation effects
Hein de Vries, Sander M Eggers, Lilian Lechner, Liesbeth van Osch, Maartje M van Stralen
The role of early life factors in the development of ethnic differences in growth and overweight in preschool children: a prospective birth cohort
Lenie van Rossem, Esther Hafkamp-de Groen, Vincent WV Jaddoe, Albert Hofman, Johan P Mackenbach, Hein Raat
‘My health is not a job’: a qualitative exploration of personal health management and imperatives of the ‘new public health’
Jennifer CD MacGregor, C Nadine Wathen
Tools to support evidence-informed public health decision making
Jennifer Yost, Maureen Dobbins, Robyn Traynor, Kara DeCorby, Stephanie Workentine, Lori Greco
Patients’ perspectives of care for type 2 diabetes in Bangladesh –a qualitative study
Christopher P Lewis, James N Newell
My Activity Coach– Using video-coaching to assist a web-based computer-tailored physical activity intervention: a randomised controlled trial protocol
Stephanie Alley, Cally Jennings, Ronald C Plotnikoff, Corneel Vandelanotte
Human papillomavirus-related psychosocial impact of patients with genital warts in China: a hospital-based cross-sectional study
Shu-Zhen Qi, Shao-Ming Wang, Ju-Fang Shi, Qian-Qiu Wang, Xiang-Sheng Chen, Li-Jun Sun, An Liu, Nanci Zhang, Ning Jiang, Priya Siva, Xiu-Lian Xu, You-Lin Qiao
Influenza immunization in Canada’s low-income population
Jennifer Leigh Hobbs, Jane A Buxton
‘Red Ruby’: an interactive web-based intervention for lifestyle modification on metabolic syndrome: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Leila Jahangiry, Davoud Shojaeizadeh, Mahdi Najafi, Kazem Mohammad, Mahdieh Abbasalizad Farhangi, Ali Montazeri
Sunlight exposure during leisure activities and risk of prostate cancer in Montréal, Canada, 2005–2009
Jennifer Yu, Jérôme Lavoué, Marie-Élise Parent
Process evaluation outcomes from a global child obesity prevention intervention
Simone Pettigrew, Jean Michel Borys, Hugues Ruault du Plessis, Lea Walter, Terry T-K Huang, Jeffrey Levi, Jan Vinck
Occupational injuries among children and adolescents in Cusco Province: a cross-sectional study
Cornelia Schlick, Manuela Joachin, Leonardo Briceño, Daniel Moraga, Katja Radon
Exercise-referral scheme to promote physical activity among hypertensive patients: design of a cluster randomized trial in the Primary Health Care Units of Mexico’s Social Security System
Katia Gallegos-Carrillo, Carmen García-Peña, Jorge Salmerón, Velia Nelly Salgado-de-Snyder, Gabriel Vázquez-Cabrer, Felipe Lobelo
HIV disclosure to sexual partner and associated factors among women attending ART clinic at Mekelle hospital, Northern Ethiopia
Mussie Alemayehu, Alemseged Aregay, Abrhet Kalayu, Henock Yebyo
The niche reduction approach: an opportunity for optimal control of infectious diseases in low-income countries?
Benjamin Roche, Hélène Broutin, Marc Choisy, Sylvain Godreuil, Guillaume Constantin de Magny, Yann Chevaleyre, Jean-Daniel Zucker, Romulus Breban, Bernard Cazelles, Frédéric Simard
Gateway to Care campaign: a public health initiative to reduce the burden of hepatitis B in Haimen City, China
Gang Chen, Joan M Block, Alison A Evans, Peixin Huang, Chari Cohen
“Dying a hero”: parents’ and young people’s discourses on concurrent sexual partnerships in rural Tanzania
Joyce Wamoyi, Daniel Wight
Desk-based workers’ perspectives on using sit-stand workstations: a qualitative analysis of the Stand@Work study
Josephine Y Chau, Michelle Daley, Anu Srinivasan, Scott Dunn, Adrian E Bauman, Hidde P van der Ploeg
Overview of 71 European community-based initiatives against childhood obesity starting between 2005 and 2011: general characteristics and reported effects
Wanda Jose Erika Bemelmans, Trudy Maria Arnoldina Wijnhoven, Marieke Verschuuren, João Breda
Steering teens safe: a randomized trial of a parent-based intervention to improve safe teen driving
Corinne Peek-Asa, Joseph E Cavanaugh, Jingzhen Yang, Vidya Chande, Tracy Young, Marizen Ramirez
Evaluating a health care provider delivered intervention to reduce intimate partner violence and mitigate associated health risks: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial in Mexico City
Kathryn L Falb, Claudia Diaz–Olavarrieta, Paola A Campos, Jimena Valades, Roosebelinda Cardenas, Giselle Carino, Jhumka Gupta
Prevalence of depression in adults with type 2 diabetes in the Basque Country: relationship with glycaemic control and health care costs
Edurne Alonso-Morán, Altynai Satylganova, Juan F Orueta, Roberto Nuño-Solinis
High-intensity compared to moderate-intensity training for exercise initiation, enjoyment, adherence, and intentions: an intervention study
Katie M Heinrich, Pratik M Patel, Joshua L O’Neal, Bryan S Heinrich
Active commuting to school, cognitive performance, and academic achievement: an observational study in Dutch adolescents using accelerometers
Martin L Van Dijk, Renate HM De Groot, Frederik Van Acker, Hans HCM Savelberg, Paul A Kirschner
The effect of smoking on the duration of life with and without disability, Belgium 1997–2011
Herman Van Oyen, Nicolas Berger, Wilma Nusselder, Rana Charafeddine, Carol Jagger, Emmanuelle Cambois, Jean-Marie Robine, Stefaan Demarest
The role of betel-quid chewing in smoking cessation among workers in Taiwan
Fu-Li Chen, Peter Y Chen, Tao-Hsin Tung, Yu-Ching Huang, Min-Chien Tsai
Health Equilibrium Initiative: a public health intervention to narrow the health gap and promote a healthy weight in Swedish children
Maria Magnusson, Moa Hallmyr Lewis, Malgorzata Smaga-Blom, Lauren Lissner, Chris Pickering
Severity of injuries in different modes of transport, expressed with disability-adjusted life years (DALYs)
Marko Tainio, Dorota Olkowicz, Grzegorz Teresiński, Audrey de Nazelle, Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen
Increase in condom use and decline in prevalence of sexually transmitted infections among high-risk men who have sex with men and transgender persons in Maharashtra, India: Avahan, the India AIDS Initiative
Shreena Ramanathan, Sucheta Deshpande, Abhishek Gautam, Dilip B Pardeshi, Lakshmi Ramakrishnan, Prabuddhagopal Goswami, Rajatashuvra Adhikary, Bitra George, Ramesh S Paranjape, Mandar M Mainkar
Double-standards in reporting of risk and responsibility for sexual health: a qualitative content analysis of negatively toned UK newsprint articles
Susan P Martin, Lisa M McDaid, Shona Hilton
A qualitative study of independent fast food vendors near secondary schools in disadvantaged Scottish neighbourhoods
Michelle Estrade, Smita Dick, Fiona Crawford, Ruth Jepson, Anne Ellaway, Geraldine McNeill
Primary caregiver knowledge of paediatric physical activity recommendations in the United Kingdom and its association with caregiver behaviour: an observational study
Alexia Sawyer, Lee Smith, Stephanie Schrempft, Cornelia HM van Jaarsveld, Jane Wardle, Abigail Fisher
Levels and distribution of self-rated health in the Kazakh population: results from the Kazakhstan household health survey 2012
Adil Supiyev, Talgat Nurgozhin, Zhaxybay Zhumadilov, Almaz Sharman, Michael Marmot, Martin Bobak
A comparison of three types of web-based inhibition training for the reduction of alcohol consumption in problem drinkers: study protocol
Andrew Jones, Elly McGrath, Katrijn Houben, Chantal Nederkoorn, Eric Robinson, Matt Field
Factors associated with stunting among children of age 24 to 59 months in Meskan district, Gurage Zone, South Ethiopia: a case-control study
Teshale Fikadu, Sahilu Assegid, Lamessa Dube
Sexting among peruvian adolescents
Joshua H West, Cameron E Lister, P Cougar Hall, Benjamin T Crookston, Paola Rivera Snow, Maria Elena Zvietcovich, Richard P West
Young women smokers’ response to using plain cigarette packaging: qualitative findings from a naturalistic study
Crawford Moodie, Linda Bauld, Allison Ford, Anne Marie Mackintosh
Higher blood pressure control rate in a real life management program provided by the community health service center in China
Xiao-Jing Chen, Xi-Lian Gao, Gui-Ying You, Jing Jiang, Xiao-Lin Sun, Xiao Li, Yu-Cheng Chen, Yu-Jia Liang, Qing Zhang, Zhi Zeng
Psychological distress in the workforce: a multilevel and longitudinal analysis of the case of regulated occupations in Canada
Nathalie Cadieux, Alain Marchand
Toward core inter-professional health promotion competencies to address the non-communicable diseases and their risk factors through knowledge translation: Curriculum content assessment
Elizabeth Dean, Marilyn Moffat, Margot Skinner, Armele Dornelas de Andrade, Hellen Myezwa, Anne Söderlund
Associations between physical inactivity and sedentary behaviors among adolescents in 10 cities in China
You Chen, Zhonghui Zheng, Jinyao Yi, Shuqiao Yao
Peer support for patients with type 2 diabetes in rural communities of China: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
Bo Xie, Xiu-li Ye, Zi-lin Sun, Min Jia, Hui Jin, Chang-ping Ju, Li Yao, Carvalho Husni Da Costa De Vladmir, Yanxiaoxiao Yang
Intimate partner violence among adolescents and young women: prevalence and associated factors in nine countries: a cross-sectional study
Heidi Stöckl, Laura March, Christina Pallitto, Claudia Garcia-Moreno
A randomized study of contingency management and spirometric lung age for motivating smoking cessation among injection drug users
Michael B Drummond, Jacquie Astemborski, Allison A Lambert, Scott Goldberg, Maxine L Stitzer, Christian A Merlo, Cynthia S Rand, Robert A Wise, Gregory D Kirk
Application of the Occupational Sitting and Physical Activity Questionnaire (OSPAQ) to office based workers
Jonine Jancey, Marian Tye, Sarah McGann, Krysten Blackford, Andy H Lee
Factors associated with low fitness in adolescents – A mixed methods study
Richard Charlton, Michael B Gravenor, Anwen Rees, Gareth Knox, Rebecca Hill, Muhammad A Rahman, Kerina Jones, Danielle Christian, Julien S Baker, Gareth Stratton, Sinead Brophy
Community knowledge, attitude, and practices towards tuberculosis in Shinile town, Somali regional state, eastern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
Daniel Tolossa, Girmay Medhin, Mengistu Legesse
Child-caregivers’ body weight and habitual physical activity status is associated with overweight in kindergartners
Sascha W Hoffmann, Suzan Tug, Perikles Simon
Which activity monitor to use? Validity, reproducibility and user friendliness of three activity monitors
Brenda AJ Berendsen, Marike RC Hendriks, Kenneth Meijer, Guy Plasqui, Nicolaas C Schaper, Hans HCM Savelberg
From the set-up of a screening program of breast cancer patients to the identification of the first BRCA mutation in the DR Congo
Gertrude Luyeye Mvila, Sandra Postema, Guy Marchal, Erik Van Limbergen, Fons Verdonck, Gert Matthijs, Koen Devriendt, Genevieve Michils, Chantal Van Ongeval
‘Relieved Working’ study: systematic development and design of an intervention to decrease occupational quartz exposure at construction worksites
Karen M Oude Hengel, Erik van Deurssen, Tim Meijster, Erik Tielemans, Dick Heederik, Anjoeka Pronk
“These issues aren’t talked about at home”: a qualitative study of the sexual and reproductive health information preferences of adolescents in Vanuatu
Elissa C Kennedy, Siula Bulu, Jennifer Harris, David Humphreys, Jayline Malverus, Natalie J Gray
Socio-cultural factors influencing the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Nigeria: a synthesis of the literature
Juliet Iwelunmor, Echezona E Ezeanolue, Collins O Airhihenbuwa, Michael C Obiefune, Chinenye O Ezeanolue, Gbenga G Ogedegbe
Factors associated with sterilization use among women leaving a U.S. jail: a mixed methods study
Megha Ramaswamy, Patricia J Kelly
Overcoming cut-off restrictions in multimorbidity prevalence estimates
Barbara M Holzer, Klarissa Siebenhuener, Matthias Bopp, Christoph E Minder
Risk factors of malnutrition among preschool children in Terengganu, Malaysia: a case control study
Hui Jie Wong, Foong Ming Moy, Sulochana Nair
Parental chronic pain in relation to chronic pain in their adult offspring: family-linkage within the HUNT Study, Norway
Ragnhild Lier, Tom Ivar Lund Nilsen, Paul Jarle Mork
Efficacy of a web- and text messaging-based intervention to reduce problem drinking in young people: study protocol of a cluster-randomised controlled trial
Severin Haug, Tobias Kowatsch, Raquel Paz Castro, Andreas Filler, Michael P Schaub
Developing cancer warning statements for alcoholic beverages
Simone Pettigrew, Michelle Jongenelis, Tanya Chikritzhs, Terry Slevin, Iain S Pratt, David Glance, Wenbin Liang
A repeated measurement study investigating the impact of school outdoor environment upon physical activity across ages and seasons in Swedish second, fifth and eighth graders
Peter Pagels, Anders Raustorp, Antonio Ponce De Leon, Fredrika Mårtensson, Maria Kylin, Cecilia Boldemann
Impact of health education intervention on knowledge and perception of cervical cancer and cervical screening uptake among adult women in rural communities in Nigeria
Olumide A Abiodun, Oluwatosin O Olu-Abiodun, John O Sotunsa, Francis A Oluwole
Work economic sectors and cardiovascular risk factors: cross-sectional analysis based on the RECORD Study
Antoine Lewin, Frédérique Thomas, Bruno Pannier, Basile Chaix
The impact of interventions to prevent obesity or improve obesity related behaviours in children (0–5 years) from socioeconomically disadvantaged and/or indigenous families: a systematic review
Rachel Laws, Karen J Campbell, Paige van der Pligt, Georgina Russell, Kylie Ball, John Lynch, David Crawford, Rachael Taylor, Deborah Askew, Elizabeth Denney-Wilson
Determinants for acceptance of preventive treatment against heart disease – a web-based population survey
Nielsen Jesper Bo, Jarbøl Dorte Ejg, Gyrd-Hansen Dorte, Barfoed Benedicte Marie Lind, Larsen Pia Veldt
Motivations for sexual risk behaviors among older men in Shanghai, China: a qualitative study
Yanqiu Zhou, Yingying Ding, Kaikan Gu, Xiaonian Lu, Meiyang Gao, Na He
Rationale and study protocol of the EASY Minds (Encouraging Activity to Stimulate Young Minds) program: cluster randomized controlled trial of a primary school-based physical activity integration program for mathematics
Nicholas Riley, David R Lubans, Kathryn Holmes, Philip J Morgan
Long-term stability of return to work after a workplace-oriented intervention for patients on sick leave for burnout
Björn Karlson, Peter Jönsson, Kai Österberg
Cardiovascular risk factors differ between rural and urban Sweden: the 2009 Northern Sweden MONICA cohort
Martin Lindroth, Robert Lundqvist, Mikael Lilja, Mats Eliasson
Socioeconomic position and subjective oral health: findings for the adult population in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Carol C Guarnizo-Herreño, Richard G Watt, Elizabeth Fuller, Jimmy G Steele, Jing Shen, Stephen Morris, John Wildman, Georgios Tsakos
Incidence and correlates of hepatitis C virus infection in a large cohort of prisoners who have injected drugs
Kathryn J Snow, Jesse T Young, David B Preen, Nicholas G Lennox, Stuart A Kinner
Incidence and risk factors for AIDS-related mortality in HIV patients in China: a cross-sectional study
Hui Zheng, Lu Wang, Peng Huang, Jessie Norris, Qing Wang, Wei Guo, Zhihang Peng, Rongbin Yu, Ning Wang
Quality of life among people living with hypertension in a rural Vietnam community
Ninh Thi Ha, Hoa Thi Duy, Ninh Hoang Le, Vishnu Khanal, Rachael Moorin
A systematic review of the effectiveness of individual, community and societal level interventions at reducing socioeconomic inequalities in obesity amongst children
Frances C Hillier-Brown, Clare L Bambra, Joanne-Marie Cairns, Adetayo Kasim, Helen J Moore, Carolyn D Summerbell
A national survey on availability, price and affordability of selected essential medicines for non communicable diseases in Sri Lanka
Panthihage Ruvini L Dabare, Chandanie A Wanigatunge, BVS Hemantha Beneragama
Factors associated with hepatitis B vaccine series completion in a randomized trial for injection drug users reached through syringe exchange programs in three US cities
Sarah Bowman, Lauretta E Grau, Merrill Singer, Greg Scott, Robert Heimer
Patterns and socio-demographic correlates of domain-specific physical activities and their associations with adiposity in the China Kadoorie Biobank study
Huaidong Du, Liming Li, Gary Whitlock, Derrick Bennett, Yu Guo, Zheng Bian, Junshi Chen, Paul Sherliker, Ying Huang, Ningmei Zhang, Xiangyang Zheng, Zhongxiao Li, Ruying Hu, Rory Collins, Richard Peto, Zhengming Chen
Optimal starting point for antiretroviral HIV treatment in a town in Cameroon: a randomised controlled study
Knut Holtedahl, Daniel Salpou, Tonje Braaten, Zogoi Berved
Association of lifestyle habits and academic achievement in Norwegian adolescents: a cross-sectional study
Tonje H Stea, Monica K Torstveit
Is anybody doing it? An experimental study of the effect of normative messages on intention to do physical activity
René van Bavel, Gabriele Esposito, Tom Baranowski
Visual impairment and multimorbidity in a representative sample of the Spanish population
Noe Garin, Beatriz Olaya, Elvira Lara, Maria Victoria Moneta, Marta Miret, Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos, Josep Maria Haro
Costs and benefits of influenza vaccination: more evidence, same challenges
Bruno Christian Ciancio, Giovanni Rezza
Iodine nutritional status after the implementation of the new iodized salt concentration standard in Zhejiang Province, China
