Prevalence and correlates of diabetes and metabolic syndrome in a rural indigenous community in Baja California, Mexico.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Worldwide, a total of 6.282 million deaths occurred among children aged less than 5 years in 2013. About 47.4 % of those were borne by the 47 Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region. Sadly, even as we approach the end date for the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), only eig...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Kirigia JM,Muthuri RD,Nabyonga-Orem J,Kirigia DG

更新日期：2015-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is widely believed that corporate actors exert substantial influence on the making of public health policy, including in the alcohol field. However, the industry is far from being monolithic, comprising a range of producers and retailers with varying and diverse interests. With a focus on contemporary deb...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Holden C,Hawkins B,McCambridge J

更新日期：2012-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children frequently consume foods from restaurants; considering the quick-service sector alone, 1/3 of children eat food from these restaurants on a given day, and among these consumers, 1/3 of their daily calories come from fast food. Restaurant foods and beverages are second only to grocery store foods and...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Shonkoff ET,Anzman-Frasca S,Lynskey VM,Chan G,Glenn ME,Economos CD

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Childhood obesity is one of the most pressing public health challenges of the 21st century. Reformulating commonly eaten food products is a key emerging strategy to improve the food supply and help address rising rates of obesity and chronic disease. This study aimed to monitor reformulation of Australian ch...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Savio S,Mehta K,Udell T,Coveney J

更新日期：2013-09-11 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: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:Prior studies on the association between prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) and child motor development have found contradicting results. Using data collected in the INUENDO cohort in Kharkiv (Ukraine), Warsaw (Poland) and Greenland (N = 1,103) be...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Høyer BB,Ramlau-Hansen CH,Pedersen HS,Góralczyk K,Chumak L,Jönsson BA,Bonde JP,Toft G

更新日期：2015-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The World Health Organization prioritises a more holistic global response to end the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic by 2030. Based on experiences in the HIV response, social protection, and in particular cash transfers, show promise for contributing to this. Currently, individual-level evidence for the potential...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Rudgard WE,Carter DJ,Scuffell J,Cluver LD,Fraser-Hurt N,Boccia D

更新日期：2018-08-22 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:Childhood mental health problems are highly prevalent, experienced by one in five children living in socioeconomically disadvantaged families. Although childcare settings, including family day care are ideal to promote children's social and emotional wellbeing at a population level in a sustainable way, fami...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Davis E,Williamson L,Mackinnon A,Cook K,Waters E,Herrman H,Sims M,Mihalopoulos C,Harrison L,Marshall B

更新日期：2011-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Colorectal cancer is the second most common cancer and cancer-killer in Hong Kong with an alarming increasing incidence in recent years. The latest World Cancer Research Fund report concluded that foods low in fibre, and high in red and processed meat cause colorectal cancer whereas physical activity protect...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Ho JW,Lee AM,Macfarlane DJ,Fong DY,Leung S,Cerin E,Chan WY,Leung IP,Lam SH,Taylor AJ,Cheng KK

更新日期：2013-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiovascular diseases and cancer are jointly responsible for more than half all deaths in Portugal. They also share some important risk factors and act as mutual competing risks. We aimed firstly to describe time trends in death rates and years of life lost due to cardiovascular diseases and cancer in the ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Pereira M,Peleteiro B,Capewell S,Bennett K,Azevedo A,Lunet N

更新日期：2012-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In spite of a growing economy, unemployment is still a severe socio-economic problem in Lithuania. Nonetheless, no studies have been performed about the associations between unemployment and mental health in Lithuania. The aim of this study was to evaluate the associations between unemployment duration and d...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Stankunas M,Kalediene R,Starkuviene S,Kapustinskiene V

更新日期：2006-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:South Africa's maternal mortality ratio remains high although it has substantially declined in the past few years. Numerous studies undertaken in South Africa on maternal mortality have not paid much attention to how the causes are distributed in different socio-demographic groups. This study assesses and an...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Bomela NJ

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prolonged political instability may have exacerbated gender inequitable beliefs in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The aim of this study was to assess attitudes related to gender-equitable norms and its determinants among young, church-going women and men in Kinshasa, DRC. METHOD:Data were collected...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Lusey H,San Sebastian M,Christianson M,Edin KE

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Childhood obesity in rural communities is a serious but understudied problem. The current experiment aims to assess a wide range of obesity risk factors among rural youth and to offer an 8-month intervention program for parents to reduce obesity risk in their preteen child. METHODS/DESIGN:A two-group, repea...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Lynch WC,Martz J,Eldridge G,Bailey SJ,Benke C,Paul L

