Issue 1/2016
Content (1227 Articles)
Daily consumption of ready-to-use peanut-based therapeutic food increased fat free mass, improved anemic status but has no impact on the zinc status of people living with HIV/AIDS: a randomized controlled trial
Adama Diouf, Abdou Badiane, Noël Magloire Manga, Nicole Idohou-Dossou, Papa Salif Sow, Salimata Wade
The role of repetition and reinforcement in school-based oral health education-a cluster randomized controlled trial
Abdul Haleem, Muhammad Khalil Khan, Shamta Sufia, Saima Chaudhry, Muhammad Irfanullah Siddiqui, Ayyaz Ali Khan
The association between leisure time physical activity in adolescence and poor mental health in early adulthood: a prospective cohort study
Per Hoegh Poulsen, Karin Biering, Johan Hviid Andersen
Substance use patterns and unprotected sex among street-involved youth in a Canadian setting: a prospective cohort study
Tessa Cheng, Caitlin Johnston, Thomas Kerr, Paul Nguyen, Evan Wood, Kora DeBeck
Hungry for an intervention? Adolescents’ ratings of acceptability of eating-related intervention strategies
F. Marijn Stok, Denise T. D. de Ridder, Emely de Vet, Liliya Nureeva, Aleksandra Luszczynska, Jane Wardle, Tania Gaspar, John B. F. de Wit
Awareness of energy drink intake guidelines and associated consumption practices: a cross-sectional study
Amy Peacock, Nicolas Droste, Amy Pennay, Peter Miller, Dan I. Lubman, Raimondo Bruno
A comparison of sexual risk behaviours and HIV seroprevalence among circumcised and uncircumcised men before and after implementation of the safe male circumcision programme in Uganda
Simon Peter Sebina Kibira, Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy, Marguerite Daniel, Lynn Muhimbuura Atuyambe, Fredrick Edward Makumbi
Prevalence of percutaneous injuries and associated factors among health care workers in Hawassa referral and adare District hospitals, Hawassa, Ethiopia, January 2014
Gudeta Kaweti, Teferi Abegaz
What are the characteristics of ‘sexually ready’ adolescents? Exploring the sexual readiness of youth in urban poor Accra
Adriana A. E. Biney, F. Nii-Amoo Dodoo
An ecological analysis of food outlet density and prevalence of type II diabetes in South Carolina counties
Dana M. AlHasan, Jan Marie Eberth
Health promotion interventions in social economy companies in Flanders (Belgium)
Anne Hublet, Lea Maes, Jasmine Mommen, Benedicte Deforche, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij
Acceptability of tick control interventions to prevent Lyme disease in Switzerland and Canada: a mixed-method study
Cécile Aenishaenslin, Pascal Michel, André Ravel, Lise Gern, Jean-Philippe Waaub, François Milord, Denise Bélanger
Five years after the accident, whiplash casualties still have poorer quality of life in the physical domain than other mildly injured casualties: analysis of the ESPARR cohort
Charlène Tournier, Martine Hours, Pierrette Charnay, Laetitia Chossegros, Hélène Tardy
Does the public receive and adhere to boil water advisory recommendations? A cross-sectional study in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Andria Jones-Bitton, Diana L. Gustafson, Kelly Butt, Shannon E. Majowicz
The art of being mentally healthy: a study to quantify the relationship between recreational arts engagement and mental well-being in the general population
Christina Davies, Matthew Knuiman, Michael Rosenberg
Space, body, time and relationship experiences of recess physical activity: a qualitative case study among the least physical active schoolchildren
Charlotte Skau Pawlowski, Henriette Bondo Andersen, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Jens Troelsen, Jasper Schipperijn
An Internet-supported Physical Activity Intervention Delivered in Secondary Schools Located in Low Socio-economic Status Communities: Study Protocol for the Activity and Motivation in Physical Education (AMPED) Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
Chris Lonsdale, Aidan Lester, Katherine B. Owen, Rhiannon L. White, Ian Moyes, Louisa Peralta, Morwenna Kirwan, Anthony Maeder, Andrew Bennie, Freya MacMillan, Gregory S. Kolt, Nikos Ntoumanis, Jennifer M. Gore, Ester Cerin, Thierno M.O. Diallo, Dylan P. Cliff, David R. Lubans
Trends in childhood obesity and central adiposity between 1998-2001 and 2010-2012 according to household income and urbanity in Korea
Jinwook Bahk, Young-Ho Khang
National evaluation of strategies to reduce safety violations for working from heights in construction companies: results from a randomized controlled trial
Henk F. van der Molen, Aalt den Herder, Jan Warning, Monique H.W. Frings-Dresen
The usefulness of school-based syndromic surveillance for detecting malaria epidemics: experiences from a pilot project in Ethiopia
Ruth A. Ashton, Takele Kefyalew, Esey Batisso, Tessema Awano, Zelalem Kebede, Gezahegn Tesfaye, Tamiru Mesele, Sheleme Chibsa, Richard Reithinger, Simon J. Brooker
Effective strategies to reduce commercial tobacco use in Indigenous communities globally: A systematic review
Alexa Minichiello, Ayla R. F. Lefkowitz, Michelle Firestone, Janet K. Smylie, Robert Schwartz
Women’s health in the Lund area (WHILA) - Alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality among women – a 17 year follow-up study
Patrik Midlöv, Susanna Calling, Ashfaque A. Memon, Jan Sundquist, Kristina Sundquist, Sven-Erik Johansson
Investigating patients with an immigration background in Canada: relationships between individual immigrant attitudes, the doctor-patient relationship, and health outcomes
Amanda Whittal, Sonia Lippke
Wealth-related versus income-related inequalities in dental care use under universal public coverage: a panel data analysis of the Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement
Keiko Murakami, Hideki Hashimoto
Associations of mutually exclusive categories of physical activity and sedentary time with markers of cardiometabolic health in English adults: a cross-sectional analysis of the Health Survey for England
Kishan Bakrania, Charlotte L. Edwardson, Danielle H. Bodicoat, Dale W. Esliger, Jason M. R. Gill, Aadil Kazi, Latha Velayudhan, Alan J. Sinclair, Naveed Sattar, Stuart J. H. Biddle, Kamlesh Khunti, Melanie Davies, Thomas Yates
The analysis of factors affecting municipal employees’ willingness to report to work during an influenza pandemic by means of the extended parallel process model (EPPM)
Carolin von Gottberg, Silvia Krumm, Franz Porzsolt, Reinhold Kilian
Factors associated with incomplete childhood immunization in Arbegona district, southern Ethiopia: a case – control study
Abel Negussie, Wondewosen Kassahun, Sahilu Assegid, Ada K. Hagan
Women’s communication self-efficacy and expectations of primary male partners’ cooperation in sexually transmitted infection treatment in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: a cross-sectional study
Ly Thi-Hai Tran, Thanh Cong Bui, Christine M. Markham, Michael D. Swartz, Quan Minh Tran, Alan G. Nyitray, Thuy Thi-Thu Huynh, Lu-Yu Hwang
New Zealand’s new alcohol laws: protocol for a mixed-methods evaluation
Brett Maclennan, Kypros Kypri, Jennie Connor, Tuari Potiki, Robin Room
Overweight and obesity among women: analysis of demographic and health survey data from 32 Sub-Saharan African Countries
Subas Neupane, Prakash K.C., David Teye Doku
The intersection of health and wealth: association between personal bankruptcy and myocardial infarction rates in Canada
Anamaria Savu, Donald Schopflocher, Barry Scholnick, Padma Kaul
Lay perceptions of risk factors for Rift Valley fever in a pastoral community in northeastern Kenya
Caroline M. Ng’ang’a, Salome A. Bukachi, Bernard K. Bett
Changes in abdominal obesity in Chilean university students stratified by body mass index
Marco Cossio-Bolaños, Catalina Vilchez-Avaca, Victor Contreras-Mellado, Cynthia Lee Andruske, Rossana Gómez-Campos
Validation and comparison study of three urbanicity scales in a Thailand context
Wiroj Jiamjarasrangsi, Wichai Aekplakorn, Thosporn Vimolkej
Predicting condom use in adolescents: a test of three socio-cognitive models using a structural equation modeling approach
José P. Espada, Alexandra Morales, Alejandro Guillén-Riquelme, Rafael Ballester, Mireia Orgilés
Sociocultural determinants of anticipated oral cholera vaccine acceptance in three African settings: a meta-analytic approach
Neisha Sundaram, Christian Schaetti, Sonja Merten, Christian Schindler, Said M. Ali, Erick O. Nyambedha, Bruno Lapika, Claire-Lise Chaignat, Raymond Hutubessy, Mitchell G. Weiss
One size does not fit all–qualitative process evaluation of the Healthy School Start parental support programme to prevent overweight and obesity among children in disadvantaged areas in Sweden
Åsa Norman, Gisela Nyberg, Liselotte Schäfer Elinder, Anita Berlin
Comparing the quality of pro- and anti-vaccination online information: a content analysis of vaccination-related webpages
Gabriele Sak, Nicola Diviani, Ahmed Allam, Peter J. Schulz
The association of body image distortion with weight control behaviors, diet behaviors, physical activity, sadness, and suicidal ideation among Korean high school students: a cross-sectional study
Jounghee Lee, Youngmin Lee
Influences on eating: a qualitative study of adolescents in a periurban area in Lima, Peru
Jinan C. Banna, Opal Vanessa Buchthal, Treena Delormier, Hilary M. Creed-Kanashiro, Mary E. Penny
The emergence of health inequalities in early adulthood: evidence on timing and mechanisms from a West of Scotland cohort
Helen Sweeting, Michael Green, Michaela Benzeval, Patrick West
Determinants of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Henan province in China: a case control study
Chunxiao Zhang, Yongliang Wang, Guangcan Shi, Wei Han, Huayang Zhao, Huiqiang Zhang, Xiue Xi
Sarcopenic obesity and physical performance in middle aged women: a cross-sectional study in Northeast Brazil
Mayle A. Moreira, Maria Victoria Zunzunegui, Afshin Vafaei, Saionara M. A. da Câmara, Tamyres S. Oliveira, Álvaro C. C. Maciel
Unintended pregnancy, contraceptive use, and childbearing desires among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women in Botswana: across-sectional study
Gloria K. Mayondi, Kathleen Wirth, Chelsea Morroni, Sikhulile Moyo, Gbolahan Ajibola, Modiegi Diseko, Maureen Sakoi, Jane Dipuo Magetse, Kebaiphe Moabi, Jean Leidner, Joseph Makhema, Betsy Kammerer, Shahin Lockman
Combining motivational and volitional approaches to reducing excessive alcohol consumption in pre-drinkers: a theory-based intervention protocol
Kim M. Caudwell, Barbara A. Mullan, Martin S. Hagger
Estimating the potential contribution of stroke treatments and preventative policies to reduce the stroke and ischemic heart disease mortality in Turkey up to 2032: a modelling study
Duygu Islek, Kaan Sozmen, Belgin Unal, Maria Guzman-Castillo, Ilonca Vaartjes, Julia Critchley, Simon Capewell, Martin O’Flaherty
Factors associated with unprotected anal sex with multiple non-steady partners in the past 12 months: results from the European Men-Who-Have-Sex-With-Men Internet Survey (EMIS 2010)
Sarah C. Kramer, Axel Jeremias Schmidt, Rigmor C. Berg, Martina Furegato, Harm Hospers, Cinta Folch, Ulrich Marcus
Development and evaluation of the Andhra Pradesh Children and Parent Study Physical Activity Questionnaire (APCAPS-PAQ): a cross-sectional study
Mika Matsuzaki, Ruth Sullivan, Ulf Ekelund, KV Radha Krishna, Bharati Kulkarni, Tim Collier, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Sanjay Kinra, Hannah Kuper
Strategic planning for saving the lives of mothers, newborns and children and preventing stillbirths in KwaZulu-Natal province South Africa: modelling using the Lives Saved Tool (LiST)
Shelley-Ann McGee, Lumbwe Chola, Aviva Tugendhaft, Victoria Mubaiwa, Neil Moran, Neil McKerrow, Leonard Kamugisha, Karen Hofman
Impact of exercise changes on body composition during the college years - a five year randomized controlled study
Wolfgang Kemmler, Simon von Stengel, Matthias Kohl, Julia Bauer
Exposure to different lengths of sick leave and subsequent work absence among young adults
Magnus Helgesson, Bo Johansson, Lisa Wernroth, Eva Vingård
Essential psychiatric medicines: wrong selection, high consumption and social problems
Izabela Fulone, Silvio Barberato-Filho, Michele Félix dos Santos, Carolina de Lima Rossi, Gordon Guyatt, Luciane Cruz Lopes
High road utilizers surveys compared to police data for road traffic crash hotspot localization in Rwanda and Sri Lanka
Catherine A. Staton, Vijitha De Silva, Elizabeth Krebs, Luciano Andrade, Stephen Rulisa, Badra Chandanie Mallawaarachchi, Kezhi Jin, Joao RicardoVissoci, Truls Østbye
Medicine expenses and obesity in Brazil: an analysis based on the household budget survey
Daniela S. Canella, Hillegonda M. D. Novaes, Renata B. Levy
Predictors of Chlamydia Trachomatis testing: perceived norms, susceptibility, changes in partner status, and underestimation of own risk
Gill A. ten Hoor, Robert A. C. Ruiter, Jan E. A. M. van Bergen, Christian J. P. A. Hoebe, Nicole H. T. M. Dukers-Muijrers, Gerjo Kok
Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension and sodium intake in Jiangsu Province, China: a baseline study in 2014
Zhang Yongqing, Wu Ming, Su Jian, Luo Pengfei, Pan Xiaoqun, Dong Meihua, Lou Peian, Dong Jianmei, Zhou Guoyu, Yang Jie, Lin Ping, Xu Yan
Sexual violence and general functioning among formerly abducted girls in Northern Uganda: the mediating roles of stigma and community relations - the WAYS study
Kennedy Amone-P’Olak, Tlholego Molemane Lekhutlile, Emilio Ovuga, Rosemary Ann Abbott, Richard Meiser-Stedman, David Gage Stewart, Peter Brian Jones
Effectiveness of additional follow-up telephone counseling in a smoking cessation clinic in Beijing and predictors of quitting among Chinese male smokers
Lei Wu, Yao He, Bin Jiang, Fang Zuo, Qinghui Liu, Li Zhang, Changxi Zhou, Miao Liu, Hongyan Chen, KK Cheng, Sophia S. C. Chan, Tai Hing Lam
Clinical surveillance for human astrovirus in Monastir region, Tunisia
Abir Monastiri, Mahjoub Aouni, Susana Guix, Badereddine Mechri, Marc Lopez-Roig, Nabil Ben Salem Abid, Neji Gueddiche, Sabeur Hamami, Lamjed Boughzala, Jordi Serra-Cobo
The correlates of after-school sedentary behavior among children aged 5–18 years: a systematic review
Lauren Arundell, Elly Fletcher, Jo Salmon, Jenny Veitch, Trina Hinkley
Are village health sanitation and nutrition committees fulfilling their roles for decentralised health planning and action? A mixed methods study from rural eastern India
Aradhana Srivastava, Rajkumar Gope, Nirmala Nair, Shibanand Rath, Suchitra Rath, Rajesh Sinha, Prabas Sahoo, Pavitra Mohan Biswal, Vijay Singh, Vikash Nath, HPS Sachdev, Jolene Skordis-Worrall, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Anthony Costello, Audrey Prost, Sanghita Bhattacharyya
Associations between self-perception of weight, food choice intentions, and consumer response to calorie information: a retrospective investigation of public health center clients in Los Angeles County before the implementation of menu-labeling regulation
Roch A. Nianogo, Tony Kuo, Lisa V. Smith, Onyebuchi A. Arah
Association of household income and education with eating behaviors in Japanese adults: a cross-sectional study
Saki Nakamura, Takayo Inayama, Kikuko Hata, Munehiro Matsushita, Masaki Takahashi, Kazuhiro Harada, Takashi Arao
Associations between lifestyle behaviours and optimal wellbeing in a diverse sample of New Zealand adults
Kate B. Prendergast, Grant M. Schofield, Lisa M. Mackay
An analysis of global youth tobacco survey for developing a comprehensive national smoking policy in Timor-Leste
Decio Ribeiro Sarmento, Degninou Yehadji
A meta-analysis of the impacts of internal migration on child health outcomes in China
Xiaoyue Sun, Mengtong Chen, Ko Ling Chan
The Active for Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school-based cluster randomised controlled trial: effect on potential mediators
Debbie A. Lawlor, Laura D. Howe, Emma L. Anderson, Ruth R. Kipping, Rona Campbell, Sian Wells, Catherine R. Chittleborough, Tim J. Peters, Russell Jago
Physical activity guidelines and cardiovascular risk in children: a cross sectional analysis to determine whether 60 minutes is enough
L. M. Füssenich, L. M. Boddy, D. J. Green, L. E. F. Graves, L. Foweather, R. M. Dagger, N. McWhannell, J. Henaghan, N. D. Ridgers, G. Stratton, N. D. Hopkins
Factors influencing mother’s participation in Posyandu for improving nutritional status of children under-five in Aceh Utara district, Aceh province, Indonesia
Cut Nazri, Chiho Yamazaki, Satomi Kameo, Dewi M.D. Herawati, Nanan Sekarwana, Ardini Raksanagara, Hiroshi Koyama
Validating survey measurement scales for AIDS-related knowledge and stigma among construction workers in South Africa
Paul Bowen, Rajen Govender, Peter Edwards
Cost- effectiveness of HPV vaccination regime: comparing twice versus thrice vaccinations dose regime among adolescent girls in Malaysia
Syed Aljunid, Namaitijiang Maimaiti, Amrizal M Nur, Mohd Rushdan Md Noor, Sharifa Ezat Wan Puteh
Cluster randomised-control trial for an Australian child protection education program: Study protocol for the Learn to be safe with Emmy and friends™
Codi White, Dianne C. Shanley, Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck, Katrina Lines, Kerryann Walsh, Russell Hawkins
The descriptive epidemiology of total physical activity, muscle-strengthening exercises and sedentary behaviour among Australian adults – results from the National Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey
Jason A. Bennie, Zeljko Pedisic, Jannique G. Z. van Uffelen, Joanne Gale, Lauren K. Banting, Ineke Vergeer, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Adrian E. Bauman, Stuart J. H. Biddle
Text Reminders in Colorectal Cancer Screening (TRICCS): Protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Yasemin Hirst, Robert Kerrison, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Nicholas Counsell, Natasha Djedovic, Josephine Ruwende, Mark Stewart, Christian von Wagner
Protocol for a cluster-randomised trial to determine the effects of advocacy actions on the salt content of processed foods
Helen Trevena, Anne Marie Thow, Elizabeth Dunford, Jason H. Y. Wu, Bruce Neal
Cancer mortality in the West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territory
Niveen M. E. Abu-Rmeileh, Emilio Antonio Luca Gianicolo, Antonella Bruni, Suzan Mitwali, Maurizio Portaluri, Jawad Bitar, Mutaem Hamad, Rita Giacaman, Maria Angela Vigotti
Improvements in life expectancy among Australians due to reductions in smoking: Results from a risk percentiles approach
Haider Mannan, Andrea J Curtis, Andrew Forbes, Dianna J Magliano, Judy A Lowthian, Manoj Gambhir, John J McNeil
Elevated blood pressure in adolescent girls: correlation to body size and composition
Ashley L. Devonshire, Erin R. Hager, Maureen M. Black, Marie Diener-West, Nicholas Tilton, Soren Snitker
Prevalence, correlates, and associated psychological problems of substance use in Korean adolescents
Subin Park, Yeni Kim
Understanding gambling related harm: a proposed definition, conceptual framework, and taxonomy of harms
Erika Langham, Hannah Thorne, Matthew Browne, Phillip Donaldson, Judy Rose, Matthew Rockloff
Distribution of genital human papillomavirus genotypes in benign clinical manifestations among men from Northern Spain
L. Sara Arroyo, Miren Basaras, Elixabete Arrese, Silvia Hernáez, Valentín Esteban, Ramón Cisterna
Comparison of body mass index (BMI) with the CUN-BAE body adiposity estimator in the prediction of hypertension and type 2 diabetes
Vicente Martín, Verónica Dávila-Batista, Jesús Castilla, Pere Godoy, Miguel Delgado-Rodríguez, Nuria Soldevila, Antonio J. Molina, Tania Fernandez-Villa, Jenaro Astray, Ady Castro, Fernando González-Candelas, José María Mayoral, José María Quintana, Angela Domínguez
The acceptability and cost of a home-based chlamydia retesting strategy: findings from the REACT randomised controlled trial
K. S. Smith, J. M. Kaldor, J. S. Hocking, M. S. Jamil, A. M. McNulty, P. Read, C. S. Bradshaw, M. Y. Chen, C. K. Fairley, H. Wand, K. Worthington, S. Blake, V. Knight, W. Rawlinson, M. Saville, S. N. Tabrizi, S. M. Garland, B. Donovan, R. Guy
Living at the edge of an interface area in Zimbabwe: cattle owners, commodity chain and health workers’ awareness, perceptions and practices on zoonoses
B. M. Gadaga, E.M.C. Etter, B. Mukamuri, K. J. Makwangudze, D. M. Pfukenyi, G. Matope
Considering risk contexts in explaining the paradoxical HIV increase among female sex workers in Mumbai and Thane, India
Sunita V S Bandewar, Shalini Bharat, Anine Kongelf, Hemlata Pisal, Martine Collumbien
Strong Hearts, healthy communities: a rural community-based cardiovascular disease prevention program
Rebecca A. Seguin, Galen Eldridge, Meredith L. Graham, Sara C. Folta, Miriam E. Nelson, David Strogatz
Why increasing availability of ART is not enough: a rapid, community-based study on how HIV-related stigma impacts engagement to care in rural South Africa
Sarah Treves-Kagan, Wayne T. Steward, Lebogang Ntswane, Robin Haller, Jennifer M. Gilvydis, Harnik Gulati, Scott Barnhart, Sheri A. Lippman
Interactions of problematic mobile phone use and psychopathological symptoms with unintentional injuries: a school-based sample of Chinese adolescents
Shuman Tao, Xiaoyan Wu, Yuhui Wan, Shichen Zhang, Jiahu Hao, Fangbiao Tao
Development and psychometric validation of a scoring questionnaire to assess healthy lifestyles among adolescents in Catalonia
Lluís Costa-Tutusaus, Myriam Guerra-Balic
The impact of home, work, and church environments on fat intake over time among rural residents: a longitudinal observational study
Regine Haardörfer, Iris Alcantara, Ann Addison, Karen Glanz, Michelle C. Kegler
Shedding light on research participation effects in behaviour change trials: a qualitative study examining research participant experiences
Virginia MacNeill, Marian Foley, Alan Quirk, Jim McCambridge
Sensation seeking as a potential screening tool for suicidality in adolescence
Won Kyung Lee, Dohee Lim, Hye Ah Lee, Hyesook Park
Latin American Study of Nutrition and Health (ELANS): rationale and study design
M. Fisberg, I. Kovalskys, G. Gómez, A. Rigotti, L. Y. Cortés, M. Herrera-Cuenca, M. C. Yépez, R. G. Pareja, V. Guajardo, I. Z. Zimberg, A. D. P. Chiavegatto Filho, M. Pratt, B. Koletzko, K. L. Tucker
Prevalence and associated factors of knee osteoarthritis in a rural Chinese adult population: an epidemiological survey
Yuan Liu, Haifeng Zhang, Ningxia Liang, Weimin Fan, Jun Li, Zuhu Huang, Zhijian Yin, Zhijun Wu, Jun Hu
Improving the identification of priority populations to increase hepatitis B testing rates, 2012
Caroline van Gemert, Julie Wang, Jody Simmons, Benjamin Cowie, Douglas Boyle, Mark Stoove, Chris Enright, Margaret Hellard
Socioeconomic status is associated with reduced lung function in China: an analysis from a large cross-sectional study in Shanghai
Adam W. Gaffney, Jing-qing Hang, Mi-Sun Lee, Li Su, Feng-ying Zhang, David C. Christiani
Promoting community readiness for physical activity among older adults in Germany – protocol of the ready to change intervention trial
Tilman Brand, Dirk Gansefort, Heinz Rothgang, Sabine Röseler, Jochen Meyer, Hajo Zeeb
HIV/AIDS-related knowledge awareness and risk behaviors among injection drug users in Maanshan, China: a cross-sectional study
Baifeng Chen, Yu Zhu, Rui Guo, Shushu Ding, Zhen Zhang, Huaying Cai, Hongbin Zhu, Yufeng Wen
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with high prevalence of diabetes in Kuwaiti adults: results from a national survey
Fang Fang Zhang, Suad Al Hooti, Sameer Al Zenki, Husam Alomirah, Kazi M Jamil, Aravinda Rao, Nasser Al Jahmah, Edward Saltzman, Lynne M. Ausman
Psycho-social resilience, vulnerability and suicide prevention: impact evaluation of a mentoring approach to modify suicide risk for remote Indigenous Australian students at boarding school
Janya McCalman, Roxanne Bainbridge, Sandra Russo, Katrina Rutherford, Komla Tsey, Mark Wenitong, Anthony Shakeshaft, Chris Doran, Susan Jacups
No differences in clinical outcomes with the addition of viral load testing to CD4 cell count monitoring among HIV infected participants receiving ART in rural Uganda: Long-term results from the Home Based AIDS Care Project
Stephen Okoboi, Paul John Ekwaru, James D. Campbell, Aggrey Egessa, Racheal King, Celestin Bakanda, Emmy Muramuzi, Frank Kaharuza, Samuel Malamba, David M. Moore
Concerns about covert HIV testing are associated with delayed presentation in Ethiopian adults with suspected malaria: a cross-sectional study
Frew Tadesse, Wakgari Deressa, Andrew W. Fogarty
Missouri K-12 school collection and reporting of school-based syndromic surveillance data: a cross sectional study
Terri Rebmann, Allison K. Kunerth, Alan Zelicoff, Michael B. Elliott, Harper F. Wieldt
Effectiveness and micro-costing of the KiVa school-based bullying prevention programme in Wales: study protocol for a pragmatic definitive parallel group cluster randomised controlled trial
Suzy Clarkson, Nick Axford, Vashti Berry, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Gretchen Bjornstad, Zoe Wrigley, Joanna Charles, Zoe Hoare, Obioha C. Ukoumunne, Justin Matthews, Judy Hutchings
Prevalence and factors associated with intestinal parasitic infections among food handlers of Southern Ethiopia: cross sectional study
Mohammedaman Mama, Getaneh Alemu
Insecticide treated nets use and its determinants among settlers of Southwest Ethiopia
Tsegaye Berkessa, D. Oljira, B. Tesfa
Simulating the impact on health of internalising the cost of carbon in food prices combined with a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages
Adam D. M. Briggs, Ariane Kehlbacher, Richard Tiffin, Peter Scarborough
Prevalence, correlates and patterns of waterpipe smoking among secondary school students in southeast London: a cross-sectional study
Mohammed Jawad, Gerald Power
Trends in childhood pneumococcal vaccine coverage in Shanghai, China, 2005–2011: a retrospective cohort study
Matthew L. Boulton, Nithin S. Ravi, Xiaodong Sun, Zhuoying Huang, Abram L. Wagner
Estimating the magnitude of female genital mutilation/cutting in Norway: an extrapolation model
Mai M. Ziyada, Marthe Norberg-Schulz, R. Elise B. Johansen
The alcohol harm paradox: using a national survey to explore how alcohol may disproportionately impact health in deprived individuals
Mark A. Bellis, Karen Hughes, James Nicholls, Nick Sheron, Ian Gilmore, Lisa Jones
Supporting Physical Activity in the Childcare Environment (SPACE): rationale and study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
Patricia Tucker, Shauna M. Burke, Anca Gaston, Jennifer D. Irwin, Andrew M. Johnson, Brian W. Timmons, Leigh M. Vanderloo, Molly Driediger
Vijana Vijiweni II: a cluster-randomized trial to evaluate the efficacy of a microfinance and peer health leadership intervention for HIV and intimate partner violence prevention among social networks of young men in Dar es Salaam
Lusajo Kajula, Peter Balvanz, Mrema Noel Kilonzo, Gema Mwikoko, Thespina Yamanis, Marta Mulawa, Deus Kajuna, Lauren Hill, Donaldson Conserve, Heathe Luz McNaughton Reyes, Sheila Leatherman, Basant Singh, Suzanne Maman
Why mothers still deliver at home: understanding factors associated with home deliveries and cultural practices in rural coastal Kenya, a cross-section study
Rodgers O. Moindi, Moses M. Ngari, Venny C. S. Nyambati, Charles Mbakaya
Mental health outcomes in times of economic recession: a systematic literature review
Diana Frasquilho, Margarida Gaspar Matos, Ferdinand Salonna, Diogo Guerreiro, Cláudia C. Storti, Tânia Gaspar, José M. Caldas-de-Almeida
Screen-based sedentary behavior and associations with functional strength in 6–15 year-old children in the United States
Lisa R. Edelson, Kevin C. Mathias, Victor L. Fulgoni III, Leonidas G. Karagounis
Validation of the Breast Cancer Screening Beliefs Questionnaire among African Australian women
Cannas Kwok, Olayide Ogunsiji, Chun Fan Lee
Spatial analysis of HIV infection and associated individual characteristics in Burundi: indications for effective prevention
Emmanuel Barankanira, Nicolas Molinari, Théodore Niyongabo, Christian Laurent
Second-hand smoke in four English prisons: an air quality monitoring study
Leah R. Jayes, Elena Ratschen, Rachael L. Murray, Suzy Dymond-White, John Britton
Are pit latrines in urban areas of Sub-Saharan Africa performing? A review of usage, filling, insects and odour nuisances
Anne Nakagiri, Charles B. Niwagaba, Philip M. Nyenje, Robinah N. Kulabako, John B. Tumuhairwe, Frank Kansiime
Determinants of tetanus, pneumococcal and influenza vaccination in the elderly: a representative cross-sectional study on knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP)
Carolina J. Klett-Tammen, Gérard Krause, Linda Seefeld, Jördis J. Ott
Study protocol for the Maule Cohort (MAUCO) of chronic diseases, Chile 2014–2024
Catterina Ferreccio, Juan Carlos Roa, Claudia Bambs, Alejandra Vives, Alejandro H. Corvalán, Sandra Cortés, Claudia Foerster, Johanna Acevedo, Andrea Huidobro, Alvaro Passi, Pablo Toro, Yerko Covacevich, Rolando de la Cruz, Jill Koshiol, Mauricio Olivares, Juan Francisco Miquel, Francisco Cruz, Raúl Silva, Andrew F. Quest, Marcelo J. Kogan, Pablo F. Castro, Sergio Lavandero
The relationship between work stress and work ability among power supply workers in Guangdong, China: a cross-sectional study
Hualiang Li, Zhiting Liu, Runzhong Liu, Li Li, Aihua Lin
Relationships of physical activity and sedentary time in obese parent-child dyads: a cross-sectional study
Robert G. McMurray, Diane C. Berry, Todd A. Schwartz, Emily G. Hall, Madeline N. Neal, Siying Li, Diana Lam
All-age hospitalization rates in coal seam gas areas in Queensland, Australia, 1995–2011
Angela K. Werner, Kerrianne Watt, Cate M. Cameron, Sue Vink, Andrew Page, Paul Jagals
The importance of age, sex and place in understanding socioeconomic inequalities in allostatic load: Evidence from the Scottish Health Survey (2008–2011)
Tony Robertson, Eleanor Watts
Attitudes and intended behaviour to mental disorders and associated factors in catalan population, Spain: cross-sectional population-based survey
Ignacio Aznar-Lou, Antoni Serrano-Blanco, Ana Fernández, Juan V. Luciano, Maria Rubio-Valera
Absolute cardiovascular risk in a Fiji medical zone
Rajat Gyaneshwar, Swaran Naidu, Magdalena Z. Raban, Sheetal Naidu, Christine Linhart, Stephen Morrell, Isimeli Tukana, Richard Taylor
Knowledge, attitude and practices: assessing maternal and child health care handbook intervention in Vietnam
Hirotsugu Aiga, Vinh Duc Nguyen, Cuong Dinh Nguyen, Tho Thi Thi Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong Nguyen
Screen-based behaviour in school-aged children with long-term illness
Daniela Husarova, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Lukas Blinka, Anna Sevcikova, Jitse P. van Dijk, Sijmen A. Reijneveld
Predictors of residential stability among homeless young adults: a cohort study
Élise Roy, Marie Robert, Louise Fournier, Émélie Laverdière, Djamal Berbiche, Jean-François Boivin
Epidemiology of diabetes and complications among adults in the Republic of Ireland 1998-2015: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Marsha L. Tracey, Michael Gilmartin, Kate O’Neill, Anthony P. Fitzgerald, Sheena M. McHugh, Claire M. Buckley, Ronan J. Canavan, Patricia M. Kearney
HIV risk and psychological distress among female entertainment workers in Cambodia: a cross-sectional study
Carinne Brody, Pheak Chhoun, Sovannary Tuot, Khuondyla Pal, Kolab Chhim, Siyan Yi
Work, eat and sleep: towards a healthy ageing at work program offshore
Vanessa Riethmeister, Sandra Brouwer, Jac van der Klink, Ute Bültmann
What is positive youth development and how might it reduce substance use and violence? A systematic review and synthesis of theoretical literature
Chris Bonell, Kate Hinds, Kelly Dickson, James Thomas, Adam Fletcher, Simon Murphy, G. J. Melendez-Torres, Carys Bonell, Rona Campbell
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders and ergonomic risk factors in special education teachers and teacher’s aides
Hsin-Yi Kathy Cheng, Man-Ting Wong, Yu-Chung Yu, Yan-Ying Ju
Variations in schools’ commitment to health and implementation of health improvement activities: a cross-sectional study of secondary schools in Wales
Graham F. Moore, Hannah J. Littlecott, Adam Fletcher, Gillian Hewitt, Simon Murphy
Message on a bottle: are alcohol warning labels about cancer appropriate?
