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  1. This paper is embedded in a randomised controlled trial (Alcohol and Employment) that investigated whether welfare-to-work schemes combined with alcohol treatment were more effective than welfare-to-work schem...

    Authors: Maja Bæksgaard Hansen, Stine Kloster, Ida Høgstedt Danquah, Anette Søgaard Nielsen, Ulrik Becker, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen and Janne Schurmann Tolstrup
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:264
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Smokeless tobacco use is becoming an increasingly important public health issue in the US and may influence cigarette smoking behavior. Systematic information on transitions between smokeless tobacco and cigar...

    Authors: Jamie Tam, Hannah R Day, Brian L Rostron and Benjamin J Apelberg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:258
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  3. Although type 1 diabetes (T1D) can affect patients of all ages, most epidemiological studies of T1D focus on disease forms with clinical diagnosis during childhood and adolescence. Clinically, adult T1D is dif...

    Authors: Paula A Diaz-Valencia, Pierre Bougnères and Alain-Jacques Valleron
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:255
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  4. The prevalence of adult obesity is higher in women than men in most countries. However, the pathways that link female sex with excess obesity are still not fully understood. We examine whether socioeconomic an...

    Authors: Fatima Garawi, George B Ploubidis, Karen Devries, Nasser Al-Hamdan and Ricardo Uauy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:254
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Evidence is mounting that area-level socioeconomic indicators are important tools for predicting health outcomes. However, few studies have examined these alongside individual-level education. This nested coho...

    Authors: Katharine Bailey, Andy Ryan, Sophia Apostolidou, Evangelia Fourkala, Matthew Burnell, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, Jatinderpal Kalsi, Max Parmar, Ian Jacobs, Hynek Pikhart and Usha Menon
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:253
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  6. This study aimed to determine the number of people living with HIV receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) between 2006 and 2013 in Germany by using the available numbers of antiretroviral drug prescriptions an...

    Authors: Daniel Schmidt, Christian Kollan, Matthias Stoll, Hans-Jürgen Stellbrink, Andreas Plettenberg, Gerd Fätkenheuer, Frank Bergmann, Johannes R Bogner, Jan van Lunzen, Jürgen Rockstroh, Stefan Esser, Björn-Erik Ole Jensen, Heinz-August Horst, Carlos Fritzsche, Andrea Kühne, Matthias an der Heiden…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:252
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  7. Physical activity is a health-enhancing behavior, but few adolescents achieve the recommended levels of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. Understanding how adolescents use different built environment spa...

    Authors: Nicolas M Oreskovic, James M Perrin, Alyssa I Robinson, Joseph J Locascio, Jeff Blossom, Minghua L Chen, Jonathan P Winickoff, Alison E Field, Chloe Green and Elizabeth Goodman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:251
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  8. The effect of prior dengue virus (DENV) exposure on subsequent heterologous infection can be beneficial or detrimental depending on many factors including timing of infection. We sought to evaluate this effect...

    Authors: Piraya Bhoomiboonchoo, Ananda Nisalak, Natkamol Chansatiporn, In-Kyu Yoon, Siripen Kalayanarooj, Mathuros Thipayamongkolgul, Timothy Endy, Alan L Rothman, Sharone Green, Anon Srikiatkhachorn, Darunee Buddhari, Mammen P Mammen and Robert V Gibbons
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:250
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  9. Physical activity questionnaires (PAQ) have been extensively used to determine physical activity (PA) levels. Most PAQ are derived from an energy expenditure-based perspective and assess activities with a cert...

    Authors: Katharina G Eckert and Martin A Lange
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:249
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  10. There are limited data regarding the prevalence and risk factors relating to hypovitaminosis D in children of Thailand, a tropical country with abundant sunlight. The objective of this study was to assess the ...

    Authors: Kanit Reesukumal, Kotchamol Manonukul, Orathai Jirapongsananuruk, Wijittra Krobtrakulchai, Sithikan Hanyongyuth, Somruedee Chatsiricharoenkul and Busadee Pratumvinit
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:248
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  12. In recent years publications have called for increased use of administrative data for research; predicted that use would rise; and discussed possible ethical parameters for that use. This paper describes the n...

