1. The weakening of public health: A threat to population health and health care system sustainability

   • Ak’ingabe Guyon
   • Trevor Hancock
   • Gaynor Watson-Creed

   Editorial • Éditorial 01 January 2017 Pages: e1 - e6

2. An examination of perceived health care availability and unmet health care need in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

   • Jongnam Hwang
   • Sara J. T. Guilcher
   • Patricia O’Campo

   Quantitative Research 01 January 2017 Pages: e7 - e13

3. Trends in smoking initiation in Canada: Does non-inclusion of young adults in tobacco control strategies represent a missed opportunity?

   • Thierry Gagné
   • Gerry Veenstra

   Quantitative Research 01 January 2017 Pages: e14 - e20

4. Understanding sexual orientation and health in Canada: Who are we capturing and who are we missing using the Statistics Canada sexual orientation question?

   • Christoffer Dharma
   • Greta R. Bauer

   Quantitative Research 01 January 2017 Pages: e21 - e26

5. A longitudinal cohort study examining determinants of overweight and obesity in adulthood

   • Caroline Barakat-Haddad
   • Usman Saeed
   • Susan Elliott

   Quantitative Research 01 January 2017 Pages: e27 - e35

6. Diabetes among non-obese Filipino Americans: Findings from a large population-based study

   • Esme Fuller-Thomson
   • Adity Roy
   • Karen M. Kobayashi

   Quantitative Research 01 January 2017 Pages: e36 - e42

7. Compliance with school nutrition policies in Ontario and Alberta: An assessment of secondary school vending machine data from the COMPASS study

   • Michelle M. Vine
   • Daniel W. Harrington
   • Scott T. Leatherdale

   Quantitative Research 01 January 2017 Pages: e43 - e48

8. Associations between the local food environment and the severity of food insecurity among new families using community food security interventions in Montreal

   • Elsury Pérez
   • Federico Roncarolo
   • Louise Potvin

   Quantitative Research 01 January 2017 Pages: e49 - e55

9. Mobiliser des représentations ethnoculturelles pour expliquer les disparités d’accès aux soins de santé au Burkina Faso

   • Loubna Belaid
   • Patrick Cloos
   • Valéry Ridde

   Recherche Qualitative 01 January 2017 Pages: e56 - e61

10. A systematic review and meta-analysis for the adverse effects, immunogenicity and efficacy of Lyme disease vaccines: Guiding novel vaccine development

    • Alaa Badawi
    • Maria Shering
    • L. Robbin Lindsay

    Systematic Review 01 January 2017 Pages: e62 - e70

11. Evidence for the benefits of food chain interventions on E. coli O157:H7/NM prevalence in retail ground beef and human disease incidence: A success story

    • Frank Pollari
    • Tanya Christidis
    • Roger P. Johnson

    Population Health Intervention Research 01 January 2017 Pages: e71 - e78

12. Improving linkage to HIV care at low-threshold STI/HIV testing sites: An evaluation of the Immediate Staging Pilot Project in Vancouver, British Columbia

    • Bobbi Brownrigg
    • Darlene Taylor
    • Gina Ogilvie

    Innovations in Policy and Practice 01 January 2017 Pages: e79 - e84

13. “Testing is Healthy” TimePlay campaign: Evaluation of sexual health promotion gamification intervention targeting young adults

    • Qinya Zhang
    • Kim J. Huhn
    • Victoria Lee

    Innovations in Policy and Practice 01 January 2017 Pages: e85 - e90

14. More than words: Using visual graphics for community-based health research

    • Melody E. Morton Ninomiya

    Commentary 01 January 2017 Pages: e91 - e94

15. The Canadian dementia challenge: Ensuring optimal care and services for those at risk or with dementia throughout the country

    • Howard H. Feldman
    • Carole A. Estabrooks

    Commentary 01 January 2017 Pages: e95 - e97

16. Plain packaging policy: Preventing industry innovations

    • Mohammed Al-hamdani

    Commentary 01 January 2017 Pages: e98 - e100

17. Rotavirus vaccine, breastfeeding, and other factors that could affect susceptibility to gastroenteritis in young children

    • Amy Murphy

    Letter to the Editor 01 January 2017 Pages: e101 - e101

18. Examining child sedentary behaviour in the context of children’s current multimedia environment

    • Anita Forward

    Letter to the Editor 01 January 2017 Pages: e102 - e102

19. Inclusion of a broader range of sexual orientations to strengthen the validity and generalizability of findings

    • Shianne Combden

    Letter to the Editor 01 January 2017 Pages: e103 - e103

20. A response to the use of respondent-driven sampling in urban Indigenous populations

    • Jenna Osmond

    Letter to the Editor 01 January 2017 Pages: e104 - e105