Emma R. Miller, Imogen J. Ramsey, Genevieve Y. Baratiny, Ian N. Olver
Facilitators for the development and implementation of health promoting policy and programs – a scoping review at the local community level
Daniel Weiss, Monica Lillefjell, Eva Magnus
Receipt of evidence-based brief cessation interventions by health professionals and use of cessation assisted treatments among current adult cigarette-only smokers: National Adult Tobacco Survey, 2009–2010
Judy Kruger, Alissa O’Halloran, Abby C. Rosenthal, Stephen D. Babb, Michael C. Fiore
Maternal urinary manganese and risk of low birth weight: a case–control study
Wei Xia, Yanqiu Zhou, Tongzhang Zheng, Bin Zhang, Bryan A. Bassig, Yuanyuan Li, John Pierce Wise Sr., Aifen Zhou, Yanjian Wan, Youjie Wang, Chao Xiong, Jinzhu Zhao, Zhengkuan Li, Yuanxiang Yao, Jie Hu, Xinyun Pan, Shunqing Xu
Burden of stroke attributable to selected lifestyle risk factors in rural South Africa
Mandy Maredza, Melanie Y. Bertram, Xavier F. Gómez-Olivé, Stephen M. Tollman
A multilevel analysis to explain self-reported adverse health effects and adaptation to urban heat: a cross-sectional survey in the deprived areas of 9 Canadian cities
Diane Bélanger, Belkacem Abdous, Pierre Valois, Pierre Gosselin, Elhadji A. Laouan Sidi
Risk and protective factors associated with being bullied on school property compared with cyberbullied
Ray M. Merrill, Carl L. Hanson
Early detection of unhealthy behaviors, the prevalence and receipt of antiviral treatment for disabled adult hepatitis B and C carriers
Sui-Whi Jane, Ming-Shyan Lin, Wen-Nan Chiu, Li-Ju Lai, Po-Han Chen, Mei-Yen Chen
LInking EDCs in maternal Nutrition to Child health (LINC study) – protocol for prospective cohort to study early life exposure to environmental chemicals and child health
Marijke de Cock, Ilona Quaak, Eva J. Sugeng, Juliette Legler, Margot van de Bor
Are temporal patterns of sitting associated with obesity among blue-collar workers? A cross sectional study using accelerometers
Nidhi Gupta, David M. Hallman, Svend Erik Mathiassen, Mette Aadahl, Marie Birk Jørgensen, Andreas Holtermann
Mediators of repeat mammography in two tailored interventions for Iranian women
Fariba Farhadifar, Yamile Molina, Parvaneh Taymoori, Setareh Akhavan
Occupational injuries in times of labour market flexibility: the different stories of employment-secure and precarious workers
Massimiliano Giraudo, Antonella Bena, Roberto Leombruni, Giuseppe Costa
Effects of parent and child behaviours on overweight and obesity in infants and young children from disadvantaged backgrounds: systematic review with narrative synthesis
Catherine Georgina Russell, Sarah Taki, Rachel Laws, Leva Azadi, Karen J. Campbell, Rosalind Elliott, John Lynch, Kylie Ball, Rachael Taylor, Elizabeth Denney-Wilson
Reducing routine vaccination dropout rates: evaluating two interventions in three Kenyan districts, 2014
Adam Haji, S. Lowther, Z. Ngan’ga, Z. Gura, C. Tabu, H. Sandhu, Wences Arvelo
Current and future economic burden of diabetes among working-age adults in Asia: conservative estimates for Singapore from 2010-2050
May Ee Png, Joanne Yoong, Thao Phuong Phan, Hwee Lin Wee
Midlife work ability and mobility limitation in old age among non-disability and disability retirees - a prospective study
Monika E. von Bonsdorff, Taina Rantanen, Timo Törmäkangas, Jenni Kulmala, Timo Hinrichs, Jorma Seitsamo, Clas-Håkan Nygård, Juhani Ilmarinen, Mikaela B. von Bonsdorff
A socio-ecological perspective of access to and acceptability of HIV/AIDS treatment and care services: a qualitative case study research
Bereket Yakob, Busisiwe Purity Ncama
Exploring self-rated health among adolescents: a think-aloud study
Junia Joffer, Lars Jerdén, Ann Öhman, Renée Flacking
A needle in the haystack – the dire straits of needle exchange in Hungary
V. Anna Gyarmathy, Róbert Csák, Katalin Bálint, Eszter Bene, András Ernő Varga, Mónika Varga, Nóra Csiszér, István Vingender, József Rácz
A cross sectional study of anemia and iron deficiency as risk factors for arsenic-induced skin lesions in Bangladeshi women
Molly L. Kile, Joycelyn M. Faraj, Alayne G. Ronnenberg, Quazi Quamruzzaman, Mahmudar Rahman, Golam Mostofa, Sakila Afroz, David C. Christiani
Collaborating with a social housing provider supports a large cohort study of the health effects of housing conditions
Michael G. Baker, Jane Zhang, Tony Blakely, Julian Crane, Kay Saville-Smith, Philippa Howden-Chapman
Patterns of treatment-seeking behaviors among caregivers of febrile young children: a Ugandan multiple case study
Rosemin Kassam, Richard Sekiwunga, Duncan MacLeod, Juliet Tembe, Eric Liow
The first mile: community experience of outbreak control during an Ebola outbreak in Luwero District, Uganda
Daniel H. de Vries, Jude T. Rwemisisi, Laban K. Musinguzi, Turinawe E. Benoni, Denis Muhangi, Marije de Groot, David Kaawa-Mafigiri, Robert Pool
Erratum to: ‘Characteristics associated with the consumption of malted drinks among Malaysian primary school children: findings from the MyBreakfast study’
Hamid Jan Jan Mohamed, S. L. Loy, Mohd Nasir Mohd Taib, Norimah A. Karim, S. Y. Tan, M. Appukutty, Nurliyana Abdul Razak, F. Thielecke, S. Hopkins, M. K. Ong, C. Ning, E. S. Tee
A systematic review of correlates of sedentary behaviour in adults aged 18–65 years: a socio-ecological approach
Grainne O’Donoghue, Camille Perchoux, Keitly Mensah, Jeroen Lakerveld, Hidde van der Ploeg, Claire Bernaards, Sebastien F. M. Chastin, Chantal Simon, Donal O’Gorman, Julie-Anne Nazare
Searching for consensus among physicians involved in the management of sick-listed workers in the Belgian health care sector: a qualitative study among practitioners and stakeholders
Marc Vanmeerbeek, Patrick Govers, Nathalie Schippers, Stéphane Rieppi, Katrien Mortelmans, Philippe Mairiaux
Inequalities in perceived health in the Russian Federation, 1994–2012
Pavitra Paul, Hannu Valtonen
The extended Infant Feeding, Activity and Nutrition Trial (InFANT Extend) Program: a cluster-randomized controlled trial of an early intervention to prevent childhood obesity
Karen J. Campbell, Kylie D. Hesketh, Sarah A. McNaughton, Kylie Ball, Zoë McCallum, John Lynch, David A. Crawford
Characterisation of exposure to non-ionising electromagnetic fields in the Spanish INMA birth cohort: study protocol
Mara Gallastegi, Mònica Guxens, Ana Jiménez-Zabala, Irene Calvente, Marta Fernández, Laura Birks, Benjamin Struchen, Martine Vrijheid, Marisa Estarlich, Mariana F. Fernández, Maties Torrent, Ferrán Ballester, Juan J Aurrekoetxea, Jesús Ibarluzea, David Guerra, Julián González, Martin Röösli, Loreto Santa-Marina
Methamphetamine use is associated with high levels of depressive symptoms in adolescents and young adults in Rural Chiang Mai Province, Thailand
Lauren E. DiMiceli, Susan G. Sherman, Apinun Aramrattana, Bangorn Sirirojn, David D. Celentano
What influences 11-year-olds to drink? Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study
Yvonne Kelly, Alice Goisis, Amanda Sacker, Noriko Cable, Richard G. Watt, Annie Britton
Hypertension unawareness among Chinese patients with first-ever stroke
Qinqin Cao, Pei Pei, Jun Zhang, Jillian Naylor, Xinying Fan, Biyang Cai, Qiliang Dai, Wen Sun, Ruidong Ye, Ruifeng Shi, Keting Liu, Yongjun Jiang, Wenhua Liu, Fang Yang, Wusheng Zhu, Yunyun Xiong, Xinfeng Liu, Gelin Xu
Go!: results from a quasi-experimental obesity prevention trial with hospital employees
Lara J. LaCaille, Jennifer Feenstra Schultz, Ryan Goei, Rick A. LaCaille, Kim Nichols Dauner, Rebecca de Souza, Amy Versnik Nowak, Ronald Regal
Factors influencing completion of multi-dose vaccine schedules in adolescents: a systematic review
K. E. Gallagher, E. Kadokura, L. O. Eckert, S. Miyake, S. Mounier-Jack, M. Aldea, D. A. Ross, D. Watson-Jones
Alcohol consumption among university students in Ireland and the United Kingdom from 2002 to 2014: a systematic review
Martin P. Davoren, Jakob Demant, Frances Shiely, Ivan J. Perry
Association between malaria and malnutrition among children aged under-five years in Adami Tulu District, south-central Ethiopia: a case–control study
Bilal Shikur, Wakgari Deressa, Bernt Lindtjørn
Small-area spatio-temporal analyses of bladder and kidney cancer risk in Nova Scotia, Canada
Nathalie Saint-Jacques, Jonathan S. W. Lee, Patrick Brown, Jamie Stafford, Louise Parker, Trevor J. B. Dummer
Prevalence and patterns of traditional bullying victimization and cyber-teasing among college population in Spain
Francisco Caravaca Sánchez, María Falcón Romero, Javier Navarro-Zaragoza, Aurelio Luna Ruiz-Cabello, Oriali Rodriges Frantzisko, Aurelio Luna Maldonado
Monitoring malaria using health facility based surveys: challenges and limitations
Abraham Rexford Oduro, Ernest Tei Maya, James Akazili, Frank Baiden, Kwadwo Koram, Kalifa Bojang
Community referral for presumptive TB in Nigeria: a comparison of four models of active case finding
A. O. Adejumo, B. Azuogu, O. Okorie, O. M. Lawal, O. J. Onazi, M. Gidado, O. J. Daniel, J. C. Okeibunor, E. Klinkenberg, E. M. H. Mitchell
Prevalence of binge drinking and associated behaviours among 3286 college students in France
Marie-Pierre Tavolacci, Eloïse Boerg, Laure Richard, Gilles Meyrignac, Pierre Dechelotte, Joël Ladner
Enabling relationship formation, development, and closure in a one-year female mentoring program at a non-governmental organization: a mixed-method study
Madelene Larsson, Camilla Pettersson, Therése Skoog, Charli Eriksson
Development of suicide postvention guidelines for secondary schools: a Delphi study
Georgina R. Cox, Eleanor Bailey, Anthony F. Jorm, Nicola J. Reavley, Kate Templer, Alex Parker, Debra Rickwood, Sunil Bhar, Jo Robinson
Social network characteristics and cervical cancer screening among Quechua women in Andean Peru
John S. Luque, Samuel Opoku, Daron G. Ferris, Wendy S. Guevara Condorhuaman
Motivations to participate in a Phase I/II HIV vaccine trial: A descriptive study from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
E. A. M. Tarimo, M. Bakari, D. C. V. Kakoko, T. W. Kohi, F. Mhalu, E. Sandstrom, A. Kulane
Niche modeling predictions of the potential distribution of Marmota himalayana, the host animal of plague in Yushu County of Qinghai
Liang Lu, Zhoupeng Ren, Yujuan Yue, Xiaotao Yu, Shan Lu, Guichang Li, Hailong Li, Jianchun Wei, Jingli Liu, You Mu, Rong Hai, Yonghai Yang, Rongjie Wei, Biao Kan, Hu Wang, Jinfeng Wang, Zuyun Wang, Qiyong Liu, Jianguo Xu
Participatory development of MIDY (Mobile Intervention for Drinking in Young people)
Cassandra J. C. Wright, Paul M. Dietze, Belinda Crockett, Megan S. C. Lim
Prevalence of influenza vaccination and its association with health conditions and risk factors among Kansas adults in 2013: a cross-sectional study
Jeanie Santaularia, Wei Hou, Ghazala Perveen, Ericka Welsh, Babalola Faseru
Health effects of smoke from planned burns: a study protocol
David O’Keeffe, Martine Dennekamp, Lahn Straney, Mahjabeen Mazhar, Tom O’Dwyer, Anjali Haikerwal, Fabienne Reisen, Michael J. Abramson, Fay Johnston
An experimental study exploring the impact of vignette gender on the quality of university students’ mental health first aid for peers with symptoms of depression
E. Bethan Davies, John Wardlaw, Richard Morriss, Cris Glazebrook
Lone parents, health, wellbeing and welfare to work: a systematic review of qualitative studies
Mhairi Campbell, Hilary Thomson, Candida Fenton, Marcia Gibson
Evaluating the Heart Wise Exercise™ program: a model for safe community exercise programming
Jennifer L. Reed, Jennifer M. Harris, Liz Midence, Elizabeth B. Yee, Sherry L. Grace
Modelling input-output flows of severe acute respiratory syndrome in mainland China
Li Wang, Jinfeng Wang, Chengdong Xu, Tiejun Liu
The Gutenberg health study: associations between occupational and private stress factors and work-privacy conflict
Susan Garthus-Niegel, Janice Hegewald, Andreas Seidler, Matthias Nübling, Christine Espinola-Klein, Falk Liebers, Philipp S. Wild, Ute Latza, Stephan Letzel
Health behavior change in advance care planning: an agent-based model
Natalie C. Ernecoff, Christopher R. Keane, Steven M. Albert
Association between social support and recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder after flood: a 13–14 year follow-up study in Hunan, China
Wenjie Dai, Long Chen, Hongzhuan Tan, Jieru Wang, Zhiwei Lai, Atipatsa C. Kaminga, Yan Li, Aizhong Liu
Principals’ reports of adults’ alcohol use in Australian secondary schools
Bernadette M. Ward, Rebecca Kippen, Penny Buykx, Geoffrey Munro, Nyanda McBride, John Wiggers
Cost and cost-effectiveness analysis of a community mobilisation intervention to reduce intimate partner violence in Kampala, Uganda
Christine Michaels-Igbokwe, Tanya Abramsky, Karen Devries, Lori Michau, Tina Musuya, Charlotte Watts
‘Everyone has a secret they keep close to their hearts’: challenges faced by adolescents living with HIV infection at the Kenyan coast
Amina Abubakar, Fons J. R. Van de Vijver, Ronald Fischer, Amin S. Hassan, Joseph K Gona, Judith Tumaini Dzombo, Grace Bomu, Khamis Katana, Charles R. Newton
Relationship between social network, social support and health behaviour in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes: cross-sectional studies
Nana F. Hempler, Lene E. Joensen, Ingrid Willaing
Physical fighting, fighting-related injuries and family affluence among Canadian youth
Maya Djerboua, Bingshu E. Chen, Colleen M. Davison
Prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection in adolescents in Northern Italy: an observational school-based study
Alberto Matteelli, Michela Capelli, Giorgia Sulis, Giuseppe Toninelli, Anna Cristina C. Carvalho, Sergio Pecorelli, Arnaldo Caruso, Carlo Bonfanti, Franco Gargiulo, Francesco Donato
How is adults’ screen time behaviour influencing their views on screen time restrictions for children? A cross-sectional study
Stephanie Schoeppe, Amanda L. Rebar, Camille E. Short, Stephanie Alley, Wendy Van Lippevelde, Corneel Vandelanotte
Electronic cigarette use among adolescents: a cross-sectional study in Hong Kong
Nan Jiang, Man Ping Wang, Sai Yin Ho, Lok Tung Leung, Tai Hing Lam
Beneficial changes in food consumption and nutrient intake after 10 years of follow-up in a Mediterranean cohort: the SUN project
Carmen de la Fuente-Arrillaga, Itziar Zazpe, Susana Santiago, Maira Bes-Rastrollo, Miguel Ruiz-Canela, Alfredo Gea, Miguel Angel Martinez-Gonzalez
A descriptive analysis of the spatio-temporal distribution of enteric diseases in New Brunswick, Canada
James E. Valcour, Dominique F. Charron, Olaf Berke, Jeff B. Wilson, Tom Edge, David Waltner-Toews
The impact of long-term school-based physical activity interventions on body mass index of primary school children – a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Hong Mei, Yuelin Xiong, Shuixian Xie, Siyu Guo, Yukun Li, Bingbing Guo, Jianduan Zhang
CardioBengo study protocol: a population based cardiovascular longitudinal study in Bengo Province, Angola
João M. Pedro, Edite Rosário, Miguel Brito, Henrique Barros
Maternal, fetal and perinatal alterations associated with obesity, overweight and gestational diabetes: an observational cohort study (PREOBE)
Staffan K. Berglund, Luz García-Valdés, Francisco J Torres-Espinola, Mª Teresa Segura, Cristina Martínez-Zaldívar, María J. Aguilar, Ahmad Agil, Jose A. Lorente, Jesús Florido, Carmen Padilla, Signe Altmäe, Acensión Marcos, M. Carmen López-Sabater, Cristina Campoy
Creating symbolic cultures of consumption: an analysis of the content of sports wagering advertisements in Australia
Emily G. Deans, Samantha L. Thomas, Mike Daube, Jeffrey Derevensky, Ross Gordon
Individual-level predictors of inpatient childhood burn injuries: a case–control study
Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani, Reza Mohammadi, Shahrokh Amiri, Naeema Syedi, Aydin Tabrizi, Poupak Irandoost, Saeid Safiri
The Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya (AGI-K): study protocol
Karen Austrian, Eunice Muthengi, Joyce Mumah, Erica Soler-Hampejsek, Caroline W. Kabiru, Benta Abuya, John A. Maluccio
The HAPPY (Healthy and Active Parenting Programmme for early Years) feasibility randomised control trial: acceptability and feasibility of an intervention to reduce infant obesity
Rosemary R. C. McEachan, Gillian Santorelli, Maria Bryant, Pinki Sahota, Diane Farrar, Neil Small, Shaheen Akhtar, Judith Sargent, Sally E. Barber, Natalie Taylor, Gerry Richardson, Amanda J. Farrin, Raj S. Bhopal, Daniel D. Bingham, Sara M. Ahern, John Wright
Bio-behavioural HIV and STI surveillance among men who have sex with men in Europe: the Sialon II protocols
Lorenzo Gios, Massimo Mirandola, Igor Toskin, Ulrich Marcus, Sandra Dudareva-Vizule, Nigel Sherriff, Michele Breveglieri, Martina Furegato, Cinta Folch, Laia Ferrer, Alexandra Montoliu, Christiana Nöstlinger, Wim Vanden Berghe, Sharon Kühlmann-Berenzon, Inga Velicko, Sónia Dias, Barbara Suligoi, Vincenza Regine, Danica Stanekova, Magdalena Rosińska, Saulius Caplinskas, Irena Klavs, Ivailo Alexiev, Alexandru Rafila
Correlates of women’s intentions to be screened for human papillomavirus for cervical cancer screening with an extended interval
Gina S. Ogilvie, Laurie W. Smith, Dirk van Niekerk, Fareeza Khurshed, Heather N. Pedersen, Darlene Taylor, Katharine Thomson, Sandra B. Greene, Suzanne M. Babich, Eduardo L. Franco, Andrew J. Coldman
Maternal profiles and social determinants of malnutrition and the MDGs: What have we learnt?
Edem M. A. Tette, Eric K. Sifah, Edmund T. Nartey, Peter Nuro-Ameyaw, Pricilla Tete-Donkor, Richard B. Biritwum
Spatiotemporal patterns of particulate matter (PM) and associations between PM and mortality in Shenzhen, China
Fengying Zhang, Xiaojian Liu, Lei Zhou, Yong Yu, Li Wang, Jinmei Lu, Wuyi Wang, Thomas Krafft
Awareness and knowledge about human papillomavirus vaccination and its acceptance in China: a meta-analysis of 58 observational studies
Yanru Zhang, Ying Wang, Li Liu, Yunzhou Fan, Zhihua Liu, Yueyun Wang, Shaofa Nie
A transdisciplinary model to inform randomized clinical trial methods for electronic cigarette evaluation
Alexa A. Lopez, Caroline O. Cobb, Jessica M. Yingst, Susan Veldheer, Shari Hrabovsky, Miao-Shan Yen, Jonathan Foulds, Thomas Eissenberg
Hazardous alcohol use and associated factors in a rural Ethiopian district: a cross-sectional community survey
Solomon Teferra, Girmay Medhin, Medhin Selamu, Arvin Bhana, Charlotte Hanlon, Abebaw Fekadu
Increasing incidence of anogenital warts with an urban–rural divide among males in Manitoba, Canada, 1990–2011
Laura H. Thompson, Zoann Nugent, James F. Blanchard, Carla Ens, Bo Nancy Yu
Optimal waist circumference cut-off points and ability of different metabolic syndrome criteria for predicting diabetes in Japanese men and women: Japan Epidemiology Collaboration on Occupational Health Study
Huanhuan Hu, Kayo Kurotani, Naoko Sasaki, Taizo Murakami, Chii Shimizu, Makiko Shimizu, Tohru Nakagawa, Toru Honda, Shuichiro Yamamoto, Hiroko Okazaki, Satsue Nagahama, Akihiko Uehara, Makoto Yamamoto, Kentaro Tomita, Teppei Imai, Akiko Nishihara, Takeshi Kochi, Masafumi Eguchi, Toshiaki Miyamoto, Ai Hori, Keisuke Kuwahara, Shamima Akter, Ikuko Kashino, Isamu Kabe, Weiping Liu, Tetsuya Mizoue, Naoki Kunugita, Seitaro Dohi
A multi-criteria decision analysis approach to assessing malaria risk in northern South America
Temitope O. Alimi, Douglas O. Fuller, Socrates V. Herrera, Myriam Arevalo-Herrera, Martha L. Quinones, Justin B. Stoler, John C. Beier
Relationships between adverse childhood experiences and adult mental well-being: results from an English national household survey
Karen Hughes, Helen Lowey, Zara Quigg, Mark A. Bellis
Impact of activity outcome and measurement instrument on estimates of youth compliance with physical activity guidelines: a cross-sectional study
Paul R. Hibbing, Youngwon Kim, Pedro F. Saint-Maurice, Gregory J. Welk
“I have surly passed a limit, it is simply too much”: women’s and men’s experiences of stress and wellbeing when living within a process of housework resignation
Lisa Harryson, Lena Aléx, Anne Hammarström
The impact of armed conflict on adolescent transitions: a systematic review of quantitative research on age of sexual debut, first marriage and first birth in young women under the age of 20 years
Sarah Neal, Nicole Stone, Roger Ingham
Neighborhood clustering of non-communicable diseases: results from a community-based study in Northern Tanzania
John W. Stanifer, Joseph R Egger, Elizabeth L. Turner, Nathan Thielman, Uptal D. Patel
Adherence to exercise referral schemes by participants – what do providers and commissioners need to know? A systematic review of barriers and facilitators
Fiona Morgan, Alysia Battersby, Alison L Weightman, Lydia Searchfield, Ruth Turley, Helen Morgan, James Jagroo, Simon Ellis
Job strain and resting heart rate: a cross-sectional study in a Swedish random working sample
Peter Eriksson, Linus Schiöler, Mia Söderberg, Annika Rosengren, Kjell Torén
Severe maternal morbidity and near misses in tertiary hospitals, Kelantan, Malaysia: a cross-sectional study
Mohd Noor Norhayati, Nik Hussain Nik Hazlina, Zaharah Sulaiman, Mohd Yacob Azman
The impact of economic recession on the association between youth unemployment and functional somatic symptoms in adulthood: a difference-in-difference analysis from Sweden
Anna Brydsten, Anne Hammarström, Miguel San Sebastian
Creating opportunities through mentorship, parental involvement, and safe spaces (COMPASS) program: multi-country study protocol to protect girls from violence in humanitarian settings
Kathryn L. Falb, Sophie Tanner, Leora Ward, Dorcas Erksine, Eva Noble, Asham Assazenew, Theresita Bakomere, Elizabeth Graybill, Carmen Lowry, Pamela Mallinga, Amy Neiman, Catherine Poulton, Katie Robinette, Marni Sommer, Lindsay Stark
Vitamin D level and its association with adiposity among multi-ethnic adults in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: a cross sectional study
I. S. Shafinaz, F. M. Moy
Intimate partner violence norms cluster within households: an observational social network study in rural Honduras
Holly B. Shakya, D. Alex Hughes, Derek Stafford, Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler, Jay G. Silverman
Estimating the severity distribution of disease in South Korea using EQ-5D-3L: a cross-sectional study
Minsu Ock, Min-Woo Jo, Young-hoon Gong, Hyeon-Jeong Lee, Jiho Lee, Chang Sun Sim
Do work-related factors contribute to differences in doctor-certified sick leave? A prospective study comparing women in health and social occupations with women in the general working population
Cecilie Aagestad, Reidar Tyssen, Tom Sterud
Cardiometabolic risk in young adults from northern Mexico: Revisiting body mass index and waist-circumference as predictors
Abraham Wall-Medrano, Arnulfo Ramos-Jiménez, Rosa P. Hernandez-Torres, Rafael Villalobos-Molina, Diana C. Tapia-Pancardo, J. Rafael Jiménez-Flores, A. René Méndez-Cruz, Miguel Murguía-Romero, Itzell A. Gallardo-Ortíz, René Urquídez-Romero
Retrospective analysis of population-based causes of death and life expectancy in urban Western China from 2003 to 2012
Deng Shi-min, Rong Shun-kang, Yao Yuan-qing, Qian Jun, Huang Jing, Li Nan, Zhou Ren-jiang
Drug addiction stigma in relation to methadone maintenance treatment by different service delivery models in Vietnam
Bach Xuan Tran, Phuong Bich Vu, Long Hoang Nguyen, Sophia Knowlton Latkin, Cuong Tat Nguyen, Huong Thu Thi Phan, Carl A. Latkin
Factors influencing the uptake of voluntary HIV counseling and testing in rural Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
Hailay D. Teklehaimanot, Awash Teklehaimanot, Mekonnen Yohannes, Dawit Biratu
Changes in mean serum lipids among adults in Germany: results from National Health Surveys 1997-99 and 2008-11
Julia Truthmann, Anja Schienkiewitz, Markus A. Busch, Gert B. M. Mensink, Yong Du, Anja Bosy-Westphal, Hildtraud Knopf, Christa Scheidt-Nave
Effects of weather factors on dengue fever incidence and implications for interventions in Cambodia
Youngjo Choi, Choon Siang Tang, Lachlan McIver, Masahiro Hashizume, Vibol Chan, Rabindra Romauld Abeyasinghe, Steven Iddings, Rekol Huy
Federally mandating motorcycle helmets in the United States
Adam E. M. Eltorai, Chad Simon, Ariel Choi, Katie Hsia, Christopher T. Born, Alan H. Daniels
Maternal knowledge, outcome expectancies and normative beliefs as determinants of cessation of exclusive breastfeeding: a cross-sectional study in rural Kenya
Constance A. Gewa, Joan Chepkemboi
Complementary school garden, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene interventions to improve children’s nutrition and health status in Burkina Faso and Nepal: a study protocol
Séverine Erismann, Akina Shrestha, Serge Diagbouga, Astrid Knoblauch, Jana Gerold, Ramona Herz, Subodh Sharma, Christian Schindler, Peter Odermatt, Axel Drescher, Ray-yu Yang, Jürg Utzinger, Guéladio Cissé
Sleep duration and risk of obesity among a sample of Victorian school children
Bridget Morrissey, Mary Malakellis, Jill Whelan, Lynne Millar, Boyd Swinburn, Steven Allender, Claudia Strugnell
Influence of internal migration on reproductive health in Myanmar: results from a recent cross-sectional survey
May Sudhinaraset, Nadia Diamond-Smith, May Me Thet, Tin Aung
Erratum to: ‘Updated prevalence rates of overweight and obesity in 11- to 17-year-old adolescents in Germany. Results from the telephone-based KiGGS Wave 1 after correction for bias in self-reports’
Anna-Kristin Brettschneider, Angelika Schaffrath Rosario, Ronny Kuhnert, Steffen Schmidt, Susanna Wiegand, Ute Ellert, Bärbel-Maria Kurth
Prevalence and clinical characteristics of metabolically healthy obese individuals and other obese/non-obese metabolic phenotypes in a working population: results from the Icaria study
Albert Goday, Eva Calvo, Luis Alberto Vázquez, Elena Caveda, Teresa Margallo, Carlos Catalina-Romero, Jesús Reviriego
Integrating acute malnutrition interventions into national health systems: lessons from Niger
Hedwig Deconinck, Mahaman Hallarou, Bart Criel, Philippe Donnen, Jean Macq
A restaurant-based intervention to promote sales of healthy children’s menu items: the Kids’ Choice Restaurant Program cluster randomized trial
Guadalupe X. Ayala, Iana A. Castro, Julie L. Pickrel, Christine B. Williams, Shih-Fan Lin, Hala Madanat, Hee-Jin Jun, Michelle Zive
A survey of the governance capacity of national public health associations to enhance population health
James Chauvin, Mahesh Shukla, James Rice, Laetitia Rispel
Development and evaluation of the efficacy of a web-based ‘social norms’-intervention for the prevention and reduction of substance use in a cluster-controlled trial conducted at eight German universities
Stefanie M. Helmer, Saskia Muellmann, Hajo Zeeb, Claudia R. Pischke
First nationwide web-based surveillance system for influenza-like illness in pregnant women: participation and representativeness of the French G-GrippeNet cohort
Paul Loubet, Caroline Guerrisi, Clément Turbelin, Béatrice Blondel, Odile Launay, Marc Bardou, Thierry Blanchon, Isabelle Bonmarin, François Goffinet, Pierre-Yves Ancel, Vittoria Colizza, Thomas Hanslik, Solen Kernéis
Actual sexual risk and perceived risk of HIV acquisition among HIV-negative men who have sex with men in Toronto, Canada
Maya A. Kesler, Rupert Kaul, Juan Liu, Mona Loutfy, Dionne Gesink, Ted Myers, Robert S. Remis
Long-term trends of suicide by choice of method in Norway: a joinpoint regression analysis of data from 1969 to 2012
Quirino Puzo, Ping Qin, Lars Mehlum
Associations between non-discrimination and training policies and physicians’ attitudes and knowledge about sexual and gender minority patients: a comparison of physicians from two hospitals
Jennifer M. Jabson, Jason W. Mitchell, Benjamin Doty
Socio-economic development and emotion-health connection revisited: a multilevel modeling analysis using data from 162 counties in China
Zonghuo Yu, Fei Wang
Cross-sectional relations of race and poverty status to cardiovascular risk factors in the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Lifespan (HANDLS) study
Shari R. Waldstein, Danielle L. Beatty Moody, Jessica M. McNeely, Allyssa J. Allen, Mollie R. Sprung, Mauli T. Shah, Elias Al’Najjar, Michele K. Evans, Alan B. Zonderman
Association between weight control failure and suicidal ideation in overweight and obese adults: a cross-sectional study
Yeong Jun Ju, Kyu-Tae Han, Tae-Hoon Lee, Woorim Kim, Jeong Hun Park, Eun-Cheol Park
Testing the validity of a stage assessment on health enhancing physical activity in a chinese university student sample
Yanping Duan, Sonia Lippke, Ru Zhang, Walter Brehm, Pak-Kwong Chung
Study protocol: developing a decision system for inclusive housing: applying a systematic, mixed-method quasi-experimental design
Heidi Zeeman, Elizabeth Kendall, Jennifer A. Whitty, Courtney J. Wright, Clare Townsend, Dianne Smith, Ali Lakhani, Samantha Kennerley
Implementation challenges and opportunities for HIV Treatment as Prevention (TasP) among young men in Vancouver, Canada: a qualitative study
Rod Knight, Will Small, Kim Thomson, Mark Gilbert, Jean Shoveller
Perceived benefits and negative consequences of alcohol consumption in women living with HIV: a qualitative study
Robert L. Cook, Christa L. Cook, Manju Karki, Kathleen M. Weber, Kathleen A. Thoma, Chelsea M. Loy, Lakshmi Goparaju, Bridgett Rahim-Williams
Task shifting of frontline community health workers for cardiovascular risk reduction: design and rationale of a cluster randomised controlled trial (DISHA study) in India
Panniyammakal Jeemon, Gitanjali Narayanan, Dimple Kondal, Kashvi Kahol, Ashok Bharadwaj, Anil Purty, Prakash Negi, Sulaiman Ladhani, Jyoti Sanghvi, Kuldeep Singh, Deksha Kapoor, Nidhi Sobti, Dorothy Lall, Sathyaprakash Manimunda, Supriya Dwivedi, Gurudyal Toteja, Dorairaj Prabhakaran
Resilience, tipping, and hydra effects in public health: emergent collective behavior in two agent-based models
Christopher Robert Keane
Knowledge and perception about climate change and human health: findings from a baseline survey among vulnerable communities in Bangladesh
Md Iqbal Kabir, Md Bayzidur Rahman, Wayne Smith, Mirza Afreen Fatima Lusha, Syed Azim, Abul Hasnat Milton
How are the employed and unemployed affected by the economic crisis in Spain? Educational inequalities, life conditions and mental health in a context of high unemployment
Juan Antonio Córdoba-Doña, Antonio Escolar-Pujolar, Miguel San Sebastián, Per E. Gustafsson
Exploring synergistic interactions and catalysts in complex interventions: longitudinal, mixed methods case studies of an optimised multi-level suicide prevention intervention in four european countries (Ospi-Europe)
Fiona M. Harris, Margaret Maxwell, Rory O’Connor, James C. Coyne, Ella Arensman, Claire Coffey, Nicole Koburger, Ricardo Gusmão, Susana Costa, András Székely, Zoltan Cserhati, David McDaid, Chantal van Audenhove, Ulrich Hegerl
Assessment of medical waste management in seven hospitals in Lagos, Nigeria
Olufunsho Awodele, Aishat Abiodun Adewoye, Azuka Cyril Oparah
Railway suicide in England and Wales 2000–2013: a time-trends analysis
Anna K. Taylor, Duleeka W. Knipe, Kyla H. Thomas
Use of a knowledge broker to establish healthy public policies in a city district: a developmental evaluation
Kirsten Langeveld, Karien Stronks, Janneke Harting
The health belief model and number of peers with internet addiction as inter-related factors of Internet addiction among secondary school students in Hong Kong
Yanhong Wang, Anise M. S. Wu, Joseph T. F. Lau
Study protocol for a multi-component kindergarten-based intervention to promote healthy diets in toddlers: a cluster randomized trial
Sissel H. Helland, Elling Bere, Nina Cecilie Øverby
The height-, weight- and BMI-for-age of preschool children from Nizhny Novgorod city, Russia, relative to the international growth references
Ekaterina Nazarova, Yury Kuzmichev
Traumatic injuries among adult obese patients in southern Taiwan: a cross-sectional study based on a trauma registry system
Jung-Fang Chuang, Cheng-Shyuan Rau, Pao-Jen Kuo, Yi-Chun Chen, Shiun-Yuan Hsu, Hsiao-Yun Hsieh, Ching-Hua Hsieh
Predictors of knowledge about tuberculosis: results from SANHANES I, a national, cross-sectional household survey in South Africa
Pamela Naidoo, Leickness Simbayi, Demetre Labadarios, Yoliswa Ntsepe, Nwabisa Bikitsha, Gadija Khan, Ronel Sewpaul, Sizulu Moyo, Thomas Rehle
An examination of internet and land-based gambling among adolescents in three Canadian provinces: results from the youth gambling survey (YGS)
Tara Elton-Marshall, Scott T. Leatherdale, Nigel E. Turner
Awareness, treatment and control of type 2 diabetes among Chinese elderly and its changing trend for past decade
Miao Liu, Jianhua Wang, Yao He, Bin Jiang, Lei Wu, Yiyan Wang, Zhang Di, Jing Zeng
Text mining for identifying topics in the literatures about adolescent substance use and depression
Shi-Heng Wang, Yijun Ding, Weizhong Zhao, Yung-Hsiang Huang, Roger Perkins, Wen Zou, James J. Chen
Health literacy and the determinants of obesity: a population-based survey of sixth grade school children in Taiwan
Shu-Fang Shih, Chieh-Hsing Liu, Li-Ling Liao, Richard H. Osborne
The role of micro health insurance in providing financial risk protection in developing countries- a systematic review
Shifa Salman Habib, Shagufta Perveen, Hussain Maqbool Ahmed Khuwaja
Spatial physical activity patterns among primary school children living in neighbourhoods of varying socioeconomic status: a cross-sectional study using accelerometry and Global Positioning System
Rahel Bürgi, Laura Tomatis, Kurt Murer, Eling D. de Bruin
Systematic examination of publicly-available information reveals the diverse and extensive corporate political activity of the food industry in Australia
Melissa Mialon, Boyd Swinburn, Steven Allender, Gary Sacks
Increased risks of cardiovascular diseases and insulin resistance among the Orang Asli in Peninsular Malaysia
Tuan Azlin Tuan Abdul Aziz, Lay Kek Teh, Muhd Hanis Md Idris, Zakaria Bannur, Lydiatul Shima Ashari, Adzrool Idzwan Ismail, Aminuddin Ahmad, Kamarudzaman Md Isa, Fadzilah Mohd Nor, Thuhairah Hasrah Abdul Rahman, Syahrul Azlin Binti Shaari, Hamid Jan Jan Mohamed, Nornazliya Mohamad, Mohd Zaki Salleh
Fish, food security and health in Pacific Island countries and territories: a systematic literature review
Karen E. Charlton, Joanna Russell, Emma Gorman, Quentin Hanich, Aurélie Delisle, Brooke Campbell, Johann Bell
A systematic review of the health and well-being impacts of school gardening: synthesis of quantitative and qualitative evidence
Heather Ohly, Sarah Gentry, Rachel Wigglesworth, Alison Bethel, Rebecca Lovell, Ruth Garside
Poor awareness of syphilis prevention and treatment knowledge among six different populations in south China
Xiaobing Wu, Fuchang Hong, Lina Lan, Chunlai Zhang, Tiejian Feng, Yingzhou Yang
Sex differences in the intellectual functioning of early school-aged children in rural China
Chao Li, Ni Zhu, Lingxia Zeng, Shaonong Dang, Jing Zhou, Yijun Kang, Yang Yang, Hong Yan
Social and clinical attributes of patients who restart antiretroviral therapy in central and Copperbelt provinces, Zambia: a retrospective longitudinal study
Chama Mulubwa, Oliver Mweemba, Patrick Katayamoyo, Hikabasa Halwindi
Health professionals’ perceptions of the barriers and facilitators to providing smoking cessation advice to women in pregnancy and during the post-partum period: a systematic review of qualitative research
Kate Flemming, Hilary Graham, Dorothy McCaughan, Kathryn Angus, Lesley Sinclair, Linda Bauld
Understanding the impact of area-based interventions on area safety in deprived areas: realist evaluation of a neighbour nuisance intervention in Arnhem, the Netherlands
Daniëlle Kramer, Janneke Harting, Anton E. Kunst
The effects of maximising the UK’s tobacco control score on inequalities in smoking prevalence and premature coronary heart disease mortality: a modelling study
Kirk Allen, Chris Kypridemos, Lirije Hyseni, Anna B. Gilmore, Peter Diggle, Margaret Whitehead, Simon Capewell, Martin O’Flaherty
Protective effect of vaccination against mumps complications, Czech Republic, 2007–2012
Hana Orlíková, Marek Malý, Pavla Lexová, Helena Šebestová, Radomíra Limberková, Lucie Jurzykowská, Jan Kynčl
Prevalence, awareness, treatment, control and risk factors related to hypertension among urban adults in Inner Mongolia 2014: differences between Mongolian and Han populations
Guoju Li, Hailing Wang, Ke Wang, Wenrui Wang, Fen Dong, Yonggang Qian, Haiying Gong, Guodong Xu, Yanlong Li, Li Pan, Bin Wang, Guangjin Zhu, Guangliang Shan
A novel cutoff for the waist-to-height ratio predicting metabolic syndrome in young American adults
Adam D. Bohr, Kelly Laurson, Matthew B. McQueen
Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in mainland china: a meta-analysis of published studies
Ri Li, Wenchen Li, Zhijun Lun, Huiping Zhang, Zhi Sun, Joseph Sam Kanu, Shuang Qiu, Yi Cheng, Yawen Liu
Q fever is an old and neglected zoonotic disease in Kenya: a systematic review
J. Njeru, K. Henning, M. W. Pletz, R. Heller, H. Neubauer
Factors associated with sickness certification of injured workers by General Practitioners in Victoria, Australia
Rasa Ruseckaite, Alex Collie, Maatje Scheepers, Bianca Brijnath, Agnieszka Kosny, Danielle Mazza
Adherence to and acceptability of home fortification with vitamins and minerals in children aged 6 to 23 months: a systematic review
Samara Fernandes de Barros, Marly Augusto Cardoso
Decline in physical activity during adolescence is not associated with changes in mental health
Martin L. Van Dijk, Hans H. C. M. Savelberg, Peter Verboon, Paul A. Kirschner, Renate H. M. De Groot
Help-seeking intentions for early signs of mental illness and their associated factors: comparison across four kinds of health problems
Machi Suka, Takashi Yamauchi, Hiroki Sugimori
Point-of-sale cigarette marketing and smoking-induced deprivation in smokers: results from a population-based survey
Mohammad Siahpush, Raees A. Shaikh, Regina Robbins, Melissa Tibbits, Asia Sikora Kessler, Ghada Soliman, Molly McCarthy, Gopal K. Singh
The effect of adherence to statin therapy on cardiovascular mortality: quantification of unmeasured bias using falsification end-points
Maarten J. Bijlsma, Stijn Vansteelandt, Fanny Janssen, Eelko Hak
Rationale and design of a randomized controlled trial examining the effect of classroom-based physical activity on math achievement
Mona Have, Jacob Have Nielsen, Anne Kær Gejl, Martin Thomsen Ernst, Kjeld Fredens, Jan Toftegaard Støckel, Niels Wedderkopp, Sidsel Louise Domazet, Claire Gudex, Anders Grøntved, Peter Lund Kristensen
A qualitative study of factors related to cardiometabolic risk in rural men
Emily H. Morgan, Meredith L. Graham, Sara C. Folta, Rebecca A. Seguin
Is there a U-shaped relationship between physical activity in leisure time and risk of chronic low back pain? A follow-up in the HUNT Study
Ingrid Heuch, Ivar Heuch, Knut Hagen, John-Anker Zwart
Making the invisible visible: a systematic review of sexual minority women’s health in Southern Africa
Alexandra Muller, Tonda L. Hughes
Inpatient care burden due to cancers in Anhui, China: a cross-sectional household survey
Ting Zhao, Jing Cheng, Jing Chai, Rui Feng, Han Liang, Xingrong Shen, Rui Sha, Debin Wang
Measles susceptibility in young Thai men suggests need for young adult measles vaccination: a cross sectional study
Siriphan Gonwong, Thippawan Chuenchitra, Patchariya Khantapura, Dilara Islam, Carl J. Mason
Relationship between e-cigarette point of sale recall and e-cigarette use in secondary school children: a cross-sectional study
Catherine Best, Farhana Haseen, Winfried van der Sluijs, Gozde Ozakinci, Dorothy Currie, Douglas Eadie, Martine Stead, Anne Marie MacKintosh, Jamie Pearce, Catherine Tisch, Andy MacGregor, Amanda Amos, John Frank, Sally Haw
The association of cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking with body mass index: a cross-sectional, population-based study among Chinese adult male twins
Chunxiao Liao, Wenjing Gao, Weihua Cao, Jun Lv, Canqing Yu, Shengfeng Wang, Bin Zhou, Zengchang Pang, Liming Cong, Zhong Dong, Fan Wu, Hua Wang, Xianping Wu, Guohong Jiang, Xiaojie Wang, Binyou Wang, Liming Li
Theory-based formative research on oral rehydration salts and zinc use in Lusaka, Zambia
Katie Greenland, Jenala Chipungu, Roma Chilengi, Valerie Curtis
A multilevel intervention to increase physical activity and improve healthy eating and physical literacy among young children (ages 3-5) attending early childcare centres: the Healthy Start-Départ Santé cluster randomised controlled trial study protocol
Mathieu Bélanger, Louise Humbert, Hassan Vatanparast, Stéphanie Ward, Nazeem Muhajarine, Amanda Froehlich Chow, Rachel Engler-Stringer, Denise Donovan, Natalie Carrier, Anne Leis
An epidemiological study of rates of illness in passengers and crew at a busy Caribbean cruise port
Cathy Ann Marshall, Euclid Morris, Nigel Unwin
Testing the price and affordability of healthy and current (unhealthy) diets and the potential impacts of policy change in Australia
Amanda J. Lee, Sarah Kane, Rebecca Ramsey, Elizabeth Good, Mathew Dick
Cost-effectiveness of providing patients with information on managing mild low-back symptoms in an occupational health setting
J. Rantonen, J. Karppinen, A. Vehtari, S. Luoto, E. Viikari-Juntura, M. Hupli, A. Malmivaara, S. Taimela
Generating and predicting high quality action plans to facilitate physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption: results from an experimental arm of a randomised controlled trial
Dominique Alexandra Reinwand, Rik Crutzen, Vera Storm, Julian Wienert, Tim Kuhlmann, Hein de Vries, Sonia Lippke
Compliance to the smoke-free law in Guatemala 5-years after implementation
Joaquín Barnoya, Jose C. Monzon, Paulina Briz, Ana Navas-Acien
Erratum to: ‘HIV prevalence in the Israeli tuberculosis cohort, 1999–2011’
Zohar Mor, Moshe Lidji, Daniel Chemtob, Noa Cedar, Itamar Grotto
A systematic review of media parenting in the context of childhood obesity research
Alyssa Aftosmes-Tobio, Claudia Ganter, Selma Gicevic, Sami Newlan, Christine L. Simon, Kirsten K. Davison, Jennifer A. Manganello
Effect of pay for performance to improve quality of maternal and child care in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
Ashis Das, Saji S. Gopalan, Daniel Chandramohan
A mixed-methods approach to understanding water use and water infrastructure in a schistosomiasis-endemic community: case study of Asamama, Ghana
Karen Claire Kosinski, Alexandra V. Kulinkina, Akua Frimpomaa Atakora Abrah, Michael N. Adjei, Kara Marie Breen, Hafsa Myedah Chaudhry, Paul E. Nevin, Suzanne H. Warner, Shalini Ahuja Tendulkar
Execution of a participatory supportive return to work program within the Dutch social security sector: a qualitative evaluation of stakeholders’ perceptions
Lieke Lammerts, Frederieke G. Schaafsma, Willem van Mechelen, Johannes R. Anema
Describing and comparing the characteristics of injured bicyclists and other injured road users: a prospective cohort study
Bamini Gopinath, Jagnoor Jagnoor, Ashley Craig, Annette Kifley, Michael Dinh, Rebecca Ivers, Soufiane Boufous, Ian D. Cameron
Parental supply of alcohol to Australian minors: an analysis of six nationally representative surveys spanning 15 years
Adrian B. Kelly, Gary C. K. Chan, Megan Weier, Catherine Quinn, Matthew J. Gullo, Jason P. Connor, Wayne D. Hall
Write, draw, show, and tell: a child-centred dual methodology to explore perceptions of out-of-school physical activity
Robert J. Noonan, Lynne M. Boddy, Stuart J. Fairclough, Zoe R. Knowles
Factors associated with secondhand smoke exposure in different settings: Results from the German Health Update (GEDA) 2012
Florian Fischer, Alexander Kraemer
Walkability around primary schools and area deprivation across Scotland
Laura Macdonald, Paul McCrorie, Natalie Nicholls, Anne Ellaway
Same day ART initiation versus clinic-based pre-ART assessment and counselling for individuals newly tested HIV-positive during community-based HIV testing in rural Lesotho – a randomized controlled trial (CASCADE trial)
Niklaus Daniel Labhardt, Isaac Ringera, Thabo Ishmael Lejone, Phofu Masethothi, T’sepang Thaanyane, Mashaete Kamele, Ravi Shankar Gupta, Kyaw Thin, Bernard Cerutti, Thomas Klimkait, Christiane Fritz, Tracy Renée Glass
Projected economic evaluation of the national implementation of a hypothetical HIV vaccination program among adolescents in South Africa, 2012
Nishila Moodley, Glenda Gray, Melanie Bertram
Factors associated with male involvement in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV, Midlands Province, Zimbabwe, 2015 - a case control study
Annamercy Makoni, Milton Chemhuru, Cleopas Chimbetete, Notion Gombe, More Mungati, Donewell Bangure, Mufuta Tshimanga
Smoking and environmental characteristics of smokers with a mental illness, and associations with quitting behaviour and motivation; a cross sectional study
Alexandra P. Metse, John Wiggers, Paula Wye, Lyndell Moore, Richard Clancy, Luke Wolfenden, Megan Freund, Tara Van Zeist, Emily Stockings, Jenny A. Bowman
Socioeconomic status and substance use among Swiss young men: a population-based cross-sectional study
Eleni Charitonidi, Joseph Studer, Jacques Gaume, Gerhard Gmel, Jean-Bernard Daeppen, Nicolas Bertholet
Europeanisation of health systems: a qualitative study of domestic actors in a small state
Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, Kristine Sorensen, Christoph Aluttis, Roderick Pace, Helmut Brand
Prevalence and factors associated with occupational burnout among HIV/AIDS healthcare workers in China: a cross-sectional study
Zhengxue Qiao, Lu Chen, Mingqi Chen, Xin Guan, Lin Wang, Yang Jiao, Jiarun Yang, Qinghua Tang, Xiuxian Yang, Xiaohui Qiu, Dong Han, Jingsong Ma, Yanjie Yang, Xiuwei Zhai
Sense of coherence and associated factors among university students in China: cross-sectional evidence
Janet Junqing Chu, Mobarak Hossain Khan, Heiko J. Jahn, Alexander Kraemer
Labour market trajectories following sickness absence due to self-reported all cause morbidity—a longitudinal study
Pernille Pedersen, Thomas Lund, Louise Lindholdt, Ellen A. Nohr, Chris Jensen, Hans Jørgen Søgaard, Merete Labriola
Objectively measured sedentary behavior and physical activity of Finnish 7- to 14-year-old children– associations with perceived health status: a cross-sectional study
Pauliina Husu, Henri Vähä-Ypyä, Tommi Vasankari
Ecological pathways to prevention: How does the SASA! community mobilisation model work to prevent physical intimate partner violence against women?
