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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Weekly pattern of alcohol-attributable male mortality before and after imposing limits on hours of alcohol sale in Lithuania in 201847
Reducing Europe’s cancer and NCD burden through coordinated strategies on health determinants: The Joint Action on Cancer and other NCDs Prevention (JA-PreventNCD)43
Parental income gradients in child and adolescent mortality: Norwegian trends over half a century42
Adolescent friendships and their impact on self-rated health in early adulthood. A prospective cohort study35
Municipality-level differences in disability retirement in Finland: The contribution of local social characteristics22
Trends in health behaviour indicators between 1987 and 2023 among adults in the general population in Denmark22
Contribution of age, gender and occupational group to the higher risk of disability retirement among Finnish public sector employees22
Smoking among immigrants in Norway: a cross-sectional study21
Solving the housing crisis in Nunavut, Canada18
Lifestyle factors as predictors of incident functional somatic disorder. Five-year follow-up of The DanFunD study17
The burden of disease due to COVID-19 in Sweden 2020–2021: A disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) study17
Subjective social status and common mental disorders in the Swedish working population: gender and age differences in longitudinal associations17
Childhood mortality during Gaza genocide in 2024: A comparative analysis with global disease burden16
Men’s lifetime interpersonal violence exposure and associations with hospitalization at the national level: Results from a New Zealand population-based study16
Non-response bias in the Norwegian Counties Public Health Survey: Insights from linkage to register data15
Overview of health research in Greenland from 2001 to 202015
Beyond global health: Redefining the ‘public’ in public health15
Parental alienation as conditioned love15
The relationship between online communication and adolescents’ mental health: Long-term evaluation between genders15
Heart failure describing the underlying cause of death: a misconception, lack of information on the true underlying causes, or both?14
A debatable representation of all-cause mortality in Norway in 202414
Correlation between country-level numbers of COVID-19 cases and mortalities, and country-level characteristics: A global study12
Time trends and predictors of difficulties in getting to sleep among adolescents from six Nordic countries 2002–201812
A novel and evidence-informed approach to project sustainability: Maximizing long-term impacts of the Joint Action PreventNCD12
The road from knowledge to change – pandemics, diversity and social inequality declaration, Bergen 202212
Are changes in perceived physical workload and strenuousness of work among partial disability pensioners associated with full disability pension?11
Average lifespan variation among people with mental disorders in Denmark: a nationwide, register-based cohort study11
Reflections on co-creating a model for the value assessment of artificial intelligence technologies11
Implementation of an integrated community approach in deprived neighbourhoods: a theory-based process evaluation using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)11
Associations of breastfeeding duration with serum lipid values from infancy until age 20 years – the STRIP study11
Occupational health patients’ parallel use of primary- and secondary-care services and linkage to work disability: A follow-up study in Finland10
Agribusiness and the COVID-19 syndemic: The unsustainable pathways9
Recreational screen media use among Danish children aged 6–11 years: influence of parental screen media habits and attitudes9
Caring for meaning: a qualitative exploration of healthcare professionals’ experiences9
Effects of the COVID-19-induced lockdown period on general well-being, perceived stress and activity levels in the Faroe Islands9
Assessing the long-term health impact of COVID-19: The importance of using self-reported health measures9
Social disparities in healthcare encounters: A systematic review of qualitative studies in high-income countries9
Alcohol norms and alcohol intake among high school students9
Milder disease trajectory among COVID-19 patients hospitalised with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant compared with the Delta variant in Norway9
Tracking nursing home residents in Denmark: the Danish Nursing Home Resident Database9
Using the Triangle of Human Ecology for understanding self-rated depression: a quantitative study based on the HUNT 3 cohort9
Trust in scientific institutions and experts during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland9
Evaluating national guidelines for monitoring early growth using routinely collected data in Bergen, Norway9
Height and risk of myocardial infarction in The Tromsø Study 1979–20218
How to approach sustainability in general practice: a workshop experience with a qualitative analysis amongst general practitioners in Denmark8
The West Jutland Tele-Electrocardiogram Registry (WEJU-tECG): content, data quality, and research potential8
Loneliness and subsequent depression and anxiety in emerging adults: Findings from a Swedish cohort study8
Food insecurity in Norway: A cross-sectional study among patients visiting their general practitioner8
Underlying pathways of social inequality in tooth loss: The mediating role of sugary beverages and diabetes8
Swedish women reaching post-traumatic growth after an intimate partner violence relationship: A study of formal help and growth after trauma8
