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Correspondence Facilitating access to pre-processed research evidence in public health Paula Robeson, Maureen Dobbins, Kara DeCorby, and Daiva Tirilis PMCID: PMC2841107 Hormone Replacement Therapy advertising: sense and nonsense on the web pages of the best-selling pharmaceuticals in Spain Elisa Chilet-Rosell, Marta Martín Llaguno, María Teresa Ruiz Cantero, and Pablo Alonso-Coello PMCID: PMC2850342 Paniya Voices: A Participatory Poverty and Health Assessment among a marginalized South Indian tribal population KS Mohindra, D Narayana, CK Harikrishnadas, SS Anushreedha, and Slim Haddad PMCID: PMC2848202 Same-visit HIV testing in Trinidad and Tobago Violet Duke, Sheila Samiel, David Musa, Cameile Ali, Catherine Chang-Kit, and Cynthia Warner PMCID: PMC2858728 Evidence-based development of school-based and family-involved prevention of overweight across Europe: The ENERGY-project's design and conceptual framework Johannes Brug, Saskia J te Velde, Mai JM Chinapaw, Elling Bere, Ilse de Bourdeaudhuij, Helen Moore, Lea Maes, Jorgen Jensen, Yannis Manios, Nanna Lien, Knut Inge Klepp, Tim Lobstein, Marloes Martens, Jo Salmon, and Amika S Singh PMCID: PMC2885336 Quality of claims, references and the presentation of risk results in medical journal advertising: a comparative study in Australia, Malaysia and the United States Noordin Othman, Agnes I Vitry, and Elizabeth E Roughead PMCID: PMC2895591 Coverage of Jade Goody's cervical cancer in UK newspapers: a missed opportunity for health promotion? Shona Hilton and Kate Hunt PMCID: PMC2909165 Representations of cycling in metropolitan newspapers - changes over time and differences between Sydney and Melbourne, Australia Chris Rissel, Catriona Bonfiglioli, Adrian Emilsen, and Ben J Smith PMCID: PMC2912807 Public health triangulation: approach and application to synthesizing data to understand national and local HIV epidemics George W Rutherford, William McFarland, Hilary Spindler, Karen White, Sadhna V Patel, John Aberle-Grasse, Keith Sabin, Nathan Smith, Stephanie Taché, Jesus M Calleja-Garcia, and Rand L Stoneburner PMCID: PMC2920890 Research articles Status of implementation of Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in Ghana: a qualitative study Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Ann McNeill, Sarah Lewis, Anna Gilmore, and John Britton PMCID: PMC2822823 Understanding how education/support groups help lone mothers Ellen L Lipman, Meghan Kenny, Susan Jack, Ruth Cameron, Margaret Secord, and Carolyn Byrne PMCID: PMC2820475 Long-term follow-up of beryllium sensitized workers from a single employer Mona Duggal, David C Deubner, Anne M Curtis, and Mark R Cullen PMCID: PMC2824739 Health-related quality of life among individuals with long-standing spinal cord injury: a comparative study of veterans and non-veterans Soheil Saadat, Masoud Javadi, Baharak Sabet Divshali, Amir Hussein Tavakoli, Seyed Mohammad Ghodsi, Ali Montazeri, and Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar PMCID: PMC2819993 Computer-associated health complaints and sources of ergonomic instructions in computer-related issues among Finnish adolescents: A cross-sectional study Paula T Hakala, Lea A Saarni, Ritva L Ketola, Erja T Rahkola, Jouko J Salminen, and Arja H Rimpelä PMCID: PMC2836294 Diabetes mellitus and hypertension have comparable adverse effects on health-related quality of life Tamara Poljičanin, Dea Ajduković, Mario Šekerija, Mirjana Pibernik-Okanović, Željko Metelko, and Gorka Vuletić Mavrinac PMCID: PMC2845103 Understanding the facilitators and barriers of antiretroviral adherence in Peru: A qualitative study Walter H Curioso, Deanna Kepka, Robinson Cabello, Patricia Segura, and Ann E Kurth PMCID: PMC2820472 Road traffic crash circumstances and consequences among young unlicensed drivers: A Swedish cohort study on socioeconomic disparities Christina L Hanna, Marie Hasselberg, Lucie Laflamme, and Jette Möller PMCID: PMC2820473 Current use of smokeless tobacco among adolescents in the Republic of Congo Emmanuel Rudatsikira, Adamson S Muula, and Seter Siziya PMCID: PMC2820474 Analysis of the UK recommendations on obesity based on a proposed implementation framework Amudha S Poobalan, Lorna S Aucott, Sheraz Ahmed, and W Cairns S Smith PMCID: PMC2821361 Household costs of illness during different phases of tuberculosis treatment in Central Asia: a patient survey in Tajikistan Raffael Ayé, Kaspar Wyss, Hanifa Abdualimova, and Sadullo Saidaliev PMCID: PMC2822824 Partner notification for sexually transmitted infections in developing countries: a systematic review Nazmul Alam, Eric Chamot, Sten H Vermund, Kim Streatfield, and Sibylle Kristensen PMCID: PMC2821362 Adverse childhood experiences are associated with the risk of lung cancer: a prospective cohort study David W Brown, Robert F Anda, Vincent J Felitti, Valerie J Edwards, Ann Marie Malarcher, Janet B Croft, and Wayne H Giles PMCID: PMC2826284 Prevalence and risk factors for soil-transmitted helminth infection in mothers and their infants in Butajira, Ethiopia: a population based study Yeshambel Belyhun, Girmay Medhin, Alemayehu Amberbir, Berhanu Erko, Charlotte Hanlon, Atalay Alem, Andrea Venn, John Britton, and Gail Davey PMCID: PMC2835680 Sense of coherence and intentions to retire early among Finnish women and men Salla-Maarit Volanen, Sakari Suominen, Eero Lahelma, Karoliina Koskenvuo, Markku Koskenvuo, and Karri Silventoinen PMCID: PMC2831030 Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and its components in Northwest Russia: the Arkhangelsk study Oleg Sidorenkov, Odd Nilssen, Tormod Brenn, Sergey Martiushov, Vadim L Arkhipovsky, and Andrej M Grjibovski PMCID: PMC2832773 Spatio-temporal trends of mortality in small areas of Southern Spain Ricardo Ocaña-Riola and José María Mayoral-Cortés PMCID: PMC2881099 Prevalence and predictors of undernutrition among infants aged six and twelve months in Butajira, Ethiopia: The P-MaMiE Birth Cohort Girmay Medhin, Charlotte Hanlon, Michael Dewey, Atalay Alem, Fikru Tesfaye, Bogale Worku, Mark Tomlinson, and Martin Prince PMCID: PMC2826285 Running away experience and psychoactive substance use among adolescents in Taiwan: multi-city street outreach survey Shi-Heng Wang, Wen-Chun Chen, Chih-Yin Lew-Ting, Chuan-Yu Chen, and Wei J Chen PMCID: PMC2823700 AIDS knowledge and sexual activity among Flemish secondary school students: a multilevel analysis of the effects of type of education Ronan Van Rossem, Hans Berten, and Charlotte Van Tuyckom PMCID: PMC2845104 Sentinel surveillance system for early outbreak detection in Madagascar Laurence Randrianasolo, Yolande Raoelina, Maherisoa Ratsitorahina, Lisette Ravolomanana, Soa Andriamandimby, Jean-Michel Heraud, Fanjasoa Rakotomanana, Robinson Ramanjato, Armand Eugène Randrianarivo-Solofoniaina, and Vincent Richard PMCID: PMC2823701 A survey in rural China of parent-absence through migrant working: the impact on their children's self-concept and loneliness Li-Juan Liu, Xun Sun, Chun-Li Zhang, Yue Wang, and Qiang Guo PMCID: PMC2823702 Is there a demand for physical activity interventions provided by the health care sector? Findings from a population survey Matti E Leijon, Diana Stark-Ekman, Per Nilsen, Kerstin Ekberg, Lars Walter, Agneta Ståhle, and Preben Bendtsen PMCID: PMC2832886 A tuberculin skin test survey among Ghanaian school children Kennedy Kwasi Addo, Susan van den Hof, Gloria Ivy Mensah, Adukwei Hesse, Christian Bonsu, Kwadwo Ansah Koram, Felix Kwami Afutu, and Frank Adae Bonsu PMCID: PMC2829002 Patterns of smoking and its association with psychosocial work conditions among blue-collar and service employees of hospitality venues in Shenyang, PR China Xun Li, Huiying Liang, Xuelian Li, Peng Guan, Zhihua Yin, and Baosen Zhou PMCID: PMC2832774 The Peripheral Arterial disease study (PERART/ARTPER): prevalence and risk factors in the general population María Teresa Alzamora, Rosa Forés, José Miguel Baena-Díez, Guillem Pera, Pere Toran, Marta Sorribes, Marisa Vicheto, María Dolores Reina, Amparo Sancho, Carlos Albaladejo, Judith Llussà, and the PERART/ARTPER study group PMCID: PMC2835682 Relationship between perceived body weight and body mass index based on self- reported height and weight among university students: a cross-sectional study in seven European countries Rafael T Mikolajczyk, Annette E Maxwell, Walid El Ansari, Christiane Stock, Janina Petkeviciene, and Francisco Guillen-Grima PMCID: PMC2824734 Characteristics and risk factors for symptomatic Giardia lamblia infections in Germany Werner Espelage, Matthias an der Heiden, Klaus Stark, and Katharina Alpers PMCID: PMC2824735 Differences in school environment, school policy and actions regarding overweight prevention between Dutch schools. A nationwide survey Salome Scholtens, Lideke Middelbeek, Suzanne I Rutz, Goof Buijs, and Wanda JE Bemelmans PMCID: PMC2823704 Second-hand smoke and chronic bronchitis in Taiwanese women: a health-care based study Chia-Fang Wu, Nan-Hsiung Feng, Inn-Wen Chong, Kuen-Yuh Wu, Chien-Hung Lee, Jhi-Jhu Hwang, Chia-Tsuan Huang, Chung-Ying Lee, Shao-Ting Chou, David C Christiani, and Ming-Tsang Wu PMCID: PMC2841674 Burden of injury in childhood and adolescence in 8 European countries Suzanne Polinder, Juanita A Haagsma, Hidde Toet, Marco JP Brugmans, Ed F van Beeck, and the EUROCOST and APOLLO reference groups PMCID: PMC2824737 Comparison of hip fracture incidence and trends between Germany and Austria 1995-2004: An epidemiological study Eva Mann, Gabriele Meyer, Burkhart Haastert, and Andrea Icks PMCID: PMC2831031 Awareness of school students on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and their sexual behavior: a cross-sectional study conducted in Pulau Pinang, Malaysia Mudassir Anwar, Syed Azhar S Sulaiman, Keivan Ahmadi, and Tahir M Khan PMCID: PMC2824738 The association between farming activities, precipitation, and the risk of acute gastrointestinal illness in rural municipalities of Quebec, Canada: a cross-sectional study Yossi Febriani, Patrick Levallois, Suzanne Gingras, Pierre Gosselin, Shannon E Majowicz, and Manon D Fleury PMCID: PMC2834625 Is there a role for workplaces in reducing employees' driving to work? Findings from a cross-sectional survey from inner-west Sydney, Australia Li Ming Wen, James Kite, and Chris Rissel PMCID: PMC2825221 Weight maintenance as a tight rope walk - a Grounded Theory study Kristina Lindvall, Christel Larsson, Lars Weinehall, and Maria Emmelin PMCID: PMC2835685 Assessing local determinants of neural tube defects in the Heshun Region, Shanxi Province, China Jin-Feng Wang, Xin Liu, George Christakos, Yi-Lan Liao, Xue Gu, and Xiao-Ying Zheng PMCID: PMC2829501 Acculturation and self-reported health among Hispanics using a socio-behavioral model: the North Texas Healthy Heart Study Katandria L Johnson, Joan F Carroll, Kimberly G Fulda, Kathryn Cardarelli, and Roberto Cardarelli PMCID: PMC2843663 Intergenerational educational mobility is associated with cardiovascular disease risk behaviours in a cohort of young Australian adults: The Childhood Determinants of Adult Health (CDAH) Study Seana L Gall, Joan Abbott-Chapman, George C Patton, Terence Dwyer, and Alison Venn PMCID: PMC2835686 The impact of parental migration on health status and health behaviours among left behind adolescent school children in China Yang Gao, Li Ping Li, Jean Hee Kim, Nathan Congdon, Joseph Lau, and Sian Griffiths PMCID: PMC2829003 Emotional, behavioural problems and cigarette smoking in adolescence: findings of a Greek cross-sectional study George Giannakopoulos, Chara Tzavara, Christine Dimitrakaki, Gerasimos Kolaitis, Vasiliki Rotsika, and Yannis Tountas PMCID: PMC2835687 Construct validation of a non-exercise measure of cardiorespiratory fitness in older adults Emily L Mailey, Siobhan M White, Thomas R Wójcicki, Amanda N Szabo, Arthur F Kramer, and Edward McAuley PMCID: PMC2831835 Are we doing enough? Evaluation of the Polio Eradication Initiative in a district of Pakistan's Punjab province: a LQAS study Muhammad Umair Mushtaq, Muhammad Ashraf Majrooh, Mohsin Zia Sana Ullah, Javed Akram, Arif Mahmood Siddiqui, Mushtaq Ahmad Shad, Muhammad Waqas, Hussain Muhammad Abdullah, Waqar Ahmad, Ubeera Shahid, and Usman Khurshid PMCID: PMC2845105 What physicians want to learn about sickness certification: analyses of questionnaire data from 4019 physicians Anna Löfgren, Jan Hagberg, and Kristina Alexanderson PMCID: PMC2829004 Effects of worksite health promotion interventions on employee diets: a systematic review Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Louise M Aston, and Susan A Jebb PMCID: PMC2829502 Antecedents of teenage pregnancy from a 14-year follow-up study using data linkage Jennifer Gaudie, Francis Mitrou, David Lawrence, Fiona J Stanley, Sven R Silburn, and Stephen R Zubrick PMCID: PMC2834626 Clinical validity of a population database definition of remission in patients with major depression Antoni Sicras-Mainar, Milagrosa Blanca-Tamayo, Laura Gutiérrez-Nicuesa, Jordi Salvatella-Pasant, and Ruth Navarro-Artieda PMCID: PMC2829005 Perceived connections between information and communication technology use and mental symptoms among young adults - a qualitative study Sara Thomée, Lotta Dellve, Annika Härenstam, and Mats Hagberg PMCID: PMC2836296 Incidence of oral cancer in relation to nickel and arsenic concentrations in farm soils of patients' residential areas in Taiwan Che-Chun Su, Yo-Yu Lin, Tsun-Kuo Chang, Chi-Ting Chiang, Jian-An Chung, Yun-Ying Hsu, and Ie-Bin Lian PMCID: PMC2834627 Drivers and barriers to acceptance of human-papillomavirus vaccination among young women: a qualitative and quantitative study Gitte Lee Mortensen PMCID: PMC2829006 Incentive payments to general practitioners aimed at increasing opportunistic testing of young women for chlamydia: a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial Jade E Bilardi, Christopher K Fairley, Meredith J Temple-Smith, Marie V Pirotta, Kathleen M McNamee, Siobhan Bourke, Lyle C Gurrin, Margaret Hellard, Lena A Sanci, Michelle J Wills, Jennifer Walker, Marcus Y Chen, and Jane S Hocking PMCID: PMC2841675 Completeness of hepatitis, brucellosis, syphilis, measles and HIV/AIDS surveillance in Izmir, Turkey Raika Durusoy and Ali O Karababa PMCID: PMC2834629 TB treatment initiation and adherence in a South African community influenced more by perceptions than by knowledge of