Yan Zou, Xiaoming Lou, Gangqiang Ding, Zhe Mo, Wenming Zhu, Guangming Mao
The rise of mortality from mental and neurological diseases in Europe, 1979–2009: observational study
Johan P Mackenbach, Marina Karanikolos, Caspar WN Looman
Associations between follow-up screening after gestational diabetes and early detection of diabetes – a register based study
Christinna Rebecca Olesen, Jane Hyldgaard Nielsen, Rikke Nørmark Mortensen, Henrik Bøggild, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Charlotte Overgaard
Annual public health and economic benefits of seasonal influenza vaccination: a European estimate
Emmanuelle Preaud, Laure Durand, Bérengère Macabeo, Norbert Farkas, Brigitte Sloesen, Abraham Palache, Francis Shupo, Sandrine I Samson
Open drug scenes: responses of five European cities
Helge Waal, Thomas Clausen, Linn Gjersing, Michael Gossop
Newcomers in a hazardous environment: a qualitative inquiry into sex worker vulnerability to HIV in Bali, Indonesia
Pande Putu Januraga, Julie Mooney-Somers, Paul R Ward
Using latent class analysis to develop a model of the relationship between socioeconomic position and ethnicity: cross-sectional analyses from a multi-ethnic birth cohort study
Lesley Fairley, Baltica Cabieses, Neil Small, Emily S Petherick, Debbie A Lawlor, Kate E Pickett, John Wright
HIV testing preferences in Tanzania: a qualitative exploration of the importance of confidentiality, accessibility, and quality of service
Bernard Njau, Jan Ostermann, Derek Brown, Axel Mühlbacher, Elizabeth Reddy, Nathan Thielman
Proximal and distal determinants of stressful work: framework and analysis of retrospective European data
Morten Wahrendorf, Johannes Siegrist
Climate change and the emergence of vector-borne diseases in Europe: case study of dengue fever
Maha Bouzid, Felipe J Colón-González, Tobias Lung, Iain R Lake, Paul R Hunter
A public health threat in Hungary: obesity, 2013
Imre Rurik, Péter Torzsa, Judit Szidor, Csaba Móczár, Gabriella Iski, Éva Albók, Tímea Ungvári, Zoltán Jancsó, János Sándor
Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of preventive zinc supplementation
Günther Fink, Jesse Heitner
A pilot telephone intervention to increase uptake of breast cancer screening in socially deprived areas in Scotland (TELBRECS): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Julie A Chambers, Ronan E O’Carroll, Alan Cook, Julie Cavanagh, Debbie Archibald, Rosemary Millar
Risk markers of all-cause and diagnosis-specific disability pension - a prospective cohort study of individuals sickness absent due to stress-related mental disorders
Kazi Ishtiak-Ahmed, Aleksander Perski, Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz
Culture, acculturation and smoking use in Hmong, Khmer, Laotians, and Vietnamese communities in Minnesota
Diana J Burgess, Jeremiah Mock, Barbara A Schillo, Jessie E Saul, Tam Phan, Yanat Chhith, Nina Alesci, Steven S Foldes
Suicide in Sri Lanka 1975–2012: age, period and cohort analysis of police and hospital data
Duleeka W Knipe, Chris Metcalfe, Ravindra Fernando, Melissa Pearson, Flemming Konradsen, Michael Eddleston, David Gunnell
Tetramine poisoning in China: changes over a decade viewed through the media’s eye
Yi Li, Yanxia Gao, Xuezhong Yu, Jingmin Peng, Fei Ma, Lewis Nelson
‘Change means sacrificing a good life’: perceptions about severity of type 2 diabetes and preventive lifestyles among people afflicted or at high risk of type 2 diabetes in Iganga Uganda
Roy W Mayega, Samuel Etajak, Elizeus Rutebemberwa, Goran Tomson, Juliet Kiguli
Promoting prudent use of antibiotics: the experience from a multifaceted regional campaign in Greece
Diamantis Plachouras, Anastasia Antoniadou, Efthymia Giannitsioti, Lambrini Galani, Ioannis Katsarolis, Dimitra Kavatha, George Koukos, Periklis Panagopoulos, Antonios Papadopoulos, Garyphalia Poulakou, Vissaria Sakka, Maria Souli, Styliani Sybardi, Sotirios Tsiodras, Kyriaki Kanellakopoulou, Helen Giamarellou
Alcohol segment-specific associations between the quality of the parent–child relationship and adolescent alcohol use
Jolanda JP Mathijssen, Meriam M Janssen, Marja JH van Bon-Martens, Hans AM van Oers, Elly de Boer, Henk FL Garretsen
Physical activity differences between children from migrant and native origin
Wim Labree, Freek Lötters, Dike van de Mheen, Frans Rutten, Ana Rivera Chavarría, Madelon Neve, Gerda Rodenburg, Honorine Machielsen, Gerrit Koopmans, Marleen Foets
How immigrants adapt their smoking behaviour: comparative analysis among Turkish immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands
Katharina Reiss, Odile Sauzet, Jürgen Breckenkamp, Jacob Spallek, Oliver Razum
Self medicated antibiotics in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional health survey conducted in the Rajshahi City
Mohitosh Biswas, Manobendro Nath Roy, Md Imran Nur Manik, Md Shahid Hossain, SM Tafsirul Alam Tapu, Md Moniruzzaman, Sharmin Sultana
Difference of the associations between self-rated health and demographic characteristics, lifestyle, and psychosocial work environment between two types of Chinese worksite
Yingnan Jia, Junling Gao, Junming Dai, Pinpin Zheng, Xiaoyu Wu, Guangyao Li, Hua Fu
Association between parental guilt and oral health problems in preschool children: a hierarchical approach
Monalisa Cesarino Gomes, Marayza Alves Clementino, Tassia Cristina de Almeida Pinto-Sarmento, Carolina Castro Martins, Ana Flávia Granville-Garcia, Saul Martins Paiva
Cost-effectiveness of health promotion targeting physical activity and healthy eating in mental health care
Nick Verhaeghe, Delphine De Smedt, Jan De Maeseneer, Lea Maes, Cornelis Van Heeringen, Lieven Annemans
The role of family-related factors in the effects of the UP4FUN school-based family-focused intervention targeting screen time in 10- to 12-year-old children: the ENERGY project
Wendy Van Lippevelde, Elling Bere, Maïté Verloigne, Maartje M van Stralen, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Nanna Lien, Frøydis Nordgård Vik, Yannis Manios, Monika Grillenberger, Éva Kovács, Mai JM ChinAPaw, Johannes Brug, Lea Maes
Feasibility and validity of telephone triage for adverse events during a voluntary medical male circumcision campaign in Swaziland
Tigistu Adamu Ashengo, Jonathan Grund, Masitsela Mhlanga, Thabo Hlophe, Munamato Mirira, Naomi Bock, Emmanuel Njeuhmeli, Kelly Curran, Elizabeth Mallas, Laura Fitzgerald, Rhoy Shoshore, Khumbulani Moyo, George Bicego
‘I heard about this study on the radio’: using community radio to strengthen Good Participatory Practice in HIV prevention trials
Bonnie-Jeanne Medeossi, Jonathan Stadler, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe
Use and acceptance of long lasting insecticidal net screens for dengue prevention in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
Catrin H Jones, David Benítez-Valladares, Guillermo Guillermo-May, Felipe Dzul-Manzanilla, Azael Che-Mendoza, Mario Barrera-Pérez, Celia Selem-Salas, Juan Chablé-Santos, Johannes Sommerfeld, Axel Kroeger, Timothy O’Dempsey, Anuar Medina-Barreiro, Pablo Manrique-Saide
The reliability of a newborn foot length measurement tool used by community volunteers to identify low birth weight or premature babies born at home in southern Tanzania
Tanya Marchant, Suzanne Penfold, Elibariki Mkumbo, Donat Shamba, Jennie Jaribu, Fatuma Manzi, Joanna Schellenberg
Strategies to promote uptake and use of intimate partner violence and child maltreatment knowledge: an integrative review
Jennifer CD MacGregor, Nadine Wathen, Anita Kothari, Prabhpreet K Hundal, Anthony Naimi
Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of minimal guided and unguided internet-based mobile supported stress-management in employees with occupational stress: a three-armed randomised controlled trial
David Daniel Ebert, Dirk Lehr, Filip Smit, Anna-Carlotta Zarski, Heleen Riper, Elena Heber, Pim Cuijpers, Matthias Berking
Prevalence and validity of self-reported smoking in Indigenous and non-Indigenous young adults in the Australian Northern Territory
Mark S Pearce, Kay D Mann, Gurmeet Singh, Belinda Davison, Susan M Sayers
The effect of out-of-pocket costs and financial rewards in a discrete choice experiment: an application to lifestyle programs
Johanna O P Wanders, Jorien Veldwijk, G Ardine de Wit, Huberta E Hart, Paul F van Gils, Mattijs S Lambooij
Alcohol abstinence, non-hazardous use and hazardous use a decade after alcohol-related hospitalization: registry data linked to population-based representative postal surveys
Kozma Ahacic, Robert F Kennison, Ingemar Kåreholt
An update on the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its associated factors in rural northeast China
Shasha Yu, Xiaofan Guo, Hongmei Yang, Liqiang Zheng, Yingxian Sun
Timely measles vaccination in Tianjin, China: a cross-sectional study of immunization records and mothers
Abram L Wagner, Ying Zhang, JoLynn P Montgomery, Yaxing Ding, Bradley F Carlson, Matthew L Boulton
Distribution of lipid parameters according to different socio-economic indicators- the EPIC-Norfolk prospective population study
Shamarina Shohaimi, Matthijs S Boekholdt, Robert Luben, Nick J Wareham, Kay-Tee Khaw
Australian alcohol policy 2001–2013 and implications for public health
Steven J Howard, Ross Gordon, Sandra C Jones
Berlin evaluates school tobacco prevention - BEST prevention: study design and methodology
Falk Müller-Riemenschneider, Lilian Krist, Christin Bürger, Nanette Ströbele-Benschop, Stephanie Roll, Nina Rieckmann, Jacqueline Müller-Nordhorn, Stefan N Willich
Preparing for human papillomavirus vaccine introduction in Kenya: implications from focus-group and interview discussions with caregivers and opinion leaders in Western Kenya
Allison L Friedman, Kelvin O Oruko, Melissa A Habel, Jessie Ford, Jennine Kinsey, Frank Odhiambo, Penelope A Phillips-Howard, Susan A Wang, Tabu Collins, Kayla F Laserson, Eileen F Dunne
Immunization coverage of 12–23 months old children and associated factors in Jigjiga District, Somali National Regional State, Ethiopia
Abdi Nur Mohamud, Amsalu Feleke, Walelegn Worku, Manay Kifle, Hardeep Rai Sharma
Adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy and associated factors among children at the University of Gondar Hospital and Gondar Poly Clinic, Northwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional institutional based study
Berihun Assefa Dachew, Tadis Brhane Tesfahunegn, Anteneh Messele Birhanu
Socioeconomic and demographic predictors of selected cardiovascular risk factors among adults living in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia
Gwendolyn M Hosey, Marcus Samo, Edward W Gregg, Diane Padden, Sandra Garmon Bibb
HPV catch-up vaccination of young women: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Elisabeth Couto, Ingvil Sæterdal, Lene Kristine Juvet, Marianne Klemp
Socioeconomic inequalities in smoking habits are still increasing in Italy
Giuseppe Verlato, Simone Accordini, Giang Nguyen, Pierpaolo Marchetti, Lucia Cazzoletti, Marcello Ferrari, Leonardo Antonicelli, Francesco Attena, Valeria Bellisario, Roberto Bono, Lamberto Briziarelli, Lucio Casali, Angelo Guido Corsico, Alessandro Fois, MariaGrazia Panico, Pavilio Piccioni, Pietro Pirina, Simona Villani, Gabriele Nicolini, Roberto de Marco
Alcohol interventions, alcohol policy and intimate partner violence: a systematic review
Ingrid M Wilson, Kathryn Graham, Angela Taft
Knowledge and perceptions towards malaria prevention among vulnerable groups in the Buea Health District, Cameroon
Helen K Kimbi, Sarah B Nkesa, Judith L Ndamukong-Nyanga, Irene UN Sumbele, Julius Atashili, Mary BS Atanga
Correlates of sedentary time in children: a multilevel modelling approach
Thayse Natacha Gomes, Fernanda Karina dos Santos, Daniel Santos, Sara Pereira, Raquel Chaves, Peter Todd Katzmarzyk, José Maia
Changes in colorectal cancer screening intention among people aged 18–49 in the United States
Mary L Greaney, Elaine Puleo, Kim Sprunck-Harrild, Sapna Syngal, Elizabeth Gonzalez Suarez, Karen M Emmons
Views and experiences of behaviour change techniques to encourage walking to work: a qualitative study
Sunita Procter, Nanette Mutrie, Adrian Davis, Suzanne Audrey
Associations between work-related stress in late midlife, educational attainment, and serious health problems in old age: a longitudinal study with over 20 years of follow-up
Charlotta Nilsen, Ross Andel, Stefan Fors, Bettina Meinow, Alexander Darin Mattsson, Ingemar Kåreholt
Climate change, crop production and child under nutrition in Ethiopia; a longitudinal panel study
Seifu Hagos, Torleif Lunde, Damen H Mariam, Tassew Woldehanna, Bernt Lindtjørn
Systematic review and meta-analysis of the effect of increased vegetable and fruit consumption on body weight and energy intake
Oliver T Mytton, Kelechi Nnoaham, Helen Eyles, Peter Scarborough, Cliona Ni Mhurchu
The prevalence of underweight, overweight, obesity and associated risk factors among school-going adolescents in seven African countries
Taru Manyanga, Hesham El-Sayed, David Teye Doku, Jason R Randall
The effect of gender and age on the association between weight status and health-related quality of life in Australian adolescents
Kristy Bolton, Peter Kremer, Naomi Rossthorn, Marj Moodie, Lisa Gibbs, Elizabeth Waters, Boyd Swinburn, Andrea de Silva
Development and testing of a past year measure of sedentary behavior: the SIT-Q
Brigid M Lynch, Christine M Friedenreich, Farah Khandwala, Andrew Liu, Joshua Nicholas, Ilona Csizmadi
Low risk of attrition among adults on antiretroviral therapy in the Rwandan national program: a retrospective cohort analysis of 6, 12, and 18 month outcomes
Harriet Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha, Aleksandra Jakubowski, Veronicah Mugisha, Paulin Basinga, Anita Asiimwe, Denis Nash, Batya Elul
Tuberculosis among health care workers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a retrospective cohort analysis
Carrie Tudor, Martie Van der Walt, Bruce Margot, Susan E Dorman, William K Pan, Gayane Yenokyan, Jason E Farley
Magnitude and risk factors of non-communicable diseases among people living with HIV in Tanzania: a cross sectional study from Mbeya and Dar es Salaam regions
Gibson B Kagaruki, Mary T Mayige, Ester S Ngadaya, Godfather D Kimaro, Akili K Kalinga, Andrew M Kilale, Amos M Kahwa, Godlisten S Materu, Sayoki G Mfinanga
Differences in hypertension between informal and formal areas of Ouagadougou, a sub-Saharan African city
Boukaré Doulougou, Séni Kouanda, Clémentine Rossier, Abdramane Soura, Maria Victoria Zunzunegui
High prevalence of thalassemia in migrant populations in Guangdong Province, China
Bing Li, Xiao-zhuang Zhang, Ai-hua Yin, Qing-guo Zhao, Li Wu, Yuan-zhu Ma, Ming-yong Luo, Shou-yi Yu
A community-based prospective cohort study of exclusive breastfeeding in central Nepal
Rajendra Karkee, Andy H Lee, Vishnu Khanal, Colin W Binns
Varicose veins in hairdressers and associated risk factors: a cross-sectional study
Chao-Lin Chen, How-Ran Guo
Nudging children towards whole wheat bread: a field experiment on the influence of fun bread roll shape on breakfast consumption
Ellen van Kleef, Milou Vrijhof, Ilse A Polet, Monique H Vingerhoeds, René A de Wijk
Role of the new rural cooperative medical system in alleviating catastrophic medical payments for hypertension, stroke and coronary heart disease in poor rural areas of China
Qi Wang, Huan Liu, Zu X Lu, Qing Luo, Jun A Liu
Most women diagnosed with cervical cancer by a visual screening program in Tanzania completed treatment: evidence from a retrospective cohort study
Andrew C Gard, Amr S Soliman, Twalib Ngoma, Julius Mwaiselage, Crispin Kahesa, Robert M Chamberlain, Siobán D Harlow
Prevalence of dyslipidaemia and micronutrient deficiencies among newly arrived Afghan refugees in rural Australia: a cross-sectional study
Mehdi Sanati Pour, Surabhi Kumble, Sarah Hanieh, Beverley-Ann Biggs
Helicobacter pylori infection in pregnant women in four districts of Uganda: role of geographic location, education and water sources
Rhona Kezabu Baingana, John Kiboko Enyaru, Lena Davidsson
Implementation of a universal rotavirus vaccination program: comparison of two delivery systems
Mitchell Zelman, Carolyn Sanford, Anne Neatby, Beth A Halperin, Donna MacDougall, Corinne Rowswell, Joanne M Langley, Scott A Halperin
Determinants of health check attendance in adults: findings from the cross-sectional German Health Update (GEDA) study
Jens Hoebel, Anne Starker, Susanne Jordan, Matthias Richter, Thomas Lampert
Prevalence of tobacco smoking among health-care physicians in Bahrain
Saif M Borgan, Ghufran Jassim, Zaid A Marhoon, Mohamed A Almuqamam, Mohamed A Ebrahim, Peter A Soliman
Promoting healthy eating and physical activity among school children: findings from Health-E-PALS, the first pilot intervention from Lebanon
Carla Habib-Mourad, Lilian A Ghandour, Helen J Moore, Maya Nabhani-Zeidan, Kassim Adetayo, Nahla Hwalla, Carolyn Summerbell
Women’s perceptions and reflections of male partners and couple dynamics in family planning adoption in selected urban slums in Nigeria: a qualitative exploration
Joshua Oyeniyi Aransiola, Akanni Ibukun Akinyemi, Adesegun Olayiwola Fatusi
Leptin and smoking cessation: secondary analyses of a randomized controlled trial assessing physical activity as an aid for smoking cessation
