Improving the cost-effectiveness of cardiovascular disease prevention in Australia: a modelling study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaria transmission in Ethiopia is unstable and seasonal, with the majority of the country's population living in malaria-prone areas. Results from DHS 2005 indicate that the coverage of key malaria interventions was low. The government of Ethiopia has set the national goal of full population coverage with ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Shargie EB,Gebre T,Ngondi J,Graves PM,Mosher AW,Emerson PM,Ejigsemahu Y,Endeshaw T,Olana D,WeldeMeskel A,Teferra A,Tadesse Z,Tilahun A,Yohannes G,Richards FO Jr

更新日期：2008-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) is an important outcome in times of Highly Active Antiretroviral Treatment (HAART). We compared the HRQoL of HIV positive patients receiving HAART with those awaiting treatment in public sector facilities in the Free State province in South Africa. METHODS:A stratified...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Louwagie GM,Bachmann MO,Meyer K,Booysen Fle R,Fairall LR,Heunis C

更新日期：2007-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This paper is embedded in a randomised controlled trial (Alcohol and Employment) that investigated whether welfare-to-work schemes combined with alcohol treatment were more effective than welfare-to-work schemes alone for helping unemployed welfare recipients with alcohol problems get back to employment and ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Hansen MB,Kloster S,Danquah IH,Nielsen AS,Becker U,Tjørnhøj-Thomsen T,Tolstrup JS

更新日期：2015-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Poor maternal and child health indicators have been reported in Nigeria since the 1990s. Many interventions have been instituted to reverse the trend and ensure that Nigeria is on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. This systematic review aims at describing and indirectly measuring the effect ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Kana MA,Doctor HV,Peleteiro B,Lunet N,Barros H

更新日期：2015-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of the study was to explore the implementation of school based diet and physical activity interventions with respect to the barriers and facilitators to adoption, implementation and sustainability; supportive actions required for implementation and recommendations to overcome identified barriers. Two...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Hayes CB,O'Shea MP,Foley-Nolan C,McCarthy M,Harrington JM

更新日期：2019-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physical activity (PA) surveillance is an important component of non-communicable disease risk factor monitoring, and occurs through national and international surveillance systems. This review identifies population PA estimates for adults in the Asia-Pacific region, and examines variation in trends and prev...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Macniven R,Bauman A,Abouzeid M

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Worksite health promotion programs (WHPPs) offer an attractive opportunity to improve the lifestyle of employees. Nevertheless, broad scale and successful implementation of WHPPs in daily practice often fails. In the present study, called BRAVO@Work, a 7-step implementation strategy was used to develop, impl...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Wierenga D,Engbers LH,van Empelen P,Hildebrandt VH,van Mechelen W

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds (CAHHM) is a pan-Canadian, prospective, multi-ethnic cohort study being conducted in Canada. The overarching objective of the CAHHM is to understand the association of socio-environmental and contextual factors (such as societal structure, activity, nutritio...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Anand SS,Tu JV,Awadalla P,Black S,Boileau C,Busseuil D,Desai D,Després JP,de Souza RJ,Dummer T,Jacquemont S,Knoppers B,Larose E,Lear SA,Marcotte F,Moody AR,Parker L,Poirier P,Robson PJ,Smith EE,Spinelli JJ,Tardi

更新日期：2016-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physical inactivity, overweight, and work-related stress are major concerns today. Psychological stress causes physiological responses such as reduced heart rate variability (HRV), owing to attenuated parasympathetic and/or increased sympathetic activity in cardiac autonomic control. This study's purpose was...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Föhr T,Pietilä J,Helander E,Myllymäki T,Lindholm H,Rusko H,Kujala UM

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Between 2011 and 2015, Men who have sex with men (MSM) accounted for nearly half of new HIV cases among men in Israel. This study carries out a cost-utility analysis of PrEP (HIV Pre Exposure Prophylaxis), an antiretroviral medication that can protect against the acquisition of HIV infection, whose incidence...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Ginsberg GM,Chemtob D

更新日期：2020-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Common enteric pathogens that cause gastrointestinal illness are transmitted to humans through food, water or direct contact. This poses a significant concern to public health as enteric pathogens can cause disease in a large number of people, and cost a substantial amount to treat and prevent. In order to g...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Harding SA,Parmley EJ,Morrison KE

更新日期：2014-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous analyses of the listings of trastuzumab on the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and HPV vaccine on the National Immunisation Program (NIP) suggest a media influence on policy makers. We examined the timing and content of Australian newspaper reports of medicines in relation to Pharmac...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Robertson J,Walkom EJ,Bevan MD,Newby DA

更新日期：2013-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study is to highlight the experiences of women who are often hidden in what we know and understand about homelessness, and to make policy and practice recommendations for women-centred services including adaptations to current housing interventions. METHODS:Three hundred survey interview...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Milaney K,Williams N,Lockerbie SL,Dutton DJ,Hyshka E

更新日期：2020-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several observational studies have shown that exercise reduces the risk of cognitive decline; however, evidences from long-term, well-conducted, randomized controlled trials are scanty. The principal aim of this study is to verify whether a long-term program of multimodal supervised exercise improves the cog...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Iuliano E,di Cagno A,Cristofano A,Angiolillo A,D'Aversa R,Ciccotelli S,Corbi G,Fiorilli G,Calcagno G,Di Costanzo A,EPD Study Group.

