Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Papers
(The median citation count of Scandinavian Journal of 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Weekly pattern of alcohol-attributable male mortality before and after imposing limits on hours of alcohol sale in Lithuania in 201877
Contribution of age, gender and occupational group to the higher risk of disability retirement among Finnish public sector employees66
Parental income gradients in child and adolescent mortality: Norwegian trends over half a century44
Solving the housing crisis in Nunavut, Canada28
How the Norwegian population was affected by non-pharmaceutical interventions during the first six weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown28
Municipality-level differences in disability retirement in Finland: The contribution of local social characteristics28
The one-sided explanations of a multifactorial coronavirus disease27
The burden of disease due to COVID-19 in Sweden 2020–2021: A disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) study25
Depression, anxiety and stress among Swedish university students during the second and third waves of COVID-19: A cohort study24
Lifestyle factors as predictors of incident functional somatic disorder. Five-year follow-up of The DanFunD study23
The association between self-reported psychosomatic complaints and bullying victimisation and disability among adolescents in Finland and Sweden21
Adolescent friendships and their impact on self-rated health in early adulthood. A prospective cohort study20
Smoking among immigrants in Norway: a cross-sectional study19
Health promoting schools and COVID-19: preparing for the future19
Systematic reviews: A glossary for public health18
Beyond global health: Redefining the ‘public’ in public health18
Alienation: A useful concept for health inequality research18
High excess deaths in Sweden during the first wave of COVID-19: Policy deficiencies or ‘dry tinder’?17
Overview of health research in Greenland from 2001 to 202016
Major depressive disorders in young immigrants: A cohort study from primary healthcare settings in Sweden16
The relationship between online communication and adolescents’ mental health: Long-term evaluation between genders16
Planning for health equity in the crossfire between science and policy16
Heart failure describing the underlying cause of death: a misconception, lack of information on the true underlying causes, or both?16
Implementation of an integrated community approach in deprived neighbourhoods: a theory-based process evaluation using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)16
Hazardous alcohol consumption and problem drinking in Norwegian and Russian women and men: The Tromsø Study 2015–2016 and the Know Your Heart study 2015–201815
Correlation between country-level numbers of COVID-19 cases and mortalities, and country-level characteristics: A global study15
Occupational health patients’ parallel use of primary- and secondary-care services and linkage to work disability: A follow-up study in Finland14
Reflections on co-creating a model for the value assessment of artificial intelligence technologies13
The road from knowledge to change – pandemics, diversity and social inequality declaration, Bergen 202213
Agribusiness and the COVID-19 syndemic: The unsustainable pathways13
Time trends and predictors of difficulties in getting to sleep among adolescents from six Nordic countries 2002–201812
Associations of breastfeeding duration with serum lipid values from infancy until age 20 years – the STRIP study12
Are changes in perceived physical workload and strenuousness of work among partial disability pensioners associated with full disability pension?12
Challenges and lessons learnt from conducting a health survey in an ethnically diverse population12
Average lifespan variation among people with mental disorders in Denmark: a nationwide, register-based cohort study12
Changes in maximum parental leave payment in Iceland and total fertility rates12
Using the Triangle of Human Ecology for understanding self-rated depression: a quantitative study based on the HUNT 3 cohort11
Effects of the COVID-19-induced lockdown period on general well-being, perceived stress and activity levels in the Faroe Islands11
Evaluating national guidelines for monitoring early growth using routinely collected data in Bergen, Norway11
Change in cardiorespiratory fitness on self-rated health: prospective cohort study in 98 718 Swedish adults11
Influenza risk groups in Norway by education and employment status11
Alcohol norms and alcohol intake among high school students11
A snapshot of an eCohort: A comparison of the LifeGene population at baseline with the Swedish general population10
Recreational screen media use among Danish children aged 6–11 years: influence of parental screen media habits and attitudes10
Assessing the long-term health impact of COVID-19: The importance of using self-reported health measures10
Young adults with depression: A registry-based longitudinal study of work-life marginalisation. The Norwegian GP-DEP study10
Milder disease trajectory among COVID-19 patients hospitalised with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant compared with the Delta variant in Norway10
Low vitamin D levels among children and adolescents in an Arctic population10
Increasing inequalities in disability-free life expectancy among older adults in Sweden 2002–201410
Return to work: does cardiac rehabilitation make a difference? Danish nationwide register-based study10
Adjustment for survey non-participation using record linkage and multiple imputation: A validity assessment exercise using the Health 2000 survey10
