Public Health

Papers
(The TQCC of Public Health is 5. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Predicting dyslipidemia in Chinese elderly adults using dietary behaviours and machine learning algorithms906
Support needs of Ukrainian healthcare workers during wartime: A study on trust, legal security, and labor union involvement255
Prioritizing performance and outcome indicators for quality assessment of cancer screening programs in the EU134
Health, social, and violence profiles of women in treatment for psychoactive substance use in Madrid103
Association of sensory impairment with healthcare use and costs among middle-aged and older adults in China93
Association between diabetes prevalence and weekend warrior activity patterns83
The epidemiological profile and morbidity-mortality patterns of technological disasters in Europe from 2000 to 202177
Health impacts of cold exposure among people experiencing homelessness: A narrative systematic review on risks and risk-reduction approaches68
Lower breast cancer survival among Black women in Brazil: a population-based retrospective study68
Mortality by road transport injury in Brazilian municipalities between 2000 and 201865
Associations of presidential voting preference and gubernatorial control with county-level COVID-19 case and death rates in the continental United States61
Living arrangements, activity participation and depression among older Chinese adults57
Sociopolitical values, sociodemographic factors, and willingness to pay higher taxes to improve public healthcare in Turkey55
Low household income increases the risk of tuberculosis recurrence: a retrospective nationwide cohort study in South Korea55
The practice of exclusive breastfeeding by region in Indonesia53
Generating data to facilitate more equitable distribution of health resources: an illustration of how local health surveys can identify probable need in mixed socio-economic regions49
Valuing preventable deaths from major non-communicable diseases and all causes associated with sedentary behavior in Argentina47
The impact of abortion bans on short-term housing needs47
Evaluating an ‘incident control’ approach to non-communicable disease46
Use of ChatGPT in health: benefits, hazards, and recommendations46
Time-varying association between herpes zoster infection and subsequent occurrence of stroke45
The role of Medical Officers of Health in Civil Defence and how they influenced modern emergency medical practice44
Global cross-cultural validation of a brief measure for identifying potential suicide risk in 42 countries44
Analysis of dietary patterns on cardiovascular risks in children: from a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study43
Occupational stress, respect, and the need for psychological counselling in Chinese nurses: a nationwide cross-sectional study42
Prevalence and influencing factors of anaemia among pregnant women in rural areas of Northwestern China42
Accelerating global vaccination coverage of frontline workers and populations at risk of severe COVID-19 complications41
Non-standard employment and COVID-19 testing in South Korean workers40
Comparative analysis of risk factors for COVID-19 mortality before, during and after the vaccination programme in Mexico39
Editorial Board39
COVID-19 associated with universities in England, October 2020–February 202237
Should lockdown be based on age rather than geography?37
Editorial Board37
Re: “Environmental vs psychosocial barriers to active commuting to university: which matters more?”36
Reflections on vaccine-derived polio in London and the bigger picture globally: high public confidence in routine immunisations is vital35
The demise of Roe v. Wade and the ramifications of legal barriers to abortion34
High SARS-CoV-2 IgG seroprevalence among pregnant Cameroun women 14 months after the beginning of the pandemic32
Reactions to geographic data visualization of infectious disease outbreaks: an experiment on the effectiveness of data presentation format and past occurrence information32
The association between sociodemographic status and COPD and asthma mortality, DALY and YLD in southern China, 2005–201532
Editorial Board30
Challenging cognitive biases in the health system during the COVID-19 pandemic30
Comparison of risk assessment tools for cardiovascular diseases: results of an Iranian cohort study30
Can legionellosis be considered an occupational risk in the healthcare sector? A systematic review and meta-analysis30
Arts, creativity and health30
Temperature variability associated with respiratory disease hospitalisations, hospital stays and hospital expenses the warm temperate sub-humid monsoon climate30
Survival in adult pneumonia inpatients fulfilling suspected COVID-19 criteria and baseline negative RT-qPCR29
Editorial Board29
The environmental and socioeconomic effects of tuberculosis patients in the southwest of China: a population-based study29
Accountable care organization reform: past challenges and future opportunities for public health28
Cervical screening coverage in England before and during COVID-1928
Healthcare coverage and out-of-pocket medical expenses: evidence from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and the medical expense deduction28
Highly efficient respirators are needed for the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-228
Effectiveness of school-based emotional education program: a cluster-randomized controlled trial28
Editorial Board27
Breast cancer time to treatment in Martinique: predictive factors and effect on survival27
Socioeconomic disparities in diabetes-concordant comorbidity: national health interview survey, 1997–201827
