| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveCorrespondence Reanalysis of updated mortality among vinyl and polyvinyl chloride workers: Confirmation of historical evidence and new findings Valerio Gennaro, Marcello Ceppi, Paolo Crosignani, and Fabio Montanaro PMCID: PMC2262888 A hidden HIV epidemic among women in Vietnam Thu Anh Nguyen, Pauline Oosterhoff, Anita Hardon, Hien Nguyen Tran, Roel A Coutinho, and Pamela Wright PMCID: PMC2248180 The body politic: the relationship between stigma and obesity-associated disease Peter Muennig PMCID: PMC2386473 Public engagement on global health challenges Emma RM Cohen, Hassan Masum, Kathryn Berndtson, Vicki Saunders, Tom Hadfield, Dilzayn Panjwani, Deepa L Persad, Gunjeet S Minhas, Abdallah S Daar, Jerome A Singh, and Peter A Singer PMCID: PMC2453523 Vouchers for scaling up insecticide-treated nets in Tanzania: Methods for monitoring and evaluation of a national health system intervention Kara Hanson, Rose Nathan, Tanya Marchant, Hadji Mponda, Caroline Jones, Jane Bruce, Godlove Stephen, Jo Mulligan, Hassan Mshinda, and Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg PMCID: PMC2442068 "We're not short of people telling us what the problems are. We're short of people telling us what to do": An appraisal of public policy and mental health Mark Petticrew, Stephen Platt, Allyson McCollam, Sarah Wilson, and Sian Thomas PMCID: PMC2561038 Review Methodologies used to estimate tobacco-attributable mortality: a review Mónica Pérez-Ríos and Agustín Montes PMCID: PMC2262075 Technical Advances Proposal of a framework for evaluating military surveillance systems for early detection of outbreaks on duty areas Jean-Baptiste Meynard, Herve Chaudet, Andrew D Green, Henry L Jefferson, Gaetan Texier, Daniel Webber, Bruce Dupuy, and Jean-Paul Boutin PMCID: PMC2386814 Worldwide food recall patterns over an eleven month period: A country perspective Tamás Nepusz, Andrea Petróczi, and Declan P Naughton PMCID: PMC2556336 Research Articles The relationship between smokers' motivation to quit and intensity of tobacco control at the population level: a comparison of five European countries Jochen René Thyrian, Demosthenes B Panagiotakos, Evangelos Polychronopoulos, Robert West, Witold Zatonski, and Ulrich John PMCID: PMC2245926 Health problems and help-seeking in a nationwide sample of operational Norwegian ambulance personnel Tom Sterud, Erlend Hem, Øivind Ekeberg, and Bjørn Lau PMCID: PMC2254402 A systematic review of school-based sexual health interventions to prevent STI/HIV in sub-Saharan Africa Virginia A Paul-Ebhohimhen, Amudha Poobalan, and Edwin R van Teijlingen PMCID: PMC2248569 Correlates of tobacco cessation counseling among Hispanic physicians in the US: A cross-sectional survey study Francisco G Soto Mas, Héctor G Balcázar, Julia Valderrama Alberola, and Chiehwen Ed Hsu PMCID: PMC2267183 Suicide mortality trends by sex, age and method in Taiwan, 1971–2005 Jin-Jia Lin and Tsung-Hsueh Lu PMCID: PMC2259336 Presentations of patients of poisoning and predictors of poisoning-related fatality: Findings from a hospital-based prospective study Hsin-Ling Lee, Hung-Jung Lin, Steve Ting-Yuan Yeh, Chih-Hsien Chi, and How-Ran Guo PMCID: PMC2267184 Mental health literacy and attitudes in a Swedish community sample – Investigating the role of personal experience of mental health care Karin M Dahlberg, Margda Waern, and Bo Runeson PMCID: PMC2254613 Traditional values of virginity and sexual behaviour in rural Ethiopian youth: results from a cross-sectional study Mitike Molla, Yemane