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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Response to letter by Alain Braillon	39
Embracing Housing First as a continuum: A response to “Safeguarding against the degradation of Housing First”	37
Examining the Capacities of Municipal Governments to Reduce Health Inequities: A Survey of Municipal Actors’ Perceptions in Metro Vancouver	31
Reimagining a population strategy for obesity control	28
HIV self-testing: what GetaKit can tell us about Canada’s $8 million one-time investment	26
Should cannabis self-cultivation be part of a public health‒oriented legalization policy framework?	25
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among young adults in Canada	23
A comparison of perinatal outcomes associated with gestational diabetes mellitus testing practices in British Columbia: A population-based retrospective cohort study	23
Income inequality and life expectancy in Canada: New evidence from province-level panel regression, 1996–2019	21
Commentary—presentation and reflections on renewing Canada’s public health core competencies	20
Relationships to land as a determinant of wellness for Indigenous women, two-spirit, trans, and gender diverse people of reproductive age in Toronto, Canada	20
Substance use stabilization model: A proposed framework for addressing substance use concerns in Canada	18
Helping people access benefits: Millions of unclaimed federal dollars are available	18
A scoping review of Indigenous community-based research practices, guidelines, and ethical standards	17
Transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in British Columbia’s largest school district during the second half of the 2020–2021 school year	16
SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen screening of asymptomatic employees: a pilot project	16
Novel adulterants in unregulated opioids and their associations with adverse events	16
Portrait of Montréal healthcare workers infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the first wave of the pandemic: a cross-sectional study	16
Evaluating the impact of the Community Helpers Program on adolescents 12–18 years old in Edmonton, Canada	14
“They forgot about us”: experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic among people deprived of housing in an urban centre in Ontario, Canada	14
Nous sommes tous concernés par les violences au Moyen-Orient	14
“We are failing to act on the information we already have”: Family planning, abortion, and the Lalonde Report, 1969–1977	13
Description and evaluation of a national humanitarian opioid poisoning education and naloxone distribution program	13
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	13
Addressing human trafficking as a public health issue	13

Honoring Indigenous self-determination, and Canada’s responsibility to address health inequities: Reflections on the Lalonde Report	12
An observational study of pain severity, cannabis use, and benefit expenditures in work disability	12
Everyday racism experiences, healthcare access, and self-rated health: A study of Black men in Ontario, Canada	11
From the Lalonde Report to the structural determinants of health	11
Considerations of Nutrition in Relief work	11
Childhood maltreatment and mental-physical multimorbidity: An analysis of Canadian survey data using entropy balancing	11
Epistemic inclusion in the Qanuilirpitaa? Nunavik Inuit health survey: developing an Inuit model and determinants of health and well-being	11
Respiratory health and its determinants among Nunavimmiut: results from the Qanuilirpitaa? 2017 Nunavik Health Survey	10
Modernizing public health communication competencies in Canada: A survey of the Canadian public health workforce	10
Social mobility and mental health in Canada	10
COVID-19 data and modeling: We need to learn from and act on our experiences	10
It’s time to make room for the next: a look back at the last ten years of the Canadian Journal of Public Health	10
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	10
“COP26: what is the message for public health?” Response from the Université de Montréal One Health initiative	10
Adolescent behavioural intentions: Secondary outcomes from a cluster randomized controlled trial of the Health4Life school-based lifestyle modification intervention	10
Public health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives of communication specialists, healthcare professionals, and community members in Quebec, Canada	9
Experiences of land-based treatment program for Indigenous people: a mixed-methods study of Gwekwaadziwin Miikan	9
Canada’s oral health and dental care inequalities and the Canadian Dental Care Plan	9
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	9
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	9
Inequities in dietary intake and eating behaviours among adolescents in Canada	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	8
Recreational tobacco consumption and food insecurity among First Nations in Canada	8
