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  1. Home management of uncomplicated malaria (HMM) is now integrated into the community case management of childhood illness (CCM), an approach that requires parasitological diagnosis before treatment. The success...

    Authors: Soter Ameh, Paul Welaga, Caroline W Kabiru, Wilfred Ndifon, Bassey Ikpeme, Emmanuel Nsan and Angela Oyo-Ita
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:458
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  2. In Barbados sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV are not notifiable diseases and there is not a formal partner notification (PN) programme. Objectives were to understand likely attitudes, barri...

    Authors: O Peter Adams, Anne O Carter and Lynda Redwood-Campbell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:455
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  3. We explored exposure to and experiences of violence and their risk factors amongst ethnically diverse adolescents from lower socio economic groups in Johannesburg.

    Authors: Kennedy N Otwombe, Janan Dietrich, Kathleen J Sikkema, Jenny Coetzee, Kathryn L Hopkins, Fatima Laher and Glenda E Gray
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:450
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  5. Regular and relevant evaluations of surveillance systems are essential to improve their performance and cost-effectiveness. With this in mind several organizations have developed evaluation approaches to facil...

    Authors: Clementine Calba, Flavie L Goutard, Linda Hoinville, Pascal Hendrikx, Ann Lindberg, Claude Saegerman and Marisa Peyre
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:448
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  6. Measles cases continue to occur among susceptible individuals despite the elimination of endemic measles transmission in the United States. Clustering of disease susceptibility can threaten herd immunity and i...

    Authors: Fengchen Liu, Wayne T A Enanoria, Jennifer Zipprich, Seth Blumberg, Kathleen Harriman, Sarah F Ackley, William D Wheaton, Justine L Allpress and Travis C Porco
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:447
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  7. Social exclusion is both cause and consequence of mental disorders. People with mental disorders (PWMD) are among the most socially excluded in all societies yet little is known about their experiences in Nort...

    Authors: Kaaren Mathias, Michelle Kermode, Miguel San Sebastian, Mirja Koschorke and Isabel Goicolea
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:446
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  9. Physical and emotional abuse of children is a large scale problem in South Africa, with severe negative outcomes for survivors. Although chronic household illness has shown to be a predictor for physical and e...

    Authors: Franziska Meinck, Lucie D Cluver and Mark E Boyes
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:444
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  10. In Brazil, 72% of all deaths in 2007 were attributable to non-communicable diseases (NCD). We used a risk and related factor based index to prioritize NCD prevention programs in the combined 26 capital cities ...

    Authors: Eduardo J Simoes, Adam Bouras, Juan Jose Cortez-Escalante, Deborah C Malta, Denise Lopes Porto, Ali H Mokdad, Lenildo de Moura and Otaliba Libanio Morais Neto
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:443
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  11. Both sleep duration and screen time have been suggested to affect children’s diet, although in different directions and presumably through different pathways. The present cross-sectional study aimed to simulta...

    Authors: Claudia Börnhorst, Trudy MA Wijnhoven, Marie Kunešová, Agneta Yngve, Ana I Rito, Lauren Lissner, Vesselka Duleva, Ausra Petrauskiene and João Breda
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:442
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  12. Chronic malnutrition or stunting among children under 5 years old is affected by several household environmental factors, such as food insecurity, disease burden, and poverty. However, not all children experie...

    Authors: Chisa Shinsugi, Masaki Matsumura, Mohamed Karama, Junichi Tanaka, Mwatasa Changoma and Satoshi Kaneko
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:441
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  13. Multiple micronutrient powder (MMNP) can be sprinkled onto any semisolid food and can be given to young children to address iron deficiency anemia. The female community health volunteers of BRAC (an NGO) known...

    Authors: Mirak Raj Angdembe, Nuzhat Choudhury, Mohammad Raisul Haque and Tahmeed Ahmed
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:440
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  14. Diabetic patients’ lifestyle adaptations to improve glycaemic control are not always followed by improvements in self-rated general health (SRH). The perceived impact of diabetes on patients’ daily lives may i...