Semira Gonseth, Isabella Locatelli, Raphaël Bize, Sébastien Nusslé, Carole Clair, François Pralong, Jacques Cornuz
Integrating stages of change models to cast new vision on interventions to improve global retinoblastoma and childhood cancer outcomes
Meaghann S Weaver, Christina L Heminger, Catherine G Lam
Self-reported cataracts in older adults in Ghana: sociodemographic and health related factors
Alfred E Yawson, Edith M Ackuaku-Dogbe, Nana A Hagan Seneadza, George Mensah, Nadia Minicuci, Nirmala Naidoo, Somnath Chatterji, Paul Kowal, Richard B Biritwum
A reappraisal of the quantitative relationship between sugar intake and dental caries: the need for new criteria for developing goals for sugar intake
Aubrey Sheiham, W Philip T James
Violence and reproductive health preceding flight from war: accounts from Somali born women in Sweden
Ulrika Byrskog, Pia Olsson, Birgitta Essén, Marie Klingberg Allvin
Psychometric validity of the parent’s outcome expectations for children’s television viewing (POETV) scale
Teresia M O’Connor, Tzu-An Chen, Betty del Rio Rodriguez, Sheryl O Hughes
Attitudes towards sickness absence and sickness presenteeism in health and care sectors in Norway and Denmark: a qualitative study
Line Krane, Eva Ladekjær Larsen, Claus Vinther Nielsen, Christina Malmose Stapelfeldt, Roar Johnsen, Mette Bech Risør
Comparisons of intensity-duration patterns of physical activity in the US, Jamaica and 3 African countries
Lara R Dugas, Pascal Bovet, Terrence E Forrester, Estelle V Lambert, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Ramon A Durazo-Arvizu, David Shoham, Jacolene Kroff, Guichan Cao, Richard S Cooper, Soren Brage, Ulf Ekelund, Amy Luke
Perceptions of HIV/STI prevention among young adults in Sweden who travel abroad: a qualitative study with focus group and individual interviews
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The Opposites Attract Study of viral load, HIV treatment and HIV transmission in serodiscordant homosexual male couples: design and methods
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Offending, custody and opioid substitution therapy treatment utilisation among opioid-dependent people in contact with the criminal justice system: comparison of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
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Hypertension and associated factors among university students in Gondar, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
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Postnatal care by provider type and neonatal death in sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel analysis
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B’More healthy communities for kids: design of a multi-level intervention for obesity prevention for low-income African American children
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Smoking, smoking cessation and tobacco control in rural China: a qualitative study in Shandong Province
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Agreement between parent and child report on parental practices regarding dietary, physical activity and sedentary behaviours: the ENERGY cross-sectional survey
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Screen time and cardiometabolic function in Dutch 5–6 year olds: cross-sectional analysis of the ABCD-study
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Text messaging as a community-based survey tool: a pilot study
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The effect of dance mat exergaming systems on physical activity and health – related outcomes in secondary schools: results from a natural experiment
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Dietary intake practices associated with cardiovascular risk in urban and rural Ecuadorian adolescents: a cross-sectional study
Angélica Ochoa-Avilés, Roosmarijn Verstraeten, Carl Lachat, Susana Andrade, John Van Camp, Silvana Donoso, Patrick Kolsteren
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Do federal and state audits increase compliance with a grant program to improve municipal infrastructure (AUDIT study): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Ana L De La O, Fernando Martel García
Factors influencing adolescent girls’ decision in initiation for human papillomavirus vaccination: a cross-sectional study in Hong Kong
Albert Lee, Mandy Ho, Calvin Ka Man Cheung, Vera Mei Wen Keung
Differential mental health impact of cancer across racial/ethnic groups: findings from a population-based study in California
Héctor E Alcalá
Patterns, levels and correlates of self-reported physical activity in urban black Soweto women
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Association of dietary pattern and body weight with blood pressure in Jiangsu Province, China
Yu Qin, Alida Melse-Boonstra, Xiaoqun Pan, Jinkou Zhao, Baojun Yuan, Yue Dai, Minghao Zhou, Johanna M Geleijnse, Frans J Kok, Zumin Shi
Structural and intermediary determinants of social inequalities in the mental well-being of European workers: a relational approach
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Exploring associations between parental and peer variables, personal variables and physical activity among adolescents: a mediation analysis
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Increasing active travel: aims, methods and baseline measures of a quasi-experimental study
Ralph Chapman, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Michael Keall, Karen Witten, Wokje Abrahamse, Alistair Woodward, Dylan Muggeridge, Jean Beetham, Mark Grams
Maternal near-miss and mortality in Sayaboury Province, Lao PDR
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Diabetes in US women on the rise independent of increasing BMI and other risk factors; a trend investigation of serial cross-sections
Adaeze Ibe, Tyler C Smith
A comparison of a social support physical activity intervention in weight management among post-partum Latinas
Colleen Keller, Barbara Ainsworth, Kathryn Records, Michael Todd, Michael Belyea, Sonia Vega-López, Paska Permana, Dean Coonrod, Allison Nagle-Williams
Prevalence of leisure-time sedentary behaviour and sociodemographic correlates: a cross-sectional study in Spanish adults
Ricardo Macías, María Garrido-Muñoz, Carlos M Tejero-González, Alejandro Lucia, Enrique López-Adán, Gabriel Rodríguez-Romo
The effects of a web-based decision aid on the intention to diagnostic self-testing for cholesterol and diabetes: a randomized controlled trial
Gaby Ronda, Janaica EJ Grispen, Martine HP Ickenroth, Geert-Jan Dinant, Nanne K De Vries, Trudy Van der Weijden
Children’s participation in school: a cross-sectional study of the relationship between school environments, participation and health and well-being outcomes
Yetunde O John-Akinola, Saoirse Nic-Gabhainn
Rural Environments and Community Health (REACH): a randomised controlled trial protocol for an online walking intervention in rural adults
Braden L Mitchell, Nicole R Lewis, Ashleigh E Smith, Alex V Rowlands, Gaynor Parfitt, James Dollman
Employment status and perceived health condition: longitudinal data from Italy
Liliana Minelli, Claudia Pigini, Manuela Chiavarini, Francesco Bartolucci
Perpetration of physical and sexual abuse and subsequent fathering of pregnancies among a cohort of young South African men: a longitudinal study
Nicola J Christofides, Rachel K Jewkes, Kristin L Dunkle, Frances A McCarty, Nwabisa Jama Shai, Mzikazi Nduna, Claire E Sterk
A scoping review of risk behaviour interventions in young men
Lee M Ashton, Melinda J Hutchesson, Megan E Rollo, Philip J Morgan, Clare E Collins
How equal is the relationship between individual social capital and psychological distress? A gendered analysis using cross-sectional data from Ghent (Belgium)
Veerle Vyncke, Wim Hardyns, Wim Peersman, Lieven Pauwels, Peter Groenewegen, Sara Willems
Re-entering obesity prevention: a qualitative-empirical inquiry into the subjective aetiology of extreme obese adolescents
Matthias Braun, Johanna Schell, Wolfgang Siegfried, Manfred J Müller, Jens Ried
Are physicians aware of their role in tobacco control? A conference-based survey in Portugal
Sofia B Ravara, Miguel Castelo-Branco, Pedro Aguiar, Jose M Calheiros
Prevalence, one week incidence and knowledge on causes of diarrhea: household survey of under-fives and adults in Mkuranga district, Tanzania
Kijakazi O Mashoto, Hamisi M Malebo, Emil Msisiri, Emanuel Peter
Nutrition interventions at point-of-sale to encourage healthier food purchasing: a systematic review
Selma C Liberato, Ross Bailie, Julie Brimblecombe
Examining social norm impacts on obesity and eating behaviors among US school children based on agent-based model
Youfa Wang, Hong Xue, Hsin-jen Chen, Takeru Igusa
A cluster-randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effects of a simplified cardiovascular management program in Tibet, China and Haryana, India: study design and rationale
Vamadevan S Ajay, Maoyi Tian, Hao Chen, Yangfeng Wu, Xian Li, Danzeng Dunzhu, Mohammed K Ali, Nikhil Tandon, Anand Krishnan, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Lijing L Yan
Change in well-being amongst participants in a four-month pedometer-based workplace health program
Rosanne LA Freak-Poli, Rory Wolfe, Evelyn Wong, Anna Peeters
Diarrhoeal diseases among adult population in an agricultural community Hanam province, Vietnam, with high wastewater and excreta re-use
Phuc Pham-Duc, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Jan Hattendorf, Phung Dac Cam, Christian Zurbrügg, Jakob Zinsstag, Peter Odermatt
Using mobile technology to support lower-salt food choices for people with cardiovascular disease: protocol for the SaltSwitch randomized controlled trial
Helen Eyles, Rebecca McLean, Bruce Neal, Robert N Doughty, Yannan Jiang, Cliona Ni Mhurchu
Trends in hospital admissions at a Department for Infectious Diseases in Italy from 1995 to 2011 and implications for health policies
Giovanna Orlando, Guido Gubertini, Cristina Negri, Massimo Coen, Elena Ricci, Massimo Galli, Giuliano Rizzardini
The impact of children’s sex composition on parents’ mortality
Solveig Glestad Christiansen
Socioeconomic differences in childhood length/height trajectories in a middle-income country: a cohort study
Rita Patel, Kate Tilling, Debbie A Lawlor, Laura D Howe, Natalia Bogdanovich, Lidia Matush, Emily Nicoli, Michael S Kramer, Richard M Martin
Adherence to antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy and the first year postpartum among HIV-positive women in Ukraine
Heather Bailey, Claire Thorne, Ruslan Malyuta, Claire L Townsend, Igor Semenenko, Mario Cortina-Borja
Breast cancer awareness among women in Eastern China: a cross-sectional study
Li-Yuan Liu, Fei Wang, Li-Xiang Yu, Zhong-Bing Ma, Qiang Zhang, De-Zong Gao, Yu-Yang Li, Liang Li, Zhong-Tang Zhao, Zhi-Gang Yu
HIV preventive behavior and associated factors among mining workers in Sali traditional gold mining site bench maji zone, Southwest Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
Hordofa Gutema Abdissa, Yohannes Kebede Lemu, Dejene Tilahun Nigussie
Out-of-pocket expenditure by Australian seniors with chronic disease: the effect of specific diseases and morbidity clusters
M Mofizul Islam, Laurann Yen, Jose M Valderas, Ian S McRae
The effectiveness of the Allen Carr smoking cessation training in companies tested in a quasi-experimental design
Arie Dijkstra, Rixt Zuidema, Diederick Vos, Marike van Kalken
Secular trends in the prevalence of low risk factor burden for cardiovascular disease according to obesity status among Chinese adults, 1993–2009
Tingting Du, Xingxing Sun, Ping Yin, Gang Yuan, Muxun Zhang, Xinrong Zhou, Xuefeng Yu
Association between arsenic, cadmium, manganese, and lead levels in private wells and birth defects prevalence in North Carolina: a semi-ecologic study
Alison P Sanders, Tania A Desrosiers, Joshua L Warren, Amy H Herring, Dianne Enright, Andrew F Olshan, Robert E Meyer, Rebecca C Fry
The return to work experiences of middle-aged Australian workers diagnosed with colorectal cancer: a matched cohort study
Louisa G Gordon, Vanessa L Beesley, Brigid M Lynch, Gabor Mihala, Catherine McGrath, Nicholas Graves, Penelope M Webb
Assessing the accuracy of two proxy measures for BMI in a semi-rural, low-resource setting in Guatemala
Jonathan N Maupin, Daniel J Hruschka
Implementation of Influenza-like illness Sentinel Surveillance in Togo
Issaka Maman, Kossi Badziklou, Essoya D Landoh, Afiwa W Halatoko, Talla N Nzussouo, Gabriel N Defang, Tsidi A Tamekloe, Pamela J Kennedy, Williams Thelma, Komlan Kossi, Zoulkarneiri Issa, Abiba B Kere
Nonsmokers’ responses to new warning labels on smokeless tobacco and electronic cigarettes: an experimental study
Lucy Popova, Pamela M Ling
Cardiorespiratory fitness, body mass index, and cancer mortality: a cohort study of Japanese men
Susumu S Sawada, I-Min Lee, Hisashi Naito, Ryo Kakigi, Sataro Goto, Masaaki Kanazawa, Takashi Okamoto, Koji Tsukamoto, Takashi Muto, Hiroaki Tanaka, Steven N Blair
Psychosocial and organizational risk factors for doctor-certified sick leave: a prospective study of female health and social workers in Norway
Cecilie Aagestad, Reidar Tyssen, Håkon A Johannessen, Hans Magne Gravseth, Tore Tynes, Tom Sterud
Understanding patterns of temporary method use among urban women from Uttar Pradesh, India
Janine Barden-O’Fallon, Ilene S Speizer, Lisa M Calhoun, Livia Montana, Priya Nanda
Factors affecting acceptability of an email-based intervention to increase fruit and vegetable consumption
Emily J Kothe, Barbara A Mullan
Association between mobile phone use and inattention in 7102 Chinese adolescents: a population-based cross-sectional study
Feizhou Zheng, Peng Gao, Mindi He, Min Li, Changxi Wang, Qichang Zeng, Zhou Zhou, Zhengping Yu, Lei Zhang
LCoMotion – Learning, Cognition and Motion; a multicomponent cluster randomized school-based intervention aimed at increasing learning and cognition - rationale, design and methods
Anna Bugge, Jakob Tarp, Lars Østergaard, Sidsel Louise Domazet, Lars Bo Andersen, Karsten Froberg
Effects of interpretive front-of-pack nutrition labels on food purchases: protocol for the Starlight randomised controlled trial
Ekaterina Volkova, Bruce Neal, Mike Rayner, Boyd Swinburn, Helen Eyles, Yannan Jiang, Jo Michie, Cliona Ni Mhurchu
Knowledge about tuberculosis among undergraduate health care students in 15 Italian universities: a cross-sectional study
Maria Teresa Montagna, Christian Napoli, Silvio Tafuri, Antonella Agodi, Francesco Auxilia, Beatrice Casini, Maria Franca Coscia, Marcello Mario D’Errico, Margherita Ferrante, Angelo Fortunato, Cinzia Germinario, Domenico Martinelli, Giuseppe Michele Masanotti, Maria Fatima Massenti, Gabriele Messina, Paolo Montuori, Ida Mura, Giovanni Battista Orsi, Alessia Quaranta, Giovanni Sotgiu, Armando Stefanati, Stefano Tardivo, Maria Valeria Torregrossa, Anna Maria Tortorano, Licia Veronesi, Raffaele Zarrilli, Cesira Pasquarella
A qualitative study of community perceptions about childhood diarrhea and its management in Assosa District, West Ethiopia
Estifanos Yalew
Knowledge of integrated management of childhood illnesses community and family practices (C-IMCI) and association with child undernutrition in Northern Uganda: a cross-sectional study
David Mukunya, Samuel Kizito, Tonny Orach, Regina Ndagire, Emily Tumwakire, Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Ezekiel Mupere, Sarah Kiguli
Integrating national community-based health worker programmes into health systems: a systematic review identifying lessons learned from low-and middle-income countries
Joseph Mumba Zulu, John Kinsman, Charles Michelo, Anna-Karin Hurtig
Factors underlying the polarization of early childhood caries within a high-risk population
Ana Margarida Melo Nunes, Antônio Augusto Moura da Silva, Claudia Maria Coelho Alves, Fernando Neves Hugo, Cecilia Claudia Costa Ribeiro
A short assessment of health literacy (SAHL) in the Netherlands
Henk Pander Maat, Marie-Louise Essink-Bot, Karlijn EF Leenaars, Mirjam P Fransen
Spatial–temporal pattern and risk factor analysis of bacillary dysentery in the Beijing–Tianjin–Tangshan urban region of China
Gexin Xiao, Chengdong Xu, Jinfeng Wang, Dongyang Yang, Li Wang
Factors associated with self-rated health among North Korean defectors residing in South Korea
Bo-Ram Wang, Shieun Yu, Jin-Won Noh, Young Dae Kwon
Assessment of factors influencing hygiene behaviour among school children in Mereb-Leke District, Northern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
Mulubirhan Assefa, Abera Kumie
Significant rise of the prevalence and clinical features of childhood asthma in Qingdao China: cluster sampling investigation of 10,082 children
Rongjun Lin, Renzheng Guan, Xiaomei Liu, Baochun Zhao, Jie Guan, Ling Lu
Impact of intervention on healthcare waste management practices in a tertiary care governmental hospital of Nepal
Binaya Sapkota, Gopal Kumar Gupta, Dhiraj Mainali
Strengthening monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and building sustainable health information systems in resource limited countries: lessons learned from an M&E task-shifting initiative in Botswana
Mulamuli Mpofu, Bazghina-werq Semo, Jessica Grignon, Refeletswe Lebelonyane, Steven Ludick, Ellah Matshediso, Baraedi Sento, Jenny H Ledikwe
