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  1. There have been previous representative nutritional status surveys conducted in Hungary, but this is the first one that examines overweight and obesity prevalence according to the level of urbanization and in ...

    Authors: Gergő Erdei, Márta Bakacs, Éva Illés, Barbara Nagy, Csilla Kaposvári, Erzsébet Mák, Eszter Sarkadi Nagy, Zoltán Cserháti and Viktória Anna Kovács
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:611
  2. The decline in global malaria cases is attributed to intensified utilization of primary vector control interventions and artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs). These strategies are inadequate in many ...

    Authors: Jacinter A. Amadi, Daniel O. Olago, George O. Ong’amo, Silas O. Oriaso, Isaac K. Nyamongo and Benson B. A. Estambale
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:609
  3. The Good School Toolkit, a complex behavioural intervention designed by Raising Voices a Ugandan NGO, reduced past week physical violence from school staff to primary students by an average of 42% in a recent ...

    Authors: Louise Knight, Elizabeth Allen, Angel Mirembe, Janet Nakuti, Sophie Namy, Jennifer C. Child, Joanna Sturgess, Nambusi Kyegombe, Eddy J. Walakira, Diana Elbourne, Dipak Naker and Karen M. Devries
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:608
  4. Schools are a key setting for large-scale primordial non-communicable disease prevention in young people, but little data on sustainability of impacts on cardiometabolic risk markers is available.

    Authors: Jakob Tarp, Eva Jespersen, Niels Christian Møller, Heidi Klakk, Barbara Wessner, Niels Wedderkopp and Anna Bugge
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:605
  5. Contraceptive use has numerous health benefits such as preventing unplanned pregnancies, ensuring optimum spacing between births, reducing maternal and child mortality, and improving the lives of women and chi...

    Authors: Anthony Idowu Ajayi, Oladele Vincent Adeniyi and Wilson Akpan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:604
  6. An acute bout of exercise elicits a beneficial effect on subsequent cognitive function in adolescents. The effect of games-based activity, an ecologically valid and attractive exercise model for young people, ...

    Authors: Simon B. Cooper, Karah J. Dring, John G. Morris, Caroline Sunderland, Stephan Bandelow and Mary E. Nevill
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:603
  7. Using self-reported surveys to monitor physical activity levels in the population require short items covering both time and intensity. The present study aims to 1) develop the Nordic Physical Activity Questio...

    Authors: Ida Høgstedt Danquah, Christina Bjørk Petersen, Sofie Smedegaard Skov and Janne S. Tolstrup
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:601
  8. Appropriate infant and young child nutrition is critical for proper growth and development. In order to promote optimal nutrition at an early age, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF have developed ...

    Authors: Mildred Maingi, Judith Kimiywe and Sharon Iron-Segev
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:600
  9. We assessed the effectiveness of three interventions that were aimed to reduce non-acute low back pain (LBP) related symptoms in the occupational health setting.

    Authors: J. Rantonen, J. Karppinen, A. Vehtari, S. Luoto, E. Viikari-Juntura, M. Hupli, A. Malmivaara and S. Taimela
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:598
  10. Our public health emergency response system relies on the “first of the first responders”—the emergency call center workforce that handles the emergency needs of a public in distress. Call centers across the U...

    Authors: Janet Baseman, Debra Revere, Ian Painter, Scott Stangenes, Michelle Lilly, Randal Beaton, Rebecca Calhoun and Hendrika Meischke
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:597
  11. Smoking rates are higher in New Zealand (NZ) adults with mental illnesses and alcohol and other drug (AOD) addictions, compared to the overall population. Quit attempts using “gold standard” smoking cessation ...

    Authors: Chris Bullen, Marjolein Verbiest, Susanna Galea-Singer, Tomasz Kurdziel, George Laking, David Newcombe, Varsha Parag and Natalie Walker
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:596
  12. Intimate partner violence (IPV) remains a serious problem with a wide range of health consequences including poor maternal and newborn health outcomes. We assessed the relationship between IPV, forced first se...

