Showing papers in "Public Health in 2015"

TL;DR: Rural and urban health care disparities require an ongoing program of reform with the aim to improve the provision of services, promote recruitment, training and career development of rural health care professionals, increase comprehensive health insurance coverage and engage rural residents and healthcare providers in health promotion.

TL;DR: A cumulative stress framework is hypothesized, within which the mental health impacts of improved energy efficiency can be better understood, and affects affect both positive and negative mental health.

TL;DR: This review provides evidence of key contributors to the increasing burden of obesity and overweight among children and adolescents in South Asia, and demonstrates the nutritional transition that characterizes other developing countries and regions around the world.

TL;DR: It is emphasized that insomnia prevalence in university students is considerably higher than that in general population, and suggested that more attention should be paid to insomnia in universityStudents.

TL;DR: Depression and social anxiety reciprocally influenced, whereas depression associated with poorer psychosocial well-being directly and indirectly through Internet addiction in all six countries.

TL;DR: A new conceptual model, the ecosystems-enriched Drivers, Pressures, State, Exposure, Effects, Actions or 'eDPSEEA' model is proposed, to address the continuing failure to truly integrate human health and environmental impact analysis as deeply damaging.

TL;DR: BMI is strongly associated with an increased risk of endometrial cancer and further investigations are required to expect the pathophysiology of the endometricrial cancer caused by overweight and obesity.

TL;DR: How image-sharing platforms are used for information dissemination in public health emergencies, like Ebola, is explored to help inform future uses for health care professionals and researchers seeking to assess public fears and misinformation or provide targeted education/awareness interventions.

TL;DR: A growing proportion of young people in Great Britain believe e-cigarettes are as harmful as smoking tobacco, and use of e-cigarette by young people is increasing, but is largely confined to those who smoke.

TL;DR: Based on his experiences as founder of a small farm in Brooklyn, New York and his engagement with local food movements, the author analyzes obstacles and opportunities for expanding urban agriculture in New York.

TL;DR: Health care expenses associated with obesity and smoking were considerably larger among women, Non-Hispanic whites, and older adults compared with their male, racial/ethnic minority, and younger counterparts.

TL;DR: The high prevalence of developmental delay in children younger than three years in poverty-stricken areas of China and the presence of risk factors for developmental delay such as inadequate learning resources and activities in the home, caregiver depression, and low family income highlight the need for early identification and interventions.

TL;DR: The aim is to offer innovative ideas for restoring the World Health Organization to its leadership position by exercising its normative authority, even as it faces a crowded and often chaotic global health architecture.

TL;DR: It is found that gridlock can be broken open by a health crisis which in turn generates a political drive for change and here lies the window of opportunity to reform global health governance.

TL;DR: A systematic review of the distribution of cardiometabolic syndrome in Nigeria, the clinical definitions widely used and how it affects the proposition of a national prevalence of CMS is provided, to develop a consensus on the definition of CMS among the Sub-Saharan African populations.

TL;DR: Regular breakfast consumption is significantly associated with lower body fatness and healthier dietary habits but that further study is required to test whether this represents a causal relationship.

TL;DR: Researchers, clinicians and policy makers need to pay special attention to the health care challenges of multimorbidity and develop effective intervention strategies and programs to reduce the burden of multi-morbidity.

TL;DR: Ambient PM2.5 air pollution is found to be associated with a modest but measurable increase in individuals' leisure-time physical inactivity, and the relationship tends to differ across population subgroups.

TL;DR: It may be appropriate to reduce the impacts of fuel poverty to provide support for the most vulnerable categories of individuals with respect to the health impacts offuel poverty and cold homes, e.g., chronic patients who experience difficulty heating their homes.

TL;DR: There is a wide variation in the sales of OTC medicines containing codeine across the European Union, according to the World Health Organization.

TL;DR: There is a lack of in-depth knowledge on dengue epidemiology in the Puducherry community and observation revealed that more needs to be done by the Government as well as community members to prevent vector mosquito breeding.

TL;DR: By improving the ability to extract knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data, the initiative promises to help accelerate the pace of discovery in science and engineering, strengthen the authors' national security, and transform teaching and learning.

TL;DR: It is proposed to replace the one-sided ladder, which has any intervention coming at a cost to autonomy, with a two-sided 'Balanced Intervention Ladder,' where intervention can either enhance or diminish autonomy.

TL;DR: A responsive regulatory model for managing food reformulation initiatives, including salt reduction programs, is proposed, making full use of industry's willingness to participate in efforts to create healthier products, but using 'legislative scaffolding' to escalate from self-regulation towards co-regulation if industry fails to play its part in achieving national goals and targets.

TL;DR: The authors explore the R SBY's genesis and early development in order to understand its conceptualisation and design principles and establish a baseline for assessing RSBY's performance in the future, highlighting the risks of a narrow approach driven by developmental considerations alone.

TL;DR: Reported information search behaviour, comprehension, and use of nutritional labeling were relatively high among consumers of the study, and their main goal was picking healthier products.

TL;DR: The 'nanny state' arguments used by tobacco companies are examined to explore the cognitive biases that impede smokers' ability to make fully informed choices, and the implications for those working to limit the harmful effects of other risk products are analysed.

TL;DR: The new generation Omnisense ITDS displayed a relatively high sensitivity and specificity for fever, Though it has a lower sensitivity, the old generation STE ITDS system showed a very high specificity.

TL;DR: A review of literature, census, policy reports, government documents and media was undertaken to look at the classification system and health characteristics of China's internal migrants, suggesting that public health bears the consequences of political and economic decisions made elsewhere in society.

TL;DR: Evidence is found that health programs implemented with microfinance-based SHGs is associated with improved health behaviours and broad population coverage of SHGs and the social capital produced by their activities may provide an avenue for addressing the health needs of poor women.