Berhane, and Bernt Lindtjørn PMCID: PMC2254614 Age at disability onset and self-reported health status Eric W Jamoom, Willi Horner-Johnson, Rie Suzuki, Elena M Andresen, Vincent A Campbell, and the RRTC Expert Panel on Health Status Measurement PMCID: PMC2254400 Barriers and enablers in the management of tuberculosis treatment in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a qualitative study Mette Sagbakken, Jan C Frich, and Gunnar Bjune PMCID: PMC2257959 The 2003 Australian Breast Health Survey: survey design and preliminary results Elmer V Villanueva, Sandra Jones, Caroline Nehill, Simone Favelle, David Steel, Donald Iverson, and Helen Zorbas PMCID: PMC2248181 Correlations of knowledge and preference of medical students for a specialty career: a case-study of youth health care Marc BM Soethout, Olle TJ ten Cate, and Gerrit van der Wal PMCID: PMC2254611 A systematic review of delay in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis Dag Gundersen Storla, Solomon Yimer, and Gunnar Aksel Bjune PMCID: PMC2265684 Effects of neighbourhood income on reported body mass index: an eight year longitudinal study of Canadian children Lisa N Oliver and Michael V Hayes PMCID: PMC2291462 Psychiatric disorders and urbanization in Germany Jack Dekker, Jaap Peen, Jurrijn Koelen, Filip Smit, and Robert Schoevers PMCID: PMC2266738 Establishing a nationwide emergency department-based syndromic surveillance system for better public health responses in Taiwan Tsung-Shu Joseph Wu, Fuh-Yuan Frank Shih, Muh-Yong Yen, Jiunn-Shyan Julian Wu, Shiou-Wen Lu, Kevin Chi-Ming Chang, Chao Hsiung, Jr-How Chou, Yu-Tseng Chu, Hang Chang, Chan-Hsien Chiu, Fu-Chiang Richard Tsui, Michael M Wagner, Ih-Jen Su, and Chwan-Chuen King PMCID: PMC2249581 Is it worth investing in mental health promotion and prevention of mental illness? A systematic review of the evidence from economic evaluations Ingrid Zechmeister, Reinhold Kilian, David McDaid, and the MHEEN group PMCID: PMC2245925 Lifestyle behaviors, obesity, and perceived health among men with and without a diagnosis of prostate cancer: A population-based, cross-sectional study Laura Q Rogers, Kerry S Courneya, Rammarayan Paragi-Gururaja, Stephen J Markwell, and Remi Imeokparia PMCID: PMC2262886 What was retained? The assessment of the training for the peer trainers' course on short and long term basis Vildan Mevsim, Dilek Guldal, Nilgun Ozcakar, and Ozge Saygin PMCID: PMC2266925 Identification of patients for clinical risk assessment by prediction of cardiovascular risk using default risk factor values Tom Marshall PMCID: PMC2244603 Self-poisoning in rural Sri Lanka: small-area variations in incidence Celie Manuel, David J Gunnell, Wim van der Hoek, Andrew Dawson, Ishika K Wijeratne, and Flemming Konradsen PMCID: PMC2262074 Status and perspectives of hospital mortality in a public urban Hellenic hospital, based on a five-year review Iordanis N Papadopoulos, Maria Papaefthymiou, Leonidas Roumeliotis, Vasilios G Panagopoulos, Anna Stefanidou, and Anastasia Kostaki PMCID: PMC2257958 Where to deliver? Analysis of choice of delivery location from a national survey in India Amardeep Thind, Amir Mohani, Kaberi Banerjee, and Fred Hagigi PMCID: PMC2248571 Women with learning disabilities and access to cervical screening: retrospective cohort study using case control methods Fiona Reynolds, Debbi Stanistreet, and Peter Elton PMCID: PMC2248570 Lost opportunities in HIV prevention: programmes miss places where exposures are highest Ingvild F Sandøy, Seter Siziya, and Knut Fylkesnes PMCID: PMC2270817 Does economic development contribute to sex differences in ischaemic heart disease mortality? Hong Kong as a natural experiment using a case-control study C Mary Schooling, Tai Hing Lam, Sai Yin Ho, Kwok Hang Mak, and Gabriel M Leung PMCID: PMC2245924 Socio-economic class, rurality and risk of cutaneous melanoma by site and gender in Sweden Beatriz Pérez-Gómez, Nuria Aragonés, Per Gustavsson, Virginia Lope, Gonzalo López-Abente, and Marina Pollán PMCID: PMC2266924 Attitudes to colorectal cancer screening among ethnic minority groups in the UK Kathryn A Robb, Ijeoma Solarin, Emily Power, Wendy Atkin, and Jane Wardle PMCID: PMC2267180 Rating neighborhoods for older adult health: results from the African American Health study Elena M Andresen, Theodore K Malmstrom, Fredric D Wolinsky, Mario Schootman, J Philip Miller, and Douglas K Miller PMCID: PMC2262887 Pattern of medical waste management: existing scenario in Dhaka City, Bangladesh M Manzurul Hassan, Shafiul Azam Ahmed, K Anisur Rahman, and Tarit Kanti Biswas PMCID: PMC2254398 Impacts of the Finnish service screening programme on breast cancer rates Ahti Anttila, Tytti Sarkeala, Timo Hakulinen, and Sirpa Heinävaara PMCID: PMC2254397 Relationship between soy and isoflavone intake and periodontal disease: The Freshmen in Dietetic Courses Study II Keiko Tanaka, Satoshi Sasaki, Kentaro Murakami, Hitomi Okubo, Yoshiko Takahashi, Yoshihiro Miyake, and for the Freshmen in Dietetic Courses Study II Group PMCID: PMC2267787 Changes in health and primary health care use of Moroccan and Turkish migrants between 2001 and 2005: a longitudinal study Majda Lamkaddem, Peter M Spreeuwenberg, Walter L Devillé, Marleen Foets, and Peter P Groenewegen PMCID: PMC2254396 The influence of active coping and perceived stress on health disparities in a multi-ethnic low income sample Jennifer M Watson, Henrietta L Logan, and Scott L Tomar PMCID: PMC2268682 Can the concept of Health Promoting Schools help to improve students' health knowledge and practices to combat the challenge of communicable diseases: Case study in Hong Kong? Albert Lee, Martin CS Wong, Vera MW Keung, Hilda SK Yuen, Frances Cheng, and Jennifer SY Mok PMCID: PMC2258284 Somatic health among heroin addicts before and during opioid maintenance treatment: a retrospective cohort study Ivar Skeie, Mette Brekke, Morten Lindbæk, and Helge Waal PMCID: PMC2253538 The association between socioeconomic position, use of revascularization procedures and five-year survival after recovery from acute myocardial infarction Maria Rosvall, Basile Chaix, John Lynch, Martin Lindström, and Juan Merlo PMCID: PMC2275258 Parents' perceived vulnerability and perceived control in preventing Meningococcal C infection: a large-scale interview study about vaccination Danielle RM Timmermans, Lidewij Henneman, Remy A Hirasing, and Gerrit van der Wal PMCID: PMC2279114 Sense of coherence and diabetes: A prospective occupational cohort study Anne M Kouvonen, Ari Väänänen, Stephen A Woods, Tarja Heponiemi, Aki Koskinen, and Salla Toppinen-Tanner PMCID: PMC2268681 A longitudinal study of environmental tobacco smoke exposure in children: Parental self reports versus age dependent biomarkers Carme Puig, Oscar Garcia-Algar, Toni Monleon, Roberta Pacifici, Piergiorgio Zuccaro, Jordi Sunyer, Cecilia Figueroa, Simona Pichini, and Oriol Vall PMCID: PMC2276212 Working conditions, self-perceived stress, anxiety, depression and quality of life: A structural equation modelling approach Bin Nordin Rusli, Bin Abdin Edimansyah, and Lin Naing PMCID: PMC2267182 