Translating the Living with Medicines Questionnaire from English to Swedish: a validation study8
Collaborative strategies in the fight against non-communicable diseases: Shaping a healthier future with PreventNCD8
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 study8
Hospital use and outcomes in somatic patients aged 80 years and older: a retrospective register study from a Norwegian tertiary hospital, 2002–20228
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
Young adults with depression: A registry-based longitudinal study of work-life marginalisation. The Norwegian GP-DEP study7
Payment problems and suicide: life under financial strain7
Family Partner: study protocol for a pilot randomised study of a home-visitation intervention in Norway7
Meaningfulness and mortality: exploring the sense of coherence in Eastern Finnish men7
Study design of ‘Move More’: Development and feasibility of a social-prescribing intervention to increase physical activity among inactive Danes7
Evaluation framework for the Joint Action PreventNCD: A comprehensive approach for a complex and multi-layered public health project7
Are dental care records in childhood associated with financial hardship in adulthood?7
Prenatal exposure to the Chernobyl fallout in Norway and cognitive abilities among conscripts7
Narcotic offences and drug use disorders among young refugees in Norway7
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 care7
Continued increasing social inequality in mortality in Denmark – a nationwide register-based follow-up on previous mortality studies7
Associations between physical activity and sleep quality across BMI categories: a cross-sectional population-based study6
Beyond smoking: Education, marital status and mortality in 513,552 Norwegians6
Is mental health problems measurement equivalent across disability, gender, age, and cohort in children? Findings from a Swedish national survey6
Prevalence of musculoskeletal pain and associated factors among professional orchestra musicians in Norway6
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Swedish adults aged 77 years and older: Age differences in lifestyle changes6
Occupational stress among Norwegian physicians: A literature review of long-term prospective studies 2007–20196
Children as next of kin’s experiences, practices, and voice in everyday life: a systematic review of studies with Norwegian data (2010–2022)6
Trust matters: The Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe Study6
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Health care for unborn children, children and teenagers without health insurance coverage in Germany6
Mental health problems among adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: a repeated cross-sectional study from Sweden6
The aftermath of COVID-19: Mortality impact of the pandemic on older persons in Sweden and other Nordic countries, 2020–20236
Pedestrian wintertime slip and fall injuries—effectiveness of weather warning service in prevention6
The protective effects of Swedish COVID-19 pandemic strategies on adolescents’ mental health: a longitudinal cohort study6
Healthcare leaders’ perceptions of the contribution of artificial intelligence to person-centred care: An interview study6
Impacts of temperature and solar radiation changes in northern Europe on key population health behaviors: a scoping review of reviews6
Early career demanding psychosocial work environment and severe back pain and neck/shoulder pain in experienced nurses: A cohort study6
Discrimination and health: A cross-sectional study comparing Muslims with other-religious groups6
Health and social care staff’s recognition of elder abuse perpetrated by family members of persons with dementia: a mixed-method study5
Algorithm for forming hospital care episodes by combining attendance contacts in the Danish National Patient Register: A methodological consensus-driven study5
Towards more comprehensive nationwide familial aggregation studies in Denmark: The Danish Civil Registration System versus the lite Danish Multi-Generation Register5
Canadian Northern and Indigenous health policy responses to the first wave of COVID-195
Intimate partner violence and negative health consequences: A cross-sectional study among women in a regional sample in Sweden5
Changes in loneliness prevalence in Denmark in the 21st century: Age-period-cohort analysis5
Sweden’s excess mortality in 2020–2022 and reporting in the media5
Production losses from morbidity and mortality by disease, age and sex in Norway5
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
Trauma-informed care for women who are forced migrants: a qualitative study among service providers5
What is a sustainable diet in the Norwegian context?5
Effect of replacing television viewing with different intensities of physical activity on COVID-19 mortality risk: Short communication from UK Biobank5
Comparing COVID-19 pandemic health responses in two high-income island nations: Iceland and New Zealand5
Factors related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Denmark: A national study in the autumn of 20215
The influence of selective mortality on poverty rates in later life: evidence from a Swedish cohort born in 19265
Awareness of having hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidaemia among US adults: The 2011–2018 NHANES data5
Physical activity levels before and after the COVID-19 restrictions among Danish adolescents: a retrospective cohort study5
Health at age 17 in Norwegian adolescents: Mental and physical status in the national cohort born in 20015
