OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Canadian Journal of Public Health-Revue Canadienne de Sante Publique is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Response to letter by Alain Braillon	70
Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among people experiencing homelessness in Toronto during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic	36
A comparison of perinatal outcomes associated with gestational diabetes mellitus testing practices in British Columbia: A population-based retrospective cohort study	33
Embracing Housing First as a continuum: A response to “Safeguarding against the degradation of Housing First”	30
Examining the Capacities of Municipal Governments to Reduce Health Inequities: A Survey of Municipal Actors’ Perceptions in Metro Vancouver	29
Reimagining a population strategy for obesity control	27
Should cannabis self-cultivation be part of a public health‒oriented legalization policy framework?	27
HIV self-testing: what GetaKit can tell us about Canada’s $8 million one-time investment	26
Helping people access benefits: Millions of unclaimed federal dollars are available	24
Relationships to land as a determinant of wellness for Indigenous women, two-spirit, trans, and gender diverse people of reproductive age in Toronto, Canada	23
Income inequality and life expectancy in Canada: New evidence from province-level panel regression, 1996–2019	22
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among young adults in Canada	20
COVID-19 vaccine uptake and intention during pregnancy in Canada	19
A scoping review of Indigenous community-based research practices, guidelines, and ethical standards	19
Novel adulterants in unregulated opioids and their associations with adverse events	19
Barriers and facilitators to knowledge and awareness around sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs)–related preventive measures among Black populations across Canada: a systematic rev	18
Addressing human trafficking as a public health issue	18
Nous sommes tous concernés par les violences au Moyen-Orient	17
SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen screening of asymptomatic employees: a pilot project	17
Soutien au réseau des services de garde montréalais dans la prévention et la gestion de la COVID-19 : un service à 3 pôles	17
Portrait of Montréal healthcare workers infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the first wave of the pandemic: a cross-sectional study	16
Transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in British Columbia’s largest school district during the second half of the 2020–2021 school year	16
Evaluating the impact of the Community Helpers Program on adolescents 12–18 years old in Edmonton, Canada	16
“They forgot about us”: experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic among people deprived of housing in an urban centre in Ontario, Canada	16
Efficacy of calorie labelling for alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages on restaurant menus on noticing information, calorie knowledge, and perceived and actual influence on hypothetical beverage orde	15

Epistemic inclusion in the Qanuilirpitaa? Nunavik Inuit health survey: developing an Inuit model and determinants of health and well-being	15
COVID-19 vaccine wastage in Canada, a reason for concern?	14
“I may be essential but someone has to look after my kids”: women physicians and COVID-19	14
Description and evaluation of a national humanitarian opioid poisoning education and naloxone distribution program	14
An observational study of pain severity, cannabis use, and benefit expenditures in work disability	13
Canada’s oral health and dental care inequalities and the Canadian Dental Care Plan	12
Population Health and Health Promotion: What Do They Say to Each Other?	12
Everyday racism experiences, healthcare access, and self-rated health: A study of Black men in Ontario, Canada	12
Respiratory health and its determinants among Nunavimmiut: results from the Qanuilirpitaa? 2017 Nunavik Health Survey	12
Sensitivity and specificity of International Classification of Diseases algorithms (ICD-9 and ICD-10) used to identify opioid-related overdose cases: A systematic review and an example of estimation u	12
Considerations of Nutrition in Relief work	12
Modernizing public health communication competencies in Canada: A survey of the Canadian public health workforce	11
It’s time to make room for the next: a look back at the last ten years of the Canadian Journal of Public Health	11
Excess risk of COVID-19 infection and mental distress in healthcare workers during successive pandemic waves: Analysis of matched cohorts of healthcare workers and community referents in Alberta, Cana	10
Inequities in dietary intake and eating behaviours among adolescents in Canada	10
COVID-19 data and modeling: We need to learn from and act on our experiences	10
Multisectoral partnerships to tackle complex health issues at the community level: lessons from a Healthy Communities Approach in rural Alberta, Canada	10
Social mobility and mental health in Canada	10
Prevalence, incidence, and factors associated with pain-related disabilities, and experiences of limitations due to pain among First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples in Canada: A scoping review	10
“COP26: what is the message for public health?” Response from the Université de Montréal One Health initiative	10
Public health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives of communication specialists, healthcare professionals, and community members in Quebec, Canada	9
Taxing free sugar: the devil is in the resulting distribution of gains and pains	9
