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  2. The Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) was initiated by World Health Organization (WHO) in 1974 in order to save children from life threatening, disabling vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs). In Pakistan, ...

    Authors: Asfandyar Sheikh, Bushra Iqbal, Anabia Ehtamam, Maria Rahim, Hiba Arshad Shaikh, Hina Azhar Usmani, Javeria Nasir, Sheharbano Ali, Muniba Zaki, Tooba Abdul Wahab, Warda Wasim and Ali Akber Aftab
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2013 71:19
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  3. High concomitant intolerance attributed to odorous/pungent chemicals, certain buildings, electromagnetic fields (EMF), and everyday sounds calls for a questionnaire instrument that can assess symptom prevalenc...

    Authors: Steven Nordin, Eva Palmquist, Anna-Sara Claeson and Berndt Stenberg
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2013 71:18
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  4. From Mid-February to April 2011 one of the largest measles-outbreak in Flanders, since the start of the 2-dose vaccination scheme in 1995, took place in Ghent, Belgium. The outbreak started in a day care cente...

    Authors: Toon Braeye, Martine Sabbe, Veronik Hutse, Wim Flipse, Lina Godderis and Geert Top
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2013 71:17
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  6. Privacy is an important concern in any research programme that deals with personal medical data. In recent years, ethics and privacy have become key considerations when conducting any form of scientific resear...

    Authors: Yves Coppieters and Alain Levêque
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2013 71:15
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  7. Data on human exposure to chemicals in Africa are scarce. A biomonitoring study was conducted in a representative sample of the population in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo) to document exposure to pol...

    Authors: Joel Tuakuila, Martin Kabamba and Honoré Mata
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2013 71:14
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  8. Literatures on prevalence and factors associated with malnutrition among peoples living with HIV/AIDS are limited in Ethiopia and not well documented either. The proper implementation of nutritional support an...

    Authors: Solomon Hailemariam, Girma Tenkolu Bune and Henok Tadesse Ayele
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2013 71:13
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  9. Public health policies aim to improve and maintain the health of citizens. Relevant data and indicators are needed for a health policy that is based on factual information. After 14 years of work (1998–2012), ...

    Authors: Marieke Verschuuren, Mika Gissler, Katri Kilpeläinen, Antti Tuomi-Nikula, Ari-Pekka Sihvonen, Jürgen Thelen, Rita Gaidelyte, Silvia Ghirini, Nils Kirsch, Remigijus Prochorskas, Emanuele Scafato, Pieter Kramers and Arpo Aromaa
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2013 71:12
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  10. Public health care increasingly uses outreach models to engage individuals who are marginalized, many of whom misuse substances. Problematic substance use, together with marginalization from the health care sy...

    Authors: Darlene Taylor, Louise Masse, Anita Ho, Michael L Rekart, Mark Tyndall, Bonnie Henry, Joanne Clifton, Laurenna Peters, Gina Ogilvie and Jane Buxton
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2013 71:11
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  11. Accurate estimates of the size of the drug-using populations are essential for evidence-based policy making. However, drug users form a ‘hidden’ population, necessitating the use of indirect methods to estimat...

    Authors: Kaatje Bollaerts, Marc Aerts and Andre Sasse
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2013 71:10
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  12. Tobacco use is a public health burden in both developed and developing countries. However, there is still a dearth of nationally representative studies from Sub-Saharan Africa to inform interventions in the re...

    Authors: David Doku, Eugene Kofuor Maafo Darteh and Akwasi Kumi-Kyereme
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2013 71:9
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  14. Uganda’s Ministry of Health registered a 12% increase in new Tuberculosis (TB) cases between 2001 and 2005. Of these, 20% were from Kampala district and most from Mulago national referral hospital where the la...

    Authors: Henry Mugerwa, Denis K Byarugaba, Simon Mpooya, Penelope Miremba, Joan N Kalyango, Charles Karamagi and Achilles Katamba
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2013 71:7
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  16. The phasing out of lead from gasoline has resulted in a significant decrease in blood lead levels (BLLs) in children during the last two decades. Tetraethyl lead was phased out in DRC in 2009. The objective of...

    Authors: Joel Tuakuila, Martin Kabamba, Honoré Mata and Gerard Mata
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2013 71:5
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  17. Three decades since the first HIV-1 infected patients in Rwanda were identified in 1983; the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome epidemic has had a devastating history and is still a major public health challen...

    Authors: Maurice Bucagu, Jean de Dieu Bizimana, John Muganda and Claire Perrine Humblet
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2013 71:4
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  18. The main objective of the joint action MODE is the transfer of best-practices in the field of organ donation and transplantation and the creation of positive synergies among participating European (EU) Member ...

