Effectiveness of a Novel HIV Self-Testing Service with Online Real-Time Counseling Support (HIVST-Online) in Increasing HIV Testing Rate and Repeated HIV Testing among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Hong Kong: Results of a Pilot Implementation Project.

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected the mental health of the general population, and for healthcare workers (HCWs) it has been no different. Religiosity and spirituality are known coping strategies for mental illnesses, especially in stressful times. This study aimed to describe the role of spiritual-religio...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Prazeres F,Passos L,Simões JA,Simões P,Martins C,Teixeira A

更新日期：2020-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, there has been growing interest in the association between the residential environment and health. The association between residential environment (i.e., geographic elevation) and bone status is unknown. Furthermore, these associations could differ by exercise habits due to the chronically greater dai...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Takeda M,Hamano T,Kohno K,Yano S,Shiwaku K,Nabika T

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficiencies in iron and vitamin D are frequently observed in athletes. Therefore, we examined whether different baseline vitamin D3 levels have any impact on post-exercise serum hepcidin, IL-6 and iron responses in ultra-marathon runners. In this randomized control trial, the subjects (20 male, amateur runners, mean ...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Kasprowicz K,Ratkowski W,Wołyniec W,Kaczmarczyk M,Witek K,Żmijewski P,Renke M,Jastrzębski Z,Rosemann T,Nikolaidis PT,Knechtle B

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Low health literacy is an issue with high prevalence in the UK and internationally. It has a social gradient with higher prevalence in lower social groups and is linked with higher rates of long-term health conditions, lower self-rated health, and greater difficulty self-managing long-term health conditions. Improved ...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Rowlands G,Tabassum B,Campbell P,Harvey S,Vaittinen A,Stobbart L,Thomson R,Mandy-Wardle-McLeish,Protheroe J

更新日期：2020-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2011, the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration inadvertently discovered that, for decades, manufacturers had replaced expensive natural emulsifiers in food products with diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP). We wanted to compare urinary phthalate metabolite levels of children before and after the DEHP food contamination ev...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Huang CF,Wang IJ

更新日期：2017-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Presenteeism is a relatively new phenomenon that people, despite complaints and ill health that should prompt them to rest and take sick leave, go to work in any case. The highest sickness presence is largely to be found in the care and welfare and educational sectors. The aim of the study is ...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Skerjanc A,Fikfak MD

更新日期：2020-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:E-cigarettes and other non-cigarette tobacco products are increasingly popular among youth. Little is known to inform public health efforts to reduce youth use. We examined psychosocial correlates of single and multiple tobacco product use among youth e-cigarette users. Data were from the 2014 Florida Youth Tobacco Su...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Lee YO,Pepper JK,MacMonegle AJ,Nonnemaker JM,Duke JC,Porter L

更新日期：2018-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid autoimmunity (TAI), which is defined as the presence of autoantibodies against thyroid peroxidase (TPO) and/or thyroglobulin (TG), is related to repeated implantation failure (RIF). It is reported that TAI was involved in reproductive failure not only through leading thyroid function abnormality, but it can al...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Huang C,Liang P,Diao L,Liu C,Chen X,Li G,Chen C,Zeng Y

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In adults, obesity is associated with chronic low-grade inflammation, which may cause long-term adverse health consequences. We evaluated whether obesity in prepubertal children also generates this kind of inflammation and whether calprotectin and chemerin may be useful markers for early detection of such inflammation...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Rowicka G,Dyląg H,Chełchowska M,Weker H,Ambroszkiewicz J

更新日期：2020-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated characteristics and trends of hospitalized abuse-related traumatic brain injuries (TBI) treated at a large pediatric medical center in Wuhan, China during the past 10 years. De-identified hospital discharge data for patients 0–4 years old hospitalized at the Wuhan Medical Care Center for Women ...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Xia X,Xiang J,Shao J,Smith GA,Yu C,Zhu H,Xiang H

更新日期：2012-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The unique environmental vulnerability of small island developing states (SIDS) is likely to impact negatively on children's health. Children's environmental health indicators (CEHI) are standardized measures that can be used to assess the environmental exposures and their resulting health outcomes in children. This s...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Jung EM,Jagals P,Brereton C,Sly PD,Kim R,Kim EM,Ha EH

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Good quality of life is important for healthy ageing. Studies have shown that although information and communication technology can improve older people's quality of life, their technology acceptance level is rather low. Tangible user interfaces (TUIs) enable people to interact with the digital world through everyday ...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Bong WK,Bergland A,Chen W

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines existing research on the impact of terrorism on expatriate coping strategies. We consider pre-assignment fear of terrorism, in-country coping strategies, and anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) associated with repatriation. The extant research is small but growing. Our model for expatr...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Beutell NJ,O'Hare MM,Schneer JA,Alstete JW

更新日期：2017-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing literature has supported a relationship between greenspace and health. Various greenspace metrics exist; some are based on subjective measures while others are based on an objective assessment of the landscape. While subjective measures may better reflect individual feelings about surrounding greenspace and ...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Mazumdar S,Dunshea A,Chong S,Jalaludin B