    Authors: Simukai Shamu, Stephen Munjanja, Christina Zarowsky, Patience Shamu, Marleen Temmerman and Naeemah Abrahams
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:595
  13. Salmonella Typhi is responsible for about 20 million episodes of illness and over 140,000 deaths annually globally. South Asia has the highest documented burden of typhoid and is home to the multi-drug resista...

    Authors: Jacob John, Ashish Bavdekar, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Shanta Dutta and Gagandeep Kang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:594
  14. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is exceedingly common in conflict and post-conflict settings. We first seek to describe factors associated with past 12 month IPV amongst currently married women in Afghanistan,...

    Authors: Andrew Gibbs, Julienne Corboz and Rachel Jewkes
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:593
  15. Despite considerable progress in reduction of both under-five and maternal mortality in recent decades, Bangladesh is still one of the low and middle income countries with high burden of maternal and neonatal ...

    Authors: Dewan Md. Emdadul Hoque, Mohiuddin Ahsanul Kabir Chowdhury, Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman, Sk. Masum Billah, Sanwarul Bari, Tazeen Tahsina, Mohammad Mehedi Hasan, Sajia Islam, Tajul Islam, Rintaro Mori and Shams El Arifeen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:592
  16. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death worldwide. Besides cigarette smoking, waterpipe and e-cigarettes are gaining popularity among young adults. Medical students’ smoking behavior is of partic...

    Authors: Erika Balogh, Nóra Faubl, Henna Riemenschneider, Péter Balázs, Antje Bergmann, Károly Cseh, Ferenc Horváth, Jörg Schelling, András Terebessy, Zoltán Wagner, Karen Voigt, Zsuzsanna Füzesi and István Kiss
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:591
  17. Child maltreatment has a pervasive, detrimental impact on children’s wellbeing. Despite a growing focus on prevention through school based education, few programmes adopt a whole- school approach, are multi-co...

    Authors: Aisling McElearney, Aoibheann Brennan-Wilson, Christina Murphy, Phyllis Stephenson and Brendan Bunting
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:590
  18. Although Taiwan has implemented several important interventions for various HIV-at-risk populations to combat the HIV epidemic, little is known regarding AIDS incidence at presentation and during follow-up amo...

    Authors: Chun-Yuan Lee, I-An Jen, Yu-Ching Lan, Yung-Feng Yen, Pei-Hung Chuang, Marcelo Chen, Yun Lee and Yi-Ming A. Chen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:589
  19. School children in developing countries like Nigeria are faced with numerous nutrition and health problems. Lack of functional school health and nutrition programmes in Enugu state, Nigeria may be associated w...

    Authors: Rufina N. B. Ayogu, Ifeoma C. Afiaenyi, Edith U. Madukwe and Elizabeth A. Udenta
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:587
  20. Raising Well® (RW) was initiated in 2015 by Envolve PeopleCare™ at the request of health plans seeking a solution to work with families on Medicaid that have a child with overweight or obesity. RW uses expert cli...

    Authors: Rachel G. Tabak, Nishita Dsouza, Cynthia D. Schwarz, Karyn Quinn, Patricia Kristen and Debra Haire-Joshu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:586
  21. Poor uptake among socio-economically disadvantaged and susceptible populations is a well-known challenge of general health check interventions, and is widely cited as one of the reasons for the lack of populat...

    Authors: Lars Bruun Larsen, Annelli Sandbaek, Janus Laust Thomsen and Anne-Louise Bjerregaard
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:585
  22. Globally, non-communicable diseases (NCD) are the leading cause of death and more than 40% of NCD deaths are premature occurring before the age of 70 years. In 2012, World Health Assembly declared its commitme...

    Authors: Dileepa Senajith Ediriweera, Palitha Karunapema, Arunasalam Pathmeswaran and Mahendra Arnold
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:584
  23. In Cameroon, the National Tuberculosis Control Program that applies selective directly observed treatments faces difficulties in its implementation for a lack of resources, leading to only 65% of patients with...

