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  1. Studies have shown that, compared to native counterparts, preschoolers from ethnic minorities are at an increased risk of problem behaviour. Socio-economic factors only partly explain this increased risk. This...

    Authors: Ilse JE Flink, Pauline W Jansen, Tinneke MJ Beirens, Henning Tiemeier, Marinus H van IJzendoorn, Vincent WV Jaddoe, Albert Hofman and Hein Raat
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1092
  2. There is growing body of evidence of an association between cardiovascular risk factors and depressive and anxiety symptoms. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether these associations are similar ...

    Authors: Agnes C Schrier, Joanne K Ujcic-Voortman, Matty AS de Wit, Arnoud P Verhoeff, Ralph Kupka, Jack Dekker and Aartjan TF Beekman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1090
  3. Malaria mortality is mainly a direct consequence of inadequate and/or delayed diagnosis and case management. Some important control interventions (e.g. long-lasting insecticidal nests) have contributed to redu...

    Authors: Colombe Coffie Comoé, Allassane F Ouattara, Giovanna Raso, Marcel Tanner, Jürg Utzinger and Benjamin G Koudou
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1089
  4. Medical work capacity evaluations play a key role in social security schemes because they usually form the basis for eligibility decisions regarding disability benefits. However, the evaluations are often poor...

    Authors: Urban Schwegler, Jessica Anner, Christine Boldt, Andrea Glässel, Veronika Lay, Wout Ernst Lodewijk De Boer, Gerold Stucki and Bruno Trezzini
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1088
  5. School recess provides an important opportunity for children to engage in physical activity. Previous studies indicate that children and adults of South Asian origin are less active than other ethnic groups in...

    Authors: Tessa M Pollard, Yvonne C Hornby-Turner, Adarshini Ghurbhurrun and Nicola D Ridgers
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1087
  6. Dieting has historically been the main behavioural treatment paradigm for overweight/obesity, although a non-dieting paradigm has more recently emerged based on the criticisms of the original dieting approach....

    Authors: Stuart Leske, Esben Strodl and Xiang-Yu Hou
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1086
  7. There is evidence to support that the number of self-reported symptoms is a strong predictor of health outcomes. In studies examining the link between symptoms and functional status, focus has traditionally be...

    Authors: Dag Bruusgaard, Hedda Tschudi-Madsen, Camilla Ihlebæk, Yusman Kamaleri and Bård Natvig
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1085
  8. A clear understanding of the social and behavioral risk factors, and knowledge gaps, related to exposure to malaria are essential when developing guidelines and recommendations for more effective disease preve...

    Authors: Kabirul Bashar, H M Al-Amin, Md Selim Reza, Muzahidul Islam, Asaduzzaman and Touhid Uddin Ahmed
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1084
  9. About 15% of adolescents in the Netherlands have mental health problems and many also have health risk behaviours such as excessive alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, use of drugs, and having unsafe sex. ...

    Authors: Rienke Bannink, Evelien Joosten - van Zwanenburg, Petra van de Looij - Jansen, Els van As and Hein Raat
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1083
  10. Besides being a causative agent for genital warts and cervical cancer, human papillomavirus (HPV) contributes to 40-85% of cases of anal, penile, vaginal and vulvar cancer and precancerous lesions. HPV types 1...

    Authors: Jens Olsen, Tine Rikke Jørgensen, Kristian Kofoed and Helle Kiellberg Larsen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1082
  11. Hypertriglycedemic-waist (HTGW) phenotype is a simple and inexpensive screening parameter to identify people at increased risk for cardiovascular disease. We evaluated whether the HTGW phenotype predicts predi...

    Authors: Meilin Zhang, Yuxia Gao, Hong Chang, Xuan Wang, Dongmei Liu, Zongjian Zhu and Guowei Huang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1081
  12. The Environments for Healthy Living (EFHL) study is a repeated sample, longitudinal birth cohort in South East Queensland, Australia. We describe the sample characteristics and profile of maternal, household, ...