Global burden of neoplasms attributable to specific occupational carcinogens over 30 years: a population-based study27
Trends and associations between maternal characteristics and infant birthweight among Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Tasmania, Australia: a population-based study26
The risk of incident depression when assessed with the Lifestyle and Well-Being Index26
Dancing doctors: exploring the potential of cultural dance education to improve cultural competency and clinical communication25
COVID-19: viral origins, vaccine fears and risk perceptions25
Hands across Care: Art and social practice in health and elder care contexts25
Impact of fee-revision policy for gastrostomy on its implementation among older adults with dementia in Japan25
Interaction between handgrip strength and vitamin D deficiency on all-cause mortality in community-dwelling older adults: a prospective cohort study25
Reinfections with SARS-CoV-2 or second COVID-19 episodes?25
Health equity and gendered border blindness: an exploration of healthcare services at the international border in Rajasthan24
COVID-19 vaccination plans in Latin America and the Caribbean: a multi-country comparative analysis of prioritization strategies24
Socioeconomic inequality among smoking and smokeless tobacco uses among males in India: a decomposition analysis24
Socioeconomic inequalities in health and healthcare utilization among the elderly in Brazil: results from the 2019 National Health Survey24
Going to work with COVID-19 symptoms among non-sanitary (or socio-sanitary) workers: an issue of social inequality24
The application of policy composite indicators to predicting the health risk and recovery: a global comparative investigation23
Key factors influencing paediatric COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: a brief overview and Decision-making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory analysis23
Gun carrying among US adolescents: the mutual impact of violence experiences, safety concerns, and substance use behaviors23
Unwillingness to cooperate with COVID-19 contact tracing in Japan22
Breakthrough infections with the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant: vaccinations halved transmission risk22
Painogenicity: an ecological approach to reduce the burden of chronic pain22
A population-centered model for public health medicine22
Public discourse and sentiment during Mpox outbreak: an analysis using natural language processing21
The elderly's physiological and perceptual responses to cooling during simulated activities of daily living in UK summer climatic conditions21
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Italian national viral hepatitis surveillance: an interrupted time series analysis, 2006–202221
‘I don't want my son to be part of a giant experiment’: public attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccines in children21
Impact of pregestational obesity on perinatal complications: update in a Latin American cohort20
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) testing for essential food production workers: evolving thinking, pilot testing, and lessons learned20
Decreasing prevalence of chronic back pain in Catalonia. Analysis of the Catalan Health Survey20
Protecting our vulnerable in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learnt from Malta20
Sex differences in associations of daily stair climbing, genetic predisposition, and risk of cardiovascular disease among 389,973 UK adults20
Building trust and increasing inclusion in public health research: co-produced strategies for engaging UK ethnic minority communities in research20
Editorial Board20
Is the COVID-19 vaccine effective on the US financial market?20
Corrigendum to ‘Medical expenses of patients with severe mental disorders in Beijing, China’ [Publ Health 229 (2024) 50–56]19
E-cigarette, tobacco, and cannabis vaping among diverse sexual and gender identities in U.S. high school students19
Deciphering the climate-malaria nexus: A machine learning approach in rural southeastern Tanzania18
Relating mental health, health-related quality of life and well-being in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional comparison in 14 European countries in early 202318
Childhood maltreatment and its dose-response relation with non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents: The mediating role of mobile phone addiction17
US estimates for dog bite injuries presenting to emergency departments17
Association between gestational cardiovascular health in the first trimester and pregnancy outcomes in the China birth cohort17
Prevalence of quitting decision and the impact of increased cigarette prices on the smoking behaviours among the male garment workers in Bangladesh17
Workplace violence among healthcare workers, a multicenter study in Italy17
Creating doorways: finding meaning and growth through art therapy in the face of life-threatening illness17
Air pollution mortality benefits of sustained COVID-19 mobility restrictions in Australian cities17
The Philippine HIV crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic: a worsening crisis17
Enhanced EPIRISK tool for rapid epidemic risk analysis17
Behavioural change theories: a necessity for managing COVID-1917
Global burden of neonatal preterm birth: A systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study 201917
The global burden and trends of asthma from 1990 to 2021, and its changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: An observational study16
The public health costs of war16
Public sentiment on the global outbreak of monkeypox: an unsupervised machine learning analysis of 352,182 twitter posts16