更新日期：2019-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Household decision-makers decide about service use based largely on the costs and perceived benefits of health interventions. Very often this leads to different decisions than those imagined by health planners, resulting in under-utilisation of public services like immunisation. In the case of Lasbela distri...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Andersson N,Cockcroft A,Ansari N,Omer K,Losos J,Ledogar RJ,Tugwell P,Shea B

更新日期：2005-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epidemiological studies over the last decade have supplied growing evidence of an association between urbanization and the prevalence of psychiatric disorders. Our aim was to examine the link between levels of urbanization and 12-month prevalence rates of psychiatric disorders in a nationwide German populati...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Dekker J,Peen J,Koelen J,Smit F,Schoevers R

更新日期：2008-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent decades, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has seen an exponentially growing antibiotic resistance, which is exacerbated by the use of antibiotics without a prescription and other various factors. However, no published data are available on factors influencing non-prescription use of antibiotics among th...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Alhomoud F,Aljamea Z,Basalelah L

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is limited evidence that interventions for depression and other common mental disorders (CMD) can be integrated sustainably into primary health care in Africa. We aimed to pilot a low-cost multi-component 'Friendship Bench Intervention' for CMD, locally adapted from problem-solving therapy and delivere...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Chibanda D,Mesu P,Kajawu L,Cowan F,Araya R,Abas MA

更新日期：2011-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is current controversy about the efficacy of smoking cessation interventions that are based on information obtained by spirometry. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness in the primary care setting of structured motivational intervention to achieve smoking cessation, compared with...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Martin-Lujan F,Piñol-Moreso JL,Martin-Vergara N,Basora-Gallisa J,Pascual-Palacios I,Sagarra-Alamo R,Llopis EA,Basora-Gallisa MT,Pedret-Llaberia R,ESPITAP Study Group investigators.

更新日期：2011-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Homeless veterans are at high risk for co-occurring disorders (COD), defined as mental illnesses that include at least one alcohol or other drug use disorder and at least one non-drug related mental disorder. However, epidemiological studies examining the prevalence of COD and associated mental health status...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Ding K,Slate M,Yang J

更新日期：2018-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Patient Activation Measure (PAM) is a measure that assesses patient knowledge, skill, and confidence for self-management. This study validates the Danish translation of the 13-item Patient Activation Measure (PAM13) in a Danish population with dysglycaemia. METHODS:358 people with screen-detected dysgly...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Maindal HT,Sokolowski I,Vedsted P

更新日期：2009-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As the world's largest developing country, China has entered into the epidemiological phase characterized by high life expectancy and high morbidity and mortality from chronic diseases. Cardiovascular diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, and malignant tumors have become the leading causes of dea...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Jiang C,Ma J,Zhang X,Luo W

更新日期：2012-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Population surveys and health services registers are the main source of data for the management of public health. Yet, the validity of survey data on the use of mental health services has been questioned repeatedly due to the sensitive nature of mental illness and to the risk of recall bias. The main objecti...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Drapeau A,Boyer R,Diallo FB

更新日期：2011-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 1996, Brazil became the first developing country to provide free, universal access to HAART, laboratory monitoring, and clinical care to any eligible patient. As of June 2014, approximately 400,000 patients were under treatment, making it the most comprehensive HIV treatment initiative implemented thus fa...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Malta M,da Silva CM,Magnanini MM,Wirtz AL,Perissé AR,Beyrer C,Strathdee SA,Bastos FI

更新日期：2015-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Smoking prevention programs have been taught in schools to reduce the high smoking prevalence and its related problems among adolescent populations. Although short-term benefits have been observed, the long-term effectiveness of such programs appear to be inconsistent. This study aims at investigating the lo...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Tahlil T,Woodman RJ,Coveney J,Ward PR

更新日期：2015-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aims to characterize the heterogeneity in BMI trajectories and evaluate how different BMI trajectories predict mortality risk in Canadian seniors. METHODS:Data came from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS, 1994-2011) and 1480 individuals aged 65-79 years with at least four BMI r...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Wang M,Yi Y,Roebothan B,Colbourne J,Maddalena V,Sun G,Wang PP

更新日期：2017-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Compared with whites, sleep disturbance and sleep deprivation appear more prevalent in African Americans (AA). Long-term sleep deprivation may increase the risk of obesity through multiple metabolic and endocrine alterations. Previous studies have reported contradictory results on the association between hab...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Bidulescu A,Din-Dzietham R,Coverson DL,Chen Z,Meng YX,Buxbaum SG,Gibbons GH,Welch VL

更新日期：2010-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Smoking often starts in early adolescence and addiction can occur rapidly. For effective smoking prevention there is a need to identify at risk groups of preadolescent children and whether gender-specific intervention components are necessary. This study aimed to examine associations between mother, father, ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： McGee CE,Trigwell J,Fairclough SJ,Murphy RC,Porcellato L,Ussher M,Foweather L

更新日期：2015-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aims to explore the use of traditional medicines to cope with climate sensitive diseases in areas vulnerable to climate change. We assessed the extent to which traditional or alternative medicines were used for the treatment of the climate sensitive diseases by villagers as part of their health-co...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Haque MA,Louis VR,Phalkey R,Sauerborn R

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mission of Mercy (MOM) emergency dental clinics are a resource for populations lacking access to dental care. We designed a MOM event incorporating health equity components with established community partners who shared a common vision of addressing the oral health, physical health, and social service needs ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Jackson DN,Passmore S,Fryer CS,Chen J,Kleinman DV,Horowitz AM,Butler J 3rd,Garza MA,Quinn SC,Thomas SB

更新日期：2018-07-13 00:00:00