Tanya Abramsky, Karen M. Devries, Lori Michau, Janet Nakuti, Tina Musuya, Ligia Kiss, Nambusi Kyegombe, Charlotte Watts
The ethnic gap in mobility: a comparison of Russian, Somali and Kurdish origin migrants and the general Finnish population
S. Rask, P. Sainio, A. E. Castaneda, T. Härkänen, S. Stenholm, P. Koponen, S. Koskinen
Do children report differently from their parents and from observed data? Cross-sectional data on fruit, water, sugar-sweetened beverages and break-time foods
V. M. van de Gaar, W. Jansen, M. J. J. van der Kleij, H. Raat
Effort-reward imbalance and perceived quality of patient care: a cross-sectional study among physicians in Germany
Adrian Loerbroks, Matthias Weigl, Jian Li, Peter Angerer
Internet-based educational intervention to prevent risky sexual behaviors in Mexican adolescents: study protocol
Svetlana V. Doubova, Claudia Infante-Castañeda, Ricardo Pérez-Cuevas
Impact of a 3-year multi-centre community-based intervention on risk factors for chronic disease and obesity among free-living adults: the Healthy Alberta Communities study
Ellina Lytvyak, Dana Lee Olstad, Donald P. Schopflocher, Ronald C. Plotnikoff, Kate E. Storey, Candace I. J. Nykiforuk, Kim D. Raine
Accessing and engaging women from socio-economically disadvantaged areas: a participatory approach to the design of a public health intervention for delivery in a Bingo club
Josie M. M. Evans, Gemma Ryde, Ruth Jepson, Cindy Gray, Ashley Shepherd, Dionne Mackison, Aileen V. Ireland, Marion E. T. McMurdo, Brian Williams
Objectively measured physical activity levels and sedentary time in 7–9-year-old Estonian schoolchildren: independent associations with body composition parameters
Eva-Maria Riso, Merike Kull, Kerli Mooses, Aave Hannus, Jaak Jürimäe
Lean fish consumption is associated with lower risk of metabolic syndrome: a Norwegian cross sectional study
C. Tørris, M. Molin, M. Småstuen Cvancarova
Particulate matter and atherosclerosis: a bibliometric analysis of original research articles published in 1973–2014
Feifei Wang, Xiaofeng Jia, Xianliang Wang, Yongdong Zhao, Weidong Hao
Process evaluation of the Bristol girls dance project
S. J. Sebire, M. J. Edwards, J. M. Kesten, T. May, K. J. Banfield, E. L. Bird, K. Tomkinson, P. Blair, J. E. Powell, R. Jago
The Lund University Checklist for Incipient Exhaustion–a cross–sectional comparison of a new instrument with similar contemporary tools
Roger Persson, Kai Österberg, Njördur Viborg, Peter Jönsson, Artur Tenenbaum
Prevalence, awareness, treatment, control and socio demographic determinants of hypertension in Malaysian adults
Suraya Abdul-Razak, Aqil Mohammad Daher, Anis Safura Ramli, Farnaza Ariffin, Md Yasin Mazapuspavina, Krishnapillai S. Ambigga, Maizatullifah Miskan, Hasidah Abdul-Hamid, Nafiza Mat-Nasir, Mohamed Noor Khan Nor-Ashikin, Kien Keat Ng, Hapizah Nawawi, Khalid Yusoff
Assessing the effectiveness of Australian early childhood education and care experiences: study protocol
Collette Tayler, Daniel Cloney, Ray Adams, Karin Ishimine, Karen Thorpe, Thi Kim Cuc Nguyen
The role of business size in assessing the uptake of health promoting workplace initiatives in Australia
A. W. Taylor, R. Pilkington, A. Montgomerie, H. Feist
Spatial modeling of HIV and HSV-2 among women in Kenya with spatially varying coefficients
Elphas Okango, Henry Mwambi, Oscar Ngesa
A population-based analysis of increasing rates of suicide mortality in Japan and South Korea, 1985–2010
Sun Y. Jeon, Eric N. Reither, Ryan K. Masters
HIV risk perception and behavior among medically and traditionally circumcised males in South Africa
N. P. Zungu, L. C. Simbayi, M. Mabaso, M. Evans, K. Zuma, N. Ncitakalo, S. Sifunda
Factors associated with pre-ART loss-to-follow up in adults in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a prospective cohort study
Michael Evangeli, Marie-Louise Newell, Nuala McGrath
Lack of parental rule-setting on eating is associated with a wide range of adolescent unhealthy eating behaviour both for boys and girls
Jana Holubcikova, Peter Kolarcik, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Jitse P. van Dijk, Sijmen A. Reijneveld
Assessing and understanding sedentary behaviour in office-based working adults: a mixed-method approach
Clarice N. Waters, Er Pei Ling, Anne H. Y. Chu, Sheryl H. X. Ng, Audrey Chia, Yee Wei Lim, Falk Müller-Riemenschneider
Seasonal variations and shared latrine cleaning practices in the slums of Kampala city, Uganda
Japheth Kwiringira, Peter Atekyereza, Charles Niwagaba, Robert Kabumbuli, Charles Rwabukwali, Robinah Kulabako, Isabel Günther
Safety voice for ergonomics (SAVE) project: protocol for a workplace cluster-randomized controlled trial to reduce musculoskeletal disorders in masonry apprentices
Laurel D. Kincl, Dan Anton, Jennifer A. Hess, Douglas L. Weeks
Modelling the impact of alcohol consumption on cardiovascular disease mortality for comparative risk assessments: an overview
Jürgen Rehm, Kevin D. Shield, Michael Roerecke, Gerrit Gmel
Health capability of family caregivers: how different factors interrelate and their respective contributions using a Bayesian approach
Barbara Bucki, Elisabeth Spitz, Anne-Marie Etienne, Etienne Le Bihan, Michèle Baumann
Perceptions of body size, obesity threat and the willingness to lose weight among black South African adults: a qualitative study
Kufre Joseph Okop, Ferdinand C. Mukumbang, Thubelihle Mathole, Naomi Levitt, Thandi Puoane
Testing the efficacy of a brief sexual risk reduction intervention among high-risk American Indian adults: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Rachel Chambers, Lauren Tingey, Anna Beach, Allison Barlow, Anne Rompalo
Effectiveness and efficiency of an 11-week exercise intervention for patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis: a protocol for a controlled study in the context of health services research
Inga Krauss, Gerhard Mueller, Georg Haupt, Benjamin Steinhilber, Pia Janssen, Nicola Jentner, Peter Martus
Determinants of domestic violence against women in Ghana
Ebenezer S. Owusu Adjah, Isaac Agbemafle
Factors associated with late presentation for HIV/AIDS care in Harare City, Zimbabwe, 2015
Howard Nyika, Owen Mugurungi, Gerald Shambira, Notion Tafara Gombe, Donewell Bangure, More Mungati, Mufuta Tshimanga
The health beliefs of mothers about preventing cervical cancer and their intention to recommend the Pap test to their daughters: a cross-sectional survey
Hae Won Kim
The weight-loss experience: a qualitative exploration
David Rogerson, Hora Soltani, Robert Copeland
An outbreak of norovirus gastroenteritis associated with asymptomatic food handlers in Kinmen, Taiwan
Meng-Yu Chen, Wan-Chin Chen, Pei-Chen Chen, Shan-Wei Hsu, Yi-Chun Lo
Uptake and linkage into care over one year of providing HIV testing and counselling through community and health facility testing modalities in urban informal settlement of Kibera, Nairobi Kenya
Samuel Muhula, Peter Memiah, Lilian Mbau, Happiness Oruko, Bebora Baker, Geoffrey Ikiara, Margaret Mungai, Meshack Ndirangu, Dunstan Achwoka, Festus Ilako
Quantitative evaluation of an information leaflet to increase prompt help-seeking for gynaecological cancer symptoms
Melanie Morris, Claire Friedemann Smith, Emily Boxell, Jane Wardle, Alice Simon, Jo Waller
The influence of temperature on mortality and its Lag effect: a study in four Chinese cities with different latitudes
Junzhe Bao, Zhenkun Wang, Chuanhua Yu, Xudong Li
A quasi-experimental study to mobilize rural low-income communities to assess and improve the ecological environment to prevent childhood obesity
Paula Peters, Abby Gold, Angela Abbott, Dawn Contreras, Ann Keim, Renee Oscarson, Sandra Procter, Valentina Remig, Carol Smathers, Amy R. Mobley
Physical activity initiated by employer and its health effects; an eight week follow-up study
Marit Skogstad, Lars-Kristian Lunde, Øivind Skare, Asgeir Mamen, Jose Hernán Alfonso, Reidun Øvstebø, Bente Ulvestad
Mechanisms of change of a novel weight loss programme provided by a third sector organisation: a qualitative interview study
Naoimh E. McMahon, Shelina Visram, Louise A. Connell
The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test for Consumption (AUDIT-C) is more useful than pre-existing laboratory tests for predicting hazardous drinking: a cross-sectional study
Hideki Fujii, Naoki Nishimoto, Seiko Yamaguchi, Osamu Kurai, Masato Miyano, Wataru Ueda, Hiroko Oba, Tetsuya Aoki, Norifumi Kawada, Kiyotaka Okawa
Prevalence of and factors associated with anemia in school children from Maceió, northeastern Brazil
Haroldo da Silva Ferreira, Myrtis Katille de Assunção Bezerra, Monica Lopes de Assunção, Risia Cristina Egito de Menezes
Assessing the nutritional quality of diets of Canadian children and adolescents using the 2014 Health Canada Surveillance Tool Tier System
Mahsa Jessri, Stephanie K. Nishi, Mary R. L’Abbe
Relationship between quality of life and unprotected anal intercourse among Chinese men who have sex with men: a cross-sectional study
Yaxin Zhu, Jie Liu, Bo Qu, Bingxue Hu, Yang Zhang
Disclosure and help seeking behavior of women exposed to physical spousal violence in Dhaka slums
Kausar Parvin, Naznin Sultana, Ruchira Tabassum Naved
“Children get sick all the time”: A qualitative study of socio-cultural and health system factors contributing to recurrent child illnesses in rural Burkina Faso
Lise Rosendal Østergaard, Pia Juul Bjertrup, Helle Samuelsen
Determinants of vitamin D status in young adults: influence of lifestyle, sociodemographic and anthropometric factors
Rune Tønnesen, Peter Hambak Hovind, Lars Thorbjørn Jensen, Peter Schwarz
The future excess fraction model for calculating burden of disease
Lin Fritschi, Jayzii Chan, Sally J. Hutchings, Tim R. Driscoll, Adrian Y. W. Wong, Renee N. Carey
Brief advice and active referral for smoking cessation services among community smokers: a study protocol for randomized controlled trial
Yi Nam Suen, Man Ping Wang, William Ho Cheung Li, Antonio Cho Shing Kwong, Vienna Wai Yin Lai, Sophia Siu Chee Chan, Tai Hing Lam
Effects of a community-based salt reduction program in a regional Australian population
Mary-Anne Land, Jason H. Y. Wu, Adriana Selwyn, Michelle Crino, Mark Woodward, John Chalmers, Jacqui Webster, Caryl Nowson, Paul Jeffery, Wayne Smith, Victoria Flood, Bruce Neal
Substantial improvements not seen in health behaviors following corner store conversions in two Latino food swamps
Alexander N. Ortega, Stephanie L. Albert, Alec M. Chan-Golston, Brent A. Langellier, Deborah C. Glik, Thomas R. Belin, Rosa Elena Garcia, Ron Brookmeyer, Mienah Z. Sharif, Michael L. Prelip
Does wine glass size influence sales for on-site consumption? A multiple treatment reversal design
Rachel Pechey, Dominique-Laurent Couturier, Gareth J. Hollands, Eleni Mantzari, Marcus R. Munafò, Theresa M. Marteau
A comparison of age-standardised event rates for acute and chronic coronary heart disease in metropolitan and regional/remote Victoria: a retrospective cohort study
Paul D. Xanthos, Brett A. Gordon, Stephen Begg, Voltaire Nadurata, Michael I. C. Kingsley
Contraceptive use among HIV-infected women and men receiving antiretroviral therapy in Lusaka, Zambia: a cross-sectional survey
Nancy L. Hancock, Carla J. Chibwesha, Samuel Bosomprah, Jonathan Newman, Mwangelwa Mubiana-Mbewe, Elizabeth Siyama Sitali, Carolyn Bolton-Moore, Clara Mbwili-Muleya, Benjamin H. Chi
Impact of a United Kingdom-wide campaign to tackle antimicrobial resistance on self-reported knowledge and behaviour change
Katerina Chaintarli, Suzanne M. Ingle, Alex Bhattacharya, Diane Ashiru-Oredope, Isabel Oliver, Maya Gobin
Social participation and mortality: does social position in civic groups matter?
Yoshiki Ishikawa, Naoki Kondo, Katsunori Kondo, Toshiya Saito, Hana Hayashi, Ichiro Kawachi
Socioeconomic and race/ethnic disparities in observed park quality
Jessa K. Engelberg, Terry L. Conway, Carrie Geremia, Kelli L. Cain, Brian E. Saelens, Karen Glanz, Lawrence D. Frank, James F. Sallis
Effect of gargling with tea and ingredients of tea on the prevention of influenza infection: a meta-analysis
Kazuki Ide, Hiroshi Yamada, Yohei Kawasaki
Injuries to Aboriginal populations living on- and off-reserve in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas in British Columbia, Canada: Incidence and trends, 1986-2010
Mariana Brussoni, M. Anne George, Andrew Jin, Christopher E. Lalonde, Rod McCormick
Exploring socio-contextual factors associated with male smoker’s intention to quit smoking
Minsoo Jung
Internet use and electronic gaming by children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural problems in Australia – results from the second Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing
Wavne Rikkers, David Lawrence, Jennifer Hafekost, Stephen R. Zubrick
Invasive pneumococcal disease rates linked to meteorological factors and respiratory virus circulation (Catalonia, 2006–2012)
Pilar Ciruela, Sonia Broner, Conchita Izquierdo, Sergi Hernández, Carmen Muñoz-Almagro, Roman Pallarés, Mireia Jané, Angela Domínguez
The role of schools in children and young people’s self-harm and suicide: systematic review and meta-ethnography of qualitative research
Rhiannon Evans, Chloe Hurrell
Buckling up in Singapore: residency and other risk factors for seatbelt non-compliance – a cross-sectional study based on trauma registry data
Ting Hway Wong, Gek Hsiang Lim, Khuan Yew Chow, Nyi Nyi Zaw, Hai Van Nguyen, Hoong Chor Chin, Marcus Eng Hock Ong
Gender-specific linkages of parents’ childhood physical abuse and neglect with children’s problem behaviour: evidence from Japan
Takashi Oshio, Maki Umeda
Relationships between County Health Rankings and child overweight and obesity prevalence: a serial cross-sectional analysis
Karissa Peyer, Greg J. Welk, Lisa Bailey-Davis, Senlin Chen
Modelling the potential impact of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax on stroke mortality, costs and health-adjusted life years in South Africa
Mercy Manyema, Lennert J. Veerman, Aviva Tugendhaft, Demetre Labadarios, Karen J. Hofman
What are the risk factors for HIV in men who have sex with men in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam?- A cross-sectional study
Thi My Dung Le, Patricia C. Lee, Donald E. Stewart, Thanh Nguyen Long, Cuong Nguyen Quoc
Projected heat-related mortality under climate change in the metropolitan area of Skopje
Gerardo Sanchez Martinez, Michela Baccini, Koen De Ridder, Hans Hooyberghs, Wouter Lefebvre, Vladimir Kendrovski, Kristen Scott, Margarita Spasenovska
Socioeconomic differences in one-year survival after ischemic stroke: the effect of acute and post-acute care-pathways in a cohort study
Valeria Belleudi, Paolo Sciattella, Nera Agabiti, Mirko Di Martino, Riccardo Di Domenicantonio, Marina Davoli, Danilo Fusco
Using short-message-service notification as a method to improve acute flaccid paralysis surveillance in Papua New Guinea
Siddhartha Sankar Datta, Berry Ropa, Gerard Pai Sui, Ramzi Khattar, Ravi Shankar Santhana Gopala Krishnan, Hiromasa Okayasu
Critiquing the response to the Ebola epidemic through a Primary Health Care Approach
Vera Scott, Sarah Crawford-Browne, David Sanders
The inner state differences of preterm birth rates in Brazil: a time series study
Rosana Rosseto de Oliveira, Emiliana Cristina Melo, Elizabeth Fujimori, Thais Aidar de Freitas Mathias
Moving towards a new vision: implementation of a public health policy intervention
Ruta Valaitis, Marjorie MacDonald, Anita Kothari, Linda O’Mara, Sandra Regan, John Garcia, Nancy Murray, Heather Manson, Nancy Peroff-Johnston, Gayle Bursey, Jennifer Boyko
Understanding help-seeking intentions in male military cadets: An application of perceptual mapping
Sarah Bauerle Bass, Javier Muñiz, Thomas F. Gordon, Laurie Maurer, Freda Patterson
Associations in the continuum of care for maternal, newborn and child health: a population-based study of 12 sub-Saharan Africa countries
Patrick Opiyo Owili, Miriam Adoyo Muga, Yiing-Jenq Chou, Yi-Hsin Elsa Hsu, Nicole Huang, Li-Yin Chien
Change of government’s subsidization policy improves smoking cessation services: a cross-sectional study from the perspectives of physicians
Tai-Yin Wu, Ling-Yu Hung, Wei-Chu Chie, Tai-Yuan Chiu, Fei-Ran Guo
Development of a novel walkability index for London, United Kingdom: cross-sectional application to the Whitehall II Study
Jemima C. Stockton, Oliver Duke-Williams, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Jennifer S. Mindell, Eric J. Brunner, Nicola J. Shelton
The association between exposure and psychological health in earthquake survivors from the Longmen Shan Fault area: the mediating effect of risk perception
Jiuping Xu, Jiuzhou Dai, Renqiao Rao, Huaidong Xie
Assessment of iodine concentration in dietary salt at household level in Morocco
Ahmed Zahidi, Meriem Zahidi, Jamal Taoufik
How equitable are community health worker programmes and which programme features influence equity of community health worker services? A systematic review
Rosalind McCollum, Woedem Gomez, Sally Theobald, Miriam Taegtmeyer
A cross-sectional study examining predictors of visit frequency to local green space and the impact this has on physical activity levels
Elliott P. Flowers, Paul Freeman, Valerie F. Gladwell
Predictors of time to claim closure following a non-catastrophic injury sustained in a motor vehicle crash: a prospective cohort study
Bamini Gopinath, Nieke A. Elbers, Jagnoor Jagnoor, Ian A. Harris, Michael Nicholas, Petrina Casey, Fiona Blyth, Christopher G. Maher, Ian D. Cameron
Schistosoma mansoni and soil-transmitted helminths among preschool-aged children in Chuahit, Dembia district, Northwest Ethiopia: prevalence, intensity of infection and associated risk factors
Agersew Alemu, Yalewayker Tegegne, Demekech Damte, Mulugeta Melku
The health gains and cost savings of dietary salt reduction interventions, with equity and age distributional aspects
Nhung Nghiem, Tony Blakely, Linda J. Cobiac, Christine L. Cleghorn, Nick Wilson
Factors influencing adults’ immunization practices: a pilot survey study of a diverse, urban community in central Ohio
Alexa M. Sevin, Cristina Romeo, Brittany Gagne, Nicole V. Brown, Jennifer L. Rodis
Decrease in tick bite consultations and stabilization of early Lyme borreliosis in the Netherlands in 2014 after 15 years of continuous increase
Agnetha Hofhuis, Sita Bennema, Margriet Harms, Arnold J. H. van Vliet, Willem Takken, Cees C. van den Wijngaard, Wilfrid van Pelt
Undocumented migrant women in Denmark have inadequate access to pregnancy screening and have a higher prevalence Hepatitis B virus infection compared to documented migrants in Denmark: a prevalence study
Annika Wendland, Boje K. Ehmsen, Vibeke Lenskjold, Birgitte S. Astrup, Marlene Mohr, Christopher J. Williams, Susan A. Cowan
Access to mass media messages, and use of family planning in Nigeria: a spatio-demographic analysis from the 2013 DHS
Chukwuedozie K. Ajaero, Clifford Odimegwu, Ijeoma D. Ajaero, Chidiebere A. Nwachukwu
Parental smoking and cessation during pregnancy and the risk of childhood asthma
Maijakaisa Harju, Leea Keski-Nisula, Leena Georgiadis, Seppo Heinonen
“There’s a housing crisis going on in Sydney for Aboriginal people”: focus group accounts of housing and perceived associations with health
Melanie J. Andersen, Anna B. Williamson, Peter Fernando, Sally Redman, Frank Vincent
Impact of the 2012 extreme drought conditions on private well owners in the United States, a qualitative analysis
Michelle Murti, Ellen Yard, Rachel Kramer, Dirk Haselow, Mike Mettler, Rocky McElvany, Colleen Martin
Tailored message interventions versus typical messages for increasing participation in colorectal cancer screening among a non-adherent population: A randomized controlled trial
Kei Hirai, Yoshiki Ishikawa, Jun Fukuyoshi, Akio Yonekura, Kazuhiro Harada, Daisuke Shibuya, Seiichiro Yamamoto, Yuri Mizota, Chisato Hamashima, Hiroshi Saito
Obsolete tobacco control themes can be hazardous to public health: the need for updating views on absolute product risks and harm reduction
Lynn T. Kozlowski, David B. Abrams
A comparison of wearable fitness devices
Kanitthika Kaewkannate, Soochan Kim
An assessment study of CVD related risk factors in a tribal population of India
Vani Kandpal, M. P. Sachdeva, K. N. Saraswathy
Infant exposure to Chinese famine increased the risk of hypertension in adulthood: results from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study
Zhenghe Wang, Changwei Li, Zhongping Yang, Zhiyong Zou, Jun Ma
Design and management of public health outreach using interoperable mobile multimedia: an analysis of a national winter weather preparedness campaign
Cesar Bandera
A follow-up study to assess the determinants and consequences of physical activity in pregnant women of Cuenca, Spain
Raquel Poyatos-León, Gema Sanabria-Martínez, Jorge Cañete García-Prieto, Celia Álvarez-Bueno, Diana P. Pozuelo-Carrascosa, Iván Cavero-Redondo, Antonio García-Hermoso, Sagrario Gómez-Cantarino, Miriam Garrido-Miguel, Vicente Martínez-Vizcaíno
Auditing the socio-environmental determinants of motivation towards physical activity or sedentariness in work-aged adults: a qualitative study
Richard Keegan, Geoff Middleton, Hannah Henderson, Mica Girling
Screen Time Weight-loss Intervention Targeting Children at Home (SWITCH): process evaluation of a randomised controlled trial intervention
Louise Foley, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Samantha Marsh, Leonard H. Epstein, Tim Olds, Ofa Dewes, Ihirangi Heke, Yannan Jiang, Ralph Maddison
Gender relations, sexual behaviour, and risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections among women in union in Uganda
Olivia Nankinga, Cyprian Misinde, Betty Kwagala
Quantifying the role of weather on seasonal influenza
Marion Roussel, Dominique Pontier, Jean-Marie Cohen, Bruno Lina, David Fouchet
Alcohol in urban streetscapes: a comparison of the use of Google Street View and on-street observation
Chris Clews, Roza Brajkovich-Payne, Emily Dwight, Ayob Ahmad Fauzul, Madeleine Burton, Olivia Carleton, Julie Cook, Charlotte Deroles, Ruby Faulkner, Mary Furniss, Anahera Herewini, Daymen Huband, Nerissa Jones, Cho Wool Kim, Alice Li, Jacky Lu, James Stanley, Nick Wilson, George Thomson
The incidence risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in female nurses: a nationwide matched cohort study
Hsiu-Ling Huang, Cheng-Chin Pan, Shun-Mu Wang, Pei-Tseng Kung, Wen-Yu Chou, Wen-Chen Tsai
Fuel for Fun: a cluster-randomized controlled study of cooking skills, eating behaviors, and physical activity of 4th graders and their families
Leslie Cunningham-Sabo, Barbara Lohse, Stephanie Smith, Ray Browning, Erin Strutz, Claudio Nigg, Meena Balgopal, Kathleen Kelly, Elizabeth Ruder
Effect of a sport-for-health intervention (SmokeFree Sports) on smoking-related intentions and cognitions among 9-10 year old primary school children: a controlled trial
Ciara E. McGee, Joanne Trigwell, Stuart J. Fairclough, Rebecca C. Murphy, Lorna Porcellato, Michael Ussher, Lawrence Foweather
Research protocol for an epidemiological study on estimating disease burden of pediatric HIV in Belgaum district, India
Anju Sinha, Anita Nath, Rajeev Sethumadhavan, Shajy Isac, Reynold Washington
Spatial analysis of gender variation in the prevalence of hypertension among the middle-aged and elderly population in Zhejiang Province, China
Li Xu, Dejian Lai, Ya Fang
Reducing the Strength: a mixed methods evaluation of alcohol retailers’ willingness to voluntarily reduce the availability of low cost, high strength beers and ciders in two UK local authorities
Colin Sumpter, Elizabeth McGill, Esther Dickie, Enes Champo, Ester Romeri, Matt Egan
Accidents and undetermined deaths: re-evaluation of nationwide samples from the Scandinavian countries
Ingvild Maria Tøllefsen, Ingemar Thiblin, Karin Helweg-Larsen, Erlend Hem, Marianne Kastrup, Ullakarin Nyberg, Sidsel Rogde, Per-Henrik Zahl, Gunvor Østevold, Øivind Ekeberg
Global healthcare use by immigrants in Spain according to morbidity burden, area of origin, and length of stay
Luis A. Gimeno-Feliu, Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Esperanza Diaz, Beatriz Poblador-Plou, Rosa Macipe-Costa, Alexandra Prados-Torres
‘Let’s Move It’ – a school-based multilevel intervention to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour among older adolescents in vocational secondary schools: a study protocol for a cluster-randomised trial
Nelli Hankonen, Matti T. J. Heino, Vera Araujo-Soares, Falko F. Sniehotta, Reijo Sund, Tommi Vasankari, Pilvikki Absetz, Katja Borodulin, Antti Uutela, Taru Lintunen, Ari Haukkala
Peer engagement in harm reduction strategies and services: a critical case study and evaluation framework from British Columbia, Canada
Alissa M. Greer, Serena A. Luchenski, Ashraf A. Amlani, Katie Lacroix, Charlene Burmeister, Jane A. Buxton
Association of missing paternal demographics on infant birth certificates with perinatal risk factors for childhood obesity
Erika R. Cheng, Summer Sherburne Hawkins, Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman, Matthew W. Gillman, Elsie M. Taveras
Evaluation of an Australian health literacy training program for socially disadvantaged adults attending basic education classes: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
Kirsten J. McCaffery, Suzanne Morony, Danielle M. Muscat, Sian K. Smith, Heather L. Shepherd, Haryana M. Dhillon, Andrew Hayen, Karen Luxford, Wedyan Meshreky, John Comings, Don Nutbeam
Process evaluation of an environmental health risk audit and action plan intervention to reduce alcohol related violence in licensed premises
Annie Williams, Simon C. Moore, Claire Shovelton, Laurence Moore, Simon Murphy
Maternal tea consumption and the risk of preterm delivery in urban China: a birth cohort study
Lei Huang, Catherine Lerro, Tao Yang, Jing Li, Jie Qiu, Weitao Qiu, Xiaochun He, Hongmei Cui, Ling Lv, Ruifeng Xu, Xiaoying Xu, Huang Huang, Qing Liu, Yawei Zhang
The effectiveness bundling of zinc with Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) for improving adherence to acute watery diarrhea treatment in Ethiopia: cluster randomised controlled trial
Samson Gebremedhin, Girma Mamo, Henock Gezahign, Jacqueline Kung’u, Abdulaziz Adish
The correlates and course of multiple health risk behaviour in adolescence
Daniel R. Hale, Russell M. Viner
Rationale, design and methods for the RIGHT Track Health Study: pathways from childhood self-regulation to cardiovascular risk in adolescence
Laurie Wideman, Susan D. Calkins, James A. Janssen, Cheryl A. Lovelady, Jessica M. Dollar, Susan P. Keane, Eliana M. Perrin, Lilly Shanahan
Direct comparisons of commercial weight-loss programs on weight, waist circumference, and blood pressure: a systematic review
Rachit M. Vakil, Ruchi S. Doshi, Ambereen K. Mehta, Zoobia W. Chaudhry, David K. Jacobs, Clare J. Lee, Sara N. Bleich, Jeanne M. Clark, Kimberly A. Gudzune
Early mortality from external causes in Aboriginal mothers: a retrospective cohort study
Jenny Fairthorne, Roz Walker, Nick de Klerk, Carrington Shepherd
Perceived and objective neighborhood support for outside of school physical activity in South African children
Monika Uys, Stephanie T. Broyles, Catherine E. Draper, Sharief Hendricks, Dale Rae, Nirmala Naidoo, Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Estelle V. Lambert
Migrant integration policies and health inequalities in Europe
Margherita Giannoni, Luisa Franzini, Giuliano Masiero
The association between psychosocial and structural-level stressors and HIV injection drug risk behavior among Malaysian fishermen: A cross-sectional study
Lynn Murphy Michalopoulos, Tina Jiwatram-Negrón, Martin K. K. Choo, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Nabila El-Bassel
Immediate effects of alcohol marketing communications and media portrayals on consumption and cognition: a systematic review and meta-analysis of experimental studies
Kaidy Stautz, Kyle G. Brown, Sarah E. King, Ian Shemilt, Theresa M. Marteau
A cluster-randomized, controlled trial of nutritional supplementation and promotion of responsive parenting in Madagascar: the MAHAY study design and rationale
Lia C. H. Fernald, Emanuela Galasso, Jumana Qamruddin, Christian Ranaivoson, Lisy Ratsifandrihamanana, Christine P. Stewart, Ann M. Weber
Greek health professionals’ perceptions of the HPV vaccine, state policy recommendations and their own role with regards to communication of relevant health information
Christina Karamanidou, Kostas Dimopoulos
Psychoactive substances use and associated factors among middle and high school students in the North Center of Morocco: a cross-sectional questionnaire survey
B. Zarrouq, B. Bendaou, A. El Asri, S. Achour, I. Rammouz, R. Aalouane, B. Lyoussi, S. Khelafa, A. Bout, N. Berhili, H. Hlal, A. Najdi, C. Nejjari, K. El Rhazi
The impact of cycle proficiency training on cycle-related behaviours and accidents in adolescence: findings from ALSPAC, a UK longitudinal cohort
Alison Teyhan, Rosie Cornish, Andy Boyd, Mary Sissons Joshi, John Macleod
Seasonality in diabetes in Yaounde, Cameroon: a relation with precipitation and temperature
Eric Lontchi-Yimagou, Maurice Tsalefac, Leonelle Monique Teuwa Tapinmene, Jean Jacques N. Noubiap, Eric Vounsia Balti, Jean-Louis Nguewa, Mesmin Dehayem, Eugene Sobngwi
Alcohol prevention at sporting events: study protocol for a quasi-experimental control group study
Natalie Durbeej, Tobias H. Elgán, Camilla Jalling, Johanna Gripenberg
Glyphosate and adverse pregnancy outcomes, a systematic review of observational studies
Jessica S. A. de Araujo, Isabella F. Delgado, Francisco J. R. Paumgartten
Perceived influence and college students’ diet and physical activity behaviors: an examination of ego-centric social networks
Brook E. Harmon, Melinda Forthofer, Erin O. Bantum, Claudio R. Nigg
Gendered sexual uses of alcohol and associated risks: a qualitative study of Nigerian University students
Emeka W. Dumbili
Findings from a comprehensive diarrhoea prevention and treatment programme in Lusaka, Zambia
Samuel Bosomprah, Lauren B. Beach, Laura K. Beres, Jonathan Newman, Kabwe Kapasa, Cheryl Rudd, Lungowe Njobvu, Brad Guffey, Sydney Hubbard, Karen Foo, Carolyn Bolton-Moore, Jeffrey Stringer, Roma Chilengi
Risky and rushed public crack cocaine smoking: the potential for supervised inhalation facilities
Pauline Voon, Lianping Ti, Huiru Dong, M-J Milloy, Evan Wood, Thomas Kerr, Kanna Hayashi
Prevalence of high-risk human papillomavirus and abnormal pap smears in female sex workers compared to the general population in Antwerp, Belgium
Alex Vorsters, Tine Cornelissen, Elke Leuridan, Johannes Bogers, Davy Vanden Broeck, Ina Benoy, Herman Goossens, Niel Hens, Pierre Van Damme
Estimating micro area behavioural risk factor prevalence from large population-based surveys: a full Bayesian approach
L. Seliske, T. A. Norwood, J. R. McLaughlin, S. Wang, C. Palleschi, E. Holowaty
Erratum to: ‘Point-of-sale cigarette marketing and smoking-induced deprivation in smokers: results from a population-based survey’
Mohammad Siahpush, Raees A. Shaikh, Regina Robbins, Melissa Tibbits, Asia Sikora Kessler, Ghada Soliman, Molly McCarthy, Gopal K. Singh
Survey nonresponse among informal caregivers: effects on the presence and magnitude of associations with caregiver burden and satisfaction
Marloes Oldenkamp, Rafael P. M. Wittek, Mariët Hagedoorn, Ronald P. Stolk, Nynke Smidt
Modelling estimates of age-specific influenza-related hospitalisation and mortality in the United Kingdom
Gonçalo Matias, Robert J. Taylor, François Haguinet, Cynthia Schuck-Paim, Roger L. Lustig, Douglas M. Fleming
Socioeconomic determinants of childhood obesity among primary school children in Guangzhou, China
Weijia Liu, Wei Liu, Rong Lin, Bai Li, Miranda Pallan, K. K. Cheng, Peymane Adab
Disordered eating behavior, health and motives to exercise in young men: cross-sectional population-based MOPO study
Marjukka Nurkkala, Anna-Maria Keränen, Heli Koivumaa-Honkanen, Tiina M. Ikäheimo, Riikka Ahola, Riitta Pyky, Matti Mäntysaari, Raija Korpelainen
The association between built environment features and physical activity in the Australian context: a synthesis of the literature
Belen Zapata-Diomedi, J. Lennert Veerman
Social disparities in parental smoking and young children’s exposure to secondhand smoke at home: a time-trend analysis of repeated cross-sectional data from the German KiGGS study between 2003-2006 and 2009-2012
Benjamin Kuntz, Thomas Lampert
The effectiveness of nutrition education for overweight/obese mothers with stunted children (NEO-MOM) in reducing the double burden of malnutrition in Indonesia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Trias Mahmudiono, Triska Susila Nindya, Dini Ririn Andrias, Hario Megatsari, Richard R. Rosenkranz
Food, health, and complexity: towards a conceptual understanding to guide collaborative public health action
Shannon E. Majowicz, Samantha B. Meyer, Sharon I. Kirkpatrick, Julianne L. Graham, Arshi Shaikh, Susan J. Elliott, Leia M. Minaker, Steffanie Scott, Brian Laird
The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach?: a mixed methods study on causal mechanisms through which cash and in-kind food transfers decreased intimate partner violence
Ana Maria Buller, Melissa Hidrobo, Amber Peterman, Lori Heise
‘It is just the way it was in the past before I went to test’: a qualitative study to explore responses to HIV prevention counselling in rural Tanzania
Caoimhe Cawley, Alison Wringe, Joyce Wamoyi, Shelley Lees, Mark Urassa
The effect of an affordable daycare program on health and economic well-being in Rajasthan, India: protocol for a cluster-randomized impact evaluation study
Arijit Nandi, Shannon Maloney, Parul Agarwal, Anoushaka Chandrashekar, Sam Harper
HIV provider and patient perspectives on the Development of a Health Department “Data to Care” Program: a qualitative study
Julia C. Dombrowski, James W. Carey, Nicole Pitts, Jason Craw, Arin Freeman, Matthew R. Golden, Jeanne Bertolli
Health inequalities in hypertension and diabetes management among the poor in urban areas: a population survey analysis in south Korea
Young-Jee Jeon, Chung Reen Kim, Joo-Sung Park, Kyung-Hyun Choi, Myoung Joo Kang, Seung Guk Park, Young-Jin Park
Socioeconomic disparities in lung cancer mortality in Belgian men and women (2001-2011): does it matter who you live with?