tuberculosis Jane M Cramm, Harry JM Finkenflügel, Valerie Møller, and Anna P Nieboer PMCID: PMC2828408 Body piercing and tattoo: awareness of health related risks among 4,277 Italian secondary school adolescents Luca Cegolon, Enrico Miatto, Melania Bortolotto, Mirca Benetton, Francesco Mazzoleni, Giuseppe Mastrangelo, and VAHP Working Group PMCID: PMC2838811 Determinants of smoking initiation among women in five European countries: a cross-sectional survey Debora L Oh, Julia E Heck, Carolyn Dresler, Shane Allwright, Margaretha Haglund, Sara S Del Mazo, Eva Kralikova, Isabelle Stucker, Elizabeth Tamang, Ellen R Gritz, and Mia Hashibe PMCID: PMC2833141 Factors associated with dental visit and barriers to utilisation of oral health care services in a sample of antenatal mothers in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia Norkhafizah Saddki, Azizah Yusoff, and Yew L Hwang PMCID: PMC2834630 Children's tooth decay in a public health program to encourage low-income pregnant women to utilize dental care Peter Milgrom, Marilynn Sutherland, R Mike Shirtcliff, Sharity Ludwig, and Darlene Smolen PMCID: PMC2830171 The evaluation of a Taiwanese training program in smoking cessation and the trainees' adherence to a practice guideline Fei-Ran Guo, Ling-Yu Hung, Chih-Jen Chang, Kai-Kuen Leung, and Ching-Yu Chen PMCID: PMC2831032 The role of social support and social networks in smoking behavior among middle and older aged people in rural areas of South Korea: A cross-sectional study E Hwa Yun, Yoon Hwa Kang, Min Kyung Lim, Jin-Kyoung Oh, and Jung Min Son PMCID: PMC2834631 The population approach to falls injury prevention in older people: findings of a two community trial Rod J McClure, Karen Hughes, Cizao Ren, Kirsten McKenzie, Uta Dietrich, Paul Vardon, Elizabeth Davis, and Beth Newman PMCID: PMC2836986 A group-randomized controlled trial for health promotion in Girl Scouts: Healthier Troops in a SNAP (Scouting Nutrition & Activity Program) Richard R Rosenkranz, Timothy K Behrens, and David A Dzewaltowski PMCID: PMC2832775 Waist circumference cut-off values for the prediction of cardiovascular risk factors clustering in Chinese school-aged children: a cross-sectional study Ailing Liu, Andrew P Hills, Xiaoqi Hu, Yanping Li, Lin Du, Ying Xu, Nuala M Byrne, and Guansheng Ma PMCID: PMC2836988 Epidemiology of burn injuries in the East Mediterranean Region: a systematic review Nasih Othman and Denise Kendrick PMCID: PMC2841676 Surveillance of febrile patients in a district and evaluation of their spatiotemporal associations: a pilot study Kin-wing Choi, Ngai-sze Wong, Lap-yip Lee, and Shui-shan Lee PMCID: PMC2831836 Could giardiasis be a risk factor for low zinc status in schoolchildren from northwestern Mexico? A cross-sectional study with longitudinal follow-up Luis Quihui, Gloria G Morales, Rosa O Méndez, Johanna G Leyva, Julián Esparza , and Mauro E Valencia PMCID: PMC2859400 Breast cancer incidence and mortality in Tyrol/Austria after fifteen years of opportunistic mammography screening Willi Oberaigner, Wolfgang Buchberger, Thomas Frede, Rudolf Knapp, Christian Marth, and Uwe Siebert PMCID: PMC2843664 Changes of overweight and obesity in the adult Swiss population according to educational level, from 1992 to 2007 Pedro Marques-Vidal, Pascal Bovet, Fred Paccaud, and Arnaud Chiolero PMCID: PMC2831837 Health-related physical fitness and weight status in Hong Kong adolescents Kwok-Kei Mak, Sai-Yin Ho, Wing-Sze Lo, G Neil Thomas, Alison M McManus, Jeffrey R Day, and Tai-Hing Lam PMCID: PMC2836297 Effectiveness of intensive group and individual interventions for smoking cessation in primary health care settings: a randomized trial Maria Ramos, Joana Ripoll, Teresa Estrades, Isabel Socias, Antonia Fe, Rosa Duro, Maria José González, and Margarita Servera PMCID: PMC2836298 How does community context influence coalitions in the formation stage? a multiple case study based on the Community Coalition Action Theory Michelle C Kegler, Jessica Rigler, and Sally Honeycutt PMCID: PMC2842234 The prevalence of hypertension, obesity and dyslipidemia in individuals of over 30 years of age belonging to minorities from the pasture area of Xinjiang Xiao-Guang Yao, Florian Frommlet, Ling Zhou, Feiya Zu, Hong-Mei Wang, Zhi-Tao Yan, Wen-Li Luo, Jing Hong, Xin-Ling Wang, and Nan-Fang Li PMCID: PMC2838812 Factors influencing implementation of the Ministry of Health-led private medicine retailer programmes on malaria in Kenya Yvonne Rowa, Timothy O Abuya, Wilfred K Mutemi, Sam Ochola, Sassy Molyneux, and Vicki Marsh PMCID: PMC2837856 Drug problems among homeless individuals in Toronto, Canada: prevalence, drugs of choice, and relation to health status Michelle N Grinman, Shirley Chiu, Donald A Redelmeier, Wendy Levinson, Alex Kiss, George Tolomiczenko, Laura Cowan, and Stephen W Hwang PMCID: PMC2841106 Determinants of male reproductive health disorders: the Men in Australia Telephone Survey (MATeS) Carol A Holden, Robert I McLachlan, Marian Pitts, Robert Cumming, Gary Wittert, Johnathon P Ehsani, David M de Kretser, and David J Handelsman PMCID: PMC2839972 Hepatitis B and liver cancer knowledge and practices among healthcare and public health professionals in China: a cross-sectional study Jonathan Chao, Ellen T Chang, and Samuel KS So PMCID: PMC2847983 Socioeconomic deprivation, urban-rural location and alcohol-related mortality in England and Wales Sally Erskine, Ravi Maheswaran, Tim Pearson, and Dermot Gleeson PMCID: PMC2841677 The French Observational Cohort of Usual Smokers (FOCUS) cohort: French smokers perceptions and attitudes towards smoking cessation Henri-Jean Aubin, Gérard Peiffer, Anne Stoebner-Delbarre, Eric Vicaut, Yasmine Jeanpetit, Anne Solesse, Geneviève Bonnelye, and Daniel Thomas PMCID: PMC2841669 The Edinburgh Addiction Cohort: recruitment and follow-up of a primary care based sample of injection drug users and non drug-injecting controls John Macleod, Lorraine Copeland, Matthew Hickman, James McKenzie, Jo Kimber, Daniela De Angelis, and James R Robertson PMCID: PMC2841670 HIV prevention for South African youth: which interventions work? A systematic review of current evidence Abigail Harrison, Marie-Louise Newell, John Imrie, and Graeme Hoddinott PMCID: PMC2843660 Social network types and functional dependency in older adults in Mexico Svetlana Vladislavovna Doubova (Dubova), Ricardo Pérez-Cuevas, Patricia Espinosa-Alarcón, and Sergio Flores-Hernández PMCID: PMC2845100 Hepatotoxicity and effectiveness of a Nevirapine-based antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients with or without viral hepatitis B or C infection in Cameroon Jules B Tchatchueng Mbougua, Christian Laurent, Charles Kouanfack, Anke Bourgeois, Laura Ciaffi, Alexandra Calmy, Henri Gwet, Sinata Koulla-Shiro, Jacques Ducos, Eitel Mpoudi-Ngolé, Nicolas Molinari, and Eric Delaporte PMCID: PMC2841671 Demographic and behavioral characteristics of non-sex worker females attending sexually transmitted disease clinics in Japan: a nationwide case-control study Masako Ono-Kihara, Tatsuya Sato, Hideko Kato, Sonia P Suguimoto-Watanabe, Saman Zamani, and Masahiro Kihara PMCID: PMC2843661 The Boston Puerto Rican Health Study, a longitudinal cohort study on health disparities in Puerto Rican adults: challenges and opportunities Katherine L Tucker, Josiemer Mattei, Sabrina E Noel, Bridgette M Collado, Jackie Mendez, Jason Nelson, John Griffith, Jose M Ordovas, and Luis M Falcon PMCID: PMC2848197 Absolute risk representation in cardiovascular disease prevention: comprehension and preferences of health care consumers and general practitioners involved in a focus group study Sophie Hill, Janet Spink, Dominique Cadilhac, Adrian Edwards, Caroline Kaufman, Sophie Rogers, Rebecca Ryan, and Andrew Tonkin PMCID: PMC2845101 The height-, weight-, and BMI-for-age of Polish school-aged children and adolescents relative to international and local growth references Zbigniew Kulaga, Mieczysław Litwin, Marcin Tkaczyk, Agnieszka Różdżyńska, Katarzyna Barwicka, Aneta Grajda, Anna Świąder, Beata Gurzkowska, Ewelina Napieralska, and Huiqi Pan PMCID: PMC2837854 Effect of an individually tailored one-year energy balance programme on body weight, body composition and lifestyle in recent retirees: a cluster randomised controlled trial Andrea Werkman, Paul JM Hulshof, Annette Stafleu, Stef PJ Kremers, Frans J Kok, Evert G Schouten, and Albertine J Schuit PMCID: PMC2845102 Antiretroviral treatment adherence among HIV patients in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Karl Peltzer, Natalie Friend-du Preez, Shandir Ramlagan, and Jane Anderson PMCID: PMC2837855 Factors associated with low cure rate of tuberculosis in remote poor areas of Shaanxi Province, China: a case control study Xianqin Ai, Ke Men, Liujia Guo, Tianhua Zhang, Yan Zhao, Xiaolu Sun, Hongwei Zhang, Guangxue He, Marieke J van der Werf, and Susan van den Hof PMCID: PMC2838810 The quality of life of patients with genital warts: a qualitative study Gitte Lee Mortensen and Helle K Larsen PMCID: PMC2848198 Migration and child immunization in Nigeria: individual- and community-level contexts Diddy Antai PMCID: PMC2847974 The construct validity and reliability of the Turkish version of Spreitzer's psychological empowerment scale Sarp Uner and Sevgi Turan PMCID: PMC2843662 Socioeconomic determinants of psychotropic drug utilisation among elderly: a national population-based cross-sectional study Eva Lesén, Karolina Andersson, Max Petzold, and Anders Carlsten PMCID: PMC2845562 Levelling off of prevalence of obesity in the adult population of Sweden between 2000/01 and 2004/05 Jan Sundquist, Sven-Erik Johansson, and Kristina Sundquist PMCID: PMC2847975 The publics' understanding of daily caloric recommendations and their perceptions of calorie posting in chain restaurants Sara N Bleich and Keshia M Pollack PMCID: PMC2847976 Hygiene inspections on passenger ships in Europe - an overview Varvara A Mouchtouri, Sandra Westacott, Gordon Nichols, Tobias Riemer, Mel Skipp, Christopher LR Bartlett, Jenny Kremastinou, Christos Hadjichristodoulou, and the SHIPSAN partnership** PMCID: PMC2847977 A novel school-based intervention to improve nutrition knowledge in children: cluster randomised controlled trial Rajalakshmi R Lakshman, Stephen J Sharp, Ken K Ong, and Nita G Forouhi PMCID: PMC2847978 Assessing the congruence between perceived connectivity and network centrality measures specific to pandemic influenza preparedness in Alberta Justin N Hall, Spencer Moore, and Alan Shiell PMCID: PMC2841105 Canadian survey on pandemic flu preparations Paul Ritvo, Kumanan Wilson, JL Gibson, C Guglietti, CS Tracy, JX Nie, AR Jadad, REG Upshur, and the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics Pandemic Ethics Working Group PMCID: PMC2842233 'I guess my own fancy screwed me over': transitions in drug use and the context of choice among young people entrenched in an open drug scene Danya Fast, Will Small, Andrea Krüsi, Evan Wood, and Thomas Kerr PMCID: PMC2853507 National survey of the association of depressive symptoms with the number of off duty and on-call, and sleep hours among physicians working in Japanese hospitals: a cross sectional study Koji Wada, Toru Yoshikawa, Takahisa Goto, Aizan Hirai, Eisuke Matsushima, Yoshifumi Nakashima, Rie Akaho, Michiko Kido, and Takashi Hosaka PMCID: PMC2848631 Determinants of public trust in complementary and alternative medicine Evelien van der Schee and Peter P Groenewegen PMCID: PMC2848199 Assessing the accessibility of HIV care packages among tuberculosis patients in the Northwest Region, Cameroon Nwarbébé Barnabas Njozing, San Sebastian Miguel, Pius Muffih Tih, and Anna-Karin Hurtig PMCID: PMC2847979 University life and pandemic influenza: Attitudes and intended behaviour of staff and students towards pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Debbie Van, Mary-Louise McLaws, Jacinta Crimmins, C Raina MacIntyre, and Holly Seale PMCID: PMC2841672 Socio-economic differences in life expectancy among persons with diabetes mellitus or myocardial infarction: results from the German MONICA/KORA study Laura Perna, Uta Thien-Seitz, Karl-Heinz Ladwig, Christa Meisinger, and Andreas Mielck PMCID: PMC2858114 Towards achieving Abuja targets: identifying and addressing barriers to access and use of insecticides treated nets among the poorest populations in Kenya Jane Chuma, Vincent Okungu, Janet Ntwiga, and Catherine Molyneux PMCID: PMC2847543 Self-reported anticipated compliance with physician advice to stay home during pandemic (H1N1) 2009: Results from the 2009 Queensland Social Survey Lawrence H Brown, Peter Aitken, Peter A Leggat, and Richard Speare PMCID: PMC2847980 The characteristics of impaired fasting glucose associated with obesity and dyslipidaemia in a Chinese population Yun Qian, Yudi Lin, Tiemei Zhang, Jianling Bai, Feng Chen, Yi Zhang, Senlin Luo, and Hongbing Shen PMCID: PMC2851684 Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome among rural original adults in NingXia, China Zhao Yi, Jin Jing, Liu Xiu-ying, Xu Hongxia, Yang Jianjun, and Zhang Yuhong PMCID: PMC2850343 Association between physical activity and metabolic syndrome: a cross sectional survey in adolescents in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Trang HHD Nguyen, Hong K Tang, Patrick Kelly, Hidde P van der Ploeg, and Michael J Dibley PMCID: PMC2847981 Geographic access to care is not a determinant of child mortality in a rural Kenyan setting with high health facility density Jennifer C Moïsi, Hellen Gatakaa, Abdisalan M Noor, Thomas N Williams, Evasius Bauni, Benjamin Tsofa, Orin S Levine, and J Anthony G Scott PMCID: PMC2848200 Effect on longitudinal growth and anemia of zinc or multiple micronutrients added to vitamin A: a randomized controlled trial in children aged 6-24 months Meera K Chhagan, Jan Van den Broeck, Kany-Kany A Luabeya, Nontobeko Mpontshane, Andrew Tomkins, and Michael L Bennish PMCID: PMC2847544 Breast and cervical cancer screening among women in metropolitan areas of the United States by county-level commuting time to work and use of public transportation, 2004 and 2006 Steven S Coughlin and Jessica King PMCID: PMC2848633 Exploring cross-sectional associations between common childhood illness, housing and social conditions in remote Australian Aboriginal communities Ross Bailie, Matthew Stevens, Elizabeth McDonald, David Brewster, and Steve Guthridge PMCID: PMC2848201 "Well, it's nobody's responsibility but my own." A qualitative study to explore views about the determinants of health and prevention of knee pain in older adults Clare Jinks, Bie Nio Ong, and Tracey O'Neill PMCID: PMC2853508 An evaluation of gender equity in different models of primary care practices in Ontario Simone Dahrouge, William Hogg, Meltem Tuna, Grant Russell, Rose Anne Devlin, Peter Tugwell, and Elisabeth Kristjansson PMCID: PMC2856534 Cross-national differences in clinically significant cannabis problems: epidemiologic evidence from 'cannabis-only' smokers in the United States, Mexico, and Colombia Fabian Fiestas, Mirjana Radovanovic, Silvia S Martins, Maria E Medina-Mora, Jose Posada-Villa, and James C Anthony PMCID: PMC2863162 Factors associated with educational aspirations among adolescents: cues to counteract socioeconomic differences? Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Peter Tavel, Jitse P van Dijk, Thomas Abel, and Sijmen A Reijneveld PMCID: PMC2851685 Use of a liquid nicotine delivery product to promote smoking cessation Nicholas Geimer, Carl E Olson, Deborah Baumgarten, James L Kepner, and Martin C Mahoney PMCID: PMC2858116 An analysis of risk factors of non-fatal drowning among children in rural areas of Guangdong Province, China: a case-control study Wen Jun Ma, Shao Ping Nie, Hao Feng Xu, Yan Jun Xu, Xiu Ling Song, Qiao Zhi Guo, and Yu Run Zhang PMCID: PMC2851686 Estimating attendance for breast cancer screening in ethnic groups in London Christine Renshaw, Ruth H Jack, Steve Dixon, Henrik Møller, and Elizabeth A Davies PMCID: PMC2850886 The prevalence of stunting, overweight and obesity, and metabolic disease risk in rural South African children Elizabeth W Kimani-Murage, Kathleen Kahn, John M Pettifor, Stephen M Tollman, David B Dunger, Xavier F Gómez-Olivé, and Shane A Norris PMCID: PMC2853509 Influenza vaccination coverage of healthcare workers and residents and their determinants in nursing homes for elderly people in France: a cross-sectional survey Sophie Vaux, Delphine Noël, Laure Fonteneau, Jean-Paul Guthmann, and Daniel Lévy-Bruhl PMCID: PMC2850345 Sex, age, deprivation and patterns in life expectancy in Quebec, Canada: a population-based study Nathalie Auger, Carolyne Alix, Geng Zang, and Mark Daniel PMCID: PMC2859396 Post epidemic giardiasis and gastrointestinal symptoms among preschool children in Bergen, Norway. A cross-sectional study Kristin M Mellingen, Anita Midtun, Kurt Hanevik, Geir E Eide, Øystein Søbstad, and Nina Langeland PMCID: PMC2851687 Security lies in obedience - Voices of young women of a slum in Pakistan Saima Hamid, Eva Johansson, and Birgitta Rubenson PMCID: PMC2850887 Do 'good values' lead to 'good' health-behaviours? Longitudinal associations between young people's values and later substance-use Robert Young and Patrick West PMCID: PMC2864210 Analysis of the effectiveness of interventions used during the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic Nilimesh Halder, Joel K Kelso, and George J Milne PMCID: PMC2853510 Peer substance use overestimation among French university students: a cross-sectional survey Lionel Riou Franca, Bertrand Dautzenberg, Bruno Falissard, and Michel Reynaud PMCID: PMC2858117 Incidence of self-reported brain injury and the relationship with substance abuse: findings from a longitudinal community survey Robert J Tait, Kaarin J Anstey, and Peter Butterworth PMCID: PMC2860359 Are the elderly more vulnerable to psychological impact of natural disaster? A population-based survey of adult survivors of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake Zhaobao Jia, Wenhua Tian, Weizhi Liu, Yang Cao, Jin Yan, and Zhisheng Shun PMCID: PMC2867995 Behavioural intentions in response to an influenza pandemic Gerjo Kok, Ruud Jonkers, Roger Gelissen, Ree Meertens, Herman Schaalma, and Onno de Zwart PMCID: PMC2861057 Factors associated with early menarche: results from the French Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study Adrien Gaudineau, Virginie Ehlinger, Christophe Vayssiere, Beatrice Jouret, Catherine Arnaud, and Emmanuelle Godeau PMCID: PMC2853511 The psychometric properties of three self-report screening instruments for identifying frail older people in the community Silke F Metzelthin, Ramon Daniëls, Erik van Rossum, Luc de Witte, Wim JA van den Heuvel, and Gertrudis IJM Kempen PMCID: PMC2868816 Low HIV testing rates among tuberculosis patients in Kampala, Uganda Ibrahim Sendagire, Imke Schreuder, Mesach Mubiru, Maarten Schim van der Loeff, Frank Cobelens, and Joseph Konde-Lule PMCID: PMC2859398 Factors associated with sex in the context of methamphetamine use in different sexual venues among HIV-positive men who have sex with men Shirley J Semple, Steffanie A Strathdee, Jim Zians, and Thomas L Patterson PMCID: PMC2858118 Estimation of HIV-1 incidence among five focal populations in Dehong, Yunnan: a hard hit area along a major drug trafficking route Song Duan, Sheng Shen, Marc Bulterys, Yujiang Jia, Yuecheng Yang, Lifeng Xiang, Fei Tian, Lin Lu, Yao Xiao, Minjie Wang, Manhong Jia, Huazhou Jiang, Sten H Vermund, and Yan Jiang PMCID: PMC2858119 Does the number of free nicotine patches given to smokers calling a quitline influence quit rates: results from a quasi-experimental study K Michael Cummings, Brian V Fix, Paula Celestino, Andrew Hyland, Martin Mahoney, Deborah J Ossip, and Ursula Bauer PMCID: PMC2856535 Health services utilisation disparities between English speaking and non-English speaking background Australian infants Lixin Ou, Jack Chen, and Ken Hillman PMCID: PMC2858120 Gauging knowledge of developmental milestones among Albertan adults: a cross-sectional survey Shivani Rikhy, Suzanne Tough, Barry Trute, Karen Benzies, Heather Kehler, and David W Johnston PMCID: PMC2859399 Comorbidities of obesity in school children: a cross-sectional study in the PIAMA birth cohort Alet H Wijga, Salome Scholtens, Wanda JE Bemelmans, Johan C de Jongste, Marjan Kerkhof, Maarten Schipper, Elisabeth A Sanders, Jorrit Gerritsen, Bert Brunekreef, and Henriette A Smit PMCID: PMC2858121 Physician reports of medication use with explicit intention of hastening the end of life in the absence of explicit patient request in general practice in Belgium Koen Meeussen, Lieve Van den Block, Nathalie Bossuyt, Michael Echteld, Johan Bilsen, and Luc Deliens PMCID: PMC2867997 Knowledge and perception of pulmonary tuberculosis in pastoral communities in the middle and Lower Awash Valley of Afar region, Ethiopia Mengistu Legesse, Gobena Ameni, Gezahegne Mamo, Girmay Medhin, Dawit Shawel, Gunnar Bjune, and Fekadu Abebe PMCID: PMC2867998 Blood pressure, body mass index and risk of cardiovascular disease in Chinese men and women Hongwei Wang, Jie Cao, Jianxin Li, Jichun Chen, Xigui Wu, Xiufang Duan, Jianfeng Huang, and Dongfeng Gu PMCID: PMC2873578 Validity of self-reported weight, height and resultant body mass index in Chinese adolescents and factors associated with errors in self-reports Xiaoyan Zhou, Michael J Dibley, Yue Cheng, Xue Ouyang, and Hong Yan PMCID: PMC2864211 Perception of epidemic's related anxiety in the General French Population: a cross-sectional study in the Rhône-Alpes region Mitra Saadatian-Elahi, Françoise Facy, Corinne Del Signore, and Philippe Vanhems PMCID: PMC2874530 Parent and child physical activity and sedentary time: Do active parents foster active children? Russell Jago, Kenneth R Fox, Angie S Page, Rowan Brockman, and Janice L Thompson PMCID: PMC2868817 Socioeconomic disparities in behavioral risk factors and health outcomes by gender in the Republic of Korea Hak-Ju Kim and Jennifer Prah Ruger PMCID: PMC2867999 Epidemiology and cost analysis for patients with oral cancer in a university hospital in China Sheng Han, Yan Chen, Xu Ge, Ming Zhang, Jinwei Wang, Qingbo Zhao, Jianjun He, and Zhenghong Wang PMCID: PMC2864212 Couple-oriented prenatal HIV counseling for HIV primary prevention: an acceptability study Joanna Orne-Gliemann, Patrice T Tchendjou, Marija Miric, Mukta Gadgil, Maia Butsashvili, Fred Eboko, Eddy Perez-Then, Shrinivas Darak, Sanjeevani Kulkarni, George Kamkamidze, Eric Balestre, Annabel Desgrées du Loû, and Francois Dabis PMCID: PMC2873579 Exercise and global well-being in community-dwelling adults with fibromyalgia: a systematic review with meta-analysis George A Kelley, Kristi S Kelley, Jennifer M Hootman, and Dina L Jones PMCID: PMC2874776 The impact of the social environment on children's mental health in a prosperous city: an analysis with data from the city of Munich Laura Perna, Gabriele Bolte, Heidi Mayrhofer, Gabriele Spies, and Andreas Mielck PMCID: PMC2874531 An exploration of knowledge, attitudes and advice given by health professionals to parents in Ireland about the introduction of solid foods. A pilot study Claire Allcutt and Mary-Rose Sweeney PMCID: PMC2868001 Prediction of posttraumatic stress disorder among adults in flood district Peng Huang, Hongzhuan Tan, Aizhong Liu, Shuidong Feng, and Mengshi Chen PMCID: PMC2868002 Understanding young adult physical activity, alcohol and tobacco use in community colleges and 4-year post-secondary institutions: A cross-sectional analysis of epidemiological surveillance data Nicole A VanKim, Melissa Nelson Laska, Edward Ehlinger, Katherine Lust, and Mary Story PMCID: PMC2876104 Male circumcision for HIV prevention - a cross-sectional study on awareness among young people and adults in rural Uganda Andrea Wilcken, Flavia Miiro-Nakayima, Ramadhan NB Hizaamu, Thomas Keil, and Dorothy Balaba-Byansi PMCID: PMC2880292 Understanding long-term sick leave in female white-collar workers with burnout and stress-related diagnoses: a qualitative study Hélène Sandmark and Monica Renstig PMCID: PMC2868818 The social context of smoking: A qualitative study comparing smokers of high versus low socioeconomic position Christine L Paul, Samantha Ross, Jamie Bryant, Wesley Hill, Billie Bonevski, and Nichola Keevy PMCID: PMC2868819 A three-year cohort study of the relationships between coping, job stress and burnout after a counselling intervention for help-seeking physicians Karin E Isaksson Ro, Reidar Tyssen, Asle Hoffart, Harold Sexton, Olaf G Aasland, and Tore Gude PMCID: PMC2880293 Influence of socio-economic status on habitual physical activity and sedentary behavior in 8- to 11-year old children Clemens Drenowatz, Joey C Eisenmann, Karin A Pfeiffer, Greg Welk, Kate Heelan, Douglas Gentile, and David Walsh PMCID: PMC2873582 Childhood and adult tuberculosis in a rural hospital in Southeast Ethiopia: a ten-year retrospective study Jose Manuel Ramos, Francisco Reyes, and Abraham Tesfamariam PMCID: PMC2876992 The association between problematic cellular phone use and risky behaviors and low self-esteem among Taiwanese adolescents Yuan-Sheng Yang, Ju-Yu Yen, Chih-Hung Ko, Chung-Ping Cheng, and Cheng-Fang Yen PMCID: PMC2873584 Non-adherence to the single dose nevirapine regimen for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Bindura town, Zimbabwe: a cross-sectional analytic study Lazarus R Kuonza, Clemence D Tshuma, Gerald N Shambira, and Mufuta Tshimanga PMCID: PMC2873585 Impact on diarrhoeal illness of a community educational intervention to improve drinking water quality in rural communities in Puerto Rico Paul R Hunter, Graciela I Ramírez Toro, and Harvey A Minnigh PMCID: PMC2876105 HIV/AIDS knowledge in detention in Hunan province, China Weidong Zhang, Xinya Wang, Xi Chen, and Fan Lv PMCID: PMC2873936 Developing targets for public health initiatives to improve palliative care Nils Schneider, Sara L Lueckmann, Franziska Kuehne, Katharina Klindtworth, and Mareike Behmann PMCID: PMC2874778 Sex disparities in attitudes towards intimate partner violence against women in sub-Saharan Africa: a socio-ecological analysis Olalekan A Uthman, Stephen Lawoko, and Tahereh Moradi PMCID: PMC2873587 Divorce, divorce rates, and professional care seeking for mental health problems in Europe: a cross-sectional population-based study Piet F Bracke, Elien Colman, Sara AA Symoens, and Lore Van Praag PMCID: PMC2879244 HCV co-infection in HIV positive population in British Columbia, Canada Jane A Buxton, Amanda Yu, Paul H Kim, John J Spinelli, Margot Kuo, Maria Alvarez, Mark Gilbert, and Mel Krajden PMCID: PMC2868820 Who will increase their physical activity? Predictors of change in objectively measured physical activity over 12 months in the ProActive cohort Rebecca K Simmons, Esther MF van Sluijs, Wendy Hardeman, Stephen Sutton, Simon J Griffin, and the ProActive project team PMCID: PMC2873588 Cultural adaptation of the Condom Use Self Efficacy Scale (CUSES) in Ghana Kwaku O Asante and Paul N Doku PMCID: PMC2874779 Recent trends in hormone therapy utilization and breast cancer incidence rates in the high incidence population of Marin County, California Rochelle R Ereman, Lee Ann Prebil, Mary Mockus, Kathy Koblick, Fern Orenstein, Christopher Benz, and Christina A Clarke PMCID: PMC2876106 Incidence and mortality of hip fracture among the elderly population in South Korea: a population-based study using the National Health Insurance claims data Hye-Young Kang, Kyu-hyeon Yang, Yoon Nam Kim, Seong-hwan Moon, Won-Jung Choi, Dae Ryong Kang, and Seong Eun Park PMCID: PMC2874780 Electronic cigarettes: a survey of users Jean-François Etter PMCID: PMC2877672 Comparison of risk behaviors and socio-cultural profile of men who have sex with men survey respondents recruited via venues and the internet Hi Yi Tsui and Joseph TF Lau PMCID: PMC2880294 Sugar-sweetened carbonated beverage consumption correlates with BMI, waist circumference, and poor dietary choices in school children Kate S Collison, Marya Z Zaidi, Shazia N Subhani, Khalid Al-Rubeaan, Mohammed Shoukri, and Futwan A Al-Mohanna PMCID: PMC2877673 Marital status and occupation in relation to short-term case fatality after a first coronary event - a population based cohort Sofia Gerward, Patrik Tydén, Gunnar Engström, and Bo Hedblad PMCID: PMC2874781 Differences between willingness to pay and willingness to accept for visits by a family physician: A contingent valuation study Jesús Martín-Fernández, Ma Isabel del Cura-González, Tomás Gómez-Gascón, Juan Oliva-Moreno, Julia Domínguez-Bidagor, Milagros Beamud-Lagos, and Francisco Javier Pérez-Rivas PMCID: PMC2883536 Non-alcoholic and alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease - two Diseases of Affluence associated with the Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes: the FIN-D2D Survey Anna Kotronen, Hannele Yki-Järvinen, Satu Männistö, Liisa Saarikoski, Eeva Korpi-Hyövälti, Heikki Oksa, Juha Saltevo, Timo Saaristo, Jouko Sundvall, Jaakko Tuomilehto, and Markku Peltonen PMCID: PMC2873937 "Cough officer screening" improves detection of pulmonary tuberculosis in hospital in-patients Ching-Hsiung Lin, Cheng-Hung Tsai, Chun-Eng Liu, Mei-Li Huang, Shu-Chen Chang, Jen-Ho Wen, and Woei-Horng Chai PMCID: PMC2885332 Tobacco use patterns in traditional and shared parenting families: a gender perspective Joan L Bottorff, Mary T Kelly, John L Oliffe, Joy L Johnson, Lorraine Greaves, and Anna Chan PMCID: PMC2881096 The association between green space and cause-specific mortality in urban New Zealand: an ecological analysis of green space utility Elizabeth Richardson, Jamie Pearce, Richard Mitchell, Peter Day, and Simon Kingham PMCID: PMC2875209 The role of weight status, gender and self-esteem in following a diet among middle-school children in Sicily (Italy) Margherita Ferrante, Maria Fiore, Gina E Sciacca, Luca Leon, Salvatore Sciacca, Marine Castaing, and Gianbattista Modonutti PMCID: PMC2881097 Improving polio vaccination during supplementary campaigns at areas of mass transit in India Naman K Shah, Ashok Talyan, Vibhour Jain, Sunil D Khaparde, Sunil Bahl, Yvan Hutin, and Jay Wenger PMCID: PMC2882910 Does the pharmacy expenditure of patients always correspond with their morbidity burden? Exploring new approaches in the interpretation of pharmacy expenditure Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Beatriz Poblador-Plou, Anselmo López-Cabañas, José Tomás Alcalá-Nalvaiz, José María Abad-Díez, Daniel Bordonaba-Bosque, and Alexandra Prados-Torres PMCID: PMC2881885 Shamba Maisha: A pilot study assessing impacts of a micro-irrigation intervention on the health and economic wellbeing of HIV patients Jay A Pandit, Nicole Sirotin, Robin Tittle, Elijah Onjolo, Elizabeth A Bukusi, and Craig R Cohen PMCID: PMC2877674 Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in Pudong New Area of Shanghai using three proposed definitions among Chinese adults Wang-hong Xu, Xiao-nan Ruan, Xiao-jin Fu, Qiu-li Zhu, Hong Zhang, Yun Bai, Hong-yan Wu, Yi Zhou, Hua Qiu, Qiao Sun, Qing-wu Jiang, Li-ming Yang, Jian-jun Gu, and Gen-ming Zhao PMCID: PMC2889866 My partner wants a child: A cross-sectional study of the determinants of the desire for children among mutually disclosed sero-discordant couples receiving care in Uganda Jolly Beyeza-Kashesya, Anna Mia Ekstrom, Frank Kaharuza, Florence Mirembe, Stella Neema, and Asli Kulane PMCID: PMC2877675 Excluding pregnancy among women initiating antiretroviral therapy: efficacy of a family planning job aid Kwasi Torpey, Lona Mwenda, Mushota Kabaso, Thierry Malebe, Patrick Makelele, Francis Mwema, Henry Phiri, Jonathan Mukundu, Mark A Weaver, and John Stanback PMCID: PMC2876108 Knowledge and risk behaviors related to HIV/AIDS, and their association with information resource among men who have sex with men in Heilongjiang province, China Shengyuan Liu, Kaili Wang, Songpo Yao, Xiaotong Guo, Yancheng Liu, and Binyou Wang PMCID: PMC2885333 Self-perceived stress reactivity is an indicator of psychosocial impairment at the workplace Heribert Limm, Peter Angerer, Mechthild Heinmueller, Birgitt Marten-Mittag, Urs M Nater, and Harald Guendel PMCID: PMC2881886 Health and economic impact of rotavirus vaccination in GAVI-eligible countries Sun-Young Kim, Steve Sweet, David Slichter, and Sue J Goldie PMCID: PMC2893091 Comparison of the consumption of antidepressants in the immigrant and native populations in a Spanish health region: an observational study Inés Cruz, Catalina Serna, Jordi Real, Montse Rué, Jorge Soler, and Leonardo Galván PMCID: PMC2888739 Attributable mortality to radon exposure in Galicia, Spain. Is it necessary to act in the face of this health problem? Mónica Pérez-Ríos, Juan M Barros-Dios, Agustín Montes-Martínez, and Alberto Ruano-Ravina PMCID: PMC2885334 Validity of instruments to assess students' travel and pedestrian safety Jason A Mendoza, Kathy Watson, Tom Baranowski, Theresa A Nicklas, Doris K Uscanga, and Marcus J Hanfling PMCID: PMC2887818 Alcohol consumption and the risk of morbidity and mortality for different stroke types - a systematic review and meta-analysis Jayadeep Patra, Benjamin Taylor, Hyacinth Irving, Michael Roerecke, Dolly Baliunas, Satya Mohapatra, and Jürgen Rehm PMCID: PMC2888740 Pulmonary impairment after tuberculosis and its contribution to TB burden Jotam G Pasipanodya, Scott JN McNabb, Peter Hilsenrath, Sejong Bae, Kristine Lykens, Edgar Vecino, Guadalupe Munguia, Thaddeus L Miller, Gerry Drewyer, and Stephen E Weis PMCID: PMC2894771 Socioeconomic inequalities in cause specific mortality among older people in France Gwenn Menvielle, Annette Leclerc, Jean-François Chastang, and Danièle Luce PMCID: PMC2881100 Alcohol consumption in Estonia and Finland: Finbalt survey 1994-2006 Kersti Pärna, Kaja Rahu, Satu Helakorpi, and Mare Tekkel PMCID: PMC2891649 The influence of parental smoking and family type on saliva cotinine in UK ethnic minority children: a cross sectional study Melissa J Whitrow, Seeromanie Harding, and Maria J Maynard PMCID: PMC2885335 What 'outliers' tell us about missed opportunities for tuberculosis control: a cross-sectional study of patients in Mumbai, India Anagha Pradhan, Karina Kielmann, Himanshu Gupte, Arun Bamne, John DH Porter, and Sheela Rangan PMCID: PMC2887819 Small area contextual effects on self-reported health: Evidence from Riverside, Calgary Jenny Godley, Valerie A Haines, Penelope Hawe, and Alan Shiell PMCID: PMC2881101 Increasing uptake of colorectal cancer screening in Korea: a population-based study Kui Son Choi, Jae Kwan Jun, Hoo-Yeon Lee, Myung-Il Hahm, Jae Hwan Oh, and Eun-Cheol Park PMCID: PMC2887394 Ethnicity and attitudes to deceased kidney donation: a survey in Barbados and comparison with Black Caribbean people in the United Kingdom Myfanwy Morgan, O Peter Adams, Paul T Seed, and Roger Jones PMCID: PMC2893092 Maxillofacial injuries associated with intimate partner violence in women Norkhafizah Saddki, Adlin A Suhaimi, and Razak Daud PMCID: PMC2882351 Mother's occupation and sex ratio at birth Kathreen E Ruckstuhl, Grant P Colijn, Volodymyr Amiot, and Erin Vinish PMCID: PMC2888741 Estimated birth weight and adult cardiovascular risk factors in a developing southern Chinese population: a cross sectional study CM Schooling, CQ Jiang, TH Lam, BJ Cowling, SL Au Yeung, WS Zhang, KK Cheng, and GM Leung PMCID: PMC2887395 Rural to urban migration and changes in cardiovascular risk factors in Tanzania: a prospective cohort study Nigel Unwin, Peter James, Dorothy McLarty, Harun Machybia, Peter Nkulila, Bushiri Tamin, Mkay Nguluma, and Richard McNally PMCID: PMC2892446 Male fetal loss in the U.S. following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 Tim A Bruckner, Ralph Catalano, and Jennifer Ahern PMCID: PMC2889867 Excessive TV viewing and cardiovascular disease risk factors in adolescents. The AVENA cross-sectional study David Martinez-Gomez, J Pablo Rey-López, Palma Chillón, Sonia Gómez-Martínez, Germán Vicente-Rodríguez, Miguel Martín-Matillas, Miguel Garcia-Fuentes, Manuel Delgado, Luis A Moreno, Oscar L Veiga, Joey C Eisenmann, Ascension Marcos, and AVENA Study Group PMCID: PMC2892447 To bite or not to bite! A questionnaire-based survey assessing why some people are bitten more than others by midges James G Logan, James I Cook, Nina M Stanczyk, Emma NI Weeks, Sue J Welham, and A Jennifer Mordue(Luntz) PMCID: PMC2893461 A population study on the association between leisure time physical activity and self-rated health among diabetics in Taiwan Chia-Lin Li, Yi-Chang Lai, Chin-Hsiao Tseng, Jen-Der Lin, and Hsing-Yi Chang PMCID: PMC2889868 Estimating the risk of rabies transmission to humans in the U.S.: a delphi analysis Sagar A Vaidya, Susan E Manning, Praveen Dhankhar, Martin I Meltzer, Charles Rupprecht, Harry F Hull, and Daniel B Fishbein PMCID: PMC2887820 Maternal and neonatal risk factors for childhood type 1 diabetes: a matched case-control study Lynn Robertson and Kirsten Harrild PMCID: PMC2885337 Perceived discrimination and health-related quality of life among Arabs and Jews in Israel: A population-based survey Orna Baron Epel, Giora Kaplan, and Mika Moran PMCID: PMC2891650 Neighborhood conditions, diabetes, and risk of lower-body functional limitations among middle-aged African Americans: A cohort study Mario Schootman, Elena M Andresen, Fredric D Wolinsky, J Philip Miller, Yan Yan, and Douglas K Miller PMCID: PMC2885338 Self-reported racial discrimination, response to unfair treatment, and coronary calcification in asymptomatic adults - the North Texas Healthy Heart study Roberto Cardarelli, Kathryn M Cardarelli, Kimberly G Fulda, Anna Espinoza, Clifton Cage, Jamboor Vishwanatha, Richard Young, Darryl N Steele, and Joan Carroll PMCID: PMC2887822 Correlates of video games playing among adolescents in an Islamic country Hamid Allahverdipour, Mohsen Bazargan, Abdollah Farhadinasab, and Babak Moeini PMCID: PMC2894772 Why Iranian married women use withdrawal instead of oral contraceptives? A qualitative study from Iran Parvin Rahnama, Alireza Hidarnia, Farkhondeh Amin Shokravi, Anoushiravan Kazemnejad, Deborah Oakley, and Ali Montazeri PMCID: PMC2888744 Incarceration as a key variable in racial disparities of asthma prevalence Emily A Wang and Jeremy Green PMCID: PMC2889869 Effect of Improved access to Antiretroviral Therapy on clinical characteristics of patients enrolled in the HIV care and treatment clinic, at Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Sabina F Mugusi, Julius C Mwita, Joel M Francis, Said Aboud, Muhammad Bakari, Eric A Aris, Andrew B Swai, Ferdinand M Mugusi, Kisali Pallangyo, and Eric Sandstrom PMCID: PMC2887824 Balancing collective responsibility, individual opportunities and risks: a qualitative study on how police officers reason around volunteering in an HIV vaccine trial in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Edith AM Tarimo, Anna Thorson, Thecla W Kohi, Joachim Mwami, Muhammad Bakari, Eric Sandström, and Asli Kulane PMCID: PMC2888745 Rapid Health and Needs assessments after disasters: a systematic review Helena A Korteweg, Irene van Bokhoven, CJ Yzermans, and Linda Grievink PMCID: PMC2889870 Determinants of health disparities between Italian regions Luisa Franzini and Margherita Giannoni PMCID: PMC2902435 A telephone survey of parental attitudes and behaviours regarding teenage drinking Bobby P Smyth, Catherine D Darker, Erica Donnelly-Swift, Joe M Barry, and Shane PA Allwright PMCID: PMC2897794 Subclinical hyperthyroidism and dementia: the Sao Paulo Ageing & Health Study (SPAH) Isabela M Benseñor, Paulo A Lotufo, Paulo R Menezes, and Márcia Scazufca PMCID: PMC2887825 Reframing climate change as a public health issue: an exploratory study of public reactions Edward W Maibach, Matthew Nisbet, Paula Baldwin, Karen Akerlof, and Guoqing Diao PMCID: PMC2898822 Air pollution and health in Sri Lanka: a review of epidemiologic studies Yatagama Lokuge S Nandasena, Ananda R Wickremasinghe, and Nalini Sathiakumar PMCID: PMC2893095 Return to work after a workplace-oriented intervention for patients on sick-leave for burnout - a prospective controlled study Björn Karlson, Peter Jönsson, Birgitta Pålsson, Gunnel Åbjörnsson, Birgitta Malmberg, Britt Larsson, and Kai Österberg PMCID: PMC2894773 A newer and broader definition of burnout: Validation of the "Burnout Clinical Subtype Questionnaire (BCSQ-36)" Jesús Montero-Marín and Javier García-Campayo PMCID: PMC2887826 Association between Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Risk in Chinese Youth Independent of Age and Pubertal Stage Alice PS Kong, Kai-Chow Choi, Albert MC Li, Stanley SC Hui, Michael HM Chan, YK Wing, Ronald CW Ma, Christopher WK Lam, Joseph TF Lau, Wing Yee So, Gary TC Ko, and Juliana CN Chan PMCID: PMC2893096 Low level exposure to cadmium increases the risk of chronic kidney disease: analysis of the NHANES 1999-2006 Pietro Manuel Ferraro, Stefano Costanzi, Alessandro Naticchia, Antonio Sturniolo, and Giovanni Gambaro PMCID: PMC2887827 The impact of self-reported exposure to whole-body-vibrations on the risk of disability pension among men: a 15 year prospective study Finn Tüchsen, Helene Feveile, Karl B Christensen, and Niklas Krause PMCID: PMC2898823 Population Attributable Fraction of Smoking and Metabolic Syndrome on Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Japan: a 15-Year Follow Up of NIPPON DATA90 Naoyuki Takashima, Katsuyuki Miura, Atsushi Hozawa, Aya Kadota, Tomonori Okamura, Yasuyuki Nakamura, Takehito Hayakawa, Nagako Okuda, Akira Fujiyoshi, Shin-ya Nagasawa, Takashi Kadowaki, Yoshitaka Murakami, Yoshikuni Kita, Akira Okayama, and Hirotsugu Ueshima PMCID: PMC2894774 Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and its components in relation to socioeconomic status among Jamaican young adults: a cross-sectional study Trevor S Ferguson, Marshall K Tulloch-Reid, Novie OM Younger, Jennifer M Knight-Madden, Maureen Samms-Vaughan, Deanna Ashley, Jan Van den Broeck, and Rainford J Wilks PMCID: PMC2898824 Automatic evaluation of body-related words among young women: an experimental study Kaaren J Watts and Jacquelyn Cranney PMCID: PMC2902436 "I don't eat a hamburger and large chips every day!" A qualitative study of the impact of public health messages about obesity on obese adults Sophie Lewis, Samantha L Thomas, Jim Hyde, David Castle, R Warwick Blood, and Paul A Komesaroff PMCID: PMC2887828 Mapping service activity: the example of childhood obesity schemes in England Catherine Aicken, Helen Roberts, and Lisa Arai PMCID: PMC2890690 Neighborhood and weight-related health behaviors in the Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) Study Tiffany L Gary-Webb, Kesha Baptiste-Roberts, Luu Pham, Jacqueline Wesche-Thobaben, Jennifer Patricio, F Xavier Pi-Sunyer, Arleen F Brown, LaShanda Jones, and Frederick L Brancati PMCID: PMC2897795 Evaluation of a community-based participatory physical activity promotion project: effect on cardiovascular disease risk profiles of school employees Noha H Farag, William E Moore, David M Thompson, Cee E Kobza, Kathryn Abbott, and June E Eichner PMCID: PMC2894775 Racial/ethnic and sexual behavior disparities in rates of sexually transmitted