SSM-Population Health

Papers
(The median citation count of SSM-Population Health is 4. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Associations of social capital and health at a city with high aging rate and low population density232
Socioeconomic inequalities in insulin initiation among individuals with type 2 diabetes – A quasi-experimental nationwide register study205
Literacy and self-rated health: Analysis of the Longitudinal and International Study of Adults (LISA)183
Does the immigrant health advantage extend to incarcerated immigrants?88
Body shape and stable employment opportunity analysis of China's nonagricultural labor market86
Maternal socioeconomic position and inequity in child deaths: An analysis of 2012 South Korean birth cohort of 466,636 children84
Does having children matter? Associations between transitions in work-family role combinations and depressive symptoms among married women in Korea71
Parental cardiometabolic multimorbidity and subsequent cardiovascular incidence in middle-aged adults: A prospective cohort study61
Against the grain: International migrants, the children of migrants and national life expectancy in Sweden, 1990–201959
Challenges and measures to improve interviewers’ bias in large-scale demographic surveys in India: Some suggestions based on analysis of NFHS-4 data58
Association between stock market volatility and severe mental disorders: a multi-city time-series study57
Trajectories and patterns of US counties’ policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: A sequence analysis approach56
The development of adolescent agency and implications for reproductive choice among girls in Zambia55
Impact of indoor air pollution from cooking fuel usage and practices on self-reported health among older adults in India: Evidence from LASI53
Social norms, diffusion, and women's risk of intimate partner violence in Nepal: Impact assessment of a social and behavior Change communication intervention (Change Starts at home)52
The impact of income definitions on mortality inequalities48
Introduction to the special issue collection, How and why are health inequalities changing over time?48
County-level political group density, partisan polarization, and individual-level mortality among adults in the United States: A lagged multilevel study48
Income inequality and comorbid overweight/obesity and depression among a large sample of Canadian secondary school students: The mediator effect of social cohesion46
Prevalence of home birth among 880,345 women in 67 low- and middle-income countries: A meta-analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys45
Heterogeneous effects of retirement on the biomedical risk factors for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases: New evidence based on the physical examination database in Shanghai, China45
Travel burden for patients with multimorbidity – Proof of concept study in a Dutch tertiary care center43
Uneven stigma loads: Community interpretations of public health policies, ‘evidence’ and inequities in shaping Covid-19 stigma in Vietnam42
Biosocial medicine: Biology, biography, and the tailored care of the patient42
Financial hardship and social assistance as determinants of mental health and food and housing insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States42
Tuition-free secondary education and women's attitudes toward intimate partner violence: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa42
Tracking of depressed mood from adolescence into adulthood and the role of peer and parental support: A partial test of the Adolescent Pathway Model41
Differences in mental health inequalities based on university attendance: Intersectional multilevel analyses of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy41
The relationship between employment and health for people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds: A systematic review of quantitative studies41
Trajectories of psychological distress over multiple COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia38
In the wake of a crisis: Caught between housing and healthcare38
Are childhood factors predictive of adult health literacy? A longitudinal birth cohort analysis37
The double-edged role of accessed status on health and well-being among middle- and older-age adults in rural South Africa: The HAALSI study37
Intergenerational social mobility and self-rated health in Canada36
Racial, ethnic and nativity inequalities in gestational diabetes mellitus: The role of racial discrimination34
Pathways explaining racial/ethnic and socio-economic disparities in brain white matter integrity outcomes in the UK Biobank study33
Unequal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on women's fertility preferences: Evidence from a longitudinal cohort in the United States32
Race/ethnicity, sleep duration, and mortality risk in the United States32
How schools in Germany shape and impact the lives of adolescent refugees in terms of mental health and social mobility31
Differences in up-to-date colorectal and cervical cancer screening rates by ethnicity and preferred language: An analysis across patient-, clinic-, and area-level data sources31
Life course socioeconomic position and general and oral health in later life: Assessing the role of social causation and health selection pathways31
Linking critical consciousness and health: The utility of the critical reflection about social determinants of health scale (CR_SDH)29
The differential relationship of common health comorbidities with acculturative experiences in United States Latinxs29
Examining variation within Hispanic ethnicity: An intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA) of birthweight inequities in New York City, 2012–228
Manufacturing doubt: Assessing the effects of independent vs industry-sponsored messaging about the harms of fossil fuels, smoking, alcohol, and sugar sweetened beverages28
Trust in the healthcare system and mortality: A population-based prospective cohort study in southern Sweden28
Location dynamics of general practitioners in France28
