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Archives of Public Health

Ausgabe 1/2016

Inhalt (56 Artikel)

Open Access Research

Dietary intake patterns and nutritional status of women of reproductive age in Nepal: findings from a health survey

Shiva Bhandari, Jamuna Tamrakar Sayami, Pukar Thapa, Matina Sayami, Bishnu Prasad Kandel, Megha Raj Banjara

Open Access Research

Validity and reliability of a modified english version of the physical activity questionnaire for adolescents

Daniel Aggio, Stuart Fairclough, Zoe Knowles, Lee Graves

Open Access Research

Factors associated to the use of insecticide treated nets and intermittent preventive treatment for malaria control during pregnancy in Cameroon

Ngimuh Leonard, Fokam Bertrand Eric, Anchang-Kimbi K. Judith, Wanji Samuel

Open Access Research

Individual and community-level factors associated with introduction of prelacteal feeding in Ethiopia

Abate Bekele Belachew, Alemayehu Bayray Kahsay, Yemane Gabremariam Abebe

Open Access Research

Assessment of iodine status among pregnant women in a rural community in ghana - a cross sectional study

David L. Simpong, Patrick Adu, Rashid Bashiru, Martin T. Morna, Francis A. Yeboah, Kafui Akakpo, Richard K. D. Ephraim

Open Access Research

Latrine access and utilization among people with limited mobility: A cross sectional study

Berhanu Asfaw, Muluken Azage, Gebremedhin Berhe Gebregergs

Open Access Research

Vitamin A status and body pool size of infants before and after consuming fortified home-based complementary foods

Sam Newton, Seth Owusu-Agyei, Kwaku Poku Asante, Esi Amoaful, Emmanuel Mahama, Samuel Kofi Tchum, Martha Ali, Kwame Adjei, Christopher R. Davis, Sherry A. Tanumihardjo

Open Access Methodology

Validity of self-reported out-of-school physical activity among Finnish 11-year-old children

Suvi Määttä, Teija Nuutinen, Carola Ray, Johan G. Eriksson, Elisabete Weiderpass, Eva Roos

Open Access Research

Nutritional status of children 0–59 months in selected intervention communities in northern Ghana from the africa RISING project in 2012

Mary Glover-Amengor, Isaac Agbemafle, Lynda Larmkie Hagan, Frank Peget Mboom, Gladys Gamor, Asamoah Larbi, Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon

Open Access Research

Nearly half of preschool children are stunted in Dembia district, Northwest Ethiopia: a community based cross-sectional study

Amare Tariku, Haile Woldie, Abel Fekadu, Akilew Awoke Adane, Ayanaw Tsega Ferede, Segenet Yitayew

Open Access Research

The dangers to children from coconut tree trauma, in KiraKira, Solomon Islands: a retrospective clinical audit

Rajan Rehan, Peter D. Jones, Hashim Abdeen, Heddi Rowas, Jasryn Dhaliwal

Open Access Research

Sustainable employability for older workers: an explorative survey of belgian companies

Mathieu Verbrugghe, Yoline Kuipers, Bart Vriesacker, Ilse Peeters, Katrien Mortelmans

Open Access Study protocol

Healthy together Victoria and childhood obesity—a methodology for measuring changes in childhood obesity in response to a community-based, whole of system cluster randomized control trial

Claudia Strugnell, Lynne Millar, Andrew Churchill, Felice Jacka, Colin Bell, Mary Malakellis, Boyd Swinburn, Steve Allender

Open Access Research

Eating quickly is associated with waist-to-height ratio among Japanese adolescents: a cross-sectional survey

Hirotaka Ochiai, Takako Shirasawa, Hinako Nanri, Rimei Nishimura, Masaaki Matoba, Hiromi Hoshino, Akatsuki Kokaze

Open Access Research

Social, economic and environmental risk factors for acute lower respiratory infections among children under five years of age in Rwanda

Jean-Modeste Harerimana, Leatitia Nyirazinyoye, Dana R. Thomson, Joseph Ntaganira

Open Access Methodology

Protocol of the Belgian food consumption survey 2014: objectives, design and methods

Sarah Bel, Sofie Van den Abeele, Thérésa Lebacq, Cloë Ost, Loes Brocatus, Charlotte Stiévenart, Eveline Teppers, Jean Tafforeau, Koenraad Cuypers

Open Access Research

Iodine in commercial edible iodized salts and assessment of iodine exposure in Sri Lanka

Meththika Vithanage, Indika Herath, S. S. Achinthya, Tharanga Bandara, Lakshika Weerasundara, S. S. Mayakaduwa, Yohan Jayawardhana, Prasanna Kumarathilaka

Open Access Research

The geographic pattern of Belgian mortality: can socio-economic characteristics explain area differences?

