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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Response to letter by Alain Braillon	69
Readiness for scale-up: lessons learned from the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Innovation Strategy	46
Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among people experiencing homelessness in Toronto during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic	46
Should cannabis self-cultivation be part of a public health‒oriented legalization policy framework?	35
HIV self-testing: what GetaKit can tell us about Canada’s $8 million one-time investment	35
Embracing Housing First as a continuum: A response to “Safeguarding against the degradation of Housing First”	29
Novel adulterants in unregulated opioids and their associations with adverse events	29
A comparison of perinatal outcomes associated with gestational diabetes mellitus testing practices in British Columbia: A population-based retrospective cohort study	29
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	28
COVID-19 vaccine uptake and intention during pregnancy in Canada	27
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among young adults in Canada	26
Income inequality and life expectancy in Canada: New evidence from province-level panel regression, 1996–2019	25
Relationships to land as a determinant of wellness for Indigenous women, two-spirit, trans, and gender diverse people of reproductive age in Toronto, Canada	25
Epistemic inclusion in the Qanuilirpitaa? Nunavik Inuit health survey: developing an Inuit model and determinants of health and well-being	23
Description and evaluation of a national humanitarian opioid poisoning education and naloxone distribution program	22
Addressing human trafficking as a public health issue	22
COVID-19 vaccine wastage in Canada, a reason for concern?	21
Nous sommes tous concernés par les violences au Moyen-Orient	21
Soutien au réseau des services de garde montréalais dans la prévention et la gestion de la COVID-19 : un service à 3 pôles	20
“I may be essential but someone has to look after my kids”: women physicians and COVID-19	18
Transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in British Columbia’s largest school district during the second half of the 2020–2021 school year	17
SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen screening of asymptomatic employees: a pilot project	17
Evaluating the impact of the Community Helpers Program on adolescents 12–18 years old in Edmonton, 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	16

“They forgot about us”: experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic among people deprived of housing in an urban centre in Ontario, Canada	16
An observational study of pain severity, cannabis use, and benefit expenditures in work disability	16
Social participation and depressive symptoms of carer-employees of older adults in Canada: a cross-sectional analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	15
Understanding the blended impacts of COVID-19 and systemic inequalities on sub-Saharan African immigrants in Canada	15
Nutrient adequacy and nutrient sources of adults among ninety-two First Nations communities across Canada	15
Portrait of Montréal healthcare workers infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the first wave of the pandemic: a cross-sectional study	15
Canada’s oral health and dental care inequalities and the Canadian Dental Care Plan	14
Considerations of Nutrition in Relief work	14
Population Health and Health Promotion: What Do They Say to Each Other?	14
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	13
Everyday racism experiences, healthcare access, and self-rated health: A study of Black men in Ontario, Canada	13
Respiratory health and its determinants among Nunavimmiut: results from the Qanuilirpitaa? 2017 Nunavik Health Survey	13
Social mobility and mental health in Canada	13
“COP26: what is the message for public health?” Response from the Université de Montréal One Health initiative	12
It’s time to make room for the next: a look back at the last ten years of the Canadian Journal of Public Health	12
Adolescent behavioural intentions: Secondary outcomes from a cluster randomized controlled trial of the Health4Life school-based lifestyle modification intervention	12
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	12
Multisectoral partnerships to tackle complex health issues at the community level: lessons from a Healthy Communities Approach in rural Alberta, Canada	12
Modernizing public health communication competencies in Canada: A survey of the Canadian public health workforce	12
Inequities in dietary intake and eating behaviours among adolescents in Canada	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	11
COVID-19 data and modeling: We need to learn from and act on our experiences	11
Exploring communication by public health leaders and organizations during the pandemic: a content analysis of COVID-related tweets	11
Public health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives of communication specialists, healthcare professionals, and community members in Quebec, Canada	11
Examining the role of industry lobbying on Canadian front-of-pack labelling regulations	11
Recreational water illness in Canada: a changing risk landscape in the context of climate change	10