Katrien Vanthomme, Hadewijch Vandenheede, Paulien Hagedoorn, Sylvie Gadeyne
Magnitude and factors associated with intimate partner violence in mainland Tanzania
Method R. Kazaura, Mangi J. Ezekiel, Dereck Chitama
Comparing the effect of a leaflet and a movie in preventing tick bites and Lyme disease in The Netherlands
Desirée Jacqueline Mathieu Angélique Beaujean, Rik Crutzen, Fedor Gassner, Caroline Ameling, Albert Wong, James Everard van Steenbergen, Dirk Ruwaard
The Dutch ‘Focus on Strength’ intervention study protocol: programme design and production, implementation and evaluation plan
G. A. Ten Hoor, G. Kok, G. M. Rutten, R. A. C. Ruiter, S. P. J. Kremers, A. M. J. W. Schols, G. Plasqui
Occurrence of multiple mental health or substance use outcomes among bisexuals: a respondent-driven sampling study
Greta R. Bauer, Corey Flanders, Melissa A. MacLeod, Lori E. Ross
National survey of risk factors for non-communicable disease in Vietnam: prevalence estimates and an assessment of their validity
Tan Van Bui, Christopher Leigh Blizzard, Khue Ngoc Luong, Ngoc Le Van Truong, Bao Quoc Tran, Petr Otahal, Seana Gall, Mark R. Nelson, Thuy Bich Au, Son Thai Ha, Hai Ngoc Phung, Mai Hoang Tran, Michele Callisaya, Velandai Srikanth
A life course perspective on working beyond retirement—results from a longitudinal study in the Netherlands
Astrid de Wind, Suzan van der Pas, Birgitte M. Blatter, Allard J. van der Beek
Smoking and Socio-demographic correlates of BMI
Peizhi Wang, Edimansyah Abdin, Rajeswari Sambasivam, Siow Ann Chong, Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, Mythily Subramaniam
Behaviour change intervention for smokeless tobacco cessation: its development, feasibility and fidelity testing in Pakistan and in the UK
Kamran Siddiqi, Omara Dogar, Rukhsana Rashid, Cath Jackson, Ian Kellar, Nancy O’Neill, Maryam Hassan, Furqan Ahmed, Muhammad Irfan, Heather Thomson, Javaid Khan
Association between depressive symptoms, use of antidepressant medication and the metabolic syndrome: the Maine-Syracuse Study
Georgina E. Crichton, Merrill F. Elias, Michael A. Robbins
Level and determinants of food insecurity in East and West Gojjam zones of Amhara Region, Ethiopia: a community based comparative cross-sectional study
Achenef Motbainor, Alemayehu Worku, Abera Kumie
Impact of altering proximity on snack food intake in individuals with high and low executive function: study protocol
Jennifer A. Hunter, Gareth J. Hollands, Dominique-Laurent Couturier, Theresa M. Marteau
A randomized controlled trial for families with preschool children - promoting healthy eating and active playtime by connecting to nature
Tanja Sobko, Michael Tse, Matthew Kaplan
Undernutrition and associated factors among children aged 6-59 months in East Belesa District, northwest Ethiopia: a community based cross-sectional study
Wagaye Fentahun, Mamo Wubshet, Amare Tariku
Social context surrounding HIV diagnosis and construction of masculinity: a qualitative study of stigma experiences of heterosexual HIV positive men in southwest Nigeria
Titilayo Ainegbesua Okoror, Catherine Olufunke Falade, Ebunlomo Mary Walker, Adetayo Olorunlana, Agaptus Anaele
Knowledge of the signs and symptoms and risk factors of lung cancer in Australia: mixed methods study
Melanie Crane, Nicola Scott, Blythe J. O’Hara, Sanchia Aranda, Mayanne Lafontaine, Ingrid Stacey, Megan Varlow, David Currow
The prevalence of depressive symptoms among fathers and associated risk factors during the first seven years of their child’s life: findings from the Millennium Cohort Study
Selina Nath, Lamprini Psychogiou, Willem Kuyken, Tamsin Ford, Elizabeth Ryan, Ginny Russell
Asthma management in British South Asian children: an application of the candidacy framework to a qualitative understanding of barriers to effective and accessible asthma care
Nicky Hudson, Lorraine Culley, Mark Johnson, Melanie McFeeters, Noelle Robertson, Emma Angell, Monica Lakhanpaul
Association of adiponectin and socioeconomic status in African American men and women: the Jackson heart study
Sharon K. Davis, Ruihua Xu, Pia Riestra, Samson Y. Gebreab, Rumana J. Khan, Amadou Gaye, DeMarc Hickson, Mario Sims, Aurelian Bidulescu
To what extent do Australian child and youth health policies address the social determinants of health and health equity?: a document analysis study
Clare Phillips, Matt Fisher, Fran Baum, Colin MacDougall, Lareen Newman, Dennis McDermott
Erratum to: ‘The educational gradient of obesity increases among Swedish pregnant women: a register-based study’
Helena Bjermo, Simon Lind, Finn Rasmussen
Closing the gap in Australian Aboriginal infant immunisation rates -- the development and review of a pre-call strategy
Patrick M. Cashman, Natalie A. Allan, Katrina K. Clark, Michelle T. Butler, Peter D. Massey, David N. Durrheim
Accelerometry and physical activity questionnaires - a systematic review
Stephanie Skender, Jennifer Ose, Jenny Chang-Claude, Michael Paskow, Boris Brühmann, Erin M. Siegel, Karen Steindorf, Cornelia M. Ulrich
Understanding how perceptions of tobacco constituents and the FDA relate to effective and credible tobacco risk messaging: A national phone survey of U.S. adults, 2014–2015
Marcella H. Boynton, Robert P. Agans, J. Michael Bowling, Noel T. Brewer, Erin L. Sutfin, Adam O. Goldstein, Seth M. Noar, Kurt M. Ribisl
Use of theory in computer-based interventions to reduce alcohol use among adolescents and young adults: a systematic review
Kathleen P. Tebb, Rebecca K. Erenrich, Carolyn Bradner Jasik, Mark S. Berna, James C. Lester, Elizabeth M. Ozer
Assessment of healthy behaviors for metabolic syndrome among Korean adults: a modified information-motivation-behavioral skills with psychological distress
Guna Lee, Sook Ja Yang, Yeon Kyung Chee
Evaluating the effectiveness of the SMART contract-signing strategy in reducing the growth of Swedish Adolescents’ substance use and problem behaviors
Cristian Bortes, Susanna Geidne, Charli Eriksson
Proactive enrollment of parents to tobacco quitlines in pediatric practices is associated with greater quitline use: a cross-sectional study
Jeremy E. Drehmer, Bethany Hipple, Emara Nabi-Burza, Deborah J. Ossip, Yuchiao Chang, Nancy A. Rigotti, Jonathan P. Winickoff
A multi-level intervention in subsidized housing sites to increase fruit and vegetable access and intake: Rationale, design and methods of the ‘Live Well, Viva Bien’ cluster randomized trial
Kim M. Gans, Gemma Gorham, Patricia M. Risica, Akilah Dulin-Keita, Laura Dionne, Tina Gao, Sarah Peters, Ludovica Principato
Erratum to: Complementary school garden, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene interventions to improve children’s nutrition and health status in Burkina Faso and Nepal: a study protocol
Séverine Erismann, Akina Shrestha, Serge Diagbouga, Astrid Knoblauch, Jana Gerold, Ramona Herz, Subodh Sharma, Christian Schindler, Peter Odermatt, Axel Drescher, Ray-yu Yang, Jürg Utzinger, Guéladio Cissé
Utilisation of health services and the poor: deconstructing wealth-based differences in facility-based delivery in the Philippines
Andrew Hodge, Sonja Firth, Raoul Bermejo III, Willibald Zeck, Eliana Jimenez-Soto
Navigating HIV prevention policy and Islam in Malaysia: contention, compatibility or reconciliation? Findings from in-depth interviews among key stakeholders
Sima Barmania, Syed Mohamed Aljunid
The health and well-being of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Britain: Evidence from the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3)
Catherine H. Mercer, Philip Prah, Nigel Field, Clare Tanton, Wendy Macdowall, Soazig Clifton, Gwenda Hughes, Anthony Nardone, Kaye Wellings, Anne M. Johnson, Pam Sonnenberg
Obesity status trajectory groups among elementary school children
Tzu-An Chen, Tom Baranowski, Jennette P. Moreno, Teresia M. O’Connor, Sheryl O. Hughes, Janice Baranowski, Deborah Woehler, Rachel T. Kimbro, Craig A. Johnston
Process evaluation of the Walk Well study: a cluster-randomised controlled trial of a community based walking programme for adults with intellectual disabilities
Lynsay Matthews, Fiona Mitchell, Kirsten Stalker, Alex McConnachie, Heather Murray, Chris Melling, Nanette Mutrie, Craig Melville
Economic interventions to improve population health: a scoping study of systematic reviews
Mishal S. Khan, Bernie Y. Guan, Jananie Audimulam, Francisco Cervero Liceras, Richard J. Coker, Joanne Yoong
Delayed entry into HIV care after diagnosis in two specialized care and treatment centres in Cameroon: the influence of CD4 count and WHO staging
Noah F. Takah, George Awungafac, Leopold N. Aminde, Innocent Ali, Juliana Ndasi, Patrick Njukeng
Viewing alcohol warning advertising reduces urges to drink in young adults: an online experiment
Kaidy Stautz, Theresa M Marteau
Musculoskeletal pain and re-employment among unemployed job seekers: a three-year follow-up study
Chioma A. Nwaru, Clas-Håkan Nygård, Pekka Virtanen
Knowledge and use of unauthorized HIV self-test kits among men who have sex with men in Spain, following approval of an over-the-counter self-test in the U.S: a cross-sectional study
Konstantinos Koutentakis, María Elena Rosales-Statkus, Juan Hoyos, Sonia Fernández-Balbuena, Mónica Ruiz, Cristina Agustí, Luis de la Fuente, María José Belza
Changes in sport and physical activity participation for adolescent females: a longitudinal study
Rochelle M. Eime, Jack T. Harvey, Neroli A. Sawyer, Melinda J. Craike, Caroline M. Symons, Warren R. Payne
A cross-sectional study of psychological distress, burnout, and the associated risk factors in hospital pharmacists in Japan
Yuji Higuchi, Masatoshi Inagaki, Toshihiro Koyama, Yoshihisa Kitamura, Toshiaki Sendo, Maiko Fujimori, Yosuke Uchitomi, Norihito Yamada
Are recent attempts to quit smoking associated with reduced drinking in England? A cross-sectional population survey
Jamie Brown, Robert West, Emma Beard, Alan Brennan, Colin Drummond, Duncan Gillespie, Matthew Hickman, John Holmes, Eileen Kaner, Susan Michie
Evaluating the effectiveness of a smartphone app to reduce excessive alcohol consumption: protocol for a factorial randomised control trial
Claire Garnett, David Crane, Susan Michie, Robert West, Jamie Brown
Mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B: extent of knowledge of physicians and midwives in Eastern region of Ghana
Charles Ampong Adjei, Richard Asamoah, Fidelis Atibila, Gilbert Nachinab Ti-enkawol, Michael Ansah-Nyarko
Characterization of urinary cotinine in non-smoking residents in smoke-free homes in the Korean National Environmental Health Survey (KoNEHS)
Jeonghoon Kim, Kiyoung Lee
A qualitative evaluation of a novel intervention using insight into tobacco industry tactics to prevent the uptake of smoking in school-aged children
John Taylor, Amy Taylor, Sarah Lewis, Ann McNeill, John Britton, Laura L. Jones, Linda Bauld, Steve Parrott, Qi Wu, Lisa Szatkowski, Manpreet Bains
Parental knowledge, attitudes and beliefs regarding fever in children: an interview study
Maria Kelly, Laura J. Sahm, Frances Shiely, Ronan O’Sullivan, Aoife McGillicuddy, Suzanne McCarthy
Provincial alcohol index and its relationship to alcohol-related harm in Thailand: implications for subnational alcohol policy development
Surasak Chaiyasong, Thaksaphon Thamarangsi
The association between social capital and loneliness in different age groups: a population-based study in Western Finland
Fredrica Nyqvist, Christina R. Victor, Anna K. Forsman, Mima Cattan
Reductions in biomarkers of exposure, impacts on smoking urge and assessment of product use and tolerability in adult smokers following partial or complete substitution of cigarettes with electronic cigarettes
Carl D. D’Ruiz, Donald W. Graff, Edward Robinson
Assessing health impacts of the December 2013 Ice storm in Ontario, Canada
Nikhil Rajaram, Karin Hohenadel, Laera Gattoni, Yasmin Khan, Elizabeth Birk-Urovitz, Lennon Li, Brian Schwartz
How does an integrated primary care approach for patients in deprived neighbourhoods impact utilization patterns? An explorative study
Dionne S. Kringos, Jennifer R. van den Broeke, Arnold P. M. van der Lee, Thomas Plochg, Karien Stronks
Overweight at four years of age in a Swedish birth cohort: influence of neighbourhood-level purchasing power
Josefine Roswall, Gerd Almqvist-Tangen, Anders Holmén, Bernt Alm, Stefan Bergman, Jovanna Dahlgren, Ulf Strömberg
Prevalence, barriers and factors associated with parental disclosure of their HIV positive status to children: a cross-sectional study in an urban clinic in Kampala, Uganda
Charles Peter Osingada, Monica Okuga, Rose Chalo Nabirye, Nelson Kaulukusi Sewankambo, Damalie Nakanjako
How social representations of sexually transmitted infections influence experiences of genito-urinary symptoms and care-seeking in Britain: mixed methods study protocol
Fiona Mapp, Ford Hickson, Catherine H. Mercer, Kaye Wellings
Workers’ perceptions of climate change related extreme heat exposure in South Australia: a cross-sectional survey
Jianjun Xiang, Alana Hansen, Dino Pisaniello, Peng Bi
A randomized controlled trial of directive and nondirective smoking cessation coaching through an employee quitline
Walton Sumner II, Mark S. Walker, Gabrielle R. Highstein, Irene Fischer, Yan Yan, Amy McQueen, Edwin B. Fisher
Variations in area-level disadvantage of Australian registered fitness trainers usual training locations
Jason A. Bennie, Lukar E. Thornton, Jannique G. Z. van Uffelen, Lauren K. Banting, Stuart J. H. Biddle
Exploratory study of the implications of research on the use of smart connected devices for prevention: a scoping review
Audrey Petit, Linda Cambon
Association between regular physical exercise and depressive symptoms mediated through social support and resilience in Japanese company workers: a cross-sectional study
Eisho Yoshikawa, Daisuke Nishi, Yutaka J. Matsuoka
Prevalence and familial predictors of suicidal behaviour among adolescents in Lithuania: a cross-sectional survey 2014
Apolinaras Zaborskis, Dainora Sirvyte, Nida Zemaitiene
Effects of an exclusive breastfeeding intervention for six months on growth patterns of 4–5 year old children in Uganda: the cluster-randomised PROMISE EBF trial
Lars T. Fadnes, Victoria Nankabirwa, Ingunn M. Engebretsen, Halvor Sommerfelt, Nancy Birungi, Carl Lombard, Sonja Swanevelder, Jan Van den Broeck, Thorkild Tylleskär, James K. Tumwine
Uptake of HIV testing and counseling, risk perception and linkage to HIV care among Thai university students
Thana Khawcharoenporn, Krongtip Chunloy, Anucha Apisarnthanarak
Sexual behaviour of women in rural South Africa: a descriptive study
Jan Henk Dubbink, Lisette van der Eem, James A. McIntyre, Nontembeko Mbambazela, Geoffrey A. Jobson, Sander Ouburg, Servaas A. Morre, Helen E. Struthers, Remco P. H. Peters
Late presentation for diagnosis of HIV infection among HIV positive patients in South Tigray Zone, Ethiopia
Admassu Assen, Fantahun Molla, Abrham Wondimu, Solomon Abrha, Wondim Melkam, Ebisa Tadesse, Zewdu Yilma, Tadele Eticha, Hagos Abrha, Birhanu Demeke Workneh
A population based study of drowning in Canada
Tessa Clemens, Hala Tamim, Michael Rotondi, Alison K. Macpherson
Time trends: a ten-year comparison (2005–2015) of pedometer-determined physical activity and obesity in Czech preschool children
Erik Sigmund, Dagmar Sigmundová, Petr Badura, Lucie Trhlíková, Andrea Madarasová Gecková
Lost in translation: a focus group study of parents’ and adolescents’ interpretations of underage drinking and parental supply
Sandra C. Jones, Kelly Andrews, Nina Berry
The psychosocial determinants of the intention to avoid sexual engagement when intoxicated among young men in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Thabang Manyaapelo, Robert A. C. Ruiter, Anam Nyembezi, Bart van den Borne, Sibusiso Sifunda, Priscilla Reddy
Factors associated with performing tuberculosis screening of HIV-positive patients in Ghana: LASSO-based predictor selection in a large public health data set
Susanne Mueller-Using, Torsten Feldt, Fred Stephen Sarfo, Kirsten Alexandra Eberhardt
Outbreak of foodborne gastroenteritis in a senior high school in South-eastern Ghana: a retrospective cohort study
Donne K. Ameme, Holy Alomatu, Albert Antobre-Boateng, Adam Zakaria, Lilian Addai, Klutse Fianko, Bai Janneh, Edwin A. Afari, Kofi M. Nyarko, Samuel O. Sackey, Fred Wurapa
Predictors of sun protection behaviours and sunburn among Australian adolescents
Simone Pettigrew, Michelle Jongenelis, Mark Strickland, Carolyn Minto, Terry Slevin, Geoffrey Jalleh, Chad Lin
Partnership capacity for community health improvement plan implementation: findings from a social network analysis
J. Mac McCullough, Eileen Eisen-Cohen, S. Bianca Salas
Reducing child abuse amongst adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: A pre-post trial in South Africa
Lucie Cluver, Franziska Meinck, Alexa Yakubovich, Jenny Doubt, Alice Redfern, Catherine Ward, Nasteha Salah, Sachin De Stone, Tshiamo Petersen, Phelisa Mpimpilashe, Rocio Herrero Romero, Lulu Ncobo, Jamie Lachman, Sibongile Tsoanyane, Yulia Shenderovich, Heidi Loening, Jasmina Byrne, Lorraine Sherr, Lauren Kaplan, Frances Gardner
The impact of different types of parental support behaviours on child physical activity, healthy eating, and screen time: a cross-sectional study
Evelyn Pyper, Daniel Harrington, Heather Manson
Predictors of physical activity and sedentary behaviours among 11-16 year olds: Multilevel analysis of the 2013 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study in Wales
Kelly Morgan, Britt Hallingberg, Hannah Littlecott, Simon Murphy, Adam Fletcher, Chris Roberts, Graham Moore
The risk of falling into poverty after developing heart disease: a survival analysis
Emily J. Callander, Deborah J. Schofield
Current and past smoking patterns in a Central European urban population: a cross-sectional study in a high-burden country
Narine K. Movsisyan, Ondrej Sochor, Eva Kralikova, Renata Cifkova, Hana Ross, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez
A systematic review of randomized controlled trials of mHealth interventions against non-communicable diseases in developing countries
Victor Stephani, Daniel Opoku, Wilm Quentin
Prevalence of and factors associated with homebound status among adults in urban and rural Spanish populations
Laureano Negrón-Blanco, Jesús de Pedro-Cuesta, Javier Almazán, Carmen Rodríguez-Blázquez, Esther Franco, Javier Damián
Socio-demographic caracteristics and prevalence of risk factors in a hypertensive and diabetics population: a cross-sectional study in primary health care in Brazil
Julio Baldisserotto, Luciane Kopittke, Fulvio Borges Nedel, Silvia Pasa Takeda, Claunara Schilling Mendonça, Sérgio Antonio Sirena, Margarita Silva Diercks, Lena Azeredo de Lima, Belinda Nicolau
Self-reported acute pesticide intoxications in Ethiopia
Amare W. Nigatu, Magne Bråtveit, Bente E. Moen
Do socio-cultural factors influence medical students’ health status and health-promoting behaviors? A cross-sectional multicenter study in Germany and Hungary
Henna Riemenschneider, Péter Balázs, Erika Balogh, Axel Bartels, Antje Bergmann, Károly Cseh, Nora Faubl, Zsuzsanna Füzesi, Ferenc Horváth, István Kiss, Jörg Schelling, András Terebessy, Karen Voigt
Sustainable healthy eating behaviour of young adults: towards a novel methodological approach
Zuzanna Pieniak, Sylwia Żakowska-Biemans, Eliza Kostyra, Monique Raats
Effect of a novel two-desk sit-to-stand workplace (ACTIVE OFFICE) on sitting time, performance and physiological parameters: protocol for a randomized control trial
Bernhard Schwartz, Jay M. Kapellusch, Andreas Schrempf, Kathrin Probst, Michael Haller, Arnold Baca
Protocol for the SEED-trial: Supported Employment and preventing Early Disability
Vigdis Sveinsdottir, Torill Helene Tveito, Gary R. Bond, Astrid Louise Grasdal, Stein Atle Lie, Silje Endresen Reme
Study protocol: a cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of a multi-pronged behavioural intervention to improve use of personal protective equipment among migrant workers exposed to organic solvents in small and medium-sized enterprises
Wen Chen, Tongyang Li, Guanyang Zou, Xudong Li, Leiyu Shi, Shanshan Feng, Jingrong Shi, Fangjing Zhou, Siqi Han, Li Ling
Treatment outcome, treatment retention, and their predictors among clients of five outpatient alcohol treatment centres in Switzerland
Severin Haug, Michael P. Schaub
Experiences with insecticide-treated curtains: a qualitative study in Iquitos, Peru
Valerie A. Paz-Soldan, Karin M. Bauer, Audrey Lenhart, Jhonny J. Cordova Lopez, John P. Elder, Thomas W. Scott, Philip J. McCall, Tadeusz J. Kochel, Amy C. Morrison
The Building Wealth and Health Network: methods and baseline characteristics from a randomized controlled trial for families with young children participating in temporary assistance for needy families (TANF)
Jing Sun, Falguni Patel, Rachel Kirzner, Nijah Newton-Famous, Constance Owens, Seth L. Welles, Mariana Chilton
Process evaluation and assessment of use of a large scale water filter and cookstove program in Rwanda
Christina K. Barstow, Corey L. Nagel, Thomas F. Clasen, Evan A. Thomas
Air pollution, neighbourhood and maternal-level factors modify the effect of smoking on birth weight: a multilevel analysis in British Columbia, Canada
Anders C. Erickson, Aleck Ostry, Hing Man Chan, Laura Arbour
An evaluation of the impact of a restrictive retail food environment intervention in a rural community pharmacy setting
Leia M. Minaker, Dana Lee Olstad, Graham MacKenzie, Nghia Nguyen, Sunday Azagba, Brian E. Cook, Catherine L. Mah
A faecal exposure assessment of farm workers in Accra, Ghana: a cross sectional study
Prince Antwi-Agyei, Adam Biran, Anne Peasey, Jane Bruce, Jeroen Ensink
Feeling angry about current health status: using a population survey to determine the association with demographic, health and social factors
Tiffany K. Gill, K. Price, E. Dal Grande, A. Daly, A. W. Taylor
Erratum to: ‘Current and future economic burden of diabetes among working-age adults in Asia: conservative estimates for Singapore from 2010-2050’
May Ee Png, Joanne Yoong, Thao Phuong Phan, Hwee Lin Wee
Prevalence and determinants of hypertension in Myanmar - a nationwide cross-sectional study
Marius B. Bjertness, Aung Soe Htet, Haakon E. Meyer, Maung Maung Than Htike, Ko Ko Zaw, Win Myint Oo, Tint Swe Latt, Lhamo Y. Sherpa, Espen Bjertness
Understanding communication pathways to foster community engagement for health improvement in North West Pakistan
Monique Lhussier, Nicola Lowe, Elizabeth Westaway, Fiona Dykes, Mick McKeown, Akhtar Munir, Saba Tahir, Mukhtiar Zaman
Maternal health care seeking behavior: the case of Haor (wetland) in Bangladesh
Md. Aminul Haque, Surjya Kanta Dash, Muhammad Abdul Baker Chowdhury
Primary and secondary anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in Hitossa District of Arsi Zone, Oromia Regional State, Central Ethiopia
Shallo Daba Hamusse, Dejene Teshome, Mohammed Suaudi Hussen, Meaza Demissie, Bernt Lindtjørn
Sanitation investments in Ghana: An ethnographic investigation of the role of tenure security, land ownership and livelihoods
Y. Awunyo-Akaba, J. Awunyo-Akaba, M. Gyapong, K. Senah, F. Konradsen, T. Rheinländer
A cross sectional study of animal and human colonization with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in an Aboriginal community
Peter Daley, Janak Bajgai, Carla Penney, Karen Williams, Hugh Whitney, George R. Golding, Scott Weese
Associations between health literacy and preventive health behaviors among older adults: findings from the health and retirement study
Dena M. Fernandez, Janet L. Larson, Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher
Design of a randomized controlled trial on the effect on return to work with coaching plus light therapy and pulsed electromagnetic field therapy for workers with work-related chronic stress
Antonius M. C. Schoutens, Monique H. W. Frings-Dresen, Judith K. Sluiter
Study protocol of European Fans in Training (EuroFIT): a four-country randomised controlled trial of a lifestyle program for men delivered in elite football clubs
Femke van Nassau, Hidde P. van der Ploeg, Frank Abrahamsen, Eivind Andersen, Annie S. Anderson, Judith E. Bosmans, Christopher Bunn, Matthew Chalmers, Ciaran Clissmann, Jason M. R. Gill, Cindy M. Gray, Kate Hunt, Judith G.M. Jelsma, Jennifer G. La Guardia, Pierre N. Lemyre, David W. Loudon, Lisa Macaulay, Douglas J. Maxwell, Alex McConnachie, Anne Martin, Nikos Mourselas, Nanette Mutrie, Ria Nijhuis-van der Sanden, Kylie O’Brien, Hugo V. Pereira, Matthew Philpott, Glyn C. Roberts, John Rooksby, Mattias Rost, Øystein Røynesdal, Naveed Sattar, Marlene N. Silva, Marit Sorensen, Pedro J. Teixeira, Shaun Treweek, Theo van Achterberg, Irene van de Glind, Willem van Mechelen, Sally Wyke
Unravelling the alcohol harm paradox: a population-based study of social gradients across very heavy drinking thresholds
Dan Lewer, Petra Meier, Emma Beard, Sadie Boniface, Eileen Kaner
Individual and population level impacts of illicit drug use, sexual risk behaviours on sexually transmitted infections among young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: results from the GOANNA survey
Handan Wand, James Ward, Joanne Bryant, Dea Delaney-Thiele, Heather Worth, Marian Pitts, John M. Kaldor
Study protocol: combining experimental methods, econometrics and simulation modelling to determine price elasticities for studying food taxes and subsidies (The Price ExaM Study)
Wilma E. Waterlander, Tony Blakely, Nhung Nghiem, Christine L. Cleghorn, Helen Eyles, Murat Genc, Nick Wilson, Yannan Jiang, Boyd Swinburn, Liana Jacobi, Jo Michie, Cliona Ni Mhurchu
Using a positive deviance framework to identify Local Health Departments in Communities with exceptional maternal and child health outcomes: a cross sectional study
Tamar Klaiman, Athena Pantazis, Anjali Chainani, Betty Bekemeier
Validation of the comprehensive feeding practices questionnaire in parents of preschool children in Brazil
Sarah Warkentin, Laís Amaral Mais, Maria do Rosário Dias de Oliveira Latorre, Susan Carnell, José Augusto de Aguiar Carrazedo Taddei
Erratum to: ‘The analysis of factors affecting municipal employees’ willingness to report to work during an influenza pandemic by means of the extended parallel process model (EPPM)’
Carolin von Gottberg, Silvia Krumm, Franz Porzsolt, Reinhold Kilian
Does retirement mean more physical activity? A longitudinal study
Xiaoqi Feng, Karen Croteau, Gregory S. Kolt, Thomas Astell-Burt
Factors that lead to changes in sexual behaviours after a negative HIV test: protocol for a prospective cohort study in Kinshasa
Silvia Carlos, Francis Nzakimuena, Gabriel Reina, Cristina Lopez-del Burgo, Eduardo Burgueño, Adolphe Ndarabu, Alfonso Osorio, Jokin de Irala
Active Early: one-year policy intervention to increase physical activity among early care and education programs in Wisconsin
Tara L. LaRowe, Emily J. Tomayko, Amy M. Meinen, Jill Hoiting, Courtney Saxler, Bridget Cullen
Barriers to HIV and sexual and reproductive health care for female sex workers in Tete, Mozambique: results from a cross-sectional survey and focus group discussions
Yves Lafort, Faustino Lessitala, Balthazar Candrinho, Letitia Greener, Ross Greener, Mags Beksinska, Jenni A. Smit, Matthew Chersich, Wim Delva
Promoting physical activity with a school-based dance mat exergaming intervention: qualitative findings from a natural experiment
Duika Burges Watson, Jean Adams, Liane B. Azevedo, Catherine Haighton
A cross sectional evaluation of an alcohol intervention targeting young university students
Sharyn Burns, Jonine Jancey, Gemma Crawford, Jonathan Hallett, Linda Portsmouth, Janelle Longo
Factors associated with knowledge, attitude and practice related to hepatitis B and C among international students of Universiti Putra Malaysia
Abdulrahman Ahmad, Lye Munn Sann, Hejar Abdul Rahman
Treatment outcomes of childhood tuberculosis in Addis Ababa: a five-year retrospective analysis
Genene Tilahun, Solomon Gebre-Selassie
An analysis of three levels of scaled-up coverage for 28 interventions to avert stillbirths and maternal, newborn and child mortality in 27 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean with the Lives Saved Tool (LiST)
Lauren Arnesen, Thomas O’Connell, Luisa Brumana, Pablo Durán
Factor associated with experience of modern contraceptive use before pregnancy among women who gave birth in Kersa HDSS, Ethiopia
Abdulbasit Musa, Nega Assefa, Fitsum Weldegebreal, Habtamu Mitiku, Zelalem Teklemariam
Comparative effectiveness of adding weight control simultaneously or sequentially to smoking cessation quitlines: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial
Terry Bush, Jennifer Lovejoy, Harold Javitz, Brooke Magnusson, Alula Jimenez Torres, Stacey Mahuna, Cody Benedict, Ken Wassum, Bonnie Spring
Cost-effectiveness analysis of offering free leisure centre memberships to physically inactive members of the public receiving state benefits: a case study
Talitha I. Verhoef, Verena Trend, Barry Kelly, Nigel Robinson, Paul Fox, Stephen Morris
Bicycling crashes on streetcar (tram) or train tracks: mixed methods to identify prevention measures
Kay Teschke, Jessica Dennis, Conor C. O. Reynolds, Meghan Winters, M. Anne Harris
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a physical activity loyalty scheme for behaviour change maintenance: a cluster randomised controlled trial
Ruth F. Hunter, Sarah F. Brennan, Jianjun Tang, Oliver J. Smith, Jennifer Murray, Mark A. Tully, Chris Patterson, Alberto Longo, George Hutchinson, Lindsay Prior, David P. French, Jean Adams, Emma McIntosh, Frank Kee
Is preference for mHealth intervention delivery platform associated with delivery platform familiarity?
