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- 1From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Individuals who are sick and unable to work may receive wage replacement benefits from an insurer. For these provisions, a disability evaluation is required. This disability evaluation is criticised for lack...
- 2From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Disparities in outcomes associated with race and ethnicity are well documented for many diseases and patient populations. Tuberculosis (TB) disproportionately affects economically disadvantaged, racial and...
- 3From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Records kept as a result of the implementation of Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) and the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) constitute a public inventory of...
- 4From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedThe disproportionate effects of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic on many Canadian Aboriginal communities have drawn attention to the vulnerability of these communities in terms of health outcomes in the face of emerging and...
- 5From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Factors associated with HCV incidence among young Aboriginal people in Canada are still not well understood. We sought to estimate time to HCV infection and the relative hazard of risk factors associated HCV...
- 6From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Both diabetic and non-diabetic end stage renal disease (ESRD) are more common among Canadian First Nations people than among the general Canadian population. The purpose of this research was to determine the...
- 7From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Few data exist on the health status of the immigrant population in French Guiana. The main objective of this article was to identify differences in its health status in relation to that of the native-born...
- 8From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground 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...
- 9From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Undocumented immigrants are likely to be missing from population databases, making it impossible to identify an accurate sampling frame in migration research. No population-based data has been collected in...
- 10From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women experience higher rates of heart disease and type 2 diabetes than non-Indigenous Australian women. Increasing physical activity, improving diets and losing weight...
- 11From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Rapid change in food intake, physical activity, and tobacco use in recent decades have contributed to the soaring rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Aboriginal populations...
- 12From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Problem drinking has been identified as a major risk factor for physical intimate partner violence (PIPV) in many studies. However, few studies have been carried on the subject in developing countries and...
- 13From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground In adult research, neighborhood walkability has been acknowledged as an important construct among the built environmental correlates of physical activity. Research into this association has only recently...
- 14From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Surveillance of severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) in sentinel hospitals is recommended to estimate the burden of severe influenza-cases. Therefore, we monitored patients admitted with respiratory...
- 15From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Burnout is a mental condition defined as a result of continuous and long-term stress exposure, particularly related to psychosocial factors at work. This paper seeks to examine the psychometric properties...
- 16From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Malaysia has relatively liberal abortion laws in that they permit abortions for both physical and mental health cases. However, abortion remains a taboo subject. The stagnating contraceptive prevalence...
- 17From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The elimination of malaria in Zanzibar is highly dependent on sustained effective coverage of bed-nets to avoid malaria resurgence. The Health Belief Model (HBM) framework was used to explore the...
- 18From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground There is not much information on the differences in clinical, epidemiological and spatial characteristics of diarrhea due to V. cholerae and V. parahaemolyticus from non-coastal areas. We investigated the...
- 19From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground To determine the association between social deprivation and the prevalence of caries (including caries lesions restricted to enamel) and enamel fluorosis in areas that are served by either fluoridated or...
- 20From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Excessive engagement in screen time has several immediate and long-term health implications among pre-school children. However, little is known about the factors that influence screen time in this age...