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  1. The burden of chronic diseases has become a major public health concern, and high-efficiency use of community health services is essential in combating chronic diseases. This study described the status of chro...

    Authors: Junwang Gu, Qi Wang, Wei Qiu, Chunmei Wu and Xiaoqiang Qiu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:919
  2. In Chad, malaria remains a significant public health concern, particularly among nomadic populations. Geographical factors and the mobility of human populations have shown to be associated with the diversity of P...

    Authors: Azoukalné Moukénet, Kebfene Moudiné, Ngarkodje Ngarasta, Clement Kerah Hinzoumbe and Ibrahima Seck
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:918
  3. The intake of nutrient-rich foods from diverse diets ensures adequate nutrition for women. This study aims to determine dietary diversity among women of reproductive age (WRA) using the MDD-W indicator and how...

    Authors: Mariem Youssouf Issa, Yacouba Diagana, EL Kari Khalid, Sidi Mohamed Coulibaly, Alioune Gueye, Rabab. M.H. Dehah and Ould EL Kebir Mohamed Vall
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:916
  4. Studies estimate that at least 7.5% of adults are affected by long-term symptoms such as fatigue or cognitive impairment after the acute phase of COVID-19. COVID-19 vaccination may reduce the risk of long COVI...

    Authors: Tim Schmachtenberg, Gloria Königs, Sascha Roder, Frank Müller, Christina Müllenmeister, Dominik Schröder and Iman El-Sayed
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:915
  5. Nutritional status is a modifiable factor associated with perimenopausal women’s health and quality of life. Assessing body composition indicators helps to comprehensively understand nutritional status compare...

    Authors: Shujuan Liao, Li Zhao, Chuanya Huang, Anqi Xiong, Weijun Xiong, Yirong He, Xiao Huang, Victoria Hunter and Biru Luo
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:914
  6. There is little research investigating the subjective experiences of parenting young children while living in poverty and experiencing financial strain using qualitative methodologies. Therefore, the objective...

    Authors: Mary I. Martin, Dane Mauer-Vakil, Cornelia M. Borkhoff, Patricia C. Parkin and Imaan Bayoumi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:913
  7. Within South Africa, many low-income communities lack reliable waste management services. Within these contexts, absorbent hygiene product (AHP) waste, including nappies (diapers), are not recycled, and are of...

    Authors: Jurgita Slekiene, Nick Swan and Marc Kalina
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:912
  8. Policy protections for transgender adults in the United States are consistently associated with positive health outcomes. However, studies over-represent non-Latinx White transgender people and obscure variati...

    Authors: Wesley M. King, Kristi E. Gamarel, Nancy L. Fleischer, Asa E. Radix, Tonia C. Poteat, Linda M. Chatters, Don Operario, Sari L. Reisner and Andrea L. Wirtz
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:911
  9. HIV/AIDS is one of the top global public health threats that causes significant cases, deaths, and socioeconomic impact. Even though both HIV testing and counseling are identified as essential HIV intervention...

    Authors: Temam Beshir Raru, Bedasa Taye Merga, Alemayehu Deressa, Abdi Birhanu, Galana Mamo Ayana, Belay Negash, Mulugeta Gamachu, Addisu Alemu, Fila Ahmed Hassen, Ahmed Mohammed, Dawit Firdisa and Lemma Demissie Regassa
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:910
  10. People experiencing homelessness (PEH) in the United States face substantial challenges related to menstruation, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Limited access to period products, heightened stigma, and ...

    Authors: Andrea L. DeMaria, Rebecca Martinez, Emily Otten, Emma Schnolis, Sofia Hrubiak, Jaclyn Frank, Risa Cromer, Yumary Ruiz and Natalia M. Rodriguez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:909
  11. As the internet develops and 5G technology becomes increasingly prominent, the internet has become a major source of health-related information. Increasingly, people use the internet to find health-related inf...

    Authors: Bing-Yue Zhao, Long Huang, Xiao Cheng, Ting-Ting Chen, Si-Jia Li, Xiao-Juan Wang, Shui-Xiu Huang, Rong-Fang Hu and Hong Li
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:908
  12. Job boredom has been generally associated with poorer self-rated health but the evidence is mainly cross-sectional and there is a lack of a holistic mental health approach. We examined the temporal relationshi...

    Authors: Jie Li, Janne Kaltiainen and Jari J. Hakanen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:907
  13. Electronic health records (EHRs) are digital records of individual health information. However, their adoption and utilization remain low. This study explores the factors influencing the implementation of EHRs...

    Authors: Yizhou Xu, Zongmin Pei, Xing He, Lu Guo, Li Zeng, Xiaoxuan Huang and Jian Zhang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:905
  14. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in 2015 compromises 17 universal and indivisible goals for sustainable development, however the interactions between the SDGs in Somalia is not known which is v...