Daniel Granger, Corneel Vandelanotte, Mitch J. Duncan, Stephanie Alley, Stephanie Schoeppe, Camille Short, Amanda Rebar
Constructions and experiences of motherhood in the context of an early intervention for Aboriginal mothers and their children: mother and healthcare worker perspectives
Jane M. Ussher, Rosie Charter, Chloe Parton, Janette Perz
Impacts of casinos on key pathways to health: qualitative findings from American Indian gaming communities in California
Stephen R. Kodish, Joel Gittelsohn, Vanessa M. Oddo, Jessica C. Jones-Smith
Assessing contraband tobacco in two jurisdictions: a direct collection of cigarette butts
Julie Stratton, Samantha Shiplo, Megan Ward, Alexey Babayan, Adam Stevens, Sarah Edwards
Effects of tobacco exposure on perinatal suicidal ideation, depression, and anxiety
Shu-Chuan Weng, Jian-Pei Huang, Ya-Li Huang, Tony Szu-Hsien Lee, Yi-Hua Chen
Online interventions for problem gamblers with and without co-occurring mental health symptoms: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial
John A. Cunningham, David C. Hodgins, Kylie Bennett, Anthony Bennett, Marina Talevski, Corey S. Mackenzie, Christian S. Hendershot
“As soon as you’ve had the baby that’s it…” a qualitative study of 24 postnatal women on their experience of maternal obesity care pathways
Sarah Dinsdale, Kay Branch, Lindsay Cook, Janet Shucksmith
Promoting physical activity and health literacy: study protocol for a longitudinal, mixed methods evaluation of a cross-provider workplace-related intervention in Germany (The AtRisk study)
Andrea Schaller, Lea Dejonghe, Adrienne Alayli-Goebbels, Bianca Biallas, Ingo Froboese
The relationship of tobacco and alcohol use with ageing self-perceptions in older people in Ireland
Amanda Villiers-Tuthill, Antoinette Copley, Hannah McGee, Karen Morgan
The concurrence of musculoskeletal pain and associated work-related factors: a cross sectional study
Rita de Cássia Pereira Fernandes, Silvana Maria da Silva Pataro, Roberta Brasileiro de Carvalho, Alex Burdorf
Influence of physical and psychosocial work environment throughout life and physical and cognitive capacity in midlife on labor market attachment among older workers: study protocol for a prospective cohort study
Emil Sundstrup, Åse Marie Hansen, Erik Lykke Mortensen, Otto Melchior Poulsen, Thomas Clausen, Reiner Rugulies, Anne Møller, Lars Louis Andersen
Impact of quadrivalent influenza vaccine on public health and influenza-related costs in Australia
Aurélien Jamotte, Chui Fung Chong, Andrew Manton, Bérengère Macabeo, Mondher Toumi
Social capital and healthy ageing in Indonesia
Junran Cao, Anu Rammohan
Time-constrained mother and expanding market: emerging model of under-nutrition in India
S. Chaturvedi, S. Ramji, N. K. Arora, S. Rewal, R. Dasgupta, V. Deshmukh, Vivek Adhish, Anuja Aggrawal, Harish Chellani, A. P. Dubey, Kalyan Ganguly, Kiran Goswami, K. Suresh, R. M. Pandey, M. S. Prasad, Prashant Mathur, Arti Maria, Manoja Das, Neelima Thakur, Deoki Nandan, J. P. Shivdasani, Shamim Haider, Vidya Sagar, Ashok Mishra, Praveen Gautam, Anurag Tomar, A. M. Dixit, Sanjata Choudhary, C. B. Kumar, Samendra Mohapatra, Gouri Padhya, Subhranshu Kar
The effectiveness of non-pyrethroid insecticide-treated durable wall lining to control malaria in rural Tanzania: study protocol for a two-armed cluster randomized trial
George Mtove, Joseph P. Mugasa, Louisa A. Messenger, Robert C. Malima, Peter Mangesho, Franklin Magogo, Mateusz Plucinski, Ramadhan Hashimu, Johnson Matowo, Donald Shepard, Bernard Batengana, Jackie Cook, Basiliana Emidi, Yara Halasa, Robert Kaaya, Aggrey Kihombo, Kimberly A. Lindblade, Geofrey Makenga, Robert Mpangala, Abraham Mwambuli, Ruth Mzava, Abubakary Mziray, George Olang, Richard M. Oxborough, Mohammed Seif, Edward Sambu, Aaron Samuels, Wema Sudi, John Thomas, Sophie Weston, Martin Alilio, Nancy Binkin, John Gimnig, Immo Kleinschmidt, Peter McElroy, Lawrence H. Moulton, Laura Norris, Trenton Ruebush, Meera Venkatesan, Mark Rowland, Franklin W. Mosha, William N. Kisinza
Impact of neighborhood resources on cardiovascular disease: a nationwide six-year follow-up
Susanna Calling, Xinjun Li, Naomi Kawakami, Tsuyoshi Hamano, Kristina Sundquist
Too much sitting and all-cause mortality: is there a causal link?
Stuart J. H. Biddle, Jason A. Bennie, Adrian E. Bauman, Josephine Y. Chau, David Dunstan, Neville Owen, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Jannique G. Z. van Uffelen
Overweight and obesity and its socio-demographic correlates among urban Ethiopian women: evidence from the 2011 EDHS
Solomon Abrha, Solomon Shiferaw, Kedir Y. Ahmed
Knowledge of complications of diabetes mellitus among patients visiting the diabetes clinic at Sampa Government Hospital, Ghana: a descriptive study
Yaa Obirikorang, Christian Obirikorang, Enoch Odame Anto, Emmanuel Acheampong, Emmanuella Nsenbah Batu, Agyemang Duah Stella, Omerige Constance, Peter Kojo Brenya
Dental caries is negatively correlated with body mass index among 7-9 years old children in Guangzhou, China
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The Healthy Primary School of the Future: study protocol of a quasi-experimental study
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Factors associated with self-reported health: implications for screening level community-based health and environmental studies
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Incidence of tuberculosis among school-going adolescents in South India
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Factors associated with overweight: are the conclusions influenced by choice of the regression method?
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Behavioural intervention to increase physical activity in adults with coronary heart disease in Jordan
Eman Alsaleh, Richard Windle, Holly Blake
Obesity in British children with and without intellectual disability: cohort study
Eric Emerson, Janet Robertson, Susannah Baines, Chris Hatton
Threat appeals in health communication: messages that elicit fear and enhance perceived efficacy positively impact on young male drivers
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Medical costs and quality-adjusted life years associated with smoking: a systematic review
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The association between graduated driver licensing laws and travel behaviors among adolescents: an analysis of US National Household Travel Surveys
Motao Zhu, Peter Cummings, Songzhu Zhao, Thomas Rice
Nutritional health attitudes and behaviors and their associations with the risk of overweight/obesity among child care providers in Michigan Migrant and Seasonal Head Start centers
Won O. Song, SuJin Song, Violeta Nieves, Andie Gonzalez, Elahé T. Crockett
Patterns of multimorbidity and their association with health outcomes within Yorkshire, England: baseline results from the Yorkshire Health Study
Jessica Li, Mark Green, Ben Kearns, Eleanor Holding, Christine Smith, Annette Haywood, Cindy Cooper, Mark Strong, Clare Relton
Rationale, design, and methods for Canadian alliance for healthy hearts and minds cohort study (CAHHM) – a Pan Canadian cohort study
Sonia S. Anand, Jack V. Tu, Philip Awadalla, Sandra Black, Catherine Boileau, David Busseuil, Dipika Desai, Jean-Pierre Després, Russell J. de Souza, Trevor Dummer, Sébastien Jacquemont, Bartha Knoppers, Eric Larose, Scott A. Lear, Francois Marcotte, Alan R. Moody, Louise Parker, Paul Poirier, Paula J. Robson, Eric E. Smith, John J. Spinelli, Jean-Claude Tardif, Koon K. Teo, Natasa Tusevljak, Matthias G. Friedrich
Designing a Healthy Food Partnership: lessons from the Australian Food and Health Dialogue
Alexandra Jones, Roger Magnusson, Boyd Swinburn, Jacqui Webster, Amanda Wood, Gary Sacks, Bruce Neal
Adaptation and standardization of a Western tool for assessing child development in non-Western low-income context
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Thai district Leaders’ perceptions of managing the direct observation treatment program in Trang Province, Thailand
Jiraporn Choowong, Per Tillgren, Maja Söderbäck
Environmental predictors of stunting among children under-five in Somalia: cross-sectional studies from 2007 to 2010
Damaris K. Kinyoki, James A. Berkley, Grainne M. Moloney, Elijah O. Odundo, Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Abdisalan M. Noor
Is there a link between childhood adversity, attachment style and Scotland’s excess mortality? Evidence, challenges and potential research
M. Smith, A. E. Williamson, D. Walsh, G. McCartney
Developing a mHealth intervention to promote uptake of HIV testing among African communities in the UK: a qualitative study
C. Evans, K. Turner, L. S. Suggs, A. Occa, A. Juma, H. Blake
A systematic review on the clustering and co-occurrence of multiple risk behaviours
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Differences in perceived fairness and health outcomes in two injury compensation systems: a comparative study
Nieke A. Elbers, Alex Collie, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Katherine Lippel, Keri Lockwood, Ian D. Cameron
A lack of information engagement among colorectal cancer screening non-attenders: cross-sectional survey
Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Jo Waller, Christian von Wagner, Jane Wardle
Reducing violence and increasing condom use in the intimate partnerships of female sex workers: study protocol for Samvedana Plus, a cluster randomised controlled trial in Karnataka state, south India
Tara S. Beattie, Shajy Isac, Parinita Bhattacharjee, Prakash Javalkar, Calum Davey, T. Raghavendra, Sapna Nair, Satyanarayana Ramanaik, D. L. Kavitha, James F. Blanchard, Charlotte Watts, Martine Collumbien, Stephen Moses, Lori Heise
Anticipating and addressing event-specific alcohol consumption among adolescents
Simone Pettigrew, Nicole Biagioni, Michelle I. Jongenelis
Primary school students’ mental health in Uganda and its association with school violence, connectedness, and school characteristics: a cross-sectional study
Barbara F. Thumann, Ula Nur, Dipak Naker, Karen M. Devries
Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in small areas of 33 Spanish cities
Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo, Mercè Gotsens, Laia Palència, Maica Rodríguez-Sanz, Miguel A. Martinez-Beneito, Mónica Ballesta, Montse Calvo, Lluís Cirera, Antonio Daponte, Felicitas Domínguez-Berjón, Ana Gandarillas, Natividad Izco Goñi, Carmen Martos, Conchi Moreno-Iribas, Andreu Nolasco, Diego Salmerón, Margarita Taracido, Carme Borrell
Body image mediates the depressive effects of weight gain in new mothers, particularly for women already obese: evidence from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study
Seung-Yong Han, Alexandra A. Brewis, Amber Wutich
Childhood adiposity trajectories are associated with late adolescent blood pressure: birth to twenty cohort
Richard J. Munthali, Juliana Kagura, Zané Lombard, Shane A. Norris
Spillover effects of HIV testing policies: changes in HIV testing guidelines and HCV testing practices in drug treatment programs in the United States
Jemima A. Frimpong, Thomas D’Aunno, Stéphane Helleringer, Lisa R. Metsch
Promoting physical activity in a low-income neighborhood of the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis: effects of a community-based intervention to increase physical activity
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Protocol of the impact of alternative social assistance disbursement on drug-related harm (TASA) study: a randomized controlled trial to evaluate changes to payment timing and frequency among people who use illicit drugs
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Determinants of stunting in Indonesian children: evidence from a cross-sectional survey indicate a prominent role for the water, sanitation and hygiene sector in stunting reduction
Harriet Torlesse, Aidan Anthony Cronin, Susy Katikana Sebayang, Robin Nandy
Balanced: a randomised trial examining the efficacy of two self-monitoring methods for an app-based multi-behaviour intervention to improve physical activity, sitting and sleep in adults
Mitch J. Duncan, Corneel Vandelanotte, Stewart G. Trost, Amanda L. Rebar, Naomi Rogers, Nicola W. Burton, Beatrice Murawski, Anna Rayward, Sasha Fenton, Wendy J. Brown
Examining reach, dose, and fidelity of the “Girls on the Move” after-school physical activity club: a process evaluation
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Mortality in Transition: Study Protocol of the PrivMort Project, a multilevel convenience cohort study
Darja Irdam, Lawrence King, Alexi Gugushvili, Aytalina Azarova, Mihaly Fazekas, Gabor Scheiring, Denes Stefler, Katarzyna Doniec, Pia Horvat, Irina Kolesnikova, Vladimir Popov, Ivan Szelenyi, Michael Marmot, Michael Murphy, Martin McKee, Martin Bobak
A community-engaged randomized controlled trial of an integrative intervention with HIV-positive, methamphetamine-using men who have sex with men
Adam W. Carrico, Jennifer Jain, Michael V. Discepola, David Olem, Rick Andrews, William J. Woods, Torsten B. Neilands, Steven Shoptaw, Walter Gómez, Samantha E. Dilworth, Judith T. Moskowitz
Analysis of symptoms and their potential associations with e-liquids’ components: a social media study
Qiudan Li, Yongcheng Zhan, Lei Wang, Scott J. Leischow, Daniel Dajun Zeng
A global assessment of the gender gap in self-reported health with survey data from 59 countries
Ties Boerma, Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Emese Verdes, Somnath Chatterji
The efficacy of nudge theory strategies in influencing adult dietary behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Anneliese Arno, Steve Thomas
Truck drivers’ perceptions on wearable devices and health promotion: a qualitative study
Rama Greenfield, Ellen Busink, Cybele P. Wong, Eva Riboli-Sasco, Geva Greenfield, Azeem Majeed, Josip Car, Petra A. Wark
Unwanted sexual attention at work and long-term sickness absence: a follow-up register-based study
Annie Hogh, Paul Maurice Conway, Thomas Clausen, Ida Elisabeth Huitfeldt Madsen, Hermann Burr
Effectiveness evaluation of a health promotion programme in primary schools: a cluster randomised controlled trial
Ludwig Grillich, Christina Kien, Yanagida Takuya, Michael Weber, Gerald Gartlehner
Healthy Food Intake Index (HFII) – Validity and reproducibility in a gestational-diabetes-risk population
Jelena Meinilä, Anita Valkama, Saila B. Koivusalo, Beata Stach-Lempinen, Jaana Lindström, Hannu Kautiainen, Johan G. Eriksson, Maijaliisa Erkkola
Explaining large mortality differences between adjacent counties: a cross-sectional study
M. Schootman, L. Chien, S. Yun, S. L. Pruitt
Individual, social, and environmental influences on the transitions in physical activity among emerging adults
Kaigang Li, Danping Liu, Denise Haynie, Benjamin Gee, Ashok Chaurasia, Dong-Chul Seo, Ronald J. Iannotti, Bruce G Simons-Morton
“Did you ever drink more?” A detailed description of pregnant women’s drinking patterns
Evelyne Muggli, Colleen O’Leary, Susan Donath, Francesca Orsini, Della Forster, Peter J. Anderson, Sharon Lewis, Catherine Nagle, Jeffrey M. Craig, Elizabeth Elliott, Jane Halliday
What criteria do decision makers in Thailand use to set priorities for vaccine introduction?
Siriporn Pooripussarakul, Arthorn Riewpaiboon, David Bishai, Charung Muangchana, Sripen Tantivess
The impact of alcohol care teams on emergency secondary care use following a diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease - a national cohort study
Claire Currie, Alisha Davies, Cono Ariti, Martin Bardsley
Service evaluation of an educational intervention to improve sexual health services in primary care implemented using a step-wedge design: analysis of chlamydia testing and diagnosis rate changes
Katy Town, Cliodna A. M. McNulty, Ellie J. Ricketts, Thomas Hartney, Anthony Nardone, Kate A. Folkard, Andre Charlett, J. Kevin Dunbar
Precarious employment is a risk factor for poor mental health in young individuals in Sweden: a cohort study with multiple follow-ups
Catarina Canivet, Theo Bodin, Maria Emmelin, Susanna Toivanen, Mahnaz Moghaddassi, Per-Olof Östergren
Profile of tuberculosis and its response to anti-TB drugs among tuberculosis patients treated under the TB control programme at Felege-Hiwot Referral Hospital, Ethiopia
Yohannes Zenebe, Yesuf Adem, Daniel Mekonnen, Awoke Derbie, Fetlework Bereded, Minichil Bantie, Begna Tulu, Derese Hailu, Fantahun Biadglegne
Have adults lost their sense of play? An observational study of the social dynamics of physical (in)activity in German and Hawaiian leisure settings
Ansgar Thiel, Hendrik K. Thedinga, Samantha L. Thomas, Harald Barkhoff, Katrin E. Giel, Olesia Schweizer, Syra Thiel, Stephan Zipfel
Prevalence and correlates of achieving recommended physical activity levels among children living in rural South Asia—A multi-centre study
Krithiga Shridhar, Christopher Millett, Anthony A. Laverty, Dewan Alam, Amit Dias, Joseph Williams, Preet K. Dhillon
Strengthening health disaster risk management in Africa: multi-sectoral and people-centred approaches are required in the post-Hyogo Framework of Action era
Olushayo Olu, Abdulmumini Usman, Lucien Manga, Stella Anyangwe, Kalula Kalambay, Ngoy Nsenga, Solomon Woldetsadik, Craig Hampton, Francois Nguessan, Angela Benson
Klokwerk + study protocol: An observational study to the effects of night–shift work on body weight and infection susceptibility and the mechanisms underlying these health effects
Bette Loef, Debbie van Baarle, Allard J. van der Beek, Linda W. van Kerkhof, Daniëlla van de Langenberg, Karin I. Proper
Perceptions of childhood undernutrition among rural households on the Kenyan coast – a qualitative study
Kelly W. Muraya, Caroline Jones, James A. Berkley, Sassy Molyneux
Alcohol consumption among partners of pregnant women in Sweden: a cross sectional study
Hjördis Högberg, Janna Skagerström, Fredrik Spak, Per Nilsen, Margareta Larsson
Characterising the extent of misreporting of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes using the Australian Health Survey
Karen Louise Peterson, Jane Philippa Jacobs, Steven Allender, Laura Veronica Alston, Melanie Nichols
Factors associated with married women’s support of male circumcision for HIV prevention in Uganda: a population based cross–sectional study
Komi Mati, Korede K. Adegoke, Hamisu M. Salihu
The epidemiology of road traffic injury hotspots in Kigali, Rwanda from police data
Anjni Patel, Elizabeth Krebs, Luciano Andrade, Stephen Rulisa, João Ricardo N. Vissoci, Catherine A. Staton
Associations between physical activity patterns and dietary patterns in a representative sample of Polish girls aged 13-21 years: a cross-sectional study (GEBaHealth Project)
Lidia Wadolowska, Joanna Kowalkowska, Marta Lonnie, Jolanta Czarnocinska, Marzena Jezewska-Zychowicz, Ewa Babicz-Zielinska
Risk factors and spatial distribution of extended spectrum β-lactamase-producing- Escherichia coli at retail poultry meat markets in Malaysia: a cross-sectional study
A. B. Aliyu, A. A. Saleha, A. Jalila, Z. Zunita
Relative abdominal adiposity is associated with chronic low back pain: a preliminary explorative study
Cristy Brooks, Jason C. Siegler, Paul W. M. Marshall
Physical activity, body mass index and heart rate variability-based stress and recovery in 16 275 Finnish employees: a cross-sectional study
Tiina Föhr, Julia Pietilä, Elina Helander, Tero Myllymäki, Harri Lindholm, Heikki Rusko, Urho M. Kujala
Mood, anxiety, and alcohol use disorders and later cause-specific sick leave in young adult employees
Fartein Ask Torvik, Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud, Line C. Gjerde, Gun Peggy Knudsen, Eivind Ystrom, Kristian Tambs, Espen Røysamb, Kristian Østby, Ragnhild Ørstavik
Use of electronic cigarettes among secondary and high school students from a socially disadvantaged rural area in Poland
Dorota Kaleta, Piotr Wojtysiak, Kinga Polańska
The GOOD life: Study protocol for a social norms intervention to reduce alcohol and other drug use among Danish adolescents
Christiane Stock, Lotte Vallentin-Holbech, Birthe Marie Rasmussen
A decision analytic model to investigate the cost-effectiveness of poisoning prevention practices in households with young children
Felix Achana, Alex J. Sutton, Denise Kendrick, Mike Hayes, David R. Jones, Stephanie J. Hubbard, Nicola J. Cooper
Hepatitis B infection awareness, vaccine perceptions and uptake, and serological profile of a group of health care workers in Yaoundé, Cameroon
Henri Olivier Pambou Tatsilong, Jean Jacques N. Noubiap, Jobert Richie N. Nansseu, Leopold N. Aminde, Jean Joel R. Bigna, Valentine Ngum Ndze, Roger Somo Moyou
Relationship between body mass index and family functioning, family communication, family type and parenting style among African migrant parents and children in Victoria, Australia: a parent-child dyad study
S. Cyril, J. Halliday, J. Green, A.M.N. Renzaho
How does HPV vaccination status relate to risk perceptions and intention to participate in cervical screening? a survey study
Mie Sara Hestbech, Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Jakob Kragstrup, Volkert Siersma, John Brodersen
Exploring the relationship between physical activity, life goals and health-related quality of life among high school students: a cross-sectional study
Julie Sigvartsen, Leiv Einar Gabrielsen, Eirik Abildsnes, Tonje H. Stea, Christina Sandvand Omfjord, Gudrun Rohde
The association of the neighbourhood built environment with objectively measured physical activity in older adults with and without lower limb osteoarthritis
Erik J. Timmermans, Laura A. Schaap, Marjolein Visser, Hidde P. van der Ploeg, Alfred J. Wagtendonk, Suzan van der Pas, Dorly J. H. Deeg
Born in Bradford’s Better Start: an experimental birth cohort study to evaluate the impact of early life interventions
Josie Dickerson, Philippa K. Bird, Rosemary R. C. McEachan, Kate E. Pickett, Dagmar Waiblinger, Eleonora Uphoff, Dan Mason, Maria Bryant, Tracey Bywater, Claudine Bowyer-Crane, Pinki Sahota, Neil Small, Michaela Howell, Gill Thornton, Melanie Astin, Debbie A. Lawlor, John Wright
Effect of eliminating open defecation on diarrhoeal morbidity: an ecological study of Nyando and Nambale sub-counties, Kenya
John Njuguna
Characteristics and outcomes of women initiating ART during pregnancy versus breastfeeding in Option B+ in Malawi
M. Landes, S. Sodhi, A. Matengeni, C. Meaney, M. van Lettow, A. K. Chan, J. J. van Oosterhout
Effectiveness of educational outreach in infectious diseases management: a cluster randomized trial in Uganda
Martin Kayitale Mbonye, Sarah M. Burnett, Sarah Naikoba, Allan Ronald, Robert Colebunders, Jean-Pierre Van Geertruyden, Marcia R. Weaver
Factors influencing disclosure among women experiencing intimate partner violence during pregnancy in Moshi Municipality, Tanzania
Victor Katiti, Geofrey Nimrod Sigalla, Jane Rogathi, Rachel Manongi, Declare Mushi
“It’s my business, it’s my body, it’s my money”: experiences of smokers who are not planning to quit in the next 30 days and their views about treatment options
YK Bartlett, N. Gartland, A. Wearden, CJ Armitage, B. Borrelli
Trends in major risk factors and mortality from main non-communicable diseases in Lithuania, 1985–2013
Abdonas Tamosiunas, Jurate Klumbiene, Janina Petkeviciene, Ricardas Radisauskas, Olga Vikhireva, Dalia Luksiene, Dalia Virviciute
Mothers’ views of their preschool child’s screen-viewing behaviour: a qualitative study
Georgina F. Bentley, Katrina M. Turner, Russell Jago
Main causes of death in Dande, Angola: results from Verbal Autopsies of deaths occurring during 2009–2012
Edite Vila Nova Rosário, Diogo Costa, Luís Timóteo, Ana Ambrósio Rodrigues, Jorge Varanda, Susana Vaz Nery, Miguel Brito
Association between education and future leisure-time physical inactivity: a study of Finnish twins over a 35-year follow-up
Maarit Piirtola, Jaakko Kaprio, Urho M. Kujala, Kauko Heikkilä, Markku Koskenvuo, Pia Svedberg, Karri Silventoinen, Annina Ropponen
Seroprevalence of Poliovirus Antibodies in the United States Population, 2009–2010
Gregory S. Wallace, Aaron T. Curns, William C. Weldon, M. Steven Oberste
Air pollution, aeroallergens and admissions to pediatric emergency room for respiratory reasons in Turin, northwestern Italy
Roberto Bono, Valeria Romanazzi, Valeria Bellisario, Roberta Tassinari, Giulia Trucco, Antonio Urbino, Claudio Cassardo, Consolata Siniscalco, Pierpaolo Marchetti, Alessandro Marcon
Gender differences and gender convergence in alcohol use over the past three decades (1984–2008), The HUNT Study, Norway
Grete Helen Bratberg, Sharon C Wilsnack, Richard Wilsnack, Siri Håvås Haugland, Steinar Krokstad, Erik Reidar Sund, Johan Haakon Bjørngaard
Prescribing indicators at primary health care centers within the WHO African region: a systematic analysis (1995–2015)
Richard Ofori-Asenso, Petra Brhlikova, Allyson M. Pollock
Using a gamified monitoring app to change adolescents’ snack intake: the development of the REWARD app and evaluation design
W. Van Lippevelde, J. Vangeel, N. De Cock, C. Lachat, L. Goossens, K. Beullens, L. Vervoort, C. Braet, L. Maes, S. Eggermont, B. Deforche, J. Van Camp
It’s not only what you say, it’s also how you say it: communicating Nipah virus prevention messages during an outbreak in Bangladesh
Shahana Parveen, M. Saiful Islam, Momtaz Begum, Mahbub-Ul Alam, Hossain M. S. Sazzad, Rebeca Sultana, Mahmudur Rahman, Emily S. Gurley, M. Jahangir Hossain, Stephen P. Luby
The Effect of Energy Labelling on Menus and a Social Marketing Campaign on Food-Purchasing Behaviours of University Students
Rajshri Roy, Jack Beattie-Bowers, Siew Min Ang, Stephen Colagiuri, Margaret Allman-Farinelli
MovingU: A prospective cohort study to understand behavioural and environmental contexts influencing physical activity during the transition into emerging adulthood
Matthew Y. W. Kwan, Chloe Bedard, Sara King-Dowling, Sarah Wellman, John Cairney
Are the current notification criteria for Lyme borreliosis in Norway suitable? Results of an evaluation of Lyme borreliosis surveillance in Norway, 1995–2013
Emily MacDonald, Didrik Frimann Vestrheim, Richard A White, Kirstin Konsmo, Heidi Lange, Audun Aase, Karin Nygård, Pawel Stefanoff, Ingeborg Aaberge, Line Vold
Cultural events – does attendance improve health? Evidence from a Polish longitudinal study
Dorota Węziak-Białowolska, Piotr Białowolski
Rainfall variation and child health: effect of rainfall on diarrhea among under 5 children in Rwanda, 2010
Assumpta Mukabutera, Dana Thomson, Megan Murray, Paulin Basinga, Laetitia Nyirazinyoye, Sidney Atwood, Kevin P. Savage, Aimable Ngirimana, Bethany L. Hedt-Gauthier
A community-based lifestyle and weight loss intervention promoting a Mediterranean-style diet pattern evaluated in the stroke belt of North Carolina: the Heart Healthy Lenoir Project
Thomas C. Keyserling, Carmen D. Samuel-Hodge, Stephanie Jilcott Pitts, Beverly A. Garcia, Larry F. Johnston, Ziya Gizlice, Cassandra L. Miller, Danielle F. Braxton, Kelly R. Evenson, Janice C. Smith, Gwen B. Davis, Emmanuelle L. Quenum, Nadya T. Majette Elliott, Myron D. Gross, Katrina E. Donahue, Jacqueline R. Halladay, Alice S. Ammerman
Nutritional quality of foods and non-alcoholic beverages advertised on Mexican television according to three nutrient profile models
Sofía Rincón-Gallardo Patiño, Lizbeth Tolentino-Mayo, Eric Alejandro Flores Monterrubio, Jennifer L Harris, Stefanie Vandevijvere, Juan A Rivera, Simón Barquera
Potential health gains and health losses in eleven EU countries attainable through feasible prevalences of the life-style related risk factors alcohol, BMI, and smoking: a quantitative health impact assessment
Stefan K. Lhachimi, Wilma J. Nusselder, Henriette A. Smit, Paolo Baili, Kathleen Bennett, Esteve Fernández, Margarete C. Kulik, Tim Lobstein, Joceline Pomerleau, Hendriek C. Boshuizen, Johan P. Mackenbach
Food for thought? Potential conflicts of interest in academic experts advising government and charities on dietary policies
Alex Newton, Ffion Lloyd-Williams, Helen Bromley, Simon Capewell
Does home equipment contribute to socioeconomic gradients in Australian children’s physical activity, sedentary time and screen time?