    Authors: Paola di Ciaccio, Claudia Ferraro, Pavel Brezovsky, Eduardo Martìn-Escobar and Alessandro Nanni Costa
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2013 71:3
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  19. Life expectancy has been increasing during the last century within the European Union (EU). To measure progress in population health it is no longer sufficient to focus on the duration of life but quality of l...

    Authors: Jean-Marie Robine, Emmanuelle Cambois, Wilma Nusselder, Bernard Jeune, Herman Van Oyen and Carol Jagger
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2013 71:2
    Content type: Research Published on:

  20. The small but growing literature on socio-economic inequality in morbidity among older persons suggests that social inequalities in health persist into old age. A largely separate body of literature looks at t...

    Authors: Karel Van den Bosch, Joanna Geerts and Peter Willemé
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2013 71:1
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  21. Children are not always recognized as being susceptible to stress, although childhood stressors may originate from multiple events in their everyday surroundings with negative effects on children’s health.

    Authors: Barbara Vanaelst, Inge Huybrechts, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Karin Bammann, Charalambos Hadjigeorgiou, Gabriele Eiben, Kenn Konstabel, Nathalie Michels, Denes Molnar, Luis A Moreno, Iris Pigeot, Lucia Reisch, Alfonso Siani, Krishna Vyncke and Stefaan De Henauw
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2012 70:26
    Content type: Research Published on:

  22. A problem repeatedly reported in birth certificate data is the presence of missing data. In 2008, a Centre for Perinatal Epidemiology was created inter alia to assist the Health Departments of Brussels-Capital...

    Authors: Anne-Frederique Minsart, Pierre Buekens, Myriam De Spiegelaere, Sabine Van de Putte, Virginie Van Leeuw and Yvon Englert
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2012 70:25
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  23. Cancer is a major European public health issue and represents the second most important cause of death and morbidity in Europe. Moreover, as a result of constant advances in medicine, medical technology and ot...

    Authors: Marjetka Jelenc, Elke Van Hoof, Tit Albreht, Matic Meglič, Marija Seljak and Sandra Radoš Krnel
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2012 70:24
    Content type: Research Published on:

  24. The objective of this paper is to provide analytical research that supported the European Commission in setting the global target of additional two healthy life years (HLY) at birth by 2020 in the EU on averag...

    Authors: Karolina Lagiewka
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2012 70:23
    Content type: Research Published on:

  26. Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementias are public health priorities in the European Union due to their prevalence, cost and profound impact on society. Because of these pressing implications, the Euro...

    Authors: Christine Barr, Nathalie Riolacci-Dhoyen, Maggie Galbraith and Armelle Leperre-Desplanques
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2012 70:21
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  27. Health Examination Surveys (HESs) can provide essential information on the health and health determinants of a population, which is not available from other data sources. Nevertheless, only some European count...

    Authors: Kari Kuulasmaa, Hanna Tolonen, Päivikki Koponen, Katri Kilpeläinen, Mária Avdicová, Grazyna Broda, Neville Calleja, Carlos Dias, Antje Gösswald, Ruzena Kubinova, Jennifer Mindell, Satu Männistö, Luigi Palmieri, Grethe S Tell, Antonia Trichopoulou and WM Monique Verschuren
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2012 70:20
    Content type: Research Published on:

  28. Injuries due to accidents or violence constitute a major public health problem globally and also within the 27 member states of the European Union (EU-MSs). In spite of the magnitude and the severity of the pr...

    Authors: W H J Rogmans
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2012 70:19
    Content type: Research Published on:

  29. In 1978, the Alma-Ata declaration on primary health care (PHC) recognized that the world’s health issues required more than just hospital-based and physician-centered policies. The declaration called for a par...

    Authors: Ana Lorena Ruano, Alison Hernández, Kjerstin Dahlblom, Anna Karin Hurtig and Miguel San Sebastián
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2012 70:18
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  30. The last decades, the prevalence of childhood obesity has increased. Apart from other lifestyle factors, the effect of chronic psychosocial stress on the development of obesity has been recognized. However, mo...

    Authors: Nathalie Michels, Barbara Vanaelst, Krishna Vyncke, Isabelle Sioen, Inge Huybrechts, Tineke De Vriendt and Stefaan De Henauw
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2012 70:17
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  31. Microbiology reference laboratories are critical in the development of high-quality clinical and public health services. In Belgium, the reference laboratories performed their activities on a voluntary basis a...

    Authors: Gaëtan Muyldermans, Amber Litzroth, Geneviève Ducoffre and Sophie Quoilin
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2012 70:16
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Archives of Public Health 2013 71:8

  33. Participation rate and response rate are key issues in a cross sectional large-scale epidemiological study. The objective of this paper is to describe the study population and to evaluate participation and res...

