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  1. As the number of elderly migrants in China continues to grow, it is necessary to pay closer attention to their health and health services. Some studies have confirmed that social capital plays a significant ro...

    Authors: Qi Luo, Xiaolei Chen, Linlin Zhao, Qinghua Hu, Juan Du and Shuang Shao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1252
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  2. The prevalence of physical inactivity and sedentary behavior among children and adolescents is a growing public health concern. This study aims to examine the trends in Physical Activity (PA) and Recreational ...

    Authors: Ming Ming Guo, Koon Teck Koh and Xiao Zan Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1305
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  3. Iran ranks among the top six countries globally with a significant incidence of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL). Using planning models is one community-based intervention to promote preventive behaviors. The purp...

    Authors: Hossein Jajarmi, Seyedeh Belin Tavakoli sani, Asma pourtaheri, Mahdi Gholian-Aval, Habibollah Esmaily, Seyed Hamid Hosseini, Rezvan Rajabzadeh and Hadi Tehrani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1304
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  5. Hazardous alcohol use is a leading risk factor for disability and death, yet observational studies have also reported reduced cardiovascular disease mortality among regular, low-level drinkers. Such findings a...

    Authors: Paul Welfordsson, Anna-Karin Danielsson, Caroline Björck, Bartosz Grzymala-Lubanski, Matthias Lidin, Ida Haugen Löfman and Sara Wallhed Finn
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1302
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  6. Anemia is a common complication of HIV/AIDS, particularly in adolescents and young adults across various countries and regions. However, little is known about the changing prevalence trends of anemia impairmen...

    Authors: Xinqi Li, Nan Zhang, Linlu Ma, Qian Wang, Yuxing Liang, Xiaoyan Liu and Fuling Zhou
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1301
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  9. Improving breastfeeding practices does not always link to interventions relying only on improving nutrition awareness and education but needs cultural and behavioral insights .

    Authors: Ammal M. Metwally, Walaa A. Basha, Ghada A. Elshaarawy, Sara F. Sallam, Inas R. El-Alameey, Amira S. El Rifay, Walaa Yousef, Amira A. Goda, Galal A. Elashry, Doaa E. Ahmed, Nayera E. Hassan, Sahar A. El-Masry, Nihad A. Ibrahim, Soha M. Abd El Dayem, Wafaa A. Kandeel, Ebtissam M. Salah El-Din…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1298
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  10. Transportation plays a significant role in health, community resilience, and access to basic needs such as healthcare, social services, education, and job opportunities. Health and community resilience are, ho...

    Authors: Oqab Jabali, Abed Alkarim Ayyoub and Shaden Jabali
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1297
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  12. Qingyang is located in the northwest of China. By analyzing the current situation and risk factors of bullying in junior high schools in Qingyang City, and identify relevant data for formulating prevention and...

    Authors: Hongjing Li, Chunyuan Liu, Xiping Shen, Yingdong Nan and Liya Feng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1295
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  13. There have been few longitudinal studies on Chinese bus drivers and the individual differences in the relationships between organizational justice and job satisfaction. This study examined the organizational j...

    Authors: Jingyue Chen, Jiuping Xu, Yi Lu and Wanjie Tang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1294
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  14. New effective treatments for dementia are lacking, and early prevention focusing on risk factors of dementia is important. Non-pharmacological intervention therapies aimed at these factors may provide a valuab...

    Authors: Petra Maresova, Lukas Rezny, Petr Bauer, Marian Valko and Kamil Kuca
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1293
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  15. A birth companion is a powerful mechanism for preventing mistreatment during childbirth and is a key component of respectful maternity care (RMC). Despite a growing body of evidence supporting the benefits of ...

    Authors: Marjan Mirzania, Elham Shakibazadeh, Sedigheh Hantoushzadeh, Zahra Panahi, Meghan A. Bohren and Abdoljavad Khajavi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1292
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  17. This study aimed to explore predictors associated with intermediate (six months) and post-intervention (24 months) increases in daily steps among people with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes participating in a t...