Dot Dumuid, Timothy S. Olds, Lucy K. Lewis, Carol Maher
Unravelling the effect of the Dutch school-based nutrition programme Taste Lessons: the role of dose, appreciation and interpersonal communication
Marieke C. E. Battjes-Fries, Ellen J. I. van Dongen, Reint Jan Renes, Hante J. Meester, Pieter van’t Veer, Annemien Haveman-Nies
Result of randomized control trial to increase breast health awareness among young females in Malaysia
Mehrnoosh Akhtari-Zavare, Muhamad Hanafiah Juni, Salmiah Md Said, Irmi Zarina Ismail, Latiffah A. Latiff, Sima Ataollahi Eshkoor
Use of food labels by adolescents to make healthier choices on snacks: a cross-sectional study from Sri Lanka
Ishanka A. Talagala, Carukshi Arambepola
Improving knowledge and behaviours related to the cause, transmission and prevention of Tuberculosis and early case detection: a descriptive study of community led Tuberculosis program in Flores, Indonesia
Christa Dewi, Lesley Barclay, Megan Passey, Shawn Wilson
Identifying common barriers and facilitators to linkage and retention in chronic disease care in western Kenya
Beth Rachlis, Violet Naanyu, Juddy Wachira, Becky Genberg, Beatrice Koech, Regina Kamene, Jackie Akinyi, Paula Braitstein
Perceived discrimination and self-rated health in Canada: an exploratory study
Janice Du Mont, Tonia Forte
Dietary pattern transitions, and the associations with BMI, waist circumference, weight and hypertension in a 7-year follow-up among the older Chinese population: a longitudinal study
Xiaoyue Xu, Julie Byles, Zumin Shi, Patrick McElduff, John Hall
Promotion of couples’ voluntary HIV counseling and testing: a comparison of influence networks in Rwanda and Zambia
April L. Kelley, Ashley K. Hagaman, Kristin M. Wall, Etienne Karita, William Kilembe, Roger Bayingana, Amanda Tichacek, Michele Kautzman, Susan A. Allen
Patient characteristics in a return to work programme for common mental disorders: a cross-sectional study
Mattias Victor, Bjørn Lau, Torleif Ruud
Evaluation of Daily Physical Activity (DPA) policy implementation in Ontario: surveys of elementary school administrators and teachers
Kenneth R. Allison, Karen Vu-Nguyen, Bessie Ng, Nour Schoueri-Mychasiw, John J. M. Dwyer, Heather Manson, Erin Hobin, Steve Manske, Jennifer Robertson
Material deprivation and health: a longitudinal study
Anne Grete Tøge, Ruth Bell
Translating an early childhood obesity prevention program for local community implementation: a case study of the Melbourne InFANT Program
R. Laws, K. D. Hesketh, K. Ball, C. Cooper, K. Vrljic, K. J. Campbell
The acceptability of three vaccine injections given to infants during a single clinic visit in South Africa
Hanani Tabana, Lilian D. Dudley, Stephen Knight, Neil Cameron, Hassan Mahomed, Charlyn Goliath, Rudolf Eggers, Charles S. Wiysonge
Perceptions of diet, physical activity, and obesity-related health among black daughter-mother pairs in Soweto, South Africa: a qualitative study
Emily A. Phillips, Dawn L. Comeau, Pedro T. Pisa, Aryeh D. Stein, Shane A. Norris
Association between perceived neighbourhood characteristics, physical activity and diet quality: results of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil)
Dóra Chor, Letícia Oliveira Cardoso, Aline Araújo Nobre, Rosane Härter Griep, Maria de Jesus Mendes Fonseca, Luana Giatti, Isabela Bensenor, Maria del Carmen Bisi Molina, Estela M. L. Aquino, Ana Diez-Roux, Débora de Pina Castiglione, Simone M. Santos
Population levels of sport participation: implications for sport policy
R. M. Eime, J. T. Harvey, M. J. Charity, W. R. Payne
Assessment of sedentary behaviors and transport-related activities by questionnaire: a validation study
Keitly Mensah, Aurélia Maire, Jean-Michel Oppert, Julien Dugas, Hélène Charreire, Christiane Weber, Chantal Simon, Julie-Anne Nazare, Thomas Bastian, Stéphane Blanc, Hélène Charreire, Julien Dugas, Christophe Enaux, Thierry Feuillet, Franck Hess, Mehdi Menai, Julie-Anne Nazare, Jean-Michel Oppert, Camille Perchoux, Paul Salze, Chantal Simon, Christiane Weber
Prevalence of hardcore smoking in the Netherlands between 2001 and 2012: a test of the hardening hypothesis
Jeroen Bommelé, Gera E. Nagelhout, Marloes Kleinjan, Tim M. Schoenmakers, Marc C. Willemsen, Dike van de Mheen
Community perceptions of health and rodent-borne diseases along the Inter-Oceanic Highway in Madre de Dios, Peru
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New insights into discrepancies between self-reported and accelerometer-measured moderate to vigorous physical activity among women – the mPED trial
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Treatment-seeking behaviour for childhood fever among caretakers of Chivuna and Magoye rural communities of Mazabuka District, Zambia: a longitudinal study
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Community readiness for adolescents’ overweight and obesity prevention is low in urban South Africa: a case study
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Home visiting and perinatal smoking: a mixed-methods exploration of cessation and harm reduction strategies
Heather Griffis, Meredith Matone, Katherine Kellom, Erica Concors, William Quarshie, Benjamin French, David Rubin, Peter F. Cronholm
Pathways to HIV testing and care in Goa, India: exploring psychosocial barriers and facilitators using mixed methods
Rosie Mayston, Anisha Lazarus, Vikram Patel, Melanie Abas, Priya Korgaonkar, Ramesh Paranjape, Savio Rodrigues, Martin Prince
Forecast analysis of any opportunistic infection among HIV positive individuals on antiretroviral therapy in Uganda
John Rubaihayo, Nazarius M. Tumwesigye, Joseph Konde-Lule, Fredrick Makumbi
Determinants of self-rated health in an Irish deprived suburban population – a cross sectional face-to-face household survey
Catherine D. Darker, Erica Donnelly-Swift, Lucy Whiston, Fintan Moore, Joe M. Barry
A self-determination theory and motivational interviewing intervention to decrease racial/ethnic disparities in physical activity: rationale and design
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Chronic viral hepatitis: policy, regulation, and strategies for its control and elimination in Ethiopia
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The extent and nature of television food advertising to children in Xi’an, China
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A public health perspective to environmental barriers and accessibility problems for senior citizens living in ordinary housing
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Neighborhood income and major depressive disorder in a large Dutch population: results from the LifeLines Cohort study
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Dying online: live broadcasts of Chinese emerging adult suicides and crisis response behaviors
Jing Ma, Wei Zhang, Keith Harris, Qiang Chen, Xiaolin Xu
Prevalence of prehypertension and associated risk factors among Chinese adults from a large-scale multi-ethnic population survey
Tao Xu, Junting Liu, Guangjin Zhu, Junxiu Liu, Shaomei Han
The epidemiology of chronic pain in Libya: a cross-sectional telephone survey
Raga A. Elzahaf, Mark I. Johnson, Osama A. Tashani
Cost of rotavirus diarrhea for programmatic evaluation of vaccination in Vietnam
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A systematic review of randomised control trials of sexual health interventions delivered by mobile technologies
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Recent changes in sociodemographic characteristics, dietary behaviors and clinical parameters of adults receiving food assistance in France
Katia Castetbon, Dorothée Grange, Gaëlle Guibert, Michel Vernay, Hélène Escalon, Catherine Vincelet
Nationwide study of factors associated with public’s willingness to use home self-test kit for dengue fever in Malaysia
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Accumulation of material and lifestyle problems among daily smokers in Norway 1999 to 2013 - a cross-sectional analysis
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Differences in environmental preferences towards cycling for transport among adults: a latent class analysis
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Predictors of provider- initiated HIV testing and counseling refusal by outpatient department clients in Wolaita zone, Southern Ethiopia: a case control study
Wolde Facha, Wondewosen Kassahun, Abdulhalik Workicho
The prevalence and impact of childhood sexual abuse on HIV-risk behaviors among men who have sex with men (MSM) in India
Cecilia Tomori, Allison M. McFall, Aylur K. Srikrishnan, Shruti H. Mehta, Nymisha Nimmagadda, Santhanam Anand, Canjeevaram K. Vasudevan, Suniti Solomon, Sunil S. Solomon, David D. Celentano
Randomized evaluation and cost-effectiveness of HIV and sexual and reproductive health service referral and linkage models in Zambia
Paul C. Hewett, Mutinta Nalubamba, Fiammetta Bozzani, Jean Digitale, Lung Vu, Eileen Yam, Mary Nambao
Time kinetics of physical activity, sitting, and quality of life measures within a regional workplace: a cross–sectional analysis
Daniel B. Lindsay, Sue Devine, Rebecca M. Sealey, Anthony S. Leicht
Human T-Lymphotropic Virus type 1 infection in an Indigenous Australian population: epidemiological insights from a hospital-based cohort study
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Greater levels of cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness are associated with low stress and high mental resources in normal but not overweight men
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The prevalence and socio-economic determinants of HIV among teenagers aged 15–18 years who were participating in a mobile testing population based survey in 2013–2014 in Zambia
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A rank based social norms model of how people judge their levels of drunkenness whilst intoxicated
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Substance use among Palestinian youth in the West Bank, Palestine: a qualitative investigation
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The expanded program on immunization service delivery in the Dschang health district, west region of Cameroon: a cross sectional survey
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Household food insecurity and its association with school absenteeism among primary school adolescents in Jimma zone, Ethiopia
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Socioecological factors influencing women’s HIV risk in the United States: qualitative findings from the women’s HIV SeroIncidence study (HPTN 064)
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Socioeconomic differences in adolescents’ smoking: a comparison between Finland and Beijing, China
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Cervical cancer screening uptake and challenges in Malawi from 2011 to 2015: retrospective cohort study
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Sexual orientation identity disparities in health behaviors, outcomes, and services use among men and women in the United States: a cross-sectional study
Chandra L. Jackson, Madina Agénor, Dayna A. Johnson, S. Bryn Austin, Ichiro Kawachi
Overweight and obesity in Slovak high school students and body composition indicators: a non-randomized cross-sectional study
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PAAPPAS community trial protocol: a randomized study of obesity prevention for adolescents combining school with household intervention
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Equality in sexual health promotion: a systematic review of effective interventions for black and minority ethnic men who have sex with men
Julie Fish, Periklis Papaloukas, Rusi Jaspal, Iain Williamson
An individually-tailored smoking cessation intervention for rural Veterans: a pilot randomized trial
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Trends and determinants of HIV/AIDS knowledge among women in Bangladesh
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Similarities and differences in underlying beliefs of socio-cognitive factors related to diet and physical activity in lower-educated Dutch, Turkish, and Moroccan adults in the Netherlands: a focus group study
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Dependence symptoms and cessation intentions among US adult daily cigarette, cigar, and e-cigarette users, 2012-2013
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The early life nutritional environment and early life stress as potential pathways towards the metabolic syndrome in mid-life? A lifecourse analysis using the 1958 British Birth cohort
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Urban rural differences in diet, physical activity and obesity in India: are we witnessing the great Indian equalisation? Results from a cross-sectional STEPS survey
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The lifelong socioeconomic disadvantage of single-mother background - the Helsinki Birth Cohort study 1934–1944
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Immediate and long-term relationship between severe maternal morbidity and health-related quality of life: a prospective double cohort comparison study
Mohd Noor Norhayati, Nik Hussain Nik Hazlina, Abd Aziz Aniza
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Knowledge, attitude and practices in relation to prevention and control of schistosomiasis infection in Mwea Kirinyaga county, Kenya
J Mwai, S Njenga, M Barasa
A randomised, family-focused dietary intervention to evaluate the Atlantic diet: the GALIAT study protocol
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The association between parental attitudes and alcohol consumption and adolescent alcohol consumption in Southern Ireland: a cross-sectional study
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Realist review of policy intervention studies aimed at reducing exposures to environmental hazards in the United States
Dorie E. Apollonio, Nicole Wolfe, Lisa A. Bero
Burnout among Swedish school teachers – a cross-sectional analysis
Inger Arvidsson, Carita Håkansson, Björn Karlson, Jonas Björk, Roger Persson
Rural-urban comparisons of dengue seroprevalence in Malaysia
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Does low alcohol use increase the risk of sickness absence? A discordant twin study
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Erratum to: What influences 11-year-olds to drink? Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study
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Impact of the Bolsa Família program on food availability of low-income Brazilian families: a quasi experimental study
Ana Paula Bortoletto Martins, Carlos Augusto Monteiro
Adherence to malaria diagnosis and treatment guidelines among healthcare workers in Ogun State, Nigeria
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An intergenerational study of perceptions of changes in active free play among families from rural areas of Western Canada
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Diarrhea management in children under five in sub-Saharan Africa: does the source of care matter? A Countdown analysis
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Assessing health literacy in the eastern and middle-eastern cultures
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HPV testing: a mixed-method approach to understand why women prefer self-collection in a middle-income country
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The efficacy of mobile phone-based text message interventions (‘Happy Quit’) for smoking cessation in China
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Social mobilisation, consent and acceptability: a review of human papillomavirus vaccination procedures in low and middle-income countries
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Trends in risk factors for coronary heart disease in the Netherlands
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Is self-reporting workplace activity worthwhile? Validity and reliability of occupational sitting and physical activity questionnaire in desk-based workers
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A randomized trial to reduce sugar-sweetened beverage and juice intake in preschool-aged children: description of the Smart Moms intervention trial
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Rubella immune status of neonates – a window towards seroprevalence among childbearing women
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Exploring the dynamics of a free fruit at work intervention
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Barriers in the implementation of isoniazid preventive therapy for people living with HIV in Northern Ethiopia: a mixed quantitative and qualitative study
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Perceptions of nursery staff and parent views of healthy eating promotion in preschool settings: an exploratory qualitative study
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What is the impact of flexicurity on the chances of entry into employment for people with low education and activity limitations due to health problems? A comparison of 21 European countries using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
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Suicide attempts and behavioral correlates among a nationally representative sample of school-attending adolescents in the Republic of Malawi
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Protocol for the atWork trial: a randomised controlled trial of a workplace intervention targeting subjective health complaints
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Measuring and assessing HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination among migrant workers in Zhejiang, China
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Parental response to a letter reporting child overweight measured as part of a routine national programme in England: results from interviews with parents
Lawrence A. Nnyanzi, Carolyn D. Summerbell, Louisa Ells, Janet Shucksmith
Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding HIV/AIDS among senior secondary school students in Fako Division, South West Region, Cameroon
Colins Kingoum Nubed, Jane-Francis Tatah Kihla Akoachere
Community perceptions and practices of treatment seeking for childhood pneumonia: a mixed methods study in a rural district, Ghana
Mercy Abbey, Margaret A. Chinbuah, Margaret Gyapong, L. Kay Bartholomew, Bart van den Borne
Spatiotemporal analysis of dengue fever in Nepal from 2010 to 2014
Bipin Kumar Acharya, ChunXiang Cao, Tobia Lakes, Wei Chen, Shahid Naeem
Dietary patterns associated with body mass index (BMI) and lifestyle in Mexican adolescents
Laura Elisa Gutiérrez-Pliego, Eneida del Socorro Camarillo-Romero, Laura Patricia Montenegro-Morales, José de Jesus Garduño-García
The indirect association of job strain with long-term sickness absence through bullying: a mediation analysis using structural equation modeling
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Smoking on the margins: a comprehensive analysis of a municipal outdoor smoke-free policy
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Systematic review of brucellosis in Kenya: disease frequency in humans and animals and risk factors for human infection
J. Njeru, G. Wareth, F. Melzer, K. Henning, M. W. Pletz, R. Heller, H. Neubauer
What incentives influence employers to engage in workplace health interventions?
Camilla Martinsson, Malin Lohela-Karlsson, Lydia Kwak, Gunnar Bergström, Therese Hellman
The risk of pulmonary tuberculosis in underground copper miners in Zambia exposed to respirable silica: a cross-sectional study
Kingsley Ngosa, Rajen N. Naidoo
Determinants of poor self-rated health among adults in urban Mozambique
Boaventura M. Cau, Joana Falcão, Carlos Arnaldo
Improving adherence to medication in adults with diabetes in the United Arab Emirates
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Understanding the failure of a behavior change intervention to reduce risk behaviors for avian influenza transmission among backyard poultry raisers in rural Bangladesh: a focused ethnography
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Efficacy of a workplace osteoporosis prevention intervention: a cluster randomized trial
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Adolescents’ psychological health during the economic recession: does public spending buffer health inequalities among young people?
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A non-equivalent group pilot trial of a school-based physical activity and fitness intervention for 10–11 year old english children: born to move
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Prevalence and associated factors of occupational injuries among municipal solid waste collectors in four zones of Amhara region, Northwest Ethiopia
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Is body weight dissatisfaction a predictor of depression independent of body mass index, sex and age? Results of a cross-sectional study
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Cardiovascular risk outcome and program evaluation of a cluster randomised controlled trial of a community-based, lay peer led program for people with diabetes
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Did the English strategy reduce inequalities in health? A difference-in-difference analysis comparing England with three other European countries
Yannan Hu, Frank J. van Lenthe, Ken Judge, Eero Lahelma, Giuseppe Costa, Rianne de Gelder, Johan P. Mackenbach
Physical activity and relaxation in the work setting to reduce the need for recovery: what works for whom?
Margriet A. G. Formanoy, Elise Dusseldorp, Jennifer K. Coffeng, Iven Van Mechelen, Cecile R. L. Boot, Ingrid J. M. Hendriksen, Erwin C. P. M. Tak
Long-term effects of smoking on tooth loss after cessation among middle-aged Finnish adults: the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study
Toni Similä, Juha Auvinen, Markku Timonen, Jorma I. Virtanen
Muslim immigrant women’s views on cervical cancer screening and HPV self-sampling in Ontario, Canada
Mandana Vahabi, Aisha Lofters
Association between maternal depression and child stunting in Northern Ghana: a cross-sectional study
Anthony Wemakor, Kofi Akohene Mensah
Continuous weeklong measurements of indoor particle levels in a Minnesota Tribal Casino Resort
Zheng Zhou, David Bohac, Raymond G. Boyle
High HIV prevalence and the internet as a source of HIV-related service information at a community-based organization in Peru: a cross-sectional study of men who have sex with men
R. Colby Passaro, Connie A. Haley, Hugo Sanchez, Sten H. Vermund, Aaron M. Kipp
Household, psychosocial, and individual-level factors associated with fruit, vegetable, and fiber intake among low-income urban African American youth
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Scaling-up an efficacious school-based physical activity intervention: Study protocol for the ‘Internet-based Professional Learning to help teachers support Activity in Youth’ (iPLAY) cluster randomized controlled trial and scale-up implementation evaluation
Chris Lonsdale, Taren Sanders, Kristen E. Cohen, Philip Parker, Michael Noetel, Tim Hartwig, Diego Vasconcellos, Morwenna Kirwan, Philip Morgan, Jo Salmon, Marj Moodie, Heather McKay, Andrew Bennie, Ron Plotnikoff, Renata L. Cinelli, David Greene, Louisa R. Peralta, Dylan P. Cliff, Gregory S. Kolt, Jennifer M. Gore, Lan Gao, David R. Lubans
Barriers to HPV immunization among blacks and latinos: a qualitative analysis of caregivers, adolescents, and providers
Ingrid T. Katz, Laura M. Bogart, Chong Min Fu, Yingna Liu, Joanne E. Cox, Ronald C. Samuels, Tami Chase, Pamela Schubert, Mark A. Schuster
Tuberculosis progression rates in U.S. Immigrants following screening with interferon-gamma release assays
Robert J. Blount, Minh-Chi Tran, Charles K. Everett, Adithya Cattamanchi, John Z. Metcalfe, Denise Connor, Cecily R. Miller, Jennifer Grinsdale, Julie Higashi, Payam Nahid
Exploring lifestyle and risk in preventing type 2 diabetes-a nested qualitative study of older participants in a lifestyle intervention program (VEND-RISK)
Ingrid S. Følling, Marit Solbjør, Kristian Midthjell, Bård Kulseng, Anne-S Helvik
High quality standards for a large-scale prospective population-based observational cohort: Constances
Fabrice Ruiz, Marcel Goldberg, Sylvie Lemonnier, Anna Ozguler, Evelyne Boos, Alain Brigand, Violaine Giraud, Thierry Perez, Nicolas Roche, Marie Zins
The risk of late or advanced presentation of HIV infected patients is still high, associated factors evolve but impact on overall mortality is vanishing over calendar years: results from the Italian MASTER Cohort
Elena Raffetti, Maria Concetta Postorino, Francesco Castelli, Salvatore Casari, Filippo Castelnuovo, Franco Maggiolo, Elisa Di Filippo, Alessandro D’Avino, Andrea Gori, Nicoletta Ladisa, Massimo Di Pietro, Laura Sighinolfi, Fabio Zacchi, Carlo Torti
Childhood maltreatment as a risk factor for diabetes: findings from a population-based survey of Canadian adults
Margot E. Shields, Wendy E. Hovdestad, Catherine Pelletier, Jennifer L. Dykxhoorn, Siobhan C. O’Donnell, Lil Tonmyr
A multilevel analysis of lifestyle variations in symptoms of acute respiratory infection among young children under five in Nigeria
Oluwafunmilade A. Adesanya, Chi Chiao
Workforce capacity to address obesity: a Western Australian cross-sectional study identifies the gap between health priority and human resources needed
Andrea Begley, Christina Mary Pollard
Why do marital partners of people living with HIV not test for HIV? A qualitative study in Lusaka, Zambia
Maurice Musheke, Sonja Merten, Virginia Bond
Mortality among tuberculosis patients under DOTS programme: a historical cohort study
Yeshiwork Beyene, Berhanu Geresu, Assefa Mulu
Determinants of timely initiation of complementary feeding among mothers with children aged 6–23 months in Lalibela District, Northeast Ethiopia, 2015
Wondimu Sisay, Melkie Edris, Amare Tariku
Health or harm? A cohort study of the importance of job quality in extended workforce participation by older adults
Jennifer Welsh, Lyndall Strazdins, Sara Charlesworth, Carol T. Kulik, Peter Butterworth
How are self-rated health and diagnosed disease related to early or deferred retirement? A cross-sectional study of employees aged 55-64
Kerstin Nilsson, Anna Rignell Hydbom, Lars Rylander
Small scale water treatment practice and associated factors at Burie Zuria Woreda Rural Households, Northwest Ethiopia, 2015: cross sectional study
Hailegebriel Belay, Zewdu Dagnew, Nurilign Abebe
Sedentary bout durations and metabolic syndrome among working adults: a prospective cohort study
Takanori Honda, Sanmei Chen, Koji Yonemoto, Hiro Kishimoto, Tao Chen, Kenji Narazaki, Yuka Haeuchi, Shuzo Kumagai
Pre-vaccine era cervical human papillomavirus infection among screening population of women in west Austria
Wegene Borena, Margarethe Grünberger, Andreas Widschwendter, Karl Heinz Kraxner, Elisabeth Marth, Peter Mayr, Joerg Meier, Norman Ruth, Aida Tort Guerrero, Christian Marth, Dorothee Holm-von Laer
Active children through incentive vouchers – evaluation (ACTIVE): a mixed-method feasibility study
Danielle Christian, Charlotte Todd, Rebecca Hill, Jaynie Rance, Kelly Mackintosh, Gareth Stratton, Sinead Brophy
Effectiveness of psychotherapeutic consultation in the workplace: a controlled observational trial
Eva Rothermund, Harald Gündel, Edit Rottler, Michael Hölzer, Dorothea Mayer, Monika Rieger, Reinhold Kilian
Investigating the patterns and determinants of seasonal variation in vitamin D status in Australian adults: the Seasonal D Cohort Study
Laura King, Keith Dear, Simone L. Harrison, Ingrid van der Mei, Alison M. Brodie, Michael G. Kimlin, Robyn M. Lucas
The relationship between sports facility accessibility and physical activity among Korean adults
Sang Ah Lee, Yeong Jun Ju, Joo Eun Lee, In Sun Hyun, Jin Young Nam, Kyu-Tae Han, Eun-Cheol Park
Process evaluation of a tailored mobile health intervention aiming to reduce fatigue in airline pilots
Alwin van Drongelen, Cécile R. L. Boot, Hynek Hlobil, Tjabe Smid, Allard J. van der Beek
A systematic review of published interventions for primary and secondary prevention of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in rural populations of Australia
Laura V. Alston, Karen L. Peterson, Jane P. Jacobs, Steven Allender, Melanie Nichols
The future of financing for HIV services in Uganda and the wider sub-Saharan Africa region: should we ask patients to contribute to the cost of their care?
Tom Kakaire, Walter Schlech, Alex Coutinho, Richard Brough, Rosalind Parkes-Ratanshi
Rational use of antibiotics by community health workers and caregivers for children with suspected pneumonia in Zambia: a cross-sectional mixed methods study
Kirstie Graham, Chomba Sinyangwe, Sarala Nicholas, Rebecca King, Samuel Mukupa, Karin Källander, Helen Counihan, Mark Montague, James Tibenderana, Prudence Hamade
Weekday-weekend patterns of physical activity and screen time in parents and their pre-schoolers
Dagmar Sigmundová, Erik Sigmund, Petr Badura, Jana Vokáčová, Lucie Trhlíková, Jens Bucksch
Why media representations of corporations matter for public health policy: a scoping review
Heide Weishaar, Lori Dorfman, Nicholas Freudenberg, Benjamin Hawkins, Katherine Smith, Oliver Razum, Shona Hilton
Testing the activitystat hypothesis: a randomised controlled trial
S. R. Gomersall, C. Maher, C. English, A. V. Rowlands, J. Dollman, K. Norton, T. Olds
Longitudinal social networks impacts on weight and weight-related behaviors assessed using mobile-based ecological momentary assessments: Study Protocols for the SPARC study
Meg Bruening, Punam Ohri-Vachaspati, Alexandra Brewis, Melissa Laska, Michael Todd, Daniel Hruschka, David R. Schaefer, Corrie M. Whisner, Genevieve Dunton
Epidemiological survey of intentional poisoning suicide during 1993-2013 in Ilam Province, Iran
Yosra Azizpour, Khairollah Asadollahi, Kourosh Sayehmiri, Satar Kaikhavani, Ghobad Abangah
Health, disability and quality of life among trans people in Sweden–a web-based survey
Galit Zeluf, Cecilia Dhejne, Carolina Orre, Louise Nilunger Mannheimer, Charlotte Deogan, Jonas Höijer, Anna Ekéus Thorson
Factors influencing the adoption of a healthy eating campaign by federal cross-sector partners: a qualitative study
Melissa Anne Fernandez, Sophie Desroches, Mylène Turcotte, Marie Marquis, Joëlle Dufour, Véronique Provencher
Immunisation coverage and its determinants among children aged 12-23 months in Atakumosa-west district, Osun State Nigeria: a cross-sectional study
Elizabeth B. Adedire, Ikeoluwapo Ajayi, Olufunmilayo I. Fawole, Olufemi Ajumobi, Simon Kasasa, Peter Wasswa, Patrick Nguku
Economic burden associated with alcohol dependence in a German primary care sample: a bottom-up study
Jakob Manthey, Philippe Laramée, Steve Parrott, Jürgen Rehm
Physical and social environmental changes to promote walking among Dutch older adults in deprived neighbourhoods: the NEW.ROADS study
R. G. Prins, C. B. M. Kamphuis, J. M. de Graaf, A. Oenema, F. J. van Lenthe
Socio-demographic and clinical factors contributing to smoking cessation among men: a four-year follow up study of the Korean Health Panel Survey
Joo Eun Lee, Eun-Cheol Park, Sung Youn Chun, Hye Ki Park, Tae Hyun Kim
Effectiveness of a smartphone app on improving immunization of children in rural Sichuan Province, China: a cluster randomized controlled trial
Li Chen, Xiaozhen Du, Lin Zhang, Michelle Helena van Velthoven, Qiong Wu, Ruikan Yang, Ying Cao, Wei Wang, Lihui Xie, Xiuqin Rao, Yanfeng Zhang, Jeanne Catherine Koepsell
Factors associated with secondhand tobacco smoke in the home: an exploratory cross-sectional study among women in Aleta Wondo, Ethiopia
Anne Berit Petersen, Lisa M. Thompson, Gezahegn Bekele Dadi, Alemu Tolcha, Janine K. Cataldo
Mapping public health research across the National Institute for Health Research 2006–2013
Eleanor Woodford Guegan, Hannah Dorling, Liz Ollerhead, Matt Westmore
Spatial distribution of tuberculosis from 2002 to 2012 in a midsize city in Brazil
Mirna de Abreu e Silva, Cláudia Di Lorenzo Oliveira, Rafael Gonçalves Teixeira Neto, Paulo Augusto Camargos
Association between high school students’ cigarette smoking, asthma and related beliefs: a population-based study
Resa M. Jones, Kara P. Wiseman, Marina Kharitonova
Auxiliary midwives in hard to reach rural areas of Myanmar: filling MCH gaps
Sangay Wangmo, Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Wai Mar Mar Htun, Tin Tun Aung, Chiraporn Khitdee, Walaiporn Patcharanarumol, Pe Thet Htoon, Viroj Tangcharoensathien
Intention of physicians to implement guidelines for screening and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection in HIV-infected patients in The Netherlands: a mixed-method design
Kirsten Evenblij, Annelies Verbon, Frank van Leth
The relationship between education and health among incarcerated men and women in the United States
Kathryn M. Nowotny, Ryan K. Masters, Jason D. Boardman
Temporal patterns of alcohol consumption and attempts to reduce alcohol intake in England
Frank de Vocht, Jamie Brown, Emma Beard, Colin Angus, Alan Brennan, Susan Michie, Rona Campbell, Matthew Hickman
Weight-loss strategies of South African female university students and comparison of weight management-related characteristics between dieters and non-dieters
Marjanne Senekal, Gabrielle L. Lasker, Lindsay van Velden, Ria Laubscher, Norman J. Temple
Associations between asthma, overweight and physical activity in children: a cross-sectional study
Maartje Willeboordse, Kim D. G. van de Kant, Charlotte A. van der Velden, Constant P. van Schayck, Edward Dompeling
Objectively measured sedentary behavior and physical activity in a sample of Finnish adults: a cross-sectional study
Pauliina Husu, Jaana Suni, Henri Vähä-Ypyä, Harri Sievänen, Kari Tokola, Heli Valkeinen, Tomi Mäki-Opas, Tommi Vasankari
Survival rates and worker compensation expenses in a national cohort of Mexican workers with permanent occupational disability caused by diabetes
Iván de Jesús Ascencio-Montiel, Jesús Kumate-Rodríguez, Víctor Hugo Borja-Aburto, José Esteban Fernández-Garate, Selene Konik-Comonfort, Oliver Macías-Pérez, Ángel Campos-Hernández, Héctor Rodríguez-Vázquez, Verónica Miriam López-Roldán, Edgar Jesús Zitle-García, María del Carmen Solís-Cruz, Ismael Velázquez-Ramírez, Miriam Aguilar-Jiménez, Leonel Villa-Caballero, Nelly Cisneros-González
Factors associated with hospitalization for seasonal influenza in a Japanese nonelderly cohort
Sachiko Ono, Yosuke Ono, Hiroki Matsui, Hideo Yasunaga
Parental knowledge, attitudes and perception of pneumococcal disease and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in Singapore: a questionnaire-based assessment
Choon How How, Priscilla Phua See Chun, Fakrudeen Shafi, Rupert W. Jakes
Development of a computer-tailored nutrition and physical activity intervention for lower-educated women of Dutch, Turkish and Moroccan origin using content matching and ethnic identity tailoring
Kristina Romeike, Lilian Lechner, Hein de Vries, Anke Oenema
Effectiveness of a smartphone app in increasing physical activity amongst male adults: a randomised controlled trial
Tim Harries, Parisa Eslambolchilar, Ruth Rettie, Chris Stride, Simon Walton, Hugo C. van Woerden
A randomised controlled trial of multiple periods of outdoor free-play to increase moderate-to-vigorous physical activity among 3 to 6 year old children attending childcare: study protocol
Luke Wolfenden, John Wiggers, Philip Morgan, Lubna Abdul Razak, Jannah Jones, Meghan Finch, Rachel Sutherland, Christophe Lecathelinais, Karen Gillham, Sze Lin Yoong
High variability of HIV and HCV seroprevalence and risk behaviours among people who inject drugs: results from a cross-sectional study using respondent-driven sampling in eight German cities (2011–14)
Benjamin Wenz, Stine Nielsen, Martyna Gassowski, Claudia Santos-Hövener, Wei Cai, R. Stefan Ross, Claus-Thomas Bock, Boris-Alexander Ratsch, Claudia Kücherer, Norbert Bannert, Viviane Bremer, Osamah Hamouda, Ulrich Marcus, Ruth Zimmermann, Vikas Bapat, Johannes Bombeck, Kerstin Dettmer, Christiane Kerres, Andreas Hecht, Werner Heinz, Juergen Klee, Astrid Leicht, Sylke Lein, Baerbel Marrziniak, Olaf Ostermann, Norbert Scherbaum, Dirk Schäffer, Ina Stein, Lutz Wiederanders
Cross-cultural adaptation of an environmental health measurement instrument: Brazilian version of the health-care waste management • rapid assessment tool
Eliana Napoleão Cozendey-Silva, Cintia Ribeiro da Silva, Ariane Leites Larentis, Julio Cesar Wasserman, Brani Rozemberg, Liliane Reis Teixeira
Association between college health services and contraceptive use among female students at five colleges in Wuhan, China: a cross-sectional study
Lu Long, Zhenhua Chen, Yun Shi, Sheng Wei, Shaofa Nie, Yi Liu
Comparison of under-five mortality for 2000, 2005 and 2011 surveys in Ethiopia
Dawit G. Ayele, Temesgen T. Zewotir
Community challenges when using large plastic bottles for Solar Energy Disinfection of Water (SODIS)
Preeti Borde, Khalifa Elmusharaf, Kevin G. McGuigan, Michael B. Keogh
Ethnic differences in overweight and obesity and the influence of acculturation on immigrant bodyweight: evidence from a national sample of Australian adults
Karen Menigoz, Andrea Nathan, Gavin Turrell
Feasibility and acceptability of reducing workplace sitting time: a qualitative study with Australian office workers
Nyssa T. Hadgraft, Charlotte L. Brakenridge, Anthony D. LaMontagne, Brianna S. Fjeldsoe, Brigid M. Lynch, David W. Dunstan, Neville Owen, Genevieve N. Healy, Sheleigh P. Lawler
Trend of determinants of birth interval dynamics in Bangladesh
Jahidur Rahman Khan, Wasimul Bari, A. H. M. Mahbub Latif
Individuals motivated to participate in adherence, care and treatment (imPACT): development of a multi-component intervention to help HIV-infected recently incarcerated individuals link and adhere to HIV care
Carol E. Golin, Kevin Knight, Jessica Carda-Auten, Michele Gould, Jennifer Groves, Becky L.White, Steve Bradley-Bull, Kemi Amola, Niasha Fray, David L. Rosen, Michael J. Mugavaro, Brian W. Pence, Patrick M. Flynn, David Wohl
Toddler physical activity study: laboratory and community studies to evaluate accelerometer validity and correlates
Erin R. Hager, Candice E. Gormley, Laura W. Latta, Margarita S. Treuth, Laura E. Caulfield, Maureen M. Black
Alcohol use in South Sudan in relation to social factors, mental distress and traumatic events
Lars Lien, Edvard Hauff, Priscilla Martinez, Arne H. Eide, Leslie Swarts, Touraj Ayazi
Act local, think global: how the Malawi experience of scaling up antiretroviral treatment has informed global policy
Anthony D. Harries, Nathan Ford, Andreas Jahn, Erik J. Schouten, Edwin Libamba, Frank Chimbwandira, Dermot Maher
Determinants of organised sports participation patterns during the transition from childhood to adolescence in Germany: results of a nationwide cohort study
Kristin Manz, Susanne Krug, Anja Schienkiewitz, Jonas David Finger
Offering a tailored return to work program to cancer survivors with job loss: a process evaluation
M. P. van Egmond, S. F. A. Duijts, A. P. J. Scholten, A. J. van der Beek, J. R. Anema
Schools of public health in low and middle-income countries: an imperative investment for improving the health of populations?
Fauziah Rabbani, Leah Shipton, Franklin White, Iman Nuwayhid, Leslie London, Abdul Ghaffar, Bui Thi Thu Ha, Göran Tomson, Rajiv Rimal, Anwar Islam, Amirhossein Takian, Samuel Wong, Shehla Zaidi, Kausar Khan, Rozina Karmaliani, Imran Naeem Abbasi, Farhat Abbas
Ideal cardiovascular health status and its association with socioeconomic factors in Chinese adults in Shandong, China
J. Ren, X. L. Guo, Z. L. LU, J. Y. Zhang, J. L. Tang, X. Chen, C. C. Gao, C. X. Xu, A. Q. Xu
Associations of sitting time and occupation with metabolic syndrome in South Korean adults: a cross-sectional study
Jin Young Nam, Juyoung Kim, Kyung Hee Cho, Young Choi, Jaewoo Choi, Jaeyong Shin, Eun-Cheol Park
Levels and determinants of complementary feeding based on meal frequency among children of 6 to 23 months in Bangladesh
Mohammad Rocky Khan Chowdhury, Md. Shafiur Rahman, Md. Mobarak Hossain Khan
Risk factors for children’s blood lead levels in metal mining and smelting communities in Armenia: a cross-sectional study
Ruzanna Grigoryan, Varduhi Petrosyan, Dzovinar Melkom Melkomian, Vahe Khachadourian, Andrew McCartor, Byron Crape
Developing effective communication materials on the health effects of climate change for vulnerable groups: a mixed methods study
Jennifer M. Kreslake, Katherine M. Price, Mona Sarfaty
Alcohol use and depression: link with adherence and viral suppression in adult patients on antiretroviral therapy in rural Lesotho, Southern Africa: a cross-sectional study
Bernard Cerutti, Barbara Broers, Motlomelo Masetsibi, Olatunbosun Faturiyele, Likabelo Toti-Mokoteli, Mokete Motlatsi, Joelle Bader, Thomas Klimkait, Niklaus D Labhardt
Erratum to: Developing a mHealth intervention to promote uptake of HIV testing among African communities in the UK: a qualitative study
C. Evans, K. Turner, L. S. Suggs, A. Occa, A. Juma, H. Blake
Bidirectional associations between psychosocial well-being and body mass index in European children: longitudinal findings from the IDEFICS study
Monica Hunsberger, Susanna Lehtinen-Jacks, Kirsten Mehlig, Wencke Gwozdz, Paola Russo, Nathalie Michels, Karin Bammann, Iris Pigeot, Juan Miguel Fernández-Alvira, Barbara Franziska Thumann, Dénes Molnar, Toomas Veidebaum, Charalambos Hadjigeorgiou, Lauren Lissner
A detailed spatial analysis on contrasting cancer incidence patterns in thyroid and lung cancer in Toronto women
Patrick Brown, Hedy Jiang, Shereen Ezzat, Anna M. Sawka
The double burden of disease among mining workers in Papua, Indonesia: at the crossroads between Old and New health paradigms
Rodrigo Rodriguez-Fernandez, Nawi Ng, Dwidjo Susilo, John Prawira, Michael J. Bangs, Rachel M. Amiya
Factors associated with regular physical exercise and consumption of fruits and vegetables among Mexican older adults
Svetlana V. Doubova, Sergio Sánchez-García, Claudia Infante-Castañeda, Ricardo Pérez-Cuevas
Fresh Start, a postpartum weight loss intervention for diverse low-income women: design and methods for a randomized clinical trial
Milagros C. Rosal, Christina F. Haughton, Barbara B. Estabrook, Monica L. Wang, Germán Chiriboga, Oahn H. T. Nguyen, Sharina D. Person, Stephenie C. Lemon
The prevalence of obesity and influence of early life and behavioral factors on obesity in Chinese children in Guangzhou
Ting Zhang, Li Cai, Lu Ma, Jin Jing, Yajun Chen, Jun Ma
Can socio-economic differences explain low expectation of health services among HIV patients compared to non-HIV counterparts?
