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  1. Previous research has shown that the built environment plays a role in habitual levels of physical activity (PA), however much of this research has been conducted in adults and higher income countries. The aim...

    Authors: Tracy L. Kolbe-Alexander, Kyla Pacheco, Simone A. Tomaz, David Karpul and Estelle V. Lambert
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:518
  2. Sedentary behavior is defined as any waking behavior characterized by an energy expenditure of 1.5 METS or less while in a sitting or reclining posture. This study examines this definition by assessing the ene...

    Authors: Maedeh Mansoubi, Natalie Pearson, Stacy A Clemes, Stuart JH Biddle, Danielle H Bodicoat, Keith Tolfrey, Charlotte L Edwardson and Thomas Yates
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:516
  3. Tuberculosis (TB) is a global public health issue posing serious harm to the human health. Many studies have suggested that smoking and excessive alcohol consumption are risk factors for TB. Laboratory evidenc...

    Authors: Mengshi Chen, Jing Deng, Wufei Li, Dan Lin, Congxu Su, Mian Wang, Xun Li, Benjamin Kwaku Abuaku, Hongzhuan Tan and Shi Wu Wen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:515
  4. Prenatal care reduces perinatal morbidity. However, there are no population-based studies examining the adequacy of prenatal care among women living with HIV. Accordingly, we compared the prevalence of adequat...

    Authors: Ryan Ng, Erin M Macdonald, Mona R Loutfy, Mark H Yudin, Janet Raboud, Khatundi-Irene Masinde, Ahmed M Bayoumi, Wangari E Tharao, Jason Brophy, Richard H Glazier and Tony Antoniou
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:514
  5. Increasing the healthfulness of campus food environments is an important step in promoting healthful food choices among college students. This study explored university students’ suggestions on promoting healt...

    Authors: Habiba I. Ali, Amjad H. Jarrar, Mostafa Abo-El-Enen, Mariam Al Shamsi and Huda Al Ashqar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:512
  6. Unconditional and conditional cash transfer programmes (UCT and CCT) show potential to improve the well-being of orphans and other children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS (OVC). We address the gap in current unde...

    Authors: Thomas M. Crea, Andrew D. Reynolds, Aakanksha Sinha, Jeffrey W. Eaton, Laura A. Robertson, Phyllis Mushati, Lovemore Dumba, Gideon Mavise, J. C. Makoni, Christina M. Schumacher, Constance A. Nyamukapa and Simon Gregson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:511
  7. Lived health and biological health are two different perspectives of health introduced by the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Since in the concept of lived health the ...

    Authors: Cristina Bostan, Cornelia Oberhauser, Gerold Stucki, Jerome Bickenbach and Alarcos Cieza
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:508
  8. Although Colorado is perceived as a healthy state, in 2010, 14.1 % of children aged 2–5 were overweight and 9.1 % were obese. Despite the high prevalence of obesity in this population, evidence to support part...

    Authors: Lourdes Yun, Richard E. Boles, Matthew A. Haemer, Shanna Knierim, L. Miriam Dickinson, Heather Mancinas, Simon J. Hambidge and Arthur J. Davidson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:506
  9. Health literacy, or the ability to access, understand, appraise and apply health information, is central to individuals’ health and well-being. A comprehensive, concept-based measure of most dimensions of heal...

    Authors: Kazuhiro Nakayama, Wakako Osaka, Taisuke Togari, Hirono Ishikawa, Yuki Yonekura, Ai Sekido and Masayoshi Matsumoto
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:505
  10. Accelerometry non-wear time rules might affect sedentary time, and the associations with health outcomes such as adiposity. However, the exact effect of different non-wear time rules on sedentary time and repo...

    Authors: Xanne Janssen, Laura Basterfield, Kathryn N. Parkinson, Mark S. Pearce, Jessica K. Reilly, Ashley J. Adamson and John J. Reilly
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:504
  11. Since mobility and social participation are key determinants of health and quality of life, it is important to identify factors associated with them. Although several investigations have been conducted on the ...