    Authors: Cate M Cameron, Paul A Scuffham, Rania Shibl, ShuKay Ng, Rani Scott, Anneliese Spinks, Gabor Mihala, Andrew Wilson, Elizabeth Kendall, Neil Sipe and Roderick J McClure
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1080
  13. We investigated the associations between education and leisure-time, occupational, sedentary and total physical-activity levels based on data from the German National Health Interview and Examination Survey 19...

    Authors: Jonas D Finger, Thorkild Tylleskär, Thomas Lampert and Gert BM Mensink
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1079
  14. Screening programmes for type 2 diabetes inevitably find more individuals at high risk for diabetes than people with undiagnosed prevalent disease. While well established guidelines for the treatment of diabet...

    Authors: Nanna B Johansen, Anne-Louise S Hansen, Troels M Jensen, Annelotte Philipsen, Signe S Rasmussen, Marit E Jørgensen, Rebecca K Simmons, Torsten Lauritzen, Annelli Sandbæk and Daniel R Witte
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1078
  15. Long-term sickness absence is one of the main risk factors for permanent exit out of the labour market. Early identification of the condition is essential to facilitate return to work. The aim of this study wa...

    Authors: Anna-Sophia von Celsing, Kurt Svärdsudd, Hans-G Eriksson, Karin Björkegren, Margaretha Eriksson and Thorne Wallman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1077
  16. Women with fibromyalgia (FM) describe great difficulties in managing work. Reported work ability in women with FM varies from 34 to 77 percent in studies from different countries. Many factors are suggested to...

    Authors: Annie Palstam, Jan L Bjersing and Kaisa Mannerkorpi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1076
  17. A significant part of childhood mortality can be prevented given the existence of a well functioning health care system that can deliver vaccines to children during their first year of life. This study assesse...

    Authors: Dawit Shawel Abebe, Vibeke Oestreich Nielsen and Jon Erik Finnvold
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1075
  18. Over 90% of injury deaths occur in low-and middle-income countries. However, the epidemiological profile of injuries in Pacific Islands has received little attention. We used a population-based-trauma registry...

    Authors: Iris Wainiqolo, Berlin Kafoa, Bridget Kool, Josephine Herman, Eddie McCaig and Shanthi Ameratunga
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1074
  19. Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disorder in the world, as it is appears to be prevalent among 80% of individuals over the age of 75. Although physical activities such as walking have been scientif...

    Authors: Lucie Brosseau, George A Wells, Glen P Kenny, Robert Reid, Andreas Maetzel, Peter Tugwell, Maria Huijbregts, Carolyn McCullough, Gino De Angelis and Lily Chen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1073
  20. The essence of nudging is to adapt the environment in which consumers make decisions to help them make better choices, without forcing certain outcomes upon them. To determine how consumers can effectively be ...

    Authors: Ellen van Kleef, Kai Otten and Hans CM van Trijp
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1072
  21. Health systems have experienced unprecedented stress in recent years, and as yet no consensus has emerged as to how to deal with the multiple burden of disease in the context of HIV and AIDS and other competin...

    Authors: Françoise Jenniskens, Georges Tiendrebeogo, Anne Coolen, Lucie Blok, Seni Kouanda, Fuseini Sataru, Andriamampianina Ralisimalala, Victor Mwapasa, Mbela Kiyombo and David Plummer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1071
  22. Occupational heavy lifting is known to impose a high cardiovascular strain, but the risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD) from occupational heavy lifting is unknown. The objective was to investigate the associa...

    Authors: Christina B Petersen, Louise Eriksen, Janne S Tolstrup, Karen Søgaard, Morten Grønbæk and Andreas Holtermann
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1070
  23. The fishing communities are among population groups that are most at risk of HIV infection, with some studies putting the HIV prevalence at 5 to 10 times higher than in the general population. Alcohol consumpt...