Hepatitis B virus infection among pregnant women in Taiwan: Comparison between women born in Taiwan and other southeast countries Ching-Chiang Lin, Hsiu-Shu Hsieh, Yu-Jie Huang, Yeou-Lih Huang, Ming-Kun Ku, and Hsin-Chia Hung PMCID: PMC2275262 Investigating socio-economic-demographic determinants of tobacco use in Rawalpindi, Pakistan Ali Yawar Alam, Azhar Iqbal, Khalif Bile Mohamud, Ronald E Laporte, Ashfaq Ahmed, and Sania Nishtar PMCID: PMC2268929 Spread pattern of the first dengue epidemic in the city of Salvador, Brazil Florisneide R Barreto, Maria Gloria Teixeira, Maria da Conceição N Costa, Marilia S Carvalho, and Mauricio L Barreto PMCID: PMC2287177 Risk factors for maternal death in the highlands of rural northern Tanzania: a case-control study Bjørg Evjen-Olsen, Sven Gudmund Hinderaker, Rolv Terje Lie, Per Bergsjø, Peter Gasheka, and Gunnar Kvåle PMCID: PMC2259340 What explains between-school differences in rates of sexual experience? Marion Henderson, Isabella Butcher, Daniel Wight, Lisa Williamson, and Gillian Raab PMCID: PMC2277387 An investigation of the population impact of variation in HbA1c levels in older people in England and Wales: From a population based multi-centre longitudinal study Lu Gao, Fiona E Matthews, Lincoln A Sargeant, Carol Brayne, and MRC CFAS PMCID: PMC2275259 Intimate partner violence against women in rural Vietnam - different socio-demographic factors are associated with different forms of violence: Need for new intervention guidelines? Nguyen Dang Vung, Per-Olof Ostergren, and Gunilla Krantz PMCID: PMC2275257 Cancer mortality differences among urban and rural residents in Lithuania Giedre Smailyte and Juozas Kurtinaitis PMCID: PMC2259339 Social inequalities in changes in health-related behaviour among Slovak adolescents aged between 15 and 19: A longitudinal study Ferdinand Salonna, Jitse P van Dijk, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Maria Sleskova, Johan W Groothoff, and Sijmen A Reijneveld PMCID: PMC2275256 Key health promotion factors among male members of staff at a higher educational institution: A cross-sectional postal survey Alena Vasianovich, Edwin R van Teijlingen, Garth Reid, and Neil W Scott PMCID: PMC2270269 Comparing estimates of influenza-associated hospitalization and death among adults with congestive heart failure based on how influenza season is defined Carolyn Sandoval, Stephen D Walter, Paul Krueger, and Mark B Loeb PMCID: PMC2267181 The long-term hospitalization experience following military service in the 1991 Gulf War among veterans remaining on active duty, 1994–2004 Tomoko I Hooper, Samar F DeBakey, Barbara E Nagaraj, Kimberly S Bellis, Besa Smith, Tyler C Smith, and Gary D Gackstetter PMCID: PMC2263030 Social contact networks for the spread of pandemic influenza in children and teenagers Laura M Glass and Robert J Glass PMCID: PMC2277389 Gender, socio-economic status and metabolic syndrome in middle-aged and old adults Ana C Santos, Shah Ebrahim, and Henrique Barros PMCID: PMC2270270 "That is why I stopped the ART": Patients' & providers' perspectives on barriers to and enablers of HIV treatment adherence in a South African workplace programme Mison Dahab, Salome Charalambous, Robin Hamilton, Katherine Fielding, Karina Kielmann, Gavin J Churchyard, and Alison D Grant PMCID: PMC2276211 Traditional circumcision during manhood initiation rituals in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: a pre-post intervention evaluation Karl Peltzer, Ayanda Nqeketo, George Petros, and Xola Kanta PMCID: PMC2259337 Prevalence