Jing Li, Sawitri Assanangkornchai, Lin Lu, Le Cai, Jing You, Edward B. McNeil, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong
The social patterning of risk factors for noncommunicable diseases in five countries: evidence from the modeling the epidemiologic transition study (METS)
Silvia Stringhini, Terrence E. Forrester, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Estelle V. Lambert, Bharathi Viswanathan, Walter Riesen, Wolfgang Korte, Naomi Levitt, Liping Tong, Lara R. Dugas, David Shoham, Ramon A. Durazo-Arvizu, Amy Luke, Pascal Bovet
Neighbourhood walkability and home neighbourhood-based physical activity: an observational study of adults with type 2 diabetes
Samantha Hajna, Yan Kestens, Stella S. Daskalopoulou, Lawrence Joseph, Benoit Thierry, Mark Sherman, Luc Trudeau, Rémi Rabasa-Lhoret, Leslie Meissner, Simon L. Bacon, Lise Gauvin, Nancy A. Ross, Kaberi Dasgupta, Sabiha Awan, Alexis Baass, Jean-Marie Boutin, Candace Lee, Carolina Capelle, Joanna Caron, Stavroula Christopolous, Karen Dahan, Maxine Dumas-Pilon, Roy Eappen, Leah Feldman, Natasha Garfield, Dominique Garrell, Lawrence Green, Walter Gregory, Wen Hu, Sofia Hussaini, John Hughes, Catherine Kudo, April Kinghorn, Evelyn Kyle, Leonora Lalla, Andrea Lalonde, Pierre Larochelle, Khue Ly, Richard Mackler, Agnieszka Majdan, Goldie Marmor, Sara Meltzer, Hortensia Mircescu, David Morris, Kimberly Munro, Vivian Petropoulos, Barry Posner, Brent Richards, Juan Rivera, Ghislaine Roederer, Samantha Sacks, Alicia Schiffrin, David Shannon, Raymond Sorge, Donald Sproule, Susan Still, Robert Wistaff, Mark Yaffe, Jean-Francois Yale, Hans Zingg
Monitoring and accountability for the Pacific response to the non-communicable diseases crisis
Hilary Tolley, Wendy Snowdon, Jillian Wate, A. Mark Durand, Paula Vivili, Judith McCool, Rachel Novotny, Ofa Dewes, Damian Hoy, Colin Bell, Nicola Richards, Boyd Swinburn
The relation between health insurance and management of hypertension in Shanghai, China: a cross-sectional study
Xinji Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Xiang Xiao, Xiuqiang Ma, Jia He
Non-completion of upper secondary school among female and male young adults in an Arctic sociocultural context; the NAAHS study
Elisabeth Valmyr Bania, Stian Lydersen, Siv Kvernmo
Occupational hazards and health cost of women cotton pickers in Pakistani Punjab
Khuda Bakhsh, Naeem Ahmad, M. Asif Kamran, Sarfraz Hassan, Qasir Abbas, Rashed Saeed, M. Sadiq Hashmi
Physical fitness and anthropometric normative values among Colombian-Indian schoolchildren
Jeison Alexander Ramos-Sepúlveda, Robinson Ramírez-Vélez, Jorge Enrique Correa-Bautista, Mikel Izquierdo, Antonio García-Hermoso
Public-non-governmental organisation partnerships for health: an exploratory study with case studies from recent Ghanaian experience
Martin Hushie
The prevalence of malaria in people living with HIV in Yaounde, Cameroon
Anna Longdoh Njunda, Charles Njumkeng, Shey Dickson Nsagha, Jules Clement Nguedia Assob, Tebit Emmanuel Kwenti
Protocol for a randomized controlled trial testing the impact of feedback on familial risk of chronic diseases on family-level intentions to participate in preventive lifestyle behaviors
Carlene J. Wilson, Kayla de la Haye, John Coveney, Donna L. Hughes, Amanda Hutchinson, Caroline Miller, Ivanka Prichard, Paul Ward, Laura M. Koehly
Neighborhood environment correlates of physical activity and sedentary behavior among Latino adults in Massachusetts
Valerie J. Silfee, Milagros C. Rosal, Meera Sreedhara, Vilma Lora, Stephenie C. Lemon
Initiation, influence, and impact: adolescents and parents discuss the marketing of gambling products during Australian sporting matches
Hannah Pitt, Samantha L. Thomas, Amy Bestman
Predictors of incomplete immunization coverage among one to five years old children in Togo
Dadja Essoya Landoh, Farihétou Ouro-kavalah, Issifou Yaya, Anna-Lea Kahn, Peter Wasswa, Anani Lacle, Danladi Ibrahim Nassoury, Sheba Nakacubo Gitta, Abdramane Bassiahi Soura
Seasonal changes in objectively measured sedentary behavior and physical activity in Japanese primary school children
Chiaki Tanaka, John J. Reilly, Maki Tanaka, Shigeho Tanaka
Predictors of incompletion of immunization among children residing in the slums of Kathmandu valley, Nepal: a case-control study
Sumina Shrestha, Monika Shrestha, Rajendra Raj Wagle, Gita Bhandari
Condom use and incarceration among STI clinic attendees in the Deep South
Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, Sharon Parker, Annie Gjelsvik, Leandro Mena, Philip A. Chan, Julia Harvey, Brandon Marshall, Curt G. Beckwith, Jennifer Rose, Reginald Riggins, Trisha Arnold, Amy Nunn
Effects of climatological parameters in modeling and forecasting seasonal influenza transmission in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
A.K. N’gattia, D. Coulibaly, N. Talla Nzussouo, H.A. Kadjo, D. Chérif, Y. Traoré, B.K. Kouakou, P.D. Kouassi, K.D. Ekra, N.S. Dagnan, T. Williams, I. Tiembré
Impact of school-based vegetable garden and physical activity coordinated health interventions on weight status and weight-related behaviors of ethnically diverse, low-income students: Study design and baseline data of the Texas, Grow! Eat! Go! (TGEG) cluster-randomized controlled trial
A. Evans, N Ranjit, D. Hoelscher, C. Jovanovic, M. Lopez, A. McIntosh, M. Ory, L. Whittlesey, L. McKyer, A. Kirk, C. Smith, C. Walton, N. I. Heredia, J. Warren
Young people’s perceptions of smartphone-enabled self-testing and online care for sexually transmitted infections: qualitative interview study
Catherine R. H. Aicken, Sebastian S. Fuller, Lorna J. Sutcliffe, Claudia S. Estcourt, Voula Gkatzidou, Pippa Oakeshott, Kate Hone, S. Tariq Sadiq, Pam Sonnenberg, Maryam Shahmanesh
Examining health literacy disparities in the United States: a third look at the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL)
R. V. Rikard, Maxine S. Thompson, Julie McKinney, Alison Beauchamp
Mental health and school dropout across educational levels and genders: a 4.8-year follow-up study
Cathrine F. Hjorth, Line Bilgrav, Louise Sjørslev Frandsen, Charlotte Overgaard, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Berit Nielsen, Henrik Bøggild
Changes in physical activity and screen time related to psychological well-being in early adolescence: findings from longitudinal study ELANA
Viviane S. Straatmann, Aldair J. Oliveira, Mikael Rostila, Claudia S. Lopes
A retrospective analysis of real-world use of the eaTracker® My Goals website by adults from Ontario and Alberta, Canada
Jessica R. L. Lieffers, Helen Haresign, Christine Mehling, Rhona M. Hanning
Halo and spillover effect illustrations for selected beneficial medical devices and drugs
Brent D. Kerger, Autumn Bernal, Dennis J. Paustenbach, Gavin Huntley-Fenner
Evaluation of the impact of a chronic disease scheme reimbursing medical costs of patients with diabetes in Anhui province, China: a follow-up study
Qicheng Jiang, Zhen Jiang, Zhang Xin, Nicola Cherry
The role of socio-demographic factors in premature cervical cancer mortality in Colombia
Silvia Bermedo-Carrasco, Cheryl L. Waldner
Validity and reliability of a brief self-reported questionnaire assessing fruit and vegetable consumption among pregnant women
Lydi-Anne Vézina-Im, Gaston Godin, Charles Couillard, Julie Perron, Simone Lemieux, Julie Robitaille
Mental health problems among individuals with persistent health challenges from adolescence to young adulthood: a population-based longitudinal study in Norway
Sølvi Helseth, Dawit Shawel Abebe, Randi Andenæs
Associations between the neighbourhood food environment, neighbourhood socioeconomic status, and diet quality: An observational study
Maria McInerney, Ilona Csizmadi, Christine M. Friedenreich, Francisco Alaniz Uribe, Alberto Nettel-Aguirre, Lindsay McLaren, Melissa Potestio, Beverly Sandalack, Gavin R. McCormack
Opportunities for recovery at work and excellent work ability - a cross-sectional population study among young workers
Maria Boström, Judith K. Sluiter, Mats Hagberg, Anna Grimby-Ekman
Experiences and perspectives of community health workers from implementing treatment for schistosomiasis using the community directed intervention strategy in an informal settlement in Kisumu City, western Kenya
Gladys O. Odhiambo, Rosemary M. Musuva, Maurice R. Odiere, Pauline N. Mwinzi
Navigating barriers: two-year follow up on recommendations to improve the use of maternal health guidelines in Kosovo
Julia E. Moore, Sami Uka, Joshua P. Vogel, Caitlyn Timmings, Shusmita Rashid, A. Metin Gülmezoglu, Sharon E. Straus
The health and wellbeing of Australian farmers: a longitudinal cohort study
Bronwyn Brew, Kerry Inder, Joanne Allen, Matthew Thomas, Brian Kelly
Acceptability of financial incentives for health behaviour change to public health policymakers: a qualitative study
Emma L. Giles, Falko F. Sniehotta, Elaine McColl, Jean Adams
Suicide attempts in Brazil, 1998–2014: an ecological study
Davi Félix Martins Junior, Ridalva Martins Felzemburgh, Acácia Batista Dias, André C. Caribé, S. Bezerra-Filho, Ângela Miranda-Scippa
Community social capital on the timing of sexual debut and teen birth in Nicaragua: a multilevel approach
Bomar Mendez Rojas, Idrissa Beogo, Patrick Opiyo Owili, Oluwafunmilade Adesanya, Chuan-Yu Chen
Does cost sharing do more harm or more good? - a systematic literature review
Katarzyna Kolasa, Marta Kowalczyk
The association between workplace bullying and depressive symptoms: the role of the perpetrator
Eszter Török, Åse Marie Hansen, Matias Brødsgaard Grynderup, Anne Helene Garde, Annie Høgh, Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen
Facilitators of HCV treatment adherence among people who inject drugs: a systematic qualitative review and implications for scale up of direct acting antivirals
Zachary C. Rich, Carissa Chu, Jessica Mao, Kali Zhou, Weiping Cai, Qingyan Ma, Paul Volberding, Joseph D. Tucker
Factors influencing uptake of HPV vaccination among girls in Germany
Stefanie Schülein, Katherine J. Taylor, Jochem König, Matthias Claus, Maria Blettner, Stefanie J. Klug
Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis B virus infections in young women seeking abortion care in Ethiopia: a cross - sectional study
Wondemagegn Mulu, Yohannes Zenebe, Bayeh Abera, Mulat Yimer, Tadesse Hailu
Detecting and staging podoconiosis cases in North West Cameroon: positive predictive value of clinical screening of patients by community health workers and researchers
Samuel Wanji, Jonas A. Kengne-Ouafo, Fabrice R. Datchoua-Poutcheu, Abdel Jelil Njouendou, Dizzel Bita Tayong, David D. Sofeu-Feugaing, Nathalie Amvongo-Adjia, Bridget A. Fovennso, Yolande F. Longang-Tchounkeu, Fasil Tekola-Ayele, Peter A. Enyong, Melanie J. Newport, Gail Davey
Influence of socioeconomic position and gender on current cigarette smoking among people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: disentangling context from composition
Olalekan A. Uthman, Anna Mia Ekström, Tahereh T. Moradi
E-cigarette puffing patterns associated with high and low nicotine e-liquid strength: effects on toxicant and carcinogen exposure
Sharon Cox, Leon Kośmider, Hayden McRobbie, Maciej Goniewicz, Catherine Kimber, Mira Doig, Lynne Dawkins
A new socioeconomic status measure for vaccine research in children using individual housing data: a population-based case-control study
Rachel Hammer, Conrad Capili, Chung-Il Wi, Euijung Ryu, Jennifer Rand-Weaver, Young J. Juhn
The connection between the primary care and the physical activity sector: professionals’ perceptions
Karlijn E. F. Leenaars, Annemiek M. E. Florisson, Eva Smit, Annemarie Wagemakers, Gerard R. M. Molleman, Maria A. Koelen
Preparedness of HIV care and treatment clinics for the management of concomitant non–communicable diseases: a cross–sectional survey
Claudia Leung, Eric Aris, Aisa Mhalu, Hellen Siril, Beatrice Christian, Happiness Koda, Talumba Samatta, Martha Tsere Maghimbi, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, Guerino Chalamilla, Claudia Hawkins
A systematic review of physical activity and sedentary behaviour research in the oil-producing countries of the Arabian Peninsula
Ruth Mabry, Mohammad Javad Koohsari, Fiona Bull, Neville Owen
Measurement of physical activity in urban and rural South African adults: a comparison of two self-report methods
Adewale L. Oyeyemi, Sarah J. Moss, Makama A. Monyeki, Herculina S. Kruger
“I feel like I am surviving the health care system”: understanding LGBTQ health in Nova Scotia, Canada
Emily Colpitts, Jacqueline Gahagan
Violence against children in Latin America and Caribbean countries: a comprehensive review of national health sector efforts in prevention and response
Andrea L. Wirtz, Carmen Alvarez, Alessandra C. Guedes, Luisa Brumana, Cecilie Modvar, Nancy Glass
Impact of the age at menarche on body composition in adulthood: results from two birth cohort studies
Susana Bubach, Ana Maria Baptista Menezes, Fernando Celso Barros, Fernando César Wehrmeister, Helen Gonçalves, Maria Cecília Formoso Assunção, Bernardo Lessa Horta
Involvement of school students in fights with weapons: prevalence and associated factors in Brazil
Alice Cristina Medeiros Melo, Leila Posenato Garcia
Resilience of a FIT screening programme against screening fatigue: a modelling study
Marjolein J. E. Greuter, Johannes Berkhof, Karen Canfell, Jie-Bin Lew, Evelien Dekker, Veerle M. H. Coupé
The association between dog walking, physical activity and owner’s perceptions of safety: cross-sectional evidence from the US and Australia
Hayley Christian, Lisa Wood, Andrea Nathan, Ichiro Kawachi, Stephen Houghton, Karen Martin, Sandra McCune
A web-based group course intervention for 15-25-year-olds whose parents have substance use problems or mental illness: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Tobias H. Elgán, Nicklas Kartengren, Anna K. Strandberg, Maria Ingemarson, Helena Hansson, Ulla Zetterlind, Johanna Gripenberg
High muscular fitness has a powerful protective cardiometabolic effect in adults: influence of weight status
Robinson Ramírez-Vélez, Jorge E. Correa-Bautista, Felipe Lobelo, Mikel Izquierdo, Alicia Alonso-Martínez, Fernando Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Carlos Cristi-Montero
Development of an efficient strategy to improve HPV immunization coverage in Japan
Asami Yagi, Yutaka Ueda, Tomomi Egawa-Takata, Yusuke Tanaka, Akiko Morimoto, Yoshito Terai, Masahide Ohmichi, Tomoyuki Ichimura, Toshiyuki Sumi, Hiromi Murata, Hidetaka Okada, Hidekatsu Nakai, Masaki Mandai, Kiyoshi Yoshino, Tadashi Kimura, Junko Saito, Risa Kudoh, Masayuki Sekine, Takayuki Enomoto, Kei Hirai, Yorihiko Horikoshi, Tetsu Takagi, Kentaro Shimura
Beliefs and motives related to eating and body size: a comparison of high-BMI and normal-weight young adult women from rural and urban areas in Mexico
María C. Caamaño, Dolores Ronquillo, Riko Kimoto, Olga P. García, Kurt Z. Long, Jorge L. Rosado
Cross-cultural comparison of perspectives on healthy eating among Chinese and American undergraduate students
Jinan C. Banna, Betsy Gilliland, Margaret Keefe, Dongping Zheng
Non food-related risk factors of campylobacteriosis in Canada: a matched case-control study
André Ravel, Katarina Pintar, Andrea Nesbitt, Frank Pollari
Evaluation of self-swabbing coupled with a telephone health helpline as an adjunct tool for surveillance of influenza viruses in Ontario
D. McGolrick, P. Belanger, H. Richardson, K. Moore, A. Maier, A. Majury
Context matters! The relationship between mother-reported family nutrition climate, general parenting, food parenting practices and children’s BMI
Sanne M. P. L. Gerards, Christina Niermann, Dorus W. M. Gevers, Nadine Eussen, Stef P. J. Kremers
Understanding how dogs encourage and motivate walking: cross-sectional findings from RESIDE
C. Westgarth, M. Knuiman, H. E. Christian
Extreme weather events in developing countries and related injuries and mental health disorders - a systematic review
Elisabeth Rataj, Katharina Kunzweiler, Susan Garthus-Niegel
Association of environmental markers with childhood type 1 diabetes mellitus revealed by a long questionnaire on early life exposures and lifestyle in a case–control study
F. Balazard, S. Le Fur, S. Valtat, A. J. Valleron, P. Bougnères, Dominique Thevenieau, Corinne Fourmy Chatel, Rachel Desailloud, Hélène Bony-Trifunovic, Pierre-Henri Ducluzeau, Régis Coutant, Sophie Caudrelier, Armelle Pambou, Emmanuelle Dubosclard, Florence Joubert, Philippe Jan, Estelle Marcoux, Anne-Marie Bertrand, Brigitte Mignot, Alfred Penformis, Chantal Stuckens, Régis Piquemal, Pascal Barat, Vincent Rigalleau, Chantal Stheneur, Sylviane Fournier, Véronique Kerlan, Chantal Metz, Anne Fargeot-Espaliat, Yves Reznic, Frédérique Olivier, Iva Gueorguieva, Arnaud Monier, Catherine Radet, Vincent Gajdos, Daniel Terral, Christine Vervel, Djamel Bendifallah, Candace Ben Signor, Daniel Dervaux, Abdelkader Benmahammed, Guy-André Loeuille, Françoise Popelard, Agnès Guillou, Pierre-Yves Benhamou, Jamil Khoury, Jean-Pierre Brossier, Joachim Bassil, Sylvaine Clavel, Bernard Le Luyer, Pierre Bougnères, Françoise Labay, Isabelle Guemas, Jacques Weill, Jean-Pierre Cappoen, Sylvie Nadalon, Anne Lienhardt-Roussie, Anne Paoli, Claudie Kerouedan, Edwige Yollin, Marc Nicolino, Gilbert Simonin, Jacques Cohen, Catherine Atlan, Agnès Tamboura, Hervé Dubourg, Marie-Laure Pignol, Philippe Talon, Stéphanie Jellimann, Lucy Chaillous, Sabine Baron, Marie-Noëlle Bortoluzzi, Elisabeth Baechler, Randa Salet, Ariane Zelinsky-Gurung, Fabienne Dallavale, Etienne Larger, Marie Laloi-Michelin, Jean-François Gautier, Bénédicte Guérin, Laure Oilleau, Laetitia Pantalone, Céline Lukas, Isabelle Guilhem, Marc De Kerdanet, Marie-Claire Wielickzo, Mélanie Priou-Guesdon, Odile Richard, François Kurtz, Norbert Laisney, Déborah Ancelle, Guilhem Parlier, Catherine Boniface, Dominique Paris Bockel, Denis Dufillot, Berthe Razafimahefa, Pierre Gourdy, Pierre Lecomte, Myriam Pepin-Donat, Marie-Emmanuelle Combes-Moukhovsky, Brigitte Zymmermann, Marina Raoulx, Anne Gourdin et Catherine Dumont
Older People’s External Residential Assessment Tool (OPERAT): a complementary participatory and metric approach to the development of an observational environmental measure
Vanessa Burholt, Matthew Steven Roberts, Charles Brian Alexander Musselwhite
Challenges of implementing a large scale larviciding campaign against malaria in rural Burkina Faso – lessons learned and recommendations derived from the EMIRA project
Peter Dambach, Issouf Traoré, Achim Kaiser, Ali Sié, Rainer Sauerborn, Norbert Becker
Comparison of attitudes toward disability and people with disability among caregivers, the public, and people with disability: findings from a cross-sectional survey
Qiaolan Zheng, Qi Tian, Chun Hao, Jing Gu, Jianting Tao, Zuoyi Liang, Xinlin Chen, Jiqian Fang, Jianhua Ruan, Qiuxiang Ai, Yuantao Hao
The Lund University Checklist for Incipient Exhaustion: a prospective validation of the onset of sustained stress and exhaustion warnings
Kai Österberg, Roger Persson, Njördur Viborg, Peter Jönsson, Artur Tenenbaum
Erratum to: Scaling-up an efficacious school-based physical activity intervention: Study protocol for the ‘Internet-based Professional Learning to help teachers support Activity in Youth’ (iPLAY) cluster randomized controlled trial and scale-up implementation evaluation
Chris Lonsdale, Taren Sanders, Kristen E. Cohen, Philip Parker, Michael Noetel, Tim Hartwig, Diego Vasconcellos, Morwenna Kirwan, Philip Morgan, Jo Salmon, Marj Moodie, Heather McKay, Andrew Bennie, Ron Plotnikoff, Renata L. Cinelli, David Greene, Louisa R. Peralta, Dylan P. Cliff, Gregory S. Kolt, Jennifer M. Gore, Lan Gao, David R. Lubans
Erratum to: Sexual behavior of migrant workers in Shanghai, China
Wei Dai, Jian Gao, Jian Gong, Xiuping Xia, Hua Yang, Yao Shen, Jie Gu, Tianhao Wang, Yao Liu, Jing Zhou, Zhiping Shen, Shanzhu Zhu, Zhigang Pan
Marital status, widowhood duration, gender and health outcomes: a cross-sectional study among older adults in India
Jessica M. Perkins, Hwa-young Lee, K. S. James, Juhwan Oh, Aditi Krishna, Jongho Heo, Jong-koo Lee, S. V. Subramanian
A randomised controlled trial of three very brief interventions for physical activity in primary care
Sally Pears, Maaike Bijker, Katie Morton, Joana Vasconcelos, Richard A. Parker, Kate Westgate, Soren Brage, Ed Wilson, A. Toby Prevost, Ann-Louise Kinmonth, Simon Griffin, Stephen Sutton, Wendy Hardeman
Two colliding epidemics – obesity is independently associated with chronic pain interfering with activities of daily living in adults 18 years and over; a cross-sectional, population-based study
Sharon A. Allen, Eleonora Dal Grande, Amy P. Abernethy, David C. Currow
Comparison of pharmaceutical, illicit drug, alcohol, nicotine and caffeine levels in wastewater with sale, seizure and consumption data for 8 European cities
Jose Antonio Baz-Lomba, Stefania Salvatore, Emma Gracia-Lor, Richard Bade, Sara Castiglioni, Erika Castrignanò, Ana Causanilles, Felix Hernandez, Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern, Juliet Kinyua, Ann-Kathrin McCall, Alexander van Nuijs, Christoph Ort, Benedek G. Plósz, Pedram Ramin, Malcolm Reid, Nikolaos I. Rousis, Yeonsuk Ryu, Pim de Voogt, Jorgen Bramness, Kevin Thomas
A cross-sectional study of physical activity and sedentary behaviours in a Caribbean population: combining objective and questionnaire data to guide future interventions
Christina Howitt, Soren Brage, Ian R. Hambleton, Kate Westgate, T. Alafia Samuels, Angela MC Rose, Nigel Unwin
Diet quality is associated with obesity and hypertension in Australian adults: a cross sectional study
Katherine M. Livingstone, Sarah A. McNaughton
Gender difference and effect of pharmacotherapy: findings from a smoking cessation service
N. J. Walker, H. C. van Woerden, V. Kiparoglou, Y. Yang, H. Robinson, E. Croghan
Prevalence of osteoporosis in China: a meta-analysis and systematic review
Peng Chen, Zhanzhan Li, Yihe Hu
Prevalence of short stature, underweight, overweight, and obesity among school children in Jordan
Ayman A. Zayed, Abdallah M. Beano, Faris I. Haddadin, Sohab S. Radwan, Suhaib A. Allauzy, Motasem M. Alkhayyat, Zaid A. Al-Dahabrah, Yanal G. Al-Hasan, Al-Motassem F. Yousef
Predictors of homelessness among vulnerably housed adults in 3 Canadian cities: a prospective cohort study
Matthew J. To, Anita Palepu, Tim Aubry, Rosane Nisenbaum, Evie Gogosis, Anne Gadermann, Rebecca Cherner, Susan Farrell, Vachan Misir, Stephen W. Hwang
Perceived effective and feasible strategies to promote healthy eating in young children: focus groups with parents, family child care providers and daycare assistants
Laura Vandeweghe, Ellen Moens, Caroline Braet, Wendy Van Lippevelde, Leentje Vervoort, Sandra Verbeken
Use of non-emergency contraceptive pills and concoctions as emergency contraception among Nigerian University students: results of a qualitative study
Anthony Idowu Ajayi, Ezebunwa Ethelbert Nwokocha, Wilson Akpan, Oladele Vincent Adeniyi
Level of nutrition knowledge and its association with fat consumption among college students
Najat Yahia, Carrie A. Brown, Melyssa Rapley, Mei Chung
Remaining missed opportunities of child survival in Peru: modelling mortality impact of universal and equitable coverage of proven interventions
Yvonne Tam, Luis Huicho, Carlos A. Huayanay-Espinoza, María Clara Restrepo-Méndez
Successful customer intercept interview recruitment outside small and midsize urban food retailers
Jennifer E. Pelletier, Caitlin E. Caspi, Liana R. N. Schreiber, Darin J. Erickson, Lisa Harnack, Melissa N. Laska
Erratum to: A systematic review of the health and well-being impacts of school gardening: synthesis of quantitative and qualitative evidence
Heather Ohly, Sarah Gentry, Rachel Wigglesworth, Alison Bethel, Rebecca Lovell, Ruth Garside
Barriers to cancer symptom presentation among people from low socioeconomic groups: a qualitative study
Grace McCutchan, Fiona Wood, Stephanie Smits, Adrian Edwards, Kate Brain
Factors associated with acceptability of child circumcision in Botswana -- a cross sectional survey
Mpho Keetile, Motsholathebe Bowelo
Comparing the mortality risks of nursing professionals with diabetes and general patients with diabetes: a nationwide matched cohort study
Hsiu-Ling Huang, Chuan-Yu Kung, Cheng-Chin Pan, Pei-Tseng Kung, Shun-Mu Wang, Wen-Yu Chou, Wen-Chen Tsai
Dietary intake patterns of children aged 6 years and their association with socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, early feeding practices and body mass index
Leonardo Pozza Santos, Maria Cecília Formoso Assunção, Alicia Matijasevich, Iná S. Santos, Aluísio J. D. Barros
The effect of financial incentives on top of behavioral support on quit rates in tobacco smoking employees: study protocol of a cluster-randomized trial
F. A. van den Brand, G. E. Nagelhout, B. Winkens, S. M. A. A. Evers, D. Kotz, N. H. Chavannes, C. P. van Schayck
The associations between domain-specific sedentary behaviours and dietary habits in European adults: a cross-sectional analysis of the SPOTLIGHT survey
Sofie Compernolle, Katrien De Cocker, Pedro J. Teixeira, Jean-Michel Oppert, Célina Roda, Joreintje D. Mackenbach, Jeroen Lakerveld, Martin McKee, Ketevan Glonti, Harry Rutter, Helga Bardos, Greet Cardon, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij
Local spatial variations analysis of smear-positive tuberculosis in Xinjiang using Geographically Weighted Regression model
Wang Wei, Jin Yuan-Yuan, Yan Ci, Alayi Ahan, Cao Ming-Qin
The effect of war on infant mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Elina Elveborg Lindskog
A pilot cluster randomised controlled trial of a support and training intervention to improve the mental health of secondary school teachers and students – the WISE (Wellbeing in Secondary Education) study
Judi Kidger, Tracey Stone, Kate Tilling, Rowan Brockman, Rona Campbell, Tamsin Ford, William Hollingworth, Michael King, Ricardo Araya, David Gunnell
Factors associated with persons with disability employment in India: a cross-sectional study
Ramya Naraharisetti, Marcia C. Castro
Erratum to: Associations in the continuum of care for maternal, newborn and child health: a population-based study of 12 sub-Saharan Africa countries
Patrick Opiyo Owili, Miriam Adoyo Muga, Yiing-Jenq Chou, Yi-Hsin Elsa Hsu, Nicole Huang, Li-Yin Chien
Erratum to: Chronic viral hepatitis: policy, regulation, and strategies for its control and elimination in Ethiopia
Fassil Shiferaw, Mekitew Letebo, Abate Bane
Defending behaviors, bullying roles, and their associations with mental health in junior high school students: a population-based study
Wen-Chi Wu, Shyuemeng Luu, Dih-Ling Luh
Australian, Irish and Swedish women’s perceptions of what assisted them to breastfeed for six months: exploratory design using critical incident technique
Yvonne L. Hauck, Ingrid Blixt, Ingegerd Hildingsson, Louise Gallagher, Christine Rubertsson, Brooke Thomson, Lucy Lewis
More active pre-school children have better motor competence at school starting age: an observational cohort study
Lisa M. Barnett, Jo Salmon, Kylie D. Hesketh
School-based sexual health education interventions to prevent STI/HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis
A. Sadiq Sani, Charles Abraham, Sarah Denford, Susan Ball
Trend in alcohol use in Australia over 13 years: has there been a trend reversal?
Gary C.K. Chan, Janni K. Leung, Catherine Quinn, Jason P. Connor, Leanne Hides, Matthew J. Gullo, Rosa Alati, Megan Weier, Adrian B. Kelly, Wayne D. Hall
The Chinese-born immigrant infant feeding and growth hypothesis
Kristy A. Bolton, Peter Kremer, Kylie D. Hesketh, Rachel Laws, Karen J. Campbell
Evidence-Based interventions of Norovirus outbreaks in China
Tianmu Chen, Haogao Gu, Ross Ka-Kit Leung, Ruchun Liu, Qiuping Chen, Ying Wu, Yaman Li
Gaps in awareness of peripheral arterial disease in Sri Lanka: a cross sectional study
Janaka Weragoda, Manuj C. Weerasinghe, Rohini Seneviratne, S. M. Wijeyaratne
Erratum to: Auxiliary midwives in hard to reach rural areas of Myanmar: filling MCH gaps
Sangay Wangmo, Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Wai Mar Mar Htun, Tin Tun Aung, Chiraporn Khitdee, Walaiporn Patcharanarumol, Pe Thet Htoon, Viroj Tangcharoensathien
Neighborhood perceptions and hypertension among low-income black women: a qualitative study
Maliyhah Al-Bayan, Nadia Islam, Shawneaqua Edwards, Dustin T. Duncan
Factors associated with late Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) diagnosis among peoples living with it, Northwest Ethiopia: hospital based unmatched case-control study
Abebayehu Bitew Aniley, Tadesse Awoke Ayele, Ejigu Gebeye Zeleke, Assefa Andargie Kassa
“I want to save my life”: Conceptions of cervical and breast cancer screening among urban immigrant women of South Asian and Chinese origin
Jennifer Hulme, Catherine Moravac, Farah Ahmad, Shelley Cleverly, Aisha Lofters, Ophira Ginsburg, Sheila Dunn
Study protocol: the Fueling Learning through Exercise (FLEX) study – a randomized controlled trial of the impact of school-based physical activity programs on children’s physical activity, cognitive function, and academic achievement
Catherine M. Wright, Paula J. Duquesnay, Stephanie Anzman-Frasca, Virginia R. Chomitz, Kenneth Chui, Christina D. Economos, Elizabeth G. Langevin, Miriam E. Nelson, Jennifer M. Sacheck
Optimal cut-off of obesity indices to predict cardiovascular disease risk factors and metabolic syndrome among adults in Northeast China
Jianxing Yu, Yuchun Tao, Yuhui Tao, Sen Yang, Yaqin Yu, Bo Li, Lina Jin
A comparision of the yield of three tuberculosis screening modalities among people living with HIV: a retrospective quasi-experiemental study
Michael Kakinda, Joseph K. B. Matovu, Ekwaro A. Obuku
How has child growth around adiposity rebound altered in Scotland since 1990 and what are the risk factors for weight gain using the Growing Up in Scotland birth cohort 1?
Lawrence Doi, Andrew James Williams, John Frank
Coming of age, becoming obese: a cross-sectional analysis of obesity among adolescents and young adults in Malaysia
Christopher Pell, Pascale Allotey, Natalie Evans, Anita Hardon, Johanna D. Imelda, Ireneous Soyiri, Daniel D. Reidpath
“Experiences with disclosure of HIV-positive status to the infected child”: Perspectives of healthcare providers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Adellah Sariah, Joan Rugemalila, Magreat Somba, Anna Minja, Margareth Makuchilo, Edith Tarimo, David Urassa, Helen Siril
The application of theories of the policy process to obesity prevention: a systematic review and meta-synthesis
Brydie Clarke, Boyd Swinburn, Gary Sacks
Erratum to: Health, disability and quality of life among trans people in Sweden–a web-based survey
Galit Zeluf, Cecilia Dhejne, Carolina Orre, Louise Nilunger Mannheimer, Charlotte Deogan, Jonas Höijer, Anna Ekéus Thorson
Erratum to: Childhood maltreatment as a risk factor for diabetes: findings from a population-based survey of Canadian adults
Margot E. Shields, Wendy E. Hovdestad, Catherine Pelletier, Jennifer L. Dykxhoorn, Siobhan C. O’Donnell, Lil Tonmyr
Does mode of follow-up influence contraceptive use after medical abortion in a low-resource setting? Secondary outcome analysis of a non-inferiority randomized controlled trial
Mandira Paul, Sharad D. Iyengar, Birgitta Essén, Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson, Kirti Iyengar, Johan Bring, Marie Klingberg-Allvin
Erratum to: Trend of determinants of birth interval dynamics in Bangladesh
Jahidur Rahman Khan, Wasimul Bari, A. H. M. Mahbub Latif
Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial of an intervention to improve the mental health support and training available to secondary school teachers – the WISE (Wellbeing in Secondary Education) study
Judi Kidger, Rhiannon Evans, Kate Tilling, William Hollingworth, Rona Campbell, Tamsin Ford, Simon Murphy, Ricardo Araya, Richard Morris, Bryar Kadir, Aida Moure Fernandez, Sarah Bell, Sarah Harding, Rowan Brockman, Jill Grey, David Gunnell
A cohort study protocol to analyze the predisposing factors to common chronic non-communicable diseases in rural areas: Fasa Cohort Study
Mojtaba Farjam, Hossein Bahrami, Ehsan Bahramali, Javad Jamshidi, Alireza Askari, Habibollah Zakeri, Reza Homayounfar, Hossein Poustchi, Reza Malekzadeh
Smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis and HIV co-infection in prison settings of North Gondar Zone, Northwest Ethiopia
Teklay Gebrecherkos, Baye Gelaw, Belay Tessema
Using the Intervention Mapping protocol to develop a family-based intervention for improving lifestyle habits among overweight and obese children: study protocol for a quasi-experimental trial
Tonje Holte Stea, Tommy Haugen, Sveinung Berntsen, Vigdis Guttormsen, Nina Cecilie Øverby, Kristin Haraldstad, Eivind Meland, Eirik Abildsnes
Type and extent of trans-disciplinary co-operation to improve food security, health and household environment in low and middle income countries: systematic review
Santosh Gaihre, Janet Kyle, Sean Semple, Jo Smith, Madhu Subedi, Debbi Marais
Prevalence and assessment of malnutrition among children attending the Reproductive and Child Health clinic at Bagamoyo District Hospital, Tanzania
Omar Ali Juma, Zachary Obinna Enumah, Hannah Wheatley, Mohamed Yunus Rafiq, Seif Shekalaghe, Ali Ali, Shishira Mgonia, Salim Abdulla
Increasing physical activity among young children from disadvantaged communities: study protocol of a group randomised controlled effectiveness trial
Rebecca M. Stanley, Rachel A. Jones, Dylan P. Cliff, Stewart G. Trost, Donna Berthelsen, Jo Salmon, Marijka Batterham, Simon Eckermann, John J. Reilly, Ngiare Brown, Karen J. Mickle, Steven J. Howard, Trina Hinkley, Xanne Janssen, Paul Chandler, Penny Cross, Fay Gowers, Anthony D. Okely
Hockey Fans in Training (Hockey FIT) pilot study protocol: a gender-sensitized weight loss and healthy lifestyle program for overweight and obese male hockey fans
Dawn P. Gill, Wendy Blunt, Ashleigh De Cruz, Brendan Riggin, Kate Hunt, Guangyong Zou, Shannon Sibbald, Karen Danylchuk, Merrick Zwarenstein, Cindy M. Gray, Sally Wyke, Christopher Bunn, Robert J. Petrella
Risk factors for possible serious bacterial infection in a rural cohort of young infants in central India
Marie E. Wang, Archana B. Patel, Nellie I. Hansen, Lauren Arlington, Amber Prakash, Patricia L. Hibberd
The role of socio-economic status in depression: results from the COURAGE (aging survey in Europe)
Aislinne Freeman, Stefanos Tyrovolas, Ai Koyanagi, Somnath Chatterji, Matilde Leonardi, Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos, Beata Tobiasz-Adamczyk, Seppo Koskinen, Christine Rummel-Kluge, Josep Maria Haro
How do children travel to school in urban India? A cross-sectional study of 5,842 children in Hyderabad
Shailaja Tetali, P. Edwards, G. V. S. Murthy I. Roberts
Modifying effects of education on the association between lifestyle behaviors and the risk of obesity: evidence from South Korea
Woojin Chung, Sunmi Lee, Seung-ji Lim, Jaeyeun Kim
School-based intervention to prevent overweight and disordered eating in secondary school Malaysian adolescents: a study protocol
Sharifah Intan Zainun Sharif Ishak, Yit Siew Chin, Mohd. Nasir Mohd. Taib, Zalilah Mohd. Shariff
Quality of life of residents living in a city hosting mega-sport events: a longitudinal study
Rebecca Pfitzner, Joerg Koenigstorfer
Coverage, efficacy or dosing interval: which factor predominantly influences the impact of routine childhood vaccination for the prevention of varicella? A model-based study for Italy
Katsiaryna Holl, Christophe Sauboin, Emanuele Amodio, Paolo Bonanni, Giovanni Gabutti
Pedometer-determined physical activity among youth in the Tokyo Metropolitan area: a cross-sectional study
Noritoshi Fukushima, Shigeru Inoue, Yuki Hikihara, Hiroyuki Kikuchi, Hiroki Sato, Catrine Tudor-Locke, Shigeho Tanaka
E-cigarette use and smoking reduction or cessation in the 2010/2011 TUS-CPS longitudinal cohort
Yuyan Shi, John P. Pierce, Martha White, Maya Vijayaraghavan, Wilson Compton, Kevin Conway, Anne M. Hartman, Karen Messer
Study Protocol: A randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of family-based behavioral treatment of childhood and adolescent obesity–The FABO-study
Hanna F. Skjåkødegård, Yngvild S. Danielsen, Mette Morken, Sara-Rebekka F. Linde, Rachel P. Kolko, Katherine N. Balantekin, Denise E. Wilfley, Pétur B. Júlíusson
Addressing medical absenteeism in pre-vocational secondary students: effectiveness of a public health intervention, using a quasi-experimental design
Yvonne T. M. Vanneste, Jolanda J. P. Mathijssen, Ien A. M. van de Goor, Carin M. C. Rots – de Vries, Frans J. M. Feron
The forgotten guidelines: cross-sectional analysis of participation in muscle strengthening and balance & co-ordination activities by adults and older adults in Scotland
Tessa Strain, Claire Fitzsimons, Paul Kelly, Nanette Mutrie
Comparisons between mild and severe cases of hand, foot and mouth disease in temporal trends: a comparative time series study from mainland China
Xiong Xiao, Qiaohong Liao, Michael G. Kenward, Yaming Zheng, Jiao Huang, Fei Yin, Hongjie Yu, Xiaosong Li
The effectiveness of a Housing First adaptation for ethnic minority groups: findings of a pragmatic randomized controlled trial
Vicky Stergiopoulos, Agnes Gozdzik, Vachan Misir, Anna Skosireva, Aseefa Sarang, Jo Connelly, Adam Whisler, Kwame McKenzie
HIV risk perception and testing behaviours among men having sex with men (MSM) reporting potential transmission risks in the previous 12 months from a large online sample of MSM living in Germany
Ulrich Marcus, Martyna Gassowski, Jochen Drewes
Sociodemographic factors associated with IgG and IgM seroprevalence for human cytomegalovirus infection in adult populations of Pakistan: a seroprevalence survey
Saira Ibrahim, Anwar A. Siddiqui, Amna R. Siddiqui, Waquaruddin Ahmed, Paul A. H. Moss, El-Nasir M. A. Lalani
Racial disparities in adult all-cause and cause-specific mortality among us adults: mediating and moderating factors
M. A. Beydoun, H. A. Beydoun, N. Mode, G. A. Dore, J. A. Canas, S. M. Eid, A. B. Zonderman
Health promoting practices and personal lifestyle behaviors of Brazilian health professionals
Karen D. Hidalgo, Grégore I. Mielke, Diana C. Parra, Felipe Lobelo, Eduardo J. Simões, Grace O. Gomes, Alex A. Florindo, Mário Bracco, Lenildo Moura, Ross C. Brownson, Michael Pratt, Luiz R. Ramos, Pedro C. Hallal
Does the recent intensification of nationalistic and xenophobic attitudes in Eastern European countries adversely affect public mental health?