    Authors: Georges Bediang, Beat Stoll, Nadia Elia, Jean-Louis Abena and Antoine Geissbuhler
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:583
  24. The crucial role of adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities in influencing children’s handwashing behaviour is widely reported. Report from UNICEF indicates a dearth of adequate data on WASH f...

    Authors: Emmanuel Appiah-Brempong, Muriel J. Harris, Samuel Newton and Gabriel Gulis
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:581
  25. Macro and micronutrients including iron and folic acid deficiencies are prevalent in Kenya, particularly during pregnancy resulting in anaemia. Despite efforts to control anaemia in pregnancy by adopting Iron ...

    Authors: Mary Wanjira Kamau, Waithira Mirie and Samuel Kimani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:580
  26. Baby boomers’ position in the caregiving context is shifting from caregiver to care recipient as the population ages. While the unique characteristics of baby boomer caregivers are well established in caregivi...

    Authors: Heejung Kim, Sangeun Lee, Jooyoung Cheon, Soyun Hong and Mido Chang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:579
  27. People with uncontrolled diabetes are at greater risk for several oral health problems, particularly periodontal (gum) disease. Periodontal disease also impacts diabetes control. Good oral hygiene and regular ...

    Authors: Prakash Poudel, Rhonda Griffiths, Vincent W. Wong, Amit Arora, Jeff R. Flack, Chee L. Khoo and Ajesh George
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:577
  28. Unintended pregnancies can result in poorer health outcomes for women, children and families. Young people in low and middle income countries are at particular risk of unintended pregnancies and could benefit ...

    Authors: Ona L McCarthy, Ola Wazwaz, Veronica Osorio Calderon, Iman Jado, Salokhiddin Saibov, Amina Stavridis, Jhonny López Gallardo, Ravshan Tokhirov, Samia Adada, Silvia Huaynoca, Shelly Makleff, Marieka Vandewiele, Sarah Standaert and Caroline Free
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:576
  29. We recently demonstrated that a gestational diabetes history in mothers is associated with higher postpartum incident diabetes not only in mothers but also in fathers. In the present study, we examined changes...

    Authors: Anne-Sophie Brazeau, Sara J. Meltzer, Romina Pace, Natasha Garfield, Ariane Godbout, Leslie Meissner, Elham Rahme, Deborah Da Costa and Kaberi Dasgupta
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:575
  30. Since Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) infection was first reported in 2012, many studies have analysed its transmissibility and severity. However, the methodology and results of these studies have vari...

    Authors: Ji-Eun Park, Soyoung Jung, Aeran Kim and Ji-Eun Park
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:574
  31. Studies have examined the associations between emotions and overeating but have only rarely considered associations between emotions and specific food choices. The purpose of this secondary data analysis was t...

    Authors: Jessica Ashurst, Irene van Woerden, Genevieve Dunton, Michael Todd, Punam Ohri-Vachaspati, Pamela Swan and Meg Bruening
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:573
  32. Past research has identified links between intimate partner violence (IPV) and alcohol misuse and poverty in Sri Lanka. Services that address substance misuse are amongst the few interventions shown to reduce ...

    Authors: Kamalini Lokuge, Polly Wallace, Kalini Subasinghe, Katherine Thurber, Tissa De Silva, Naomi Clarke, Dulshika Waas, Nisansala Liyanage, Udena Attygalle, Bradley Carron-Arthur, Kalyana Rodrigo, Emily Banks, Cate D’Este and Thilini Rajapakse
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:572
  33. The prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity in developed countries appears to be plateauing. The purpose of this study was to provide the most recent data on the prevalence and trends in overweight and ...

    Authors: Jiguo Zhang, Huijun Wang, Zhihong Wang, Wenwen Du, Chang Su, Ji Zhang, Hongru Jiang, Xiaofang Jia, Feifei Huang, Yifei Ouyang, Yun Wang and Bing Zhang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:571
  34. Nationwide, emergency response systems depend on 9-1-1 telecommunicators to prioritize, triage, and dispatch assistance to those in distress. 9-1-1 call center telecommunicators (TCs) are challenged by acute a...

