OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Perspectives in 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Implementing creative dance activities for primary school children to improve health and wellbeing: a qualitative study in the North East England	181
Community Health Synchronisation project	42
Socioeconomic inequalities in health – debates on the persistence	41
News	32
First Dental Steps: a multistranded oral health improvement intervention embedded in the Healthy Child Programme	28
Resident review: assessing the impact of new homes on people’s health and wellbeing	20
The role for public health in building local partnerships to improve air quality and reduce health inequalities	19
The aftermath of floods in Pakistan: a public health emergency	18
Public health and planetary health: human–planet relationship through education, research, policy, and practice	14
Making the invisible visible: Data, leadership, and the future of public health	12
RSPH Health and Wellbeing Awards 2022	11
Tackling health inequalities through the development of the wider public health workforce	10
The benefits of plain language summaries in public health publishing	9
Enhancing the training of community engagement officers to address vaccine hesitancy: a university and local authority collaboration	9
Guest Editorial	8
Nepal health financing in light of federalism and pandemic	7
Guest editorial	7
Advancing community-engaged research to promote health equity: considerations to improve the field	7
Studentification: shining a light on students’ experiences of living among the private rented sector: impacts on wellbeing and study	7
‘Valued and listened to’: the collective experience of patient and public involvement in a national evaluation	7
Trends and projections in sexually transmitted infections in people aged 45 years and older in England: analysis of national surveillance data	7
A systematic review of the effectiveness of community-based interventions aimed at improving health literacy of parents/carers of children	7
Inspiring sustainability: insights from a global creative competition on healthy planet, healthy people	7
Swim when you’re winning: how Good Boost and Swim England won the public health minister’s award	6
Sociologists in public health: marginal observers or mainstream collaborators?	6

Diary	6
News	6
Smoke-free homes: what can we learn from adopting patient and public involvement in clinical practice in two countries to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke?	6
Preparing for the next pandemic: a call for action on health inequalities	6
The importance of spatial planning for health disparities	6
Diary	6
Participatory asset mapping and photovoice interviews to scope cultural and community resources to reduce alcohol harm in Chitwan, Nepal	6
Editorial	5
Expanding healthcare access in rural sub-Saharan Africa	5
Diary	5
Measuring the digital divide among people with severe mental ill health using the essential digital skills framework	5
Challenges and opportunities of remote public involvement and community engagement during a pandemic: refining the MapMe childhood healthy weight intervention	4
The smoke-free generation policy: policy analysis	4
Can social prescribing reach patients most in need? Patterns of (in)equalities in referrals in a representative cohort of older adults in England	4
‘You’re not going to give a monkey’s chuff’: exploring co-production in the design of services for women who have experienced sexual violence	4
Employers should promote smoking cessation in the workplace	4
Editorial	4
A qualitative exploration of a financial inclusion service in an English foodbank	4
Whole systems approach to diet and healthy weight: a longitudinal process evaluation in East Scotland	4
Diary	4
India led health innovation(s) for achieving the SDG health goal in the global South	4
The editor is not the author: artificial intelligence and public health publishing	4
Strengthening population and public health data governance in the era of digital technology in Africa	3
Improving our communication around vaccines	3
The Youth Educating Peers (YEP) project: making adaptions for youth peer-led sexual health education	3
Adolescents’ unhealthy snacking behaviour during the school journey and the association with transport modes and food outlets along the school route	3
Protecting and improving the environment to protect and improve health: public health on the Board of environmental Non-Departmental Public Bodies	3
Editorial	3
Understanding health inequalities in COVID-19: a description of a pragmatic community-based consultation method	3
Food and exercise practices among British Pakistanis; how can Bourdieu’s theory of practice help to understand them?	3
Will lessons from the global COVID-19 response strengthen commitment to sustainable development?	3
Green space for public mental health: an ethnographic study of ecotherapy in Wales	3
Regulatory mechanisms to create healthier environments: planning appeals and hot food takeaways in England	3
Diary	3
Editorial	2
Bringing lived experience into research: good practices for public involvement in research	2
Group singing for health and wellbeing in the Republic of Ireland: the first national map	2
Critical perspectives on Arts on Prescription	2
Therapeutic soundscapes – improving health and wellbeing with sonic art	2
The forensic implications of food hypersensitivity – a review of cases in United Kingdom courts: January 2014–February 2020	2
We care but we’re not carers: perceptions and experiences of social prescribing in a UK national community organisation	2