    Authors: Anni Brit Sternhagen Nielsen, Per Jensen, Dorte Gannik, Susanne Reventlow, Hanne Hollnagel and Niels de Fine Olivarius
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:439
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  16. Physical inactivity in children is an important risk factor for the development of various morbidities and mortality in adulthood, physical activity already has preventive effects during childhood. The objecti...

    Authors: Nadja Idler, Christina M Teuner, Matthias Hunger, Rolf Holle, Sandra Ortlieb, Holger Schulz, Carl-Peter Bauer, Ute Hoffmann, Sibylle Koletzko, Irina Lehmann, Andrea von Berg, Dietrich Berdel, Barbara Hoffmann, Beate Schaaf, Joachim Heinrich and Silke B Wolfenstetter
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:437
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  17. Influencing the general public response to pandemics is a public health priority. There is a prevailing view, however, that the general public is resistant to communications on pandemic influenza and that beha...

    Authors: Mark D M Davis, Niamh Stephenson, Davina Lohm, Emily Waller and Paul Flowers
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:436
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  18. Previous studies have shown that unsafe injection practice is a major public health problem in Nepal but did not quantify the problem. The present community-based study was planned to: 1) quantify injection us...

    Authors: Sudesh Gyawali, Devendra Singh Rathore, Pathiyil Ravi Shankar, Vikash Kumar KC, Manisha Maskey and Nisha Jha
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:435
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  19. Many factors influence participation in sport and Physical Activity (PA). It is well established that socio-economic status (SES) is a critical factor. There is also growing evidence that there are differences...

    Authors: Rochelle M Eime, Melanie J Charity, Jack T Harvey and Warren R Payne
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:434
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  20. Adequate monitoring of older adults’ physical activity (PA) is essential to develop effective health promotion programs. The present study examined criterion validity and test-retest reliability of the long In...

    Authors: Veerle Van Holle, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Benedicte Deforche, Jelle Van Cauwenberg and Delfien Van Dyck
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:433
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  21. Effective public health emergency preparedness and response systems are important in mitigating the impact of all-hazards emergencies on population health. The evidence base for public health emergency prepare...

    Authors: Yasmin Khan, Ghazal Fazli, Bonnie Henry, Eileen de Villa, Charoula Tsamis, Moira Grant and Brian Schwartz
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:432
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  22. Unhealthy behaviors are associated with mental health problems and violence in adolescents, yet their combined association has been understudied. Using the Global School Health Survey, this study examined the ass...

    Authors: Saadiyah Rao, Nadia Shah, Nida Jawed, Sumera Inam and Kashif Shafique
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:431
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  23. Injuries accounted for 23% of all deaths in children and adolescents in Nepal during 2010 (n = 3,700). Despite this, there is no national death registration or injury surveillance system. Non-fatal injuries ar...

    Authors: Puspa Raj Pant, Bharat Budhathoki, Matthew Ellis, Dharma Manandhar, Toity Deave and Julie Mytton
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:430
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  24. Sociodemographic differences in injury mortality are well-established, but population-level studies on social patterns of injury morbidity remain few in numbers, particularly among young adults. Yet injuries a...

    Authors: Hanna Remes and Pekka Martikainen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:429
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  25. Violence against women and children is globally recognized as a social and human rights concern. In Tanzania, sexual violence towards women and children is a public health problem. The aim of this study was to...

    Authors: Muzdalifat Abeid, Projestine Muganyizi, Siriel Massawe, Rose Mpembeni, Elisabeth Darj and Pia Axemo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:428
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  26. Stigmatizing attitude towards HIV/AIDS alongside other factors such as HIV knowledge, substance use, sexual behavior, and involvement in various social activities (e.g., internet use, exposure to media) may be...