The representativeness of a European multi-center network for influenza-like-illness participatory surveillance
Pietro Cantarelli, Marion Debin, Clément Turbelin, Chiara Poletto, Thierry Blanchon, Alessandra Falchi, Thomas Hanslik, Isabelle Bonmarin, Daniel Levy-Bruhl, Alessandra Micheletti, Daniela Paolotti, Alessandro Vespignani, John Edmunds, Ken Eames, Ronald Smallenburg, Carl Koppeschaar, Ana O Franco, Vitor Faustino, AnnaSara Carnahan, Moa Rehn, Vittoria Colizza
A systematic review of episodic volunteering in public health and other contexts
Melissa K Hyde, Jeff Dunn, Paul A Scuffham, Suzanne K Chambers
The Healthy Lifestyle and Personal Control Questionnaire (HLPCQ): a novel tool for assessing self-empowerment through a constellation of daily activities
Christina Darviri, Evangelos C Alexopoulos, Artemios K Artemiadis, Xanthi Tigani, Christina Kraniotou, Panagiota Darvyri, George P Chrousos
“It’s a balance of just getting things right”:mothers’ views about pre-school childhood obesity and obesity prevention in Scotland
Flora Douglas, Julia Clark, Leone Craig, Jonina Campbell, Geraldine McNeill
Violence against primary school children with disabilities in Uganda: a cross-sectional study
Karen M Devries, Nambusi Kyegombe, Maria Zuurmond, Jenny Parkes, Jennifer C Child, Eddy J Walakira, Dipak Naker
Use of varenicline for smoking cessation treatment in UK primary care: an association rule mining analysis
Yue Huang, Sarah Lewis, John Britton
An assessment of fishing communities around Lake Victoria, Uganda, as potential populations for future HIV vaccine efficacy studies: an observational cohort study
Noah Kiwanuka, Juliet Mpendo, Annet Nalutaaya, Matthias Wambuzi, Annet Nanvubya, Paul K Kitandwe, Enoch Muyanja, Julius Ssempiira, Apolo Balyegisawa, Ali Ssetaala
Vitamin D levels in an Australian population
Tiffany K Gill, Catherine L Hill, E Michael Shanahan, Anne W Taylor, Sarah L Appleton, Janet F Grant, Zumin Shi, Eleonora Dal Grande, Kay Price, Robert J Adams
Maternal and perinatal mortality by place of delivery in sub-Saharan Africa: a meta-analysis of population-based cohort studies
Jobiba Chinkhumba, Manuela De Allegri, Adamson S Muula, Bjarne Robberstad
A large-scale immuno-epidemiological simulation of influenza A epidemics
Sarah Lukens, Jay DePasse, Roni Rosenfeld, Elodie Ghedin, Ericka Mochan, Shawn T Brown, John Grefenstette, Donald S Burke, David Swigon, Gilles Clermont
Prospective evaluation of a complex public health intervention: lessons from an initial and follow-up cross-sectional survey of the tuberculosis strain typing service in England
Jessica Mears, Ibrahim Abubakar, Debbie Crisp, Helen Maguire, John A Innes, Mike Lilley, Joanne Lord, Ted Cohen, Martien W Borgdorff, Emilia Vynnycky, Timothy D McHugh, Pam Sonnenberg
Pharmacy refill adherence outperforms self-reported methods in predicting HIV therapy outcome in resource-limited settings
Raphael Z Sangeda, Fausta Mosha, Mattia Prosperi, Said Aboud, Jurgen Vercauteren, Ricardo J Camacho, Eligius F Lyamuya, Eric Van Wijngaerden, Anne-Mieke Vandamme
The SNAPSHOT study protocol: SNAcking, Physical activity, Self-regulation, and Heart rate Over Time
David McMinn, Julia L Allan
Projection scenarios of body mass index (2013–2030) for Public Health Planning in Quebec
Ernest Lo, Denis Hamel, Yun Jen, Patricia Lamontagne, Sylvie Martel, Colin Steensma, Chantal Blouin, Russell Steele
“Impact of stature on non-communicable diseases: evidence based on Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, 2011 data”
Md Erfanul Hoque, Mahfuzur Rahman Khokan, Wasimul Bari
The cost-effectiveness of a theory-based online health behaviour intervention for new university students: an economic evaluation
Jen Kruger, Alan Brennan, Mark Strong, Chloe Thomas, Paul Norman, Tracy Epton
Successful aging defined by health-related quality of life and its determinants in community-dwelling elders
Chia-Ing Li, Chih-Hsueh Lin, Wen-Yuan Lin, Chiu-Shong Liu, Chin-Kai Chang, Nai-Hsin Meng, Yi-Dar Lee, Tsai-Chung Li, Cheng-Chieh Lin
Employment and work safety among 12 to 14 year olds: listening to parents
Amelia M Usher, Curtis Breslin, Ellen MacEachen, Mieke Koehoorn, Marie Laberge, Luc Laberge, Élise Ledoux, Imelda Wong
Individual social capital and survival: a population study with 5-year follow-up
Linda Ejlskov, Rikke N Mortensen, Charlotte Overgaard, Line R B U Christensen, Henrik Vardinghus-Nielsen, Stella R J Kræmer, Mads Wissenberg, Steen M Hansen, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Claus D Hansen
Perceptions of consent, permission structures and approaches to the community: a rapid ethical assessment performed in North West Cameroon
Jonas A Kengne-Ouafo, Theobald M Nji, William F Tantoh, Doris N Nyoh, Nicholas Tendongfor, Peter A Enyong, Melanie J Newport, Gail Davey, Samuel Wanji
Community-level correlates of physical violence against unmarried female adolescents in Bangladesh
Kristin VanderEnde, Sajeda Amin, Ruchira Tabassum Naved
Portrayal of electronic cigarettes on YouTube
Chuan Luo, Xiaolong Zheng, Daniel Dajun Zeng, Scott Leischow
Health literacy among refugees in Sweden – a cross-sectional study
Josefin Wångdahl, Per Lytsy, Lena Mårtensson, Ragnar Westerling
BCG coverage and barriers to BCG vaccination in Guinea-Bissau: an observational study
Sanne Marie Thysen, Stine Byberg, Marie Pedersen, Amabelia Rodrigues, Henrik Ravn, Cesario Martins, Christine Stabell Benn, Peter Aaby, Ane Bærent Fisker
Linking secondary school physical education with community sport and recreation for girls: a process evaluation
Meghan M Casey, Amanda Telford, Amanda Mooney, Jack T Harvey, Rochelle M Eime, Warren R Payne
Women’s perceptions of information about alcohol use during pregnancy: a qualitative study
Amy E Anderson, Alexis J Hure, Frances J Kay-Lambkin, Deborah J Loxton
Trends and prevalence of overweight and obesity in primary school aged children in the Republic of Ireland from 2002-2012: a systematic review
Eimear Keane, Patricia M Kearney, Ivan J Perry, Cecily C Kelleher, Janas M Harrington
Prevalence of dyslipidemia and its association with insomnia in a community based population in China
Yiqiang Zhan, Fen Zhang, Leihong Lu, Jinsong Wang, Yihong Sun, Rongjing Ding, Dayi Hu, Jinming Yu
Effect of including fitness testing in preventive health checks on cardiorespiratory fitness and motivation: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial
Kirsten Høj, Mette Vinther Skriver, Anne-Louise Smidt Hansen, Bo Christensen, Helle Terkildsen Maindal, Annelli Sandbæk
The prevalence of diabetes-related complications and multimorbidity in the population with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Basque Country
Edurne Alonso-Morán, Juan F Orueta, Jose Ignacio Fraile Esteban, José M Arteagoitia Axpe, M Luz Marqués González, Nuria Toro Polanco, Patxi Ezkurra Loiola, Sonia Gaztambide, Roberto Nuño-Solinis
Evidence of effective delivery of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine through a publicly funded, school-based program: the Ontario Grade 8 HPV Vaccine Cohort Study
W Ting Lim, Kim Sears, Leah M Smith, Guoyuan Liu, Linda E Lévesque
An update on overweight and obesity in rural Northeast China: from lifestyle risk factors to cardiometabolic comorbidities
Xiaofan Guo, Zhao Li, Liang Guo, Liqiang Zheng, Shasha Yu, Hongmei Yang, Lu Zou, Ying Zhou, Yaowen Zhang, Luoning Zhu, Yonghong Zhang, Yingxian Sun
Disparities in obesity among rural and urban residents in a health disparate region
Jennie L Hill, Wen You, Jamie M Zoellner
Dietary advice for muscularity, leanness and weight control in Men’s Health magazine: a content analysis
Toni M Cook, Jean M Russell, Margo E Barker
Universal parental support-How to reach out: a cross-sectional random sample of Swedish parents
Karin Thorslund, Jan Johansson Hanse, Ulf Axberg
Control, struggle, and emergent masculinities: a qualitative study of men’s care-seeking determinants for chronic cough and tuberculosis symptoms in Blantyre, Malawi
Jeremiah Chikovore, Graham Hart, Moses Kumwenda, Geoffrey A Chipungu, Nicola Desmond, Liz Corbett
Increased cancer incidence risk in type 2 diabetes mellitus: results from a cohort study in Tyrol/Austria
Willi Oberaigner, Christoph Ebenbichler, Karin Oberaigner, Martin Juchum, Hans Robert Schönherr, Monika Lechleitner
Intersectionality of HIV stigma and masculinity in eastern Uganda: implications for involving men in HIV programmes
Gitau Mburu, Mala Ram, Godfrey Siu, David Bitira, Morten Skovdal, Paula Holland
“Together at school” - a school-based intervention program to promote socio-emotional skills and mental health in children: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
Katja Björklund, Antti Liski, Hanna Samposalo, Jallu Lindblom, Juho Hella, Heini Huhtinen, Tiina Ojala, Paula Alasuvanto, Hanna-Leena Koskinen, Olli Kiviruusu, Elina Hemminki, Raija-Leena Punamäki, Reijo Sund, Tytti Solantaus, Päivi Santalahti
Knowledge of Nairobi East District Community Health Workers concerning HIV-related orofacial lesions and other common oral lesions
Lucina N Koyio, Wil JM van der Sanden, Elizabeth O Dimba, Jan Mulder, Andre JAM van der Ven, Matthias AW Merkx, Jo E Frencken
Factors perceived to influence risky sexual behaviours among university students in the United Kingdom: a qualitative telephone interview study
Elton Chanakira, Alicia O’Cathain, Elizabeth C Goyder, Jennifer V Freeman
Women’s intentions to self-collect samples for human papillomavirus testing in an organized cervical cancer screening program
Laurie W Smith, Fareeza Khurshed, Dirk J van Niekerk, Mel Krajden, Sandra B Greene, Suzanne Hobbs, Andrew J Coldman, Eduardo L Franco, Gina S Ogilvie
Musculoskeletal health and work ability in physically demanding occupations: study protocol for a prospective field study on construction and health care workers
Lars-Kristian Lunde, Markus Koch, Stein Knardahl, Morten Wærsted, Svend Erik Mathiassen, Mikael Forsman, Andreas Holtermann, Kaj Bo Veiersted
Systematic review of parenting interventions in European countries aiming to reduce social inequalities in children’s health and development
Joana Morrison, Hynek Pikhart, Milagros Ruiz, Peter Goldblatt
Magnitude of, trends in, and associated factors of road traffic collision in central Ethiopia
Fekede Asefa, Demeke Assefa, Gezahegn Tesfaye
Description and prediction of the development of metabolic syndrome in Dongying City: a longitudinal analysis using the Markov model
Xiaoxiao Chen, Qicai Chen, Lili Chen, Pengpeng Zhang, Juan Xiao, Shumei Wang
Embedding sustainable physical activities into the everyday lives of adults with intellectual disabilities: a randomised controlled trial
Kerrie Lante, Roger J Stancliffe, Adrian Bauman, Hidde P van der Ploeg, Stephen Jan, Glen M Davis
The mediation of social influences on smoking cessation and awareness of the early signs of lung cancer
John Chatwin, Andrew Povey, Anne Kennedy, Tim Frank, Adam Firth, Richard Booton, Phil Barber, Caroline Sanders
Contemporary contestations over working time: time for health to weigh in
Jane Dixon, Gemma Carey, Lyndall Strazdins, Cathy Banwell, Dan Woodman, John Burgess, Michael Bittman, Danielle Venn, Ginny Sargent
The needs and preferences of pregnant smokers regarding tailored Internet-based smoking cessation interventions: a qualitative interview study
Aleksandra Herbec, Emma Beard, Jamie Brown, Benjamin Gardner, Ildiko Tombor, Robert West
Perceptions on healthy eating, physical activity and lifestyle advice: opportunities for adapting lifestyle interventions to individuals with low socioeconomic status
Andrea J Bukman, Dorit Teuscher, Edith J M Feskens, Marleen A van Baak, Agnes Meershoek, Reint Jan Renes
Transitions in the Swedish school system and the impact on student’s positive self-reported-health
Malin Rising Holmström, Niclas Olofsson, Kenneth Asplund, Lisbeth Kristiansen
Individual- and Regional-level determinants of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine refusal: the Ontario Grade 8 HPV vaccine cohort study
Olivia Remes, Leah M Smith, Beatriz E Alvarado-Llano, Lindsey Colley, Linda E Lévesque
Differential misclassification of confounders in comparative evaluation of hospital care quality: caesarean sections in Italy
Mirko Di Martino, Danilo Fusco, Paola Colais, Luigi Pinnarelli, Marina Davoli, Carlo Alberto Perucci
Resting heart rate as a marker for identifying the risk of undiagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional survey
Yu-qian Li, Chang-qing Sun, Lin-lin Li, Ling Wang, Yi-rui Guo, Ai-guo You, Yuan-lin Xi, Chong-jian Wang
A Web-based computer-tailored game to reduce binge drinking among 16 to 18 year old Dutch adolescents: development and study protocol
Astrid Jander, Rik Crutzen, Liesbeth Mercken, Hein de Vries
Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors among truck drivers in the South of Brazil
Carine Teles Sangaleti, Maria Regiane Trincaus, Tatiane Baratieri, Kaline Zarowy, Maria Bernardete Ladika, Mario Umberto Menon, Ricardo Yoshimitsu Miyahara, Maria Isabel Raimondo, João Vicente Silveira, Luis Aparecido Bortolotto, Heno Ferreira Lopes, Fernanda M Consolim-Colombo
Men in Macau SAR have higher prevalence in metabolic syndrome and among related metabolic components: a cross-sectional Macau Health Survey
Tanja Sobko, Dulce Trindade, Qian Xiang Lao, Martin Wong, Tong Ka Io, Chan Kin Wa, Ken Gu
Posttraumatic stress disorder and its risk factors among adolescent survivors three years after an 8.0 magnitude earthquake in China
Yali Tian, Thomas KS Wong, Jiping Li, Xiaolian Jiang
Effectiveness of a universal health-promoting parenting program: a randomized waitlist-controlled trial of All Children in Focus
Malin Ulfsdotter, Pia Enebrink, Lene Lindberg
Spatio-temporal correlation networks of dengue in the state of Bahia
Hugo Saba, Vera C Vale, Marcelo A Moret, José Garcia V Miranda
Mobile health, exercise and metabolic risk: a randomized controlled trial
Robert J Petrella, Melanie I Stuckey, Sheree Shapiro, Dawn P Gill
Number and appraisal of daily hassles and life events in young adulthood: the association with physical activity and screen time: a longitudinal cohort study
Léonie Uijtdewilligen, Amika S Singh, Mai J Chinapaw, Lando LJ Koppes, Willem van Mechelen, Jos WR Twisk
Factors related to children’s caries: a structural equation modeling approach
Rong Min Qiu, Edward CM Lo, Qing Hui Zhi, Yan Zhou, Ye Tao, Huan Cai Lin
Prevalence of female genital mutilation and its effect on women’s health in Bale zone, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
Daniel Bogale, Desalegn Markos, Muhammedawel Kaso
Glycemic load, glycemic index, bread and incidence of overweight/obesity in a Mediterranean cohort: the SUN project
Carmen de la Fuente-Arrillaga, Miguel Angel Martinez-Gonzalez, Itziar Zazpe, Zenaida Vazquez-Ruiz, Silvia Benito-Corchon, Maira Bes-Rastrollo
Effectiveness of a nutrition education package in improving feeding practices, dietary adequacy and growth of infants and young children in rural Tanzania: rationale, design and methods of a cluster randomised trial
Kissa BM Kulwa, Roosmarijn Verstraeten, Kimberley P Bouckaert, Peter S Mamiro, Patrick W Kolsteren, Carl Lachat
Prevalence of overweight and obesity and their associations with blood pressure among children and adolescents in Shandong, China
Jing Dong, Xiao-Lei Guo, Zi-Long Lu, Xiao-Ning Cai, Hui-Cheng Wang, Ji-Yu Zhang, Liu-Xia Yan, Ai-Qiang Xu
High school students’ knowledge and experience with a peer who committed or attempted suicide: a focus group study
Hilda N Shilubane, Robert AC Ruiter, Arjan ER Bos, Priscilla S Reddy, Bart van den Borne
Influence of lifestyle factors on long-term sickness absence among female healthcare workers: a prospective cohort study
Helle Gram Quist, Birthe L Thomsen, Ulla Christensen, Thomas Clausen, Andreas Holtermann, Jakob B Bjorner, Lars L Andersen
Development and validation of the short-form adolescent health promotion scale
Mei-Yen Chen, Li-Ju Lai, Hsiu-Chih Chen, Jorge Gaete
Assessment of psychometric properties of the Korean SF-12 v2 in the general population
Seon-Ha Kim, Min-Woo Jo, Jeonghoon Ahn, Minsu Ock, Sangjin Shin, Jooyeon Park
Differences in health-related quality of life between three clusters of physical activity, sitting time, depression, anxiety, and stress
Amanda L Rebar, Mitch J Duncan, Camille Short, Corneel Vandelanotte
Knowledge of cervical cancer and attendance at cervical cancer screening: a survey of Black women in London
Christine Ekechi, Adeola Olaitan, Rosie Ellis, Jacob Koris, Adaugo Amajuoyi, Laura AV Marlow
Role of household factors in parental attitudes to pandemic influenza-related school closure in Japan: a cross-sectional study
Mitsuo Uchida, Minoru Kaneko, Shigeyuki Kawa
The association between adolescents’ health and disparities in school career: a longitudinal cohort study
Ellen Uiters, Erica Maurits, Mariël Droomers, Marieke Zwaanswijk, Robert A Verheij, Fons van der Lucht
Assessing environmental features related to mental health: a reliability study of visual streetscape images
Yu-Tzu Wu, Paul Nash, Linda E Barnes, Thais Minett, Fiona E Matthews, Andy Jones, Carol Brayne
Is planned adaptation to heat reducing heat-related mortality and illness? A systematic review
Melanie Boeckmann, Ines Rohn
Creating change in government to address the social determinants of health: how can efforts be improved?
