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- 1From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 14) Peer-ReviewedBackground Observed breast, cervical and colon cancer screening rates are below provincial targets for the province of Ontario, Canada. The populations who are under- or never-screened for these cancers have not been...
- 2From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 14) Peer-ReviewedBackground The need to challenge messages that reinforce harmful negative discourses around sexual risk and responsibility is a priority in improving sexual health. The mass media are an important source of information...
- 3From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 14) Peer-ReviewedBackground Diabetes mellitus is recognized as one of the emerging public health problems in developing countries. However, its magnitude has not been studied at community levels, making the provision of appropriate...
- 4From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 14) Peer-ReviewedBackground An understanding of the characteristics of smokers who have never tried to quit may be useful to help identify and target these individuals and encourage them to attempt to give up smoking. Using national...
- 5From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 14) Peer-ReviewedBackground Prior studies focused on bioaccumulation of mercury (Hg) and on large, long-lived fish species as the major environmental source of Hg, but little is known about consumption of small-sized fish or about...
- 6From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 14) Peer-ReviewedBackground Lived health is a person's level of functioning in his or her current environment and depends both on the person's environment and biological health. Our study addresses the question whether biological...
- 7From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 14) Peer-ReviewedBackground Aboriginal representation in Canadian correctional institutions has increased rapidly over the past decade. We calculated "years of life lost to incarceration" for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians....
- 8From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 14) Peer-ReviewedBackground To investigate how household background factors affect parental behavior during pandemic influenza-related school closures, we determined associations between such factors and three parental attitudes:...
- 9From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Mussie Alemayehu1 , Alemseged Aregay2 , Abrhet Kalayu3 and Henock Yebyo1 Background The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) epidemic continues to be a major public health problem worldwide. At the end of...
- 10From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Thomas Astell-Burt1,2 , Xiaoqi Feng3 , Suzanne Mavoa4 , Hannah M Badland4 and Billie Giles-Corti4 Background Characterised long ago as the "lungs of the city" [1], parks and other forms of green space...
- 11From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Deborah Schofield1 , Michelle Cunich1 , Rupendra Shrestha1 , Megan Passey2 , Simon Kelly3 , Robert Tanton3 and Lennert Veerman4 Background Globally, the number of children with a chronic illness or...
- 12From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Karikalan Nagarajan1 , Seema Sahay1 , Mandar K Mainkar1 , Sucheta Deshpande1 , Sowmya Ramesh2 and Ramesh S Paranjape1 Background Community mobilization is a widely used intervention strategy to address...
- 13From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Sally Haw1 , Amanda Amos2 , Douglas Eadie3 , John Frank4 , Laura MacDonald3 , Anne Marie MacKintosh3 , Andy MacGregor5 , Martine Miller6 , Jamie Pearce7 , Clare Sharp5 , Martine Stead3 , Catherine Tisch7 and...
- 14From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Amy E Anderson1 , Alexis J Hure1 , Frances J Kay-Lambkin2,3 and Deborah J Loxton1 Background Alcohol guidelines for pregnancy vary across countries ranging from abstinence to light consumption [1]....
- 15From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Christopher P Lewis1 and James N Newell2 Background Worldwide, type 2 diabetes affects approximately 220 million people [1] and is the cause of 1.1 million deaths each year, 80% of which occur in low...
- 16From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Souhiela Fakih1 , Jennifer L Marriott1 , Helen Boardman2 , Claire Anderson2 and Safeera Y Hussainy1 Background According to the WHO one billion adults are overweight and at least 300 million adults are...
- 17From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Linn Gjersing1 and Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen1 Background Drug users have a risk of premature mortality 10 to 20 times higher than the general population [1]. Fatal overdose is the most common cause...
- 18From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Yusuke Shimakawa1,2 , Christian Bottomley2 , Ramou Njie1,3 and Maimuna Mendy4 Background Chronic infection with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) [1]. The risk of...
- 19From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Victoria Rivkina1 , David E Tapke2 , Lilliana D Cardenas3 , Blair Harvey-Gintoft4 , Stephanie A Whyte1 and Ruchi S Gupta5 Background Chronic disease among school-aged children is a major national public...
- 20From: BMC Public Health. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Heidi Stöckl1 , Laura March2,3,4 , Christina Pallitto5 and Claudia Garcia-Moreno6 Background Violence against women, especially by an intimate partner is receiving increased attention due to its...