County-level association of COVID-19 mortality with 2020 United States presidential voting16
Re: Association between low fluoride exposure and children's intelligence: A meta-analysis relevant to community water fluoridation16
The effect of dispatch of national medical teams to Wuhan on its control and prevention of COVID-1916
Editorial Board16
Longitudinal impact of perceived harm and addiction on e-cigarette initiation among tobacco-naïve youth: Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health study (Waves 1–5)15
Internet use habits and influenza vaccine uptake among US adults: results from seven years (2012–2018) of the National Health Interview Survey15
Evidence for changing intimate partner violence safety planning needs as a result of COVID-19: results from phase I of a rapid intervention15
Factors influencing operationalization of Integrated Disease Surveillance in Malawi15
Body mass index increases the recurrence risk of breast cancer: a dose–response meta-analysis from 21 prospective cohort studies15
Decomposition analysis of the compositional and contextual factors associated with poor-non-poor inequality in diarrhoea among under-five children in low- and middle-income countries15
The state of integrated disease surveillance globally: synthesis report of a mixed methods study15
Online singing groups for people with dementia: scoping review15
Risk and protective behaviors for chronic non-communicable diseases among Brazilian adults15
Understanding the impact of an intergenerational arts and health project: a study into the psychological well-being of participants, carers and artists14
Impact of particulate-matter air pollution on 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels: a mendelian randomisation study14
Indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of non–COVID-19 infectious diseases: a region-wide, patient-based database study in Japan14
Domestic violence towards children in Kenya and Zambia during the COVID-19 pandemic14
Prevalence of low back pain in professional drivers: a meta-analysis14
The impact of COVID-19 on national screening programmes in England14
Subjective experiences of participatory arts engagement of healthy older people and explorations of creative ageing14
COVID-19 border controls prevent a 2021 seasonal influenza epidemic in New Zealand14
Socio-economic factors related to premature death from colorectal cancer in Santiago de Chile, 2014–2018: a cross-sectional study14
A discrete choice experiment to elicit preferences for a chronic disease screening programme in Queensland, Australia14
Breathing in the future: prenatal exposure to air pollution and infants' health outcomes in the USA14
Rethinking local resilience for extreme heat events14
Economic assessment of teledermatology in the state of Santa Catarina – Brazil14
National population prevalence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 among pregnant women in Scotland during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a prospective national serosurvey14
Association between screen time and accelerometer-measured 24-h movement behaviors in a sample of Brazilian adolescents14
Clinical presentations and outcomes of HIV-1 and HIV-2 among infected children in Guinea-Bissau: a nationwide study14
Evaluation of food security status, psychological well-being, and stress on BMI and diet-related behaviors among a sample of college students14
Projections of temperature-associated mortality risks under the changing climate in an ageing society14
Regulation of gambling in Sub-Saharan Africa: findings from a comparative policy analysis14
Trends and seasonal variation of antibiotic consumption by community residents in Hefei, China, 2012–201614
Concerns and coping mechanisms during the first national COVID-19 lockdown: an online prospective study in Portugal14
COVID-19 incidence in border regions: spatiotemporal patterns and border control measures14
Excess deaths from COVID-19 in Japan and 47 prefectures from January through June 202114
Perspectives of public health professionals on border control practices for COVID-19 management in Europe13
Burnout and turnover intention of primary health care providers during the COVID-19 pandemic in China13
How fast is fast enough? Academic behavioural science impacting public health policy and practice13
Impact of maternal body mass index (BMI) and the challenges of fetal echocardiography13
Time-to-treatment initiation for cutaneous melanoma reflects disparities in healthcare access in Brazil: a retrospective study13
Intersectionality and public understandings of health inequity in England: learning from the views and experiences of young adults13
A content review of state tobacco pre-emption laws in the US13
Maternal health care policy intervention and its impact on perinatal mortality outcomes in Ghana: evidence from a quasi-experimental design13
Distribution of tuberculosis in migrant children and young people in Europe: a retrospective database analysis of European data13
Validating the Perceived Active School Travel Enablers and Barriers – Child (PASTEB-C) questionnaire13
Changes in cerebrovascular disease–related deaths and their location during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan13
Nurses’ preferences regarding MenACWY conjugate vaccines attributes: a discrete choice experiment in Spain13
Experiences of seeking diabetic eye care among patients with diabetes in China: a community-based convergent mixed methods study13
Alcohol-related cancer risk awareness and support for cancer warning labelling among adults in Estonia12
Food environments and association with household food insecurity: a systematic review12