Trust in scientific institutions and experts during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland10
Mortality in Norway and Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic10
Food insecurity in Norway: A cross-sectional study among patients visiting their general practitioner10
Swedish women reaching post-traumatic growth after an intimate partner violence relationship: A study of formal help and growth after trauma10
How to approach sustainability in general practice: a workshop experience with a qualitative analysis amongst general practitioners in Denmark10
Norwegian adolescents’ use of energy drinks and painkillers and misuse of prescription drugs prior to and during the initial COVID-19 pandemic year: Evidence from the MyLife study9
Prevalence of parental mental health conditions among children aged 0–16 years in Denmark: A nationwide register-based cross-sectional study9
The West Jutland Tele-Electrocardiogram Registry (WEJU-tECG): content, data quality, and research potential9
Different types of screen time are associated with low life satisfaction in adolescents across 37 European and North American countries9
Estimating the consequences of a COVID-19 super spreader: A stochastic model of a night on the town9
Identifying individuals with complex and long-term health-care needs using the Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Groups System: A comparison of data from primary and specialist health care8
Pre-adolescents with multiple health complaints redeem more prescriptions: A follow-up study in the Danish National Birth Cohort8
A comparison of small-area deprivation indicators for public-health surveillance in Sweden8
Family Partner: study protocol for a pilot randomised study of a home-visitation intervention in Norway8
Continued increasing social inequality in mortality in Denmark – a nationwide register-based follow-up on previous mortality studies8
Underlying pathways of social inequality in tooth loss: The mediating role of sugary beverages and diabetes8
Meaningfulness and mortality: exploring the sense of coherence in Eastern Finnish men8
A single-item measure of childhood relationship quality and association with adult health and health behaviours8
Prenatal and early childhood predictors of intelligence quotient (IQ) in 7-year-old Danish children from the Odense Child Cohort7
Changes in mortality trends amongst common diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden7
Study design of ‘Move More’: Development and feasibility of a social-prescribing intervention to increase physical activity among inactive Danes7
Narcotic offences and drug use disorders among young refugees in Norway7
Why does youth unemployment lead to scarring of depressive symptoms in adulthood? The importance of early adulthood drinking7
Strict Danes or relaxed Swedes? Comparing health and daily activities in Sweden and Denmark during the Covid-19 pandemic7
Payment problems and suicide: life under financial strain7
Trust matters: The Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe Study6
The protective effects of Swedish COVID-19 pandemic strategies on adolescents’ mental health: a longitudinal cohort study6
Psychosomatic complaints are indicative of stress in young individuals: findings from a Swedish national cohort study6
Canadian Northern and Indigenous health policy responses to the first wave of COVID-196
Effect of replacing television viewing with different intensities of physical activity on COVID-19 mortality risk: Short communication from UK Biobank6
Ten years’ of Healthy Life Centers – research and directions for future work6
Algorithm for forming hospital care episodes by combining attendance contacts in the Danish National Patient Register: A methodological consensus-driven study6
The seventh survey of the Tromsø Study (Tromsø7) 2015–2016: study design, data collection, attendance, and prevalence of risk factors and disease in a multipurpose population-based health survey6
Children as next of kin’s experiences, practices, and voice in everyday life: a systematic review of studies with Norwegian data (2010–2022)6
Pedestrian wintertime slip and fall injuries—effectiveness of weather warning service in prevention6
My 15-month rollercoaster ride with COVID-19: A social epidemiologist’s perspective6
Socioeconomic inequalities in sexual victimisation in a nationally representative sample of the Swedish population6
Factors related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Denmark: A national study in the autumn of 20216
Labour market status and depression in Russia: A longitudinal study, 2011–20176
The specialty of social medicine and public health in Sweden: Challenges and future directions6
Physical activity levels before and after the COVID-19 restrictions among Danish adolescents: a retrospective cohort study6
Healthcare leaders’ perceptions of the contribution of artificial intelligence to person-centred care: An interview study6
The aftermath of COVID-19: Mortality impact of the pandemic on older persons in Sweden and other Nordic countries, 2020–20236
How children in Sweden accessed and perceived information during the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic6
The influence of selective mortality on poverty rates in later life: evidence from a Swedish cohort born in 19266
The age structure of cases as the key of COVID-19 severity: Longitudinal population-based analysis of European countries during 150 days6
Early career demanding psychosocial work environment and severe back pain and neck/shoulder pain in experienced nurses: A cohort study6
Nationwide data on home care and care home residence: presentation of the Swedish Social Service Register, its content and coverage6