    Authors: Lucy F Telfar Barnard, Michael G Baker, Simon Hales and Philippa Howden-Chapman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:246
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  13. Suicidal ideation and attempted suicide are a huge problem in South Africa, especially in the rural areas. Previous research has emphasized the importance of the ability of school professionals to identify you...

    Authors: Hilda N Shilubane, Arjan ER Bos, Robert AC Ruiter, Bart van den Borne and Priscilla S Reddy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:245
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  14. It has been suggested that improving people’s ability to deal with their finances, their financial capability, will directly improve their wellbeing and indirectly their health. To this end, financial capabili...

    Authors: Peter Allmark and Katarzyna Machaczek
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:243
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  15. Tuberculosis (TB) active case finding is a part of TB control in areas of higher TB prevalence. Congested public transportation settings may be areas of increased TB transmission. We evaluated the uptake and d...

    Authors: Tonderai Mabuto, Ephraim Zwane, Violet Chihota, Gillian Gresak, Salome Charalambous, Gavin J Churchyard and Christopher J Hoffmann
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:242
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  16. While HIV incidence has stabilized in many settings, increases in health and wellbeing among many people living with HIV/AIDS suggest that the number of HIV-serodiscordant relationships is growing. Given the d...

    Authors: Joshua B Mendelsohn, Liviana Calzavara, Amrita Daftary, Sanjana Mitra, Joel Pidutti, Dan Allman, Adam Bourne, Mona Loutfy and Ted Myers
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:241
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  17. Plain packaging requires tobacco products to be sold in packs with a standard shape, method of opening and colour, leaving the brand name in a standard font and location. We ran a randomised controlled trial t...

    Authors: Olivia M Maynard, Ute Leonards, Angela S Attwood, Linda Bauld, Lee Hogarth and Marcus R Munafò
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:240
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. Schools are repeatedly utilised as a key setting for health interventions. However, the translation of effective research findings to the school setting can be problematic. In order to improve effective transl...

    Authors: Danielle Christian, Charlotte Todd, Helen Davies, Jaynie Rance, Gareth Stratton, Frances Rapport and Sinead Brophy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:238
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  20. Neighborhood-level characteristics such as economic hardship and the retail food environment are assumed to be correlated and to influence consumers’ dietary behavior and health status, but few studies have in...

    Authors: Michael Laxy, Kristen C Malecki, Marjory L Givens, Matthew C Walsh and F Javier Nieto
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:237
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  21. Understanding motivators for exercise participation in post-menopausal women may impact retention to exercise programmes and inform intervention trial designs. The purpose of this investigation was to assess s...

    Authors: Janet Erica Viljoen and Candice Jo-Anne Christie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:236
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  22. We aimed to assess cancer incidence and mortality for all-causes and factors related to risk of death in an Italian cohort of HIV infected unselected patients as compared to the general population.

    Authors: Elena Raffetti, Laura Albini, Daria Gotti, Daniela Segala, Franco Maggiolo, Elisa di Filippo, Annalisa Saracino, Nicoletta Ladisa, Giuseppe Lapadula, Chiara Fornabaio, Filippo Castelnuovo, Salvatore Casari, Massimiliano Fabbiani, Piera Pierotti, Francesco Donato and Eugenia Quiros-Roldan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:235
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  23. Childhood obesity presents a challenge to public health. This qualitative study explored the main barriers to dietary choices faced by parents with infants, and the types of interventions and policy level reco...

    Authors: Ashrafunnesa Khanom, Rebecca A Hill, Kelly Morgan, Frances L Rapport, Ronan A Lyons and Sinead Brophy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:234
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  24. Understanding the patterns of comorbid substance use, particularly among adolescents, is necessary to address resulting harm. This study investigated the prevalence of comorbid use of marijuana, tobacco and bi...

    Authors: Joanna White, Darren Walton and Natalie Walker
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:233
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  25. Gender inequality weakens maternal health and harms children through many direct and indirect pathways. Allied biological disadvantage and psychosocial adversities challenge the survival of children of both ge...

    Authors: Ethel Mary Brinda, Anto P Rajkumar and Ulrika Enemark
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:97
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  26. Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, economic and socially acceptable access to safe, sufficient, and adequately nutritious food in order to meet their dietary needs for an active...

    Authors: Thuy Ngoc Vuong, Danielle Gallegos and Rebecca Ramsey
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:232
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  27. To address increasing tuberculosis (TB) incidence in foreign-born populations, immigrant TB screening programs have been implemented in the USA. These programs are modified periodically, the effectiveness of w...