Wanda M. J. Van Hemelrijck, Didier Willaert, Sylvie Gadeyne

Open Access Research

Acute mountain sickness among tourists visiting the high-altitude city of Lhasa at 3658 m above sea level: a cross-sectional study

Gonggalanzi, Labasangzhu, Per Nafstad, Hein Stigum, Tianyi Wu, Øyvind Drejer Haldorsen, Kristoffer Ommundsen, Espen Bjertness

Open Access Study protocol

Analysis of Non-communicable disease prevention policies in five Sub-Saharan African countries: Study protocol

Pamela A. Juma, Shukri F. Mohamed, Jennifer Wisdom, Catherine Kyobutungi, Samuel Oti

Open Access Research

Association between pregnancy exposure to air pollution and birth weight in selected areas of Norway

Sviatlana Panasevich, Siri Eldevik Håberg, Geir Aamodt, Stephanie J. London, Hein Stigum, Wenche Nystad, Per Nafstad

Open Access Study protocol

Treatment for substance use disorders: the Belgian Treatment Demand Indicator registration protocol

Jérôme Antoine, Karin De Ridder, Els Plettinckx, Peter Blanckaert, Lies Gremeaux

Open Access Research

Evaluating the neonatal BCG vaccination programme in Ireland

Cara Usher, Roisin Adams, Susanne Schmitz, Jennifer Kieran, Darina O’Flanagan, Joan O’Donnell, Kevin Connolly, Brenda Corcoran, Karina Butler, Michael Barry, Cathal Walsh

Open Access Research

Assessing the sensitivity and representativeness of the Belgian Sentinel Network of Laboratories using test reimbursement data

Nicolas Berger, Gaetan Muyldermans, Yves Dupont, Sophie Quoilin

Open Access Study protocol

International pooled study on diet and bladder cancer: the bladder cancer, epidemiology and nutritional determinants (BLEND) study: design and baseline characteristics

Maria E. Goossens, Fatima Isa, Maree Brinkman, David Mak, Raoul Reulen, Anke Wesselius, Simone Benhamou, Cristina Bosetti, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Angela Carta, Md Farouk Allam, Klaus Golka, Eric J. Grant, Xuejuan Jiang, Kenneth C. Johnson, Margaret R. Karagas, Eliane Kellen, Carlo La Vecchia, Chih-Ming Lu, James Marshall, Kirsten Moysich, Hermann Pohlabeln, Stefano Porru, Gunnar Steineck, Marianne C. Stern, Li Tang, Jack A. Taylor, Piet van den Brandt, Paul J. Villeneuve, Kenji Wakai, Elisabete Weiderpass, Emily White, Alicja Wolk, Zuo-Feng Zhang, Frank Buntinx, Maurice P. Zeegers

Open Access LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Persistent misunderstandings about evidence-based (sorry: informed!) policy-making

Pierre-Olivier Bédard, Mathieu Ouimet

Open Access Research

The LifeLines Cohort Study: a resource providing new opportunities for environmental epidemiology

Wilma L. Zijlema, Nynke Smidt, Bart Klijs, David W. Morley, John Gulliver, Kees de Hoogh, Salome Scholtens, Judith G. M. Rosmalen, Ronald P. Stolk

Open Access Research

Incident reporting systems: a comparative study of two hospital divisions

Tanya Hewitt, Samia Chreim, Alan Forster

Open Access Research

Accounting for multimorbidity can affect the estimation of the Burden of Disease: a comparison of approaches