Diary	2
Social capital, food insecurity, and health outcomes in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Mapping the movement for climate change and health in England: a descriptive review and theory of change analysis	2
Making co-creation a trustworthy methodology for closing the implementation gap between knowledge and action in health promotion: the Health CASCADE project	2
Somatics and contemporary dance for wellbeing during digital times	2
De-medicalising public mental health with the Power Threat Meaning Framework	2
CORRIGENDUM to “The role of community champions in place-based early years support: how can we successfully share knowledge and build parent confidence?”	2
Developing better understanding of hygiene is key to developing hygiene behaviour change in home and everyday life settings	2
Climate change, health, and conflict in Africa’s arc of instability	2

Climate change adaptation must not replicate lockdown scenarios	2
Dying whilst on probation: a scoping review of mortality amongst those under community justice supervision	2
Diary	2
Strategic planning in oral health improvement	2
Promoting the resilience of Iranian women through a narrative arts approach	1
The Health Map: Its genesis and widespread use in guiding urban spatial policy and action for population and planetary health	1
News	1
The intrinsic relationship between food, health, and the environment	1
Loneliness prevention and the role of the Public Health system	1
East Sussex Nursery Transformation Programme (2015–2020): embedding a best practice approach to healthy food in early years settings	1
Young people’s experiences of vaping in their community: a co-created study between embedded researchers and local authority public health practitioners	1
Creativity and collaboration in public health	1
Teetering on a cliff edge: Britain’s relationship with alcohol	1
Role for Directors of Public Health in local gambling licensing	1
Seen and not heard: how we used visual creative activities for public health knowledge exchange with communities in rural India	1
Diary	1
ArtSpeak: an arts programme for older people	1
It’s time to change how we talk about alcohol	1
Social prescribing link workers: a test for public health ethics?	1
A scoping review on arts-based interventions for the mental health of refugee and asylum-seeking children and youth	1
Addressing health inequalities in times of austerity: implementation of a place-based approach in multitiered local government	1
Diary	1
Diary	1
Guest Editorial: A new paradigm for a creative global health	1
Mapping healthy planning frameworks	1
Building a healthy environment: lessons from three RSPH award entrants	1
Exploring the perceptions and acceptability of an integrated lifestyle database for public health research and service commissioning: a qualitative study	1
Trade, health and the economy: conflict or concord?	1
Outcomes of a residential respite service for homeless people with tuberculosis in London, UK: a cross-sectional study	1
Health and multihazard early warning systems in the media	1
Why population health approaches remain so critical for public health	1
Sustainability and green healthcare policies in Malaysia: a policy-driven approach	1
Participatory arts, refugees and mental health	1
A public health perspective on 10 years of developing an anchor institution approach in a National Health Service Hospital Trust in England	1
Longitudinal changes in home-based arts engagement during and following the first national lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK	1
Fiscal and monetary policies: the cutting edge of advocacy and research on population health and climate change	1
Sudan conflicts (2012–2023): how does it prolong and intensify hunger?	1
The Pacific’s response to non-communicable diseases: progress and the path forward	1
News	1
What’s love got to do with it? Exploring social love and public health	1
Systematic review of the barriers and facilitators to cross-sector partnerships in promoting physical activity	1
Outbreaks of COVID-19 in indoor places of worship: a systematic review	1
System resilience and neighbourhood action on social determinants of health inequalities: an English Case Study	1
Editorial	1
Diary	1
The two-child limit for benefits in the Supreme Court: implications for public health	1
U-turns don’t happen overnight: the campaign that led the Government to change its policy on summer holiday provision	1
Diary	1
The Creative Health Review – how policy can embrace creative health	1
Evidence-based decision-making in a climate of political expediency: insights from local government	1
Editorial	1
Implementing a mandatory COVID-19 vaccine: ethical challenges	1
What will make the biggest contribution to improving the public’s health in the next 10 years?	1
UK autumn statement 2022, the worst is yet to come	1
Studentification and student wellbeing in the private rented sector: further reflections on Lynch et al	1
Creative health in the urban Global South: barriers and facilitators in the cases of Cochabamba and Salvador	1
Access arts for refugees: an evaluation	1
Editorial	1
Cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between cardiorespiratory fitness and health-related quality of life in primary school children in England: the mediating role of psychological correlate	1
Assessing the cost-effectiveness of mental health interventions for night-time economy workers	1
Economic recession, illicit drug use and the young population: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis	1
The contribution of culture trusts to culture and health	1