    Authors: Mamuka Djibuti, Tamar Zurashvili, Tamar Kasrashvili and Carla J Berg
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:427
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  27. Considering that public attitudes on vaccine safety and effectiveness are known to influence the success of vaccination campaigns, an increased understanding of socio-demographic characteristics might help imp...

    Authors: Koji Wada and Derek R Smith
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:426
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  28. Men of African descent have the highest incidence and mortality rates of prostate cancer (PrCa) worldwide. Notably, PrCa is increasing in Africa with Nigerian men being mostly affected. Thus, it is important t...

    Authors: Ilir Agalliu, Akin O Adebiyi, David W Lounsbury, Oluwafemi Popoola, Kola Jinadu, Olukemi Amodu, Suvam Paul, Adebola Adedimeji, Chioma Asuzu, Michael Asuzu, Olufemi J Ogunbiyi, Thomas Rohan and Olayiwola B Shittu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:425
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  29. Policy makers and regulators are constantly required to make decisions despite the existence of substantial uncertainty regarding the outcomes of their proposed decisions. Understanding stakeholder views is an...

    Authors: Adam Capon, James Gillespie, Margaret Rolfe and Wayne Smith
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:424
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  30. The evidence that compensation related factors are associated with poor recovery is substantial but these measures are generic and do not consider the complexity of scheme design. The objectives of this study ...

    Authors: Darnel Murgatroyd, Keri Lockwood, Belinda Garth and Ian D Cameron
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:423
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  31. Kenya has a high prevalence of underweight and stunting in children. It is believed that both agricultural biodiversity and seasonal rainfall influences household food security and dietary intake. In the prese...

    Authors: Florence K M’Kaibi, Nelia P Steyn, Sophie Ochola and Lisanne Du Plessis
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:422
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  33. Food insecurity (FI) is the lack of physical, social, and economic access to sufficient food for dietary needs and food preferences. We examined the association between FI and women’s uptake of services to pre...

    Authors: Sandra I McCoy, Raluca Buzdugan, Angela Mushavi, Agnes Mahomva, Frances M Cowan and Nancy S Padian
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:420
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  34. We conducted a scoping review to define the extent and type of quantitative health status research conducted from 1993 to 2014 with people who have experienced detention or incarceration in correctional facili...

    Authors: Fiona G Kouyoumdjian, Andrée Schuler, Stephen W Hwang and Flora I Matheson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:419
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  35. Tobacco use is one of the most common preventable causes of death, but more than half of the Chinese men still use tobacco products. Moreover, 63.6% of Chinese smokers have stated that they would not consider ...

    Authors: Lei Wu, Yao He, Bin Jiang, Di Zhang, Hui Tian, Fang Zuo, Tai Hing Lam and Yee Tak Derek Cheung
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:418
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  36. The risk of contracting HIV through heterosexual anal sex (HAS) is significantly higher than from vaginal intercourse. Little has been done to understand the discourses around HAS and terms people use to descr...

    Authors: Joyce Wamoyi, Aika Mongi, Mtenga Sally, Deodatus Kakoko, Donat Shamba, Eveline Geubbels and Saidi Kapiga
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:417
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  38. The need for better partnerships between Aboriginal organisations and mainstream agencies demands attention on process and relational elements of these partnerships, and improving partnership functioning throu...

    Authors: Christina Tsou, Emma Haynes, Wayne D Warner, Gordon Gray and Sandra C Thompson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:416
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  39. Multimorbidity, the co-occurrence of two or more chronic conditions, is common among older adults and is known to be associated with high costs and gaps in quality of care. Population-based estimates of multim...

    Authors: Anna J Koné Pefoyo, Susan E Bronskill, Andrea Gruneir, Andrew Calzavara, Kednapa Thavorn, Yelena Petrosyan, Colleen J Maxwell, YuQing Bai and Walter P Wodchis
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:415
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  40. Evidence suggests chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer is associated with side effects such as cognitive impairment in domains of memory, attention, concentration and executive function. Cognitive impairme...