    Authors: Kristina Larsson, Jenny Rossen, Åsa Norman, Unn-Britt Johansson and Maria Hagströmer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1290
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  18. Under a changing climate, the joint effects of temperature and relative humidity on tuberculosis (TB) are poorly understood. To address this research gap, we conducted a time-series study to explore the joint ...

    Authors: Wen Li, Jia Wang, Wenzhong Huang, Yu Yan, Yanming Liu, Qi Zhao, Mingting Chen, Liping Yang, Yuming Guo and Wei Ma
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1289
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  20. Frailty not only affects disease survival but also impacts the long-term function and quality life of all adults diagnosed with and/or treated for cancer.The American Heart Association has introduced Life’s Es...

    Authors: Xiuxiu Qiu, Qidong Wu, Yiyi Zhang, Yingjie Zhu, Ming Yang and Li Tao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1287
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  21. The WHO highlight alcohol, tobacco, unhealthy food, and sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes as one of the most effective policies for preventing and reducing the burden of non-communicable diseases. This umbr...

    Authors: Robyn Burton, Casey Sharpe, Saloni Bhuptani, Mike Jecks, Clive Henn, Nicola Pearce-Smith, Sandy Knight, Marguerite Regan and Nick Sheron
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1286
    Content type: Systematic Review Published on:

  23. Although prior studies have demonstrated that children with high levels of fundamental movement skill (FMS) are more active throughout the day, little is known about children’s FMS and their physical activity ...

    Authors: Dongao Liu, Zan Huang, Yanjie Liu and Yulan Zhou
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1283
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  25. The increasing ageing of the population with growth in NCD burden in India has put unprecedented pressure on India’s health care systems. Shortage of skilled human resources in health, particularly of speciali...

    Authors: Anup Karan, Suhaib Hussain, Lasse X Jensen, Alexandra Buhl, Margaret Bearman and Sanjay Zodpey
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1280
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  27. The popularity of e-cigarettes is on the rise among current cigarette users. Therefore, there are concerns about their health implications. This study examined the impact of health-related social media use on ...

    Authors: Luxi Zhang, Sha Sarah Qiu, Song Harris Ao and Xinshu Zhao
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1278
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  29. Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) are state-level databases that track and inform prescribing practices to reduce prescription drug diversion and misuse. To our knowledge, only three studies have e...

    Authors: Kevin Liu, Marco Benedetti, Alexander Evans and Motao Zhu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1276
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  34. Gambling abstinence when underage lowers the risk of harmful gambling in later life. However, little research has examined why many young people refrain from gambling, even though this knowledge can inform protec...

    Authors: Nerilee Hing, Hannah Thorne, Lisa Lole, Kerry Sproston, Nicole Hodge and Matthew Rockloff
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1270
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  35. Over the past three decades, China has experienced significant changes in urban-rural, gender, and age-specific suicide mortality patterns. This study aimed to investigate the long-term trends in suicide morta...

    Authors: Yu Wu, Binbin Su, Panliang Zhong, Yiran Wang, Yueqin Huang and Xiaoying Zheng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1269
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  36. Hepatitis B virus infection poses a global health challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income African countries. Illicit drug use exacerbates the problem, with drug users having a higher HBV infection ri...

    Authors: Ibuchukwu N Orabueze, Anthony C Ike, Oluchi M Aniche, Ifeyinwa N Nwafia and Samuel O Ebede
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1203
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  37. Complications of diabetes in women have adverse effects on their self-image, quality of life, health, and other social relationships, thereby leading to sexual dysfunction. maternity nurse care can play a crit...

    Authors: Nermen Awad Atia Abdelkhaliek, Soad Abdelsalam Ramadan, Seham Shehata Ibrahim, Maha Ramadan Ali Mohamed and Nour Elhoda Muhammad Elshabory
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1161
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  38. In Africa, approx. 675 million people were at risk of food insecurity. COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have exacerbated this situation, by damaging populations’ access to and affordability of foods. This study ...

    Authors: Yoshito Kawakatsu, Ohene Damptey, John Sitor, Ruth Situma, Jevaise Aballo, Mrunal Shetye and Hirotsugu Aiga
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1268
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  39. Bayesian network (BN) models were developed to explore the specific relationships between influencing factors and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), coronary heart disease (CAD), and their comorbidities. The aim...