    Authors: Nazarius M Tumwesigye, Lynn Atuyambe, Rhoda K Wanyenze, Simon PS Kibira, Qing Li, Fred Wabwire-Mangen and Glenn Wagner
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1069
  24. To investigate the changing circumcision rate in South Korea in the last decade and to propose underlying causes for this change, in the context of the present fluctuating world-wide trends in circumcision.

    Authors: DaiSik Kim, Sung-Ae Koo and Myung-Geol Pang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1067
  25. Injecting drug users (IDUs) in Taiwan contributed significantly to an HIV/AIDS epidemic in 2005. In addition, studies that identified risk factors of HCV/HIV co-infection among IDUs were sparse. This study aim...

    Authors: Yung-Feng Yen, Muh-Yong Yen, Lien-Wen Su, Lan-Huei Li, Peing Chuang, Xiao-Ru Jiang and Chung-Yeh Deng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1066
  26. Although the wearing of face masks in public has not been recommended for preventing influenza, these devices are often worn in many Asian countries during the influenza season. In Japan, it is thought that su...

    Authors: Koji Wada, Kuniko Oka-Ezoe and Derek R Smith
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1065
  27. A sound understanding of community perceptions and experiences regarding barriers to a healthy diet is a prerequisite for the design of effective interventions aimed at prevention of diet-related non-communica...

    Authors: Maryam Farahmand, Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani, Parisa Amiri and Fereidoun Azizi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1064
  28. Invasive meningococcal disease remains an important cause of serious morbidity and mortality in children and young people. There is a growing body of literature to suggest that exposure to passive smoke may pl...

    Authors: Rachael L Murray, John Britton and Jo Leonardi-Bee
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1062
  29. The number of people newly infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has been decreasing in sub-Saharan Africa, but prevalence of the infection remains unacceptably high among young people. Despite the ...

    Authors: Linda B Mlunde, Krishna C Poudel, Bruno F Sunguya, Jessie K K Mbwambo, Junko Yasuoka, Keiko Otsuka, Omary Ubuguyu and Masamine Jimba
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1061
  30. The aims of this study were to examine temporal trends in the prevalence of sufficient moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA), high levels of screen time, combined measures of these behaviors ...

    Authors: Mitch J Duncan, Corneel Vandelanotte, Cristina Caperchione, Christine Hanley and W Kerry Mummery
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1060
  31. Homelessness and poverty are important social problems, and reducing the prevalence of homelessness and the incidence of injury and illness among people who are homeless would have significant financial, socie...

    Authors: Jane Topolovec-Vranic, Naomi Ennis, Angela Colantonio, Michael D Cusimano, Stephen W Hwang, Pia Kontos, Donna Ouchterlony and Vicky Stergiopoulos
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1059
  32. People living with HIV/AIDS have substantially greater need for water, sanitation, and hygiene. Encouraging hygiene education for People Living with HIV/AIDS in home based care services and additional support ...

    Authors: Walelegn W Yallew, Mamo W Terefe, Thomas E Herchline, Hardeep R Sharma, Bikes D Bitew, Manay W Kifle, Desalegn M Tetemke, Mekuriaw A Tefera and Mesafint M Adane
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1057
  33. Vaccines are highly effective at preventing infectious diseases in children, and prevention is especially important in resource-limited countries where treatment is difficult to access. In Honduras, the World ...

    Authors: Yuan He, Alan Zarychta, Joseph B Ranz, Mary Carroll, Lori M Singleton, Paria M Wilson and Elizabeth P Schlaudecker
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1056
  34. Tanzania is among the countries in the world where the cervical cancer incidence is estimated to be highest. Acknowledging an increase in the burden of cervical cancer, VIA was implemented as a regional cervic...

    Authors: Crispin Kahesa, Susanne Kruger Kjaer, Twalib Ngoma, Julius Mwaiselage, Myassa Dartell, Thomas Iftner and Vibeke Rasch
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1055
  35. Pathologists are highly trained medical professionals who play an essential part in the diagnosis and therapy planning of malignancies and inflammatory diseases. Their work is associated with potential health ...