    Authors: Kajal Gokal, Fehmidah Munir, Deborah Wallis, Samreen Ahmed, Ion Boiangiu and Kiran Kancherla
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:414
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  41. Living with parents suffering from mental illness can influence adolescents’ health and well-being, and adverse effects may persist into adulthood. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship bet...

    Authors: Lisbeth Homlong, Elin Olaug Rosvold, Åse Sagatun, Tore Wentzel-Larsen and Ole Rikard Haavet
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:413
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  42. High-density lipoprotein (HDL) is associated with the incidence of metabolic syndrome (MetS). It is unclear whether subjects with different HDL levels develop different components of MetS over time. Our study ...

    Authors: Xiangtong Liu, Lixin Tao, Kai Cao, Zhaoping Wang, Dongning Chen, Jin Guo, Huiping Zhu, Xinghua Yang, Youxin Wang, Jingjing Wang, Chao Wang, Long Liu and Xiuhua Guo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:412
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  43. Although African immigrants represent a large and growing segment of the U.S. population, there are little or no data available on the prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors among this diverse...

    Authors: Barrett Sewali, Nonyelum Harcourt, Susan A Everson-Rose, Robert E Leduc, Sirad Osman, Michele L Allen and Kolawole S Okuyemi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:411
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  44. In New Zealand, meat processing populations face many health problems as a result of the nature of work in meat processing industries. The primary aim of this study was to examine the feasibility of using a pe...

    Authors: Suliman Mansi, Stephan Milosavljevic, Steve Tumilty, Paul Hendrick, Chris Higgs and David G Baxter
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:410
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  45. Inadequate parenting is an important public health problem with possible severe and long-term consequences related to child development. We have solid theoretical and political arguments in favor of efforts en...

    Authors: Tea Trillingsgaard, Rikke Damkjær Maimburg and Marianne Simonsen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:409
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  46. Increased HIV testing frequency among high-risk populations such as men who have sex with men (MSM) and male-to-female transgender women (TW) can lead to earlier treatment and potentially reduce HIV transmission.

    Authors: Sky W Lee, Robert G Deiss, Eddy R Segura, Jesse L Clark, Jordan E Lake, Kelika A Konda, Thomas J Coates and Carlos F Caceres
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:408
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  47. Formalized risk management (RM) is an internationally accepted process for reducing hazards in the workplace, with defined steps including hazard scoping, risk assessment, and implementation of controls, all w...

    Authors: Gerald S Poplin, Keshia M Pollack, Stephanie Griffin, Virginia Day-Nash, Wayne F Peate, Ed Nied, John Gulotta and Jefferey L Burgess
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:407
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  48. Smoking epidemic in Brazilian women has later onset, smaller magnitude, and slower decreasing trend, compared to men. Among pregnant women, smoking has an additional deleterious effect. The purpose of this stu...

    Authors: Pauline Lorena Kale, Sandra Costa Fonseca, Kátia Silveira da Silva, Penha Maria Mendes da Rocha, Rosana Garcia Silva, Alinne Christina Alves Pires, Maria de Lourdes Tavares Cavalcanti, Antonio Jose Leal Costa and Tania Zdenka Guillén de Torres
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:406
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  49. Plain water (PW) should be the main beverage consumed by the population. However, consumption of caloric beverages (CB) has increased considerably worldwide. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the associa...

    Authors: Daniel Illescas-Zarate, Juan Espinosa-Montero, Mario Flores and Simon Barquera
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:405
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  50. Integration of physical active academic lessons in the school curriculum may be an innovative way to improve academic outcomes. This study examined the effect of physically active academic lessons (Fit en Vaar...

    Authors: Marijke J Mullender-Wijnsma, Esther Hartman, Johannes W de Greeff, Roel J Bosker, Simone Doolaard and Chris Visscher
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:404
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