Quantifying the prevalence and determinants of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine hesitancy in US adults aged 60 or older12
Mental health disparities across sexual orientations during the COVID-19 pandemic: Longitudinal analysis of a UK nationally representative cohort12
The association between cognitive decline and exposure to secondhand smoke at work in economically active older adults12
Do self-management supportive interventions reduce healthcare utilization for people with musculoskeletal pain conditions? – A systematic review12
Prevalence of reproductive tract infection among tribal migrant women living in urban areas: a community-based cross-sectional study12
Art boxes supporting parents and infants to share creative interactions at home: an art-based response to improve well-being during COVID-19 restrictions12
A systematic review of historic neighborhood redlining and contemporary health outcomes12
Care pathway of asylum seekers in the health care access points following inclusion in the PREMENTADA project: an observational study12
Ethnic inequalities in primary care experiences for people with multiple long-term conditions: Evidence from the general practice patient survey12
Parental support in adolescence: A potential moderator of the relationship between racial discrimination and adult suicidality12
Change in sense of food safety associated with social connectedness and information sources—A 10-year longitudinal survey before and after the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident12
Envisioning the sustainable and climate resilient hospital of the future12
The burden, clinical features and outcomes of SARS-CoV-2, Influenza and co-infections during concurrently out-of-season outbreaks in Brazil12
Do members of the public think they should use lateral flow tests (LFT) or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests when they have COVID-19-like symptoms? The COVID-19 Rapid Survey of Adherence to Interv11
Older adults and social prescribing experience, outcomes, and processes: a meta-aggregation systematic review11
Increased COVID-19 mortality among immigrants compared with US-born individuals: a cross-sectional analysis of 2020 mortality data11
Unmasking the COVID-19 pandemic prevention gains: excess mortality reversal in 202211
Predicting the trend of infectious diseases using grey self-memory system model: a case study of the incidence of tuberculosis11
Hearing loss, depression, and medical service utilization among older adults: evidence from China11
Population-based study of environmental lead exposure and hearing loss: a systematic review and meta-analysis11
Increasing impact of COVID-19 on young adults: evidence from hospitalisations in Brazil11
Gambling and online trading: emerging risks of real-time stock and cryptocurrency trading platforms11
Educational inequalities in risk perception, perceived effectiveness, trust and preventive behaviour in the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany11
Tobacco and alcohol use among lactating women and its association with child nutrition in India: findings from National Family Health Survey 2019–202111
Analysis of the Sustainable Development Goal 3 index for Italian municipalities11
Evaluation of quality and readability of internet information on voice disorders11
Utilization of health services and associated factors among fee waiver beneficiaries in Dawunt district, North Wollo zone, Ethiopia11
Physical activity and long COVID: findings from the Prospective Study About Mental and Physical Health in Adults cohort11
Prevalence and risk factors associated with undiagnosed hypertension among adults aged 15–49 years in India: insights from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5)11
Healthcare cost variation in patients with heart failure: a nationwide study11
The anatomy of stadium disasters: causes, consequences and safeguarding the future from a medical perspective11
The role of pandemic planning in the management of COVID-19 in England from an infection prevention and control perspective: results of a national survey11
The influence of social norms in the context of reducing sugar-sweetened beverages consumption11
A scoping review of the experience of implementing population testing for SARS-CoV-211
Do health warning labels on alcohol packaging attract visual attention? A systematic review11
Split household and smoking behaviour of rural migrants in China11
The impact of car seat giveaways on compliance among newborns in Saudi Arabia11
Implementation fidelity of the Falls Management Exercise Programme: a mixed methods analysis using a conceptual framework for implementation fidelity11
Childhood social adversity and clustering of health risk behaviours during early adolescence in a population-based birth cohort11
Cohort study evaluation of New Chinese Diabetes Risk Score: a new non-invasive indicator for predicting type 2 diabetes mellitus11
The use of video games, smartphones, and PCs/tablet PCs based on a survey of students' lifestyles: necessary actions11
Estimation of the population at high risk of developing lung cancer in Chile using simplified eligibility criteria11
Lung cancer in Argentina: a modelling study of disease and economic burden10
Burden of disease attributable to risk factors: Estimates of the Global Burden of Disease from 1990 to 202110
Effect of combining fear and anger in anti-smoking messages to discourage young smokers10
Low education predicts large increase in COVID-19 mortality: the role of collective culture and individual literacy10
Public health infection prevention: An analysis of existing training during the COVID-19 pandemic10