Towards more comprehensive nationwide familial aggregation studies in Denmark: The Danish Civil Registration System versus the lite Danish Multi-Generation Register6
Health risks among long-term immigrants in Norway with poor Norwegian language proficiency6
Are dental care records in childhood associated with financial hardship in adulthood?6
Mental health problems among adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: a repeated cross-sectional study from Sweden5
Awareness of having hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidaemia among US adults: The 2011–2018 NHANES data5
Health and social care staff’s recognition of elder abuse perpetrated by family members of persons with dementia: a mixed-method study5
Impacts of temperature and solar radiation changes in northern Europe on key population health behaviors: a scoping review of reviews5
Are universal measures sufficient in reducing child poverty in the Nordic countries? An analysis of policies and political commitments5
Human health risk assessment of heavy metals from meat and offal of reindeer and cow in the Far North of European Russia5
Changes in loneliness prevalence in Denmark in the 21st century: Age-period-cohort analysis5
Do adoption age and country of origin matter for non-kin adoptees’ risk of psychiatric contact and post-adoption out-of-home care placement?5
Projected health benefits of air pollution reductions in a Swedish population5
Prevalence of musculoskeletal pain and associated factors among professional orchestra musicians in Norway5
The epidemiology of muscle-strengthening activity among adolescents from 28 European countries5
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Swedish adults aged 77 years and older: Age differences in lifestyle changes5
Health at age 17 in Norwegian adolescents: Mental and physical status in the national cohort born in 20015
Abstracts presented at the Norwegian Public Health Conference, 18–19 October 2022, Hamar, Norway5
Intimate partner violence and its association with mental health problems: The importance of childhood violence – The SAMINOR 2 Questionnaire Survey5
Occupational stress among Norwegian physicians: A literature review of long-term prospective studies 2007–20195
Trauma-informed care for women who are forced migrants: a qualitative study among service providers5
Local public health projectification in practice: a qualitative study of facilitators and barriers to a public health plan implementation5
Discrimination and health: A cross-sectional study comparing Muslims with other-religious5
Comparing COVID-19 pandemic health responses in two high-income island nations: Iceland and New Zealand5
Intimate partner violence and negative health consequences: A cross-sectional study among women in a regional sample in Sweden5
SARS-CoV-2 infections and hospitalisations among immigrants in Norway-significance of occupation, household crowding, education, household income and medical risk: a nationwide register study5
Arts and culture engagement and mortality: A population-based prospective cohort study5
The Danish Health and Wellbeing Survey: Study design, response proportion and respondent characteristics5
Production losses from morbidity and mortality by disease, age and sex in Norway5
Does who you live with matter for your health? The influence of partners’ socioeconomic characteristics on self-rated health in Norway5
COVID-19 mortality among immigrants by duration of residence in Sweden: a population-based cohort study4
What is a sustainable diet in the Norwegian context?4
Total patient load, regional disparities and in-hospital mortality of intubated COVID-19 patients in Greece, from September 2020 to May 20214
Sweden’s excess mortality in 2020–2022 and reporting in the media4
Between information campaign and controversy: a quantitative newspaper content analysis about COVID-19 vaccination in Switzerland and Austria4
Social sustainability in local communities in Norway: which factors are associated with people’s satisfaction with their local community as a place to live now and in the future?4
Validity of chronic disease diagnoses in Icelandic healthcare registries4
The Parent Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ-Parent). Adaptation and validity testing with parents of children with epilepsy4
Work-retirement transitions and mental health: A longitudinal analysis of the role of social protection generosity in 11 countries4
Designing the first culturally-sensitive stigma survey tailored for adolescents: RN-CSS4
The organisation and responsibility for care for older people in Denmark, Finland and Sweden: outline and comparison of care systems4
Mental-health profiling with person-centred analysis: A study of adolescents in Sweden4
Data from national health registers as endpoints for the Tromsø Study: Correctness and completeness of stroke diagnoses4
Is being a refugee associated with increased 30-day mortality after visiting the emergency department? A register-based cohort study using Danish data4
Social class and the risk of dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prospective longitudinal studies4
Do community-dwelling adults aged 70 and older have someone to rely on for help when needed? A Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT)4
Perceived social support and symptoms of depression and anxiety in emerging adulthood: A Swedish prospective cohort study4
Compositional characteristics of neighbourhoods and of schools as correlates of youths’ mental health: A cross-sectional study among Swedish adolescents4
The concept of disease in the Norwegian National Insurance Court4