    Authors: Shaojun Liang, Jianming Zhang, Longfei Hu, Jiandong Chen, Jian Wu, Yongxin Huang, Yan Zeng, Yufeng Zhu, Zhaohui Li, Ying Wen, Wuyi Liang, Jinxue Zhuo and Hongtao He
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:231
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  28. Timely tracking of national patterns of alcohol consumption is needed to inform and evaluate strategies and policies aimed at reducing alcohol-related harm. Between 2014 until at least 2017, the Alcohol Toolki...

    Authors: Emma Beard, Jamie Brown, Robert West, Crispin Acton, Alan Brennan, Colin Drummond, Matthew Hickman, John Holmes, Eileen Kaner, Karen Lock, Matthew Walmsley and Susan Michie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:230
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  29. Age-associated disability reduces quality of life in older populations and leads to wide-range implications for social and health policy. The identification of diseases that contribute to the disability burden...

    Authors: Renata TC Yokota, Nicolas Berger, Wilma J Nusselder, Jean-Marie Robine, Jean Tafforeau, Patrick Deboosere and Herman Van Oyen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:229
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  30. Loss to follow-up (LTFU) is a cause of potential bias in clinical studies. Differing LTFU between study groups may affect internal validity and generalizability of the results. Understanding reasons for LTFU c...

    Authors: Larissa Kamgue Sidze, Albert Faye, Suzie Ndiang Tetang, Ida Penda, Georgette Guemkam, Francis Ndongo Ateba, Jean Audrey Ndongo, Félicité Nguefack, Gaëtan Texier, Patrice Tchendjou, Anfumbom Kfutwah, Josiane Warszawski and Mathurin Cyrille Tejiokem
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:228
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  31. The aim was to study whether number of visits to emergency department (ED) is associated with suicide, taking into consideration known risk factors.

    Authors: Runar Bragi Kvaran, Oddny Sigurborg Gunnarsdottir, Adalbjorg Kristbjornsdottir, Unnur A Valdimarsdottir and Vilhjalmur Rafnsson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:227
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  32. In 1996, Brazil became the first developing country to provide free, universal access to HAART, laboratory monitoring, and clinical care to any eligible patient. As of June 2014, approximately 400,000 patients...

    Authors: Monica Malta, Cosme M F P da Silva, Monica MF Magnanini, Andrea L Wirtz, André R S Perissé, Chris Beyrer, Steffanie A Strathdee and Francisco I Bastos
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:226
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  33. Smoking often starts in early adolescence and addiction can occur rapidly. For effective smoking prevention there is a need to identify at risk groups of preadolescent children and whether gender-specific inte...

    Authors: Ciara E McGee, Joanne Trigwell, Stuart J Fairclough, Rebecca C Murphy, Lorna Porcellato, Michael Ussher and Lawrence Foweather
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:225
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  34. Diabetes mellitus is an emerging public health problem in Tanzania. For the community and the health system to respond adequately to this problem, it is important that we understand the meanings given to its s...

    Authors: Emmy Metta, Ajay Bailey, Flora Kessy, Eveline Geubbels, Inge Hutter and Hinke Haisma
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:224
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  35. Alcohol consumption has been inconsistently associated with the risk of ovarian cancer. The purpose of this study was to summarize the data from prospective cohort studies on the relationship between alcohol c...

    Authors: Huang Yan-Hong, Li Jing, Luan Hong, Huang Shan-Shan, Li Yan and Li Ju
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:223
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  37. The American Heart Association has proposed an impact goal for the year 2020 to improve cardiovascular health by 20%. The objectives of the study were to assess the association between the proposed cardiovascu...

    Authors: Tom Wilsgaard, Laura R Loehr, Ellisiv B Mathiesen, Maja-Lisa Løchen, Kaare H Bønaa, Inger Njølstad and Gerardo Heiss
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:221
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  38. Older adults (OA) represent a core priority group for physical activity and Public Health policy. As a result, significant interest is placed on how to optimise adherence to interventions promoting these appro...

    Authors: Daniel Parnell, Andy Pringle, Jim McKenna, Stephen Zwolinsky, Zoe Rutherford, Jackie Hargreaves, Lizzie Trotter, Michael Rigby and David Richardson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:220
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  39. The prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity has become a public health problem worldwide. The objectives of the study were: 1) to establish the BMI prevalence in 12-year olds residing in Puerto Rico, an...

