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Open Access‘Menstruation means impurity’: multilevel interventions are needed to break the menstrual taboo in Nepal
During their menstrual period, women are generally considered impure in Nepal; in the rural areas of the western part of the country, they are even banished to stay in sheds (called chhaupadi) during this time...
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Health Promotion for Preventing Obesity in the Arab Gulf States
This chapter focuses on the Health Promotion (HP) initiatives to combat obesity in the Gulf States, a part of the Arab world that is particularly affected by a rapid shift to Westernization with junk food and ...
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Open AccessHormone replacement therapy and mammographic density: a systematic literature review
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is used to reduce climacteric symptoms of menopause and prevent osteoporosis; however, it increases risk of breast cancer. Mammographic density (MD) is also a strong risk fact...
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Open AccessOrganisational factors that facilitate research use in public health policy-making: a sco** review
Although important syntheses and theoretical works exist in relation to understanding the organisational factors that facilitate research use, these contributions differ in their scope and object of study as w...
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Health Promotion for Preventing Obesity in the Arab Gulf States
This chapter focuses on the Health Promotion (HP) initiatives to combat obesity in the Gulf States, a part of the Arab world that is particularly affected by a rapid shift to Westernization with junk food and ...
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Open AccessRegular physical activity and mammographic density: a cohort study
Physical activity is a modifiable lifestyle risk factor in prevention of breast cancer. Mammographic density (MD) is a strong risk factor for breast cancer. We investigate the association of regular physical a...
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Open AccessStrategies to integrate community-based traditional and complementary healthcare systems into mainstream HIV prevention programs in resource-limited settings
Global spending for HIV prevention has been decreasing over the years. As a result, several low-income countries, including Nepal, are increasingly facing the challenge to minimize the funding gap to continue ...
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Open AccessHormone replacement therapy, mammographic density, and breast cancer risk: a cohort study
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use increases breast cancer risk and mammographic density (MD). We examine whether MD mediates or modifies the association of HRT with the breast cancer.
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Open AccessDevelopment of measurable indicators to enhance public health evidence-informed policy-making
Ensuring health policies are informed by evidence still remains a challenge despite efforts devoted to this aim. Several tools and approaches aimed at fostering evidence-informed policy-making (EIPM) have been...
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Open AccessContextually tailored interventions can increase evidence-informed policy-making on health-enhancing physical activity: the experiences of two Danish municipalities
The present study aims to test out contextually tailored interventions to increase evidence-informed health-enhancing physical activity policy-making in two Danish municipalities.
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Open AccessKnowledge, attitude and practice of healthcare ethics among resident doctors and ward nurses from a resource poor setting, Nepal
Healthcare ethics is neglected in clinical practice in LMICs (Low and Middle Income Countries) such as Nepal. The main objective of this study was to assess the current status of knowledge, attitude and practi...
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Open AccessCross-sector cooperation in health-enhancing physical activity policymaking: more potential than achievements?
The cooperation of actors across policy fields and the need for cross-sector cooperation as well as recommendations on how to implement cross-sector cooperation have been addressed in many national and interna...
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Open AccessExploring the use of research evidence in health-enhancing physical activity policies
The gaps observed between the use of research evidence and policy have been reported to be based on the different methods of using research evidence in policymaking by researchers and actual policymakers. Some...
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Open AccessKnowledge, attitudes and practices related to avian influenza among poultry workers in Nepal: a cross sectional study
Avian influenza is a considerable threat to global public health. Prevention and control depend on awareness and protective behaviours of the general population as well as high risk-groups. This study aims to ...
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Open AccessPhysical activity and change in quality of life during menopause -an 8-year follow-up study
The aim of this study was to study the role of menopausal status and physical activity on quality of life.
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Open AccessFinnish people's attitudes towards biomedical research and its sponsorship
The purpose of the research was to study Finnish people's attitudes towards biomedical research and whether the research sponsor makes a difference to those attitudes. A survey questionnaire was sent to a rand...
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Risk Perceptions and Behaviour: Towards Pandemic Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Risk Perceptions Related to SARS and Avian Influenza: Theoretical Foundations of Current Empirical Research
The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in 2003 and the subsequent emergence of the H5N1 virus have highlighted the threat of a global pandemic influenza outbreak. Planning effective public health co...
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Open AccessPerceived Threat, Risk Perception, and Efficacy Beliefs Related to SARS and Other (Emerging) Infectious Diseases: Results of an International Survey
To study the levels of perceived threat, perceived severity, perceived vulnerability, response efficacy, and self-efficacy for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and eight other diseases in five European...
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Evidence
In de klinische geneeskunde gelden de randomized clinical trial (RCT) en systematische review van RCT’s als de krachtigste bronnen van evidence. De in Nederland veel gebruikte EBRO-criteria geven de meeste bew...
