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  1. Since 2000, an increasing misuse of emergency services in Belgium was noticed. In 2015, a multidisciplinary task-force designed a triage system. Trained operators and integrated triage protocols were installed...

    Authors: Sarah Hertens, Chris Van der Mullen and Birgitte Schoenmakers
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:43
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  2. Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious infectious disease that is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. This study aimed to investigate the spatial and temporal distribution patterns and potential influencing ...

    Authors: Zhi-Yi Chen, Xin-Yi Deng, Yang Zou, Ying He, Sai-Juan Chen, Qiu-Ting Wang, Dian-Guo Xing and Yan Zhang
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:42
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  3. Full functional status recovery which is a multidimensional concept, that includes personal care, infant and family care, social and occupational activities and adjusting to the role of motherhood may require ...

    Authors: Marelign Tilahun Malaju
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:41
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  4. The reference intervals (RIs), proposed by the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), were derived for ...

    Authors: Y. M. Tuakashikila, H. M. Mata, M. M. Kabamba, A. M. Malumba and J. K. Tuakuila
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:40
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  5. There are known disparities in COVID-19 resource utilization that may persist during the recovery period for some patients. We sought to define subpopulations of patients seeking COVID-19 recovery care in term...

    Authors: Ann-Marcia C. Tukpah, Jhillika Patel, Beret Amundson, Miguel Linares, Meera Sury, Julie Sullivan, Tajmah Jocelyn, Brenda Kissane, Gerald Weinhouse, Nancy Lange-Vaidya, Daniela Lamas, Khalid Ismail, Chandan Pavuluri, Michael H. Cho, Elizabeth B. Gay and Matthew Moll
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:39
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  6. One major factor causing food insecurity is believed to be poverty. Approximately 20 million Iranians live in slums with a vulnerable socioeconomic context. The outbreak of COVID-19, on top of the economic san...

    Authors: Hassan Joulaei, Parisa Keshani, Zohre Foroozanfar, Sima Afrashteh, Zahra Hosseinkhani, Mohammad Ali Mohsenpour, Ghasem Moghimi and Arash Homayouni Meymandi
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:38
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  7. Non-communicable diseases behavioral risk factors can be improved if effective interventions are designed considering the health system’s capabilities and local resources. This study evaluated the effectivenes...

    Authors: Mehran Asadi-Aliabadi, Seyed M. Karimi, Fariba Mirbaha-Hashemi, Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Leila Janani, Ebrahim Babaee, Marzieh Nojomi and Maziar Moradi-Lakeh
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:37
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  8. Hardly any area of application for health apps is seen to be as promising as health and lifestyle support in type 2 diabetes mellitus. Research has emphasised the benefits of such mHealth apps for disease prev...

    Authors: Julian Wangler and Michael Jansky
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:36
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  9. The association of breaks in sedentary time with outcomes of physical function can vary according to the time of day. We examined the association of the diurnal pattern of breaks in sedentary time with physica...

    Authors: Ting-Fu Lai, Yung Liao, Chien-Yu Lin, Ming-Chun Hsueh, Mohammad Javad Koohsari, Ai Shibata, Koichiro Oka and Ding-Cheng Chan
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:35
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  10. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is considered a strategic component of the Sustainable Development Goals specifically for goal 3 which seeks to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all, where all in...

    Authors: Robert Kokou Dowou, Hubert Amu, Farrukh Ishaque Saah, Oluwafemi Adeagbo and Luchuo Engelbert Bain
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:34
    Content type: Comment Published on:

  11. Asset mapping is a commonly used method in public health to identify and describe the resources within a community. However, there is currently a lack of standardization in the methods used for asset mapping, ...

    Authors: Jack Healy, Shokufeh Ramirez, Megan Knapp and Carolyn Johnson
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:33
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  12. In April 2020, insurance coverage for risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) for breast cancer patients with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) syndrome and BRCA testing were started in Japan. We inv...