infections, San Francisco, 1999-2008 Hyman M Scott, Kyle T Bernstein, Henry F Raymond, Robert Kohn, and Jeffrey D Klausner PMCID: PMC2903517 The impact of food assistance on weight gain and disease progression among HIV-infected individuals accessing AIDS care and treatment services in Uganda Rahul Rawat, Suneetha Kadiyala, and Paul E McNamara PMCID: PMC2896357 HIV prevalence among female sex workers, drug users and men who have sex with men in Brazil: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Monica Malta, Monica MF Magnanini, Maeve B Mello, Ana Roberta P Pascom, Yohana Linhares, and Francisco I Bastos PMCID: PMC2898825 Insulin resistance and its association with the components of the metabolic syndrome among obese children and adolescents Carlos Juárez-López, Miguel Klünder-Klünder, Patricia Medina-Bravo, Adrián Madrigal-Azcárate, Eliezer Mass-Díaz, and Samuel Flores-Huerta PMCID: PMC2898826 Knowledge and reported practices of men and women on maternal and child health in rural Guinea Bissau: a cross sectional survey Rebecca King, Vera Mann, and Peter D Boone PMCID: PMC2891651 Cigarette smokers' intention to quit smoking in Dire Dawa town Ethiopia: an assessment using the Transtheoretical Model Eshetu Girma, Tsion Assefa, and Amare Deribew PMCID: PMC2889871 Pandemic influenza preparedness and health systems challenges in Asia: results from rapid analyses in 6 Asian countries Piya Hanvoravongchai, Wiku Adisasmito, Pham Ngoc Chau, Alexandra Conseil, Joia de Sa, Ralf Krumkamp, Sandra Mounier-Jack, Bounlay Phommasack, Weerasak Putthasri, Chin-Shui Shih, Sok Touch, and Richard Coker PMCID: PMC2896940 The economic costs of alcohol consumption in Thailand, 2006 Montarat Thavorncharoensap, Yot Teerawattananon, Jomkwan Yothasamut, Chanida Lertpitakpong, Khannika Thitiboonsuwan, Prapag Neramitpitagkul, and Usa Chaikledkaew PMCID: PMC2896941 Burnout, working conditions and gender - results from the northern Sweden MONICA Study Sofia Norlund, Christina Reuterwall, Jonas Höög, Bernt Lindahl, Urban Janlert, and Lisbeth Slunga Birgander PMCID: PMC2896942 Determinants of hospitalization for a cutaneous injection-related infection among injection drug users: a cohort study Elisa Lloyd-Smith, Evan Wood, Ruth Zhang, Mark W Tyndall, Sam Sheps, Julio SG Montaner, and Thomas Kerr PMCID: PMC2890691 Is the Scottish population living dangerously? Prevalence of multiple risk factors: the Scottish Health Survey 2003 Richard Lawder, Oliver Harding, Diane Stockton, Colin Fischbacher, David H Brewster, Jim Chalmers, Alan Finlayson, and David I Conway PMCID: PMC2903518 Compliance with herpes zoster vaccination in young and adult individuals in two regions of Italy Antonino Parlato, Vincenzo Romano Spica, Massimo Ciccozzi, Francesca Farchi, Francesca Gallè, Valeria Di Onofrio, Elisabetta Franco, and Giorgio Liguori PMCID: PMC2896358 Gender-related power differences, beliefs and reactions towards people living with HIV/AIDS: an urban study in Nigeria Ngozi C Mbonu, Bart Van den Borne, and Nanne K De Vries PMCID: PMC2901374 Household smoking and dental caries in schoolchildren: the Ryukyus Child Health Study Keiko Tanaka, Yoshihiro Miyake, Masashi Arakawa, Satoshi Sasaki, and Yukihiro Ohya PMCID: PMC2893097 Population based absolute and relative survival to 1 year of people with diabetes following a myocardial infarction: A cohort study using hospital admissions data Sinead Brophy, Roxanne Cooksey, Michael B Gravenor, Clive Weston, Steven M Macey, Gareth John, Rhys Williams, and Ronan A Lyons PMCID: PMC2894776 Evaluation of a brief anti-stigma campaign in Cambridge: do short-term campaigns work? Sara Evans-Lacko, Jillian London, Kirsty Little, Claire Henderson, and Graham Thornicroft PMCID: PMC2896360 Should public health interventions aimed at reducing childhood overweight and obesity be gender-focused? Aline Simen-Kapeu and Paul J Veugelers PMCID: PMC2894777 Consumer perceptions of beef healthiness: results from a qualitative study in four European countries Lynn Van Wezemael, Wim Verbeke, Marcia D de Barcellos, Joachim Scholderer, and Federico Perez-Cueto PMCID: PMC2893462 Home-based voluntary HIV counselling and testing found highly acceptable and to reduce inequalities Wilbroad Mutale, Charles Michelo, Marte Jürgensen, and Knut Fylkesnes PMCID: PMC2902437 A pilot study combining individual-based smoking cessation counseling, pharmacotherapy, and dental hygiene intervention Semira Gonseth, Marcelo Abarca, Carlos Madrid, and Jacques Cornuz PMCID: PMC2894778 Is web interviewing a good alternative to telephone interviewing? Findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Netherlands Survey Gera E Nagelhout, Marc C Willemsen, Mary E Thompson, Geoffrey T Fong, Bas van den Putte, and Hein de Vries PMCID: PMC2897796 Estimating the magnitude and direction of bias in tuberculosis drug resistance surveys conducted only in the public sector: a simulation study Ted Cohen, Bethany L Hedt, and Marcello Pagano PMCID: PMC2898828 Private patient perceptions about a public programme; what do private Indian tuberculosis patients really feel about directly observed treatment? Lancelot M Pinto and Zarir F Udwadia PMCID: PMC2903519 Varicella susceptibility and transmission dynamics in Slovenia Maja Sočan, Nataša Berginc, and Jaro Lajovic PMCID: PMC2901375 Missed opportunities for earlier HIV testing and diagnosis at the health facilities of Dessie town, North East Ethiopia Netsanet W Fetene and Amsalu D Feleke PMCID: PMC2903520 Physical activity and optimal self-rated health of adults with and without diabetes James Tsai, Earl S Ford, Chaoyang Li, Guixiang Zhao, and Lina S Balluz PMCID: PMC2901376 Clinical consequences of road traffic injuries among the elderly in Japan Takashi Nagata, Hajime Uno, and Melissa J Perry PMCID: PMC2903521 Knowledge of human papillomavirus infection and its prevention among adolescents and parents in the greater Milan area, Northern Italy Claudio Pelucchi, Susanna Esposito, Carlotta Galeone, Margherita Semino, Caterina Sabatini, Irene Picciolli, Silvia Consolo, Gregorio Milani, and Nicola Principi PMCID: PMC2901377 Relationship between tooth loss and mortality in 80-year-old Japanese community-dwelling subjects Toshihiro Ansai, Yutaka Takata, Inho Soh, Shuji Awano, Akihiro Yoshida, Kazuo Sonoki, Tomoko Hamasaki, Takehiro Torisu, Akira Sogame, Naoko Shimada, and Tadamichi Takehara PMCID: PMC2903522 Study protocol Women's evaluation of abuse and violence care in general practice: a cluster randomised controlled trial (weave) Kelsey L Hegarty, Jane M Gunn, Lorna J O'Doherty, Angela Taft, Patty Chondros, Gene Feder, Jill Astbury, and Stephanie Brown PMCID: PMC2823699 A randomised controlled trial and cost-effectiveness evaluation of "booster" interventions to sustain increases in physical activity in middle-aged adults in deprived urban neighbourhoods Daniel Hind, Emma J Scott, Robert Copeland, Jeff D Breckon, Helen Crank, Stephen J Walters, John E Brazier, Jon Nicholl, Cindy Cooper, and Elizabeth Goyder PMCID: PMC2819992 The influence of a high intensity physical activity intervention on a selection of health related outcomes: an ecological approach Duncan S Buchan, Stewart Ollis, Non E Thomas, and Julien S Baker PMCID: PMC2830172 Blood glucose testing and primary prevention of diabetes mellitus type 2 - evaluation of the effect of evidence based patient information Jutta Genz, Burkhard Haastert, Gabriele Meyer, Anke Steckelberg, Hardy Müller, Frank Verheyen, Dennis Cole, Wolfgang Rathmann, Bettina Nowotny, Michael Roden, Guido Giani, Andreas Mielck, Christian Ohmann, and Andrea Icks PMCID: PMC2819991 Rationale and design of the CAPAMIS study: Effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination against community-acquired pneumonia, acute myocardial infarction and stroke Angel Vila-Corcoles, Inmaculada Hospital-Guardiola, Olga Ochoa-Gondar, Cinta de Diego, Elisabet Salsench, Xavier Raga, and Cruz M Fuentes-Bellido PMCID: PMC2822825 Rationale and design of a randomised controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of an exercise program to improve the quality of life of patients with heart failure in primary care: The EFICAR study protocol Ana Zuazagoitia, Gonzalo Grandes, Jesús Torcal, Iñaki Lekuona, Pilar Echevarria, Manuel A Gómez, Mar Domingo, Maria M de la Torre, Jose I Ramírez, Imanol Montoya, Juana Oyanguren, and Ricardo Ortega-Sánchez Pinilla PMCID: PMC2835681 The effect of gold kiwifruit consumed with an iron fortified breakfast cereal meal on iron status in women with low iron stores: A 16 week randomised controlled intervention study Kathryn Beck, Cathryn Conlon, Rozanne Kruger, Jane Coad, and Welma Stonehouse PMCID: PMC2823703 The use of conspicuity aids by cyclists and risk of crashes involving other road users: a protocol for a population based case-control study Philip D Miller, Denise Kendrick, Carol Coupland, and Frank Coffey PMCID: PMC2835683 Evaluation of health promotion in schools: a realistic evaluation approach using mixed methods Jeanine Pommier, Marie-Renée Guével, and Didier Jourdan PMCID: PMC2824736 A participatory parent-focused intervention promoting physical activity in preschools: design of a cluster-randomized trial Freia De Bock, Joachim E Fischer, Kristina Hoffmann, and Herbert Renz-Polster PMCID: PMC2835684 Primary care Identification and Referral to Improve Safety of women experiencing domestic violence (IRIS): protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial Alison Gregory, Jean Ramsay, Roxane Agnew-Davies, Kathleen Baird, Angela Devine, Danielle Dunne, Sandra Eldridge, Annie Howell, Medina Johnson, Clare Rutterford, Debbie Sharp, and Gene Feder PMCID: PMC2825222 Cluster randomized trial in smoking cessation with intensive advice in diabetic patients in primary care. ITADI Study Lydia Roig, Santiago Perez, Gemma Prieto, Carlos Martin, Mamta Advani, Angelina Armengol, Pilar Roura, Josep Maria Manresa, Elena Briones, and ITADI Study Group PMCID: PMC2825223 Scaling up community-based obesity prevention in Australia: Background and evaluation design of the Health Promoting Communities: Being Active Eating Well initiative Andrea M de Silva-Sanigorski, Kristy Bolton, Michelle Haby, Peter Kremer, Lisa Gibbs, Elizabeth Waters, and Boyd Swinburn PMCID: PMC2836295 A tailored lifestyle intervention to reduce the cardiovascular disease risk of individuals with Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH): design of the PRO-FIT randomised controlled trial Karen Broekhuizen, Mireille NM van Poppel, Lando LJ Koppes, Johannes Brug, and Willem van Mechelen PMCID: PMC2834628 Study Protocol - Accurate assessment of kidney function in Indigenous Australians: aims and methods of the eGFR Study Louise J Maple-Brown, Paul D Lawton, Jaquelyne T Hughes, Suresh K Sharma, Graham RD Jones, Andrew G Ellis, Wendy Hoy, Alan Cass, Richard J MacIsaac, Ashim K Sinha, Mark AB Thomas, Leonard S Piers, Leigh C Ward, Katrina Drabsch, Sianna Panagiotopoulos, Robyn McDermott, Kevin Warr, Sajiv Cherian, Alex Brown, George Jerums, and Kerin O'Dea PMCID: PMC2836987 The VicGeneration study - a birth cohort to examine the environmental, behavioural and biological predictors of early childhood caries: background, aims and methods Andrea M de Silva-Sanigorski, Hanny Calache, Mark Gussy, Stuart Dashper, Jane Gibson, and Elizabeth Waters PMCID: PMC2847982 Diet and lifestyle interventions in postpartum women in China: study design and rationale of a multicenter randomized controlled trial Wei Bao, Aiguo Ma, Limei Mao, Jianqiang Lai, Mei Xiao, Guoqiang Sun, Yingying Ouyang, Shuang Wu, Wei Yang, Nanping Wang, Yanting Zhao, Juan Fu, and Liegang Liu PMCID: PMC2837853 The study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of a family-centred tobacco control program about environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) to reduce respiratory illness in Indigenous infants Vanessa Johnston, Natalie Walker, David P Thomas, Marewa Glover, Anne B Chang, Chris Bullen, Peter Morris, Ngiare Brown, Stephen Vander Hoorn, Ron Borland, Catherine Segan, Adrian Trenholme, Toni Mason, Debra Fenton, and Kane Ellis PMCID: PMC2846866 Understanding resilience in same-sex parented families: the work, love, play study Jennifer J Power, Amaryll Perlesz, Margot J Schofield, Marian K Pitts, Rhonda Brown, Ruth McNair, Anna Barrett, and Andrew Bickerdike PMCID: PMC2841103 Worksite interventions for preventing physical deterioration among employees in job-groups with high physical work demands: Background, design and conceptual model of FINALE Andreas Holtermann, Marie B Jørgensen, Bibi Gram, Jeanette R Christensen, Anne Faber, Kristian Overgaard, John Ektor-Andersen, Ole S Mortensen, Gisela Sjøgaard, and Karen Søgaard PMCID: PMC2841104 Effectiveness of a parenting programme in a public health setting: a randomised controlled trial of the positive parenting programme (Triple P) level 3 versus care as usual provided by the preventive child healthcare (PCH) Willem Spijkers, Daniëlle EMC Jansen, Gea de Meer, and Sijmen A Reijneveld PMCID: PMC2848632 Prevention of recurrent sickness absence among employees with common mental disorders: design of a cluster-randomised controlled trial with cost-benefit and effectiveness evaluation Iris Arends, Jac JL van der Klink, and Ute Bültmann PMCID: PMC2841673 Effect of medication review and cognitive behaviour treatment by community pharmacists of patients discharged from the hospital on drug related problems and compliance: design of a randomized controlled trial Abeer Ahmad, Jacqueline Hugtenburg, Laura MC Welschen, Jacqueline M Dekker, and Giel Nijpels PMCID: PMC2850341 Risk levels for suffering a traffic injury in primary health care. The LESIONAT* project Carlos Martín-Cantera, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Lydia Roig, Susana Valiente, Katherine Perez, Luis Garcia-Ortiz, Jordi Bel, Fernando Marques, Xavier Mundet, Xavier Bonafont, Marti Birules, Núria Soldevila, Elena Briones, and LESIONAT Research Group PMCID: PMC2851683 Central blood pressure and pulse wave velocity: relationship to target organ damage and cardiovascular morbidity-mortality in diabetic patients or metabolic syndrome. An observational prospective study. LOD-DIABETES study protocol Manuel A Gómez-Marcos, José I Recio-Rodríguez, Emiliano Rodríguez-Sánchez, Yolanda Castaño-Sánchez, Angela de Cabo-Laso, Benigna Sánchez-Salgado, Carmela Rodríguez-Martín, Carmen