A call for upstream solutions to the unregulated drug crisis in British Columbia, Canada: Locked up or locked out	8
Correction: Oral healthcare disparities in Canada: filling in the gaps	8
The risk of HIV and HCV transmission in Canadians living with coinfection before, during, and after the COVID pandemic: A prospective cohort study	8
The potential of a national school food program to reduce dietary inequalities among children in Canada	8
Canada’s provincial COVID-19 pandemic modelling efforts: A review of mathematical models and their impacts on the responses	8
Workplace and non-workplace cannabis use and the risk of workplace injury: Findings from a longitudinal study of Canadian workers	8
Examining the role of industry lobbying on Canadian front-of-pack labelling regulations	8
Population Health and Health Promotion: What Do They Say to Each Other?	8
Multisectoral partnerships to tackle complex health issues at the community level: lessons from a Healthy Communities Approach in rural Alberta, Canada	8
Developing an alcohol strategy for the Northwest Territories: Evaluating global research evidence against rural and remote realities	8
What can be done to address the expanding epidemics of bacterial sexually transmitted infections and their complications?	8
Recreational water illness in Canada: a changing risk landscape in the context of climate change	8
Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis	7
Key considerations for applying intersectionality theory to partner and stakeholder engagement in public health	7
Our health counts: In our voices	7
Let’s outlive, not just live with, the COVID-19 virus using a ‘glocal’ health equity lens	7
Housing as a determinant of Inuit mental health: associations between improved housing measures and decline in psychological distress after rehousing in Nunavut and Nunavik	7
Tracking emergency response actions during COVID-19 leads to development of an innovative public health evaluation tool	7
Correction: Routine vaccination coverage at ages 2 and 7, before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from the STARVAX surveillance system	7
Increase in alcohol outlets by neighbourhood socioeconomic status following the expansion of alcohol sales into convenience stores in Ontario, Canada	7
Trends in population characteristics associated with mental health service use among youth and emerging adults in Canada from 2011 to 2016	7
Factors associated with the development, severity, and resolution of post COVID-19 condition in adults living in Canada, January 2020 to August 2022	7
First Nations and Inuit mental health and the Non-Insured Health Benefits program: Urgent priorities for evaluation	7
Expanding supervised consumption services in rural Canada: Bridging gaps	7
Exploring communication by public health leaders and organizations during the pandemic: a content analysis of COVID-related tweets	7
The effect of take-home naloxone kits on opioid-related deaths in Alberta, Canada: An ecological analysis	7
Improving attribution of extreme heat deaths through interagency cooperation	6

Self-reported spanking history among adults in Canada: Prevalence, experiences, and attitudinal beliefs	6
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on opioid toxicity mortality rates in Nova Scotia: An interrupted time series analysis (2009–2023)	6
Response to Zhong and Rahman’s letter to the editor	6
Socioeconomic inequities in drug poisoning deaths in Canada	6
The working conditions for personal support workers in the Greater Toronto Area during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study	6
Hand sanitizers with possible risks: problems and recommendations	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
‘You definitely choose struggling over humiliation’: Experiences of food insecurity in Nova Scotia, Canada, for LGBTQ + individuals	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	6
Exploring factors associated with the physical, mental, and financial health of unpaid caregivers: An analysis of the Canadian National Caregiving Survey	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
The promises and perils of a free rural inter-city transportation scheme: A mixed-methods study from Northern Saskatchewan	6
Cost analysis of COVID-19 test result notification using an automated messaging system compared to a staff caller practice in Alberta	6
Identifying patients with obesity from health administrative data: Diagnostic accuracy of surgical billing claims	6
Examining disparities in the accessibility of unhealthy food vendors in school neighbourhoods across Ontario: Would the implementation of new distance-based regulations improve equity?	6
Correction: Unmasking population undercounts, health inequities, and health service access barriers across Indigenous populations in urban Ontario	5
Canada’s approach to SARS-CoV-2 sero-surveillance: Lessons learned for routine surveillance and future pandemics	5
Canada’s Census of Environment and public health	5
Decolonizing urban Indigenous healthcare: The potential of urban reserves	5