of HIV, Herpes Simplex Virus-2, and Syphilis in male sex partners of pregnant women in Peru Jesse L Clark, Kelika A Konda, Cesar V Munayco, Monica Pún, Andres G Lescano, Segundo R Leon, Jose Pajuelo, Luis Suarez-Ognio, Jeffrey D Klausner, Thomas J Coates, and Carlos F Cáceres PMCID: PMC2265685 Monitoring trends in socioeconomic health inequalities: it matters how you measure Young-Ho Khang, Sung-Cheol Yun, and John W Lynch PMCID: PMC2266739 An investigation of the smoking behaviours of parents before, during and after the birth of their children in Taiwan Shu-Fang Shih, Likwang Chen, Chi Pang Wen, Wei-Chih Yang, and Yaw-Tang Shih PMCID: PMC2289813 Sputum microscopy for the diagnosis of HIV-associated pulmonary tuberculosis in Tanzania Mecky Matee, Lillian Mtei, Tarja Lounasvaara, Wendy Wieland-Alter, Richard Waddell, Johnson Lyimo, Muhammad Bakari, Kisali Pallangyo, and C Fordham von Reyn PMCID: PMC2265272 Health information seeking on the Internet: a double divide? Results from a representative survey in the Paris metropolitan area, France, 2005–2006 Emilie Renahy, Isabelle Parizot, and Pierre Chauvin PMCID: PMC2275260 Psychometric evaluation of the Problem Areas in Diabetes (PAID) survey in Southern, rural African American women with Type 2 diabetes Stephania T Miller and Tom A Elasy PMCID: PMC2268930 How effective is good domestic kitchen hygiene at reducing diarrhoeal disease in developed countries? A systematic review and reanalysis of the UK IID study Anna Stenberg, Clare Macdonald, and Paul R Hunter PMCID: PMC2266741 The association of urinary cadmium with sex steroid hormone concentrations in a general population sample of US adult men Andy Menke, Eliseo Guallar, Meredith S Shiels, Sabine Rohrmann, Shehzad Basaria, Nader Rifai, William G Nelson, and Elizabeth A Platz PMCID: PMC2267786 The Sandwell Project: A controlled evaluation of a programme of targeted screening for prevention of cardiovascular disease in primary care Tom Marshall, Paul Westerby, Jenny Chen, Mary Fairfield, Jenny Harding, Ruth Westerby, Rajai Ahmad, and John Middleton PMCID: PMC2278139 Daylight saving time transitions and hospital treatments due to accidents or manic episodes Tuuli A Lahti, Jari Haukka, Jouko Lönnqvist, and Timo Partonen PMCID: PMC2266740 Depression and termination of pregnancy (induced abortion) in a national cohort of young Australian women: the confounding effect of women's experience of violence Angela J Taft and Lyndsey F Watson PMCID: PMC2278138 Scale Development: Factors Affecting Diet, Exercise, and Stress Management (FADESM) Mei-Wei Chang, Roger Brown, and Susan Nitzke PMCID: PMC2266923 Japanese cancer patient participation in and satisfaction with treatment-related decision-making: A qualitative study Yoshiko Watanabe, Miyako Takahashi, and Ichiro Kai PMCID: PMC2291463 Baseline assessment of prevalence and geographical distribution of HPV types in Chile using self-collected vaginal samples Catterina Ferreccio, Alejandro Corvalán, Paula Margozzini, Paola Viviani, Claudia González, Ximena Aguilera, and Patti E Gravitt PMCID: PMC2291464 The prevalence of self-reported deliberate self harm in Irish adolescents Carolyn Morey, Paul Corcoran, Ella Arensman, and Ivan J Perry PMCID: PMC2270271 Reduction in young male suicide in Scotland Cameron Stark, Diane Stockton, and Rob Henderson PMCID: PMC2292166 Disclosure experience and associated factors among HIV positive men and women clinical service users in southwest Ethiopia Kebede Deribe, Kifle Woldemichael, Mekitie Wondafrash, Amaha Haile, and Alemayehu Amberbir