Examining the role of industry lobbying on Canadian front-of-pack labelling regulations	9
Canada’s provincial COVID-19 pandemic modelling efforts: A review of mathematical models and their impacts on the responses	9
Adolescent behavioural intentions: Secondary outcomes from a cluster randomized controlled trial of the Health4Life school-based lifestyle modification intervention	9
Depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation in a population-based cohort of young adults before and during the first 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada	9
Engaging frontline providers: an important key to eliminating tuberculosis in Canada, and other high-income countries	8
Recreational water illness in Canada: a changing risk landscape in the context of climate change	8
Correction: Oral healthcare disparities in Canada: filling in the gaps	8
Developing an alcohol strategy for the Northwest Territories: Evaluating global research evidence against rural and remote realities	8
Recreational tobacco consumption and food insecurity among First Nations in Canada	8
Exploring communication by public health leaders and organizations during the pandemic: a content analysis of COVID-related tweets	7
Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis	7
Tracking emergency response actions during COVID-19 leads to development of an innovative public health evaluation tool	7
A call for upstream solutions to the unregulated drug crisis in British Columbia, Canada: Locked up or locked out	7
The promises and perils of a free rural inter-city transportation scheme: A mixed-methods study from Northern Saskatchewan	7
Our health counts: In our voices	7
Vaping control in Nova Scotia: using research to catalyze change	7
Workplace and non-workplace cannabis use and the risk of workplace injury: Findings from a longitudinal study of Canadian workers	7
Hand sanitizers with possible risks: problems and recommendations	7
Let’s outlive, not just live with, the COVID-19 virus using a ‘glocal’ health equity lens	7
Correction: Routine vaccination coverage at ages 2 and 7, before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from the STARVAX surveillance system	6
‘You definitely choose struggling over humiliation’: Experiences of food insecurity in Nova Scotia, Canada, for LGBTQ + individuals	6
Housing as a determinant of Inuit mental health: associations between improved housing measures and decline in psychological distress after rehousing in Nunavut and Nunavik	6
Impact of Ontario’s Harmonized Heat Warning and Information System on emergency department visits for heat-related illness in Ontario, Canada: a population-based time series analysis	6
Controlling the obesity pandemic: Geoffrey Rose revisited	6
Changes in health service use due to alcohol during the COVID-19 pandemic among individuals with and individuals without pre-existing alcohol-related medical diagnoses	6
Trends in population characteristics associated with mental health service use among youth and emerging adults in Canada from 2011 to 2016	6
Key considerations for applying intersectionality theory to partner and stakeholder engagement in public health	6
Factors associated with the development, severity, and resolution of post COVID-19 condition in adults living in Canada, January 2020 to August 2022	6

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on opioid toxicity mortality rates in Nova Scotia: An interrupted time series analysis (2009–2023)	6
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among blood donors in Québec: an update from a serial cross-sectional study	6
Improving attribution of extreme heat deaths through interagency cooperation	6
First Nations and Inuit mental health and the Non-Insured Health Benefits program: Urgent priorities for evaluation	6
The effect of take-home naloxone kits on opioid-related deaths in Alberta, Canada: An ecological analysis	6
British Columbia’s COVID-19 surveys on population experiences, action, and knowledge (SPEAK): methods and key findings from two large cross-sectional online surveys	5
Response to Zhong and Rahman’s letter to the editor	5
Expanding supervised consumption services in rural Canada: Bridging gaps	5
Canada’s Census of Environment and public health	5
A comparison of the COVID-19 response for urban underserved patients experiencing healthcare transitions in three Canadian cities	5
The association between medical fitness facility attendance and incident mental disorders	5
Adolescent mental health in military families: Evidence from the Canadian Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study	5
Contraceptive practices in Québec in relation to immigration: A cross-sectional analysis of data from the Québec Population Health Survey	5
Delay in childhood vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Canada’s approach to SARS-CoV-2 sero-surveillance: Lessons learned for routine surveillance and future pandemics	5
Multimorbidity prevalence and chronic disease patterns among tuberculosis survivors in a high-income setting	5
The epidemiology of benzodiazepine-related toxicity in Ontario, Canada: a population-based descriptive study	5
Do Canadians have favourable attitudes towards reintroducing mask mandates?	5
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on health-related quality of life of adults visiting emergency departments and primary care settings in Alberta	5
Now, more than ever, the public health community needs to be pulling together	5
A cautionary tale: university institutes of public health must “walk the talk”	5
