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Non-communicable diseases.

Kamran Siddiqi, +2 more
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The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 199 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Epidemiology & Plant disease epidemiology.

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Health in Europe 5 Migration and health in an increasingly diverse Europe

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe key aspects of migration and health in Europe, including the scale of international migration, available data for migrant health, barriers to accessing health services, ways of improving health service provision to migrants, and migrant health policies that have been adopted across Europe.
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The expanding role of primary care in cancer control

TL;DR: This Commission considers how this expanding role for primary care can work for cancer control, which has long been dominated by highly technical interventions centred on treatment, and in which the contribution of primary care has been largely perceived as marginal.
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Theories of practice and public health: understanding (un)healthy practices

TL;DR: It is suggested that social theories of practice provide an alternative paradigm to both approaches to psychological understandings and individualistic theories of human behaviour and behaviour change, informing significantly new ways of conceptualising and responding to some of the most pressing contemporary challenges in public health.
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Effect of specific exercise-based football injury prevention programmes on the overall injury rate in football: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the FIFA 11 and 11+ programmes

TL;DR: An injury-preventing effect of the FIFA injury prevention programmes compared with controls was shown in football, and this effect was induced by the FIFA 11+ prevention programme which has a substantial Injury Prevention effect by reducing football injuries by 39%, whereas a preventive effect ofThe FIFA 11 prevention programme could not be documented.
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How can interventions increase motivation for physical activity? A systematic review and meta-analysis

TL;DR: The intervention characteristics associated with changes in motivation seemed to form clusters related to behavioural experience and self-regulation, which have previously been linked to changes in physical activity behaviour.
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Effect of Body Mass Index on pregnancy outcomes in nulliparous women delivering singleton babies

TL;DR: Increasing BMI is associated with increased incidence of pre-eclampsia, gestational hypertension, macrosomia, induction of labour and caesarean delivery; while underweight women had better pregnancy outcomes than women with normal BMI.

Health in Europe 5 Migration and health in an increasingly diverse Europe

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe key aspects of migration and health in Europe, including the scale of international migration, available data for migrant health, barriers to accessing health services, ways of improving health service provision to migrants, and migrant health policies that have been adopted across Europe.