Screens and Teens: A youth participatory action research approach to developing a survey to assess sexual health risks in the digital age	5
Contraceptive practices in Québec in relation to immigration: A cross-sectional analysis of data from the Québec Population Health Survey	5
Multimorbidity prevalence and chronic disease patterns among tuberculosis survivors in a high-income setting	5
Adolescent mental health in military families: Evidence from the Canadian Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study	5
Do Canadians have favourable attitudes towards reintroducing mask mandates?	5
Navigating inequities in the delivery of youth mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives of youth, families, and service providers	5
Correction to: Suboptimal oral health and the risk of cardiovascular disease in the presence of competing death: a data linkage analysis	5
A comparison of the COVID-19 response for urban underserved patients experiencing healthcare transitions in three Canadian cities	5
Provincial and territorial results and recommendations from the Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation project: Room for improvement	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
The epidemiology of benzodiazepine-related toxicity in Ontario, Canada: a population-based descriptive study	5
A cautionary tale: university institutes of public health must “walk the talk”	5
The association between medical fitness facility attendance and incident mental disorders	5
Neonatal abstinence syndrome hospitalizations in Canada: a descriptive study	5
Pathways of association between disordered eating in adolescence and mental health outcomes in young adulthood during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
The availability and distribution of vaping retailers across Ontario neighbourhoods, 2016–2019	4
Correction: Response to: Beyond hunger: The health costs of Canada’s charitable food model	4
Northwest Territories illicit drug trade and toxic drug crisis response	4
Working group engagement as a precondition of successful community engagement in an expert-led social marketing public health intervention: Learning from the footprints	4
Lessons from an evaluation of an urban Indigenous food sharing initiative in Southwestern Ontario: “I feel like I’m nourishing my spirit”	4
Mental health and cultural continuity among an urban Indigenous population in Toronto, Canada	4
Integrating Afrocentric praxis in intimate partner violence and HIV care for African, Caribbean, and Black women: Navigating disclosure and access to services	4
Nuts'a'maat shqwaluwun — Knitting ways of life with Indigenous research principles to examine preterm birth in Quw'utsun	4
Factors associated with low self-compassion in young adults	4
Acute gastrointestinal illness burden associated with water recreation in high-income countries: A scoping review	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
TV time, physical activity, sedentary behaviour and cardiometabolic biomarkers in pregnancy—NHANES 2003–2006	4
The need for an expanded, evidence-based public health response to the overdose crisis and the toxic drug supply in Canada	4
Nats’eji (healing): Examining patient and provider experiences with hospital-based Indigenous wellness services in Northwest Territories, Canada	4
Willingness to disclose sexual orientation and gender identity on federal government surveys: A community-based research study with gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer men and nonbinary and Two-Spir	4
Sociocultural factors in relation to mental health within the Inuit population of Nunavik	4
Which way forward for Canada’s vaccine injury support program?	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
An assessment of federal alcohol policies in Canada and priority recommendations: Results from the 3rd Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation Project	4
Healthcare utilization and HIV burden among Black communities in Ontario: a matched cohort study	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
Emerging use of oral nicotine pouches among Canadian adolescents: Findings from the COMPASS-Quebec study	4
How environments can promote active aging: results from a case study of two municipalities in Quebec, Canada	4
Enablers and barriers to smoking cessation counselling: Experiences of midwives and pregnant smokers in the 5A-QUIT-N pilot project	4
Menstrual health inequities and “period poverty” in Canada	4
Psychiatric hospitalizations among Canadian Armed Forces Veterans and former Royal Canadian Mounted Police members residing in Ontario: A retrospective cohort study	4
Clearing the air: Which pollution source matters most for health?	4
Making sense of recurrent boom and bust cycles in Canadian public health systems	4
Updating the core competencies for public health in Canada: Feminist community-based study	4
Trends in e-cigarette use in Canada from 2015 to 2021: findings from the nationally representative surveys	4
Psilocybin retail stores in Canada: Changes in availability, commercialization, and geographic distribution	4