Correction: “Here, your only relative is money?” why slum social networks do not facilitate neighborhood community development: insights through a sanitation lens
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Source: BMC Public Health - April 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Japheth Nkiriyehe Kwiringira, Joseph Rujumba, Paulino Ariho, James Mugisha, Henry Zakumumpa, Elizabeth W. Perry Mohling, Mathias Akugizibwe, Innocent Kamara Tumwebaze and Charles Onyutha Tags: Correction Source Type: research
Digital mental health interventions as stand-alone vs. augmented treatment as usual
Smartphone-based digital mental health interventions (DMHI) have been described as a purported solution to meet growing healthcare demands and lack of providers, but studies often don ’t account for whether pat... (Source: BMC Public Health)
Source: BMC Public Health - April 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Benjamin W. Nelson, Nicholas C. Peiper and Valerie L. Forman-Hoffman Tags: Research Source Type: research
Effect of long-term care insurance policy on depression in non-disabled people: evidence from China
Policy effect might be multidimensional and spill over to non-recipients. It is unclear how the implementation of Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) policy affects depression in non-disabled people and how this e... (Source: BMC Public Health)
Source: BMC Public Health - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Wenjing Jiang and Hongyan Yang Tags: Research Source Type: research
Kidney stones and dietary intake in adults: a population-based study in southwest Iran
The prevalence of kidney stones is on the rise globally. Several risk factors, including lifestyle, contribute to the formation of kidney stones. Nevertheless, there is a contentious debate about the relations... (Source: BMC Public Health)
Source: BMC Public Health - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Bahman Cheraghian, Alipour Meysam, Seyed Jalal Hashemi, Seyed Ahmad Hosseini, Amal Saki Malehi, Dinyar Khazaeli and Zahra Rahimi Tags: Research Source Type: research
Is a tiered restrictions system an effective intervention for COVID-19 control? Results from Portugal, November-December 2020
In November 2020, similar to other European countries, Portugal implemented a tiered restrictions system to control the COVID-19 pandemic. We aimed to compare the COVID-19 growth rate across tiers to assess th... (Source: BMC Public Health)
Source: BMC Public Health - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Marta Moniz, Patr ícia Soares, Baltazar Nunes and Andreia Leite Tags: Research Source Type: research
Trust as a catalyst: revealing the impact of government trust and professional trust on public health policy compliance during a pandemic
Existing research has extensively explored the relationship between government trust and compliance behaviour, but significant controversies exist. Some studies suggest a strong positive correlation between th... (Source: BMC Public Health)
Source: BMC Public Health - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Guobang Chen, Hua Zhang, Yue Hu and Chunyan Luo Tags: Research Source Type: research
Prevalence, determinants, intervention strategies and current gaps in addressing childhood malnutrition in Vietnam: a systematic review
Childhood malnutrition in all forms is a major public health issue worldwide. This review systematically examined the prevalence and determinants and identify the potential interventions and current gap in add... (Source: BMC Public Health)
Source: BMC Public Health - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlotte Mondon, Pui Yee Tan, Chong Ling Chan, Thuy Nga Tran and Yun Yun Gong Tags: Research Source Type: research
Iron deficiency at birth and risk of hidden hearing loss in infants modification by socioeconomic status: mother-newborn cohort in Shenyang, China
The diagnosis of hidden hearing loss (HHL) in calm state has not yet been determined, while the nutritional status is not involved in its pathogenic risk factors. In utero iron deficiency (ID) may delay audito... (Source: BMC Public Health)
Source: BMC Public Health - April 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Shuai Hao, Wei Song, Fanxue Kong, Xinxin Yue, Xinlei Meng, Hongyan Chen, Yunyan Han and Fei Yu Tags: Research Source Type: research
Social support predicted subsequent subjective well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: a prospective study
Subjective well-being (SWB) is associated with social support in cross-sectional studies. However, it remains unclear whether and how social support predicts SWB longitudinally, especially during the COVID-19 ... (Source: BMC Public Health)
Source: BMC Public Health - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Yanhui Mao, Junpeng Chen, Xinqi Liu, Junhua Dang and Helgi B. Schi öth Tags: Research Source Type: research
Adaptation and application of the Parent Attitudes About Childhood Vaccines survey tool in the Vietnamese language: a cross-sectional study
Parental vaccine hesitancy could lead to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. Although parental vaccine hesitancy exists in the Vietnamese community, no research has directly investigated this social phe... (Source: BMC Public Health)
Source: BMC Public Health - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Bao Quy Quoc Truong, Ken Ing Cherng Ong, Akira Shibanuma, Junko Kiriya and Masamine Jimba Tags: Research Source Type: research
Associations between sleep duration, sleep disturbance and cardiovascular disease biomarkers among adults in the United States
Sleep problems are associated with abnormal cardiovascular biomarkers and an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). However, studies investigating associations between sleep problems and CVD biomark... (Source: BMC Public Health)
Source: BMC Public Health - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Prince Nii Ossah Addo, Paddington T. Mundagowa, Longgang Zhao, Mufaro Kanyangarara, Monique J. Brown and Jihong Liu Tags: Research Source Type: research
Nature, prevalence, and risk factors for self-neglect among older people: a pilot study from Vellore, South India
Changes in demography in developing countries haves led to new issues among older rural populations, such as self-neglect which is under researched.Self-neglect identified as poor self-care, unsafe living quar... (Source: BMC Public Health)
Source: BMC Public Health - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Vibisha Devaraj, Anuradha Rose and Vinod Joseph Abraham Tags: Research Source Type: research
Concordance between SARS-CoV-2 index individuals and their household contacts on index individual COVID-19 transmission cofactors: a comparison of self-reported and contact-reported information
Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, several clinical trials have evaluated postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) among close contacts of an index individual with a confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. Because... (Source: BMC Public Health)
Source: BMC Public Health - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Angela M. Dahl, Clare E. Brown, Elizabeth R. Brown, Meagan P. O ’Brien and Ruanne V. Barnabas Tags: Research Source Type: research
Agreement between a web collaborative dataset and an administrative dataset to assess the retail food environment in Mexico
Latin American countries are often limited in the availability of food outlet data. There is a need to use online search engines that allow the identification of food outlets and assess their agreement with fi... (Source: BMC Public Health)
Source: BMC Public Health - April 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Yenisei Ram írez-Toscano, Daniel Skaba, Vanderlei Pascoal de Matos, Carolina Pérez-Ferrer, Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutiérrez, Nancy López-Olmedo and Maria de Fátima Pina Tags: Research Source Type: research
The impact of housing prices on residents ’ health: a systematic review
This report reviews and synthesizes evidence examining the association betwe... (Source: BMC Public Health)
Source: BMC Public Health - April 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ashmita Grewal, Kirk J. Hepburn, Scott A. Lear, Marina Adshade and Kiffer G. Card Tags: Research Source Type: research