Gemma Carey, Brad Crammond, Robyn Keast
HIV prevalence in the Israeli tuberculosis cohort, 1999–2011
Mor Zohar, Lidji Moshe, Chemtob Daniel, Cedar Noa, Grotto Itamar
An outbreak of acute norovirus gastroenteritis in a boarding school in Shanghai: a retrospective cohort study
Caoyi Xue, Yifei Fu, Weiping Zhu, Yi Fei, Linying Zhu, Hong Zhang, Lifeng Pan, Hongmei Xu, Yong Wang, Wenqin Wang, Qiao Sun
Immigrant enclaves and risk of diabetes: a prospective study
Briana Mezuk, Klas Cederin, Xinjun Li, Kristen Rice, Kenneth S Kendler, Jan Sundquist, Kristina Sundquist
Long-term health outcomes and cost-effectiveness of a computer-tailored physical activity intervention among people aged over fifty: modelling the results of a randomized controlled trial
Denise A Peels, Rudolf R Hoogenveen, Talitha L Feenstra, Rianne HJ Golsteijn, Catherine Bolman, Aart N Mudde, Gerrie CW Wendel-Vos, Hein de Vries, Lilian Lechner
Perceived social and media influences on tobacco use among Samoan youth
Judith McCool, Becky Freeman, Helen Tanielu
The association between the upper digestive tract microbiota by HOMIM and oral health in a population-based study in Linxian, China
Guoqin Yu, Bruce A Dye, Mitchell H Gail, Jianxin Shi, Vanja Klepac-Ceraj, Bruce J Paster, Guo-Qing Wang, Wen-Qiang Wei, Jin-Hu Fan, You-Lin Qiao, Sanford M Dawsey, Neal D Freedman, Christian C Abnet
Estimating contact rates at a mass gathering by using video analysis: a proof-of-concept project
Jeanette J Rainey, Anil Cheriyadat, Richard J Radke, Julie Suzuki Crumly, Daniel B Koch
Bird harvesting practices and knowledge, risk perceptions, and attitudes regarding avian influenza among Canadian First Nations subsistence hunters: implications for influenza pandemic plans
Nadia A Charania, Ian D Martin, Eric N Liberda, Richard Meldrum, Leonard JS Tsuji
Immunization knowledge and practice among Malaysian parents: a questionnaire development and pilot-testing
Ammar Ihsan Awadh, Mohamed Azmi Hassali, Omer Qutaiba Al-lela, Siti Halimah Bux, Ramadan M Elkalmi, Hazrina Hadi
Preventing malaria in international travellers: an evaluation of published English-language guidelines
Merav Kliner, Kristina Poole, David Sinclair, Paul Garner
Effect modification by gender and smoking status on the association between obesity and atopic sensitization in Chinese adults: a hospital-based case–control study
Xiao Luo, Yupeng Wang, Zhiqiang Wang, Xiao-hua Zhou, Jing Zhao, Jianing Suo, Xiaohui Dong, Meina Liu
Mental health in immigrant men and women in Australia: the North West Adelaide health study
Melanie Straiton, Janet F Grant, Helen R Winefield, Anne Taylor
Prevalence of “HIV/AIDS related” parental death and its association with sexual behavior of secondary school youth in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
Takele Menna, Ahmed Ali, Alemayehu Worku
Access to health care and employment status of people with disabilities in South India, the SIDE (South India Disability Evidence) study
Murthy Venkata S Gudlavalleti, Neena John, Komal Allagh, Jayanthi Sagar, Sureshkumar Kamalakannan, Srikrishna S Ramachandra
The burden of underweight and overweight among women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Yibeltal Tebekaw, Charles Teller, Uriyoán Colón-Ramos
Efficacy of an internet and SMS-based integrated smoking cessation and alcohol intervention for smoking cessation in young people: study protocol of a two-arm cluster randomised controlled trial
Severin Haug, Raquel Paz Castro, Andreas Filler, Tobias Kowatsch, Elgar Fleisch, Michael P Schaub
Time series analysis of demographic and temporal trends of tuberculosis in Singapore
Win Wah, Sourav Das, Arul Earnest, Leo Kang Yang Lim, Cynthia Bin Eng Chee, Alex Richard Cook, Yee Tang Wang, Khin Mar Kyi Win, Marcus Eng Hock Ong, Li Yang Hsu
Newsprint coverage of smoking in cars carrying children: a case study of public and scientific opinion driving the policy debate
Shona Hilton, Karen Wood, Josh Bain, Chris Patterson, Sheila Duffy, Sean Semple
Cancer symptom awareness and barriers to medical help seeking in Scottish adolescents: a cross-sectional study
Gill Hubbard, Iona Macmillan, Anne Canny, Liz Forbat, Richard D Neal, Ronan E O’Carroll, Sally Haw, Richard G Kyle
Medical follow-up for workers exposed to bladder carcinogens: the French evidence-based and pragmatic statement
Bénédicte Clin, Jean-Claude Pairon
Evaluating the impact of environmental interventions across 2 countries: the International Bikeshare Impacts on Cycling and Collisions Study (IBICCS) Study protocol
Daniel Fuller, Lise Gauvin, Anne-Sophie Dubé, Meghan Winters, Kay Teschke, Elizabeth T Russo, Andi Camden, Carol Mee, Steven Marc Friedman
Medical planning for mass-participation running events: a 3-year review of a half-marathon in Singapore
Clive M Tan, Ian Wern Tan, Wai Leong Kok, Melvin C Lee, Vernon J Lee
Impact of gender on the decision to participate in a clinical trial: a cross-sectional study
Lucas Lobato, Jeffrey Michael Bethony, Fernanda Bicalho Pereira, Shannon Lee Grahek, David Diemert, Maria Flávia Gazzinelli
Menstrual hygiene management and school absenteeism among female adolescent students in Northeast Ethiopia
Teketo Kassaw Tegegne, Mitike Molla Sisay
The cost of anal cancer in England: retrospective hospital data analysis and Markov model
Sam T Keeping, Michael J Tempest, Stephanie J Stephens, Stuart M Carroll, Karen P Nugent, Sarah T O'Dwyer
The impact of parenthood on Canadians’ objectively measured physical activity: an examination of cross-sectional population-based data
Anca Gaston, Sarah A Edwards, Amy Doelman, Jo Ann Tober
Stakeholders’ perceptions of transferability criteria for health promotion interventions: a case study
Justine Trompette, Joëlle Kivits, Laetitia Minary, Linda Cambon, François Alla
A qualitative study of smoking behavior among the floating population in Shanghai, China
Ji-Wei Wang, Zhi-Ting Cui, Ning Ding, Cheng-Gang Zhang, Tricia Usagawa, Helen Louise Berry, Jin-Ming Yu, Shen-Sheng Li
Vulnerability of Bangladeshi street-children to HIV/AIDS: a qualitative study
Md Jasim Uddin, Haribondhu Sarma, Tasnuva Wahed, Md Wazed Ali, Tracey Perez Koehlmoos, Quamrun Nahar, Tasnim Azim
Prevalence of diabetes and impaired fasting glucose among residents in the Three Gorges Reservoir Region, China
Li Qi, Liangui Feng, Xianbin Ding, Deqiang Mao, Yulin Wang, Hongyan Xiong
“It is all about the fear of being discriminated [against]…the person suffering from HIV will not be accepted”: a qualitative study exploring the reasons for loss to follow-up among HIV-positive youth in Kisumu, Kenya
Hilary T Wolf, Bonnie L Halpern-Felsher, Elizabeth A Bukusi, Kawango E Agot, Craig R Cohen, Colette L Auerswald
The home environment and childhood obesity in low-income households: indirect effects via sleep duration and screen time
Bradley M Appelhans, Stephanie L Fitzpatrick, Hong Li, Vernon Cail, Molly E Waring, Kristin L Schneider, Matthew C Whited, Andrew M Busch, Sherry L Pagoto
Immigrant women living with HIV in Spain: a qualitative approach to encourage medical follow-up
Anne Guionnet, Bárbara Navaza, Belén Pizarro de la Fuente, María Jesús Pérez-Elías, Fernando Dronda, Rogelio López-Vélez, José A Pérez-Molina
Associations of physical activity with sleep satisfaction, perceived stress, and problematic Internet use in Korean adolescents
Subin Park
Characteristics of sexually experienced HIV testers aged 18 to 32 in rural South Africa: baseline results from a community-based trial, NIMH Project Accept (HPTN 043)
Lucia Knight, Nuala McGrath, Heidi van Rooyen, Hilton Humphries, Alastair van Heerden, Linda Richter
Public knowledge of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors in Kuwait: a cross-sectional survey
Abdelmoneim Awad, Hala Al-Nafisi
Impact of implementing performance-based financing on childhood malnutrition in Rwanda
Agnes Binagwaho, Jeanine Condo, Claire Wagner, Fidele Ngabo, Corine Karema, Steve Kanters, Jamie I Forrest, Jean de Dieu Bizimana
Prevalence of chronic medical conditions in Switzerland: exploring estimates validity by comparing complementary data sources
Ueli Zellweger, Matthias Bopp, Barbara M Holzer, Sima Djalali, Vladimir Kaplan
Social networks and mental health in post-conflict Mitrovica, Kosova
Risa Nakayama, Ai Koyanagi, Andrew Stickley, Tetsuo Kondo, Stuart Gilmour, Aliriza Arenliu, Kenji Shibuya
Association of biomass fuel use with acute respiratory infections among under- five children in a slum urban of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Habtamu Sanbata, Araya Asfaw, Abera Kumie
A systematic review of barriers to data sharing in public health
Willem G van Panhuis, Proma Paul, Claudia Emerson, John Grefenstette, Richard Wilder, Abraham J Herbst, David Heymann, Donald S Burke
Measuring impact: a cross-sectional multi-stage cluster survey to assess the attainment of durable solutions in post-tsunami Aceh, Indonesia
Christopher Lee, Shannon Doocy, Anwar Deli, Thomas Kirsch, William Weiss, Courtland Robinson
Factors associated with support for smoke-free policies among government workers in Six Chinese cities: a cross-sectional study
Michelle C Kegler, Xinwei Hua, Madeleine Solomon, Yiqun Wu, Pin Pin Zheng, Michael Eriksen
Physicians’ perceived barriers to management of sexually transmitted infections in Vietnam
Khoi Do, Victor Minichiello, Rafat Hussain, Asaduzzaman Khan
A social-ecological analysis of community perceptions of dengue fever and Aedes aegypti in Machala, Ecuador
Anna M Stewart Ibarra, Valerie A Luzadis, Mercy J Borbor Cordova, Mercy Silva, Tania Ordoñez, Efraín Beltrán Ayala, Sadie J Ryan
The feasibility and acceptability of the provision of alcohol screening and brief advice in pharmacies for women accessing emergency contraception: an evaluation study
Sally Brown, Emily Henderson, Claire Sullivan
Provision of chlamydia testing, and training of primary health care staff about chlamydia testing, across four European countries
Anneli Uusküla, Ellie J Ricketts, Claire Rugman, Ruth R Kalda, Hans Fredlund, Johan Hedlund, Brigitte Dunais, Pia P Touboul, Cliodna McNulty
Child maltreatment and hypertension in young adulthood
Shakira F Suglia, Cari J Clark, Renée Boynton-Jarrett, Nancy R Kressin, Karestan C Koenen
Descriptive characterization of the 2010 cholera outbreak in Nigeria
Mahmood Muazu Dalhat, Aisha Nasiru Isa, Patrick Nguku, Sani-Gwarzo Nasir, Katharina Urban, Mohammed Abdulaziz, Raymond Salanga Dankoli, Peter Nsubuga, Gabriele Poggensee
Susceptibility to particle health effects, miRNA and exosomes: rationale and study protocol of the SPHERE study
Valentina Bollati, Simona Iodice, Chiara Favero, Laura Angelici, Benedetta Albetti, Raquel Cacace, Laura Cantone, Michele Carugno, Tommaso Cavalleri, Barbara De Giorgio, Laura Dioni, Silvia Fustinoni, Mirjam Hoxha, Barbara Marinelli, Valeria Motta, Lorenzo Patrini, Laura Pergoli, Luciano Riboldi, Giovanna Rizzo, Federica Rota, Sabrina Sucato, Letizia Tarantini, Amedea Silvia Tirelli, Luisella Vigna, Pieralberto Bertazzi, Angela Cecilia Pesatori
Health effects of single motherhood on children in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional study
Lorretta FC Ntoimo, Clifford O Odimegwu
Is the process for selecting indigents to receive free care in Burkina Faso equitable?
Nicole Atchessi, Valéry Ridde, Maria-Victoria Zunzunégui
Prospective cohort study of the effectiveness of varenicline versus nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation in the “real world”
Daniel Kotz, Jamie Brown, Robert West
Association between physical activity, multimorbidity, self-rated health and functional limitation in the Spanish population
Cristina Cimarras-Otal, Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Beatriz Poblador-Plou, Francisca González-Rubio, Luis A Gimeno-Feliu, José L Arjol-Serrano, Alexandra Prados-Torres
Identifying predictors of blood pressure control in the Lebanese population - a national, multicentric survey – I-PREDICT
Samir G Mallat, Serena Abu Samra, Fariha Younes, Marie-Thérèse Sawaya
Prevalence of hypertension and associated cardiovascular risk factors in an urban slum in Nairobi, Kenya: A population-based survey
Mark David Joshi, Richard Ayah, Elijah Kaharo Njau, Rosemary Wanjiru, Joshua Kyateesa Kayima, Erastus Kennedy Njeru, Kenneth Kipyegon Mutai
Differences in spousal influence on smoking cessation by gender and education among Japanese couples
Daisuke Takagi, Naoki Kondo, Misato Takada, Hideki Hashimoto
Inclusion of hazardous drinking does not improve the SCORE performance in men from Central and Eastern Europe: the findings from the HAPIEE cohorts
Olga Vikhireva, Ruzena Kubinova, Sofia Malyutina, Andrzej Pająk, Galina Simonova, Martin Bobak, Hynek Pikhart
Seasonal variation of child under nutrition in Malawi: is seasonal food availability an important factor? Findings from a national level cross-sectional study
Lana Clara Chikhungu, Nyovani Janet Madise
Inverse probability weighting and doubly robust methods in correcting the effects of non-response in the reimbursed medication and self-reported turnout estimates in the ATH survey
Tommi Härkänen, Risto Kaikkonen, Esa Virtala, Seppo Koskinen
The impact of drug use patterns on mortality among polysubstance users in a Canadian setting: a prospective cohort study
Anna Hayden, Kanna Hayashi, Huiru Dong, Michael-John Milloy, Thomas Kerr, Julio SG Montaner, Evan Wood
Success rates with nicotine personal vaporizers: a prospective 6-month pilot study of smokers not intending to quit
Riccardo Polosa, Pasquale Caponnetto, Marilena Maglia, Jaymin B Morjaria, Cristina Russo
Utility of obesity indicators for metabolically healthy obesity: an observational study using the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2009-2010)
Min-Kyu Choi, Young-Ah Han, Yong Kyun Roh
Health-related on-pack communication and nutritional value of ready-to-eat breakfast cereals evaluated against five nutrient profiling schemes
Gesa Maschkowski, Monika Hartmann, Julia Hoffmann
Risk behaviors and sports facilities do not explain socioeconomic differences in childhood obesity: a cross-sectional study
Romana Albaladejo, Rosa Villanueva, Lourdes Navalpotro, Paloma Ortega, Paloma Astasio, Enrique Regidor
The impact of the major causes of death on life expectancy in China: a 60-year longitudinal study
Pengcheng Liu, Chengyue Li, Ying Wang, Wei Zeng, Hua Wang, Honghui Wu, Jun Lu, Mei Sun, Xiaohong Li, Fengshui Chang, Mo Hao
Quantifying burden of disease to support public health policy in Belgium: opportunities and constraints
Brecht Devleesschauwer, Charline Maertens de Noordhout, G Suzanne A Smit, Luc Duchateau, Pierre Dorny, Claudia Stein, Herman Van Oyen, Niko Speybroeck
Improving awareness of preconception health among adolescents: experience of a school-based intervention in Lebanon
Lama Charafeddine, Rym El Rafei, Sophie Azizi, Durriyah Sinno, Kawthar Alamiddine, Christopher P Howson, Salimah R Walani, Walid Ammar, Anwar Nassar, Khalid Yunis
Knowledge and awareness about STDs among women in Bangladesh
Mosharaf Hossain, Kulanthayan KC Mani, Sherina Mohd Sidik, Hayati Kadir Shahar, Rafiqul Islam
Risk Factors of Stroke in Western and Asian Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies
Xuetao Chen, Liang Zhou, Yanqi Zhang, Dali Yi, Ling Liu, Wen Rao, Yazhou Wu, Dihui Ma, Xiaoyu Liu, Xiao-Hua Andrew Zhou, Hui Lin, Dixiang Cheng, Dong Yi
Estimating the burden of acute gastrointestinal illness in the community in Gansu Province, northwest China, 2012–2013
Xiang-Lai Sang, Xiao-Cheng Liang, Yan Chen, Jian-Dong Li, Jing-Guang Li, Li Bai, Jian-Yun Sun
Efficacy of a physical exercise training programme COPD in primary care: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial
Annemieke Fastenau, Jean WM Muris, Rob A de Bie, Erik JM Hendriks, Guus M Asijee, Emmylou Beekman, Rik Gosselink, Onno CP van Schayck
Health related quality of life of immigrant children: towards a new pattern in Germany?
Ester Villalonga-Olives, Nicole von Steinbüchel, Claudia Witte, Erich Kasten, Ichiro Kawachi, Christiane Kiese-Himmel
Experiences of dementia in a foreign country: qualitative content analysis of interviews with people with dementia
Monir Mazaheri, Lars E Eriksson, Alireza Nikbakht Nasrabadi, Helena Sunvisson, Kristiina Heikkilä
Integration of HIV and cervical cancer screening perceptions of healthcare providers and policy makers in Uganda
Edward Kumakech, Sören Andersson, Henry Wabinga, Vanja Berggren
A national Programme Budgeting and Marginal Analysis (PBMA) of health improvement spending across Wales: disinvestment and reinvestment across the life course
Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Joanna M Charles, Sara Thomas, Julie Bishop, David Cohen, Sam Groves, Ciaran Humphreys, Helen Howson, Peter Bradley
South Africans with recent pregnancy rarely know partner’s HIV serostatus: implications for serodiscordant couples interventions
Lynn T Matthews, Lizzie Moore, Tamaryn L Crankshaw, Cecilia Milford, Fortunate N Mosery, Ross Greener, Christina Psaros, Steven A Safren, David R Bangsberg, Jennifer A Smit
A multicentre sero-behavioural survey for hepatitis B and C, HIV and HTLV among people who inject drugs in Germany using respondent driven sampling
Ruth Zimmermann, Ulrich Marcus, Dirk Schäffer, Astrid Leicht, Benjamin Wenz, Stine Nielsen, Claudia Santos-Hövener, R Stefan Ross, Oumaima Stambouli, Boris-Alexander Ratsch, Norbert Bannert, Claus-Thomas Bock, Claudia Kücherer, Osamah Hamouda
Characterizing Influenza surveillance systems performance: application of a Bayesian hierarchical statistical model to Hong Kong surveillance data
Ying Zhang, Ali Arab, Benjamin J Cowling, Michael A Stoto
Self-reported health and subsequent mortality: an analysis of 767 deaths from a large Thai cohort study
Jiaying Zhao, Vasoontara Yiengprugsawan, Sam-ang Seubsman, Matthew Kelly, Chris Bain, Adrian Sleigh
The impact of the natural environment on the promotion of active living: An integrative systematic review
Giovanna Calogiuri, Stiliani Chroni
Field-testing of the rapid assessment of disability questionnaire
Manjula Marella, Lucy Busija, Fakir M Amirul Islam, Alexandra Devine, Kathy Fotis, Sally M Baker, Beth Sprunt, Tanya J Edmonds, Nafisa Lira Huq, Anaseini Cama, Jill E Keeffe
Gender differences in a resources-demands model in the general population
Rüya-Daniela Kocalevent, Burghard F Klapp, Cornelia Albani, Elmar Brähler
Analysis on associated factors of uncontrolled hypertension among elderly hypertensive patients in Southern China: a community-based, cross-sectional survey
Li Yang, Xiaoling Xu, Jing Yan, Wei Yu, Xinhua Tang, Haibin Wu, Christy L Parkin
From targets to ripples: tracing the process of developing a community capacity building appraisal tool with remote Australian indigenous communities to tackle food security
Julie Brimblecombe, Christel van den Boogaard, Jan Ritchie, Ross Bailie, John Coveney, Selma Liberato
Co-interviewing across gender and culture: expanding qualitative research methods in Melanesia
Michelle L Redman-MacLaren, Unia K Api, Matupit Darius, Rachael Tommbe, Tracie A Mafile’o, David J MacLaren
The changing demographic profile of eating disorder behaviors in the community
Deborah Mitchison, Phillipa Hay, Shameran Slewa-Younan, Jonathan Mond
Physical and social environmental characteristics of physical activity for Mexican-origin children: examining differences between school year and summer perceptions
M Renée Umstattd Meyer, Shana M Walsh, Joseph R Sharkey, Grant B Morgan, Courtney C Nalty
Process evaluation of a national school-based iron supplementation program for adolescent girls in Iran
Sorayya Kheirouri, Mohammad Alizadeh
Physical activity patterns in urban neighbourhood parks: insights from a multiple case study
Gavin R McCormack, Melanie Rock, Kenda Swanson, Lindsay Burton, Alessandro Massolo
Improving lifetime trajectories for vulnerable young children and families living with significant stress and social disadvantage: the early years education program randomised controlled trial
Brigid Jordan, Yi-Ping Tseng, Nichola Coombs, Anne Kennedy, Jeff Borland
Attitudes towards gambling in Finland: a cross-sectional population study
Anne H Salonen, Sari Castrén, Susanna Raisamo, Jim Orford, Hannu Alho, Tuuli Lahti
Dramatic escalation in metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk in a Chinese population experiencing rapid economic development
Xiang Qian Lao, Wen Jun Ma, Tanja Sobko, Yong Hui Zhang, Yan Jun Xu, Xiao Jun Xu, Dong Mei Yu, Shao Ping Nie, Qiu Mao Cai, Xiao Lin Wei, Liang Xia, Martin Chi-sang Wong
Hepatitis B virus vaccination booster does not provide additional protection in adolescents: a cross-sectional school-based study
Yung-Chieh Chang, Jen-Hung Wang, Yu-Sheng Chen, Jun-Song Lin, Ching-Feng Cheng, Chia-Hsiang Chu
The Wuhan-Zhuhai (WHZH) cohort study of environmental air particulate matter and the pathogenesis of cardiopulmonary diseases: study design, methods and baseline characteristics of the cohort
Yuanchao Song, Jian Hou, Xiji Huang, Xiaomin Zhang, Aijun Tan, Yi Rong, Huizhen Sun, Yun Zhou, Xiuqing Cui, Yuqing Yang, Yanjun Guo, Zhihong Zhang, Xin Luo, Bing Zhang, Fan Hou, Xiaosheng He, Jungang Xie, Tangchun Wu, Weihong Chen, Jing Yuan
Impact of changes in specificity of data recording on cause-specific injury mortality in the United States, 1999–2010
Guoqing Hu, Keita Mamady
NHS patients, staff, and visitor viewpoints of smoking within a hospitals’ ground: a qualitative analysis
Alina Serafin, Sarah Franklin, Rashesh Mehta, Scott Crosby, Diane Lee, Becky Edlin, Bridgette M Bewick
Mental health status and work environment among workers in small- and medium-sized enterprises in Guangdong, China-a cross-sectional survey
Zhi Zeng, Yan Guo, Liming Lu, Lu Han, Wen Chen, Li Ling
Secondary outcomes of a school-based universal resiliency training for adolescents: a cluster randomized controlled trial
Yuli R Tak, Marloes Kleinjan, Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff, Rutger CME Engels
Gender variations in access, choice to use and cleaning of shared latrines; experiences from Kampala Slums, Uganda
Japheth Kwiringira, Peter Atekyereza, Charles Niwagaba, Isabel Günther
An exploratory study of the socio-cultural risk influences for cigarette smoking among Southern Nigerian youth
Catherine O Egbe, Inge Petersen, Anna Meyer-Weitz, Kwaku Oppong Asante
A qualitative examination of the impact of microgrants to promote physical activity among adolescents
Katherine A Tamminen, Guy Faulkner, Chad S G Witcher, John C Spence
Impact of accelerometer data processing decisions on the sample size, wear time and physical activity level of a large cohort study
Sarah Kozey Keadle, Eric J Shiroma, Patty S Freedson, I-Min Lee
Perceptions of sexual risk behavior among Palestinian youth in the West Bank: a qualitative investigation
Salwa G Massad, Rita Karam, Ryan Brown, Peter Glick, Mohammed Shaheen, Sebastian Linnemayr, Umaiyeh Khammash
Contribution of respiratory tract infections to child deaths: a data linkage study
Pia Hardelid, Nirupa Dattani, Mario Cortina-Borja, Ruth Gilbert
Predictors of onset of cannabis and other drug use in male young adults: results from a longitudinal study
Severin Haug, Carla López Núñez, Julia Becker, Gerhard Gmel, Michael P Schaub
Active and sedentary behaviours in children aged 7 to 10 years old: the urban and rural contexts, Brazil
Flávio Andrade Neto, Fabiola Naomi Eto, Taísa Sabrina Silva Pereira, Luciana Carletti, Maria del Carmen Bisi Molina
Anthropometric indices of Gambian children after one or three annual rounds of mass drug administration with azithromycin for trachoma control
Sarah E Burr, John Hart, Tansy Edwards, Emma M Harding-Esch, Martin J Holland, David C W Mabey, Ansumana Sillah, Robin L Bailey
Implementing effective hygiene promotion: lessons from the process evaluation of an intervention to promote handwashing with soap in rural India
Divya Rajaraman, Kiruba Sankar Varadharajan, Katie Greenland, Val Curtis, Raja Kumar, Wolf-Peter Schmidt, Robert Aunger, Adam Biran
The relationship between healthy behaviors and health outcomes among older adults in Russia
Anna Selivanova, Jane M Cramm
Chinese translation and validation of a parental feeding style questionnaire for parents of Hong Kong preschoolers
Wilson Tam, Vera Keung, Albert Lee, Kenneth Lo, Calvin Cheung
Informing the development of an online self-management program for men living with HIV: a needs assessment
Tanya Millard, Karalyn McDonald, Julian Elliott, Sean Slavin, Sally Rowell, Sonya Girdler
Body composition, water turnover and physical activity among women in Narok County, Kenya
Susan Keino, Bart van den Borne, Guy Plasqui
Smorgasbord or symphony? Assessing public health nutrition policies across 30 European countries using a novel framework
Ffion Lloyd-Williams, Helen Bromley, Lois Orton, Corinna Hawkes, David Taylor-Robinson, Martin O’Flaherty, Rory McGill, Elspeth Anwar, Lirije Hyseni, May Moonan, Mike Rayner, Simon Capewell
Bicycling crash circumstances vary by route type: a cross-sectional analysis
Kay Teschke, Theresa Frendo, Hui Shen, M Anne Harris, Conor CO Reynolds, Peter A Cripton, Jeff Brubacher, Michael D Cusimano, Steven M Friedman, Garth Hunte, Melody Monro, Lee Vernich, Shelina Babul, Mary Chipman, Meghan Winters
Namibia’s path toward malaria elimination: a case study of malaria strategies and costs along the northern border
Cara Smith Gueye, Michelle Gerigk, Gretchen Newby, Chris Lourenco, Petrina Uusiku, Jenny Liu
Identifying key variables in African American adherence to colorectal cancer screening: the application of data mining
Vetta L Sanders Thompson, Sean Lander, Shuyu Xu, Chi-Ren Shyu
Prevalence and risk factors for cervical neoplasia: a cervical cancer screening program in Beijing
Lixin Tao, Lili Han, Xia Li, Qi Gao, Lei Pan, Lijuan Wu, Yanxia Luo, Wei Wang, Zihe Zheng, Xiuhua Guo
Determinants of vaccination coverage and adherence to the Greek national immunization program among infants aged 2-24 months at the beginning of the economic crisis (2009-2011)
Papaevangelou Vassiliki, Koutsoumbari Ioanna, Vintila Artemis, Klinaki Eleni, Zellos Aglaia, Achilleas Attilakos, Tsolia Maria, Kafetzis Dimitris
Association between physical and mental health-related quality of life and adverse outcomes; a retrospective cohort study of 5,272 Scottish adults
Zia Ul-Haq, Daniel F Mackay, Jill P Pell
Trends in educational inequalities in cause specific mortality in Norway from 1960 to 2010: a turning point for educational inequalities in cause specific mortality of Norwegian men after the millennium?