    Authors: Laurent Béghin, Inge Huybrechts, German Vicente-Rodríguez, Stefaan De Henauw, Frédéric Gottrand, Marcela Gonzales-Gross, Jean Dallongeville, Michael Sjöström, Catherine Leclercq, Sabine Dietrich, Manuel Castillo, Maria Plada, Dénes Molnar, Mathilde Kersting, Chantal C Gilbert and Luis A Moreno
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2012 70:14
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  34. Industrial composting is a relatively new and expanding activity. Several studies indicate that compost workers are at risk to develop health symptoms. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of wor...

    Authors: Ramona Hambach, Jos Droste, Guido François, Joost Weyler, Ulrik Van Soom, Antoon De Schryver, Jan Vanoeteren and Marc van Sprundel
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2012 70:13
    Content type: Research Published on:

  35. Low back pain (LBP) is a major public health problem and the identification of individuals at risk of persistent LBP poses substantial challenges to clinical management. The STarT Back questionnaire is a valid...

    Authors: Olivier Bruyère, Maryline Demoulin, Clara Brereton, Fabienne Humblet, Daniel Flynn, Jonathan C Hill, Didier Maquet, Julien Van Beveren, Jean-Yves Reginster, Jean-Michel Crielaard and Christophe Demoulin
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2012 70:12
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  38. Hepatitis B and C cause significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Little is known about the existence of hepatitis B and C among high risk groups of the Pakistani population. The present study was conduct...

    Authors: Abdul Rauf Memon, Kashif Shafique, Ashraf Memon, Agha Umer Draz, Mohammad Uzair Abdul Rauf and Salahuddin Afsar
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2012 70:9
    Content type: Research Published on:

  39. One of the greatest problems for India is undernutrition among children. The country is still struggling with this problem. Malnutrition, the condition resulting from faulty nutrition, weakens the immune syste...

    Authors: Anurag Srivastava, Syed E Mahmood, Payal M Srivastava, Ved P Shrotriya and Bhushan Kumar
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2012 70:8
    Content type: Research Published on:

  40. In medical and biomedical areas, binary and binomial outcomes are very common. Such data are often collected longitudinally from a given subject repeatedly overtime, which result in clustering of the observati...

    Authors: Wondwosen Kassahun, Thomas Neyens, Geert Molenberghs, Christel Faes and Geert Verbeke
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2012 70:7
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  42. Despite numerous educational programmes to create awareness about iodized salt and iodine deficiency disorders (IDD), a survey conducted in the Western Region of Ghana in 2007 revealed that the goitre rate sto...

    Authors: Christiana Buxton and Benjamin Baguune
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2012 70:5
    Content type: Research Published on:

  43. In malaria endemic areas, fever has been used as an entry point for presumptive treatment of malaria. At present, the decrease in malaria transmission in Africa implies an increase in febrile illnesses related...

    Authors: Bahati P Msaki, Stephen E Mshana, Adolfina Hokororo, Humphrey D Mazigo and Domenica Morona
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2012 70:4
    Content type: Research Published on:

  44. Financial barriers are an important obstacle for access to emergency obstetric care and a contributing factor to too slow a reduction in the level of maternal mortality. In Morocco, in 2009, a fee exemption po...

    Authors: Issam Bennis and Vincent De Brouwere
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2012 70:3
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. This article aims at describing, in a Belgian town, the frequency of the fear of falling and of subsequent activity restriction among non-institutionalised people aged 65 years and over, and at identifying per...

    Authors: Elise Mendes da Costa, Thierry Pepersack, Isabelle Godin, Martine Bantuelle, Bernard Petit and Alain Levêque
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2012 70:1
    Content type: Research Published on:

  47. The municipality of Ath is characterised by the presence, in its center, of two non-ferrous metal industries whose emissions make local residents concerned for their health. Therefore, authorities of the Wallo...

    Authors: Javiera Rebolledo, Sebastien Fierens, Ann Versporten, Ethel Brits, Pierre De Plaen and An Van Nieuwenhuyse
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2011 69:10
    Content type: Research Published on:

  48. This study reports the results of the qualitative process evaluation (PE) of the Isfahan Healthy Heart Program (IHHP), an integrated community-based trial for prevention and control of non-communicable disease...

    Authors: Nizal Sarrafzadegan, Katayoun Rabiei, Mousa Alavi, Heidarali Abedi and Sonia Zarfeshani
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2011 69:9
    Content type: Research Published on:

  49. The completion of the Human Genome Project triggered a whole new field of genomic research which is likely to lead to new opportunities for the promotion of population health. As a result, the distinction betw...

    Authors: Evy Cleeren, Johan Van der Heyden, Angela Brand and Herman Van Oyen
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2011 69:8
    Content type: Research Published on:

  50. This study wants to examine the availability of Belgian healthcare data in the three main international health databases: the World Health Organization European Health for All Database (WHO-HFA), the Organisat...

    Authors: K Vanthomme, D Walckiers and H Van Oyen
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2011 69:6
    Content type: Research Published on:

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