    Authors: Augusto R Elías-Boneta, Milagros J Toro, Omar Garcia, Roxana Torres and Cristina Palacios
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:219
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  40. This study aimed to examine the associations between anthropometric measurements in childhood and adulthood as well as the effect of childhood body mass index (BMI) and skinfold thickness in the prediction of ...

    Authors: Janina Petkeviciene, Jurate Klumbiene, Vilma Kriaucioniene, Asta Raskiliene, Edita Sakyte and Indre Ceponiene
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:218
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  41. Integration of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and HIV policies and services delivered by the same provider is prioritised worldwide, especially in sub-Saharan Africa where HIV prevalence is highest. Sout...

    Authors: Diane Cooper, Joanne E Mantell, Jennifer Moodley and Sumaya Mall
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:217
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. The assessment of real-life, community-based interventions to tackle obesity is an important step in the development of effective policies. Especially multi-level interventions have a high likely effectiveness...

    Authors: Jessica S Gubbels, Frida KS Mathisen, Oddrun Samdal, Tim Lobstein, Leonie FM Kohl, Ingrid Leversen, Jeroen Lakerveld, Stef PJ Kremers and Patricia van Assema
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:216
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  43. Defining health literacy from a public health perspective places greater emphasis on the knowledge and skills required to prevent disease and for promoting health in everyday life. Addressing health literacy a...

    Authors: Diana Guzys, Amanda Kenny, Virginia Dickson-Swift and Guinever Threlkeld
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:215
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  44. Studies on the association between partners’ controlling behaviors and intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) in Uganda are limited. The aim of this paper was to investigate the association between IPSV and p...

    Authors: Stephen Ojiambo Wandera, Betty Kwagala, Patricia Ndugga and Allen Kabagenyi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:214
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  45. Cumulative evidence indicates increasing HIV infection among married individuals. Voluntary Counselling and Testing for HIV (HCT) is known to be an effective intervention to induce safer sex behaviour and acce...

    Authors: Sally M Mtenga, Amon Exavery, Deodatus Kakoko and Eveline Geubbels
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:213
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  46. Socioeconomic inequalities in health within Glasgow, Scotland, are among the widest in the world. This is largely attributed to socio-economic conditions. The ‘Glasgow Effect’ labels the finding that the high ...

    Authors: Yvonne I Blair, Alex D McMahon, Wendy Gnich, David I Conway and Lorna MD Macpherson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:212
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  47. Different studies have investigated the effects that changes in drug appearance have on the control of chronic diseases and drug safety. The main objective of the proposed study is to evaluate if changes in th...

    Authors: Jesús Mario Arancon-Monge, Alicia de-Castro-Cuenca, Ángel Serrano-Vázquez, Luz Campos-Díaz, Montserrat Díaz-Eraso, Isabel del Cura-González, Elena Polentinos-Castro and Ricardo Rodríguez-Barrientos
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:211
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  48. The prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents has been rapidly rising in Mainland China in recent decades, both in urban and rural areas. There is an urgent need to develop effective interventions t...

    Authors: Yajun Chen, Lu Ma, Yinghua Ma, Haijun Wang, Jiayou Luo, Xin Zhang, Chunyan Luo, Hong Wang, Haiping Zhao, Dehong Pan, Yanna Zhu, Li Cai, Zhiyong Zou, Wenhan Yang, Jun Ma and Jin Jing
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:210
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  49. Infectious illnesses such as influenza and diarrhea are leading causes of absenteeism among Danish school children. Interventions in school settings addressing hand hygiene have shown to reduce the number of i...

    Authors: Anette Johansen, Anne Maj Denbæk, Camilla Thørring Bonnesen and Pernille Due
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:207
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  50. Epidemiological data on obesity prevalence are scarce in Romanian population. Consequently, the aim of our study was to evaluate the prevalence of obesity and unhealthy behaviors among school children and adol...

    Authors: Carmen Gabriela Barbu, Monica Delia Teleman, Alice Ioana Albu, Anca Elena Sirbu, Sorina Carmen Martin, Adrian Bancescu and Simona Vasilica Fica
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:206
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