Exercise or sports in midlife and healthy life expectancy: an ecological study in all prefectures in Japan.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Colorectal cancer screening uptake within the South Asian population in England is approximately half that of the general population (33 % vs 61 %), and varies by Muslim (31.9 %), Sikh (34.6 %) and Hindu (43.7 %) faith background. This study sought to explore reasons for low uptake of CRC screening in South ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Palmer CK,Thomas MC,McGregor LM,von Wagner C,Raine R

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to the limited evidence of the cost-effectiveness of Community Health Workers (CHW) delivering treatment for severe acute malnutrition (SAM), there is a need to better understand the costs incurred by both implementing institutions and beneficiary households. This study assessed the costs and cost-effect...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Rogers E,Guerrero S,Kumar D,Soofi S,Fazal S,Martínez K,Morán JLA,Puett C

更新日期：2019-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many countries worldwide have experienced reductions in provision of formal long-term care services amidst rising need for care. Provision of unpaid care, meanwhile, has grown. This includes care provided by young people. Care responsibilities can affect a young people's health, education and employment. We ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Brimblecombe N,Knapp M,King D,Stevens M,Cartagena Farias J

更新日期：2020-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is often associated with chronic pain, but pain in COPD remains poorly understood, particularly in comparison to pain in other groups. We compared the pain reported by people with COPD with that reported by arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, and those not reporti...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Andenæs R,Momyr A,Brekke I

更新日期：2018-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Asthma control and monitoring still represents a challenge worldwide. Although the international guidelines suggest the interplay between secondary and primary care services as an effective strategy to control the disease, community pharmacies' are seldom involved in asthma control assessment. The present cr...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Caminati M,Cegolon L,Bacchini M,Segala N,Dama A,Bovo C,Olivieri B,Furci F,Senna G

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infants in utero during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 may have been negatively affected by maternal stress. Studies to date have produced contradictory results. METHODS:Data for this retrospective cohort study were obtained from the Department of Defense Birth and Infant Health Registry and in...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Endara SM,Ryan MA,Sevick CJ,Conlin AM,Macera CA,Smith TC

更新日期：2009-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The decreasing suicide rate in China has been regarded as a major contributor to the decline of global suicide rate in the past decade. However, previous estimations on China's suicide rates might not be accurate, since often they were based on the data from the Ministry of Health's Vital Registration ("MOH-...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Sha F,Chang Q,Law YW,Hong Q,Yip PSF

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Financial incentives are widely used strategies to alleviate poverty, foster development, and improve health. Cash transfer programs, microcredit, user fee removal policies and voucher schemes that provide direct or indirect monetary incentives to households have been used for decades in Latin America, Sub-S...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Bassani DG,Arora P,Wazny K,Gaffey MF,Lenters L,Bhutta ZA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Injury is an emerging public health problem with social development and modernization in developing countries. To describe the prevalence and burden of injury and provide elaborate information for policy development, we conducted a community-based household survey in the Shandong Province of China. METHODS:...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Ma J,Guo X,Xu A,Zhang J,Jia C

更新日期：2008-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Under-five malnutrition is a major public health issue contributing to mortality and morbidity, especially in developing countries like Ghana where the rates remain unacceptably high. Identification of critical risk factors of under-five malnutrition using appropriate and advanced statistical methods can hel...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Aheto JMK

更新日期：2020-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In South Asia, up to 20% of people ingesting pesticides for self-poisoning purchase the pesticide from a shop with the sole intention of self-harm. Individuals who are intoxicated with alcohol and/or non-farmers represent 72% of such high-risk individuals. We aimed to test the feasibility and acceptability o...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Weerasinghe M,Konradsen F,Eddleston M,Pearson M,Jayamanne S,Gunnell D,Hawton K,Agampodi S

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obesity and caries are common conditions in childhood and can have significant implications on children's wellbeing. Evidence into their association remains conflicting. Furthermore, studies examining the ssociation between obesity and caries commonly focus on individual-level determinants. The present study...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Paisi M,Kay E,Kaimi I,Witton R,Nelder R,Potterton R,Lapthorne D

更新日期：2018-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 1976, the U.S. Sugar Association (SA), a globally networked trade organization representing the cane and beet sugar industry, won the Public Relations Society of America's (PRSA) Silver Anvil Award for a crisis communication campaign. Their campaign successfully limited the diffusion of sugar restriction ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Kearns CE,Glantz SA,Apollonio DE

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study identifies the characteristics and perceptions related to the individual, the dwelling and the neighbourhood of residence associated with the prevalence of self-reported adverse health impacts and an adaptation index when it is very hot and humid in summer in the most disadvantaged sectors of the ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Bélanger D,Abdous B,Valois P,Gosselin P,Sidi EAL

更新日期：2016-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent epidemiological studies have found that the prevalence of high blood pressure (BP) has significantly increased among children and adolescents. The aim of this study was to examine the associations between short sleep duration and prehypertension and hypertension in Lithuanian children and adolescents ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Kuciene R,Dulskiene V

更新日期：2014-03-15 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：BACKGROUND:The Getting it Right study determined the validity, sensitivity, specificity and acceptability of the culturally adapted 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (aPHQ-9) as a screening tool for depression in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter referred to as Indigenous) people. In this process evalu...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Farnbach S,Gee G,Eades AM,Evans JR,Fernando J,Hammond B,Simms M,DeMasi K,Glozier N,Brown A,Hackett ML,Getting it Right Investigators.