Bjørn Heine Strand, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Else-Karin Grøholt, Inger Ariansen, Sidsel Graff-Iversen, Øyvind Næss
Assessing the effects of an educational program for the prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders among school teachers
Jian Shuai, Pengying Yue, Liping Li, Fengying Liu, Sheng Wang
Fair relationships and policies to support family day care educators’ mental health: a qualitative study
Lara Corr, Elise Davis, Kay Cook, Elizabeth Waters, Anthony D LaMontagne
Trading between healthy food, alcohol and physical activity behaviours
Emma L Giles, Mary Brennan
Geographic information analysis and web-based geoportals to explore malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of approaches
Sabrina Marx, Revati Phalkey, Clara B Aranda-Jan, Jörn Profe, Rainer Sauerborn, Bernhard Höfle
Correlates of prior HIV testing among men who have sex with men in Cameroon: a cross-sectional analysis
Ju Nyeong Park, Erin Papworth, Serge Clotaire Billong, Jean Bosco Elat, Sethson Kassegne, Ashley Grosso, Laure Moukam, Isaac Macauley, Yves Roger Yomb, Valentin Mondoleba, Jules Eloundou, Matthew LeBreton, Sosthenes Charles Ketende, Stefan Baral
Healthcare waste generation and management practice in government health centers of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Menelik Legesse Tadesse, Abera Kumie
Low control beliefs in relation to school dropout and poor health: findings from the SIODO case–control study
Hans Bosma, Marie-José Theunissen, Petra Verdonk, Frans Feron
Smokers’ beliefs about the tobacco control potential of “a gene for smoking”: a focus group study
Erika A Waters, Linda Ball, Kimberly Carter, Sarah Gehlert
Positive versus negative mental health in emerging adulthood: a national cross-sectional survey
Regina Winzer, Frank Lindblad, Kimmo Sorjonen, Lene Lindberg
Access to HIV prevention and care for HIV-exposed and HIV-infected children: a qualitative study in rural and urban Mozambique
Caroline De Schacht, Carlota Lucas, Catarina Mboa, Michelle Gill, Eugenia Macasse, Stélio A Dimande, Emily A Bobrow, Laura Guay
Quality of Life (QoL) assessment in a cohort of patients with Phenylketonuria
Chiara Cazzorla, Luca Cegolon, Alessandro P Burlina, Andrea Celato, Pamela Massa, Laura Giordano, Giulia Polo, Aurora Daniele, Francesco Salvatore, Alberto B Burlina
Identifying barriers to chronic disease reporting in Chicago Public Schools: a mixed-methods approach
Victoria Rivkina, David E Tapke, Lilliana D Cardenas, Blair Harvey-Gintoft, Stephanie A Whyte, Ruchi S Gupta
Analysis of prices paid by low-income countries - how price sensitive is government demand for medicines?
Divya Srivastava, Alistair McGuire
Models for Access to Maternal Smoking cessation Support (MAMSS): a study protocol of a quasi-experiment to increase the engagement of pregnant women who smoke in NHS Stop Smoking Services
Lorna Bennett, Aimee Grant, Siobhan Jones, Mererid Bowley, Christian Heathcote-Elliott, Catrin Ford, Angela Jones, Rachel Lewis, Margaret Munkley, Carol Owen, Annie Petherick, Shantini Paranjothy
The impact of drought on the association between food security and mental health in a nationally representative Australian sample
Sharon Friel, Helen Berry, Huong Dinh, Léan O’Brien, Helen L Walls
Food store owners’ and managers’ perspectives on the food environment: an exploratory mixed-methods study
Clarence C Gravlee, P Qasimah Boston, M Miaisha Mitchell, Alan F Schultz, Connie Betterley
Functional somatic syndromes: asking about exclusionary medical conditions results in decreased prevalence and overlap rates
Susanne Fischer, Urs M Nater
Prevalence and factors determining psychoactive substance (PAS) use among Hawassa University (HU) undergraduate students, Hawassa Ethiopia
Andargachew Kassa, Fiker Taddesse, Aweke Yilma
Classification of metabolic syndrome according to lipid alterations: analysis from the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey 2006
Andrea Pedroza-Tobias, Belem Trejo-Valdivia, Luz M Sanchez-Romero, Simon Barquera
Type 2 diabetes in a rapidly urbanizing region of Ghana, West Africa: a qualitative study of dietary preferences, knowledge and practices
Megan L Doherty, Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Osei Sarfo Kantanka, Rickie O Brawer, James D Plumb
The biobehavioral Women’s Health CoOp in Pretoria, South Africa: study protocol for a cluster-randomized design
Wendee M Wechsberg, William A Zule, Jacqueline Ndirangu, Tracy L Kline, Nathaniel F Rodman, Irene A Doherty, Scott P Novak, Charles M van der Horst
Climatic-driven seasonality of emerging dengue fever in Hanoi, Vietnam
Thi Thanh Toan Do, Pim Martens, Ngoc Hoat Luu, Pamela Wright, Marc Choisy
Incidence variation of prostate and cervical cancer according to socioeconomic level in the Girona Health Region
Gemma Renart Vicens, Marc Saez Zafra, Judit Moreno-Crespi, Bernat C Serdà Ferrer, Rafael Marcos-Gragera
National indicators of health literacy: ability to understand health information and to engage actively with healthcare providers - a population-based survey among Danish adults
Anne Bo, Karina Friis, Richard H Osborne, Helle Terkildsen Maindal
Social determinants of dental treatment needs in Brazilian adults
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Georgios Tsakos, Aubrey Sheiham, Georgia Costa de Souza, Richard G Watt
Herpes zoster vaccine (HZV): utilization and coverage 2009 – 2013, Alberta, Canada
Xianfang C Liu, Kimberley A Simmonds, Margaret L Russell, Lawrence W Svenson
Using the intervention mapping protocol to develop a maintenance programme for the SLIMMER diabetes prevention intervention
Ellen BM Elsman, Joanne N Leerlooijer, Josien ter Beek, Geerke Duijzer, Sophia C Jansen, Gerrit J Hiddink, Edith JM Feskens, Annemien Haveman-Nies
Recess physical activity and school-related social factors in Finnish primary and lower secondary schools: cross-sectional associations
Henna L Haapala, Mirja H Hirvensalo, Kaarlo Laine, Lauri Laakso, Harto Hakonen, Anna Kankaanpää, Taru Lintunen, Tuija H Tammelin
A cross-sectional study describing motivations and barriers to voluntary medical male circumcision in Lesotho
Laura Skolnik, Sharon Tsui, Tigistu Adamu Ashengo, Virgile Kikaya, Mainza Lukobo-Durrell
WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative: body mass index and level of overweight among 6–9-year-old children from school year 2007/2008 to school year 2009/2010
Trudy MA Wijnhoven, Joop MA van Raaij, Angela Spinelli, Gregor Starc, Maria Hassapidou, Igor Spiroski, Harry Rutter, Éva Martos, Ana I Rito, Ragnhild Hovengen, Napoleón Pérez-Farinós, Ausra Petrauskiene, Nazih Eldin, Lien Braeckevelt, Iveta Pudule, Marie Kunešová, João Breda
Health economic analysis of human papillomavirus vaccines in women of Chile: perspective of the health care payer using a Markov model
Jorge Alberto Gomez, Alejandro Lepetic, Nadia Demarteau
Motivational interviewing interactions and the primary health care challenges presented by smokers with low motivation to stop smoking: a conversation analysis
Núria Codern-Bové, Enriqueta Pujol-Ribera, Margarida Pla, Javier González-Bonilla, Silvia Granollers, José L Ballvé, Gemma Fanlo, Carmen Cabezas
Maintaining relevance: an evaluation of health message sponsorship at Australian community sport and arts events
Michael Rosenberg, Renee Ferguson
The remote exercise monitoring trial for exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (REMOTE-CR): a randomised controlled trial protocol
Ralph Maddison, Jonathan C Rawstorn, Anna Rolleston, Robyn Whittaker, Ralph Stewart, Jocelyne Benatar, Ian Warren, Yannan Jiang, Nicholas Gant
Relationship between exposure to the Avahan intervention and levels of reported condom use among men who have sex with men in southern India
Kate M Mitchell, Anna M Foss, Banadakoppa M Ramesh, Reynold Washington, Shajy Isac, Holly J Prudden, Kathleen N Deering, James F Blanchard, Stephen Moses, Catherine M Lowndes, Marie-Claude Boily, Michel Alary, Peter Vickerman
Diagnosis-specific disability pension and risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality – a cohort study of 4.9 million inhabitants in Sweden
Charlotte Björkenstam, Kristina Alexanderson, Emma Björkenstam, Christina Lindholm, Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz
Is vulnerability to cardiometabolic disease in Indians mediated by abdominal adiposity or higher body adiposity
Hannah Kuper, Amy Taylor, Kankipati Vijay Radha Krishna, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Ruby Gupta, Bharati Kulkarni, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, George Davey Smith, Jonathan Wells, Shah Ebrahim, Sanjay Kinra
Effectiveness of a combination prevention strategy for HIV risk reduction with men who have sex with men in Central America: a mid-term evaluation
Rebecca Firestone, Jorge Rivas, Susana Lungo, Alejandra Cabrera, Susan Ruether, Jennifer Wheeler, Lung Vu
Sexual behavior and factors associated with young age at first intercourse and HPV vaccine uptake among young women in Germany: implications for HPV vaccination policies
Cornelius Remschmidt, Michaela Fesenfeld, Andreas M Kaufmann, Yvonne Deleré
Workplace Sitting Breaks Questionnaire (SITBRQ): an assessment of concurrent validity and test-retest reliability
Zeljko Pedisic, Jason A Bennie, Anna F Timperio, David A Crawford, David W Dunstan, Adrian E Bauman, Jo Salmon
The evolution of health literacy assessment tools: a systematic review
Sibel Vildan Altin, Isabelle Finke, Sibylle Kautz-Freimuth, Stephanie Stock
Patterns of clustering of six health-compromising behaviours in Saudi adolescents
Saeed G Alzahrani, Richard G Watt, Aubrey Sheiham, Maria Aresu, Georgios Tsakos
Prevalence of overweight in 2 to 17 year-old children and adolescents whose parents live separately: a Nordic cross-sectional study
Lena Hohwü, Mika Gissler, Agneta Sjöberg, Anna M Biehl, Alfgeir L Kristjansson, Carsten Obel
Adherence to treatment to help quit smoking: effects of task performance and coping with withdrawal symptoms
Francisca López-Torrecillas, Maria Mar Rueda, Eva María López-Quirantes, Javier Machado Santiago, Reyes Rodríguez Tapioles
Educational mobility and weight gain over 13 years in a longitudinal study of young women
Natalie Holowko, Mark Jones, Leigh Tooth, Ilona Koupil, Gita Mishra
Blood pressure in primary school children in Uganda: a cross-sectional survey
Farah Kidy, Diana Rutebarika, Swaib A Lule, Moses Kizza, Amos Odiit, Emily L Webb, Alison M Elliott
Monitoring the health of transgender and other gender minority populations: Validity of natal sex and gender identity survey items in a U.S. national cohort of young adults
Sari L Reisner, Kerith J Conron, Laura Anatale Tardiff, Stephanie Jarvi, Allegra R Gordon, S Bryn Austin
Piloting an HIV self-test kit voucher program to raise serostatus awareness of high-risk African Americans, Los Angeles
Robert W Marlin, Sean D Young, Claire C Bristow, Greg Wilson, Jeffrey Rodriguez, Jose Ortiz, Rhea Mathew, Jeffrey D Klausner
Comparison of two methods for assessing diabetes risk in a pharmacy setting in Australia
Monique F Kilkenny, Roslyn Johnson, Nadine E Andrew, Tara Purvis, Alison Hicks, Stephen Colagiuri, Dominique A Cadilhac
Impact of a long-term tobacco-free policy at a comprehensive cancer center: a series of cross-sectional surveys
Cristina Martínez, Marcela Fu, Jose María Martínez-Sánchez, Laura Antón, Paz Fernández, Montse Ballbè, Ana Andrés, Anna Riccobene, Xisca Sureda, Albert Gallart, Esteve Fernández
Predictors of loss to follow-up among children registered in an HIV prevention mother-to-child transmission cohort study in Pernambuco, Brazil
Pedro Alves da Cruz Gouveia, Gerlane Alves Pontes da Silva, Maria de Fatima Pessoa Militão de Albuquerque
A survey of food bank operations in five Canadian cities
Valerie Tarasuk, Naomi Dachner, Anne-Marie Hamelin, Aleck Ostry, Patricia Williams, Elietha Bosckei, Blake Poland, Kim Raine
Stigmatizing attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS: validation of a measurement scale
Marianne Beaulieu, Alix Adrien, Louise Potvin, Clément Dassa
Does provision of targeted health care for the unemployed enhance re-employment?