The relation between economic stressors and higher education students’ mental health during the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic4
Oral health promotion and labour market prospects of socially disadvantaged and unemployed people – a randomised controlled trial4
Bridging discourses on health promotion and social sustainability towards healthy community development4
Abstracts presented at the Norwegian Public Health conference, October 27-29, 2021, Trondheim, Norway4
Associations between mRNA COVID-19 vaccination and urticaria: a nationwide registry-based cohort study in Denmark4
Trends in social inequality in breastfeeding duration in Denmark 2002–20194
National and education-specific trends in life and health expectancies in Denmark 2004–20154
Defining and distinguishing early life stress, trauma, adversity, toxic and chronic stress and allostatic load: a descriptive review4
Association of school neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and teaching staff’s risk of violence at work4
Contribution of smoking change to 45-year trend in prevalence of chronic bronchitis in Finland4
The increasing significance of disease severity in a burden of disease framework4
Validation of the short version of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for adolescents in Norway4
20-Year trends in the social participation of the oldest old4
The Children of Risk Communication4
‘Everything turned upside down’: A thematic analysis of adolescents’ experiences of everyday life during COVID-19 restrictions4
The prevalence of intimate partner violence among Iranian pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis4
A decade of socioeconomic inequality in type 2 diabetes area-level prevalence: an unshakeable status quo?4
Young doctors’ attrition and retention in the GP scheme: a national cohort study from Norway4
Household dysfunction and child outcomes in the Nordic countries: A bibliometric analysis3
Trajectories of depressive symptoms in early to mid-adolescence: associations with school pedagogical and social climate3
Incidence of atrial fibrillation and flutter in Denmark in relation to country of origin: a nationwide register-based study3
Co-use of smokeless nicotine products and marijuana among youth in Denmark: a cross-sectional population-based study3
Couple similarity with respect to physical and mental disabilities3
Abstracts presented at the 23rd IAAH European Regional Conference “Adolescent health and well-being - Hope in a time of uncertainty” October 10th-11th, 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark3
Examine the public health impacts of functional somatic disorders using the DanFunD study3
The impact of stress and lifestyle factors on short-term sickness absence in a large Danish industrial company3
Association between loneliness, self-esteem and outcome of life satisfaction in Norwegian adolescents aged 15–213
Loneliness, subjective health complaints, and medicine use among Finnish adolescents 2006–20183
Exposure to physical, sexual and emotional violence and health-related factors among the adult population in the Faroe Islands3
Election promises on children’s wellbeing and health 2015 to 2021 – a study of Finnish voting advice applications database3
Boys perpetrating sexual harassment on peer girls in secondary school: A focus group study about pupils’ experiences3
Immigrants’ perspectives on healthy life and healthy lifestyle counseling: a focus group study3
Life-course socioeconomic circumstances in acute, chronic and disabling pain among young employees: a double suffering3
Validity and reliability of the Danish version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index3
Towards Tobacco-Free Generation: implementation of preventive tobacco policies in the Nordic countries3
Shushing the press shortens lives: cross-national evidence of the impact of press freedom on life expectancy3
Promoting labour market inclusion of the chronically ill: a scoping review of Scandinavian countries’ efforts3
Changes in smoking due to COVID-19 pandemic among persons of migrant origin compared with the general population: a population-based study3
Work ability trends 2000–2020 and birth-cohort projections until 2040 in Finland3
Subjective mental well-being among higher education students in Finland during the first wave of COVID-193
Cervical human papillomavirus prevalence according to socioeconomic and demographic characteristics in a large Danish screening population3
Psychometric properties of a short self-report measure of rule-breaking behaviour among adolescents: findings from the Ungdata survey3
Educational differences in long-term care use in Sweden during the last two years of life3
Compliance with recommendations limiting COVID-19 contagion among university students in Sweden: associations with self-reported symptoms, mental health and academic self-efficacy3
Tackling physical inactivity in Scandinavia: a narrative review of reviews supplemented by expert interviews3
Migration health research in the Nordic countries: Priorities and implications for public health3
Socioeconomic, medical and demographic characteristics of early adopters of digital primary care3
Experiences of access to healthcare among newly arrived immigrants in Denmark: Examining the role of residence permit3
Norwegian policies to reduce social inequalities in health: Developments from 1987 to 20213
Validity of the Finnish Care Register for Social Welfare in a nationwide cohort of people with Alzheimer’s disease3
Working conditions and mental health functioning among young public sector employees3