Castaño-Sánchez, Leticia Gómez-Sánchez, and Luis García-Ortiz PMCID: PMC2858115 Randomised controlled trial of the effects of physical activity feedback on awareness and behaviour in UK adults: the FAB study protocol [ISRCTN92551397] Clare Watkinson, Esther MF van Sluijs, Stephen Sutton, Theresa Marteau, and Simon J Griffin PMCID: PMC2859395 Protocol of the baseline assessment for the Environments for Healthy Living (EHL) Wales cohort study Rebecca A Hill, Sinead Brophy, Huw Brunt, Mel Storey, Non E Thomas, Catherine A Thornton, Stephen Palmer, Frank Dunstan, Shantini Paranjothy, Roderick McClure, Sarah E Rodgers, and Ronan A Lyons PMCID: PMC2850344 Development and validation of a population-based prediction scale for osteoporotic fracture in the region of Valencia, Spain: the ESOSVAL-R study José Sanfélix-Genovés, Salvador Peiró, Gabriel Sanfélix-Gimeno, Vicente Giner, Vicente Gil, Manuel Pascual, Carlos Fluixá, Antonio Fuertes, Isabel Hurtado, and Inmaculada Ferreros PMCID: PMC2848634 An intervention to stop smoking among patients suspected of TB - evaluation of an integrated approach Kamran Siddiqi, Amir Khan, Maqsood Ahmad, and Shafiq-ur-Rehman PMCID: PMC2850346 The Heavy Vehicle Study: a case-control study investigating risk factors for crash in long distance heavy vehicle drivers in Australia Mark Stevenson, Lisa N Sharwood, Keith Wong, Jane Elkington, Lynn Meuleners, Rebecca Q Ivers, Ron R Grunstein, Ann Williamson, Narelle Haworth, and Robyn Norton PMCID: PMC2859397 A prospective, longitudinal study of growth, nutrition and sedentary behaviour in young children with cerebral palsy Kristie L Bell, Roslyn N Boyd, Sean M Tweedy, Kelly A Weir, Richard D Stevenson, and Peter SW Davies PMCID: PMC2867996 A European project on incidence, treatment, and outcome of sarcoma Giuseppe Mastrangelo, Emanuela Fadda, Luca Cegolon, Maria C Montesco, Isabel Ray-Coquard, Alessandra Buja, Ugo Fedeli, Alvise Frasson, Paolo Spolaore, and Carlo R Rossi PMCID: PMC2882909 Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe (SEYLE): a randomized controlled trial Danuta Wasserman, Vladimir Carli, Camilla Wasserman, Alan Apter, Judit Balazs, Julia Bobes, Renata Bracale, Romuald Brunner, Cendrine Bursztein-Lipsicas, Paul Corcoran, Doina Cosman, Tony Durkee, Dana Feldman, Julia Gadoros, Francis Guillemin, Christian Haring, Jean-Pierre Kahn, Michael Kaess, Helen Keeley, Dragan Marusic, Bogdan Nemes, Vita Postuvan, Stella Reiter-Theil, Franz Resch, Pilar Sáiz, Marco Sarchiapone, Merike Sisask, Airi Varnik, and Christina W Hoven PMCID: PMC2880291 Female Genital Mutilation: perceptions of healthcare professionals and the perspective of the migrant families Adriana Kaplan-Marcusán, Natividad Fernández del Rio, Juana Moreno-Navarro, Ma José Castany-Fàbregas, Marta Ruiz Nogueras, Laura Muñoz-Ortiz, Eliana Monguí-Avila, and Pere Torán-Monserrat PMCID: PMC2861649 Assessing the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of adaptive e-Learning to improve dietary behaviour: protocol for a systematic review Phil Edwards, Lambert Felix, Jody Harris, Elaine Ferguson, Caroline Free, Jane Landon, Karen Lock, Susan Michie, Alec Miners, and Elizabeth Murray PMCID: PMC2868000 Prospective study of asbestos-related diseases incidence cases in primary health care in an area of Barcelona province Magdalena Rosell-Murphy, Rafael Abós-Herràndiz, Josep Tarrés, Xavier Martínez-Artés, Isabel García-Allas, Ilona Krier, Gloria Cantarell, Miguel Gallego, Ramon Orriols, and Constança Albertí PMCID: PMC2874532 TECNOB: study design of a randomized controlled trial of a multidisciplinary telecare intervention for obese patients with type-2 diabetes Gianluca Castelnuovo, Gian Mauro Manzoni, Paola Cuzziol, Gian Luca Cesa, Cristina Tuzzi, Valentina Villa, Antonio Liuzzi, Maria Letizia Petroni, and Enrico Molinari PMCID: PMC2873580 A European study on alcohol and drug use among young drivers: the TEND by Night study design and methodology Roberta Siliquini, Simone Chiadò Piat, Francisco Alonso, Axel Druart, Marcin Kedzia, Antonio Mollica, Valeria Siliquini, Daniel Vankov, Anita Villerusa, Lamberto Manzoli, and TEND Group PMCID: PMC2873581 Early incidence of occupational asthma among young bakers, pastry-makers and hairdressers: design of a retrospective cohort study Thomas Rémen, Vincent Coevoet, Dovi-Stéphanie Acouetey, Jean-Louis Guéant, Rosa-Maria Guéant-Rodriguez, Christophe Paris, and Denis Zmirou-Navier PMCID: PMC2874777 Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of nutritional intervention in elderly after hip fracture: design of a randomized controlled trial Caroline E Wyers, José JL Breedveld-Peters, Petronella LM Reijven, Svenjhalmar van Helden, Nick A Guldemond, Johan L Severens, Aart D Verburg, Berry Meesters, Lodewijk W van Rhijn, and Pieter C Dagnelie PMCID: PMC2868003 A cluster randomised trial of a telephone-based intervention for parents to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in their 3- to 5-year-old children: study protocol Rebecca J Wyse, Luke Wolfenden, Elizabeth Campbell, Leah Brennan, Karen J Campbell, Amanda Fletcher, Jenny Bowman, Todd R Heard, and John Wiggers PMCID: PMC2873583 Healthy eating and obesity prevention for preschoolers: a randomised controlled trial Helen Skouteris, Marita McCabe, Boyd Swinburn, and Briony Hill PMCID: PMC2873586 The nutrition-based comprehensive intervention study on childhood obesity in China (NISCOC): a randomised cluster controlled trial Yanping Li, Xiaoqi Hu, Qian Zhang, Ailing Liu, Hongyun Fang, Linan Hao, Yifan Duan, Haiquan Xu, Xianwen Shang, Jun Ma, Guifa Xu, Lin Du, Ying Li, Hongwei Guo, Tingyu Li, and Guansheng Ma PMCID: PMC2876107 Physical exercise, fitness and dietary pattern and their relationship with circadian blood pressure pattern, augmentation index and endothelial dysfunction biological markers: EVIDENT study protocol Luis García-Ortiz, José I Recio-Rodríguez, Carlos Martín-Cantera, Alfredo Cabrejas-Sánchez, Amparo Gómez-Arranz, Natividad González-Viejo, Eguskiñe Iturregui-San Nicolás, Maria C Patino-Alonso, and Manuel A Gómez-Marcos PMCID: PMC2881095 The Nutrinet-Santé Study: a web-based prospective study on the relationship between nutrition and health and determinants of dietary patterns and nutritional status Serge Hercberg, Katia Castetbon, Sébastien Czernichow, Aurélie Malon, Caroline Mejean, Emmanuelle Kesse, Mathilde Touvier, and Pilar Galan PMCID: PMC2881098 Cardio-metabolic risk in 5-year-old children prenatally exposed to maternal psychosocial stress: the ABCD study Aimée E van Dijk, Manon van Eijsden, Karien Stronks, Reinoud JBJ Gemke, and Tanja GM Vrijkotte PMCID: PMC2882911 Design of the Anti-tuberculosis Drugs induced Adverse Reactions in China National Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Scheme Study (ADACS) Yin Yin Xia, Dai Yu Hu, Fei Ying Liu, Xiao Meng Wang, Yan Li Yuan, De Hua Tu, Yi Xin Chen, Lin Zhou, Li Zhen Zhu, Wei Wei Gao, Hong Yuan Wang, Da Fang Chen, Li Yang, Ping Ping He, Xiao Ting Li, Ying Jian He, Feng Sun, and Si Yan Zhan PMCID: PMC2893093 Motivational interviewing for screening and feedback and encouraging lifestyle changes to reduce relative weight in 4-8 year old children: design of the MInT study Rachael W Taylor, Deirdre Brown, Anna M Dawson, Jill Haszard, Adell Cox, Elaine A Rose, Barry J Taylor, Kim Meredith-Jones, Lee Treacy, Jim Ross, and Sheila M William PMCID: PMC2888742 The cost effectiveness of an early transition from hospital to nursing home for stroke patients: design of a comparative study Ron WH Heijnen, Silvia MAA Evers, Trudy DEM van der Weijden, Martien Limburg, and Jos MGA Schols PMCID: PMC2888743 Study protocol: Determinants of participation and quality of life of adolescents with cerebral palsy: a longitudinal study (SPARCLE2) Allan F Colver, Heather O Dickinson, and SPARCLE group* PMCID: PMC2885989 The design of a community lifestyle programme to improve the physical and psychological well-being of pregnant women with a BMI of 30 kg/m2 or more Debbie M Smith, Melissa Whitworth, Colin Sibley, Wendy Taylor, Jane Gething, Catherine Chmiel, and Tina Lavender PMCID: PMC2887821 The Study of Environment on Aboriginal Resilience and Child Health (SEARCH): study protocol The SEARCH Investigators PMCID: PMC2896939 Evaluation of the childhood obesity prevention program Kids - 'Go for your life' Andrea de Silva-Sanigorski, Lauren Prosser, Lauren Carpenter, Suzy Honisett, Lisa Gibbs, Marj Moodie, Lauren Sheppard, Boyd Swinburn, and Elizabeth Waters PMCID: PMC2887823 Design of the DIRECT-project: interventions to increase job resources and recovery opportunities to improve job-related health, well-being, and performance outcomes in nursing homes Ellen Spoor, Jan de Jonge, and Jan PH Hamers PMCID: PMC2893094 The Sydney Diabetes Prevention Program: A community-based translational study Stephen Colagiuri, Philip Vita, Magnolia Cardona-Morrell, Maria Fiatarone Singh, Louise Farrell, Andrew Milat, Marion Haas, and Adrian Bauman PMCID: PMC2898827 A pragmatic randomised controlled trial of the Welsh National Exercise Referral Scheme: protocol for trial and integrated economic and process evaluation Simon Murphy, Larry Raisanen, Graham Moore, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Pat Linck, Nefyn Williams, Nafees Ud Din, Janine Hale, Chris Roberts, Elaine McNaish, and Laurence Moore PMCID: PMC2896943 Research Articles Associations between body mass index, weight control concerns and behaviors, and eating disorder symptoms among non-clinical Chinese adolescents Yiou Fan, Yanping Li, Ailing Liu, Xiaoqi Hu, Guansheng Ma, and Guifa Xu PMCID: PMC2904271 Screen-based activities and physical complaints among adolescents from the Nordic countries Torbjørn Torsheim, Lilly Eriksson, Christina W Schnohr, Fredrik Hansen, Thoroddur Bjarnason, and Raili Välimaa PMCID: PMC2904715 Maternal age, education level and migration: Socioeconomic determinants for smoking during pregnancy in a field study from Turkey Isil Ergin, Hur Hassoy, Feride A Tanik, and Gokce Aslan PMCID: PMC2904272 The prevalence of nutritional anemia in pregnancy in an east Anatolian province, Turkey Leyla Karaoglu, Erkan Pehlivan, Mucahit Egri, Cihan Deprem, Gulsen Gunes, Metin F Genc, and Ismail Temel PMCID: PMC2904273 Hip fracture risk in relation to vitamin D supplementation and serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials and observational studies Jeffrey K C Lai, Robyn M Lucas, Mark S Clements, Andrew W Roddam, and Emily Banks PMCID: PMC2906464 Epidemiology of reported Yersinia enterocolitica infections in Germany, 2001-2008 Bettina M Rosner, Klaus Stark, and Dirk Werber PMCID: PMC2905328 Lower age at menarche affects survival in older Australian women: results from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing Lynne C Giles, Gary FV Glonek, Vivienne M Moore, Michael J Davies, and Mary A Luszcz PMCID: PMC2908577 Change in depressive symptoms over higher education and professional establishment - a longitudinal investigation in a national cohort of Swedish nursing students Anna Christensson, Bo Runeson, Paul W Dickman, and Marjan Vaez PMCID: PMC2905329 A qualitative exploration of the perceptions and information needs of public health inspectors responsible for food safety Mai T Pham, Andria Q Jones, Jan M Sargeant, Barbara J Marshall, and Catherine E Dewey PMCID: PMC2905330 hoIs body size at birth related to circadian salivary cortisol levels in adulthood? Results from a longitudinal cohort study Per E Gustafsson, Urban Janlert, Töres Theorell, and Anne Hammarström PMCID: PMC2908578 Screening migrants for tuberculosis - a missed opportunity for improving knowledge and attitudes in high-risk groups: A cross-sectional study of Swedish-language students in Umeå, Sweden Faustine KK Nkulu, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Clas Ahlm, and Ingela Krantz PMCID: PMC2905331 The quality of preventive health care delivered to adults: results from a cross-sectional study in Southern Italy Benedetto Manuti, Paolo Rizza, Aida Bianco, Carmelo GA Nobile, and Maria Pavia PMCID: PMC2910674 Using intervention mapping (IM) to develop a self-management programme for employees with a chronic disease in the Netherlands Sarah I Detaille, Joost WJ van der Gulden, Josephine A Engels, Yvonne F Heerkens, and Frank JH van Dijk PMCID: PMC2908090 Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection: Views and perceptions about swallowing nevirapine in rural Lilongwe, Malawi Deirdre A O'Gorman, Lot J Nyirenda, and Sally J Theobald PMCID: PMC2910675 Uptake and effectiveness of the Children's Fitness Tax Credit in Canada: the rich get richer John C Spence, Nicholas L Holt, Julia K Dutove, and Valerie Carson PMCID: PMC2908091 Use of evidence-based pharmacotherapy after myocardial infarction in Estonia Toomas Marandi, Aleksei Baburin, and Tiia Ainla PMCID: PMC2911401 Recent trends in exposure to secondhand smoke in the United States population Chieh-I Chen, Tanya Burton, Christine L Baker, Vera Mastey, and David Mannino PMCID: PMC2912805 Associations between partial sickness benefit and disability pensions: initial findings of a Finnish nationwide register study Johanna Kausto, Lauri Virta, Ritva Luukkonen, and Eira Viikari-Juntura PMCID: PMC2912806 BDNF Val66Met polymorphism, energy intake and BMI: a follow-up study in schoolchildren at risk of eating disorders Victoria Arija, Marta Ferrer-Barcala, Nuria Aranda, and Josepa Canals PMCID: PMC2904274 Predictors of mortality among elderly people living in a south Indian urban community; a 10/66 Dementia Research Group prospective population-based cohort study AT Jotheeswaran, Joseph D Williams, and Martin J Prince PMCID: PMC2910676 Association between neighborhood socioeconomic status and screen time among pre-school children: a cross-sectional study Valerie Carson, John C Spence, Nicoleta Cutumisu, and Lindsey Cargill PMCID: PMC2906465 Changing clinical needs of people living with AIDS and receiving home based care in Malawi - the Bangwe Home Based Care Project 2003-2008 - a descriptive study Cameron Bowie, Norton Gondwe, and Claire Bowie PMCID: PMC2909166 Australia's National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: does it work for Indigenous Australians? Aliki Christou, Judith M Katzenellenbogen, and Sandra C Thompson PMCID: PMC2915957 Are time-trends of smoking among pregnant immigrant women in Sweden determined by cultural or socioeconomic factors? Kontie