Andrzej Brodziak, Alicja Różyk-Myrta, Agnieszka Wolińska
Background, design and conceptual model of the cluster randomized multiple-component workplace study: FRamed Intervention to Decrease Occupational Muscle pain - "FRIDOM"
Jeanette Reffstrup Christensen, Thomas Viskum Gjelstrup Bredahl, Jenny Hadrévi, Gisela Sjøgaard, Karen Søgaard
A quasi-experimental cross-disciplinary evaluation of the impacts of education outside the classroom on pupils’ physical activity, well-being and learning: the TEACHOUT study protocol
Glen Nielsen, Erik Mygind, Mads Bølling, Camilla Roed Otte, Mikkel Bo Schneller, Jasper Schipperijn, Niels Ejbye-Ernst, Peter Bentsen
Under-five mortality rate variation between the Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) and Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) approaches
Amare Deribew, John Ojal, Boniface Karia, Evasius Bauni, Mark Oteinde
Lessons learned from the PMTCT program in Swaziland: challenges with accepting lifelong ART for pregnant and lactating women – a qualitative study
Leila Katirayi, Caspian Chouraya, Kwashie Kudiabor, Mohammed Ali Mahdi, Mary Pat Kieffer, Karen Marie Moland, Thorkild Tylleskar
Survey of the perceptions of key stakeholders on the attributes of the South African Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
F. G. Benson, A. Musekiwa, L. Blumberg, L. C. Rispel
Correlates of sedentary time in different age groups: results from a large cross sectional Dutch survey
Claire M. Bernaards, Vincent H. Hildebrandt, Ingrid J. M. Hendriksen
Camp NERF: methods of a theory-based nutrition education recreation and fitness program aimed at preventing unhealthy weight gain in underserved elementary children during summer months
Laura C. Hopkins, Mary Fristad, Jacqueline D. Goodway, Ihuoma Eneli, Chris Holloman, Julie A. Kennel, Bernadette Melnyk, Carolyn Gunther
The involvement of young people in school- and community-based noncommunicable disease prevention interventions: a scoping review of designs and outcomes
Didier Jourdan, Julie Hellesøe Christensen, Emily Darlington, Ane Høstgaard Bonde, Paul Bloch, Bjarne Bruun Jensen, Peter Bentsen
Pessimism and risk of death from coronary heart disease among middle-aged and older Finns: an eleven-year follow-up study
Mikko Pänkäläinen, Tuomas Kerola, Olli Kampman, Markku Kauppi, Jukka Hintikka
Longitudinal changes in physical activity and sedentary time in adults around retirement age: what is the moderating role of retirement status, gender and educational level?
Delfien Van Dyck, Greet Cardon, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij
Urban–rural and geographic differences in overweight and obesity in four sub-Saharan African adult populations: a multi-country cross-sectional study
IkeOluwapo O. Ajayi, Clement Adebamowo, Hans-Olov Adami, Shona Dalal, Megan B. Diamond, Francis Bajunirwe, David Guwatudde, Marina Njelekela, Joan Nankya-Mutyoba, Faraja S. Chiwanga, Jimmy Volmink, Robert Kalyesubula, Carien Laurence, Todd G. Reid, Douglas Dockery, David Hemenway, Donna Spiegelman, Michelle D. Holmes
Improving the well-being of children and youths: a randomized multicomponent, school-based, physical activity intervention
Søren Smedegaard, Lars Breum Christiansen, Pernille Lund-Cramer, Thomas Bredahl, Thomas Skovgaard
Identifying developmental trajectories of body mass index in childhood using latent class growth (mixture) modelling: associations with dietary, sedentary and physical activity behaviors: a longitudinal study
Maaike Koning, Trynke Hoekstra, Elske de Jong, Tommy L. S. Visscher, Jacob C. Seidell, Carry M. Renders
A cross-sectional study of the relationship between parents’ and children’s physical activity
Jodie A. Stearns, Ryan Rhodes, Geoff D. C. Ball, Normand Boule, Paul J. Veugelers, Nicoleta Cutumisu, John C. Spence
Tuberculosis patients’ pre-hospital delay and non-compliance with a longstanding DOT programme: a mixed methods study in urban Zambia
Anne Lia Cremers, René Gerrets, Nathan Kapata, Austin Kabika, Emma Birnie, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Martin P. Grobusch
Erratum to: The concurrence of musculoskeletal pain and associated work-related factors: a cross sectional study
Rita de Cássia Pereira Fernandes, Silvana Maria Santos Pataro, Roberta Brasileiro de Carvalho, Alex Burdorf
The Brazilian comprehensive response to hepatitis C: from strategic thinking to access to interferon-free therapy
Fabio Mesquita, Melina Erica Santos, Adele Benzaken, Renato Girade Corrêa, Elisa Cattapan, Leandro Soares Sereno, Marcelo Contardo Moscoso Naveira
Essential conditions for the implementation of comprehensive school health to achieve changes in school culture and improvements in health behaviours of students
Kate E. Storey, Genevieve Montemurro, Jenn Flynn, Marg Schwartz, Erin Wright, Jill Osler, Paul J. Veugelers, Erica Roberts
Health literacy: the missing link in improving the health of Somali immigrant women in Oslo
Abdi A. Gele, Kjell Sverre Pettersen, Liv Elin Torheim, Bernadette Kumar
Assessing the external validity of model-based estimates of the incidence of heart attack in England: a modelling study
Peter Scarborough, Kate Smolina, Anja Mizdrak, Linda Cobiac, Adam Briggs
What explains gender inequalities in HIV/AIDS prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from the demographic and health surveys
Drissa Sia, Yentéma Onadja, Mohammad Hajizadeh, S. Jody Heymann, Timothy F. Brewer, Arijit Nandi
Occupational exposure to silica dust and risk of lung cancer: an updated meta-analysis of epidemiological studies
Satiavani Poinen-Rughooputh, Mahesh Shumsher Rughooputh, Yanjun Guo, Yi Rong, Weihong Chen
Knowledge and perceptions of air pollution in Ningbo, China
Xujun Qian, Guozhang Xu, Li Li, Yueping Shen, Tianfeng He, Yajun Liang, Zuyao Yang, Wan Wei Zhou, Jiaying Xu
Household sanitation facilities and women’s risk of non-partner sexual violence in India
Apoorva Jadhav, Abigail Weitzman, Emily Smith-Greenaway
Power, fairness and trust: understanding and engaging with vaccine trial participants and communities in the setting up the EBOVAC-Salone vaccine trial in Sierra Leone
Luisa Enria, Shelley Lees, Elizabeth Smout, Thomas Mooney, Angus F. Tengbeh, Bailah Leigh, Brian Greenwood, Deborah Watson-Jones, Heidi Larson
‘Making the invisible visible’ through alcohol screening and brief intervention in community pharmacies: an Australian feasibility study
H. Laetitia Hattingh, Jonathan Hallett, Robert J. Tait
Mental symptoms and cause-specific mortality among midlife employees
Eero Lahelma, Olli Pietiläinen, Ossi Rahkonen, Jouni Lahti, Tea Lallukka
Trends in body image of adolescent females in metropolitan and non-metropolitan regions: a longitudinal study
M. Craike, J. A. Young, C. M. Symons, M. D. Pain, J. T. Harvey, R. M. Eime, W. R. Payne
The effect of a behavioral activation program on improving mental and physical health complaints associated with radiation stress among mothers in Fukushima: a randomized controlled trial
Kotaro Imamura, Yuki Sekiya, Yumi Asai, Maki Umeda, Naoko Horikoshi, Seiji Yasumura, Hirooki Yabe, Tsuyoshi Akiyama, Norito Kawakami
Using concept mapping in the development of the EU-PAD framework (EUropean-Physical Activity Determinants across the life course): a DEDIPAC-study
Giancarlo Condello, Fiona Chun Man Ling, Antonino Bianco, Sebastien Chastin, Greet Cardon, Donatella Ciarapica, Daniele Conte, Cristina Cortis, Marieke De Craemer, Andrea Di Blasio, Masar Gjaka, Sylvia Hansen, Michelle Holdsworth, Licia Iacoviello, Pascal Izzicupo, Lina Jaeschke, Liliana Leone, Livia Manoni, Cristina Menescardi, Silvia Migliaccio, Julie-Anne Nazare, Camille Perchoux, Caterina Pesce, Frank Pierik, Tobias Pischon, Angela Polito, Anna Puggina, Alessandra Sannella, Wolfgang Schlicht, Holger Schulz, Chantal Simon, Astrid Steinbrecher, Ciaran MacDonncha, Laura Capranica
The burden of chronic diseases and cost-of-care in subjects with HIV infection in a Health District of Northern Italy over a 12-year period compared to that of the general population
Eugenia Quiros-Roldan, Michele Magoni, Elena Raffetti, Francesco Donato, Carmelo Scarcella, Giuseppe Paraninfo, Francesco Castelli
Food safety knowledge of undergraduate students at a Canadian university: results of an online survey
Sarah M. Courtney, Shannon E. Majowicz, Joel A. Dubin
Efficacy of brief behavioral counselling by allied health professionals to promote physical activity in people with peripheral arterial disease (BIPP): study protocol for a multi-center randomized controlled trial
Nicola W. Burton, Zanfina Ademi, Stuart Best, Maria A. Fiatarone Singh, Jason S. Jenkins, Kenny D. Lawson, Anthony S. Leicht, Yorgi Mavros, Yian Noble, Paul Norman, Richard Norman, Belinda J. Parmenter, Jenna Pinchbeck, Christopher M. Reid, Sophie E. Rowbotham, Lisan Yip, Jonathan Golledge
Effects of a randomized controlled intervention trial on return to work and health care utilization after long-term sickness absence
Anne-Mette H. Momsen, Christina Malmose Stapelfeldt, Claus Vinther Nielsen, Maj Britt D. Nielsen, Birgit Aust, Reiner Rugulies, Chris Jensen
Design and methods for a community-based intervention to reduce sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among youth: H2GO! study
Monica L. Wang, Stephenie C. Lemon, Kristian Clausen, Julie Whyte, Milagros C. Rosal
Health literacy among different age groups in Germany: results of a cross-sectional survey
Eva-Maria Berens, Dominique Vogt, Melanie Messer, Klaus Hurrelmann, Doris Schaeffer
Prevalence of prior HIV testing and associated factors among MSM in Zhejiang Province, China: a cross-sectional study
Runhua Li, Xiaohong Pan, Qiaoqin Ma, Hui Wang, Lin He, Tingting Jiang, Dayong Wang, Yan Zhang, Xingliang Zhang, Shichang Xia
Obesity, diet quality, physical activity, and the built environment: the need for behavioral pathways
Adam Drewnowski, Anju Aggarwal, Wesley Tang, Philip M. Hurvitz, Jason Scully, Orion Stewart, Anne Vernez Moudon
Parents Working Together: development and feasibility trial of a workplace-based program for parents that incorporates general parenting and health behaviour messages
L. Wilson, Donna Lero, Allan Smofsky, Deborah Gross, Jess Haines
Serial survey shows community intervention may contribute to increase in knowledge of Tuberculosis in 30 districts of India
Badri Thapa, Banuru Muralidhara Prasad, Sarabjit S. Chadha, Jamie Tonsing
A novel experience-based internet intervention for smoking cessation: feasibility randomised controlled trial
John Powell, Nikki Newhouse, Angela Martin, Sena Jawad, Ly-Mee Yu, Mina Davoudianfar, Louise Locock, Sue Ziebland
Substance consumption in adolescents with and without an immigration background: a representative study—What part of an immigration background is protective against binge drinking?
Carolin Donath, Dirk Baier, Elmar Graessel, Thomas Hillemacher
A qualitative study of user perceptions of mobile health apps
Wei Peng, Shaheen Kanthawala, Shupei Yuan, Syed Ali Hussain
Immunisation timeliness in a cohort of urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
Yolanda G. Lovie-Toon, Kerry K. Hall, Anne B. Chang, Jennie Anderson, Kerry-Ann F. O’Grady
The Physical Activity and Redesigned Community Spaces (PARCS) Study: Protocol of a natural experiment to investigate the impact of citywide park redesign and renovation
Terry T. K. Huang, Katarzyna E. Wyka, Emily B. Ferris, Jennifer Gardner, Kelly R. Evenson, Devanshi Tripathi, Gabriel Martinez Soto, Matthew S. Cato, Jon Moon, Julia Wagner, Joan M. Dorn, Diane J. Catellier, Lorna E. Thorpe
A Cross-sectional Survey of HIV Transmission and Behavior among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Different Areas of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
Lin Qu, Wenrui Wang, Yongming Gao, Jingyuan Yang, Jijiang Dai, Dawei Wang, Bo Tao
Health conditions of inmates in Italy
Fabio Voller, Caterina Silvestri, Gianrocco Martino, Eleonora Fanti, Giorgio Bazzerla, Fabio Ferrari, Marco Grignani, Sandro Libianchi, Antonio Maria Pagano, Franco Scarpa, Cristina Stasi, Teresa Di Fiandra
Education on tick bite and Lyme borreliosis prevention, aimed at schoolchildren in the Netherlands: comparing the effects of an online educational video game versus a leaflet or no intervention
D. J. M. A. Beaujean, F. Gassner, A Wong, J. E. Steenbergen, R. Crutzen, D. Ruwaard
Assessment of work-related asthma prevalence, control and severity: protocol of a field study
Hermine Mével, Valérie Demange, Emmanuelle Penven, Christian Trontin, Pascal Wild, Christophe Paris
Understanding action control of daily walking behavior among dog owners: a community survey
Ryan E. Rhodes, Clarise Lim
Screening and vaccination as determined by the Social Ecological Model and the Theory of Triadic Influence: a systematic review
Anayawa Nyambe, Guido Van Hal, Jarl K. Kampen
Pre-pregnancy community-based intervention for couples in Malaysia: application of intervention mapping
Shane A. Norris, Julius Cheah Chee Ho, Aswir Abd Rashed, Vibeke Vinding, Jutta K. H. Skau, Regien Biesma, Jens Aagaard-Hansen, Mark Hanson, Priya Matzen
Epidemiology of rubella virus cases in the pre-vaccination era of Ethiopia, 2009–2015
Mekonen Getahun, Berhane Beyene, Kathleen Gallagher, Ayesheshem Ademe, Birke Teshome, Mesfin Tefera, Anjelo Asha, Aklog Afework, Esete Assefa, Yoseph HaileMariam, Yonas HaileGiorgis, Hiwot Ketema, Dejenie Shiferaw, Ayenachew Bekele, Daddi Jima, Amha Kebede
The role of social position and depressive symptoms in adolescence for life-course trajectories of education and work: a cohort study
Evelina Landstedt, Anna Brydsten, Anne Hammarström, Pekka Virtanen, Ylva B. Almquist
Sexual dysfunction among youth: an overlooked sexual health concern
Caroline Moreau, Anna E Kågesten, Robert Wm Blum
Residential neighbourhood greenspace is associated with reduced risk of incident diabetes in older people: a prospective cohort study
Alice M. Dalton, Andrew P. Jones, Stephen J. Sharp, Andrew J. M. Cooper, Simon Griffin, Nicholas J. Wareham
The impact of body vigilance on help-seeking for cancer ‘alarm’ symptoms: a community-based survey
Kelly Winstanley, Cristina Renzi, Claire Friedemann Smith, Jane Wardle, Katriina L. Whitaker
Determinants of seasonal influenza vaccination in pregnant women in Valencia, Spain
R. Vila-Candel, P. Navarro-Illana, E. Navarro-Illana, E. Castro-Sánchez, Kiri Duke, F. J. Soriano-Vidal, J. Tuells, J. Díez-Domingo
Prevalence and determinants of diabetes among older adults in Ghana
Samwel Maina Gatimu, Benson Williesham Milimo, Miguel San Sebastian
STI tests and proportion of positive tests in female sex workers attending local public health departments in Germany in 2010/11
Viviane Bremer, Karin Haar, Martyna Gassowski, Osamah Hamouda, Stine Nielsen
Causes of maternal and child mortality among Cambodian sex workers and their children: a cross sectional study
Brian Willis, Saki Onda, Hanni Marie Stoklosa
Sedentary lifestyle and its associated factors among adolescents from public and private schools of a Brazilian state capital
Flávia Miquetichuc Nogueira Nascente, Thiago Veiga Jardim, Maria do Rosário Gondim Peixoto, Carolina de Souza Carneiro, Karla Lorena Mendonça, Thaís Inácio Rolim Póvoa, Ana Luiza Lima Sousa, Weimar Kunz Sebba Barroso, Paulo César Brandão Veiga Jardim
Epidemiology of pertussis in two Ibero-American countries with different vaccination policies: lessons derived from different surveillance systems
Rubén Solano, Josefa Masa-Calles, Zacarías Garib, Patricia Grullón, Sandy L. Santiago, Altagracia Brache, Ángela Domínguez, Joan A. Caylà
User satisfaction with the structure and content of the NEXit intervention, a text messaging-based smoking cessation programme
Ulrika Müssener, Marcus Bendtsen, Jim McCambridge, Preben Bendtsen
Parental perception of built environment characteristics and built environment use among Latino families: a cross-sectional study
William J. Heerman, Stephanie J. Mitchell, Jessica Thompson, Nina C. Martin, Evan C. Sommer, Margaret van Bakergem, Julie Lounds Taylor, Maciej S. Buchowski, Shari L. Barkin
Application of the multiphase optimization strategy to a pilot study: an empirical example targeting obesity among children of low-income mothers
Kari C. Kugler, Katherine N. Balantekin, Leann L. Birch, Jennifer S. Savage
Association of parental social support with energy balance-related behaviors in low-income and ethnically diverse children: a cross-sectional study
Natalia I. Heredia, Nalini Ranjit, Judith L. Warren, Alexandra E. Evans
Social norms and family planning decisions in South Sudan
Sumit Kane, Maryse Kok, Matilda Rial, Anthony Matere, Marjolein Dieleman, Jacqueline EW Broerse
Substituting sugar confectionery with fruit and healthy snacks at checkout – a win-win strategy for consumers and food stores? a study on consumer attitudes and sales effects of a healthy supermarket intervention
Lise L. Winkler, Ulla Christensen, Charlotte Glümer, Paul Bloch, Bent E. Mikkelsen, Brian Wansink, Ulla Toft
Intestinal polyparasitism with special emphasis to soil-transmitted helminths among residents around Gilgel Gibe Dam, Southwest Ethiopia: a community based survey
Zeleke Mekonnen, Sultan Suleman, Abdissa Biruksew, Tamirat Tefera, Legese Chelkeba
Associations of sedentary behavior and physical activity with physical measurements and dyslipidemia in school-age children: a cross-sectional study
Wei Zheng, Yun Chen, Ai Zhao, Yong Xue, Yingdong Zheng, Zhishen Mu, Peiyu Wang, Yumei Zhang
Study protocol for a non-inferiority trial of a blended smoking cessation treatment versus face-to-face treatment (LiveSmokefree-Study)
Lutz Siemer, Marcel E. Pieterse, Marjolein G. J. Brusse-Keizer, Marloes G. Postel, Somaya Ben Allouch, Robbert Sanderman
Distribution and patterning of non-communicable disease risk factors in indigenous Mbororo and non-autochthonous populations in Cameroon: cross sectional study
Nyuyki Clement Kufe, George Ngufor, George Mbeh, Jean Claude Mbanya
Recovering disrupted social capital: insights from Lao PDR rural villagers’ perceptions of local leadership
Jinho Kim, Ji-Hye Kim, Vanphanom Sychareun, Minah Kang
Healthy and productive workers: using intervention mapping to design a workplace health promotion and wellness program to improve presenteeism
Carlo Ammendolia, Pierre Côté, Carol Cancelliere, J. David Cassidy, Jan Hartvigsen, Eleanor Boyle, Sophie Soklaridis, Paula Stern, Benjamin Amick III
Prevalence, type, and correlates of trauma exposure among adolescent men and women in Soweto, South Africa: implications for HIV prevention
Kalysha Closson, Janan Janine Dietrich, Busi Nkala, Addy Musuku, Zishan Cui, Jason Chia, Glenda Gray, Nathan J. Lachowsky, Robert S. Hogg, Cari L. Miller, Angela Kaida
Household dietary diversity and Animal Source Food consumption in Ethiopia: evidence from the 2011 Welfare Monitoring Survey
Abdulhalik Workicho, Tefera Belachew, Garumma Tolu Feyissa, Beyene Wondafrash, Carl Lachat, Roosmarijn Verstraeten, Patrick Kolsteren
Early identification in primary health care of people at risk for sick leave due to work-related stress – study protocol of a randomized controlled trial (RCT)
Kristina Holmgren, Christine Sandheimer, Ann-Charlotte Mårdby, Maria E. H. Larsson, Ute Bültmann, Dominique Hange, Gunnel Hensing
Public awareness of the link between alcohol and cancer in England in 2015: a population-based survey
Penny Buykx, Jessica Li, Lucy Gavens, Lucie Hooper, Melanie Lovatt, Elena Gomes de Matos, Petra Meier, John Holmes
Erratum to: The effectiveness of non-pyrethroid insecticide-treated durable wall lining to control malaria in rural Tanzania: study protocol for a two-armed cluster randomized trial
George Mtove, Joseph P. Mugasa, Louisa A. Messenger, Robert C. Malima, Peter Mangesho, Franklin Magogo, Mateusz Plucinski, Ramadhan Hashimu, Johnson Matowo, Donald Shepard, Bernard Batengana, Jackie Cook, Basiliana Emidi, Yara Halasa, Robert Kaaya, Aggrey Kihombo, Kimberly A. Lindblade, Geofrey Makenga, Robert Mpangala, Abraham Mwambuli, Ruth Mzava, Abubakary Mziray, George Olang, Richard M. Oxborough, Mohammed Seif, Edward Sambu, Aaron Samuels, Wema Sudi, John Thomas, Sophie Weston, Martin Alilio, Nancy Binkin, John Gimnig, Immo Kleinschmidt, Peter McElroy, Lawrence H. Moulton, Laura Norris, Trenton Ruebush, Meera Venkatesan, Mark Rowland, Franklin W. Mosha, William N. Kisinza
Individual, household and community level factors associated with keeping tuberculosis status secret in Ghana
Joshua Amo-Adjei
Integrated agriculture programs to address malnutrition in northern Malawi
Rachel Bezner Kerr, Emmanuel Chilanga, Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Isaac Luginaah, Esther Lupafya
Development of a community’s self-efficacy scale for preventing social isolation among community-dwelling older people (Mimamori Scale)
Etsuko Tadaka, Ayumi Kono, Eriko Ito, Yukiko Kanaya, Yuka Dai, Yuki Imamatsu, Waka Itoi
Towards a preventive strategy for complaints of arm, neck and/or shoulder (CANS): the role of help seeking behaviour
Vivian E. J. Bruls, Nicole W. H. Jansen, Rob A. de Bie, Caroline H. G. Bastiaenen, IJmert Kant
Inequalities in the spiritual health of young Canadians: a national, cross-sectional study
Valerie Michaelson, John Freeman, Nathan King, Hannah Ascough, Colleen Davison, Tracy Trothen, Sian Phillips, William Pickett
Relationship between body mass index and depressive symptoms: the “fat and jolly” hypothesis for the middle-aged and elderly in China
Lin Zhang, Kun Liu, Hong Li, Dan Li, Zhuo Chen, Li-li Zhang, Lei-lei Guo
Identifying risk factors for household burdens of road traffic fatalities: regression results from a cross-sectional survey in Taiwan
Lanying Huang
Clinical determinants of the severity of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS): a systematic review and meta-analysis
Ryota Matsuyama, Hiroshi Nishiura, Satoshi Kutsuna, Kayoko Hayakawa, Norio Ohmagari
Research protocol for a digital intervention to reduce stigma among males with a personal experience of suicide in the Australian farming community
Alison J. Kennedy, Vincent Lawrence Versace, Susan A. Brumby
Estimating the mental health costs of racial discrimination
Amanuel Elias, Yin Paradies
Efficacy evaluation of the school program Unplugged for drug use prevention among Brazilian adolescents
Zila M. Sanchez, Adriana Sanudo, Solange Andreoni, Daniela Schneider, Ana Paula D. Pereira, Fabrizio Faggiano
A comparison of intimate partner violence and associated physical injuries between cohabitating and married women: a 5-year medical chart review
Janet Yuen-Ha Wong, Anna Wai-Man Choi, Daniel Yee-Tak Fong, Edmond Pui Hang Choi, John Kit-Shing Wong, Fung Ling So, Chu-Leung Lau, Chak-Wah Kam
The Dutch public are positive about the colorectal cancer-screening programme, but is this a well-informed opinion?
Linda N. Douma, Ellen Uiters, Danielle R. M. Timmermans
Health risk behaviours amongst school adolescents: protocol for a mixed methods study
Youness El Achhab, Abdelghaffar El Ammari, Hicham El Kazdouh, Adil Najdi, Mohamed Berraho, Nabil Tachfouti, Driss Lamri, Samira El Fakir, Chakib Nejjari
Effect of a participatory organizational-level occupational health intervention on job satisfaction, exhaustion and sleep disturbances: results of a cluster randomized controlled trial
Elisabeth Framke, Ole Henning Sørensen, Jacob Pedersen, Reiner Rugulies
Prevalence and co-occurrence of compulsive buying, problematic Internet and mobile phone use in college students in Yantai, China: relevance of self-traits
Zhaocai Jiang, Mingyan Shi
Evaluating the implementation process of a participatory organizational level occupational health intervention in schools
Roosmarijn M. C. Schelvis, Noortje M. Wiezer, Birgitte M. Blatter, Joost A. G. M. van Genabeek, Karen M. Oude Hengel, Ernst T. Bohlmeijer, Allard J. van der Beek
Are distinctive risk indicators associated with different stages of caries in children? A cross-sectional study
Maria Grazia Cagetti, Giovanna Congiu, Fabio Cocco, Gianfranco Meloni, Silvana Sale, Guglielmo Campus
Decomposing socioeconomic inequalities in depressive symptoms among the elderly in China
Yongjian Xu, Jinjuan Yang, Jianmin Gao, Zhongliang Zhou, Tao Zhang, Jianping Ren, Yanli Li, Yuyan Qian, Sha Lai, Gang Chen
Secular trends and correlates of physical activity: The Tromsø Study 1979-2008
Bente Morseth, Bjarne K. Jacobsen, Nina Emaus, Tom Wilsgaard, Lone Jørgensen
HCV prevalence can predict HIV epidemic potential among people who inject drugs: mathematical modeling analysis
Vajiheh Akbarzadeh, Ghina R. Mumtaz, Susanne F. Awad, Helen A. Weiss, Laith J. Abu-Raddad
Impact of a school-based intervention on nutritional education and physical activity in primary public schools in Chile (KIND) programme study protocol: cluster randomised controlled trial
Nelly Bustos, Sonia Olivares, Bárbara Leyton, Marcelo Cano, Cecilia Albala
Resistance training program for fatigue management in the workplace: exercise protocol in a cluster randomized controlled trial
Hélio Gustavo Santos, Luciana Dias Chiavegato, Daniela Pereira Valentim, Patricia Rodrigues da Silva, Rosimeire Simprini Padula
Risk of Zika virus transmission in the Euro-Mediterranean area and the added value of building preparedness to arboviral threats from a One Health perspective
Camille Escadafal, Lobna Gaayeb, Flavia Riccardo, Elisa Pérez-Ramírez, Marie Picard, Maria Grazia Dente, Jovita Fernández-Pinero, Jean-Claude Manuguerra, Miguel-Ángel Jiménez-Clavero, Silvia Declich, Kathleen Victoir, Vincent Robert
Decreasing prevalence of no known major risk factors for cardiovascular disease among Mississippi adults, Mississippi Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2001 and 2009
Vincent L. Mendy, Rodolfo Vargas, Lamees El-sadek, Vanessa L. Short
The response to receiving phenotypic and genetic coronary heart disease risk scores and lifestyle advice – a qualitative study
Guy Shefer, Barbora Silarova, Juliet Usher-Smith, Simon Griffin
Intra-individual variability in day-to-day and month-to-month measurements of physical activity and sedentary behaviour at work and in leisure-time among Danish adults
E. S. L. Pedersen, I. H. Danquah, C. B. Petersen, J. S. Tolstrup
Psychosocial determinants of parental human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine decision-making for sons: Methodological challenges and initial results of a pan-Canadian longitudinal study
Samara Perez, Ovidiu Tatar, Gilla K. Shapiro, Eve Dubé, Gina Ogilvie, Juliet Guichon, Vladimir Gilca, Zeev Rosberger
One-day workshop-based training improves physical activity prescription knowledge in Latin American physicians: a pre-test post-test study
Maria C. Arciniegas Calle, Felipe Lobelo, Mario A. Jiménez, Diana C. Páez, Sebastian Cortés, Andrés de Lima, John Duperly
Urban-rural differences in the prevalence of non-communicable diseases risk factors among 25–74 years old citizens in Yangon Region, Myanmar: a cross sectional study
Aung Soe Htet, Marius B. Bjertness, Lhamo Y. Sherpa, Marte Karoline Kjøllesdal, Win Myint Oo, Haakon E. Meyer, Hein Stigum, Espen Bjertness
An equity analysis of utilization of health services in Afghanistan using a national household survey
Christine Kim, Khwaja Mir Ahad Saeed, Ahmad Shah Salehi, Wu Zeng
The unbuilt environment: culture moderates the built environment for physical activity
Andrew J. Perrin, Neal Caren, Asheley C. Skinner, Adebowale Odulana, Eliana M. Perrin
Metric properties of the “prescribe healthy life” screening questionnaire to detect healthy behaviors: a cross-sectional pilot study
Paola Bully, Alvaro Sanchez, Gonzalo Grandes, Haizea Pombo, Ma Soledad Arietalenizbeaskoa, Veronica Arce, Catalina Martinez
Type of sexual intercourse experience and suicidal ideation, plans, and attempts among youths: a cross-sectional study in South Korea
Geum Hee Kim, Hyeong Sik Ahn, Hyun Jung Kim
Epidemiology of breast cancer: retrospective study in the Central African Republic
Augustin Balekouzou, Ping Yin, Christian Maucler Pamatika, Ghose Bishwajit, Sylvain Wilfrid Nambei, Marceline Djeintote, Barbara Esther Ouansaba, Chang Shu, Minghui Yin, Zhen Fu, Tingting Qing, Mingming Yan, Yuanli Chen, Hongyu Li, Zhongyu Xu, Boniface Koffi
The relationship between blood lead levels and occupational exposure in a pregnant population
Osmel La-Llave-León, José Manuel Salas Pacheco, Sergio Estrada Martínez, Eloísa Esquivel Rodríguez, Francisco X. Castellanos Juárez, Ada Sandoval Carrillo, Angélica María Lechuga Quiñones, Fernando Vázquez Alanís, Gonzalo García Vargas, Edna Madai Méndez Hernández, Jaime Duarte Sustaita
Intimate partner violence against married rural-to-urban migrant workers in eastern China: prevalence, patterns, and associated factors
Li Chen, Zonghuo Yu, Xianming Luo, Zhaoxin Huang
Epidemiology and risk factors for pneumonia severity and mortality in Bangladeshi children <5 years of age before 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction
Shampa Saha, Md Hasan, Lindsay Kim, Jennifer L. Farrar, Belal Hossain, Maksuda Islam, ASM Nawshad Uddin Ahmed, M. Ruhul Amin, Mohammed Hanif, Manzoor Hussain, Shams El-Arifeen, Cynthia G. Whitney, Samir K. Saha
Epidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis among children in Gadarif hospital, eastern Sudan
Mohammed Ahmed A. Ahmed, Ahmed A. Ahmed, Saeed M. Omar, Gamal K. Adam, Tajeldin M. Abdallah, AbdelAziem A. Ali
General practice patients treated for substance use problems: a cross-national observational study in Belgium
Nicole Boffin, Jerome Antoine, Sarah Moreels, Simeon Wanyama, Karin De Ridder, Lieve Peremans, Marc Vanmeerbeek, Viviane Van Casteren
Daily milk consumption and all-cause mortality, coronary heart disease and stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational cohort studies
Patrick Mullie, Cécile Pizot, Philippe Autier
Use of aids for smoking cessation and alcohol reduction: A population survey of adults in England
Emma Beard, Jamie Brown, Susan Michie, Eileen Kaner, Petra Meier, Robert West
Web-based infectious disease surveillance systems and public health perspectives: a systematic review
Jihye Choi, Youngtae Cho, Eunyoung Shim, Hyekyung Woo
Overweight and obesity epidemic in Ghana—a systematic review and meta-analysis
Richard Ofori-Asenso, Akosua Adom Agyeman, Amos Laar, Daniel Boateng
Reasons for defaulting from childhood immunization program: a qualitative study from Hadiya zone, Southern Ethiopia
Asamnew Zewdie, Mekitew Letebo, Tinsae Mekonnen
Obtaining consumer perspectives using a citizens’ jury: does the current country of origin labelling in Australia allow for informed food choices?
Elizabeth Withall, Annabelle M. Wilson, Julie Henderson, Emma Tonkin, John Coveney, Samantha B. Meyer, Jacinta Clark, Dean McCullum, Rachel Ankeny, Paul R. Ward
BMI and waist circumference cut-offs for corresponding levels of insulin sensitivity in a Middle Eastern immigrant versus a native Swedish population – the MEDIM population based study
Louise Bennet, Karin Stenkula, Samuel W Cushman, Kerstin Brismar
The burden of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular risk factors among adult Malawians in HIV care: consequences for integrated services
Oscar H. Divala, Alemayehu Amberbir, Zahra Ismail, Teferi Beyene, Daniela Garone, Colin Pfaff, Victor Singano, Harriet Akello, Martias Joshua, Moffat J. Nyirenda, Alfred Matengeni, Josh Berman, Jane Mallewa, Gift S. Chinomba, Noel Kayange, Theresa J. Allain, Adrienne K. Chan, Sumeet K. Sodhi, Joep J. van Oosterhout
Effects of statewide health promotion in primary schools on children’s sick days, visits to a physician and parental absence from work: a cluster-randomized trial
Dorothea Kesztyüs, Romy Lauer, Meike Traub, Tibor Kesztyüs, Jürgen Michael Steinacker
Can CCTV identify people in public transit stations who are at risk of attempting suicide? An analysis of CCTV video recordings of attempters and a comparative investigation
Brian L. Mishara, Cécile Bardon, Serge Dupont
An examination of the effectiveness of health warning labels on smokeless tobacco products in four states in India: findings from the TCP India cohort survey
Shannon Gravely, Geoffrey T. Fong, Pete Driezen, Steve Xu, Anne C. K. Quah, Genevieve Sansone, Prakash C. Gupta, Mangesh S. Pednekar
What is the effectiveness of obesity related interventions at retail grocery stores and supermarkets? —a systematic review
Abdulfatah Adam, Jørgen D Jensen