Doyle, Aoife M Bandason, Tsitsi Dauya, Ethel McHugh, Grace Grundy, Chris Dringus, Stefanie Dziva Chikwari, Chido Ferrand, Rashida A
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JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Background Mobile phones may help young people (YP) access health information and support health service engagement. However, in low-income settings there is limited knowledge on YP’s phone and internet access to inform the feasibility of implementing digital health interventions. Objective We investigated access to information and communication te...
Cantais, Aymeric Grattard, Florence Gagnaire, Julie Mory, Olivier Plat, Aurélie Lleres-Vadeboin, Manon Berthelot, Philippe Bourlet, Thomas Botelho-Nevers, Elisabeth Pozzetto, Bruno
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Microorganisms
Mobile phones (MPs) of healthcare workers (HCWs) may represent an important source of transmission of infectious agents. This longitudinal study documents the contamination of these tools. Ten MPs handled by senior pediatricians were sampled once a week during 23 weeks in three pediatric wards of the University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, France. Cu...
Caban-Martinez, Alberto J Moore, Kevin J Chalmers, Juanita J Santiago, Katerina M Baniak, Melissa Jordan, Melissa M
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Frontiers in public health
Background: With high rates of temporary workers and a transient worker population, the U.S. construction workforce presents a challenge for long-term research and outreach activities. Increasing availability of affordable cell phone technologies may provide an opportunity for research follow-up among construction workers once they leave the worksi...
Gjorgjievski, Marko Sprague, Sheila Chaudhry, Harman Ginsberg, Lydia Wang, Alick Bhandari, Mohit Ristevski, Bill
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JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
Background Distracted driving is a global epidemic, injuring and killing thousands of people every year. To better understand why people still engage in this dangerous behavior, we need to assess how the public gets informed about this issue. Knowing that many people use the internet as their primary source of initial research on topics of interest...
Serrani, Lavinia Tiraboschi, Michele
This paper examines how Italy’s case law has dealt with work-related diseases (e.g. acoustic neuroma and parotid gland tumour) caused by cell phone use. In order to award workers sickness benefits, case law has ruled that some degree of probability might be sufficient to establish the cause-and-effect relationship between exposure to some risks and...
Poon, Jeffrey Gjorgjievski, Marko Moga, Iustin Ristevski, Bill
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Interactive Journal of Medical Research
Background Distracted driving has become alarmingly widespread, and its prevalence continues to increase despite efforts by government and nongovernment organizations to educate the public about this pervasive problem. Every year, 1.35 million people die, and nearly 80 million people get injured in road traffic incidents. Motor vehicle crashes are ...
Danker-Hopfe, Heidi Inskip, Hazel Röösli, Martin
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International Journal of Epidemiology
Background Mobile phone use and exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) from it have been associated with symptoms in some studies, but the studies have shortcomings and their findings are inconsistent. We conducted a prospective cohort study to assess the association between amount of mobile phone use at baseline and frequency o...
Kazi, Abdul Momin Ahsan, Nazia Khan, Ayub Jamal, Saima Kalimuddin, Hussain Ghulamhussain, Naveera Wajidali, Zabin Muqeet, Abdul Zaidi, Fabiha Subzlani, Meraj
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JMIR Research Protocols
Background A major reason for poor childhood vaccine coverage in developing countries is the lack of awareness among parents and caregivers regarding the need for immunization and the importance of completing the entire series of vaccines. Short message service (SMS)–based interventions have been quite effective in different programs such as smokin...
Auvinen, A Feychting, M Ahlbom, A Hillert, L Elliott, P Schuz, J Kromhout, H Toledano, MB Johansen, C Poulsen, AH
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Background Mobile phone use and exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) from it have been associated with symptoms in some studies, but the studies have shortcomings and their findings are inconsistent. We conducted a prospective cohort study to assess the association between amount of mobile phone use at baseline and frequency o...
Tsarna, Ermioni Reedijk, Marije Birks, Laura Ellen Guxens, Mònica Ballester, Ferran Ha, Mina Jiménez-Zabala, Ana Kheifets, Leeka Lertxundi, Aitana Lim, Hyung-Ryul
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American Journal of Epidemiology
Results from studies evaluating potential effects of prenatal exposure to radio-frequency electromagnetic fields from cell phones on birth outcomes have been inconsistent. Using data on 55,507 pregnant women and their children from Denmark (1996–2002), the Netherlands (2003–2004), Spain (2003–2008), and South Korea (2006–2011), we explored whether ...