    Authors: Katsuyuki Konnai, Hiroyuki Fujiwara, Masakazu Kitagawa, Reina Wakabayashi, Asuna Yumori, Tsuguto Notomi, Ryo Onose, Hisamori Kato and Hiroto Narimatsu
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:32
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  13. Community drug retail outlets (CDROs) are among the initial healthcare facilities where pharmacists play a crucial role in preventing and managing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Therefore, this study assesse...

    Authors: Ashenafi Kibret Sendekie, Abera Dessie Dagnaw and Ephrem Mebratu Dagnew
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:31
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  14. Health equity has persistently been a global concern. How to fairly and appropriately allocate health resources is a research hotspot. While Western China is relatively backward economically and presents diffi...

    Authors: Zheng Wang, Haoyu He, Xi Liu, Hongkuang Wei, Qiming Feng and Bo Wei
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:30
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  15. Disabilities may play a different role in determining people’s physical activity (PA) and physical inactivity (PI) levels when they go through multiple lifetime transitions (e.g., graduation, marriage) between...

    Authors: Jihoon Jung, Seungyeon Park and Chung Gun Lee
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:29
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  16. Low birth weight (LBW) predisposes physical and mental growth failure and premature death among infants. Studies report that LBW predominately explains infant mortality. However, existing studies rarely demons...

    Authors: Arup Jana, Unnati Rani Saha, R. S. Reshmi and T. Muhammad
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:28
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  17. Adolescent pregnancy increases risk of short- and long-term adverse social and health outcomes for the adolescent mother and child. Zambia has high prevalence rates of adolescent pregnancy. However, the risk f...

    Authors: Gift Malunga, Sidney Sangong, Farrukh Ishaque Saah and Luchuo Engelbert Bain
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:27
    Content type: Systematic Review Published on:

  18. Evidence on the relationship between psychosocial well-being and physical activity (PA) is insufficient, especially in young adults between 18 and 29 years. Identifying protective factors for psychosocial well...

    Authors: Kaija Appelqvist-Schmidlechner, Risto Heikkinen, Tommi Vasankari, Toni Virtanen, Kai Pihlainen, Tuomas Honkanen, Heikki Kyröläinen and Jani P. Vaara
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:26
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  19. Based on findings of increasing alcohol consumption in older adults, it is important to clarify the health consequences. Using data from the Tromsø study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between diffe...

    Authors: Line Tegner Stelander, Geir Fagerjord Lorem, Anne Høye, Jørgen G. Bramness, Rolf Wynn and Ole Kristian Grønli
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:25
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  20. The severity of the HIV epidemic in the United States’ rural South highlights geographic, socioeconomic, and racial disparities that disproportionately affect poor Black Americans. Approximately 16% of Alabami...

    Authors: Madeline C. Pratt, Oluwaseyi O. Isehunwa, Ingrid V. Bassett, Mirjam-Colette Kempf, Bretia Gordon and Lynn T. Matthews
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:24
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  21. Despite extensive research carried out on medication administration errors (MAEs) in the domain of infusion therapy, there is limited knowledge on nurse’s perceptions on the occurrence of MAEs during infusion ...

    Authors: Charlotte Beaudart, Maureen Witjes, Paul Rood and Mickael Hiligsmann
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:23
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  22. The creating healthy eating and active environments survey (CHEERS) is an audit tool used to assess the nutrition and physical activity environment in early childhood education and care (ECEC) centres. Availab...

    Authors: Lynne M. Z. Lafave
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:22
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  23. Early in 2020, healthcare providers faced the novel virus COVID-19 that had unprecedented risk to them and the community they serve. With COVID-19 high infectivity rate and considerable morbidity and mortality...

    Authors: Aljazia Khalfan Alghfeli, Amal Abdul Rahim Al Zarooni, Hamda Musabbah Alremeithi, Roqayah Abdulla Almadhaani and Latifa Baynouna Alketbi
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:21
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  24. Access to accurate, timely and age-appropriate information about menarche is an essential part of menstrual health. Reliable evidence shows that girls primarily obtain information from their mothers and/or oth...

    Authors: Michela Accerenzi, Pablo Brañas-Garza and Diego Jorrat
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:20
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  25. Private hospitals expanded rapidly in China since 2009 following its national health reform encouraging private investment in the hospital sector. Despite long-standing debates over the performance of differen...