    Authors: Hendrika Meischke, Michelle Lilly, Randal Beaton, Rebecca Calhoun, Ann Tu, Scott Stangenes, Ian Painter, Debra Revere and Janet Baseman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:570
  35. Vaccination against seasonal influenza (SIV) is recommended for patients with diabetes, but their vaccination coverage is unsatisfactory in France and elsewhere. This qualitative survey of people with diabetes...

    Authors: Pierre Verger, Aurélie Bocquier, Chantal Vergélys, Jeremy Ward and Patrick Peretti-Watel
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:569
  36. It is difficult to obtain detailed information on non-participants in physical and health examination checkups in community-based epidemiological studies. We investigated the characteristics of non-participant...

    Authors: Miwa Yamaguchi, Tsukasa Yoshida, Yosuke Yamada, Yuya Watanabe, Hinako Nanri, Keiichi Yokoyama, Heiwa Date, Motoko Miyake, Aya Itoi, Emi Yamagata, Taeko Masumoto, Yasuko Okayama, Yasuko Yoshinaka and Misaka Kimura
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:568
  37. Population aging increases the need for knowledge on positive aspects of aging, and contributions of older people to their own wellbeing and that of others. We defined active aging as an individual’s striving ...

    Authors: Taina Rantanen, Milla Saajanaho, Laura Karavirta, Sini Siltanen, Merja Rantakokko, Anne Viljanen, Timo Rantalainen, Katja Pynnönen, Anu Karvonen, Inna Lisko, Lotta Palmberg, Johanna Eronen, Eeva-Maija Palonen, Timo Hinrichs, Markku Kauppinen, Katja Kokko…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:565
  38. There has been considerable interest in the role of access to unhealthy food options as a determinant of weight status. There is conflict across the literature as to the existence of such an association, partl...

    Authors: Mark A. Green, Duncan Radley, Nik Lomax, Michelle A. Morris and Claire Griffiths
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:482
  39. To strengthen the risk message on snus warning labels, the European Union in 2016 removed “can” from the warning “This tobacco product (can) damages your health and is addictive.” We tested how these and other te...

    Authors: Connie Villemo Nilsen, Oddgeir Friborg, Karl Halvor Teigen and Frode Svartdal
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:564
  40. Previous studies have already reported associations of media consumption and/or physical activity with school achievement. However, longitudinal studies investigating independent effects of physical activity a...

    Authors: Tanja Poulain, Thomas Peschel, Mandy Vogel, Anne Jurkutat and Wieland Kiess
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:563
  41. Worldwide, the burden of Sickle Cell disease (SCD) has not been amply addressed. In Africa, Uganda has the 5th highest burden, a situation aggravated by limited and inaccessible formal social support structure...

    Authors: Sharifu K. Tusuubira, Ritah Nakayinga, Bashir Mwambi, John Odda, Sylvia Kiconco and Alimah Komuhangi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:561
  42. In Myanmar, epidemiological conditions have been unclear due to a lack of accurate data. In 2014 and 2016, malaria outbreaks occurred in the Shan Special Region II (SSR2). It was reported that these outbreaks ...

    Authors: Hui Liu, Jian-Wei Xu, Qi-Zhang Xu and Yi-Rou Zeng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:560
  43. This cluster randomised control trial is designed to evaluate whether the Communities That Care intervention (CTC) is effective in reducing the proportion of secondary school age adolescents who use alcohol be...

    Authors: B. Rowland, C. Abraham, R. Carter, J. Abimanyi-Ochom, A. B. Kelly, P. Kremer, J. W. Williams, R. Smith, J. K. Hall, D. Wagner, H. Renner, T. Hosseini, A. Osborn, M. Mohebbi and J. W. Toumbourou
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:559

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