Henk B. M. Hilderink, Marjanne H. D. Plasmans, Bianca E. P. Snijders, Hendriek C. Boshuizen, M. J. J. C. (René) Poos, Coen H. van Gool

Open Access Research

Mothers screening for malnutrition by mid-upper arm circumference is non-inferior to community health workers: results from a large-scale pragmatic trial in rural Niger

Franck G.B. Alé, Kevin P.Q. Phelan, Hassan Issa, Isabelle Defourny, Guillaume Le Duc, Geza Harczi, Kader Issaley, Sani Sayadi, Nassirou Ousmane, Issoufou Yahaya, Mark Myatt, André Briend, Thierry Allafort-Duverger, Susan Shepherd, Nikki Blackwell

Open Access Research

Association between distorted body image and changes in weight status among normal weight preadolescents in Japan: a population-based cohort study

Takako Shirasawa, Hirotaka Ochiai, Hinako Nanri, Rimei Nishimura, Keiichiro Ikeda, Hiromi Hoshino, Akatsuki Kokaze

Open Access Research

Incidence of sickness absence by type of employment contract: one year follow-up study in Spanish salaried workers

Elena Zaballa, José Miguel Martínez, Xavier Duran, Constança Albertí, David Gimeno Ruiz de Porras, Fernando G. Benavides

Open Access Research

Implementing Smarter Lunchrooms Makeovers in New York state middle schools: an initial process evaluation

Laura N. Thomas, Tisa F. Hill, Alisha Gaines, Jamie S. Dollahite

Open Access Research

Human biomonitoring of heavy metals in the vicinity of non-ferrous metal plants in Ath, Belgium

Sébastien Fierens, Javiera Rebolledo, Ann Versporten, Ethel Brits, Vincent Haufroid, Pierre De Plaen, An Van Nieuwenhuyse

Open Access Methodology

Physical activity and sedentary behavior in Belgium (BNFCS2014): design, methods and expected outcomes

Thérésa Lebacq, Cloë Ost, Sarah Bel, Loes Brocatus, Eveline Teppers, Koenraad Cuypers, Jean Tafforeau, Karin A. A. De Ridder

Open Access Systematic review

Estimate of adolescent alcohol use in China: a meta-analysis

Yonghua Feng, Ian M. Newman

Open Access Research

Iodine deficiency and associated factors among school children: a cross-sectional study in Ethiopia

Sintayehu Hailu, Mamo Wubshet, Haile Woldie, Amare Tariku

Open Access Research

Belgian hand hygiene campaigns in ICU, 2005–2015

Sylvanus Fonguh, Annie Uwineza, Boudewijn Catry, Anne Simon

Open Access Research

Promoting public health through nutrition labeling - a study in Brazil

Sônia Maria Fernandes da Costa Souza, Kenio Costa Lima, Maria do Socorro Costa Feitosa Alves

Open Access Research

Under-five mortality among displaced populations in Meheba refugee camp, Zambia, 2008–2014

Nachela Malisenti Chelwa, Rosemary Ndonyo Likwa, Jeremiah Banda

Open Access Commentary

Multidisciplinary management of breast cancer

Anne-France Leclerc, Guy Jerusalem, Martine Devos, Jean-Michel Crielaard, Didier Maquet

Open Access Research

The diabesity health economic crisis—the size of the crisis in a European island state following a cross-sectional study

Sarah Cuschieri, Josanne Vassallo, Neville Calleja, Nikolai Pace, Janice Abela, Bader A. Ali, Fatemah Abdullah, Elizier Zahra, Julian Mamo

Open Access Research

Characterization of heavy users of skin care products among Norwegian women from 2003 to 2011

Boel Aniansson, Marit B. Veierød, Charlotta Rylander, Eiliv Lund, Torkjel M. Sandanger

Open Access Research

Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of physical activity levels among South African adults in Cape Town and Mount Frere communities in 2008-2009

Pasmore Malambo, Andre P. Kengne, Estelle V. Lambert, Anniza De Villiers, Thandi Puoane

Open Access Systematic review

A review and framework for understanding the potential impact of poor solid waste management on health in developing countries

Abdhalah K. Ziraba, Tilahun Nigatu Haregu, Blessing Mberu