Awareness and knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among school-going adolescents in Europe: a systematic review of published literature.

abstract：BACKGROUND:People with a condition subject to stigmatisation, such as chronic hepatitis B, face the dilemma of whether or not to disclose their status. In Ghana, 12.3% of the adult population has the hepatitis B virus (HBV). One key strategy for breaking the cycle of hepatitis B transmission is the disclosure of hepati...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Adjei CA,Stutterheim SE,Naab F,Ruiter RAC

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The debate on frailty in later life focuses primarily on deficits and their associations with adverse (health) outcomes. In addition to deficits, it may also be important to consider the abilities and resources of older adults. This study was designed to gain insights into the lived experiences of frailty am...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Dury S,Dierckx E,van der Vorst A,Van der Elst M,Fret B,Duppen D,Hoeyberghs L,De Roeck E,Lambotte D,Smetcoren AS,Schols J,Kempen G,Zijlstra GAR,De Lepeleire J,Schoenmakers B,Verté D,De Witte N,Kardol T,De Deyn PP,Eng

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sick leave rates due to mental and behavioural disorders have increased in Sweden during the last decades. The aim of this prospective study was to investigate changes in the level of burnout in a working subset of the general population and to identify how such changes relate to changes in work situation an...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Norlund S,Reuterwall C,Höög J,Janlert U,Slunga Järvholm L

更新日期：2015-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Men who have sex with men (MSM) are at high risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in China. Correct and consistent condom use is one of the most effective strategies for preventing the spread of HIV. This study developed a modified Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (IMB) model to predi...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Jiang H,Chen X,Li J,Tan Z,Cheng W,Yang Y

更新日期：2019-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary care-based behavior change obesity treatment has long featured the Calorie restriction (CC), portion control approach. By contrast, the MyPlate-based obesity treatment approach encourages eating more high-satiety/high-satiation foods and requires no calorie-counting. This report describes study metho...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Gelberg L,Rico MW,Herman DR,Belin TR,Chandler M,Ramirez E,Love S,McCarthy WJ

更新日期：2019-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vaccination is one of the most cost-effective means of public health interventions to prevent childhood deaths from infectious diseases. Although several fragmented studies have been conducted concerning full vaccination coverage among children aged 12-23 months in Ethiopia, the pooled estimate has not been ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Ketema DB,Assemie MA,Alamneh AA,Alene M,Chane KY,Alamneh YM,Birhanu MY,Alebel A

更新日期：2020-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our group recently completed a randomized controlled trial, evaluating the efficacy of providing 5 weeks of free nicotine replacement therapy (NRT; in the form of the nicotine patch) by expedited postal mail without behavioral assistance to regular adult smokers interested in receiving it. The findings revea...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Kushnir V,Selby P,Zawertailo L,Tyndale RF,Leatherdale ST,Cunningham JA

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many southern African countries are nearing the global goal of diagnosing 90% of people with HIV by 2020. In 2016, 84 and 86% of people with HIV knew their status in Malawi and Zimbabwe, respectively. However, gaps remain, particularly among men. We investigated awareness and use of, and willingness to self-...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Johnson C,Neuman M,MacPherson P,Choko A,Quinn C,Wong VJ,Hatzold K,Nyrienda R,Ncube G,Baggaley R,Terris-Prestholt F,Corbett EL

更新日期：2020-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Pan American Health Organization provides technical cooperation to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean for the scale-up of HIV care and treatment based on the Treatment 2.0 initiative. Fourteen Joint Review Missions (JRMs) were conducted between March 2012 and October 2014. Evaluating the degree...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Perez F,Gomez B,Ravasi G,Ghidinelli M

更新日期：2015-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Precarious work is an increasingly common characteristic of industrialized labor markets that can widen health inequities, especially among disadvantaged workforce segments. Study objectives are to compare precarious employment in workers with and without disabilities, and to examine the modifying effect of ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Jetha A,Martin Ginis KA,Ibrahim S,Gignac MAM

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hearing impairment negatively impacts students' development of academic, language and social skills. Even minimal unilateral hearing loss can hinder educational performance. We investigated the prevalence of ear diseases among secondary school students in the city of Xi'an, China in order to provide a founda...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Chen Y,Li X,Xu Z,Li Z,Zhang P,He Y,Wang F,Qiu J

更新日期：2011-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Racial disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been attributed in part to negative psychosocial factors. Prior studies have demonstrated associations between individual psychosocial factors and CVD risk factors, but little is known about their cumulative effects. METHODS:Using the Jackson Heart Stu...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Sims M,Glover LSM,Gebreab SY,Spruill TM

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tuberculosis (TB) surveillance systems have some pitfalls outside of a National Tuberculosis Program and lack of efficient surveillance hampers accurate epidemiological quantification of TB burden.In the present study we assessed the quality of surveillance at the University Hospital in Pisa (UHP), Italy, an...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Melosini L,Vetrano U,Dente FL,Cristofano M,Giraldi M,Gabbrielli L,Novelli F,Aquilini F,Rindi L,Menichetti F,Freer G,Paggiaro PL

更新日期：2012-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Area-level measures of socioeconomic deprivation are important for understanding and describing health inequalities. The aim of this study was the development and validation of a small-area index of socioeconomic deprivation for Cypriot communities and the investigation of its association with the spatial di...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Lamnisos D,Lambrianidou G,Middleton N

更新日期：2019-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Perinatal mortality is an important indicator of health. European comparisons of perinatal mortality show an unfavourable position for the Netherlands. Our objective was to study regional variation in perinatal mortality within the Netherlands and to identify possible explanatory factors for the found differ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Tromp M,Eskes M,Reitsma JB,Erwich JJ,Brouwers HA,Rijninks-van Driel GC,Bonsel GJ,Ravelli AC