Vaping control in Nova Scotia: using research to catalyze change	10
Correction: Oral healthcare disparities in Canada: filling in the gaps	10
Taxing free sugar: the devil is in the resulting distribution of gains and pains	10
Recreational tobacco consumption and food insecurity among First Nations in Canada	10
Canada’s provincial COVID-19 pandemic modelling efforts: A review of mathematical models and their impacts on the responses	10
Developing an alcohol strategy for the Northwest Territories: Evaluating global research evidence against rural and remote realities	10
Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis	9
Workplace and non-workplace cannabis use and the risk of workplace injury: Findings from a longitudinal study of Canadian workers	9
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	9
Engaging frontline providers: an important key to eliminating tuberculosis in Canada, and other high-income countries	9
Let’s outlive, not just live with, the COVID-19 virus using a ‘glocal’ health equity lens	9
The promises and perils of a free rural inter-city transportation scheme: A mixed-methods study from Northern Saskatchewan	9
Hand sanitizers with possible risks: problems and recommendations	8
Housing as a determinant of Inuit mental health: associations between improved housing measures and decline in psychological distress after rehousing in Nunavut and Nunavik	8
Our health counts: In our voices	8
Trends in population characteristics associated with mental health service use among youth and emerging adults in Canada from 2011 to 2016	8
Key considerations for applying intersectionality theory to partner and stakeholder engagement in public health	8
Tracking emergency response actions during COVID-19 leads to development of an innovative public health evaluation tool	8
First Nations and Inuit mental health and the Non-Insured Health Benefits program: Urgent priorities for evaluation	8
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among blood donors in Québec: an update from a serial cross-sectional study	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
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	7
Cost analysis of COVID-19 test result notification using an automated messaging system compared to a staff caller practice in Alberta	7
Disparities in multimorbidity and mortality among people living with and without HIV across British Columbia’s health regions: a population-based cohort study	7

Improving attribution of extreme heat deaths through interagency cooperation	7
Expanding supervised consumption services in rural Canada: Bridging gaps	7
The working conditions for personal support workers in the Greater Toronto Area during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study	7
Response to Zhong and Rahman’s letter to the editor	7
Controlling the obesity pandemic: Geoffrey Rose revisited	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
Multimorbidity prevalence and chronic disease patterns among tuberculosis survivors in a high-income setting	7
The epidemiology of benzodiazepine-related toxicity in Ontario, Canada: a population-based descriptive study	7
Canada’s approach to SARS-CoV-2 sero-surveillance: Lessons learned for routine surveillance and future pandemics	6
Contraceptive practices in Québec in relation to immigration: A cross-sectional analysis of data from the Québec Population Health Survey	6
Correction: Unmasking population undercounts, health inequities, and health service access barriers across Indigenous populations in urban Ontario	6
The 2011 and 2016 iterations of the Ontario Marginalization Index: updates, consistency and a cross-sectional study of health outcome associations	6
Detection of COVID-19 case clusters in Québec, May–October 2020	6
Working group engagement as a precondition of successful community engagement in an expert-led social marketing public health intervention: Learning from the footprints	6
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on health-related quality of life of adults visiting emergency departments and primary care settings in Alberta	6
A comparison of the COVID-19 response for urban underserved patients experiencing healthcare transitions in three Canadian cities	6
Delay in childhood vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
A cautionary tale: university institutes of public health must “walk the talk”	6
Understanding and attenuating pandemic-related disruptions: a plan to reduce inequalities in child development	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
Canadian healthcare workers’ mental health and health behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from nine representative samples between April 2020 and February 2022	6
Pathways of association between disordered eating in adolescence and mental health outcomes in young adulthood during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Now, more than ever, the public health community needs to be pulling together	6
Do Canadians have favourable attitudes towards reintroducing mask mandates?	5
Adolescent mental health in military families: Evidence from the Canadian Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study	5
Correction to: Suboptimal oral health and the risk of cardiovascular disease in the presence of competing death: a data linkage analysis	5