Single and combined effects of marital status, education attainment, and employment status on suicide among working-age population: A case-control study in South Korea27
Does change in area-level deprivation, change health outcomes? A latent class growth analysis of population data26
Mortality after release from incarceration in New Zealand by gender: A national record linkage study26
Do associations between education and obesity vary depending on the measure of obesity used? A systematic literature review and meta-analysis25
The role of gender in the relationship between social engagement and health outcomes24
Racial disparities in stroke incidence in the Women's Health Initiative: Exploring biological, behavioral, psychosocial, and social risk factors24
Healthcare services for people with acquired disability in South-East Queensland, Australia: Assessing potential proximity and its association with service obstacles24
An international comparative study of active living environments and hospitalization for Wales and Canada24
Moderation of the association between COVID-19-related income loss and depression by receipt of financial support: Repeated cross-sectional surveys of young adults in Canada and France (2020–2021)23
Gender differences in the relationship between income inequality and health in China: Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey data23
Impact of residing in neighborhoods of high social participation on health of retired workers: A multilevel analysis using nationwide longitudinal data in Japan22
The use of digital technology for social wellbeing reduces social isolation in older adults: A systematic review22
The challenges of measuring social cohesion in public health research: A systematic review and ecometric meta-analysis22
The complex representation and contradicting results linking sexual orientation to allostatic load22
Worry about crime and loneliness in nine countries of the former Soviet Union22
Correlates of suicidal ideation related to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Repeated cross-sectional nationally representative Canadian data22
Excess mortality in Russia and its regions compared to high income countries: An analysis of monthly series of 202022
Health-related exit from employment before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway: Analysis of population-wide register data 2013–202122
Re-examining the social gradient in health: A study of Dutch men, 1850–198422
Part-time work and health in late careers: Evidence from a longitudinal and cross-national study22
How do patients with chronic illnesses respond to a public health crisis? Evidence from diabetic patients in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic21
The geography of ethnoracial low birth weight inequalities in the United States21
Childhood cognitive ability and self-harm and suicide in later life21
Investigating the direct and indirect associations between birth intervals and child growth and development: A cross-sectional analysis of 13 Demographic and Health Surveys21
Bridging ethics and epidemiology: Modelling ethical standards of health equity21
The cost of mass gatherings during a pandemic21
A brief reflection on the issue of science, ideology and critical theory21
Primary health care practitioners’ perception of patient loneliness in Japanese older adults: A cross-sectional study20
Impact of conditional cash transfers on enrolment in community-based health insurance among female-headed households in south Gondar zone, Amhara region, Ethiopia20
Relationships between childhood adversity and inflammatory biomarkers in adulthood: A cross-sectional analysis of a middle-to older-aged population20
Characterizing Nigerien men's social networks and their influence on family planning-related attitudes and behaviors20
Social causation, social selection, and economic selection in the health outcomes of Chinese older adults and their gender disparities20
“Racial mortality inversion”: Black-white disparities in mortality among people experiencing homelessness in the United States19
Social participation and health in middle-aged and older empty nesters: A study on gender differences19
Predictors of preterm birth and low birth weight: A person-centered approach19
Neighborhood-level COVID vaccination and booster disparities: A population-level analysis across California19
The impact of Children’s gender on Parent’s mental health and cognition -- evidence from China18
Progress and push-back: How the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd impacted public discourse on race and racism on Twitter18
Women’s empowerment and child anthropometric failures across 28 sub-Saharan African countries: A cross-level interaction by Gender Inequality Index18
Parental status in later life and parents’ risk of cognitive impairment18
Does the transition to grandparenthood influence the health and well-being of older people? Evidence from the CHARLS study in China18
Structural racism in school contexts and adolescent depression: Development of new indices for the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and beyond18
Inequalities in recovery or methodological artefact? A comparison of models across physical and mental health functioning17
A proactive Covid-19 response associated with better health and economic outcomes for OECD High-Income Island Countries17
Nativity in the healthy migrant effect: Evidence from Australia17
Social connections with family and friends in adolescence: Shaping body mass index trajectories into adulthood17
The effect of universal testing and treatment for HIV on health-related quality of life – An analysis of data from the HPTN 071 (PopART) cluster randomised trial17
Racial and ethnic inequities in occupational exposure across and between US cities17
Long-term trajectories of depressive symptoms by military affiliation17
Healthy immigrants, unhealthy ageing? Analysis of health decline among older migrants and natives across European countries17
Conscription hurts: The effects of military service on physical health, drinking, and smoking17
Intersectional trends in employment quality in older adults in the United States16