    Authors: Mélanie Levasseur, Mélissa Généreux, Jean-François Bruneau, Alain Vanasse, Éric Chabot, Claude Beaulac and Marie-Michèle Bédard
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:503
  12. This article describes the rationale and contents of an intervention program aimed at strengthening students’ social relations in order to reduce dropout from vocational schools in Denmark. Taking its theoreti...

    Authors: Liselotte Ingholt, Betina Bang Sørensen, Susan Andersen, Line Zinckernagel, Teresa Friis-Holmberg, Vibeke Asmussen Frank, Christiane Stock, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen and Morten Hulvej Rod
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:502
  13. The occurrence of HIV-1 and syphilis infections during pregnancy poses major health risks to the foetus due to mother-to-child transmission. We conducted surveillance of HIV and syphilis infections among pregn...

    Authors: Joel Manyahi, Boniphace S. Jullu, Mathias I. Abuya, James Juma, Joel Ndayongeje, Bonita Kilama, Veryeh Sambu, Josef Nondi, Bernard Rabiel, Geoffrey Somi and Mecky I. Matee
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:501
  14. The Moti-4 intervention was developed to prevent addiction and other health problems among vulnerable adolescent cannabis users. The aims of Moti-4 are to reduce the use of cannabis among adolescents and to en...

    Authors: Hans B. Dupont, Paul Lemmens, Gerald Adriana, Dike van de Mheen and Nanne K. de Vries
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:500
  15. The positive association between parental socioeconomic position (PSEP) and health among adolescents may be partly explained by dietary behaviour. We investigated the associations between fruit intake, vegetab...

    Authors: Jonas D. Finger, Gianni Varnaccia, Thorkild Tylleskär, Thomas Lampert and Gert B. M. Mensink
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:498
  16. The use of electronic media has been found to be a risk factor for higher BMI and for being overweight. Physical activity has been found to be associated with lower BMI and lower risk for being overweight. Lit...

    Authors: Ole Melkevik, Ellen Haug, Mette Rasmussen, Anne Siri Fismen, Bente Wold, Alberto Borraccino, Erik Sigmund, Robert Balazsi, Jens Bucksch, Jo Inchley, Margarida Gaspar de Matos and Oddrun Samdal
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:497
  17. The tuberculin skin test (TST) is the recommended method for screening for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in many countries. We used this technique to assess bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) status and to est...

    Authors: Fanny Minime-Lingoupou, Rock Ouambita-Mabo, Aristide-Désiré Komangoya-Nzozo, Dominique Senekian, Lucien Bate, François Yango, Bachir Nambea and Alexandre Manirakiza
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:496
  18. Children can be highly active and highly sedentary on the same day! For instance, a child can spend a couple of hours playing sports, and then spend the rest of the day in front of a screen. A focus on examini...

    Authors: Nazeem Muhajarine, Tarun R Katapally, Daniel Fuller, Kevin G Stanley and Daniel Rainham
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:495
  19. Though numbers alone may be insufficient to capture the nuances of population health, they provide a common language of appraisal and furnish clear evidence of disparities and inequalities. Over the past 30 ye...

    Authors: Richard Rothenberg, Christine Stauber, Scott Weaver, Dajun Dai, Amit Prasad and Megumi Kano
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:494
  20. Obesity is now common and this may have altered visual perceptions of what constitutes a ‘normal’ and therefore healthy weight. The present study examined cross-cultural differences in male and female particip...

    Authors: Eric Robinson and Pleunie S. Hogenkamp
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:492
  21. Social and spatial factors are an important part of individual and community health. The objectives were to identify food establishment sub-types and evaluate prevalence of diabetes, obesity, and recommended f...

    Authors: Cara L Frankenfeld, Timothy F Leslie and Matthew A Makara
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:491
  22. Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality pose a serious impediment to enhance public health even in highly developed welfare states. This study aimed to improve the understanding of socioeconomic disparities in...

    Authors: Line R Ullits, Linda Ejlskov, Rikke N Mortensen, Steen M Hansen, Stella R J Kræmer, Henrik Vardinghus-Nielsen, Kirsten Fonager, Henrik Bøggild, Christian Torp-Pedersen and Charlotte Overgaard
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:490
  23. Behaviour risk factor surveillance (BRFS) data can be an important source of information for studying changes in various health outcomes and risk factors. Results obtained from surveillance data analysis are v...