Projected health benefits of air pollution reductions in a Swedish population5
Does who you live with matter for your health? The influence of partners’ socioeconomic characteristics on self-rated health in Norway5
Study protocol for 5Ways@School – An implementation and effectiveness trial of a school-based wellbeing intervention in 16 schools in Norway5
Copenhagen City Heart Study. An epidemiological cohort study with repeated measurements: history, course, and results5
Psychosomatic complaints are indicative of stress in young individuals: findings from a Swedish national cohort study5
Corrigendum to “ Advancing Public Health Insight: Population Health Study in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) 2024-2026”5
Digitizing paper-based military health records from Norwegian males born in 1950 – Assessments of data quality and applicability in research5
The specialty of social medicine and public health in Sweden: Challenges and future directions5
Association of school neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and teaching staff’s risk of violence at work5
A nation-wide study on snus and smoked tobacco: The Swedish Tobacco Cohort (SWETOC)5
Arts and culture engagement and mortality: A population-based prospective cohort study5
Are universal measures sufficient in reducing child poverty in the Nordic countries? An analysis of policies and political commitments5
Catalogue of eight psychological and behavioural health risks and related disparities among 199 chronic conditions in Denmark4
The organisation and responsibility for care for older people in Denmark, Finland and Sweden: outline and comparison of care systems4
National and education-specific trends in life and health expectancies in Denmark 2004–20154
Contribution of smoking change to 45-year trend in prevalence of chronic bronchitis in Finland4
Personalised risk-stratified approaches in prevention of cancer and other NCDs: The Joint Action PreventNCD project4
Perceived social support and symptoms of depression and anxiety in emerging adulthood: A Swedish prospective cohort study4
Patterns of women’s work resumption and economic independence after childbirth: A longitudinal study4
Trends in social inequality in breastfeeding duration in Denmark 2002–20194
Between information campaign and controversy: a quantitative newspaper content analysis about COVID-19 vaccination in Switzerland and Austria4
A model for social sustainability in healthcare: an interview study of community health centres in Denmark4
Immigration status and other explanatory factors associated with place of death – a population-based register study4
Defining and distinguishing early life stress, trauma, adversity, toxic and chronic stress and allostatic load: a descriptive review4
Do age and birth cohorts influence trends in the job demand–control model, self-rated health, and perceived stress in Sweden?4
COVID-19 vaccination coverage and the effect on regional disparities in morbidity and mortality among older people in Sweden, 2021–20234
Abstracts presented at the Norwegian Public Health Conference, 18–19 October 2022, Hamar, Norway4
COVID-19 mortality among immigrants by duration of residence in Sweden: a population-based cohort study4
Gambling marketing in Finland: Experiences of exposure and regulation among Finnish individuals who gamble regularly4
Personality as a key driver of oral health behaviour: evidence from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort4
Methodological advances and population health insights from Danish register and survey data4
Associations between mRNA COVID-19 vaccination and urticaria: a nationwide registry-based cohort study in Denmark4
Is being a refugee associated with increased 30-day mortality after visiting the emergency department? A register-based cohort study using Danish data4
Do community-dwelling adults aged 70 and older have someone to rely on for help when needed? A Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT)4
Who is worthy of protection? Revisiting a theoretical model on the social origins of health inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Young doctors’ attrition and retention in the GP scheme: a national cohort study from Norway4
The prevalence of intimate partner violence among Iranian pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis4
Trends in hip fracture rates in Oslo 2012–2022 across sociodemographic characteristics4
Social class and the risk of dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prospective longitudinal studies4
Labour market status and mortality risk: The Finnmark cohort study 1987–20173
Framing vaccination as a collective responsibility increases intentions to vaccinate3
Trajectories of depressive symptoms in early to mid-adolescence: associations with school pedagogical and social climate3
Utilisation of primary healthcare services by patients with hypertension before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Turku, Finland—are digital services creating disparity?3
Couple similarity with respect to physical and mental disabilities3
Shushing the press shortens lives: cross-national evidence of the impact of press freedom on life expectancy3
20-Year trends in the social participation of the oldest old3
Bridging discourses on health promotion and social sustainability towards healthy community development3
Ukrainian refugees’ experiences with the Danish healthcare system: A survey-based study3
Validity of the Finnish Care Register for Social Welfare in a nationwide cohort of people with Alzheimer’s disease3
The evolution of health inequalities in the western world: From early origins to modern times3