    Authors: Qingping Xue, Dong Roman Xu, Terence C. Cheng, Jay Pan and Winnie Yip
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:19
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  26. Physical activity (PA) plays an important role in optimizing health outcomes throughout pregnancy. In many low-income countries, including Nepal, data on the associations between PA and pregnancy outcomes are ...

    Authors: Noha Algallai, Kelly Martin, Krupali Shah, Kusum Shrestha, Jean-Francois Daneault, Archana Shrestha, Abha Shrestha and Shristi Rawal
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:18
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  27. Health benefits of physical activity are very well acknowledged but the role of both occupational physical activity (OPA) and leisure time physical activity (LTPA) in recovery after work is not thoroughly unde...

    Authors: Tiina Karihtala, Anu M. Valtonen, Hannu Kautiainen, Leila Hopsu, Janne Halonen, Ari Heinonen and Sampsa Puttonen
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:17
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  28. We examined health trajectories of Dutch older workers across their exit from the workforce in the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, testing the hypothesis that pre-post-exit health trajectories of workers with favoura...

    Authors: Maaike van der Noordt, Theo G. van Tilburg, Suzan van der Pas, Bram Wouterse and Dorly J. H. Deeg
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:16
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  29. Despite the importance of monitoring health disparities by multiple socioeconomic categories, there have been no recent updates on the prevalence of general health indicators by socioeconomic categories. The p...

    Authors: Yeonwoo Kim, Christian Vazquez and Catherine Cubbin
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:15
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  30. Air pollutants are a health risk for the entire population. Particulate matter (PM) including the smallest fraction, ultra-fine particles (UFP), therefore continue to be the focus of scientific research in thi...

    Authors: Elisabeth Pfleger, Christoph Adrian, Regina Lutz and Hans Drexler
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:14
    Content type: Systematic Review Published on:

  31. The inequality caused by circumstances is known as "inequality of opportunity" (IOp). Many scholars have studied IOp in the health field, but few studies have quantified contributors to the IOp of health servi...

    Authors: Lin Zhu, Mingyao Peng, Luyan Jiang and Zhonghua Wang
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:13
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  32. Sexually transmitted infection rates continue to increase across the US, further developing health disparities and economic burdens of disease, especially as migration occurs. In this study, we aim to assess t...

    Authors: Ella Valleroy, Aaron Reed and Joseph S. Lightner
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:12
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  33. Faulty dietary habits and overnutrition are prevalent among Egyptian patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) who do not receive nutrition care as part of treatment. Thus, this study was conducted to identify the...

    Authors: Zeinab Afifi, Amr Hassan, Nebal Abdelrahman, Asmaa El Sayed and Marwa Salem
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:11
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  35. Since 1986, WHO has advised that applying action principles such as citizen participation and intersectoral collaboration leads to better health. However, less is known about the workability of these principle...

    Authors: Marja A. J. G. de Jong, Gerda Wink, Maria A. Koelen and Annemarie Wagemakers
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:9
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  36. To compare the medicines for mental disorders included in national essential medicines lists with the World Health Organization (WHO) essential medicines list and assess the extent to which economic status and...

    Authors: Beatrice Todesco, Giovanni Ostuzzi, Chiara Gastaldon, Davide Papola and Corrado Barbui
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:8
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  37. Sexual harassment is undoubtedly widespread, and many countries have enacted laws to punish and prevent it as insulting behavior. However, its impacts on the job, psyche, and physical health, especially reprod...

    Authors: Mulugeta Dile Worke, Zewdie Birhanu Koricha and Gurmesa Tura Debelew
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:7
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  38. Authors: Patrice Cani, Peter Clarys, Antoine Clinquart, Stefaan De Henauw, Nathalie Delzenne, Peter Deriemaeker, Caroline Douny, Isabelle Guelinckx, Inge Huybrechts, Lieven Huybregts, Patrick Kolsteren, Carl Lachat, Isabelle Laquiere, Yvan Larondelle, Jef Leroy, Guy Manghuin-Rogister…
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:6
    Content type: Correction Published on:

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  39. The pre-pregnancy weight and gestational weight gain (GWG) are closely related to perinatal maternal and infant complications, but the relationship between pre-pregnancy weight and GWG and the pattern of inter...