PMCID: PMC2275263 Vaccination coverage in children can be estimated from health insurance data Helen Kalies, Rebekka Redel, Rudolf Varga, Martin Tauscher, and Rüdiger von Kries PMCID: PMC2268683 Negotiating the transition from adolescence to motherhood: Coping with prenatal and parenting stress in teenage mothers in Mulago hospital, Uganda Dan K Kaye PMCID: PMC2297507 Obesity and cardio-metabolic risk factors in urban adults of Benin: Relationship with socio-economic status, urbanisation, and lifestyle patterns Roger Sodjinou, Victoire Agueh, Benjamin Fayomi, and Hélène Delisle PMCID: PMC2315643 An investigation into the prevalence of dog bites to primary school children in Trinidad Karla Georges and Abiodun Adesiyun PMCID: PMC2292167 Social correlates of cigarette smoking among Icelandic adolescents: A population-based cross-sectional study Alfgeir L Kristjansson, Inga D Sigfusdottir, John P Allegrante, and Asgeir R Helgason PMCID: PMC2322976 Analysis of oral cancer epidemiology in the US reveals state-specific trends: implications for oral cancer prevention Karl Kingsley, Susan O'Malley, Marcia Ditmyer, and Michelle Chino PMCID: PMC2287178 Sense of coherence and attrition during four-year follow-up in cohorts of permanent and non-permanent Finnish employees Virpi Liukkonen, Pekka Virtanen, Mika Kivimäki, Jaana Pentti, and Jussi Vahtera PMCID: PMC2275261 Adolescents' health and health behaviour as predictors of injury death. A prospective cohort follow-up of 652,530 person-years Ville M Mattila, Jari Parkkari, Leena Koivusilta, Tapio Nummi, Pekka Kannus, and Arja Rimpelä PMCID: PMC2292710 Self-management of type 2 diabetes mellitus: a qualitative investigation from the perspective of participants in a nurse-led, shared-care programme in the Netherlands Albine Moser, Harry van der Bruggen, Guy Widdershoven, and Cor Spreeuwenberg PMCID: PMC2292711 Exposure to the tsunami disaster, PTSD symptoms and increased substance use – an Internet based survey of male and female residents of Switzerland Stefan Vetter, Astrid Rossegger, Wulf Rossler, Jonathan I Bisson, and Jerome Endrass PMCID: PMC2277388 Undocumented migrants lack access to pregnancy care and prevention Hans Wolff, Manuella Epiney, Ana P Lourenco, Michael C Costanza, Jacqueline Delieutraz-Marchand, Nicole Andreoli, Jean-Bernard Dubuisson, Jean-Michel Gaspoz, and Olivier Irion PMCID: PMC2323378 Positive deviance control-case life history: a method to develop grounded hypotheses about successful long-term avoidance of infection Samuel R Friedman, Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, Milagros Sandoval, Holly Hagan, and Don C Des Jarlais PMCID: PMC2329618 Validity of parental work information on the birth certificate Jean D Brender, Lucina Suarez, and Peter H Langlois PMCID: PMC2324093 Estimating the burden of rhodesiense sleeping sickness during an outbreak in Serere, eastern Uganda Eric M Fèvre, Martin Odiit, Paul G Coleman, Mark EJ Woolhouse, and Susan C Welburn PMCID: PMC2322978 Prevalence and correlates of tobacco use amongst junior collegiates in twin cities of western Nepal: A cross-sectional, questionnaire-based survey Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, PV Kishore, Jagadish Paudel, and Ritesh G Menezes PMCID: PMC2292712 A 6 year Geohelminth infection profile of children at high altitude in Western Nepal Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay, Godwin Wilson, Kiran Chawla, Binu VS, and PG Shivananda PMCID: PMC2335097 Impact of methodological "shortcuts" in conducting public health surveys: Results