Exposure to physical, sexual and emotional violence and health-related factors among the adult population in the Faroe Islands3
Abstracts presented at the 23rd IAAH European Regional Conference “Adolescent health and well-being - Hope in a time of uncertainty” October 10 th -13
Experiences of access to healthcare among newly arrived immigrants in Denmark: Examining the role of residence permit3
Loneliness, subjective health complaints, and medicine use among Finnish adolescents 2006–20183
Socioeconomic development and the rising challenge of depressive disorders: A worldwide examination spanning from 1990 to 20213
The concept of disease in the Norwegian National Insurance Court3
Examine the public health impacts of functional somatic disorders using the DanFunD study3
Prevention of elder abuse in Norway: analyzing policies through Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Framework3
Mental-health profiling with person-centred analysis: A study of adolescents in Sweden3
Compositional characteristics of neighbourhoods and of schools as correlates of youths’ mental health: A cross-sectional study among Swedish adolescents3
Designing the first culturally-sensitive stigma survey tailored for adolescents: RN-CSS3
‘Everything turned upside down’: A thematic analysis of adolescents’ experiences of everyday life during COVID-19 restrictions3
Validity and reliability of the Danish version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index3
Changes in smoking due to COVID-19 pandemic among persons of migrant origin compared with the general population: a population-based study3
Norwegian policies to reduce social inequalities in health: Developments from 1987 to 20213
Socioeconomic, medical and demographic characteristics of early adopters of digital primary care3
Migration health research in the Nordic countries: Priorities and implications for public health3
Validation of the short version of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for adolescents in Norway3
Abstracts presented at the Norwegian Public Health Conference, October 16-17, 2025, Kristiansand, Norway3
Cervical human papillomavirus prevalence according to socioeconomic and demographic characteristics in a large Danish screening population3
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?3
The role of health behaviours, genetic factors, and early life environment in the associations between family-related events and sustainable working life3
The Parent Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ-Parent). Adaptation and validity testing with parents of children with epilepsy3
The relation between economic stressors and higher education students’ mental health during the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic3
The Children of Risk Communication3
Incidence of atrial fibrillation and flutter in Denmark in relation to country of origin: a nationwide register-based study3
Household dysfunction and child outcomes in the Nordic countries: A bibliometric analysis3
Trends and associations of remote workdays and short sickness absences among Finnish knowledge workers from 2019 to 20233
Psychometric properties of a short self-report measure of rule-breaking behaviour among adolescents: findings from the Ungdata survey2
Co-use of smokeless nicotine products and marijuana among youth in Denmark: a cross-sectional population-based study2
Perceived ethnic discrimination and leisure-time physical activity in Sweden: The impact of place of birth on the association2
Gunnar Inghe: A founding father of Scandinavian social medicine and still highly relevant2
The Norwegian Counties Public Health Survey (NCPHS): a design study2
Experiences of migrant parents of children with special health and welfare needs in Nordic countries: a scoping review2
‘Who is telling the truth?’ Migrants’ experiences with COVID-19 related information in Norway: a qualitative study2
Social inequalities in health in the Arctic region: from observing to serving2
Familial aggregation of leisure-time physical activity across three generations: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study2
The association between zero-crossing temperatures and accidents due to icy conditions2
Disability level and use of long-term care services in Norway: a nation-wide registry study2
Valuation and perception of the costs of climate change on health2
Mental health among unaccompanied refugee minors after settling in Norway: A matched cross-sectional study2
Mental health, early school achievement and subsequent school failure among adolescents in Sweden2
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on mental health in Danish school children in 5th to 7th grade2
The challenge of assessing the needs of vulnerable populations in public health: Promoting an approach grounded in proportionate universalism principles2
Towards Tobacco-Free Generation: implementation of preventive tobacco policies in the Nordic countries2
Boys perpetrating sexual harassment on peer girls in secondary school: A focus group study about pupils’ experiences2
Assessing implementation fidelity in a child maltreatment pilot trial: Lessons for evaluating complex interventions2
A systematic review of the social impact of diseases in Nordic countries2
Social cohesion and COVID-19 mortality in different periods of the pandemic: variable efficacy of trust in civil services2
Cause and place of death in Norwegian nursing home residents2
Rainbows over the world’s public health: determinants of health models in the past, present, and future2
