environmental health

The potentials of digital technology in social prescribing: a qualitative study of key stakeholders’ perspectives | BMC Public Health

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Characteristics of study participants Table 1 depicts the characteristics of study participants. Table 1 Study participants’ characteristics (N = 18) Themes developed from the analysis As shown in Table 2, we identified eight main themes—four reflecting the advantages of digital social prescribing and four outlining its challenges, each with 2–4 subthemes. Table 2 Themes and Sub-themes of respondents’ viewpoint … Read more

The association of cardiometabolic multimorbidity with depression and length of hospitalization: a population-based cross-sectional study among adults in Turkey | BMC Public Health

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This cross-sectional study is based on a secondary analysis of data obtained from the 2022 Turkey Health Survey conducted by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) [16]. The Turkey Health Survey is carried out every two to three years and provides information on health and health-related behaviors for the adult population aged 15 and above. The … Read more

COVID-19 disease severity in language minorities in Finland: an observational population-based register study | BMC Public Health

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Previous studies have shown that minority populations experience higher incidences of COVID-19 and are more likely to be admitted to specialized healthcare [1, 5, 9, 17]. Thus, it was of paramount interest to ascertain whether the severity of the disease and its outcomes during their hospital stay would differ from those with a domestic first … Read more

The impact of medical expert-led sex education on sexual health knowledge among Japanese junior high school students: a quantitative study | BMC Public Health

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This study has revealed several critical insights into the state of sexual health knowledge among Japanese junior high school students. Our findings indicate a limited understanding of key concepts such as OCs, cervical cancer, and the HPV vaccine. This knowledge gap is particularly concerning given the potential health implications for young people. Although students receive … Read more

Association between internet usage and healthcare expenditure among middle-aged and older Chinese adults with chronic diseases: the role of self-rated health | BMC Public Health

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Data and study sample The study participants were selected from the CFPS, a large-scale, nationwide and continuous social tracking survey project conducted every two years by the China Social Science Survey Center of Peking University. The survey uses a stratified sampling method with unequal probabilities at five levels, namely, provinces and cities, districts and counties, … Read more

Association between different insulin resistance surrogates and erectile dysfunction in non-diabetic men: a large population-based study | BMC Public Health

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Major findings In the nationally representative population, our study found that high levels of HOMA-IR, TyG-BMI, TyG-WC and TyG-WHtR were positively associated with ED in the non-diabetic adult men, and the association was also similar in all of the subgroup participants. We further revealed threshold effects of TyG-BMI, TyG-WC, and TyG-WHtR on ED risk, with … Read more

Association between heavy metal exposure and heart failure incidence and mortality: insights from NHANES data (2003–2018) | BMC Public Health

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Virani SS, Alonso A, Aparicio HJ, Benjamin EJ, Bittencourt MS, Callaway CW, Carson AP, Chamberlain AM, Cheng S, Delling FN, et al. Heart disease and stroke Statistics-2021 update: A report from the American heart association. Circulation. 2021;143(8):e254–743. Article  PubMed  Google Scholar  Heidenreich PA, Albert NM, Allen LA, Bluemke DA, Butler J, Fonarow GC, Ikonomidis JS, … Read more

Breaking up prolonged sedentary behavior to improve cardiometabolic health (BREAK2): protocol for a dose-finding adaptive randomization trial | BMC Public Health

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Study overview BREAK2 is an adaptive dose-finding study designed to determine the minimally effective dose of sedentary breaks that yields cardiometabolic benefit in adult participants in a laboratory-controlled environment. The study entails a randomized cross-over design wherein the condition (intervention or control condition), the order of the conditions, and the intervention dose (one of 25 … Read more

Development of a prediction rule for incomplete vaccination among children in Indonesia | BMC Public Health

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Rodrigues CMC, Plotkin SA. Impact of vaccines; health, economic and social perspectives. Front Microbiol. 2020;11:1526. https://doi.org/10.3389/FMICB.2020.01526 Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  Talbird SE, Carrico J, La EM, Carias C, Marshall GS, Roberts CS, et al. Impact of routine childhood immunization in reducing vaccine-preventable diseases in the United States. Pediatrics. 2022;150. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2021-056013 Li X, Mukandavire … Read more

Global and regional disease burden of HIV/AIDS from 1990 to 2021 and projections to 2030 | BMC Public Health

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Trends in HIV/AIDS incidence from 1990 to 2021 The age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR) of HIV/AIDS varies significantly worldwide. In 2021, Lesotho had the highest ASIR (818.4 per 100,000 people), followed by Mozambique and Equatorial Guinea (Fig. 1A, Table S1). In terms of absolute numbers, South Africa had the highest number of cases in 2021 (233,500 (95% … Read more