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BMC Public Health is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal that covers epidemiology of disease and various aspects of public health. [1] The journal was established in 2001 and is published by BioMed Central .
In April 2020, BMC Public Health published a systematic review of 70 cross-sectional and longitudinal studies investigating moderating factors for associations for screen-based sedentary behaviors and anxiety symptoms among youth that found that while screen types was the most consistent factor, the body of evidence for anxiety symptoms was ...
In 2001, BioMed Central was the first publisher to carry out open peer review as default, by openly posting named peer reviewer reports alongside published articles as part of a 'pre-publication history' for all medical journals in the BMC series.
The BMJ allows complete free access for visitors from economically disadvantaged countries as part of the HINARI initiative. [citation needed] In October 2008 The BMJ announced that it would become an open access journal for research articles. A subscription continued to be required for access to other articles. [35]
Microplastics effects on human health are of growing concern and an area of research. The tiny particles known as microplastics (MPs), have been found in various environmental and biological matrices, including air, water, food, and human tissues.
Charlotte Helen Watts, CMG, FMedSci (born 1962) is a British mathematician, epidemiologist, and academic.Since 2006, she has been Professor of Social and Mathematical Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
BMC Health Services Research is abstracted and indexed in PubMed, MEDLINE, Chemical Abstracts Service, EMBASE, Scopus, CINAHL, Current Contents, and CAB International.The journal is included in the Web of Science and according to the Journal Citation Reports has a 2018 impact factor of 1.932.
Multimorbidity is "a growing public health problem worldwide", "likely driven by the ageing population but also by factors such as high body-mass index, urbanisation, and the growing burden of NCDs (such as type 2 diabetes) and tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)".