Health and health behaviors in China: Anomalies in the SES-health gradient?16
Intentionally ending one's own life in the presence or absence of a medical condition: A nationwide mortality follow-back study16
The effect of college degree attainment on neurodegenerative symptoms in genetically at-risk women16
Distinct moderating pathways for psychosocial risk and resilience in the association of neighborhood disadvantage with incident heart failure among Black persons16
Associations between out-of-home care and mental health disorders within and across generations in a Swedish birth cohort16
A life course view on depression: Social determinants of depressive symptom trajectories over 25 Years of Americans’ Changing Lives16
The impact of retirement on body mass index in China: An empirical study based on regression discontinuity design16
Explaining racial/ethnic and socioeconomic differences in COVID protective behavior16
Worldwide association of the gender inequality with the incidence and mortality of cervical, ovarian, endometrial, and breast cancers16
Estimating uncertainty in a socioeconomic index derived from the American community survey15
Social engagement and subjective health among older adults in South Korea: Evidence from the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (2006–2018)15
Qualitative research about public health risk perceptions on ambient air pollution. A review study15
The path to good health: Shifting the dialogue and promoting social ecological thinking15
Self-injury and the embodiment of solitary confinement among adult men in Louisiana prisons15
The association between sports social capital and cognitive health: A longitudinal study of middle-aged and elderly adults in China15
Living alone as a risk factor for cancer incidence, case-fatality and all-cause mortality: A nationwide registry study15
How does the sex composition of children affect men's higher ideal family size preference relative to women and contraceptive use patterns among couples? A cross-sectional analysis of dyadic couple's 15
Sustainable labour market participation among working young adults with diagnosed attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)15
Participation in community gathering place and social capital: A longitudinal study of older adults15
Working time variation and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic in China15
Social determinants of spatial inequalities in COVID-19 outcomes across England: A multiscale geographically weighted regression analysis15
The effect of social network strain on suicidal ideation among middle-aged adults with adverse childhood experiences in the US: A twelve-year nationwide study15
“I'm stressed!”: The work effect of process innovation on mental health15
Identifying regions of excess injury risks associated with distracted driving: A case study in Central Ohio, USA14
Racial and ethnic differences in the association of social cohesion and social capital with HIV testing14
Parental imprisonment, delinquent behavior, and BMI gain in a U.S. nationally representative cohort study of adolescents and adults ages 12-3214
Social contexts and cross-national differences in association between adverse childhood experiences and frailty index14
Family is all that matters: Prospective associations between structure, function, and quality of social relations and self-rated health in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP)14
Formative reasons for state-to-state influences on firearm acquisition in the U.S.14
Socioeconomic and racial disparities of sidewalk quality in a traditional rust belt city14
Association of long COVID with housing insecurity in the United States, 2022–202314
Association between area deprivation index and concerns to COVID-19: A multi-level analysis of individual and area factors14
The deployment of social media by political authorities and health experts to enhance public information during the COVID-19 pandemic14
The effect of disability on educational, labor market, and marital outcomes in a low-income context14
Macro-contextual determinants of cancer screening participation and inequalities: A multilevel analysis of 29 European countries14
Child mental health and income gradient from early childhood to adolescence: Evidence from the UK14
Testing conditionality with Bourdieu's capital theory: How economic, social, and embodied cultural capital are associated with diet and physical activity in the Netherlands14
Data quality of birthweight reporting in India: Evidence from cross-sectional surveys and service statistics13
Exploring inequalities in life expectancy and lifespan variation by race/ethnicity and urbanicity in the United States: 1990 to 201913
The social capital penalty paid by teetotallers13
Deferred depression? Mediation analysis of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and immigration enforcement among Undocumented Asian and Pacific Islander students13
The dual impact of education and occupation on cognitive functioning in older Mexican adults: A cross-sectional exploratory study13
Social determinants of the Latinx diabetes health disparity: A Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis13
Structural racism and the education gradient for early all-cause mortality13
The impact of population's educational composition on Healthy Life Years: An empirical illustration of 16 European countries13
Everyday discrimination and cancer metaphor preferences: The mediating effects of needs for personal significance and cognitive closure13
The influence of natural disasters on violence, mental health, food insecurity, and stunting in the Philippines: Findings from a nationally representative cohort13
Impact of work arrangements during the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health in France13
Racial/ethnic differences in the relationship between wealth and health across young adulthood13
Changes in the prevalence of perceived discrimination and associations with probable mental health problems in the UK from 2015 to 2020: A repeated cross-sectional analysis of the UK Household Longitu13