    Authors: Rage Adem, Hassan W. Nor, Mohamed M. Fuje, Abdinur H. Mohamed, Tobias Alfvén, Rhoda K. Wanyenze, Ahmed Y. Guled, Mohamed M. Biday, Nina Viberg and Daniel Helldén
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:904
  15. Food insecurity is an important social determinant of health that was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Both food insecurity and COVID-19 infection disproportionately affect racial and ethnic minority grou...

    Authors: Katie Nelson, Alexandra M. Jackson, Cassandra J. Nguyen, Carolyn Noonan, Clemma Muller, Richard F. MacLehose, Spero M. Manson, Denise A. Dillard and Dedra Buchwald
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:903
  16. Count time series (e.g., daily deaths) are a very common type of data in environmental health research. The series is generally autocorrelated, while the widely used generalized linear model is based on the as...

    Authors: Xiao-Han Xu, Zi-Shu Zhan, Chen Shi, Ting Xiao and Chun-Quan Ou
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:901
  17. Globally, economically developed countries face similar ageing demographics and the challenge of a ‘care gap’, yet they vary due to different care and formal support systems, and different cultural and societa...

    Authors: Mikołaj Zarzycki, Noa Vilchinsky, Eva Bei, Giulia Ferraris, Diane Seddon and Val Morrison
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:898
  18. Life expectancy is a significant result indicator of public health and sustainable development. Therefore, one of the final objectives of all economic and social policies is to increase the life expectancy. In...

    Authors: Yilmaz Bayar, Ahmet Ozen, Mahmut Unsal Sasmaz and Marina Danilina
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:897
  19. Nutritional status and physical activity are important factors for adolescent health. These factors may vary by the place of residence. This study aims to assess the nutritional status and physical activity le...

    Authors: Erol Vrevic, Pavle Malovic, Dragan Bacovic, Danilo Bojanic and Aldijana Nokic
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:896
  20. With low COVID-19 vaccination coverage, non-pharmaceutical interventions were critical to mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic in Sudan. We explored changes in social contact patterns, risk perception, attitudes, ...

    Authors: Salma A.E. Ahmed, Rahaf AbuKoura, Abd Elhameed Ahmed, Omama Abdalla, Omnia Kamal Hassan, Ahmed Tom, Ahmed Eldirdiri, Drieg Ismaeil, Israa Zainalabdeen, Nazik Nurelhuda, Aljaile Ahmed, Afrah Abdan, Maysoon Dahab and Nada Abdelmagid
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:895
  21. Obesity is a global public health concern. The goal of this study was to see if eating habits could mediate the relationship between psychological distress and weight maintenance in a population with a history...

    Authors: Wanyang Li, Dan Wang, Hongyu Chen, Yan Liu, Shuyao Dong, Mingyao Sun and Wei Chen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:894
  22. Individuals with a migrant background often underutilize physical rehabilitation services (PRS) compared to the host population. This disparity is attributed to various barriers, including limited access to in...

    Authors: Elaheh Amini, Manal Etemadi, Saeed Shahabi, Cornelia Anne Barth, Farzaneh Honarmandi, Marzieh Karami Rad and Kamran Bagheri Lankarani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:893
  23. Mobile phones can be an ideal platform to engage adolescents to maintain, improve, and promote self-care. Therefore, the current study aims to design and evaluate the usability of a mobile application for self...

    Authors: Razieh Rezaee, Mohtasham Ghaffari, Reza Rabiei, Amir Kavousi and Sakineh Rakhshanderou
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:892
  24. Bladder, kidney and prostate cancers make significant contributors to cancer burdens. Exploring their cross-country inequalities may inform equitable strategies to meet the 17 sustainable development goals bef...

    Authors: Qiao Huang, Jun Yang, Guo-Xiong Liu, Hao Zi, Shi-Di Tang, Hai-Chang Jia, Wei Li, Xiao-Feng Xu and Xian-Tao Zeng
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:891
  25. The early years is a critical stage to establish optimal nutrition and movement behaviours. Community playgroups are a relaxed environment for parents with a focus on social connection and supporting parents i...

    Authors: Georgia Middleton, Brittany J. Johnson, Dimity Dutch, Stewart G. Trost, Rebecca Byrne, Hayley E. Christian, Anna Henry, Caroline O. Terranova, Kate E. Williams, Li Kheng Chai, Denise S. K. Brookes, Kate Simon and Rebecca K. Golley
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:890
  26. Chicago’s deeply-rooted racial and socioeconomic residential segregation is a pattern mirrored in other major cities, making it a prototype for studying the uptake of public health interventions across the US....

    Authors: Grace Keegan, Mengqi Zhu, Maria Paz, Hyojung Kang, Ajanta Patel and Arshiya A. Baig
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:889
  27. With the ongoing evolution of the healthcare system and shifts in cultural paradigms, there is a pressing need to delve into the medical decision-making behaviors of general Chinese public and understand their...