更新日期：2019-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In resource-poor areas of China and India, the cardiovascular disease burden is high, but availability of and access to quality healthcare is limited. Establishing a management scheme that utilizes the local infrastructure and builds healthcare capacity is essential for cardiovascular disease prevention and ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Ajay VS,Tian M,Chen H,Wu Y,Li X,Dunzhu D,Ali MK,Tandon N,Krishnan A,Prabhakaran D,Yan LL

更新日期：2014-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several epidemiologic studies have shown a possible association between thyroid function and cognitive decline. Our aim was to evaluate the association of subclinical hyperthyroidism and dementia in a population sample of older people METHODS:A cross-sectional study--São Paulo Ageing & Health Study (SPAH)--...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Benseñor IM,Lotufo PA,Menezes PR,Scazufca M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although Primary Health Care (PHC) Teams are used to deal with prevention and treatment of sanitary problems in adults with chronic diseases, they usually have a lack of experience in development of psychotherapeutic interventions. However, these interventions are the ones that achieve better results to redu...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Rodríguez-Sánchez E,Mora-Simón S,Porras-Santos N,Patino-Alonso MC,Recio-Rodríguez JI,Becerro-Muñoz C,Pérez-Arechaederra D,Gomez-Marcos MA,Garcia-Ortiz L

更新日期：2010-09-17 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:Screening of pregnant women carrying human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) has a crucial role in reducing the number of HTLV-1 carriers. A national HTLV-1 screening program for pregnant women was started in 2011 in Japan. The purpose of this study is to report on the implementation of this nationwide sc...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Yonemoto N,Suzuki S,Sekizawa A,Hoshi S,Sagara Y,Itabashi K

更新日期：2020-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is a great concern, considering all the potential health implications. Use of health care services related to FGM/C by women who have been subjected to FGM/C in Norway remains to be understood. This study aims to explore the health care-seeking patterns for FGM/C-rel...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Mbanya VN,Gele AA,Diaz E,Kumar B

更新日期：2018-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article. ...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Hernando-Rodriguez JC,Serra L,Benavides FG,Ubalde-Lopez M

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early childhood educators play a prominent role in promoting healthy activity behaviours in childcare. However, they have expressed that they lack the appropriate pre-service training to confidently lead physical activity (PA), and minimize sedentary behaviour (SB), in childcare. As such, the purpose of this...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Bruijns BA,Johnson AM,Tucker P

更新日期：2020-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The associations of famine exposure with diabetes risk in adulthood are still unclear. This study aimed to explore the association between famine exposure in early life and risk of diabetes in adulthood. METHODS:A total of 4138 subjects were selected from the data of the China Health and Retirement Longitud...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Wang Z,Zou Z,Yang Z,Dong Y,Song J,Dong B,Ma J,Arnold L

更新日期：2018-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The HIV epidemic in Russia is concentrated among injection drug users (IDUs). This is especially true for St. Petersburg where high HIV incidence persists among the city's estimated 80,000 IDUs. Although sterile syringes are legally available, access for IDUs may be hampered. To explore the feasibility of us...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Fedorova EV,Skochilov RV,Heimer R,Case P,Beletsky L,Grau LE,Kozlov AP,Shaboltas AV

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data on the association between body self-perception and eating patterns among adolescents are scarce. This study assessed the association between body image and eating patterns among normal-weight, overweight and obese adolescents. METHODS:A cross-sectional survey (n = 1231; 12-17 years old) was carried ou...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Bibiloni Mdel M,Pich J,Pons A,Tur JA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pesticide poisoning is an important health problem among Chinese farm workers, but there is a paucity of pesticide poisoning data from China. Using the WHO standard case definition of a possible acute pesticide poisoning, we investigated the prevalence and risk factors of acute work-related pesticide poisoni...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Zhang X,Zhao W,Jing R,Wheeler K,Smith GA,Stallones L,Xiang H

更新日期：2011-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The family plays a vital role in shaping adolescent behaviours. The present study investigated the associations between family structure and substance use among Hong Kong Chinese adolescents. METHODS:A total of 32,961 Form 1 to 5 (grade 7-12 in the US) Hong Kong students participated in the Youth Smoking Su...

journal_title：BMC public health

authors： Mak KK,Ho SY,Thomas GN,Schooling CM,McGhee SM,Lam TH

更新日期：2010-08-19 00:00:00