    Authors: Shireen Assaf and Stefano Campostrini
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:489
  24. There is some evidence that school-based interventions are effective in preventing childhood obesity. However, longer term outcomes, equity of effects and cost-effectiveness of interventions have not been asse...

    Authors: Peymane Adab, Miranda J Pallan, Emma R Lancashire, Karla Hemming, Emma Frew, Tania Griffin, Timothy Barrett, Raj Bhopal, Janet E Cade, Amanda Daley, Jonathan Deeks, Joan Duda, Ulf Ekelund, Paramjit Gill, Eleanor McGee, Jayne Parry…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:488
  25. Tobacco is one of the leading preventable causes of non-communicable diseases. Previous studies gave due emphasis only for cigarette smoking with little attention given for other types of tobacco use. This stu...

    Authors: Yihunie Lakew and Demewoz Haile
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:487
  26. Physical activity (PA) plays an important role in the combat against noncommunicable diseases including cardiovascular diseases. In order to develop appropriate PA intervention programs, there is a need to eva...

    Authors: Se-Sergio M Baldew, Ingrid SK Krishnadath, Christel CF Smits, Jerry R Toelsie, Luc Vanhees and Veronique Cornelissen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:485
  27. Drowning is the third leading cause of death for children aged 0–4 years in many Asian countries, and is a serious but neglected health problem in low and middle-income countries like Bangladesh. The aim of th...

    Authors: Mosharaf Hossain, Kulanthayan K. C. Mani, Sherina Mohd Sidik, Hayati KS and AKM Fazlur Rahman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:484

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2015 15:898

  28. Tobacco burdens in India and Pakistan require continued efforts to quantify tobacco use and its impacts. We examined the prevalence and sociodemographic and health-related correlates of tobacco use in Delhi, C...

    Authors: Carla J Berg, Vamadevan S. Ajay, Mohammed K. Ali, Dimple Kondal, Hassan M. Khan, Roopa Shivashankar, Rajendra Pradeepa, Deepa Mohan, Zafar Fatmi, Muhammad M. Kadir, Nikhil Tandon, Viswanathan Mohan, KM Venkat Narayan and Dorairaj Prabhakaran
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:483
  29. Over 50,000 individuals become infected with HIV annually in the U.S., and over a quarter of HIV infected individuals are heterosexuals. Undiagnosed HIV infection, as well as a lack of retention in care among ...

    Authors: Marya Gwadz, Charles M. Cleland, Holly Hagan, Samuel Jenness, Alexandra Kutnick, Noelle R. Leonard, Elizabeth Applegate, Amanda S. Ritchie, Angela Banfield, Mindy Belkin, Bridget Cross, Montserrat Del Olmo, Katharine Ha, Belkis Y. Martinez, Talaya McCright-Gill, Quentin L. Swain…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:481
  30. Results of the Global Adult Tobacco Survey in Kerala, India found that 42 % of adults were exposed to second hand smoke (SHS) inside the home. Formative research carried out in rural Kerala suggests that expos...

    Authors: Mimi Nichter, Sreedevi Padmajam, Mark Nichter, P. Sairu, S. Aswathy, G.K. Mini, V.C. Bindu, A.S. Pradeepkumar and K.R. Thankappan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:480
  31. Currently, diabetes mellitus (DM) and systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) are among the top five global risks for mortality. Among the modifiable factors, careful dietary practice is one of the essential elem...

    Authors: Silvia GI Ozcariz, Carla de O Bernardo, Francieli Cembranel, Marco A Peres and David A González-Chica
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:479
  32. Scale up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has led to substantial declines in HIV related morbidity and mortality. However, attrition from ART care remains a major public health concern and has been identified a...

    Authors: Amin S Hassan, Shalton M Mwaringa, Kennedy K Ndirangu, Eduard J Sanders, Tobias F Rinke de Wit and James A Berkley
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:478
  33. Physical inactivity and falls in older people are important public health problems. Health conditions that could be ameliorated with physical activity are particularly common in older people. One in three peop...