更新日期：2012-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Within Canada, many public health leaders have long identified the importance of improving the health of all Canadians especially those who face social and economic disadvantages. Future improvements in population health will be achieved by promoting health equity through action on the social determinants of...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Pauly BB,MacDonald M,Hancock T,Martin W,Perkin K

更新日期：2013-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dietary and lifestyle behaviors at young ages have been associated with the development of various chronic diseases. Schools are regarded as an excellent setting for lifestyle modification; there is a lack, however, of published dietary data in Cypriot school children. Thus, the objective of this work was to...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Lazarou C,Panagiotakos DB,Kouta C,Matalas AL

更新日期：2009-05-20 00:00:00

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:Low individual-level socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with higher prevalence of cigarette smoking. Recent work has examined whether neighborhood-level SES may affect smoking behavior independently from individual-level measures. However, few comparisons of neighborhood-level effects on smoking by rac...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Cohen SS,Sonderman JS,Mumma MT,Signorello LB,Blot WJ

更新日期：2011-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Weight misperception is the discordance between an individual's actual weight status and the perception of his/her weight. It is a common problem in the youth population as enumerated by many international studies. However data from Pakistan in this area is deficient. METHODS:A multi-center cross-sectional ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Saleem MD,Ahmed G,Mulla J,Haider SS,Abbas M

更新日期：2013-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hearing impairment at the workplace, and the resulting psychosocial problems are a major health problem with substantial costs for employees, companies, and society. Therefore, it is important to develop interventions to support hearing impaired employees. The objective of this article is to describe the des...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Gussenhoven AH,Anema JR,Goverts ST,Bosmans JE,Festen JM,Kramer SE

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adolescence is a critical time of development and nutritional status in adolescence influences both current and future adult health outcomes. However, data on adolescent nutritional status is limited in low-resource settings. Mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) has the potential to offer a simple, low-resourc...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Lillie M,Lema I,Kaaya S,Steinberg D,Baumgartner JN

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diarrhea is a leading cause of mortality in children under 5 years along with its long-term impact on growth and cognitive development. Despite advances in the understanding of diarrheal disorders and management strategies, globally nearly 750,000 children die annually as a consequence of diarrhea. METHODS:...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Das JK,Tripathi A,Ali A,Hassan A,Dojosoeandy C,Bhutta ZA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Comprehensive smoke-free legislation has been implemented in many countries. The current study quantitatively examined the reduction in risk of acute myocardial infarction (MI) occurrence following the legislations and the relationship with the corresponding smoking prevalence decrease. METHODS:PubMed, EMBA...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Lin H,Wang H,Wu W,Lang L,Wang Q,Tian L

更新日期：2013-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pain is common in otherwise healthy adolescents. In recent years widespread musculoskeletal pain, in contrast to single site pain, and associating factors has been emphasized. Musculoskeletal pain has not been examined in Arctic indigenous adolescents. The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence of w...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Eckhoff C,Kvernmo S

更新日期：2014-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 'Healthy School Start' programme was developed to promote healthy dietary habits and physical activity, targeting parents of 6-year-old children in pre-school class. Knowledge of barriers and facilitators of implementation is crucial before introducing this kind of programme on a larger scale. The aim of...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Bergström H,Haggård U,Norman Å,Sundblom E,Schäfer Elinder L,Nyberg G

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In developed European countries in the last phase of the smoking epidemic, education is a stronger predictor of smoking than income or employment. We examine whether this also applies in economically less developed countries. METHODS:Data from 7218 respondents in the 25-64 age group came from two National H...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Leinsalu M,Kaposvári C,Kunst AE

更新日期：2011-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Shortly after the approval of an over-the-counter HIV self-test in the US, we conducted a study to estimate the proportion of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Spain who knew that unauthorized HIV self-tests could be purchased online, and the proportion that had already used these tests, as well as their so...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Koutentakis K,Rosales-Statkus ME,Hoyos J,Fernández-Balbuena S,Ruiz M,Agustí C,de la Fuente L,Belza MJ,Madrid HIV self-testing group.

更新日期：2016-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:United Kingdom public health policy has recently re-emphasised the role of primary health care professionals in tackling increasing levels of physical inactivity within the general population. However, little is known about the impact that this has had in practice. This study explores Scottish primary care s...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Douglas F,Torrance N,van Teijlingen E,Meloni S,Kerr A

更新日期：2006-05-23 00:00:00