Prevalence of HIV and sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections, and related preventive and risk behaviours, among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Montreal, Toronto and Vanc	5
Improving health through multisectoral collaboration: enablers and barriers	5
Canada’s Census of Environment and public health	5
The need for an expanded, evidence-based public health response to the overdose crisis and the toxic drug supply in Canada	5
Menstrual health inequities and “period poverty” in Canada	5
Navigating inequities in the delivery of youth mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives of youth, families, and service providers	5
Mental health and cultural continuity among an urban Indigenous population in Toronto, Canada	5
Neonatal abstinence syndrome hospitalizations in Canada: a descriptive study	5
The association between medical fitness facility attendance and incident mental disorders	5
Decolonizing urban Indigenous healthcare: The potential of urban reserves	5
Nats’eji (healing): Examining patient and provider experiences with hospital-based Indigenous wellness services in Northwest Territories, Canada	5
The availability and distribution of vaping retailers across Ontario neighbourhoods, 2016–2019	5
How environments can promote active aging: results from a case study of two municipalities in Quebec, Canada	5
Socio-economic resources and adult mental health in Canada: controlling for time-invariant confounders and investigating causal directionality	4
Sociocultural factors in relation to mental health within the Inuit population of Nunavik	4
Are vaporizers a lower-risk alternative to smoking cannabis?	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
Defining the “local public health unit” for public health systems and services research in Canada	4
The relationship between dietary exposure to persistent organic pollutants from fish consumption and type 2 diabetes among First Nations in Canada	4
Emerging infodemic management strategies focus on technology: They can’t forget trust	4
The association between household food insecurity and healthcare costs among Canadian children	4
Enablers and barriers to public health practice during COVID-19: Perspectives from local public leadership from across Canada	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
Why Canadians deserve to have mandated health and standard drink information labels on alcohol containers	4
Breast (female), colorectal, and lung cancer survival in people with intellectual or developmental disabilities: A population-based retrospective cohort study	4
‘Drug decriminalization’ in Canada: a plea for a nuanced, evidence-informed, and realistic approach towards improved health outcomes	4
The ‘freedom’ to pollute? An ecological analysis of neoliberal capitalist ideology, climate culpability, lifestyle factors, and population health risk in 124 countries	4
TV time, physical activity, sedentary behaviour and cardiometabolic biomarkers in pregnancy—NHANES 2003–2006	4
An assessment of federal alcohol policies in Canada and priority recommendations: Results from the 3rd Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation Project	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
Exploring the reasons for low pertussis vaccine effectiveness in Ontario, Canada, 2006–2008: a Canadian Immunization Research Network study	4
Use of the moving epidemic method to guide the launch of palivizumab immunization campaigns for respiratory syncytial virus in Québec, Canada	4
Regional differences in movement behaviours of children and youth during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: follow-up from a national study	4
Promise and peril: how health system reforms impacted public health in three Canadian provinces	4
Acute gastrointestinal illness burden associated with water recreation in high-income countries: A scoping review	4
Public health systems and services research: an emerging field of research for CJPH to promote	4
Drivers of medicalization in the Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines	4
Geographical narcissism and Ontario’s opioid crisis	4
Nuts'a'maat shqwaluwun — Knitting ways of life with Indigenous research principles to examine preterm birth in Quw'utsun	4
The year public health lost its soul: a critical view of the COVID-19 response	4
Lessons from an evaluation of an urban Indigenous food sharing initiative in Southwestern Ontario: “I feel like I’m nourishing my spirit”	4
Factors associated with low self-compassion in young adults	4
Equity-oriented food supports: Learnings from the Nova Scotia COVID-19 pandemic response	4
Mental health and neurocognitive disorder–related hospitalization rates in immigrants and Canadian-born population: a linkage study	4
Effectiveness of the Children’s Fitness Tax Credit: A scoping review	4
Correction: The association between income inequality and adolescent body mass index: findings from the COMPASS study (2016–2019)	4
Culturally and contextually adaptive indicators of organizational success: Nunavik, Quebec	4
The association between neighbourhood marginalization and SARS-CoV-2 outcomes in patients presenting to emergency departments	4
Occupational patterns of opioid-related harms comparing a cohort of formerly injured workers to the general population in Ontario, 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
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