International Journal of Public Health Issues 13 Research Articles in January 2019 Edition

ZURICH, Switzerland, Feb. 19 -- The International Journal of Public Health, a journal from the Swiss School of Public Health that publishes scientific articles for global public health, published 13 research articles on the following topics in its January 2019 edition:

* Associations between perceived social and physical environmental variables and physical activity and screen time among adolescents in four European countries

* E-cigarette use is associated with other tobacco use among US adolescents

* Health inequality and community-based health insurance: a case study of rural Rwanda with repeated cross-sectional data

* Higher mortality in women living in high-participation areas of a population-based health check and lifestyle intervention study

* "I am spiritual, but not religious": Does one without the other protect against adolescent health-risk behaviour?

* Impact of desertification and land degradation on Colombian children

* Rural-urban inequities in deaths and cancer mortality amid rapid economic and environmental changes in China

* Social inequalities in the association between temperature and mortality in a South European context

* Socioeconomic gradients in chronic disease risk behaviors in a population-based study of older adults in rural South Africa

* The neighbourhood social environment and alcohol use among urban and rural Scottish adolescents

* Trajectories of health-related quality of life in immigrants and non-immigrants in Germany: a population-based longitudinal study

* United States Congressmen support the legalization of environmental health injustice in Puerto Rico

* Women's health and well-being in low-income formal and informal neighbourhoods on the eve of the armed conflict in Aleppo

The January 2019 edition of the International Journal of Public Health can be viewed at https://link.springer.com/journal/38/64/1. The Journal is published by Springer International Publishing.