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  1. Shared facilities are not recognised as improved sanitation due to challenges of maintenance as they easily can be avenues for the spread of diseases. Thus there is need to evaluate the quality of shared facil...

    Authors: Sheillah Simiyu, Mark Swilling, Sandy Cairncross and Richard Rheingans

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:68

    Content type: Research article

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  2. There has been an overall decreasing trend in the inflow into disability pension in Switzerland since 2003 with the exception of young adults. Disablement in young adulthood reflects a particularly critical ph...

    Authors: Szilvia Altwicker-Hámori and Julia Dratva

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:831

    Content type: Research article

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  5. Providing large-scale descriptive data of objectively measured physical activity in youth is informative for practitioners, epidemiologists, and researchers. The purpose of this study was to present the pedome...

    Authors: Noritoshi Fukushima, Shigeru Inoue, Yuki Hikihara, Hiroyuki Kikuchi, Hiroki Sato, Catrine Tudor-Locke and Shigeho Tanaka

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1104

    Content type: Research article

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  6. Inequalities in health are acknowledged in many developed countries, whereby disadvantaged groups systematically suffer from worse health outcomes such as lower life expectancy than non-disadvantaged groups. E...

    Authors: Alison O’Mara-Eves, Ginny Brunton, Sandy Oliver, Josephine Kavanagh, Farah Jamal and James Thomas

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:129

    Content type: Research article

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  7. Left ventricular longitudinal strain (LVLS) is a modern measurement for LV function. However, strain measurement is often difficult in critically ill patients. We sought to show LVLS can be estimated using M-m...

    Authors: Stephen J. Huang, Iris Ting, Andrea M. Huang, Michel Slama and Anthony S. McLean

    Citation: Critical Care 2017 21:292

    Content type: Research

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  8. The number of patients admitted to ICU who have liver cirrhosis is rising. Current prognostic scoring tools to predict ICU mortality have performed poorly in this group. In previous research from a single cent...

    Authors: Joseph Campbell, Joanne McPeake, Martin Shaw, Alex Puxty, Ewan Forrest, Charlotte Soulsby, Philp Emerson, Sam J. Thomson, Tony M. Rahman, Tara Quasim and John Kinsella

    Citation: Critical Care 2015 19:364

    Content type: Research

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  9. Adolescents are among the highest consumers of social media while research has shown that their well-being decreases with age. The temporal relationship between social media interaction and well-being is not w...

    Authors: Cara L. Booker, Yvonne J. Kelly and Amanda Sacker

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:321

    Content type: Research article

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  10. The prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) is reportedly growing fast in sub-Saharan Africa. There is however a scarcity of epidemiologic data on DM in Burkina Faso. We carried out a secondary analysis of the fi...

    Authors: Tieba Millogo, Brice W. Bicaba, Joseph Kouesyandé Soubeiga, Estelle Dabiré, Isaie Médah and Séni Kouanda

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:350

    Content type: Research article

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  11. Many interventions to motivate community health workers to perform better rely on financial incentives, even though it is not clear that monetary gain is the main motivational driver. In Pakistan, Lady Health ...

    Authors: Mishal S. Khan, Nelofar Mehboob, Afifah Rahman-Shepherd, Farah Naureen, Aamna Rashid, Naveed Buzdar and Muhammad Ishaq

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:999

    Content type: Research article

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  12. Reducing smoking in pregnancy is a policy priority in many countries and as a result there has been a rise in the development of services to help pregnant women to quit. A wide range of professionals are invol...

    Authors: Kate Flemming, Hilary Graham, Dorothy McCaughan, Kathryn Angus, Lesley Sinclair and Linda Bauld

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:290

    Content type: Research article

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  13. Failure and delay in initial treatment contact for mental disorders has been recognized as an important public health problem. According to the concept of mental health literacy, recognition of symptoms is cru...

    Authors: Machi Suka, Takashi Yamauchi and Hiroki Sugimori

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:301

    Content type: Research article

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  14. With health care shifting away from the traditional sick care model, many hospitals are integrating fitness facilities and programs into their clinical services in order to support health promotion and disease...

    Authors: Jingzhen Yang, Diana Kingsbury, Matthew Nichols, Kristin Grimm, Kele Ding and Jeffrey Hallam

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:567

    Content type: Research article

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  15. Persons with a mental illness are less likely to be successful in attempts to quit smoking. A number of smoking and environmental characteristics have been shown to be related to quitting behaviour and motivat...

    Authors: Alexandra P. Metse, John Wiggers, Paula Wye, Lyndell Moore, Richard Clancy, Luke Wolfenden, Megan Freund, Tara Van Zeist, Emily Stockings and Jenny A. Bowman

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:332

    Content type: Research article

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  16. Tanzania adopted Intermittent-preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) policy in 2000; the guidelines at the time of the study recommended the timing of the first dose of intermittent preventive tre...

    Authors: Stephen M. Kibusi, Eunice Kimunai and Courtney S. Hines

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:540

    Content type: Research article

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  17. Influenza vaccine uptake remains low worldwide, inflicting substantial costs to public health. Messages promoting social welfare have been shown to increase vaccination intentions, and it has been recommended ...

    Authors: Ozan Isler, Burcu Isler, Orestis Kopsacheilis and Eamonn Ferguson

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:240

    Content type: Research article

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  18. Physical activity (PA) has been shown to decline during adolescence, and those with lower education have lower levels of activity already at this age, calling for targeted efforts for them. No previous study h...

    Authors: Nelli Hankonen, Matti T. J. Heino, Vera Araujo-Soares, Falko F. Sniehotta, Reijo Sund, Tommi Vasankari, Pilvikki Absetz, Katja Borodulin, Antti Uutela, Taru Lintunen and Ari Haukkala

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:451

    Content type: Study protocol

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  19. To verify the prevalence and profile of users and non-users of anabolic steroid (AS) among resistance training practitioners.

    Authors: Ericson PEREIRA, Samuel Jorge MOYSES, Sérgio Aparecido IGNÁCIO, Daniel Komarchewski MENDES, Diego Sgarbi D. A. SILVA, Everdan CARNEIRO, Ana Maria Trindade Grégio HARDY, Edvaldo Antônio Ribeiro ROSA, Patrícia Vida Cassi BETTEGA and Aline Cristina Batista Rodrigues JOHANN

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1650

    Content type: Research article

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  20. In Japan, new HPV immunizations have dropped dramatically after repeated adverse media reports and a June 2013 temporary suspension of the government’s recommendation for the vaccine. The aim of the present st...

    Authors: Asami Yagi, Yutaka Ueda, Tomomi Egawa-Takata, Yusuke Tanaka, Akiko Morimoto, Yoshito Terai, Masahide Ohmichi, Tomoyuki Ichimura, Toshiyuki Sumi, Hiromi Murata, Hidetaka Okada, Hidekatsu Nakai, Masaki Mandai, Kiyoshi Yoshino, Tadashi Kimura, Junko Saito…

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:1013

    Content type: Research article

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