Guillou-Landreat, Morgane Dany, Antoine Le Reste, Jean Yves Le Goff, Delphine Benyamina, Amine Grall-Bronnec, Marie Gallopel-Morvan, Karine
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BackgroundThe marketing of alcohol influences patterns of alcohol consumption. Existing studies have focused, for the most part, on adolescents and the links between exposure to marketing and alcohol initiation. In France, the Evin law, a French exception, was set up in 1991 with the aim of regulating this exposure to marketing, but since 2009 it h...
Seror, Valérie Cortaredona, Sébastien Ly, Elhadji Yaya Ndiaye, Samba Gaye, Ibrahima Fall, Mouhamadou Peretti-Watel, Patrick
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BackgroundThe World Health Organization recommends recording vaccination status according to maternal recall in countries where administrative reporting systems are insufficiently reliable, as maternal recall in developing countries has been shown to be quite reliable compared with data from vaccination cards. This study aimed to investigate childh...
Liao, Wei Luo, Zhicheng Hou, Yitan Cui, Ningning Liu, Xiaotian Huo, Wenqian Wang, Fang Wang, Chongjian
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BackgroundThis is a cross-sectional study to explore the age and gender specific association between obesity and depression in Chinese rural adults.MethodsA total of 29,900 eligible participants from the Henan Rural Cohort Study were included. Standard anthropometric measurements were undertaken to obtain data on body mass index (BMI) and waist cir...
Zheng, Yong-Bo Shi, Le Gong, Yi-Miao Wang, Xiao-Xiao Lu, Qing-Dong Que, Jian-Yu Khan, Muhammad Zahid Bao, Yan-Ping Lu, Lin
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BackgroundDementia is a global public health priority. Many modifiable factors have been shown to influence the development of dementia, but these factors are not adequately known by the general public. This study aimed to assess public awareness of the factors that are associated with dementia in China.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted ...
Bashorun, Adedapo Olufemi Linda, Christopher Omoleke, Semeeh Kendall, Lindsay Donkor, Simon D. Kinteh, Ma-Ansu Danso, Baba Leigh, Lamin Kandeh, Sheriff D’Alessandro, Umberto
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BackgroundEarly diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) are the mainstay of global and national TB control efforts. However, the gap between expected and reported cases persists for various reasons attributable to the TB services and care-seeking sides of the TB care cascade. Understanding individual and collective perspectives of knowledge, a...
Yosef, Tewodros
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BackgroundNon-communicable diseases (NCDs) are diseases that are not transmitted from one person to another. Currently, NCDs are the primary causes of morbidity and mortality globally. Truck driving is an occupation that prone drivers to risk factors for NCDs than other occupations. Eventhough risk of developing NCDs among these population is high,...
He, Daihai Zhao, Shi Xu, Xiaoke Lin, Qiangying Zhuang, Zian Cao, Peihua Wang, Maggie H. Lou, Yijun Xiao, Li Wu, Ye
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The individual infectiousness of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), quantified by the number of secondary cases of a typical index case, is conventionally modelled by a negative-binomial (NB) distribution. Based on patient data of 9120 confirmed cases in China, we calculated the variation of the individual infectiousness, i.e., the dispersion par...
Bai, Zhongliang Xu, Zhiwei Xu, Xiaoru Qin, Xia Hu, Wenbiao Hu, Zhi
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BackgroundTo examine the relationship between social capital and depression among community-dwelling older adults in Anhui Province, China.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted among older people selected from three cities of Anhui Province, China using a multi-stage stratified cluster random sampling method. Data were collected through ques...
Murarkar, Sujata Gothankar, Jayashree Doke, Prakash Pore, Prasad Lalwani, Sanjay Dhumale, Girish Quraishi, Sanjay Patil, Reshma Waghachavare, Vivek Dhobale, Randhir
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BackgroundUndernutrition among under five children in India is a major public health problem. Despite India’s growth in the economy, the child mortality rate due to undernutrition is still high in both urban and rural areas. Studies that focus on urban slums are scarce. Hence the present study was carried out to assess the prevalence and determinan...
Kenny, Kathleen S. Merry, Lisa Brownbridge, Douglas A. Urquia, Marcelo L.
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ObjectivesThere is a paucity of research on patterns of cyber-victimization in minority groups, including immigrants. This study aimed to identify individual, interpersonal and contextual characteristics associated with cyber-victimization among immigrants and non-immigrants.MethodsWe drew on nationally representative data from adolescents and adul...