M Moussa, P-O Ostergren, Frida Eek, and Anton E Kunst PMCID: PMC2906466 Home-based chlamydia testing of young people attending a music festival - who will pee and post? Rachel Sacks-Davis, Judy Gold, Campbell K Aitken, and Margaret E Hellard PMCID: PMC2912808 A study of HIV/AIDS related knowledge, attitude and behaviors among female sex workers in Shanghai China Yong Cai, Rong Shi, Tian Shen, Bei Pei, Xueqin Jiang, Xiuxia Ye, Gang Xu, Shenghui Li, Hong Huang, and Meili Shang PMCID: PMC2908579 Gender-related factors influencing tuberculosis control in shantytowns: a qualitative study Dami A Onifade, Angela M Bayer, Rosario Montoya, Marie Haro, Jessica Alva, Jessica Franco, Rosario Sosa, Betty Valiente, Enit Valera, Carolyn M Ford, Colleen D Acosta, and Carlton A Evans PMCID: PMC2910677 Use of psychotropic drugs before pregnancy and the risk for induced abortion: population-based register-data from Finland 1996-2006 Mika Gissler, Miia Artama, Annukka Ritvanen, and Kristian Wahlbeck PMCID: PMC2914778 Mortality in Western Australian seniors with chronic respiratory diseases: a cohort study Kristjana Einarsdóttir, David B Preen, Frank M Sanfilippo, Raylene Reeve, Jon D Emery, and C D'Arcy J Holman PMCID: PMC2910678 Who is accessing public-sector anti-retroviral treatment in the Free State, South Africa? An exploratory study of the first three years of programme implementation Edwin Wouters, Christo Heunis, Koen Ponnet, Francis Van Loon, Frederik le Roux Booysen, Dingie van Rensburg, and Herman Meulemans PMCID: PMC2910679 Sexual and reproductive health issues facing Southeast Asian beer promoters: a qualitative pilot study Gail C Webber and Denise L Spitzer PMCID: PMC2906467 Regular Khat (Catha edulis) chewing is associated with elevated diastolic blood pressure among adults in Butajira, Ethiopia: A comparative study Workineh Getahun, Teferi Gedif, and Fikru Tesfaye PMCID: PMC2912809 Overcoming barriers to engaging socio-economically disadvantaged populations in CHD primary prevention: a qualitative study Christopher Harkins, Rebecca Shaw, Michelle Gillies, Heather Sloan, Kate MacIntyre, Anne Scoular, Caroline Morrison, Fiona MacKay, Heather Cunningham, Paul Docherty, Paul MacIntyre, and Iain N Findlay PMCID: PMC2906468 Self-rated health of population in southern China: association with socio-demographic characteristics measured with multiple-item self-rated health measurement scale Jun Xu, Jinhua Zhang, Liyi Feng, and Jincai Qiu PMCID: PMC2910680 Knowledge, attitudes and practices about malaria among communities: Comparing epidemic and non-epidemic prone communities of Muleba district, North-western Tanzania Safari M Kinung'hi, Fabian Mashauri, Joseph R Mwanga, Soori E Nnko, Godfrey M Kaatano, Robert Malima, Coleman Kishamawe, Stephen Magesa, and Leonard EG Mboera PMCID: PMC2910681 Psychotropic drugs and the risk of fractures in old age: a prospective population-based study Janne Nurminen, Juha Puustinen, Maarit Piirtola, Tero Vahlberg, and Sirkka-Liisa Kivelä PMCID: PMC2910682 Comparison of primary care experiences among adults in general outpatient clinics and private general practice clinics in Hong Kong Samuel YS Wong, Kenny Kung, Sian M Griffiths, Tanya Carthy, Martin CS Wong, Su V Lo, Vincent CH Chung, William B Goggins, and Barbara Starfield PMCID: PMC2908092 Treatment outcome of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis in Finland: a cohort study Tuula Vasankari, Pekka Holmström, Jukka Ollgren, Kari Liippo, and Petri Ruutu PMCID: PMC2911402 Prejudice and misconceptions about tuberculosis and HIV in rural and urban communities in Ethiopia: a challenge for the TB/HIV control program Amare Deribew, Gemeda Abebe, Ludwig Apers, Chali Jira, Markos Tesfaye, Jafar Shifa, Alemseged Abdisa, Kifle Woldemichael, Fetene Deribie, Mesele Bezabih, Abraham Aseffa, and Robert Colebunders PMCID: PMC2909168 Reviewing the evidence on effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of HIV prevention strategies in Thailand Juntana Pattanaphesaj and Yot Teerawattananon PMCID: PMC2912810 A cross-sectional survey to evaluate knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) regarding seasonal influenza vaccination among European travellers to resource-limited destinations Alena Pfeil, Margot Mütsch, Christoph Hatz, and Thomas D Szucs PMCID: PMC2912811 The impact of regional and neighbourhood deprivation on physical health in Germany: a multilevel study Sven Voigtländer, Ursula Berger, and Oliver Razum PMCID: PMC2912812 Pre-hospital care time intervals among victims of road traffic injuries in Iran. A cross-sectional study Maryam Bigdeli, Davoud Khorasani-Zavareh, and Reza Mohammadi PMCID: PMC2918553 Tanzanian farmers' knowledge and attitudes to GM biotechnology and the potential use of GM crops to provide improved levels of food security. A Qualitative Study Christopher P Lewis, James N Newell, Caroline M Herron, and Haidari Nawabu PMCID: PMC2912813 Social-cognitive correlates of risky adolescent cycling behavior Hans Feenstra, Robert AC Ruiter, and Gerjo Kok PMCID: PMC2915958 Community perceptions of malaria and malaria treatment behaviour in a rural district of Ghana: implications for artemisinin combination therapy Kwaku P Asante, Livesy Abokyi, Charles Zandoh, Ruth Owusu, Elizabeth Awini, Abubakari Sulemana, Seeba Amenga-Etego, Robert Adda, Owusu Boahen, Sylvester Segbaya, Emmanuel Mahama, Constance Bart-Plange, Daniel Chandramohan, and Seth Owusu-Agyei PMCID: PMC2914078 Increasing late diagnosis in HIV infection in South Korea: 2000-2007 Jin-Hee Lee, Gab Jung Kim, Byeong-Sun Choi, Kee-Jong Hong, Mi-Kyung Heo, Sung Soon Kim, and Mee-Kyung Kee PMCID: PMC2912814 The correlates of HIV testing and impacts on sexual behavior: evidence from a life history study of young people in Kisumu, Kenya Caroline W Kabiru, Nancy Luke, Chimaraoke O Izugbara, and Eliya M Zulu PMCID: PMC2912815 Knowledge and attitudes of university students toward pandemic influenza: a cross-sectional study from Turkey Hulya Akan, Yesim Gurol, Guldal Izbirak, Sukran Ozdatlı, Gulden Yilmaz, Ayca Vitrinel, and Osman Hayran PMCID: PMC2918554 Antibiotics and antibiotic-resistant bacteria in waters associated with a hospital in Ujjain, India Vishal Diwan, Ashok J Tamhankar, Rakesh K Khandal, Shanta Sen, Manjeet Aggarwal, Yogyata Marothi, Rama V Iyer, Karin Sundblad-Tonderski, and Cecilia Stålsby- Lundborg PMCID: PMC2912816 Survey instruments used in clinical and epidemiological research on waterpipe tobacco smoking: a systematic review Elie A Akl, Sohaib Aleem, Sameer K Gunukula, Roland Honeine, Philippe Abou Jaoude, and Jihad Irani PMCID: PMC2912817 Late presenters to HIV care and treatment, identification of associated risk factors in HIV-1 infected Indian population Kamalika Mojumdar, Madhu Vajpayee, Neeraj K Chauhan, and Sanjay Mendiratta PMCID: PMC2912818 Strengthening preventive care programs: a permanent challenge for healthcare systems; lessons from PREVENIMSS México Gonzalo Gutiérrez, Ricardo Pérez-Cuevas, Santiago Levy, Hortensia Reyes, Benjamín Acosta, Sonia Fernández Cantón, and Onofre Muñoz PMCID: PMC2916901 Epidemic of hypertension in Ghana: a systematic review William K Bosu PMCID: PMC2910685 "The solution needs to be complex." Obese adults' attitudes about the effectiveness of individual and population based interventions for obesity Samantha L Thomas, Sophie Lewis, Jim Hyde, David Castle, and Paul Komesaroff PMCID: PMC2912819 Influence of socioeconomic status on community-acquired pneumonia outcomes in elderly patients requiring hospitalization: a multicenter observational study Conchita Izquierdo, Manuel Oviedo, Laura Ruiz, Xavier Sintes, Isabel Vera, Manel Nebot, Jose-María Bayas, Jordi Carratalà, Wenceslao Varona, Dolores Sousa, Jose-Miguel Celorrio, Luis Salleras, and Angela Domínguez PMCID: PMC2916903 Continued improvement of cardiovascular mortality in Hungary - impact of increased cardio-metabolic prescriptions Sandor Balogh, Renata Papp, Peter Jozan, and Albert Csaszar PMCID: PMC2919475 Geographic determinants of reported human Campylobacter infections in Scotland Paul R Bessell, Louise Matthews, Alison Smith-Palmer, Ovidiu Rotariu, Norval JC Strachan, Ken J Forbes, John M Cowden, Stuart WJ Reid, and Giles T Innocent PMCID: PMC2918555 A descriptive analysis of relations between parents' self-reported smoking behavior and infants' daily exposure to environmental tobacco smoke Doris Kehl, Jochen R Thyrian, Jan Lüdemann, Matthias Nauck, and Ulrich John PMCID: PMC2914780 Young women's decisions to accept chlamydia screening: influences of stigma and doctor-patient interactions Myles Balfe, Ruairi Brugha, Diarmuid O'Donovan, Emer O'Connell, and Deirdre Vaughan PMCID: PMC2918556 Gender and age differences in the recurrence of sickness absence due to common mental disorders: a longitudinal study Petra C Koopmans, Corné AM Roelen, Ute Bültmann, Rob Hoedeman, Jac JL van der Klink, and Johan W Groothoff PMCID: PMC2914781 "Driving the devil away": qualitative insights into miraculous cures for AIDS in a rural Tanzanian ward Maria Roura, Ray Nsigaye, Benjamin Nhandi, Joyce Wamoyi, Joanna Busza, Mark Urassa, Jim Todd, and Basia Zaba PMCID: PMC2916904 Psychosocial work load and stress in the geriatric care Matthias Nübling, Martin Vomstein, Sascha G Schmidt, Sabine Gregersen, Madeleine Dulon, and Albert Nienhaus PMCID: PMC2916905 Sex difference in the association of metabolic syndrome with high sensitivity C-reactive protein in a Taiwanese population Ming-May Lai, Chia-Ing Li, Sharon LR Kardia, Chiu-Shong Liu, Wen-Yuan Lin, Yih-Dar Lee, Pei-Chia Chang, Cheng-Chieh Lin, and Tsai-Chung Li PMCID: PMC2920887 Contrasting predictors of poor antiretroviral therapy outcomes in two South African HIV programmes: a cohort study Mison Dahab, Salome Charalambous, Alan S Karstaedt, Katherine L Fielding, Robin Hamilton, Lettie La Grange, Gavin J Churchyard, and Alison D Grant PMCID: PMC2920888 Suicide with psychiatric diagnosis and without utilization of psychiatric service Yik-wa Law, Paul WC Wong, and Paul SF Yip PMCID: PMC2920278 Innovative psycho-educational program to prevent common postpartum mental disorders in primiparous women: a before and after controlled study Jane RW Fisher, Karen H Wynter, and Heather J Rowe PMCID: PMC2920889 Low haemoglobin predicts early mortality among adults starting antiretroviral therapy in an HIV care programme in South Africa: a cohort study Elizabeth C Russell, Salome Charalambous, Lindiwe Pemba, Gavin J Churchyard, Alison D Grant, and Katherine Fielding PMCID: PMC2919476 Maternal anthropometric characteristics in pregnancy and blood pressure among adolescents: 1993 live birth cohort, Pelotas, southern Brazil Helen C Laura, Ana B Menezes, Ricardo B Noal, Pedro C Hallal, and Cora L Araújo PMCID: PMC2918557 Interacting with the public as a risk factor for employee psychological distress Michael F Hilton and Harvey A Whiteford PMCID: PMC2918558 Characterizing hospital workers' willingness to report to duty in an influenza pandemic through threat- and efficacy-based assessment Ran D Balicer, Daniel J Barnett, Carol B Thompson, Edbert B Hsu, Christina L Catlett, Christopher M Watson, Natalie L Semon, Howard S Gwon, and Jonathan M Links PMCID: PMC2918559 Do adverse childhood experiences increase the risk of postdeployment posttraumatic stress disorder in US Marines? Cynthia A LeardMann, Besa Smith, and Margaret AK Ryan PMCID: PMC2916906 A systematic review of population health interventions and Scheduled Tribes in India KS Mohindra and Ronald Labonté PMCID: PMC2919477 Reforming sanitary-epidemiological service in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union: an exploratory study George Gotsadze, Ivdity Chikovani, Ketevan Goguadze, Dina Balabanova, and Martin McKee PMCID: PMC2919478 Vulnerability of eco-environmental health to climate change: the views of government stakeholders and other specialists in Queensland, Australia Linn B Strand, Shilu Tong, Rosemary Aird, and David McRae PMCID: PMC2919479 Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards pandemic influenza among cases, close contacts, and healthcare workers in tropical Singapore: a cross-sectional survey Jonathan Yap, Vernon J Lee, Teng Yan Yau, Tze Pin Ng, and Phern-Chern Tor PMCID: PMC2916908 A primary health-care intervention on pre- and postnatal risk factor behavior to prevent childhood allergy. The Prevention of Allergy among Children in Trondheim (PACT) study Ola Storrø, Torbjørn Øien, Christian K Dotterud, Jon A Jenssen, and Roar Johnsen PMCID: PMC2916909 Community pharmacists' involvement in smoking cessation: familiarity and implementation of the National smoking cessation guideline in Finland Terhi Kurko, Kari Linden, Kirsi Pietilä, Patrick Sandström, and Marja Airaksinen PMCID: PMC2922110 Using direct observations on multiple occasions to measure household food availability among low-income Mexicano residents in Texas colonias Joseph R Sharkey, Wesley R Dean, Julie A St John, and J Charles Huber, Jr PMCID: PMC2921392 Regional variations in and correlates of disability-free life expectancy among older adults in China Jufen Liu, Gong Chen, Iris Chi, Jilei Wu, Lijun Pei, Xinming Song, Lei Zhang, Lihua Pang, Youli Han, and Xiaoying Zheng PMCID: PMC2920279 The process evaluation of It's Your Move!, an Australian adolescent community-based obesity prevention project Louise B Mathews, Marj M Moodie, Annie M Simmons, and Boyd A Swinburn PMCID: PMC2920280 Intentions to use contraceptives in Pakistan: implications for behavior change campaigns Sohail Agha PMCID: PMC2920282 Reassuring and managing patients with concerns about swine flu: Qualitative interviews with callers to NHS Direct G James Rubin, Richard Amlôt, Holly Carter, Shirley Large, Simon Wessely, and Lisa Page PMCID: PMC2919480 Alcohol, metabolic risk and elevated serum gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) in Indigenous Australians Matthew T Haren, Ming Li, John Petkov, and Robyn A McDermott PMCID: PMC2920283 Health promotion at local level: a case study of content, organization and development in four Swedish municipalities Elisabeth VG Jansson and Per E Tillgren PMCID: PMC2923108 A systematic review of evidence for the added benefits to health of exposure to natural environments Diana E Bowler, Lisette M Buyung-Ali, Teri M Knight, and Andrew S Pullin PMCID: PMC2924288 Health in the 'hidden population' of people with low literacy. A systematic review of the literature Phyllis Easton, Vikki A Entwistle, and Brian Williams PMCID: PMC2923110 Risk factors and obstetric complications of large for gestational age births with adjustments for community effects: results from a new cohort study Shu-Kay Ng, Adriana Olog, Anneliese B Spinks, Cate M Cameron, Judy Searle, and Rod J McClure PMCID: PMC2921393 Diagnostic efficiency of abattoir meat inspection service in Ethiopia to detect carcasses infected with Mycobacterium bovis: Implications for public health Demelash Biffa, Asseged Bogale, and Eystein Skjerve PMCID: PMC2924289 Assessing weight perception accuracy to promote weight loss among U.S. female adolescents: A secondary analysis Jennifer Yost, Barbara Krainovich-Miller, Wendy Budin, and Robert Norman PMCID: PMC2925826 Association between weight perception and socioeconomic status among adults in the Seychelles Heba Alwan, Bharathi Viswanathan, Julita Williams, Fred Paccaud, and Pascal Bovet PMCID: PMC2924291 First nationwide survey on cardiovascular risk factors in Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg (ORISCAV-LUX) Ala'a Alkerwi, Nicolas Sauvageot, Anne-Françoise Donneau, Marie-Lise Lair, Sophie Couffignal, Jean Beissel, Charles Delagardelle, Yolande Wagener, Adelin Albert, and Michèle Guillaume PMCID: PMC2925827 Burden of paediatric Rotavirus Gastroenteritis (RVGE) and potential benefits of a universal Rotavirus vaccination programme with a pentavalent vaccine in Spain Javier Diez-Domingo, Nuria Lara Suriñach, Natalia Malé Alcalde, Lourdes Betegón, Nathalie Largeron, and Mélanie Trichard PMCID: PMC2927540 Factors associated with pastoral community knowledge and occurrence of mycobacterial infections in Human-Animal Interface areas of Nakasongola and Mubende districts, Uganda Clovice Kankya, Adrian Muwonge, Susan Olet, Musso Munyeme, Demelash Biffa, John Opuda-Asibo, Eystein Skjerve, and James Oloya PMCID: PMC2924292 High risk behavior for HIV transmission among former injecting drug users:
a survey from Indonesia Shelly Iskandar, Diba Basar, Teddy Hidayat, Ike MP Siregar, Lucas Pinxten, Reinout van Crevel, Andre JAM Van der Ven , and Cor AJ De Jong PMCID: PMC2931466 Social deprivation and exposure to health promotion. A study of the distribution of health promotion resources to schools in England Corina M Chivu and Daniel D Reidpath PMCID: PMC2924293 "Sleep disparity" in the population: poor sleep quality is strongly associated with poverty and ethnicity Nirav P Patel, Michael A Grandner, Dawei Xie, Charles C Branas, and Nalaka Gooneratne PMCID: PMC2927542 Violence against female sex workers in Karnataka state, south India: impact on health, and reductions in violence following an intervention program Tara SH Beattie, Parinita Bhattacharjee, BM Ramesh, Vandana Gurnani, John Anthony, Shajy Isac, HL Mohan, Aparajita Ramakrishnan, Tisha Wheeler, Janet Bradley, James F Blanchard, and Stephen Moses PMCID: PMC2931467 Role of risk and protective factors in risky sexual behavior among high school students in Cambodia Siyan Yi, Krishna C Poudel, Junko Yasuoka, Paula H Palmer, Songky Yi, and Masamine Jimba PMCID: PMC2928204 The prevalence of dental erosion and associated risk factors in 12-13-year-old school children in Southern China Ping Wang, Huan Cai Lin, Jian Hong Chen, and Huan You Liang PMCID: PMC2927543 The leading methods of suicide in Taiwan, 2002-2008 Jin-Jia Lin, Shu-Sen Chang, and Tsung-Hsueh Lu PMCID: PMC2927545 Cognitive testing of physical activity and acculturation questions in recent and long-term Latino immigrants David Berrigan, Barbara H Forsyth, Cynthia Helba, Kerry Levin, Alicia Norberg, and Gordon B Willis PMCID: PMC2927546 Factors associated with dental caries among institutionalized residents with schizophrenia in Taiwan: a cross-sectional study Kuan-Yu Chu, Nan-Ping Yang, Pesus Chou, Hsien-Jane Chiu, and Lin-Yang Chi PMCID: PMC2931468 Recent patterns in chronic disease mortality in remote living Indigenous Australians K Andreasyan and WE Hoy PMCID: PMC2931469 Examining appropriate diagnosis and treatment of malaria: availability and use of rapid diagnostic tests and artemisinin-based combination therapy in public and private health facilities in south east Nigeria Benjamin SC Uzochukwu, Lausdeus O Chiegboka, Chibuike Enwereuzo, Usonwanne Nwosu , David Okorafor, Obinna E Onwujekwe, Nkoli P Uguru, Florence T Sibeudu, and Ogochukwu P Ezeoke PMCID: PMC2931470 Incidence of type 2 diabetes in Aboriginal Australians: an 11-year prospective cohort study Zhiqiang Wang, Wendy E Hoy, and Damin Si PMCID: PMC2931471 Time trends in cardiovascular disease mortality in Russia and Germany from 1980 to 2007 - are there migration effects? Andreas Deckert, Volker Winkler, Ari Paltiel, Oliver Razum, and Heiko Becher PMCID: PMC2928205 Multi-level, cross-sectional study of workplace social capital and smoking among Japanese employees Etsuji Suzuki, Takeo Fujiwara, Soshi Takao, S V Subramanian, Eiji Yamamoto, and Ichiro Kawachi PMCID: PMC2931472 Violence against women: The perspective of academic women Sibel Kalaca and Pınar Dundar PMCID: PMC2931473 Child mortality from solid-fuel use in India: a nationally-representative case-control study Diego G Bassani, Prabhat Jha, Neeraj Dhingra, and Rajesh Kumar PMCID: PMC2931474 Prevalence and barriers to HIV testing among mothers at a tertiary care hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Barriers to HIV testing in Phnom Penh, Cambodia Yuri Sasaki, Moazzam Ali, Vong Sathiarany, Koum Kanal, and Kazuhiro Kakimoto PMCID: PMC2930599 Development of a universal psycho-educational intervention to prevent common postpartum mental disorders in primiparous women: a multiple method approach Heather J Rowe and Jane RW Fisher PMCID: PMC2931475 Including the public in pandemic planning: a deliberative approach Annette J Braunack-Mayer, Jackie M Street, Wendy A Rogers, Rodney Givney, John R Moss, and Janet E Hiller PMCID: PMC2931476 Family structure, parent-child conversation time and substance use among Chinese adolescents Kwok-Kei Mak, Sai-Yin Ho, G Neil Thomas, C Mary Schooling, Sarah M McGhee, and Tai-Hing Lam PMCID: PMC2931477 Study Protocol A worksite prevention program for construction workers: design of a randomized controlled trial Karen M Oude Hengel, Catelijne I Joling, Karin I Proper, Birgitte M Blatter, and Paulien M Bongers PMCID: PMC2896359 Measuring the impact and costs of a universal group based parenting programme: protocol and implementation of a trial Douglas E Simkiss, Helen A Snooks, Nigel Stallard, Shan Davies, Marie A Thomas, Becky Anthony, Sarah Winstanley, Lynsey Wilson, and Sarah Stewart-Brown PMCID: PMC2905332 Cumulative exposure to air pollution and long term outcomes after first acute myocardial infarction: A population-based cohort study. Objectives and methodology Yariv Gerber, Vicki Myers, David M Broday, Silvia Koton, David M Steinberg, and Yaacov Drory PMCID: PMC2904275 Rationale and methods of the European Study on Cardiovascular Risk Prevention and Management in Daily Practice (EURIKA) Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo, Eliseo Guallar, Claudio Borghi, Jean Dallongeville, Guy De Backer, Julian P Halcox, Ramón Hernández-Vecino, Francisco Javier Jiménez, Elvira L Massó-González, Joep Perk, Philippe Gabriel Steg, and José R Banegas PMCID: PMC2909167 Psychological risk factors of micro- and macrovascular outcomes in primary care patients with type 2 diabetes: rationale and design of the DiaDDZoB Study Giesje Nefs, François Pouwer, Johan Denollet, and Victor JM Pop PMCID: PMC2914779 HealthKick: a nutrition and physical activity intervention for primary schools in low-income settings Catherine E Draper, Anniza de Villiers, Estelle V Lambert, Jean Fourie, Jillian Hill, Lucinda Dalais, Zulfa Abrahams, and Nelia P Steyn PMCID: PMC2910683 Effectiveness of hygienic-dietary recommendations as enhancers of antidepressant treatment in patients with Depression: Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial Mauro Garcia-Toro, Olga Ibarra, Margalida Gili, Joan Salva, Saray Monzón, Margalida Vives, Maria J Serrano, Javier Garcia-Campayo, and Miquel Roca PMCID: PMC2910684 Prevention through Activity in Kindergarten Trial (PAKT): A cluster randomised controlled trial to assess the effects of an activity intervention in preschool children Kristina Roth, Sonja Mauer, Matthias Obinger, Katharina C Ruf, Christine Graf, Susi Kriemler, Dorothea Lenz, Walter Lehmacher, and Helge Hebestreit PMCID: PMC2916900 Sexual health of ethnic minority MSM in Britain (MESH project): design and methods Jonathan Elford, Eamonn McKeown, Rita Doerner, Simon Nelson, Nicola Low, and Jane Anderson PMCID: PMC2916902 A randomised controlled trial to compare a range of commercial or primary care led weight reduction programmes with a minimal intervention control for weight loss in obesity: the Lighten Up trial Kate Jolly, Amanda Daley, Peymane Adab, Amanda Lewis, John Denley, Jane Beach, and Paul Aveyard PMCID: PMC2916907 EDUCORE project: a clinical trial, randomised by clusters, to assess the effect of a visual learning method on blood pressure control in the primary healthcare setting Isidro Rodríguez-Salceda, Esperanza Escortell-Mayor, Milagros Rico-Blázquez, Rosario Riesgo-Fuertes, Angel Asúnsolo-del Barco, Antonio Valdivia-Pérez, Isabel del Cura-González, Ana B García-Cañón, María F Ortiz-Jiménez, Luisa Cabello-Ballesteros, Sofia Garrido-Elustondo, Laura Chamorro-González, and Ricardo Rodríguez-Barrientos PMCID: PMC2920281 Living Well with Diabetes: a randomized controlled trial of a telephone-delivered intervention for maintenance of weight loss, physical activity and glycaemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes Elizabeth G Eakin, Marina M Reeves, Alison L Marshall, David W Dunstan, Nicholas Graves, Genevieve N Healy, Jonathan Bleier, Adrian G Barnett, Trisha O'Moore-Sullivan, Anthony Russell, and Ken Wilkie PMCID: PMC2927539 Improving behaviour in self-testing (IBIS): Study on frequency of use, consequences, information needs and use, and quality of currently available consumer information (protocol) Janaica EJ Grispen, Martine HP Ickenroth, Nanne K de Vries, Geert-Jan Dinant, Gaby Ronda, and Trudy van der Weijden PMCID: PMC2919481 The @RISK Study: Risk communication for patients with type 2 diabetes: design of a randomised controlled trial Laura MC Welschen, Sandra DM Bot, Jacqueline M Dekker, Daniëlle RM Timmermans, Trudy van der Weijden, and Giel Nijpels PMCID: PMC2922111 Rationale and design of the Kanyini guidelines adherence with the polypill (Kanyini-GAP) study: a randomised controlled trial of a polypill-based strategy amongst Indigenous and non Indigenous people at high cardiovascular risk Hueiming Liu, Anushka Patel, Alex Brown, Sandra Eades, Noel Hayman, Stephen Jan, Ian Ring, Greg Stewart, Andrew Tonkin, Tarun Weeramanthri, Vicki Wade, Anthony Rodgers, Tim Usherwood, Bruce Neal, David Peiris, Hugh Burke, Christopher Reid, and Alan Cass PMCID: PMC2923109 Enhancing a sustainable healthy working life: design of a clustered randomized controlled trial Wendy Koolhaas, Sandra Brouwer, Johan W Groothoff, and Jac JL van der Klink PMCID: PMC2928202 The Eat Smart Study: A randomised controlled trial of a reduced carbohydrate versus a low fat diet for weight loss in obese adolescents Helen Truby, Kimberley A Baxter, Paula Barrett, Robert S Ware, John C Cardinal, Peter SW Davies, Lynne A Daniels, and Jennifer A Batch PMCID: PMC2925340 'BeSAFE', effect-evaluation of internet-based, tailored safety information combined with personal counselling on parents' child safety behaviours: study design of a randomized controlled trial Mirjam EJ van Beelen, Tinneke MJ Beirens, Mirjam K Struijk, Paul den Hertog, Anke Oenema, Eduard F van Beeck, and Hein Raat PMCID: PMC2924290 Design of an internet-based health economic evaluation of a preventive group-intervention for children of parents with mental illness or substance use disorders Marla Woolderink, Filip Smit, Rianne van der Zanden, Jennifer Beecham, Martin Knapp, Aggie Paulus, and Silvia Evers PMCID: PMC2928203 Systematic Development of the YouRAction program, a computer-tailored Physical Activity promotion intervention for Dutch adolescents, targeting personal motivations and environmental opportunities Richard G Prins, Pepijn van Empelen, Marielle A Beenackers, Johannes Brug, and Anke Oenema PMCID: PMC2927541 The CONSTANCES cohort: an open epidemiological laboratory Marie Zins, Sébastien Bonenfant, Matthieu Carton, Mireille Coeuret-Pellicer, Alice Guéguen, Julie Gourmelen, Mélissa Nachtigal, Anna Ozguler, Ariane Quesnot, Céline Ribet, Grégory Rodrigues, Angel Serrano, Rémi Sitta, Alain Brigand, Joseph Henny, and Marcel Goldberg PMCID: PMC2927544 Debates Decreasing sperm quality: a global problem? Hiltrud Merzenich, Hajo Zeeb, and Maria Blettner PMCID: PMC2818620 Prevention among immigrants: the example of Germany Jacob Spallek, Hajo Zeeb, and Oliver Razum PMCID: PMC2837628 Repeal of the Pennsylvania motorcycle helmet law: reflections on the ethical and political dynamics of public health reform Robert A Cherry PMCID: PMC2864213 Using family history information to promote healthy lifestyles and prevent diseases; a discussion of the evidence Liesbeth Claassen, Lidewij Henneman, A Cecile JW Janssens, Miranda Wijdenes-Pijl, Nadeem Qureshi, Fiona M Walter, Paula W Yoon, and Danielle RM Timmermans PMCID: PMC2875210 Challenges in evaluating Welfare to Work policy interventions: would an RCT design have been the answer to all our problems? Kathryn Skivington, Gerry McCartney, Hilary Thomson, and Lyndal Bond PMCID: PMC2882350 Shared Principles of Ethics for Infant and Young Child Nutrition in the Developing World Jerome Amir Singh, Abdallah S Daar, and Peter A Singer PMCID: PMC2906463 The primary care practitioner and the diagnosis of occupational diseases Luca Cegolon, John H Lange, and Giuseppe Mastrangelo PMCID: PMC2914077 Correction Adverse childhood experiences are associated with the risk of lung cancer: a prospective cohort study David W Brown, Robert F Anda, Vincent J Felitti, Valerie J Edwards, Ann Marie Malarcher, Janet B Croft, and Wayne H Giles PMCID: PMC2901373 Corrects: David W Brown, et al. Adverse childhood experiences are associated with the risk of lung cancer: a prospective cohort study. BMC Public Health. 2010; 10: 20. Other Issues: Journal List
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