    Authors: Anne Tiedemann, Serene Paul, Elisabeth Ramsay, Sandra D O’Rourke, Kathryn Chamberlain, Catherine Kirkham, Dafna Merom, Nicola Fairhall, Juliana S Oliveira, Leanne Hassett and Catherine Sherrington
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:477
  34. Zoonotic diseases are disproportionately affecting poor societies in low-income countries and pose a growing threat to public health and global food security. Rural Cambodian households may face an increased l...

    Authors: Kristina Osbjer, Sofia Boqvist, Seng Sokerya, Chheng Kannarath, Sorn San, Holl Davun and Ulf Magnusson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:476
  35. The present study aims to estimate childhood overweight and obesity prevalence and their association with individual and population-level correlates in Eastern and Western European countries.

    Authors: Beatriz Olaya, Maria Victoria Moneta, Ondine Pez, Adina Bitfoi, Mauro Giovanni Carta, Ceyda Eke, Dietmar Goelitz, Katherine M Keyes, Rowella Kuijpers, Sigita Lesinskiene, Zlatka Mihova, Roy Otten, Christophe Fermanian, Josep Maria Haro and Viviane Kovess
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:475
  36. Non-adherence to tuberculosis (TB) treatment threatens the success of treatment, increases the risk of TB spread, and leads to the development of drug resistance. The present study assessed non-adherence to an...

    Authors: Ying Tang, Meigui Zhao, Yunxia Wang, Yanhong Gong, Xiaoxv Yin, Angui Zhao, Juanjuan Zheng, Zhenyang Liu, Xiaofang Jian, Wenxin Wang, Chunmei Wu and Zuxun Lu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:474
  37. Despite evidence of the benefits of prevention activities, studies have reported only partial integration and great variability of screening in daily clinical practice. The study objectives were: 1) To describ...

    Authors: Magdalena Rosell-Murphy, Teresa Rodriguez-Blanco, Julio Morán, Mariona Pons-Vigués, Josep M Elorza-Ricart, Jordi Rodríguez, Clara Pareja, María Ángeles Nuin and Bonaventura Bolíbar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:473
  38. Policy makers and health practitioners are in need of guidance to respond to the growing geographic mobility of Hispano-American migrants in Europe. Drawing from contributions from epidemiology, social science...

    Authors: Maria Roura, Andreu Domingo, Juan M Leyva-Moral and Robert Pool
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:472
  39. It is generally assumed that supermarkets promote unhealthy foods more heavily than healthy foods. Promotional flyers could be an effective tool for encouraging healthier food choices; however, there is a lack...

    Authors: Eva AH Ravensbergen, Wilma E Waterlander, Willemieke Kroeze and Ingrid HM Steenhuis
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:470
  40. The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) increased levels of financial strain, especially in those of low socioeconomic status (SES). Financial strain can affect smoking behaviour.

    Authors: Fiona E Benson, Mirte AG Kuipers, Vera Nierkens, Jan-Willem Bruggink, Karien Stronks and Anton E Kunst
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:469
  41. In Australia, a Goods and Services Tax (GST) introduced in 2000 led to a decline in the price of ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages relative to other alcohol products. The 2008 RTD (“alcopops”) tax increased RTD p...

    Authors: Marianne Gale, David J Muscatello, Michael Dinh, Joshua Byrnes, Anthony Shakeshaft, Andrew Hayen, Chandini Raina MacIntyre, Paul Haber, Michelle Cretikos and Patricia Morton
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:468
  42. Adult body mass index (BMI) has been associated with urinary melatonin levels in humans; however, whether earlier-life body size is associated with melatonin, particularly among night shift workers, remains un...

    Authors: Cody A Ramin, Jennifer Massa, Lani R Wegrzyn, Susan B Brown, Jeffrey Pierre-Paul, Elizabeth E Devore, Susan E Hankinson and Eva S Schernhammer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:467
  43. Reactivation of latent varicella zoster virus, partly due to age-related immunosenescence and immunosuppressive conditions, results in herpes zoster (HZ) and its associated complications. The management of the...

    Authors: Hélène Bricout, Margaret Haugh, Olugbenga Olatunde and Ruth Gil Prieto
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:466

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