    Authors: Yuwen Lyu, Qian Xu and Junrong Liu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:887
  28. Gestational weight gain (GWG) is a routinely monitored aspect of pregnancy health, yet critical gaps remain about optimal GWG in pregnant people from socially marginalized groups, or with pre-pregnancy body ma...

    Authors: Janne Boone-Heinonen, Kristin Lyon-Scott, Rachel Springer, Teresa Schmidt, Kimberly K. Vesco, Anna Booman, Dang Dinh, Stephen P. Fortmann, Byron A. Foster, Jenny Hauschildt, Shuling Liu, Jean O’Malley, Amy Palma, Jonathan M. Snowden, Kalera Stratton and Sarah Tran
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:886
  29. We conducted a systematic review aimed to evaluate the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions within non-healthcare workplaces and community-level workplace closures and lockdowns on COVID-19 morbidity an...

    Authors: Faruque Ahmed, Livvy Shafer, Pallavi Malla, Roderick Hopkins, Sarah Moreland, Nicole Zviedrite and Amra Uzicanin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:884
  30. Students of color disproportionately experience racial discrimination and food insecurity, which both lead to poor academic and health outcomes. This study explores the extent to which the location of racial d...

    Authors: Ryan Gamba, Negin Toosi, Lana Wood, Correia Alexandra, Nomar Medina, Maria Pritchard, Venerable Jhamon, Mikayla Lee and Joshua Kier Adrian Santillan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:883
  31. Health literacy (HL) among higher education students is low, making them vulnerable about their health. To reverse this trend, higher education institutions promote HL interventions with various topics and met...

    Authors: Jorge Rosário, Beatriz Raposo, Eunice Santos, Sónia Dias and Ana Rita Pedro
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:882
  32. Skepticism about COVID-19’s existence or severity has spread as fast as the disease itself, and in some populations has been shown to undermine protective public health behaviors that can mitigate infection. F...

    Authors: Stephanie J. Nawyn, Ezgi Karaoğlu, Natalie Qaji and Natalynn Qaji
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:881
  33. Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality worldwide. While countries in the Arab world continue to lack public health data and be severely understudied in health research, previous researc...

    Authors: Yazan A. Al-Ajlouni, Omar Al Ta’ani, Ghaith Shamaileh, Yazan Nagi, Mohammad Tanashat, Farah Al-Bitar, Dustin T. Duncan and Nour Makarem
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:879
  34. Adolescent mental health problems are on the rise globally, including in Sweden. One indicator of this trend is increased psychosomatic symptoms (PSS) over time. Lifestyle factors such as physical activity (PA...

    Authors: Benti Geleta Buli, Susanna Lehtinen-Jacks, Peter Larm, Kent W. Nilsson, Charlotta Hellström-Olsson and Fabrizia Giannotta
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:878
  35. Obesity is a classified risk factor for several of the world’s leading causes of death. In this study, we combined information contained in body mass index (BMI), total percentage body fat (TPBF) and relative ...

    Authors: Christian Obirikorang, Evans Asamoah Adu, Enoch Odame Anto, Anthony Afum-Adjei Awuah, Angela Nana Bosowah Fynn, George Osei-Somuah, Patience Nyarkoa Ansong, Alexander Owusu Boakye, Ivy Ofori-Boadu, Yaa Obirikorang, Austin Gideon Adobasom-Anane, Eric NY Nyarko and Lois Balmer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:877
  36. The social media landscape is now ubiquitous in people’s everyday lives. It is a space where culture, politics, economics and sociological and public health discourses occur. There is mounting evidence that e-...

    Authors: Jonine Jancey, Gemma Crawford, Elizabeth Bowman, Katharina Wolf, Tama Leaver, Stella Bialous and Kahlia McCausland
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:876
  37. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to fear, rumours, and stigma, particularly against those infected with the virus. In Malaysia, the manufacturing industry is particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 clusters, making i...

    Authors: Izyan Hazwani Baharuddin, Nurhuda Ismail, Nyi Nyi Naing, Khalid Ibrahim, Siti Munira Yasin and Megan S. Patterson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:874
  38. Hazardous drinking and drug consumption are associated with an increased risk of HIV due to the complex interplay of factors influencing decision-making capability, stigma and social marginalization. In this s...

    Authors: Cynthia Semá Baltazar, Rachid Muleia, Auria Ribeiro Banze and Makini Boothe
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:872
  39. In recent years, the phenomenon of academic involution atmosphere among college students has gradually attracted the focus of education and social circles. Thus, this study targets college students as the rese...

    Authors: Aichun Liu, Yanjin Shi, Yibo Zhao and Jianchao Ni
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:870
  40. A population-based follow-up study assessing the risk of developing hypertension and diabetes associated with alcohol use disorder (AUD) is crucial. We investigated this relationship by using insurance claims ...

    Authors: Pei-Ying Tseng, Fung-Chang Sung, Chih-Hsin Muo, Yu-Ching Lan, Yih-Ing Hser, Sarina Hui-Lin Chien and Jong-Yi Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:868

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