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BMC Public Health is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of epidemiology and public health medicine.
BMC Public Health (ISSN 1471-2458) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Thomson Scientific (ISI) and Google Scholar.
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BMC Public Health 2008, 8 :155
Young Europeans are using alcohol to promote sexual encounters and drugs to enhance their sexual experiences, but this is leading to increased risk taking behavior and underage sex, particularly among girls.
BMC Public Health 2008, 8 :148
Although the overall mortality rate from coronary heart disease (CHD) is declining, this trend is changing in younger women, raising the possibility that deaths from CHD may soon be on the rise in this group.
BMC Public Health 2008, 8 :141
Persian Gulf War related exposures are neither associated with decreases in fertility among French veterans nor with an increased risk of birth defects among children fathered by those veterans.
BMC Public Health 2008, 8 :92
A web-based screening instrument for Swiss residents after the 2004 Asian tsunami reveals that alcohol, cannabis and pharmaceutical use increased in women exposed to the tsunami, while pharmaceutical usage alone increased in exposed men
BMC Public Health 2008, 8 :80
The reduction in the rate of suicide in young Scottish men is associated with a significant decline in the use of hanging as a method of suicide; however, whether the rates of attempted suicide have changed remains unclear.
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Malaria treatment in the retail sector: knowledge and practices of drug sellers in rural Tanzania Manuel W Hetzel, Angel Dillip, Christian Lengeler, Brigit Obrist, June J Msechu, Ahmed M Makemba, Christopher Mshana, Alexander Schulze, Hassan Mshinda BMC Public Health 2008, 8 :157 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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The perceived impact of location privacy: a web-based survey of public health perspectives and requirements in the UK and Canada Philip AbdelMalik, Maged N Kamel Boulos, Ray Jones BMC Public Health 2008, 8 :156 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Sexual uses of alcohol and drugs and the associated health risks: a cross sectional study of young people in nine European cities Mark A Bellis, Karen Hughes, Amador Calafat, Montse Juan, Anna Ramon, Jose A Rodriguez, Fernando Mendes, Susanne Schnitzer, Penny Phillips-Howard BMC Public Health 2008, 8 :155 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Tackling tuberculosis patients' internalized social stigma through patient centred care: an intervention study in rural Nicaragua
Jean Macq, Alejandro Solis, Guillermo Martinez, Patrick Martiny BMC Public Health 2008, 8 :154 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Are hygiene and public health interventions likely to improve outcomes for Australian Aboriginal children living in remote communities? A systematic review of the literature Elizabeth McDonald, Ross Bailie, David Brewster, Peter Morris BMC Public Health 2008, 8 :153 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Cancer patterns among children of Turkish descent in Germany: a study at the German Childhood Cancer Registry Jacob Spallek, Claudia Spix, Hajo Zeeb, Peter Kaatsch, Oliver Razum BMC Public Health 2008, 8 :152 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Prevalence of high frequency hearing loss consistent with noise exposure among people working with sound systems and general population in Brazil: a cross-sectional study Regina P El Dib, Edina MK Silva, Jose F Morais, Virginia FM Trevisani BMC Public Health 2008, 8 :151 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Development and validation of psychosocial determinants measures of physical activity among Iranian adolescent girls
Ashraf Pirasteh, Alireza Hidarnia, Ali Asghari, Soghrate Faghihzadeh, Fazlollah Ghofranipour BMC Public Health 2008, 8 :150 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Factors predicting drop out from, and retention in, specialist drug treatment services: a case control study in the North West of England Caryl M Beynon, Alison M McMinn, Adam JE Marr BMC Public Health 2008, 8 :149 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Patterns of coronary heart disease mortality over the 20th century in England and Wales: possible plateaus in the rate of decline Steven Allender, Peter Scarborough, Martin O'Flaherty, Simon Capewell BMC Public Health 2008, 8 :148 (1 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Examining intra-rater and inter-rater response agreement: A medical chart abstraction study of a community-based asthma care program Teresa To, Eileen Estrabillo, Chengning Wang, Lisa Cicutto BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8 :29 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Maintaining quality of health services after abolition of user fees: A Uganda case study Juliet Nabyonga - Orem, Humphrey Karamagi, Lynn Atuyambe, Fred Bagenda, Sam A Okuonzi, Oladapo Walker BMC Health Services Research 2008, 8 :102 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Serological evidence for human cystic echinococcosis in Slovenia Jernej Logar, Barbara Soba, Tadeja Kotar BMC Infectious Diseases 2008, 8 :63 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Take the sex out of STI screening! Views of young women on implementing chlamydia screening in General Practice Natasha L Pavlin, Rhian Parker, Christopher K Fairley, Jane M Gunn, Jane Hocking BMC Infectious Diseases 2008, 8 :62 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Review
Maintenance care in chiropractic - what do we know?
Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde, Lise Hestbaek Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2008, 16 :3 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Determinants of participation in a longitudinal two-stage study
of the health consequences of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant accident
Lin T Guey, Evelyn J Bromet, Semyon F Gluzman, Victoria Zakhozha, Vlodomyr Paniotto BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8 :27 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Non-travel related Hepatitis E virus genotype 3 infections
in the Netherlands; a case series 2004 - 2006.
Katrine Borgen, Tineke Herremans, Erwin Duizer, Harry Vennema, Saskia Rutjes, Arnold Bosman, Ana Maria de Roda Husman, Marion Koopmans BMC Infectious Diseases 2008, 8 :61 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Commentary
Return to Galileo? The Inquisition of the International Narcotic Control Board
Dan Small, Ernest Drucker Harm Reduction Journal 2008, 5 :16 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Short Report
Police and public health partnerships: Evidence from the evaluation of Vancouver's supervised injection facility Kora DeBeck, Evan Wood, Ruth Zhang, Mark Tyndall, Julio Montaner, Thomas Kerr Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2008, 3 :11 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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A randomised trial of a 5 week, manual based, self-management programme for hypertension delivered in a cardiac patient club in Shanghai Feng Xue, Wen Yao, Robert J Lewin BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2008, 8 :10 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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