    Authors: Florian Rudolf Fritzsche, Constanze Ramach, Davide Soldini, Rosmarie Caduff, Marianne Tinguely, Estelle Cassoly, Holger Moch and Antony Stewart
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1054
  36. The underlying mechanisms of overweight and obesity in adolescents are still not fully understood. The aim of this study was to investigate modifiable and non-modifiable correlates of weight status among 1103 ...

    Authors: May Grydeland, Ingunn H Bergh, Mona Bjelland, Nanna Lien, Lene F Andersen, Yngvar Ommundsen, Knut-Inge Klepp and Sigmund A Anderssen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1053
  37. A potential new treatment in smoking cessation and relapse prevention is nicotine vaccination which is based on active immunization against the nicotine molecule. This immunization will elicit the immune syste...

    Authors: Philippe HJ Hoogsteder, Daniel Kotz, Paul I van Spiegel, Wolfgang Viechtbauer, Ruth Brauer, Paul D Kessler, Matthew W Kalnik, Raafat EF Fahim and Onno CP van Schayck
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1052
  38. Restricting antibiotics sales to those with medical prescriptions only is a central strategy for promoting appropriate use and containing antibiotic resistance; however, many low and middle income countries ha...

    Authors: Anahí Dreser, Edna Vázquez-Vélez, Sandra Treviño and Veronika J Wirtz
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1051
  39. Information regarding dietary nutrient intake during tuberculosis disease is lacking. We established the relationship between disease severity or wasting during pulmonary tuberculosis and nutrient intake.

    Authors: Ezekiel Mupere, Isabel M Parraga, Daniel J Tisch, Harriet K Mayanja and Christopher C Whalen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1050
  40. The proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel is one of two indicators used to measure progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5, which aims for a 75% reduction in global maternal mortalit...

    Authors: Shahrzad Joharifard, Stephen Rulisa, Francine Niyonkuru, Andrew Weinhold, Felix Sayinzoga, Jeffrey Wilkinson, Jan Ostermann and Nathan M Thielman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1049
  41. High out-of-pocket-expenditure (OOPE) deters families from seeking skilled/institutional care. ‘Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), a conditional cash transfer programme launched in 2005 to mitigate OOPE and to promote...

    Authors: Hanimi Reddy Modugu, Manish Kumar, Ashok Kumar and Christopher Millett
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1048
  42. The aims of this study were to assess the seroprevalence of vaccine-preventable infections in Emirati medical students, and to provide scientific evidence for implementation of a cost-effective immunization gu...

    Authors: Mohamud Sheek-Hussein, Rayhan Hashmey, Ahmed R Alsuwaidi, Fatima Al Maskari, Leena Amiri and Abdul-Kader Souid
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1047
  43. For accurate estimation of the future burden of communicable diseases, the dynamics of the population at risk – namely population growth and population ageing – need to be taken into account. Accurate burden e...

    Authors: Scott A McDonald, Alies van Lier, Dietrich Plass and Mirjam EE Kretzschmar
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1046
  44. The mechanisms underlying socioeconomic inequalities in mortality from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are largely unknown. We studied the contribution of childhood socioeconomic conditions and adulthood risk fa...

    Authors: Carlijn BM Kamphuis, Gavin Turrell, Katrina Giskes, Johan P Mackenbach and Frank J van Lenthe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1045
  45. Diabetes has become a major public health problem in China. Support of patient self-management is a key component of effective diabetes care and improved patient outcomes. A series of peer-led community-based ...

    Authors: Shengsheng Liu, Anhua Bi, Dongbo Fu, Hua Fu, Wei Luo, Xiaoying Ma and Liyan Zhuang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1043
  46. Obesity remains a major public health challenge, demanding cost-effective and scalable weight management programs. Delivering key treatment components via mobile technology offers a potential way to reduce exp...

    Authors: Christine A Pellegrini, Jennifer M Duncan, Arlen C Moller, Joanna Buscemi, Alyson Sularz, Andrew DeMott, Alex Pictor, Sherry Pagoto, Juned Siddique and Bonnie Spring
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:1041

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