Metabolic and behavioural risk factors for cardiovascular diseases in Southern Latin America: analysis of the Global Burden of Disease 1990–201910
Postpandemic immunity debt of influenza in the USA and England: an interrupted time series study10
Solid fuel combustion and adverse pregnancy outcomes: A nationwide study on stillbirth in India10
The burden of lung cancer and mortality attributable to occupational risk factors between 1990 and 2019 in Brazil and federative units10
Musculoskeletal disorders in emergency medical services personnel: a systematic review and meta-analysis10
Residual loneliness in the Netherlands after the COVID-19 pandemic: An application of the single interrupted time series design with pre-, peri- and post-pandemic observations10
Long-term trends in the incidence of congenital anomalies in Central China from 1997 to 201910
How well do area-based deprivation indices identify income- and employment-deprived individuals across Great Britain today?10
Factors associated with COVID-19 booster vaccine hesitancy: a nationwide, cross-sectional survey in Japan10
Cardiovascular mortality in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison between underlying and multiple causes of death10
Corrigendum to “Association of edentulism and all-cause mortality in Chinese older adults: do sex differences exist?” [Public Health 221 (2023) 184–189]10
Sexual and gender-based violence among adolescents and young adults in refugee settlements and host communities: A case of Palorinya Refugee Settlement in Obongi District, Uganda10
Validation of the Spanish version of the Health Literacy Survey (HLS19-Q12) in secondary care specialty consultations10
20-Year trends of hospitalisation among people with dementia: a region-wide retrospective cohort study from Lombardy, Italy10
Integrating social determinants of health in medical education: a bibliometric analysis study10
Feasibility, satisfaction, acceptability and safety of telehealth for First Nations and culturally and linguistically diverse people: a scoping review10
Estimation of the size of the COVID-19 pandemic using the epidemiological wavelength model: results from OECD countries9
Factors influencing herpes zoster vaccination among older people in China: results from a discrete choice experiment9
Effects of social participation and physical activity on all-cause mortality among older adults in Norfolk, England: an investigation of the EPIC-Norfolk study9
Online songwriting reduces loneliness and postnatal depression and enhances social connectedness in women with young babies: randomised controlled trial9
COVID-19 vaccination amongst persons experiencing homelessness: practices and learnings from UK, Canada and the US9
A qualitative exploration of the psychological impacts of living with the uncertainty of persistent flood risk9
Timeliness and completeness of laboratory-based surveillance of COVID-19 cases in England9
Racial/ethnic and income disparities in neighborhood-level broadband access in 905 US cities, 2017–20219
Effects of mass casualty incidents on anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder among doctors and nurses: a systematic review9
Burden and trends of iodine deficiency in Asia from 1990 to 20199
Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment for tobacco consumption, alcohol misuse, and physical inactivity: an equity-informed rapid review9
A longitudinal study of COVID-19 disclosure stigma and COVID-19 testing hesitancy in the United States9
Alcohol use patterns and hypertension among adults in the United States: findings from the 2015–2016 NHANES data9
Palliative care referral in cancer patients with regard to initial cancer prognosis: a population-based study9
The association of body mass index and odds of type 2 diabetes mellitus varies by race/ethnicity9
Perceived changes in lifestyle behaviours and in mental health and wellbeing of elementary school children during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Canada9
Respiratory virus detection among healthcare professionals in Brazil: work-related contact and episode recurrence during the COVID-19 pandemic9
The negative impact of global health worker migration, and how it can be addressed9
Investigating mortality trends in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic: life expectancy changes within provinces and vaccination campaign impact up to December 20229
Association between evacuation and becoming overweight after the Great East Japan Earthquake: a 7-year follow-up of the Fukushima Health Management Survey9
Trends in negative emotions throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States9
Ecological factors associated with areas of high tuberculosis diagnosis delay9
Creative activities, emotions, and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study from Argentina9
Influence of family structure on adolescent deviant behavior and depression: the mediation roles of parental monitoring and school connectedness9
Cervical cancer screening uptake in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis9
Facilitators and barriers to attending postpartum screening in women with a recent pregnancy complicated by gestational diabetes mellitus: a qualitative study9
The Dahlgren-Whitehead model of health determinants: 30 years on and still chasing rainbows9
Determining the process components of impact assessment in health and social program implementation: A scoping review of theories, models and frameworks8
Cyberbullying and problematic social media use: an insight into the positive role of social support in adolescents—data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study in Italy8
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