Revisiting the physical activity paradox: the role of cardiorespiratory fitness in workers with high aerobic demands2
Voices from the margins: A qualitative study exploring components influencing psychosocial health and wellbeing among gender minority forced migrants2
Women’s lifetime interpersonal violence exposure and associations with hospitalization at the national level: Results from a New Zealand population-based study2
Unfulfilled expectations of equal, respectful, or different treatment: Complaints of perceived ethnic, religious and gender discrimination in Swedish healthcare2
Trust and easy access to home care staff are associated with older adults’ sense of security: a Swedish longitudinal study2
The influence of the multifactorial falls prevention programme on mortality2
Rejected sickness cash benefit claims after 180 days of sick leave in the Swedish rehabilitation chain: A nationwide register-based study2
Work ability trends 2000–2020 and birth-cohort projections until 2040 in Finland2
Interventions to improve work ability and reduce early exit from the labor market: a systematic review and meta-analysis among midlife and older workers2
Election promises on children’s wellbeing and health 2015 to 2021 – a study of Finnish voting advice applications database2
Childhood socioeconomic position and later-life mortality, morbidity and self-rated health: a linked study from the Historical Population Register of Norway and the Tromsø Study 1950–20222
Monthly changes in well-being among Danish employees from 2018 to 2022. Was there an influence of the COVID-19 pandemic?2
Interpreter services for immigrants in European healthcare systems: a systematic review of access barriers and facilitators2
Navigating financial coverage of healthcare to undocumented migrants at two hospitals in Oslo: a qualitative study2
The longitudinal relation between loneliness and perceived stress: A structural equation modelling analysis of 10,159 individuals2
An Apple-watch all day keeps your life astray—or does it?2
Risk of stillbirth and preterm birth among undocumented pregnant migrant women in Denmark: A retrospective case-control study2
Correlates of active commuting to school across two generations: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study2
Seasonal patterns of long sickness absence due to 411 diagnostic groups: a nationwide register-based study in Finland during 2020–20232
Evidence in public health: An integrated, multidisciplinary concept2
Sickness absence due to mental disorders among young adults: A register-based comparison of Finnish and Swedish speakers in Finland2
New nicotine and tobacco products and risk of major diseases: A review of the scientific evidence2
Childhood family environment and systemic haemodynamics in adulthood: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study2
Is duration of residence a proxy for acculturation? The case of health risk behaviors among international immigrants1
Low prevalence of ideal cardiovascular health in the general Swedish population: Results from the Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study (SCAPIS)1
Evaluating the performance of a custom GPT in full text screening of a systematic review1
Maternal wellbeing and perceived sufficiency of support from child and family services: a longitudinal study1
Nordic paradox in action: The complicated relation between social mobility and health inequalities in an international comparative study1
Trends in ages at death of Norwegian centenarians: the 1870–1904 birth cohorts1
The risk of long-term opioid use among immigrants: a national registry-linkage study1
Ethnic discrimination and mental health in the Sámi population in Sweden: The SámiHET study1
Associations between socioeconomic deprivation and witnessing family violence among Swedish adolescents: findings from a population-based school survey1
Participatory developed school-based interventions targeting physical activity and sedentary behaviour among children and adolescents: A scoping review1
Cause of death certificates in nursing homes: Does quality matter? A retrospective review from two counties in Norway1
The climate crisis is a health crisis: A Statement by Nordic Doctors for Planetary Health and Climate Action1
Leisure-time and commuting physical activity and changes in psychological distress: a prospective study among young and early midlife Finnish employees1
Socioeconomic differences in children’s victimization to maternal and paternal violence: a register-based study1
Prevalence of sexual harassment and its association with aspects self-reported health: A cross-sectional study in Sweden1
Strengthening population and organizational health literacy to reduce social inequalities within the JA PreventNCD1
Exposure to parental smoking and cardiac structure and function in adulthood: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study1
Retention of immigrant doctors and nurses in the medical labour markets of the Nordic countries: a scoping review1
On the feasibility of country-specific and country-general explanations for the increase over time in psychosomatic complaints among Nordic adolescents1
Non-participation in a health examination survey in a rural-provincial area of Denmark – results from the Lolland-Falster Health Study (LOFUS)1
Mid-life alcohol consumption and survival to age 90 in men: The Tromsø Study 1979–1980 with follow-up to 20191
Beyond the burden of informal caregiving in Sweden’s aging welfare state1
Cannabis use disorder in relation to socioeconomic factors and psychiatric comorbidity: A cluster analysis of three million individuals born in 1970–20001
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