Which illicit drugs are injected in Oslo? A study based on analysis of drug residues in used injection equipment and self-reported information3
Validity of self-reported educational level in the Tromsø Study3
Emergency department visits due to coronary artery disease during COVID-19 in Finland: A register-based study3
Danish population health measured by the EQ-5D-5L3
The influence of the multifactorial falls prevention programme on mortality3
Gunnar Inghe: A founding father of Scandinavian social medicine and still highly relevant2
Social cohesion and COVID-19 mortality in different periods of the pandemic: variable efficacy of trust in civil services2
Seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies, risk factors for infection and associated symptoms in Geneva, Switzerland: a population-based study2
Trust and easy access to home care staff are associated with older adults’ sense of security: a Swedish longitudinal study2
Correlates of active commuting to school across two generations: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study2
Experiences of migrant parents of children with special health and welfare needs in Nordic countries: a scoping review2
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on mental health in Danish school children in 5th to 7th grade2
Associations between children’s diagnosed mental disorders and educational achievements in Sweden2
The association between zero-crossing temperatures and accidents due to icy conditions2
An in-depth analysis of 10 epidemiological terminologies used in the context of COVID-192
Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the women invited to the COVIDPregDK cohort: a non-response analysis2
The prevalence of chronic diseases in international immigrants: a systematic review and meta-analysis2
Diagnoses of infectious diseases among Norwegian-born children to immigrant parents – the role of parental socioeconomic position2
Rudolf Virchow as a pioneer of both biomedicine and social medicine2
Cause and place of death in Norwegian nursing home residents2
Navigating financial coverage of healthcare to undocumented migrants at two hospitals in Oslo: a qualitative study2
Rainbows over the world’s public health: determinants of health models in the past, present, and future2
Psychiatric disorders, diagnosed in psychiatric clinics, in patients with back pain: A cohort study2
Does the socioeconomic positioned neighbourhood matter? Norwegian adolescents’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators for physical activity2
Temporal trends in cause-specific mortality in a rural-provincial area of Denmark, Lolland-Falster, 1970–20182
Mental health among unaccompanied refugee minors after settling in Norway: A matched cross-sectional study2
Workplace gender composition and sickness absence: A register-based study from Sweden2
Impact of a manager-oriented intervention on occupational exposures and well-being among pregnant hospital and day-care employees: A cluster randomised trial2
Valuation and perception of the costs of climate change on health2
The COVIDPregDK Study: A national survey on pregnancy during the early COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark2
The Faroese Septuagenarians cohort: A comparison of well-being before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among older home-dwelling Faroese2
Trends in adolescent psychosomatic complaints: a quantile regression analysis of Swedish HBSC data 1985–20172
Revisiting the physical activity paradox: the role of cardiorespiratory fitness in workers with high aerobic demands2
Jeremy Morris as a pioneer of behavioural epidemiology, social medicine and public health2
Social inequalities in the self-management of type 1 diabetes: A serial multiple mediation analysis2
Emergency hospital admissions, prognosis, and population mortality in Norway during the first wave of the Covid-19 epidemic2
‘Who is telling the truth?’ Migrants’ experiences with COVID-19 related information in Norway: a qualitative study2
The longitudinal relation between loneliness and perceived stress: A structural equation modelling analysis of 10,159 individuals2
Disability level and use of long-term care services in Norway: a nation-wide registry study2
Lower levels of physical activity volume are beneficial, and it’s never too late to start: Results from the HUNT Study, Norway2
Evidence in public health: An integrated, multidisciplinary concept2
Inequality in smoking and related risk factors for smoking in expectant mothers – a nationwide Danish register-based study2
Voices from the margins: A qualitative study exploring components influencing psychosocial health and wellbeing among gender minority forced migrants2
Labour market status and mortality risk: The Finnmark cohort study 1987–20172
Fifteen years with patient choice and free establishment in Swedish primary healthcare: what do we know?2
Co-creating public health measures with adolescents in municipalities: Municipal actors’ views on inhibitors and promoters for adolescent involvement2
Use of benzodiazepine and related drugs in migrants and Finnish-born persons: a nationwide register-based study2
The Norwegian Counties Public Health Survey (NCPHS): a design study2
Rejected sickness cash benefit claims after 180 days of sick leave in the Swedish rehabilitation chain: A nationwide register-based study2
The Danish National Health Survey 2023: study design and participant characteristics2
Risk of stillbirth and preterm birth among undocumented pregnant migrant women in Denmark: A retrospective case-control study2
Patterns of physical activity over 34 years in a large sample of adults: The HUNT study, Norway2
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