更新日期：2009-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Empirical evidence investigating heterogeneous impact of retirement on mental health depending on social backgrounds is lacking, especially among older adults. METHODS:We examined the impact of changes in working status on changes in mental health using Japanese community-dwelling adults aged ≥65 years part...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Shiba K,Kondo N,Kondo K,Kawachi I

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In response to the high burden of disease among sex workers and their position as a population heavily affected by the HIV epidemic, there has been a growing body of literature investigating the prevalence and risk factors associated with HIV risk among sex workers. To contextualize and summarize the existin...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Muldoon KA

更新日期：2015-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To estimate trends in leisure time physical activity and physical fitness between 1987-2006 in older Spanish people. METHODS:We analyzed data collected from the Spanish National Health Surveys conducted in 1987 (n = 29,647), 1993 (n = 20,707), 1995-1997 (n = 12,800), 2001 (n = 21,058), 2003 (n = 21,650), an...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Palacios-Ceña D,Alonso-Blanco C,Jiménez-Garcia R,Hernández-Barrera V,Carrasco-Garrido P,Pileño-Martinez E,Fernández-de-Las-Peñas C

更新日期：2011-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Poor socio-economic conditions fuel seasonal migration of adult males from Northwestern Ethiopia, but behavioral and other migration-related changes increase their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. This study examined risky sexual behaviors and associated factors that may lead to increased HIV infection vulnerabili...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Tiruneh K,Wasie B,Gonzalez H

更新日期：2015-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the present study the effect of a workplace-oriented intervention for persons on long-term sick leave for clinical burnout, aimed at facilitating return to work (RTW) by job-person match through patient-supervisor communication, was evaluated. We hypothesised that the intervention group would show a more ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Karlson B,Jönsson P,Pålsson B,Abjörnsson G,Malmberg B,Larsson B,Osterberg K

更新日期：2010-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vaccination against hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) has been applied successfully for more than 20 years in China, and since 2008, the government has implemented the Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI) in regions with high incidence. In this study, we analyzed the EPI-related changes in age d...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： He X,Wang S,Huang X,Wang X

更新日期：2013-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cholera is an acute diarrheal disease caused by the bacterium, Vibrio cholerae. A cholera epidemic occurred in Cameroon in 2010. After a cholera-free period at the end of 2010, new cases started appearing in early 2011. The disease affected 23,152 people and killed 843, with the South West Region registering...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Nsagha DS,Atashili J,Fon PN,Tanue EA,Ayima CW,Kibu OD

更新日期：2015-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Universal child health services (UCHS) provide an important pragmatic platform for the delivery of universal and targeted interventions to support families and optimize child health outcomes. We aimed to identify brief, evidence-based interventions for common health and developmental problems that could be p...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Newham JJ,McLean K,Ginja S,Hurt L,Molloy C,Lingam R,Goldfeld S

更新日期：2020-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lack of physical activity is an important risk factor for overweight, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other chronic conditions. In the Netherlands, ethnic minority groups are generally less physically active and rate their own health poorer compared to ethnic Dutch. This applies in particular to women. ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Hosper K,Deutekom M,Stronks K

更新日期：2008-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preventing intimate partner violence (IPV) remains a global public health challenge. Studies suggest urban informal settlements have particularly high levels of IPV and HIV-prevalence and these settlements are rapidly growing. The current evidence base of effective approaches to preventing IPV recognizes the...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Gibbs A,Washington L,Willan S,Ntini N,Khumalo T,Mbatha N,Sikweyiya Y,Shai N,Chirwa E,Strauss M,Ferrari G,Jewkes R

更新日期：2017-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is currently unknown if school-based social norms interventions are effective in preventing harmful alcohol consumption and other drug use among adolescents in Denmark. This paper describes the social norms-based programme The GOOD life and the design of a cluster-randomized controlled trial to test its e...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Stock C,Vallentin-Holbech L,Rasmussen BM

更新日期：2016-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although there are several studies to investigate the smoking behaviors among rural-to-urban Chinese migrants, no study has focused individually on this population in Shanghai. This study was performed to estimate the prevalence and identify the determinants of tobacco smoking among rural-to-urban migrants i...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Liu Y,Song H,Wang T,Wang T,Yang H,Gong J,Shen Y,Dai W,Zhou J,Zhu S,Pan Z

更新日期：2015-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The eye is well known to be sensitive to clearly high doses (>2 Gy) of ionizing radiation. In recent years, however, cataracts have been observed in populations exposed to lower doses. Interventional cardiologists are repeatedly and acutely exposed to scattered ionizing radiation (X-rays) during the diagnost...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Jacob S,Michel M,Spaulding C,Boveda S,Bar O,Brézin AP,Streho M,Maccia C,Scanff P,Laurier D,Bernier MO

更新日期：2010-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sexual offences are a global public health concern. Recent changes in the law in England and Wales have dramatically altered the legal landscape of sexual offences, but sexual assaults where the victim is voluntarily intoxicated by alcohol continue to have low conviction rates. Worldwide, students are high c...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Gunby C,Carline A,Bellis MA,Beynon C

更新日期：2012-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major preventable and treatable cause of morbidity and mortality. The ability to link population based centralized laboratory HCV testing data with administrative databases provided a unique opportunity to compare mortality between HCV seronegative and seropositive indi...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Yu A,Spinelli JJ,Cook DA,Buxton JA,Krajden M

更新日期：2013-04-02 00:00:00