Provincial and territorial results and recommendations from the Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation project: Room for improvement	5
Cost analysis of COVID-19 test result notification using an automated messaging system compared to a staff caller practice in Alberta	5
The working conditions for personal support workers in the Greater Toronto Area during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study	5
Canadian healthcare workers’ mental health and health behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from nine representative samples between April 2020 and February 2022	5
Menstrual health inequities and “period poverty” in Canada	5
Pathways of association between disordered eating in adolescence and mental health outcomes in young adulthood during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Working group engagement as a precondition of successful community engagement in an expert-led social marketing public health intervention: Learning from the footprints	5
Correction: Unmasking population undercounts, health inequities, and health service access barriers across Indigenous populations in urban Ontario	5
Navigating inequities in the delivery of youth mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives of youth, families, and service providers	4
Understanding and attenuating pandemic-related disruptions: a plan to reduce inequalities in child development	4
Neonatal abstinence syndrome hospitalizations in Canada: a descriptive study	4
Decolonizing urban Indigenous healthcare: The potential of urban reserves	4
Associations of Indigenous language knowledge and physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual balance among First Nations living on reserve in British Columbia, Canada	4
Promise and peril: how health system reforms impacted public health in three Canadian provinces	4
Why Canadians deserve to have mandated health and standard drink information labels on alcohol containers	4
Geographical narcissism and Ontario’s opioid crisis	4
The availability and distribution of vaping retailers across Ontario neighbourhoods, 2016–2019	4
Breast (female), colorectal, and lung cancer survival in people with intellectual or developmental disabilities: A population-based retrospective cohort study	4
An assessment of federal alcohol policies in Canada and priority recommendations: Results from the 3rd Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation Project	4
Integrating Afrocentric praxis in intimate partner violence and HIV care for African, Caribbean, and Black women: Navigating disclosure and access to services	4
The year public health lost its soul: a critical view of the COVID-19 response	4
The need for an expanded, evidence-based public health response to the overdose crisis and the toxic drug supply in Canada	4
How environments can promote active aging: results from a case study of two municipalities in Quebec, Canada	4
Correction to: Suboptimal oral health and the risk of cardiovascular disease in the presence of competing death: a data linkage analysis	4
Sociocultural factors in relation to mental health within the Inuit population of Nunavik	4
Public health systems and services research: an emerging field of research for CJPH to promote	4
Equity-oriented food supports: Learnings from the Nova Scotia COVID-19 pandemic response	4
Defining the “local public health unit” for public health systems and services research in Canada	4
Drivers of medicalization in the Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines	4
Mental health and cultural continuity among an urban Indigenous population in Toronto, Canada	4
Acute gastrointestinal illness burden associated with water recreation in high-income countries: A scoping review	4
TV time, physical activity, sedentary behaviour and cardiometabolic biomarkers in pregnancy—NHANES 2003–2006	4
The association between neighbourhood marginalization and SARS-CoV-2 outcomes in patients presenting to emergency departments	4
Investigating the early impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on modifiable risk factors for cancer and chronic disease: a repeated cross-sectional study in Alberta, Canada	4
Northwest Territories illicit drug trade and toxic drug crisis response	4
Nats’eji (healing): Examining patient and provider experiences with hospital-based Indigenous wellness services in Northwest Territories, Canada	4
Factors associated with low self-compassion in young adults	4
The association between public health unit funding and vegetable and fruit intake in Ontario: A multilevel analysis of the 2013–2014 Canadian Community Health Survey	4
Nuts'a'maat shqwaluwun — Knitting ways of life with Indigenous research principles to examine preterm birth in Quw'utsun	4
Occupational patterns of opioid-related harms comparing a cohort of formerly injured workers to the general population in Ontario, Canada	4
Childcare use and the social-emotional and behavioural outcomes of late-preterm and early-term born children at age 5: An analysis of the All Our Families longitudinal cohort	4
Predictors of reported alcohol intake during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada among middle-aged and older adults: results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CL	4
Lessons from an evaluation of an urban Indigenous food sharing initiative in Southwestern Ontario: “I feel like I’m nourishing my spirit”	4
Hospital burden of influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, and other respiratory viruses in Canada, seasons 2010/2011 to 2018/2019	4
The socioeconomic patterning of physical activity among middle-aged and older adults in Canada using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) data	4