from a vaccination coverage survey Elizabeth T Luman, Mariana Sablan, Shannon Stokley, Mary M McCauley, and Kate M Shaw PMCID: PMC2346471 Surveillance study of vector species on board passenger ships, Risk factors related to infestations Varvara A Mouchtouri, Rimma Anagnostopoulou, Anna Samanidou-Voyadjoglou, Kalliopi Theodoridou, Chrissi Hatzoglou, Jenny Kremastinou, and Christos Hadjichristodoulou PMCID: PMC2359741 Neighbourhood perceptions of physical activity: a qualitative study Louise N Burgoyne, Catherine Woods, Rosarie Coleman, and Ivan J Perry PMCID: PMC2297506 Gender, school and academic year differences among Spanish university students at high-risk for developing an eating disorder: An epidemiologic study Ana R Sepulveda, Jose A Carrobles, and Ana M Gandarillas PMCID: PMC2387144 Paternal psychosocial work conditions and mental health outcomes: A case-control study Stefania Maggi, Aleck Ostry, James Tansey, James Dunn, Ruth Hershler, Lisa Chen, and Clyde Hertzman PMCID: PMC2358891 Acupuncture, chiropractic and osteopathy use in Australia: a national population survey Charlie CL Xue, Anthony L Zhang, Vivian Lin, Ray Myers, Barbara Polus, and David F Story PMCID: PMC2322980 A comparison of four scoring methods based on the parent-rated Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire as used in the Dutch preventive child health care system Mathilde R Crone, Anton GC Vogels, Femke Hoekstra, Philip DA Treffers, and Sijmen A Reijneveld PMCID: PMC2359742 Extrapulmonary tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus, and foreign birth in North Carolina, 1993 – 2006 Aaron M Kipp, Jason E Stout, Carol Dukes Hamilton, and Annelies Van Rie PMCID: PMC2346470 Prevalence of prehypertension and associated cardiovascular risk profiles among prediabetic Omani adults Shyam Sundar Ganguly, Mohammed Ali Al-Shafaee, Kamlesh Bhargava, and Kalyan Kanti Duttagupta PMCID: PMC2386813 Hospitalizations associated with rotavirus gastroenteritis in Spain, 2001–2005 Ana López-de-Andrés, Rodrigo Jiménez-García, Pilar Carrasco-Garrido, Alejandro Alvaro-Meca, Patricia Graciela Galarza, and Ángel Gil de Miguel PMCID: PMC2346473 Chronic disease mortality associated with infectious agents: A comparative cohort study of migrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel and Germany Jördis J Ott, Ari M Paltiel, Volker Winkler, and Heiko Becher PMCID: PMC2377256 Life style related to blood pressure and body weight in adolescence: Cross sectional data from the Young-HUNT study, Norway Magnus H Fasting, Tom IL Nilsen, Turid L Holmen, and Torstein Vik PMCID: PMC2375890 Socioeconomic position and risk of short-term weight gain: Prospective study of 14,619 middle-aged men and women Lisa R Purslow, Elizabeth H Young, Nicholas J Wareham, Nita Forouhi, Eric J Brunner, Robert N Luben, Ailsa A Welch, Kay-Tee Khaw, Shelia A Bingham, and Manjinder S Sandhu PMCID: PMC2323377 Evaluating human papillomavirus vaccination programs in Canada: should provincial healthcare pay for voluntary adult vaccination? Marco Llamazares and Robert J Smith? PMCID: PMC2373297 Risk factors for childhood obesity: shift of the entire BMI distribution vs. shift of the upper tail only in a cross sectional study André M Toschke, Rüdiger von Kries, Andreas Beyerlein, and Simon Rückinger PMCID: PMC2322977 Calculating expected years of life lost for assessing local ethnic disparities in causes of premature death Tomás J Aragón, Daphne Y Lichtensztajn, Brian S Katcher, Randy Reiter, and Mitchell H Katz PMCID: PMC2386472 Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in