    Authors: Danli Kong, Rong Chen, Yongze Chen, Le Zhao, Ruixian Huang, Ling Luo, Fengxia Lai, Zihua Yang, Shuang Wang, Jingjing Zhang, Hao Chen, Zhenhua Mai, Haibing Yu, Keng Wu and Yuanlin Ding
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1267
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  40. Long-term exposure to PM2.5 has been linked to increased mortality risk. However, limited studies have examined the potential modifying effect of community-level characteristics on this association, particularly ...

    Authors: Garam Byun, Sera Kim, Yongsoo Choi, Ayoung Kim, AiMS-CREATE Team, Jong-Tae Lee and Michelle L. Bell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1266
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  41. Given the destructive nature of addiction and its relapse after quitting, the present study aimed to investigate the factors affecting substance abuse relapse based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in m...

    Authors: Mojtaba Sohrabpour, Amirhossein Kamyab, Asiyeh Yari, Pooyan Afzali Harsini and Ali Khani Jeihooni
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1265
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  42. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) issues infant formula to infants who are not fully breastfed, and prior research found elevated obesity risk among children rece...

    Authors: Christopher E. Anderson, Shannon E. Whaley and Michael I. Goran
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1264
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  43. Suicide among male construction workers are reported to be disproportionally high compared to the working age population. However, there is minimal understanding of the prevalence and associated factors for su...

    Authors: Shane O’Donnell, Tom Egan, Nicholas Clarke and Noel Richardson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1263
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  44. The international education sector is important not only to Australian society, but also to the national economy. There are growing concerns about the potential wellbeing challenges facing international studen...

    Authors: Tim Corney, Karin du Plessis, Brett Woods, Catherine Lou, Anita Dewhurst and Daveena Mawren
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1262
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  45. In Bangladesh, remittances constitute a substantial portion of the country’s foreign exchange earnings and serve as a primary source of income. However, a considerable number of Bangladeshi citizens reside ove...

    Authors: Md. Salman Sohel, Md. Khaled Sifullah, Babul Hossain, Md. Fouad Hossain Sarker, Noshin Tasnim Zaman and Md. Obaidullah
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1261
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  46. Cancer represents a significant global public health challenge, with escalating incidence rates straining healthcare systems. Malaysia, like many nations, has witnessed a rise in cancer cases, particularly amo...

    Authors: Tshewang Gyeltshen, Hoon Shien Teh, Ching Ee Loo, Nicholas Yee Liang Hing, Wei Yin Lim, Shridevi Subramaniam, Wen Jun Wong, Zoie Shui-Yee Wong and Wen Yea Hwong
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1260
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  47. Worldwide, it has been reported that fully vaccinated people still die of COVID-19-associated symptoms, generating public uncertainty about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines. Hence, this research is...

    Authors: Oluwatosin Idowu Oni, Patrick Olanrewaju Osho, Tayelolu Mary Odesanmi, Habeebat Motunrayo Raji, Faith Titilayo Oluranti and Demian Ibina
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1259
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  48. The approval of long-acting pre-exposure prophylaxis PrEP (LA-PrEP) in the United States brings opportunities to overcome barriers of oral PrEP, particularly among sexual and gender minority communities who be...

    Authors: Rose Pollard Kaptchuk, Amber M. Thomas, Amit “Mickey” Dhir, Sunil S. Solomon and Steven J. Clipman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1258
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  49. In Thailand, the national health care system and nationwide standard treatment protocols have evolved over time, potentially influencing the trends in the incidence and survival rates of childhood cancers. How...

    Authors: Chanaporn Pinsuwan, Chalongpon Santong, Su-on Chainansamit, Patcharee Komvilaisak, Prapassara Sirikarn, Surachai Phimha and Kunanya Suwannaying
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1255
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  50. Among the numerous studies on physical activity and sleep disorders, few have focused on physical activity and sleep disorders in middle-aged people who are particularly stressed. A restricted cubic web (RCS) ...

    Authors: ZhiYing Fei, XiaoYing Zhu, QiDan Shan, FangYuan Wan, YingYing Tu and XiaoHeng Lv
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1248
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