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- 1From: Archives of Public Health. (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Microbiology reference laboratories are critical in the development of high-quality clinical and public health services. In Belgium, the reference laboratories performed their activities on a voluntary...
- 2From: Archives of Public Health. (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe story of the implementation of the joint EU health indicators (ECHI indicators) began in the 1990s after the Amsterdam Treaty. The first concrete step in establishing a health monitoring capacity for EU was the...
- 3From: Archives of Public Health. (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Injuries due to accidents or violence constitute a major public health problem globally and also within the 27 member states of the European Union (EU-MSs). In spite of the magnitude and the severity of...
- 4From: Archives of Public Health. (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground One of the greatest problems for India is undernutrition among children. The country is still struggling with this problem. Malnutrition, the condition resulting from faulty nutrition, weakens the immune...
- 5From: Archives of Public Health. (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground In 1978, the Alma-Ata declaration on primary health care (PHC) recognized that the world's health issues required more than just hospital-based and physician-centered policies. The declaration called for a...
- 6From: Archives of Public Health. (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Substance abuse puts a burden on the physical and mental health and well-being of individuals and their families, particularly parents. Parents of substance-abusing young people are in need of professional...
- 7From: Archives of Public Health. (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The last decades, the prevalence of childhood obesity has increased. Apart from other lifestyle factors, the effect of chronic psychosocial stress on the development of obesity has been recognized....
- 8From: Archives of Public Health. (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The objective of this paper is to provide analytical research that supported the European Commission in setting the global target of additional two healthy life years (HLY) at birth by 2020 in the EU on...
- 9From: Archives of Public Health. (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Low back pain (LBP) is a major public health problem and the identification of individuals at risk of persistent LBP poses substantial challenges to clinical management. The STarT Back questionnaire is a...
- 10From: Archives of Public Health. (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Alzheimer's disease and other related dementias are public health priorities in the European Union due to their prevalence, cost and profound impact on society. Because of these pressing implications, the...
- 11From: Archives of Public Health. (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground A problem repeatedly reported in birth certificate data is the presence of missing data. In 2008, a Centre for Perinatal Epidemiology was created inter alia to assist the Health Departments of...
- 12From: Archives of Public Health. (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Industrial composting is a relatively new and expanding activity. Several studies indicate that compost workers are at risk to develop health symptoms. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of...
- 13From: Archives of Public Health. (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Participation rate and response rate are key issues in a cross sectional large-scale epidemiological study. The objective of this paper is to describe the study population and to evaluate participation and...
- 14From: Archives of Public Health. (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Little work has been done to assess the quality of health care and the use of evidence-based methods by occupational physicians in Belgium. Therefore, the main objective is to describe one aspect of...
- 15From: Archives of Public Health. (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Health Examination Surveys (HESs) can provide essential information on the health and health determinants of a population, which is not available from other data sources. Nevertheless, only some European...
- 16From: Archives of Public Health. (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMany studies suggest that high salt intakes are related to high blood pressure and consequently cardiovascular diseases. In addition salt intake was found to be related with obesity, renal stones, osteoporosis and...
- 17From: Archives of Public Health. (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Children are not always recognized as being susceptible to stress, although childhood stressors may originate from multiple events in their everyday surroundings with negative effects on children's health....
- 18From: Archives of Public Health. (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCancer is a major European public health issue and represents the second most important cause of death and morbidity in Europe. Moreover, as a result of constant advances in medicine, medical technology and other...
- 19From: Archives of Public Health. (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Hepatitis B and C cause significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Little is known about the existence of hepatitis B and C among high risk groups of the Pakistani population. The present study was...
- 20From: Archives of Public Health. (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground In medical and biomedical areas, binary and binomial outcomes are very common. Such data are often collected longitudinally from a given subject repeatedly overtime, which result in clustering of the...