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Self-control (SC) has been consistently found associated with diverse health risk behaviors (HRBs), but little research refers to low- and middle-income countries. Furthermore, there is evidence that some HRBs...

ADOLESCENTS self-control low- and middle-income country Multiple Health Risk Behaviour

BACKGROUND:Suicidal ideation is subject to serious underestimation among existing public health studies. While numerous factors have been recognized in affecting suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB), the associated...

PM2.5 Suicidal Ideation Internet Search

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Covid-status certification - certificates for those who test negative for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, test positive for antibodies, or who have been vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 - has been proposed to enable safer...

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Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is a pre-requisite for cervical cancer, which represents the third most common cancer among women worldwide. A causal relationship also exists between HPV and cancer in other areas of the...

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Humans Attitude of Health Personnel Interprofessional Relations Public Health qualitative research Research Personnel England translational medical research stakeholder participation

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BACKGROUND:Health warning labels (HWLs) using images and text to depict the negative health consequences of tobacco consumption are effective and acceptable for changing smoking-related outcomes. There is currently limited...

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Heterogeneous studies have demonstrated ethnic inequalities in the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and adverse COVID-19 outcomes. This study evaluates the association between ethnicity and COVID-19 outcomes in...

Mortality Canada UK Inequalities Ethnicity Hospitalisation covid-19 Humans Cohort Studies Adult Ontario England covid-19 SARS-CoV-2

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Observational evidence suggests that cigarette pack size - the number of cigarettes in a single pack - is associated with consumption but experimental evidence of a causal relationship is lacking. The tobacco...

Tobacco control Cigarette packaging adaptive design pack size Humans Product Packaging Product Labeling tobacco industry Australia Tobacco Products

BACKGROUND:More than 90% of the Chinese population was covered by its three basic social health insurances. However, the Chinese rural-to-urban migrant workers (RUMWs), accounting for about one-fifth of China's total population...

China Systematic review universal health coverage Rural-to-urban Migrant Workers

This is the final version of the article. It first appeared from BioMed Central via http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1186/s12889-016-3192-9

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BACKGROUND:Since the 2009 A/H1N1 pandemic, Public Health England have developed a suite of real-time statistical models utilising enhanced pandemic surveillance data to nowcast and forecast a future pandemic. Their ability to...

Forecasting seasonal influenza Gp Consultations Transmission Models Nowcasting Intensive Care Admissions

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Locally delivered, place-based public health interventions are receiving increasing attention as a way of improving health and reducing inequalities. However, there is limited evidence on their effectiveness....

HEALTH Inequalities place Economic uncertainty