Proper Infant and young child feeding is crucial for growth and development of an infant and child under two years. In Bangladesh government has taken many initiatives for improving nutritional status of children less than two years. One of them is mass media campaign. To evaluate the effectiveness of media campaign on Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) in rural Bangladesh. An ecological stu...

T VERBTM campaign is a serious public health investment that aims to tackle the societal and health problems of inactivity and increasing obesity among young Americans (1,2). Worrisome trends in risk factors among young people throughout the developed world reflect the lack of clearly effective public health approaches. Effecting population-level change is difficult, given the ingrained societa...

OBJECTIVES In 2012, theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention initiated a national anti-smoking campaign, Tips from Former Smokers (Tips). As a result of the campaign, quit attempts among smokers increased in the general population by 3.7 percentage points. In the current study, we assessed the effects of Tips on smoking cessation in pregnant women. METHODS We used 2009-2013 certificates ...

In November 1993 the Dutch Inspectorate of Public Health advised that all women planning a pregnancy should consume 0.5 mg of folic acid daily in the periconceptional period, that is from four weeks before conception until eight weeks thereafter. Thus the risk of fetal neural tube defects (NTD) would be reduced by 50%. As fortified foods were not available in the Netherlands because of legal re...

BACKGROUND This paper provides a brief overview of the Canadian physical activity communications and social marketing organization "ParticipACTION"; introduces the "new" ParticipACTION; describes the research process leading to the collection of baseline data on the new ParticipACTION; and outlines the accompanying series of papers in the supplement presenting the detailed baseline data. METH...

BACKGROUND The use of cost-effectiveness thresholds based on a country's income per capita has been criticized for not being relevant to decision making, in particular in middle-income countries such as South Africa. The recent South African HIV Investment Case produced an alternative cost-effectiveness threshold for HIV prevention and treatment interventions based on estimates of life years sa...

To determine whether an AIDS prevention mass media campaign influenced risk perception, self-efficacy and other behavioural predictors. We used household survey data collected from 2,213 sexually experienced male and female Kenyans aged 15-39. Respondents were administered a questionnaire asking them about their exposure to branded and generic mass media messages concerning HIV/AIDS and condom ...

Abstract: Measles remains one of the leading causes of childhood morbidity and mortality in developing countries and is still a major public health concern in developed countries. Although live attenuated vaccine is used throughout the world, out breaks of disease still occur in many countries including Iran. Understanding measles outbreaks that occur after the initiation of measles eliminati...