Commentary
This invited commentary aims to highlight 3 recommendations to rationalize antimicrobial consumption in livestock, in order to minimize the spread of resistant bacteria and simultaneously safeguarding animal a...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:62
Published on: 19 October 2017
Research
In Belgium, socio-economic inequalities in mortality have long been described at country-level. As Belgium is a federal state with many responsibilities in health policies being transferred to the regional lev...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:44
Published on: 16 October 2017
Research
Sedentary behaviour in children is related to different health consequences such as overweight and cardio-metabolic diseases that can track into adulthood. Previous studies have shown that children spend hours...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:63
Published on: 12 October 2017
Research
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a much researched topic in medical health, which requires additional studies to understand various effects of demographic and geographic factors that can assist in developing th...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:43
Published on: 9 October 2017
Research
Influenza-like illness (ILI) is an important public health problem worldwide. In the Central African Republic, acute infectious diseases are the commonest reason for consultation. The Institut Pasteur of Bangu...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:61
Published on: 5 October 2017
Research
Reducing physical inactivity among the population is a challenge for many nations. Targeting leisure time physical activity (LTPA) may be useful in increasing overall physical activity as it is assumed it is a...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:41
Published on: 2 October 2017
Research
South-Asian countries are considered to be a potential breeding ground for HIV epidemic. Although the prevalence of this incurable disease is low in Bangladesh, women still have been identified as more vulnera...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:59
Published on: 28 September 2017
Research
This study examined the reliability of measures of correlates of dietary behaviours (DBs), physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviour (SB) for Hong Kong adolescents.
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:38
Published on: 25 September 2017
Research
Research conducted by Ward, Muller, Tsourtos, et al. (Soc Sci Med 72(7):1140–1148, 2011) has led to the development of the psycho-social interactive model of resilience, which reveals the interaction between i...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:56
Published on: 21 September 2017
Methodology
This methodological paper describes the integration of the ‘European Health Interview Survey wave 2’ (EHIS 2) into the ‘German Health Update’ 2014/2015 (GEDA 2014/2015-EHIS).
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:40
Published on: 18 September 2017
Commentary
Public health messaging about antimicrobial resistance (AMR) sometimes conveys the problem as an epidemic. We outline why AMR is a serious endemic problem manifested in hospital and community-acquired infections.
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:54
Published on: 14 September 2017
Commentary
Human brucellosis remains the commonest zoonotic disease worldwide with more than 500 000 new cases annually. Understanding the biology of Brucella infections and the transmission patterns at the wildlife/livesto...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:34
Published on: 11 September 2017
Research
Bangladesh has experienced a significant reduction of child mortality over the past decades which helped achieve the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) target. But the mortality among under-5 aged children ...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:58
Published on: 7 September 2017
Research
Nepal is facing double burden of injecting drug use and HIV, yet the problem of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) has not been so well addressed, where there is large population known to be at risk for HCV. This study a...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:39
Published on: 4 September 2017
Research
Acknowledging the health system strengthening agenda, the World Health Organization (WHO) has formulated a health systems framework that describes health systems in terms of six building blocks. This study aim...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:50
Published on: 31 August 2017
Research
Healthcare providers’ accreditation is one of the standard means of assuring quality services. This paper examines the pattern of National Health Insurance Scheme accreditation results among private healthcare...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:36
Published on: 28 August 2017
Research
This study focuses on the health impact of the labour market position, since recent research indicates that exposure to both unemployment and precarious employment causes serious harm to people’s health and we...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:55
Published on: 24 August 2017
Research
Except individual studies with varying prevalence rates, there are no national prevalence studies conducted in prison settings in Ethiopia. Appropriate estimates of the disease is essential to formulate health...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:37
Published on: 21 August 2017
Research
Under nutrition remains a serious problem among children in Sub-Saharan Africa. Analysing how diets composed of local foods could achieve nutritional goals for infants and young children in low-income settings...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:60
Published on: 17 August 2017
Research
Obstetric danger signs are not the literal obstetric complications, merely symptoms that are well named by non-clinical personnel. The identification of these danger signs and its relation with complications d...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:35
Published on: 14 August 2017
Research
In remote rural areas of Pakistan, access to the maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) care provided by a skilled health provider is quite difficult. There are many reasons such as women’s restricted socia...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:57
Published on: 10 August 2017
Study protocol
In Belgium, different routine surveillance systems are in place to follow-up Lyme borreliosis trends. However, accurate data on the disease and monetary burden for the different clinical manifestations are lac...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:42
Published on: 7 August 2017
Research
Universal salt iodization is the most cost-effective, safe and sustainable strategy to eliminate iodine deficiency disorders. However, little is known about the availability of adequately iodized salt in the n...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:33
Published on: 31 July 2017
Research
This paper evaluated the implementation West Central Alabama Area Health Education Center programs for high school students in grades 9–12 through participant-reported evaluations and feedback during the Sept...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:32
Published on: 24 July 2017
Research
Undernutrition among children continues to be a major public health problem in developing countries. In Ethiopian, 44% of under-five children were stunted while 29% and 10% were underweight and wasted respecti...
Archives of Public Health 2017 75:29
Published on: 10 July 2017
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