population-based studies: Systematic review Qiu-Li Zhang and Dietrich Rothenbacher PMCID: PMC2377260 The influences of Taiwan's generic grouping price policy on drug prices and expenditures: Evidence from analysing the consumption of the three most-used classes of cardiovascular drugs Chi-Liang Chen, Likwang Chen, and Wei-Chih Yang PMCID: PMC2377257 The influence of multi-morbidity and self-reported socio-economic standing on the prevalence of depression in an elderly Hong Kong population Samuel YS Wong, Stewart W Mercer, Jean Woo, and Jason Leung PMCID: PMC2335096 Stages of development and injury: An epidemiological survey of young children presenting to an emergency department Kirsty MacInnes and David H Stone PMCID: PMC2330035 Reliability of medical students' vaccination histories for immunisable diseases Sabine Wicker, Regina Allwinn, René Gottschalk, and Holger F Rabenau PMCID: PMC2330143 Epidemiological analysis of injury in Shandong Province, China Jixiang Ma, Xiaolei Guo, Aiqiang Xu, Jiyu Zhang, and Chongqi Jia PMCID: PMC2377261 Parents' concerns about children are highly prevalent but often not confirmed by child doctors and nurses Sijmen A Reijneveld, Gea de Meer, Carin H Wiefferink, and Matty R Crone PMCID: PMC2383909 Age differences in mental health literacy Louise Farrer, Liana Leach, Kathleen M Griffiths, Helen Christensen, and Anthony F Jorm PMCID: PMC2358892 Sex and the city: Differences in disease- and disability-free life years, and active community participation of elderly men and women in 7 cities in Latin America and the Caribbean Angela MC Rose, Anselm J Hennis, and Ian R Hambleton PMCID: PMC2387143 Reasons for not using smoking cessation aids Beatrice Gross, Leonie Brose, Anja Schumann, Sabina Ulbricht, Christian Meyer, Henry Völzke, Hans-Jürgen Rumpf, and Ulrich John PMCID: PMC2386812 Promoting prevention with economic arguments – The case of Finnish occupational health services Eila Kankaanpää, Aki Suhonen, and Hannu Valtonen PMCID: PMC2386811 The area-based social patterning of injuries among 10 to 19 year olds Changes over time in the Stockholm County Anne-Mari Reimers, Antonio Ponce de Leon, and Lucie Laflamme PMCID: PMC2377258 Viral hepatitis in Germany: poor vaccination coverage and little knowledge about transmission in target groups Karl Schenkel, Doris Radun, Viviane Bremer, Nikolaus Bocter, and Osamah Hamouda PMCID: PMC2387145 Rapid increases in obesity in Jamaica, compared to Nigeria and the United States Ramón A Durazo-Arvizu, Amy Luke, Richard S Cooper, Guichan Cao, Lara Dugas, Adebowale Adeyemo, Michael Boyne, and Terrence Forrester PMCID: PMC2390537 Smoking in context – a multilevel approach to smoking among females in Helsinki Sakari Karvonen, Petteri Sipilä, Pekka Martikainen, Ossi Rahkonen, and Mikko Laaksonen PMCID: PMC2377262 Estimating the costs of school closure for mitigating an influenza pandemic Md Z Sadique, Elisabeth J Adams, and William J Edmunds PMCID: PMC2377259 Predictors of early sexual initiation among a nationally representative sample of Nigerian adolescents Adesegun O Fatusi and Robert W Blum PMCID: PMC2390536 Verifiability of diagnostic categories and work ability in the context of disability pension award: A survey on "gatekeeping" among general practitioners in Norway Rein Overland, Simon Overland, Kristian Nyborg Johansen, and Arnstein Mykletun PMCID: PMC2387147 What they fill in today, may not be useful tomorrow: Lessons learned from studying Medical Records at the 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