Katri Romppainen, Antti Saloniemi, Ulla Kinnunen, Virpi Liukkonen, Pekka Virtanen
Khat chewing among Ethiopian University Students- a growing concern
Ewenat Gebrehanna, Yemane Berhane, Alemayehu Worku
“Tobacco dependence treatment makes no sense because”…: Rebuttal of commonly-heard arguments against providing tobacco dependence treatment in the hospital setting
James Balmford, Jens A Leifert, Andreas Jaehne
High prevalence of substance use and associated factors among high school adolescents in Woreta Town, Northwest Ethiopia: multi-domain factor analysis
Anteneh Messele Birhanu, Telake Azale Bisetegn, Solomon Meseret Woldeyohannes
Culturally informed views on cancer screening: a qualitative research study of the differences between older and younger Somali immigrant women
Nancy C Raymond, Warfa Osman, Jennifer M O’Brien, Nora Ali, Farnaaz Kia, Fardowsa Mohamed, Abdifatah Mohamed, Kathryn B Goldade, Rebekah Pratt, Kolawole Okuyemi
Observational study on the consumption of recreational drugs and alcohol by Swiss travelers
Céline Klunge-de Luze, Serge de Vallière, Blaise Genton, Nicolas Senn
Controlling congenital and paediatric chagas disease through a community health approach with active surveillance and promotion of paediatric awareness
Antoni Soriano-Arandes, Luca Basile, Hakima Ouaarab, Isabel Clavería, Jordi Gómez i Prat, Juan Cabezos, Pilar Ciruela, Pedro Albajar-Viñas, Mireia Jané
Childhood obesity management shifting from health care system to school system: intervention study of school-based weight management programme
Albert Lee, Mandy Ho, Vera MW Keung, Amy CM Kwong
Strengthening contact tracing capacity of pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Enugu, southeast Nigeria: a targeted and focused health education intervention study
Osa-eloka Christiandolus Ekwueme, Babatunde I Omotowo, Kennedy Kenechukwu Agwuna
Knowledge and attitude towards child marriage practice among women married as children-a qualitative study in urban slums of Lahore, Pakistan
Muazzam Nasrullah, Rubeena Zakar, Muhammad Zakria Zakar, Safdar Abbas, Rabia Safdar, Mahwish Shaukat, Alexander Krämer
The Wisconsin Assessment of the Social and Built Environment (WASABE): a multi-dimensional objective audit instrument for examining neighborhood effects on health
Kristen C Malecki, Corinne D Engelman, Paul E Peppard, F Javier Nieto, Maggie L Grabow, Milena Bernardinello, Erin Bailey, Andrew J Bersch, Matthew C Walsh, Justin Y Lo, Ana Martinez-Donate
Role of respondents’ education as a mediator and moderator in the association between childhood socio-economic status and later health and wellbeing
Mashhood Ahmed Sheikh, Birgit Abelsen, Jan Abel Olsen
“Only your blood can tell the story” – a qualitative research study using semi- structured interviews to explore the hepatitis B related knowledge, perceptions and experiences of remote dwelling Indigenous Australians and their health care providers in northern Australia
Jane Davies, Sarah Bukulatjpi, Suresh Sharma, Joshua Davis, Vanessa Johnston
Wider impacts of a 10-week community cooking skills program - Jamie’s Ministry of Food, Australia
Jessica Herbert, Anna Flego, Lisa Gibbs, Elizabeth Waters, Boyd Swinburn, John Reynolds, Marj Moodie
Multilevel challenges to engagement in HIV care after prison release: a theory-informed qualitative study comparing prisoners’ perspectives before and after community reentry
Danielle F Haley, Carol E Golin, Claire E Farel, David A Wohl, Anna M Scheyett, Jenna J Garrett, David L Rosen, Sharon D Parker
Peer education is a feasible method of disseminating information related to child nutrition and feeding between new mothers
Kerith Duncanson, Tracy Burrows, Clare Collins
Dimensional comparability of psychosocial working conditions as covered in European monitoring questionnaires
Maren Formazin, Hermann Burr, Cecilie Aagestad, Tore Tynes, Sannie Vester Thorsen, Merja Perkio-Makela, Clara Isabel Díaz Aramburu, Francisco Javier Pinilla García, Luz Galiana Blanco, Greet Vermeylen, Agnes Parent-Thirion, Wendela Hooftman, Irene Houtman
Shared toilet users’ collective cleaning and determinant factors in Kampala slums, Uganda
Innocent K Tumwebaze, Hans-Joachim Mosler
Training needs for research in health inequities among health and demographic researchers from eight African and Asian countries
Joke Haafkens, Yulia Blomstedt, Malin Eriksson, Heiko Becher, Heribert Ramroth, John Kinsman
How parents can affect excessive spending of time on screen-based activities
Daniela Brindova, Jan Pavelka, Anna Ševčikova, Ivan Žežula, Jitse P van Dijk, Sijmen A Reijneveld, Andrea Madarasova Geckova
Implementing an Injury Prevention Briefing to aid delivery of key fire safety messages in UK children’s centres: qualitative study nested within a multi-centre randomised controlled trial
Kate Beckett, Trudy Goodenough, Toity Deave, Sally Jaeckle, Lisa McDaid, Penny Benford, Mike Hayes, Elizabeth Towner, Denise Kendrick
Exploring anal self-examination as a means of screening for anal cancer in HIV positive men who have sex with men: a qualitative study
Jason J Ong, Meredith Temple-Smith, Marcus Chen, Sandra Walker, Andrew Grulich, Christopher K Fairley
Perceptions of neighbourhood quality, social and civic participation and the self rated health of British adults with intellectual disability: cross sectional study
Eric Emerson, Chris Hatton, Janet Robertson, Susannah Baines
Validity of the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ) in assessing levels and change in moderate-vigorous physical activity and sedentary behaviour
Claire L Cleland, Ruth F Hunter, Frank Kee, Margaret E Cupples, James F Sallis, Mark A Tully
Socio-demographic, behavioural and cognitive correlates of work-related sitting time in German men and women
Birgit Wallmann-Sperlich, Jens Bucksch, Sven Schneider, Ingo Froboese
Weight gain and smoking: perceptions and experiences of obese quitline participants
Terry Bush, Clarissa Hsu, Michele D Levine, Brooke Magnusson, Lyndsay Miles
The accessibility and acceptability of self-management support interventions for men with long term conditions: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies
Paul Galdas, Zoe Darwin, Lisa Kidd, Christian Blickem, Kerri McPherson, Kate Hunt, Peter Bower, Simon Gilbody, Gerry Richardson
Evaluating deliberative dialogues focussed on healthy public policy
John N Lavis, Jennifer A Boyko, Francois-Pierre Gauvin
The quantity, quality and characteristics of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australian mentoring literature: a systematic review
Roxanne Bainbridge, Komla Tsey, Janya McCalman, Simon Towle
A cross-sectional study of geographic differences in health risk factors among young Australian adults: The role of socioeconomic position
Kira AE Patterson, Verity Cleland, Alison Venn, Leigh Blizzard, Seana Gall
Higher self-reported prevalence of hypertension among Moluccan-Dutch than among the general population of the Netherlands: results from a cross-sectional survey
Junus M van der Wal, Adee J Bodewes, Charles O Agyemang, Anton E Kunst
Epidemiology of exposure to HIV/AIDS risky conditions in healthcare settings: the case of health facilities in Gondar City, North West Ethiopia
Getahun Kebede Beyera, Teresa Kisi Beyen
Relationships between sexual violence and chronic disease: a cross-sectional study
Jeanie Santaularia, Monica Johnson, Laurie Hart, Lori Haskett, Ericka Welsh, Babalola Faseru
A focus group study of enteric disease case investigation: successful techniques utilized and barriers experienced from the perspective of expert disease investigators
Stanley Ing, Christina Lee, Dean Middleton, Rachel D Savage, Stephen Moore, Doug Sider
Educational interventions to improve prescription and dispensing of antibiotics: a systematic review
Fátima Roque, Maria Teresa Herdeiro, Sara Soares, António Teixeira Rodrigues, Luiza Breitenfeld, Adolfo Figueiras
Nutritional and behavioral determinants of adolescent obesity: a case–control study in Sri Lanka
Kumari M Rathnayake, Tharrmini Roopasingam, VP Wickramasighe
Participation levels of physical activity programs for community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review
Marielle van der Deijl, Astrid Etman, Carlijn B M Kamphuis, Frank J van Lenthe
Media actors’ perceptions of their roles in reporting food incidents
Annabelle M Wilson, Julie Henderson, John Coveney, Samantha B Meyer, Trevor Webb, Michael Calnan, Martin Caraher, Sue Lloyd, Dean McCullum, Anthony Elliott, Paul R Ward
Heart rate variability and DNA methylation levels are altered after short-term metal fume exposure among occupational welders: a repeated-measures panel study
Tianteng Fan, Shona C Fang, Jennifer M Cavallari, Ian J Barnett, Zhaoxi Wang, Li Su, Hyang-Min Byun, Xihong Lin, Andrea A Baccarelli, David C Christiani
First report on prevalence and risk factors of severe atypical pneumonia in Vietnamese children aged 1–15 years
Phane Le Thanh Huong, Pham Thu Hien, Nguyen Thi Phong Lan, Tran Quang Binh, Dao Minh Tuan, Dang Duc Anh
Designs of two randomized, community-based trials to assess the impact of alternative cookstove installation on respiratory illness among young children and reproductive outcomes in rural Nepal
James M Tielsch, Joanne Katz, Scott L Zeger, Subarna K Khatry, Laxman Shrestha, Patrick Breysse, William Checkley, Luke C Mullany, Steven C LeClerq
A qualitative study of children’s snack food packaging perceptions and preferences
Paola Letona, Violeta Chacon, Christina Roberto, Joaquin Barnoya
How needs and preferences of employees influence participation in health promotion programs: a six-month follow-up study
Anne Rongen, Suzan J W Robroek, Wouter van Ginkel, Dennis Lindeboom, Martin Pet, Alex Burdorf
Mental wellbeing amongst younger and older migrant workers in comparison to their urban counterparts in Guangzhou city, China: a cross-sectional study
Jie Li, Shu-Sen Chang, Paul S F Yip, Juan Li, Lucy P Jordan, Yunge Tang, Yuantao Hao, Xingmei Huang, Ning Yang, Chaoqi Chen, Qiaomei Zeng
Knowledge and attitude of healthcare workers about middle east respiratory syndrome in multispecialty hospitals of Qassim, Saudi Arabia
Muhammad Umair Khan, Shahjahan Shah, Akram Ahmad, Omotayo Fatokun
Living arrangements, chronic diseases, and prescription drug expenditures among Korean elderly: vulnerability to potential medication underuse
Eun-Ja Park, Hyun Soon Sohn, Eui-Kyung Lee, Jin-Won Kwon
Reducing complexity: a visualisation of multimorbidity by combining disease clusters and triads
Ingmar Schäfer, Hanna Kaduszkiewicz, Hans-Otto Wagner, Gerhard Schön, Martin Scherer, Hendrik van den Bussche
Psychoeducation to facilitate return to work in individuals on sick leave and at risk of having a mental disorder: protocol of a randomised controlled trial
Pernille Pedersen, Hans Jørgen Søgaard, Bjarne Frostholm Yde, Merete Labriola, Ellen A Nohr, Chris Jensen
A cohort study to define the age-specific incidence and risk factors of Shigella diarrhoeal infections in Vietnamese children: a study protocol
Corinne N Thompson, Katherine L Anders, Le Thi Quynh Nhi, Ha Thanh Tuyen, Pham Van Minh, Le Thi Phuong Tu, Tran Do Hoang Nhu, Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan, Tran Thi Thao Ly, Vu Thuy Duong, Lu Lan Vi, Nguyen Thi Van Thuy, Nguyen Trong Hieu, Nguyen Vinh Van Chau, James I Campbell, Guy Thwaites, Cameron Simmons, Stephen Baker
“Throwing a rock at their armored tank”: civilian authority and military tobacco control
Quinn Grundy, Elizabeth A Smith, Ruth E Malone
Proactive outreach for smokers using VHA mental health clinics: protocol for a patient-randomized clinical trial
Erin S Rogers, Steven S Fu, Paul Krebs, Siamak Noorbaloochi, Sean M Nugent, Radha Rao, Carolyn Schlede, Scott E Sherman
Socioeconomic differences in the use of ill-defined causes of death in 16 European countries
Ivana Kulhánová, Gwenn Menvielle, Matthias Bopp, Carme Borrell, Patrick Deboosere, Terje A Eikemo, Rasmus Hoffmann, Mall Leinsalu, Pekka Martikainen, Enrique Regidor, Maica Rodríguez-Sanz, Jitka Rychtaříková, Bogdan Wojtyniak, Johan P Mackenbach
Predictors of smoking among Swedish adolescents
Junia Joffer, Gunilla Burell, Erik Bergström, Hans Stenlund, Linda Sjörs, Lars Jerdén
From Lyme disease emergence to endemicity: a cross sectional comparative study of risk perceptions in different populations
Cécile Aenishaenslin, André Ravel, Pascal Michel, Lise Gern, François Milord, Jean-Philippe Waaub, Denise Bélanger
Prevalence and risk factors for diabetes and diabetic retinopathy: results from the Nigeria national blindness and visual impairment survey
Fatima Kyari, Abubakar Tafida, Selvaraj Sivasubramaniam, Gudlavalleti VS Murthy, Tunde Peto, Clare E Gilbert
Stability and variability in income position over time: exploring their role in self-rated health in Swedish survey data
Alexander Miething, Monica Åberg Yngwe
Work stress and alcohol consumption among adolescents: moderation by family and peer influences
Xianfang C Liu, Katherine M Keyes, Guohua Li
Identifying associations between sedentary time and cardio-metabolic risk factors in working adults using objective and subjective measures: a cross-sectional analysis
Takanori Honda, Sanmei Chen, Hiro Kishimoto, Kenji Narazaki, Shuzo Kumagai
Predictors of adherence to antiretroviral therapy among people living with HIV and AIDS at the regional hospital of Sokodé, Togo
Issifou Yaya, Dadja Essoya Landoh, Bayaki Saka, P’Niwè Massoubayo Patchali, Peter Wasswa, Abdoul-samadou Aboubakari, Mathias Kouamé N’Dri, Akouda Akessiwe Patassi, Koussake Kombaté, Palokinam Pitche
Area deprivation and the prevalence of type 2 diabetes and obesity: analysis at the municipality level in Germany
Nina Grundmann, Andreas Mielck, Martin Siegel, Werner Maier
Missing HIV prevention opportunities in South African children – A 7-year review
Ute D Feucht, Anell Meyer, Mariana Kruger
Investigating mosquito net durability for malaria control in Tanzania - attrition, bioefficacy, chemistry, degradation and insecticide resistance (ABCDR): study protocol
Lena M Lorenz, Hans J Overgaard, Dennis J Massue, Zawadi D Mageni, John Bradley, Jason D Moore, Renata Mandike, Karen Kramer, William Kisinza, Sarah J Moore
The association between breastfeeding and childhood obesity: a meta-analysis
Jing Yan, Lin Liu, Yun Zhu, Guowei Huang, Peizhong Peter Wang
Objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time in south Asian women: a cross-sectional study
Whitney B Curry, Janice L Thompson
Using environmental health officers’ opinions to inform the source attribution of enteric disease: further analysis of the “most likely source of infection”
Anna Lukacsovics, Andrea Nesbitt, Barbara Marshall, Rod Asplin, Jason Stone, Glen Embree, Matt Hurst, Frank Pollari
Prevalence and causes of visual impairment and rate of wearing spectacles in schools for children of migrant workers in Shanghai, China
Jiangnan He, Lina Lu, Haidong Zou, Xiangui He, Qiangqiang Li, Weijie Wang, Jianfeng Zhu
How does unemployment affect self-assessed health? A systematic review focusing on subgroup effects
Fredrik Norström, Pekka Virtanen, Anne Hammarström, Per E Gustafsson, Urban Janlert
Nicotine replacement therapy use among smokers and ex-smokers: associated attitudes and beliefs: a qualitative study
Kabay Silla, Emma Beard, Lion Shahab
Life as an evacuee after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident is a cause of polycythemia: the Fukushima Health Management Survey
Akira Sakai, Tetsuya Ohira, Mitsuaki Hosoya, Akira Ohtsuru, Hiroaki Satoh, Yukihiko Kawasaki, Hitoshi Suzuki, Atsushi Takahashi, Gen Kobashi, Kotaro Ozasa, Seiji Yasumura, Shunichi Yamashita, Kenji Kamiya, Masafumi Abe
Spatial clustering of physical activity and obesity in relation to built environment factors among older women in three U.S. states
Kosuke Tamura, Robin C Puett, Jaime E Hart, Heather A Starnes, Francine Laden, Philip J Troped
Female sex worker’s participation in the community mobilization process: two distinct forms of participations and associated contextual factors
Karikalan Nagarajan, Seema Sahay, Mandar K Mainkar, Sucheta Deshpande, Sowmya Ramesh, Ramesh S Paranjape
Making the invisible, visible: a cross-sectional study of late presentation to HIV/AIDS services among men who have sex with men from a large urban center of Brazil
Sarah MacCarthy, Sandra Brignol, Manasa Reddy, Amy Nunn, Ines Dourado
Associations of neighborhood area level deprivation with the metabolic syndrome and inflammation among middle- and older- age adults
Akilah Dulin Keita, Suzanne E Judd, Virginia J Howard, April P Carson, Jamy D Ard, Jose R Fernandez
A Dyadic Action Control Trial in Overweight and Obese Couples (DYACTIC)
Urte Scholz, Corina Berli
Prevalence of peripheral neuropathy and its associated demographic and health status characteristics, among people on antiretroviral therapy in Rwanda
David Kabagema Tumusiime, Francois Venter, Eustasius Musenge, Aimee Stewart
Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention: shortened interrupted time series evaluation of a behavioural and structural health promotion and violence prevention intervention for young people in informal settlements in Durban, South Africa
Rachel Jewkes, Andrew Gibbs, Nwabisa Jama-Shai, Samantha Willan, Alison Misselhorn, Mildred Mushinga, Laura Washington, Nompumelelo Mbatha, Yandisa Skiweyiya
Effectiveness of a school-based physical activity intervention on obesity in school children: a nonrandomized controlled trial
Xiao-Hui Li, Shenting Lin, Hongxia Guo, Yanli Huang, Lijing Wu, Zilong Zhang, Jun Ma, Hai-Jun Wang
Drinking pattern is more strongly associated with under-reporting of alcohol consumption than socio-demographic factors: evidence from a mixed-methods study
Sadie Boniface, James Kneale, Nicola Shelton
Folate intake, serum folate levels, and prostate cancer risk: a meta-analysis of prospective studies
Rong Wang, Yan Zheng, Jing-Yang Huang, Ai-Qin Zhang, Yu-Hao Zhou, Jie-Ning Wang
Sustaining control of schistosomiasis mansoni in moderate endemicity areas in western Côte d’Ivoire: a SCORE study protocol
Rufin K Assaré, Stefanie Knopp, Nicaise A N’Guessan, Ahoua Yapi, Yves-Nathan T Tian-Bi, Patrick K Yao, Jean T Coulibaly, Mamadou Ouattara, Aboulaye Meïté, Alan Fenwick, Eliézer K N’Goran, Jürg Utzinger
Diurnal profiles of pedometer-determined physical activity in chronically ill and mobility-limited older adults: a cross-sectional study
Anna Mai, Alexander Bloch, Renate Klaaßen-Mielke, Petra Platen, Timo Hinrichs
Design of a multi-site multi-state clinical trial of home monitoring of chronic disease in the community in Australia
Branko G Celler, Ross Sparks, Surya Nepal, Leila Alem, Marlien Varnfield, Jane Li, Julian Jang-Jaccard, Simon J McBride, Rajiv Jayasena
Numbers are not the whole story: a qualitative exploration of barriers and facilitators to increased physical activity in a primary care based walking intervention
Rebecca Normansell, Jaime Smith, Christina Victor, Derek G Cook, Sally Kerry, Steve Iliffe, Michael Ussher, Julia Fox-Rushby, Peter Whincup, Tess Harris
Spicy food consumption is associated with adiposity measures among half a million Chinese people: the China Kadoorie Biobank study
Dianjianyi Sun, Jun Lv, Wei Chen, Shengxu Li, Yu Guo, Zheng Bian, Canqing Yu, Huiyan Zhou, Yunlong Tan, Junshi Chen, Zhengming Chen, Liming Li
Health adaptation policy for climate vulnerable groups: a ‘critical computational linguistics’ analysis
Bastian M Seidel, Erica Bell
Mass fatality preparedness among medical examiners/coroners in the United States: a cross-sectional study