    Authors: Jin Zhang, Rui Zhang, Jingjing Chi, Ya Li and Wenpei Bai
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:5
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  40. Breast cancer (BC) is the most prevalent cancer, with a higher mortality rate in women worldwide. We aimed to investigate the association of the insulinemic potential of diet and lifestyle with the odds of BC ...

    Authors: Ebrahim Mokhtari, Sanaz Jamshidi, Ghazal Daftari, Hossein Farhadnejad, Farshad Teymoori, Seyed Aref Momeni, Bahram Rashidkhani and Parvin Mirmiran
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:4
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  41. A comprehensive overview of the burden of disease of burns for the full spectrum of care is not available. Therefore, we estimated the burden of disease of burns for the full spectrum in the Netherlands in 201...

    Authors: Inge Spronk, Margriet E. van Baar, Robert A. Verheij, Martien J. Panneman, Jan Dokter, Suzanne Polinder and Juanita A. Haagsma
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:3
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  42. Reinforcing self-efficacy in patients is important in person-centered care; therefore, reliable and valid measures of a person’s self-efficacy is of clinical relevance. A questionnaire suitable for self-effica...

    Authors: Jeanette Melin, Andreas Fors, Sofie Jakobsson, David Krabbe and Ida Björkman
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:2
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  43. The global switch from trivalent oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) to bivalent OPV in April 2016 without corresponding co-administration of inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) until June 2018, created a cohort of...

    Authors: Donne Kofi Ameme, Yaw Ofori Yeboah, John Kofi Odoom, Senanu Kwesi Djokoto, Ernest Akyereko, Abdulaziz Mamudu, Mukaila Diwura, William Opare, Patrick Avevor, Stanley Diamenu, Sally-Ann Ohene, Ernest Kenu and Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2023 81:1
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  44. The Barcelona Superblock model transforms urban public spaces into active-friendly spaces, a key issue for public health. This study assessed the extent to which a newly developed Superblock in St. Antoni Mark...

    Authors: Anna Puig-Ribera, Ignasi Arumí-Prat, Eva Cirera, Marta Solà, Anna Codina-Nadal, Laia Palència, Brenda Biaani and Katherine Pérez
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2022 80:257
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  45. Snail meat is an important source of nutrition in Cameroon, but the food safety risks are poorly understood. We characterized public health risks from snail meat consumption as a social system in Cameroon, by ...

    Authors: Mary Nkongho Tanyitiku, Graeme Nicholas, Jon J. Sullivan, Igor C. Njombissie Petcheu and Stephen L. W. On
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2022 80:256
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  46. The COVID-19 pandemic brought countless challenges to public health and highlighted the Brazilian health system vulnerabilities in facing the emergency. In this article, we analyze data on COVID-19-related dea...

    Authors: Célia Landmann Szwarcwald, Cristiano Siqueira Boccolini, Wanessa da Silva de Almeida, Adauto Martins Soares Filho and Deborah Carvalho Malta
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2022 80:255
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  47. No information is available in Belgium on life expectancy adjusted for health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) captures the multidimensionality of health by accounting f...

    Authors: Aline Scohy, Rana Charafeddine, Lisa Van Wilder, Herman Van Oyen, Delphine De Smedt and Brecht Devleesschauwer
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2022 80:254
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  49. Many infectious diseases, including Tuberculosis (TB), have been put in the background with the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to evaluate the changes in the number of TB patients, the parameters of the T...

    Authors: Sule Ozdemir, Derya Oztomurcuk and Muhammet Ali Oruc
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2022 80:252
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  50. The International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire-Bowel (ICIQ-B), a self-report, condition-specific questionnaire designed to assess symptoms of anal incontinence (AI), measures AI’s impact on quali...

    Authors: Susan Saga, Anne Guttormsen Vinsnes, Christine Norton and Gørill Haugan
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2022 80:251
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