OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Critical Public Health is 1. 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.)

Article	Citations
Factors associated with micronutrient intake of low-income overweight or obese young mothers	40
What you should know about RACISM-20 in the U.S.: a fact sheet in the time of COVID-19	38
Self-reported physical activity and sedentary behaviour amongst UK university students: a cross-sectional case study	29
Co-opting the ‘public’ in public health: homelessness and the specious logic of discretionary displacement in a mid-sized US city	27
Vulnerability and antimicrobial resistance	26
Rethinking and remaking “the social”: co-production, critical pedagogy, and mental health among university students in the USA	26
Recovering political knowledge in public health: learning from sexual and reproductive health work	25
Engaging with communities and precarity theory to bring new perspectives to public mental health	21
Negotiating authoritarian law and (dis)order: medicines, drug shops, and regulators in a poor Yangon suburb	20
Getting to the heart of the matter: a research partnership with Aboriginal women in South and Central Australia	15
Outsourcing sovereignty: global health partnerships and the state in Zambia	12
Attitudes of medical students towards LGBTQ+ individuals: a systematic review	12
Assessing the associations of inflammatory bowel disease and hepatitis B virus infections with two-sample bidirectional mendelian randomization	12
The economic burden of obesity in 2024: a cost analysis using the value of a statistical life	12
The portrayal of food marketing policy by Canadian news media	11
The wages of peer recovery workers: underpaid, undervalued, and unjust	11
Mining through pandemic crisis: a systematic review of the impacts of COVID-19 management strategies on mining industries in West Africa and Western Australia	10
Normative positions towards COVID-19 contact-tracing apps: findings from a large-scale qualitative study in nine European countries	10
Predictive analytics in HIV surveillance require new approaches to data ethics, rights, and regulation in public health	10
Hepatitis C data justice: the implications of data-driven approaches to the elimination of hepatitis C	10
E-cigarette flavours and vaping as a social practice: implications for tobacco control	9
Effects of family socioeconomic status on college students’ physical activity: chain-mediated effects of parental exercise habits and family sports climate	8
“Anticipate the need”: a narrative analysis of service providers’ experiences working with sexual and gender minority youth in British Columbia, Canada, during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Poisonously single-minded: public health implications of the pharmaceuticalization of leishmaniasis in Colombia	8
How pharmaceutical companies misappropriate fat acceptance	7

Towards a theoretically grounded, social democratic public health	7
Viewing young men’s online wagering through a social practice lens: implications for gambling harm prevention strategies	7
Royal Society report: what would a comprehensive evaluation suggest about non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19?	7
Critical posthuman ethnography: grappling with human-more-than-human interconnection for critical public health	7
Disruption, adaptation, and maintenance of domestic violence services during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Correction	7
Silenced stories of illicit drug use in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico: experiences of healthcare providers, policymakers, and patients	7
What’s the problem represented to be? A critical analysis of problem representation in news media and public health communication during a hepatitis A outbreak in San Diego, California, USA	7
Challenging times: disconnects between patient and professional temporalities in chronic condition management	7
Socialism as the way forward: updating a discourse analysis of the social determinants of health	6
Policing and public health interventions into sex workers’ lives: necropolitical assemblages and alternative visions of social justice	6
From uncertain diseases to uncertain vaccines. Experts’ failure in the light of policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic—the case of Poland	6
Intersectionality and eco-social theory: a review of potentials for public health knowledge and social justice	6
Exploring the commercial determinants of health in the online food delivery sector: a case study of Uber Eats in Australia	5
Red tape, slow emergency, and chronic disease management in post-María Puerto Rico	5
Assessment of physical activity levels among undergraduate medical students at a southwestern college in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study	5
Effect of calcium supplementation in reducing adverse obstetric and perinatal outcomes: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses	5
Doing (and undoing) privilege: evaluating how public policy drives health inequities	5
‘Ebola is a business’: an analysis of the atmosphere of mistrust in the tenth Ebola epidemic in the DRC	4
Budgetary processes in medical organizations under a global budget payment system	4
‘COVID-19 vaccines are safe’: however, the issues of vaccine equity and data equity remain	4
Factors influencing patients’ engagement with ChatGPT for accessing health-related information	4
Can White allyship contribute to tackling ethnic inequalities in health? Reflections on the experiences of diverse young adults in England	4
A new conceptualization of the professional practice of environmental health: an Australian qualitative study	4
Antibiotic ‘entanglements’: health, labour and everyday life in an urban informal settlement in Kampala, Uganda	4
“Digging in”: stigma and surveillance in the lives of pregnant and breastfeeding mothers who consume cannabis	4
Frailty goes viral: a critical discourse analysis of COVID-19 national clinical guidelines in the United Kingdom	4
A higher mortality in men compared to women with heart failure in primary care and ejection fraction equal to or more than 40%	4
Hernia repair prevalence by age and gender among the Australian adult population from 2017 to 2021	3
Systematically omitting indoor air quality: sub-standard guidance for shelters, group homes and long-term care in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The law of diminishing returns? The challenge of using freedom of information legislation for health policy research	3
RELATIVES//Risks or, I am not your data: Ode to Delphrine’s walk, pt. II	3
Time, resourcing, and ethics: how the routinisation of organ donation after circulatory death in the NHS has created new ethical issues	3
Individual consent in cluster randomised trials for non-pharmaceutical interventions: going beyond the Ottawa statement	3
The double burden of maldistribution: a descriptive analysis of corporate wealth and income distribution in four unhealthy commodity industries	3
Internally displaced people in Lagos: environmental health conditions and access to healthcare in the context of COVID-19	3
The (failed) promise of multimorbidity: chronicity, biomedical categories, and public health	3
Beyond Asian ‘mask culture’: understanding the ethics of face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic in Singapore	3
Chronicity in/and cancer: a qualitative interview study of health professionals, patients, and family carers	3
‘We were called guardian angels; Was that sincere? I do not think so’: retention of certified nurse assistants during the COVID-19 crisis in long-term care facilities in Montreal, Quebec, Canada	3
Using Habermas’ theory of communicative action to transform sociological analyses of evidence-based policy	2
Discourses of COVID-19 vaccination in China: public response to government domination and the emergence of ‘vaccine citizenship’	2
Pandemics, infection control and social justice: challenges for policy evaluation	2
Self-identified fat people’s understanding of the need for, and use of, long needles when being vaccinated against COVID-19: findings from a international online exploratory survey	2
Working ‘upstream’ to reduce social inequalities in health: a qualitative study of how partners in an applied health research collaboration interpret the metaphor	2
Social rights in relation to digitalization, mobile phone, and internet use – experiences of women in homelessness: a qualitative study	2
Using discursive approaches to examine the utility and functions of language in public health and health promotion: highlighting social constructions of e-cigarettes	2
Smellscape perceptions in hospital waiting areas: influential factors and semantic dimensions	2
Indian dance (Bharatanatyam) to ease social loneliness and isolation in older adults	2
COVID-19 and techno-solutionism: responsibilization without contextualization?	2