Robyn RM Gershon, Mark G Orr, Qi Zhi, Jacqueline A Merrill, Daniel Y Chen, Halley EM Riley, Martin F Sherman
Pilot study of home-based delivery of HIV testing and counseling and contraceptive services to couples in Malawi
Stan Becker, Frank O Taulo, Michelle J Hindin, Effie K Chipeta, Dana Loll, Amy Tsui
Supporting health promotion practitioners to undertake evaluation for program development
Roanna Lobo, Mark Petrich, Sharyn K Burns
Comparison of a French pediatric type 1 diabetes cohort’s responders and non-responders to an environmental questionnaire
Sophie Le Fur, Pierre Bougnères, Alain-Jacques Valleron
Online health information – what the newspapers tell their readers: a systematic content analysis
Brian A McCaw, Kieran J McGlade, James C McElnay
A qualitative study of the anticipated barriers and facilitators to the implementation of a lifestyle intervention in the dutch construction industry
S C Tonnon, K I Proper, H P van der Ploeg, M J Westerman, E Sijbesma, A J van der Beek
Sexual behaviour, sexually transmitted infections and attitudes to chlamydia testing among a unique national sample of young Australians: baseline data from a randomised controlled trial
Melissa Kang, Arlie Rochford, S Rachel Skinner, Adrian Mindel, Marianne Webb, Jenny Peat, Tim Usherwood
A study of the dietary intake of Cypriot children and adolescents aged 6–18 years and the association of mother’s educational status and children’s weight status on adherence to nutritional recommendations
Michael J Tornaritis, Elena Philippou, Charalambos Hadjigeorgiou, Yiannis A Kourides, Adamos Panayi, Savvas C Savva
Study Protocol - Alcohol Management Plans (AMPs) in remote indigenous communities in Queensland: their impacts on injury, violence, health and social indicators and their cost-effectiveness
Alan R Clough, Michelle S Fitts, Jan A Robertson, Anthony Shakeshaft, Adrian Miller, Christopher M Doran, Reinhold Muller, Valmae Ypinazar, David Martin, Robyn McDermott, Rob Sanson-Fisher, Simon Towle, Stephen A Margolis, Caryn West
Financial stress in late adulthood and diverse risks of incident cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in women and men
Axel C Carlsson, Bengt Starrin, Bruna Gigante, Karin Leander, Mai-Lis Hellenius, Ulf de Faire
Peering through the mist: systematic review of what the chemistry of contaminants in electronic cigarettes tells us about health risks
Igor Burstyn
The socio-environmental determinants of railway suicide: a systematic review
Lay San Too, Allison Milner, Lyndal Bugeja, Roderick McClure
Latent tuberculosis infection in a Malaysian prison: implications for a comprehensive integrated control program in prisons
Haider Abdulrazzaq Abed Al-Darraji, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Frederick L Altice
Health belief model based evaluation of school health education programme for injury prevention among high school students in the community context
Zhi-Juan Cao, Yue Chen, Shu-Mei Wang
Efficacy of a text messaging (SMS) based intervention for adults with hypertension: protocol for the StAR (SMS Text-message Adherence suppoRt trial) randomised controlled trial
Kirsty Bobrow, Thomas Brennan, David Springer, Naomi S Levitt, Brian Rayner, Mosedi Namane, Ly-Mee Yu, Lionel Tarassenko, Andrew Farmer
Do weight management programmes delivered at professional football clubs attract and engage high risk men? A mixed-methods study
Kate Hunt, Cindy M Gray, Alice Maclean, Susan Smillie, Christopher Bunn, Sally Wyke
Outcomes of hepatitis C screening programs targeted at risk groups hidden in the general population: a systematic review
Freke R Zuure, Anouk T Urbanus, Miranda W Langendam, Charles W Helsper, Charlotte HSB van den Berg, Udi Davidovich, Maria Prins
Prevalence and associated factors of goiter among rural children aged 6-12 years old in Northwest Ethiopia, cross -sectional study
Molla Mesele, Getu Degu, Haimanot Gebrehiwot
Measuring underreporting and under-ascertainment in infectious disease datasets: a comparison of methods
Cheryl L Gibbons, Marie-Josée J Mangen, Dietrich Plass, Arie H Havelaar, Russell John Brooke, Piotr Kramarz, Karen L Peterson, Anke L Stuurman, Alessandro Cassini, Eric M Fèvre, Mirjam EE Kretzschmar
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome/human immunodeficiency virus knowledge, attitudes, and practices, and use of healthcare services among rural migrants: a cross-sectional study in China
Ying Wang, Christopher Cochran, Peng Xu, Jay J Shen, Gang Zeng, Yanjun Xu, Mei Sun, Chengyue Li, Xiaohong Li, Fengshui Chang, Jun Lu, Mo Hao, Fan Lu
Effect of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on cancer incidence, non-vascular death, and total mortality: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Yu-Fei Zhang, Hong-Fang Gao, An-Ji Hou, Yu-Hao Zhou
Obesity and health behaviours of British adults with self-reported intellectual impairments: cross sectional survey
Janet Robertson, Eric Emerson, Susannah Baines, Chris Hatton
How often do German children and adolescents show signs of common mental health problems? Results from different methodological approaches – a cross-sectional study
Kristin Sauer, Claus Barkmann, Fionna Klasen, Monika Bullinger, Gerd Glaeske, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer
Development and evaluation of a food environment survey in three urban environments of Kunming, China
Jenna Hua, Edmund Seto, Yan Li, May C Wang
Residential characteristics as correlates of occupants’ health in the greater Accra region, Ghana
Emilia Asuquo Udofia, Alfred E Yawson, Kwesi Adu Aduful, Francis Mulekya Bwambale
Adoption of an evidence-based colorectal cancer screening promotion program by community organizations serving Filipino Americans
Annette E Maxwell, Leda L Danao, Reggie T Cayetano, Catherine M Crespi, Roshan Bastani
The impact of petrochemical industrialisation on life expectancy and per capita income in Taiwan: an 11-year longitudinal study
Ya-Mei Chen, Wan-Yu Lin, Chang-Chuan Chan
Non-paying partnerships and its association with HIV risk behavior, program exposure and service utilization among female sex workers in India
Sandra Mary Travasso, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra, Niranjan Saggurti, Suneeta Krishnan
Development, implementation and outcome of standards to restrict fatty meat in the food supply and prevent NCDs: learning from an innovative trade/food policy in Ghana
Anne Marie Thow, Reginald Annan, Laudina Mensah, Syeda Nafisa Chowdhury
Determining the impact of smoking point of sale legislation among youth (Display) study: a protocol for an evaluation of public health policy
Sally Haw, Amanda Amos, Douglas Eadie, John Frank, Laura MacDonald, Anne Marie MacKintosh, Andy MacGregor, Martine Miller, Jamie Pearce, Clare Sharp, Martine Stead, Catherine Tisch, Winfried van der Sluijs
Cardiovascular health: a cross-national comparison between the Maine Syracuse Study (Central New York, USA) and ORISCAV-LUX (Luxembourg)
Georgina E Crichton, Merrill F Elias, Adam Davey, Nicolas Sauvageot, Charles Delagardelle, Jean Beissel, Ala’a Alkerwi
Associations of short sleep duration with prehypertension and hypertension among Lithuanian children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study
Renata Kuciene, Virginija Dulskiene
Psychological distress in French college students: demographic, economic and social stressors. Results from the 2010 National Health Barometer
Thomas Saïas, Enguerrand du Roscoät, Laurentine Véron, Romain Guignard, Jean-Baptiste Richard, Stéphane Legleye, Fanny Sauvade, Viviane Kovess, François Beck
Spatial variations of pulmonary tuberculosis prevalence co-impacted by socio-economic and geographic factors in People’s Republic of China, 2010
Xin-Xu Li, Li-Xia Wang, Hui Zhang, Shi-Wen Jiang, Qun Fang, Jia-Xu Chen, Xiao-Nong Zhou
Geographical differences in whooping cough in Catalonia, Spain, from 1990 to 2010
Inma Crespo, Núria Soldevila, Pilar Muñoz, Pere Godoy, Gloria Carmona, Angela Domínguez
Active video games as a tool to prevent excessive weight gain in adolescents: rationale, design and methods of a randomized controlled trial
Monique Simons, Mai JM Chinapaw, Maaike van de Bovenkamp, Michiel R de Boer, Jacob C Seidell, Johannes Brug, Emely de Vet
Modern contraceptive use among sexually active men in Uganda: does discussion with a health worker matter?
Allen Kabagenyi, Patricia Ndugga, Stephen Ojiambo Wandera, Betty Kwagala
Mothers impose physical activity restrictions on their asthmatic children and adolescents: an analytical cross-sectional study
Fabianne MNA Dantas, Marco AV Correia Jr, Almerinda R Silva, Décio M Peixoto, Emanuel SC Sarinho, José A Rizzo
Empirical treatment for TB in HIV: lessons from a cohort study of people living with HIV treated in Recife, Brazil
Maria Fátima de Pessoa Militão Albuquerque, Isabella Coimbra, Joanna d’Arc Batista, Magda Maruza, Ricardo A A Ximenes, Heloísa R Lacerda, Demócrito B Miranda-Filho, Marcela L Santos, Laura C Rodrigues
Socio-epidemiological determinants of 2002 plague outbreak in Himachal Pradesh, India: a qualitative study
Sonu Goel, Harvinder Kaur, Anil Kumar Gupta, Umesh Chauhan, Amarjeet Singh
Trend of microbiologically-confirmed tuberculosis in a low-incidence setting with high immigration rates
Giulia Lombardi, Paola Dal Monte, Agnese Denicolò, Marina Tadolini, Giulia Martelli, Maria Letizia Bacchi Reggiani, Pierluigi Viale, Maria Paola Landini
Impacts of mobility disability and high and increasing body mass index on health-related quality of life and participation in society: a population-based cohort study from Sweden
Marianne Holmgren, Anna Lindgren, Jeroen de Munter, Finn Rasmussen, Gerd Ahlström
Increasing girls’ physical activity during an organised youth sport basketball program: a randomised controlled trial protocol
Justin M Guagliano, Chris Lonsdale, Gregory S Kolt, Richard R Rosenkranz
The effects of mid-life socioeconomic disadvantage and perceived social support on trajectories of subsequent depressive symptoms among older Taiwanese women
Yun-Yu Chen, Chi Chiao, Kate Ksobiech
Prevalence and predictors of adult hypertension in Kabul, Afghanistan
Khwaja Mir Islam Saeed, Mohammad Hafez Rasooly, Nick JW Brown
HIV serostatus and disclosure: implications for infant feeding practice in rural south Nyanza, Kenya
Maricianah A Onono, Craig R Cohen, Mable Jerop, Elizabeth A Bukusi, Janet M Turan
Self-rated mental health and socio-economic background: a study of adolescents in Sweden
Katrin Hutton, Maria Nyholm, Jens M Nygren, Petra Svedberg
Risk factors of diarrhoeal disease in under-five children among health extension model and non-model families in Sheko district rural community, Southwest Ethiopia: comparative cross-sectional study
Teklemichael Gebru, Mohammed Taha, Wondwosen Kassahun
A mixed ecologic-cohort comparison of physical activity & weight among young adults from five populations of African origin
Amy Luke, Pascal Bovet, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Terrence E Forrester, Estelle V Lambert, Dale A Schoeller, Lara R Dugas, Ramon A Durazo-Arvizu, David A Shoham, Guichan Cao, Soren Brage, Ulf Ekelund, Richard S Cooper
Concerned significant others of people with gambling problems in Finland: a cross-sectional population study
Anne H Salonen, Sari Castrén, Hannu Alho, Tuuli Lahti
Diarrhea incidence and intestinal infections among rotavirus vaccinated infants from a poor area in Brazil: a spatial analysis
Claudimary Bispo Santos, Karina Conceição GM Araújo, Anne Jardim-Botelho, Márcio Bezerra Santos, Alda Rodrigues, Silvio Santana Dolabella, Ricardo Queiroz Gurgel
A systematic review of explanatory factors of barriers and facilitators to improving asthma management in South Asian children
Monica Lakhanpaul, Deborah Bird, Logan Manikam, Lorraine Culley, Gill Perkins, Nicky Hudson, Joanne Wilson, Mark Johnson
Using participatory epidemiology to assess factors contributing to common enteric pathogens in Ontario: results from a workshop held at the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Ontario
Shannon A Harding, E Jane Parmley, Karen E Morrison
Development and psychometric properties of the Y-PASS questionnaire to assess correlates of lunchtime and after-school physical activity in children
Rebecca M Stanley, Kate Ridley, Timothy S Olds, James Dollman
Mental health and wellbeing in spouses of persons with dementia: the Nord-Trøndelag health study
Helga Ask, Ellen Melbye Langballe, Jostein Holmen, Geir Selbæk, Ingvild Saltvedt, Kristian Tambs
Gender-specific differences in risk for intimate partner violence in South Korea
Minjee Lee, Katherine M Stefani, Eun-Cheol Park
Having mentors and campus social networks moderates the impact of worries and video gaming on depressive symptoms: a moderated mediation analysis
Jong-Sun Lee, Bumseok Jeong
The role of intimate partner violence and other health-related social factors on postpartum common mental disorders: a survey-based structural equation modeling analysis
Michael Eduardo Reichenheim, Claudia Leite Moraes, Claudia Souza Lopes, Gustavo Lobato
Strong association between earlier abuse and revictimization in youth
Helena Blom, Ulf Högberg, Niclas Olofsson, Ingela Danielsson
Income-related inequalities in chronic conditions, physical functioning and psychological distress among older people in Australia: cross-sectional findings from the 45 and up study
Rosemary J Korda, Ellie Paige, Vasoontara Yiengprugsawan, Isabel Latz, Sharon Friel
Developing anti-tobacco messages for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: evidence from a national cross-sectional survey
Gillian S Gould, Kerrianne Watt, Leah Stevenson, Andy McEwen, Yvonne Cadet-James, Alan R Clough
Effectiveness of a smartphone application for improving healthy lifestyles, a randomized clinical trial (EVIDENT II): study protocol
José I Recio-Rodríguez, Carlos Martín-Cantera, Natividad González-Viejo, Amparo Gómez-Arranz, Maria S Arietaleanizbeascoa, Yolanda Schmolling-Guinovart, Jose A Maderuelo-Fernandez, Diana Pérez-Arechaederra, Emiliano Rodriguez-Sanchez, Manuel A Gómez-Marcos, Luis García-Ortiz
Online Pestkoppenstoppen: systematic and theory-based development of a web-based tailored intervention for adolescent cyberbully victims to combat and prevent cyberbullying
Niels CL Jacobs, Trijntje Völlink, Francine Dehue, Lilian Lechner
Self-reported depression is increasing among socio-economically disadvantaged adolescents – repeated cross-sectional surveys from Finland from 2000 to 2011
Antti Torikka, Riittakerttu Kaltiala-Heino, Arja Rimpelä, Mauri Marttunen, Tiina Luukkaala, Matti Rimpelä
Risk factors of coronary heart disease among medical students in King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Nahla Khamis Ibrahim, Morooj Mahnashi, Amal Al-Dhaheri, Borooj Al-Zahrani, Ebtihal Al-Wadie, Mydaa Aljabri, Rajaa Al-Shanketi, Rawiah Al-Shehri, Fatin M Al-Sayes, Jamil Bashawri
Changes in family income status and the development of overweight and obesity from 2 to 15 years: a longitudinal study
Margaret M Demment, Jere D Haas, Christine M Olson
Tuberculosis treatment discontinuation and symptom persistence: an observational study of Bihar, India’s public care system covering >100,000,000 inhabitants
Kimberly S Babiarz, Sze-chuan Suen, Jeremy D Goldhaber-Fiebert
Introducing rapid oral–fluid HIV testing among high risk populations in Shandong, China: feasibility and challenges
Gifty Marley, Dianmin Kang, Erin C Wilson, Tao Huang, Yuesheng Qian, Xiufang Li, Xiaorun Tao, Guoyong Wang, Huanmiao Xun, Wei Ma
Who are the under- and never- screened for cancer in Ontario: a qualitative investigation
Dionne Gesink, Alanna Mihic, Joan Antal, Brooke Filsinger, C Sarai Racey, Daniel Felipe Perez, Todd Norwood, Farah Ahmad, Nancy Kreiger, Paul Ritvo
Factors predicting home storage of medicines in Northern Uganda
Moses Ocan, Godfrey S Bbosa, Paul Waako, Jasper Ogwal-Okeng, Celestino Obua
Domestic waste disposal practice and perceptions of private sector waste management in urban Accra
Ramatta Massa Yoada, Dennis Chirawurah, Philip Baba Adongo
The influence of social networks on self-management support: a metasynthesis
Ivaylo Vassilev, Anne Rogers, Anne Kennedy, Jan Koetsenruijter
Domestic violence against women in Eastern Sudan
AbdelAziem A Ali, Khalid Yassin, Rawia Omer
Systematic review and meta-analysis of the proportion of Campylobacter cases that develop chronic sequelae
Jessica Keithlin, Jan Sargeant, M Kate Thomas, Aamir Fazil
Developing and implementing an accreditation system for health promoting schools in Northern India: a cross-sectional study
Jarnail Singh Thakur, Deepak Sharma, Nidhi Jaswal, Bhavneet Bharti, Ashoo Grover, Paramjyoti Thind
Specific genotypes of human papillomavirus in 125 high-grade squamous lesions and invasive cervical cancer cases from Congolese women
Luc Magloire Anicet Boumba, Lahoucine Hilali, Mustapha Mouallif, Donatien Moukassa, Moulay Mustapha Ennaji
The longitudinal exercise trend among older Swedes aged 53–84 years – a 16-year follow-up study
Patrik Midlöv, Matti Leijon, Jan Sundquist, Kristina Sundquist, Sven-Erik Johansson
Erratumto: knowledge of HIV and factors associated with attitudes towards HIV among final-year medical students at Hanoi medical university in Vietnam
Michael Platten, Ha N Pham, Huy V Nguyen, Nhu T Nguyen, Giang M Le
Erratum to: Consequences of hypertension and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, healthcare-seeking behaviors of patients, and responses of the health system: a population-based cross-sectional study in Bangladesh
Md Jasim Uddin, Nurul Alam, Tracey P Koehlmoos, Haribondhu Sarma, Muhammad Ashique Haider Chowdhury, Dewan S Alam, Louis Niessen
The context of violent disagreements between parents: a qualitative analysis from parents’ reports
Megan H Bair-Merritt, Mahua Mandal, Norman B Epstein, Carol A Werlinich, Deanna Kerrigan
National and subnational hypertension prevalence estimates for the Republic of Ireland: better outcome and risk factor data are needed to produce better prevalence estimates
Steve Barron, Kevin Balanda, John Hughes, Lorraine Fahy
Behavioural and demographic predictors of adherence to three consecutive faecal occult blood test screening opportunities: a population study
Amy Duncan, Deborah Turnbull, Carlene Wilson, Joanne M Osborne, Stephen R Cole, Ingrid Flight, Graeme P Young
Large and forgotten in rural Australia: assessment, attitudes and possible approaches to losing weight in young adult males
Kumara Mendis, Tanya Forster, Karen Paxton, Karen Hyland, Jason Yelverton, Rick McLean, Joseph Canalese, Anthony Brown, Katharine Steinbeck
Sexual and reproductive health communication and awareness of contraceptive methods among secondary school female students, northern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
Yohannes Adama Melaku, Yemane Berhane, John Kinsman, Hailemariam Lemma Reda
Towards making efficient use of household resources for appropriate prevention of malaria: investigating households’ ownership, use and expenditures on ITNs and other preventive tools in Southeast Nigeria
Obinna Onwujekwe, Enyi Etiaba, Nkoli Uguru, Benjamin Uzochukwu, Alex Adjagba
Children’s representations of school support for HIV-affected peers in rural Zimbabwe
Catherine Campbell, Louise Andersen, Alice Mutsikiwa, Claudius Madanhire, Morten Skovdal, Constance Nyamukapa, Simon Gregson
Stress mediates the relationship between sexual orientation and behavioral risk disparities
Jennifer M Jabson, Grant W Farmer, Deborah J Bowen
Design of non-pharmaceutical intervention strategies for pandemic influenza outbreaks
Dayna L Martinez, Tapas K Das