更新日期：2020-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to explore what motivates pregnant and breastfeeding women to make changes in their diet, specifically to examine how their perceptions regarding diet facilitate or act as obstacles to introducing healthy eating habits. For the optimal development of the mother, the fetus, or breastfeed...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Fontalba-Navas A,Zafra Aparici E,Prata-Gaspar MCM,Herrera-Espejo E,Company-Morales M,Larrea-Killinger C

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Phthalates used as plasticizers in the manufacture of household containers can potentially be transferred to foods that are stored or heated in these plastic containers. Phthalates are endocrine disruptor compounds (EDC) and are found in very low concentrations in foods, thus, highly sensitive analytical techniques ar...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Moreira MA,André LC,Cardeal ZL

更新日期：2013-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is among the leading causes of death worldwide. Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) polymorphisms have been associated with IHD risk, but the findings presented with heterogeneity. The purpose of the present meta-analysis was to provide an updated evaluation by integrating machine-...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Chen ZF,Young L,Yu CH,Shiao SPK

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid development of short-video social network platforms provides us with anopportunity to conduct health-related advertising and recommendation. However, so far, there areno empirical evidence on whether users are willing to accept health-related short-videoadvertisements. Here, acceptance refers to purchase int...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Zhao J,Wang J

更新日期：2020-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent emergent research is seriously questioning whether parental strictness contributes to children's psychosocial adjustment in all cultural contexts. We examined cross-generational differences in parental practices characterized by warmth and practices characterized by strictness, as well as the relationship betwe...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Garcia OF,Fuentes MC,Gracia E,Serra E,Garcia F

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Vector surveillance for infectious diseases is labor intensive and constantly threatened by budget decisions. We report on outcomes of an undergraduate research experience designed to build surveillance capacity for West Nile Virus (WNV) in Montana (USA). Students maintained weekly trapping stations for mosquitoes and...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Hokit G,Alvey S,Geiger JM,Johnson GD,Rolston MG,Kinsey DT,Tall Bear N

更新日期：2013-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Any piece of information is a selection from a set of possibilities. In this paper, this set is called a "domain". Digital information consists of number sequences, which are selections from a domain. At present, these number sequences are defined contextually in a very variable way, which impairs their comparability....

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Orthuber W

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:To reduce the burden of chronic disease, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded the Orange County Partnerships to Improve Health (OC-PICH) project in Orange County, California. One of the strategies included adding outdoor exercise equipment (OEE) in two parks in Garden Grove and Anaheim. Using a ...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Sami M,Smith M,Ogunseitan OA

更新日期：2020-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:(1) Background: Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) exposure remains a public health problem worldwide. The aims are to establish urinary (u-) cotinine reference values for healthy Italian children, to evaluate the role of the sampling time and of other factors on children's u-cotinine excretion. (2) Methods: A cross-se...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Protano C,Andreoli R,Mutti A,Manigrasso M,Avino P,Vitali M

更新日期：2018-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it has been more than 40 years since "health for all" was presented as a focus in the Alma Ata declaration [...]. ...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Gilmour S,Mai PL,Nguyen P,Dhungel B,Tomizawa M,Nguyen H

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Arboviruses are responsible for a large burden of disease globally and are thus subject to intense epidemiological scrutiny. However, a variable notably absent from most epidemiological analyses has been the impact of violence on arboviral transmission and surveillance. Violence impedes surveillance and delivery of he...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Krystosik AR,Curtis A,LaBeaud AD,Dávalos DM,Pacheco R,Buritica P,Álvarez ÁA,Bhatta MP,Rojas Palacios JH,James MA

更新日期：2018-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The adsorption behavior and mechanism for the uptake of fluoride ions by untreated and desugared reed residues (roots, stems and leaves) were studied through adsorption experiments, elemental analysis, infrared spectroscopy and surface area analysis. The results showed that the adsorption capacity of untreated and des...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Song R,Yang S,Xu H,Wang Z,Chen Y,Wang Y

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Sars-cov-2 virus (Covid-19) is a member of the coronavirus family and is responsible for the pandemic recently declared by the World Health Organization. A positive correlation has been observed between the spread of the virus and air pollution, one of the greatest challenges of our millennium. Covid-19 could have an ...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Comunian S,Dongo D,Milani C,Palestini P

更新日期：2020-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lead is a pervasive pollutant, associated at low levels to many adverse health effects. OBJECTIVE:To investigate lead levels, exposure pathways and intervention possibilities in school children from Alpuyeca, in Morelos, Mexico. METHODS:Blood lead concentrations (BPb) were measured in 226 children in 2011....

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Farías P,Álamo-Hernández U,Mancilla-Sánchez L,Texcalac-Sangrador JL,Carrizales-Yáñez L,Riojas-Rodríguez H

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: This paper describes the experiences of first-line managers when working with a structured support model for systematic work environment management in their work groups. First-line managers play a key part in influencing the work environment. Methods: In this study, a sample of managers implementing a stru...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Molin F,Hellman T,Svartengren M

更新日期：2020-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study aims to investigate the aberrant driving behaviour and risk involvement of Iranian taxi drivers. The sample comprised 405 Iranian taxi drivers, who were recruited with a cross-sectional design, using a self-completion questionnaire survey during October and November 2016. We contribute to the literat...

journal_title：International journal of environmental research and public health

authors： Vahedi J,Shariat Mohaymany A,Tabibi Z,Mehdizadeh M

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00