Can adaptation to ‘extraordinary’ times teach us about ways to strengthen community-based chronic disease prevention? Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic	2
The intersection of structure and agency within charitable community food programs in Toronto, Canada, during the COVID-19 pandemic: cultivating systemic change	2
#DiabetesOnAPlate: the everyday deployment and contestation of diabetes stigma in an online setting	2
Well-being of Ukrainian and Polish college students during the Russo-Ukrainian war and coping strategies as predictors of mental health disorders	2
2024 EIP abstract book	2
COVID-19 contact tracing apps: UK public perceptions	2
Rethinking chronicity: public health and the problem of temporality	2
Ethnic disparities in health & social care workers’ exposure, protection, and clinical management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK	2
Weighing up the future: a meta-ethnography of household perceptions of the National Child Measurement Programme in England	2
Exploring the political economy nexus of tobacco production and control: a case study from Zambia	1
“Help curb the hunger pangs”: news media frames of weight loss during the COVID- 19 lockdown	1
Biological citizenship through litigation: Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone and the suit to redefine corruption	1
An emergency of circulation: entry screening in the UK during the 2014 Ebola epidemic	1
The role of small, locally-owned businesses in advancing community health and health equity: a qualitative exploration in a historically Black neighborhood in the USA	1
Framing health, behavior, and society: a critical content analysis of public health social and behavioral science textbooks	1
Pathways of less healthy diets. An investigation of the everyday food practices of men and women in low income households	1
From collaborator to colleague: a community-based program science approach for engaging Kenyan communities of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in HIV research	1
Inequities in maternal stressful life events between Indigenous and non-Indigenous women – evidence from a prospective cohort study in New Zealand	1
Polarizing figures of resistance during epidemics. A comparative frame analysis of the COVID-19 freedom convoy	1
Take the money and run: how food banks became complicit with Walmart Canada’s hunger producing employment practices	1
“A change in the narrative, a change in consensus”: the role of Deep End networks in supporting primary care practitioners serving areas of blanket socioeconomic deprivation	1
Fixed and fluid at the same time: how service providers make sense of relapse prevention in Swedish addiction treatment	1
Healthcare governance in prisons in England: prisoners’ experiences of changes over time	1
Un(ac)countable no-bodies: the politics of ignorance in global health policymaking	1
Does ’class count’? The evolution of health inequalities by social class in early 21st century China (2002–2013)	1
Whiteout: a social history of sickle cell disease in Ontario, Canada	1
“We’re open to all”: The paradox of diversity in the U.S.-based free fitness movement	1
How work impacts health and smoking practices among sexuality and gender minority young adults	1
Changing school cultures for mental wellbeing in Hong Kong: the potential of pedagogic practices that take power into account	1
Problematising the emergence of outbreak science in the governance of global health: making time for slow dis-ease	1
The quest for diffusible community health worker projects and the pitfalls of scaling culture	1
Two strategies used by local intersectoral networks to create healthier environments: a cross-case analysis in the Montreal urban setting	1