Prevalence of comorbidity of chronic diseases in Australia.

abstract：BACKGROUND:An accurate prediction of unplanned readmission (UR) after discharge from hospital can facilitate physician's decision making processes for providing better quality of care in geriatric patients. The objective of this study was to explore the association of cardiac autonomic functions as measured by frequenc...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Chiang JK,Fu CH,Kuo TB,Koo M

更新日期：2011-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In low tuberculosis (TB) incidence countries TB affects mostly immigrants in the productive age group. Little empirical information is available about direct and indirect TB-related costs that patients face in these high-income countries. We assessed the direct and indirect costs of immigrants with TB in the...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Kik SV,Olthof SP,de Vries JT,Menzies D,Kincler N,van Loenhout-Rooyakkers J,Burdo C,Verver S

更新日期：2009-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite increased prevention efforts, HIV remains the leading cause of death among adolescent girls and young women in South Africa. Although research indicates important determinants of HIV acquisition at the individual and interpersonal levels, structural-level stigma and discrimination continue to be crit...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Wechsberg WM,Browne FA,Ndirangu J,Bonner CP,Minnis AM,Nyblade L,Speizer IS,Howard BN,Myers B,Ahmed K

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Condom use remains consistently low among Chinese men who have sex with men (MSM). This study aims to identify factors associated with condom use after online video intervention. METHODS:This is a secondary data analysis of data collected from an online non-inferiority trial comparing the effectiveness of t...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Huang W,Wu D,Pan SW,Li K,Ong JJ,Fu H,Liu C,Mao J,Tucker JD,Tang W

更新日期：2019-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with a diverse range of pathologies. The aim of the study was to determine the incidence of diabetes-related complications, the prevalence of coexistent chronic conditions and to report multimorbidity in people with type 2 diabetes living in the Basque Country. METHODS...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Alonso-Morán E,Orueta JF,Fraile Esteban JI,Arteagoitia Axpe JM,Marqués González ML,Toro Polanco N,Ezkurra Loiola P,Gaztambide S,Nuño-Solinis R

更新日期：2014-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The world's highest HIV infection rates are found in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where adult prevalence in most countries exceeds 25%. Food shortages and malnutrition have combined with HIV/AIDS to bring some countries to the brink of crisis. The aim of this study was to describe prevalence of malnutrition amo...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Uthman OA

更新日期：2008-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Osteoporosis is a serious health problem that worsens the quality of life and the survival rate of individuals with this disease on account the osteoporotic fractures. Studies have long focused on women, and its presence in men has been underestimated. While many studies conducted in different countries main...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Zwart M,Azagra R,Encabo G,Aguye A,Roca G,Güell S,Puchol N,Gene E,López-Expósito F,Solà S,Ortiz S,Sancho P,Abado L,Iglesias M,Pujol-Salud J,Diez-Perez A

更新日期：2011-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Efforts to prevent the development of overweight and obesity have increasingly focused early in the life course as we recognise that both metabolic and behavioural patterns are often established within the first few years of life. Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions are even more powerful wh...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Askie LM,Baur LA,Campbell K,Daniels LA,Hesketh K,Magarey A,Mihrshahi S,Rissel C,Simes J,Taylor B,Taylor R,Voysey M,Wen LM,EPOCH Collaboration Group.

更新日期：2010-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Helicobacter pylori (Hp) infection is associated with several upper gastrointestinal disorders. Local data on the epidemiology of the infection are scarce in Brazil. The purpose of this study is to measure the prevalence rate and to explore the associated factors among the adult population living in Pelotas,...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Santos IS,Boccio J,Santos AS,Valle NC,Halal CS,Bachilli MC,Lopes RD

更新日期：2005-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increases in the number of salmonellosis cases due to Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) in 2010 and 2011 prompted a public health investigation in Ontario, Canada. In this report, we describe the current epidemiology of travel-related (TR) SE, compare demographics, symptoms and phage types (PTs) of TR and domestic...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Tighe MK,Savage R,Vrbova L,Toolan M,Whitfield Y,Varga C,Lee B,Allen V,Maki A,Walton R,Johnson C,Dhar B,Ahmed R,Crowcroft NS,Middleton D

更新日期：2012-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Global obesity prevalence is increasing and population health programs are required to support changes to modifiable lifestyle risk factors. Such interventions benefit from mass-communications to promote their use. The Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service ® (GHS) utilised mass-reach media advertising...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： O'Hara BJ,Bauman AE,Phongsavan P

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The provision of Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) was started in Myanmar in 2005 in collaboration with the National AIDS Program and the private sector. Successful clinical management of HIV-infected patients is subject to optimal adherence. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of adherence to A...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Aye WL,Puckpinyo A,Peltzer K

更新日期：2017-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Meningococcal disease can have devastating consequences. As new vaccines emerge, it is necessary to assess their impact on public health. In the absence of long-term real world data, modeling the effects of different vaccination strategies is required. Discrete event simulation provides a flexible platform w...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Caro JJ,Möller J,Getsios D,Coudeville L,El-Hadi W,Chevat C,Nguyen VH,Caro I

更新日期：2007-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Universal health coverage through the removal of financial and other barriers to access, particularly for people who are poor, is a global priority. This viewpoint describes the many pathways to catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) for patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) based on two case studies an...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Daivadanam M

更新日期：2012-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore whether there is a potential for greater use of research-based information in public health practice in a local setting. Secondly, if research-based information is relevant, to explore the extent to which this generates questioning behaviour. DESIGN:Qualitative study using focus group discussions,...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Forsetlund L,Bjørndal A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the past decade, about one-third of all births nationwide in Taiwan were delivered by cesarean section (CS). Previous studies in the US and Europe have documented the need for risk adjustment for fairer comparisons among providers. In this study, we set out to determine the impact that adjustment for pa...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Tang CH,Wang HI,Hsu CS,Su HW,Chen MJ,Lin HC

更新日期：2006-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to investigate prevalence and risk factors for prediabetes, undiagnosed diabetes mellitus, poorly and potentially sub-controlled diabetes in a rural-provincial general adult population in Denmark. METHODS:Using cross-sectional data from the Lolland-Falster Health Study, we examined a total ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Bruun-Rasmussen NE,Napolitano G,Kofoed-Enevoldsen A,Bojesen SE,Ellervik C,Rasmussen K,Jepsen R,Lynge E

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Socioeconomic status is likely an independent risk factor for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), but little research has been done in China to study this association in a nationwide sample. METHODS:We used data from the 2007 China Chronic Disease Risk Factor Surveillance of 49,363 Chinese men and...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Yin P,Zhang M,Li Y,Jiang Y,Zhao W

更新日期：2011-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Mexican arm of the Camino Verde trial of community mobilisation for dengue prevention covered three coastal regions of Guerrero state: Acapulco, Costa Grande and Costa Chica. A baseline cross-sectional survey provided data for community mobilisation and for adapting the intervention design to concrete co...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Nava-Aguilera E,Morales-Pérez A,Balanzar-Martínez A,Rodríguez-Ramírez O,Jiménez-Alejo A,Flores-Moreno M,Gasga-Salinas D,Legorreta-Soberanis J,Paredes-Solís S,Morales-Nava PA,de Lourdes Soto-Ríos M,Ledogar RJ,Coloma J,Harris E,

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since it was first defined in 1995, Public Health Informatics (PHI) has become a recognized discipline, with a research agenda, defined domain-specific competencies and a specialized corpus of technical knowledge. Information systems form a cornerstone of PHI research and implementation, representing signifi...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Reeder B,Hills RA,Demiris G,Revere D,Pina J

更新日期：2011-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In resource- poor settings, verbal autopsy data are often reviewed by physicians in order to assign the probable cause of death. But in addition to being time and energy consuming, the method is liable to produce inconsistent results. The aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of the InterVA 3.2 mo...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Tadesse S,Tadesse T

更新日期：2012-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psychological distress and lack of family support may explain the mental health problems that are consistently found in young unaccompanied refugees in Western countries. Given the strong relationship between poor mental health and alcohol misuse, this study investigated hospital admissions due to alcohol re...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Manhica H,Gauffin K,Almquist YB,Rostila M,Berg L,Rodríguez García de Cortázar A,Hjern A

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The global poverty profile shows that Africa and Asia bear the highest burden of multidimensional child poverty. Child survival and development therefore depend on socioeconomic and environmental factors that surround a child.The aim of this paper is to measure multidimensional child poverty and underpin wha...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Fonta CL,Yameogo TB,Tinto H,van Huysen T,Natama HM,Compaore A,Fonta WM

更新日期：2020-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obesity remains a major public health problem, associated with a cluster of metabolic abnormalities. However, individuals exist who are very obese but have normal metabolic parameters. The aim of this study was to determine to what extent differences in metabolic health in very obese women are explained by d...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Hayes L,Pearce MS,Firbank MJ,Walker M,Taylor R,Unwin NC

更新日期：2010-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alcohol misuse has been linked to intimate partner violence (IPV). However, this association is not usually examined in Russia. Moreover, more investigation is required as to whether specific drinking contexts are also associated with IPV. The objectives of this study are: to investigate whether alcohol misu...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Zhan W,Shaboltas AV,Skochilov RV,Kozlov AP,Krasnoselskikh TV,Abdala N

更新日期：2011-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physicians' mental health may be adversely affected by the number of days of work and time spent on-call, and improved by sleep and days-off. The aim of this study was to determine the associations of depressive symptoms with taking days of off duty, hours of sleep, and the number of days of on-call and over...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Wada K,Yoshikawa T,Goto T,Hirai A,Matsushima E,Nakashima Y,Akaho R,Kido M,Hosaka T

更新日期：2010-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obesity is a global public health issue. Having a BMI of 30 kg/m2 or more (classifying a person as obese) at the start of pregnancy is a significant risk factor for maternal and fetal morbidity. There is a dearth of evidence to inform suitable interventions to support pregnant women with a BMI of 30 kg/m2 or...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Smith DM,Whitworth M,Sibley C,Taylor W,Gething J,Chmiel C,Lavender T

更新日期：2010-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The emergence of diseases such as dyslipidemia, systemic arterial hypertension, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents has brought about a change in the epidemiologic profile of the pediatric population. As action to promote health in the school environment is a useful tool for...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： de Assunção Bezerra MK,Freese de Carvalho E,Souza Oliveira J,Pessoa Cesse EÂ,Cabral de Lira PI,Galvão Tenório Cavalcante J,Sá Leal V

更新日期：2018-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the number of smokers has declined in the last decade, smoking is still a major health problem among youngsters and adolescents. For this reason, there is a need for effective smoking prevention programmes targeting primary school children. A web-based computer-tailored feedback programme may be an ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Cremers HP,Mercken L,Oenema A,de Vries H

更新日期：2012-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Australia there have been many calls for government action to halt the effects of unhealthy food marketing on children's health, yet implementation has not occurred. The attitudes of those involved in the policy-making process towards regulatory intervention governing unhealthy food marketing are not well...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Chung A,Shill J,Swinburn B,Mavoa H,Lawrence M,Loff B,Crammond B,Sacks G,Allender S,Peeters A

更新日期：2012-12-28 00:00:00