The social gradient in COVID-19 vaccination intentions and the role of solidarity beliefs among adolescents12
An analysis of social dimensions of podoconiosis and leprosy on affected households in endemic health districts of the North West Region of Cameroon12
Barriers to child vaccination: The role of international sanctions12
Intersecting race/ethnicity and gender in physiological dysregulation profiles and associations with socioeconomic status among older adults in the United States12
The international Family Affluence Scale (FAS): Charting 25 years of indicator development, evidence produced, and policy impact on adolescent health inequalities12
The impact of slow mobility and built environment characteristics on 12.5-year all-cause mortality among older women and men: A prospective cohort study from Poland12
The average life expectancy of persons with disabilities in China12
Early life socioeconomic position contributes to adult obesity independent of adult socioeconomic factors: Findings from The Sister Study cohort12
Trends of amenable deaths due to healthcare within the European Union countries. Exploring the association with the economic crisis and education12
Swedish middle school students’ psychosocial well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study12
Effect of migrant parents' bodyweight perception on children's body bodyweight: A longitudinal analysis of population cohort study12
Do human capital investments mediate the intergenerational transmission of domestic violence?12
Disparities and inequalities in pain treatment among people with limited English proficiency12
Salutogenesis for thriving nations: Sense of coherence and longevity across income strata12
Do high school friends still matter for health behavior in adulthood? Variations in smoking trajectories by adolescent peer smoking networks, race/ethnicity, and gender12
Social support, psychosocial risks, and cardiovascular health: Using harmonized data from the Jackson Heart Study, Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America Study, and Multi-Ethni12
Child maltreatment and parental domestic violence and abuse, co-occurrence and the effect on lifetime outcomes in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)12
Residential history in cancer research: Utility of the annual billing ZIP code in the SEER-Medicare database and mobility among older women with breast cancer in the United States12
The relationship between obesity and suicide ideation among young adults in the United States12
The interaction of socioeconomic stress and race on telomere length in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis12
Grandparental care and childhood obesity in China12
Taxing for healthier beginnings: The impact of a major tobacco tax hike on birth weight in Mexico12
Accumulating burden: Exposure to interpersonal discrimination based on multiple attributes and allostatic load11
Fine particulate matter and depressive symptoms in children: A mediation model of physical activity and a moderation model of family poverty11
Estimating heritability of height without zygosity information for twins under five years in low- and middle-income countries: An application of normal finite mixture distribution models11
Empty chairs at the dinner table: Black-white disparities in exposure to household member deaths11
Local crime and substance use disorders: A comparison of midlife adults in the 1990s and 2000s11
Factors associated with the risk perception of COVID-19 infection and severe illness: A cross-sectional study in Japan11
Local government expenditure centralization and spatial variation in working-age mortality11
Impact of legal status regularization on undocumented migrants’ self-reported and mental health in Switzerland11
Family socioeconomic status and adolescent depression in urban and rural China: A trajectory analysis11
The effect of COVID-19-related school closures on students’ well-being: Evidence from Danish nationwide panel data11
Disparities in birth outcomes within the U.S. White population: Prevalence of low birth weight among immigrant mothers from the Middle East and North Africa11
Bereavement due to child loss, divorce, and depressive mood in older age across European welfare regimes11
Barriers to healthcare access among U.S. adults with mental health challenges: A population-based study11
Association of educational attainment with cancer mortality in a national cohort study of black and white adults: A mediation analysis11
The impact of physical activity on household out-of-pocket medical expenditure among adults aged 45 and over in urban China: The mediating role of spousal health behaviour11
Cross national patterns in educational inequalities in functional limitations among middle aged and older adults at two time points11
Racism as the fundamental cause of ethnic inequities in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: A theoretical framework and empirical exploration using the UK Household Longitudinal Study11
Prospective associations between psychosomatic complaints in adolescence and depression and anxiety symptoms in young adulthood: A Swedish national cohort study11
Change of human flourishing during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: Results from population-based U-CORONA study11
Contextual effects of community capacity as a predictor for adolescent alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use: A multi-level analysis11
Associations between lockdown intensity and suicide mortality in US states11
Racial/ethnic residential segregation and the availability of opioid and substance use treatment facilities in US counties, 2009–201911
Contribution of socioeconomic, lifestyle, and medical risk factors to disparities in dementia and mortality10
Depressive symptoms in higher education students during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. An examination of the association with various social risk factors across multiple high- and middle-inc10
Contribution of compositional changes in the workforce to sickness absence trends in Finland10
Prevalence of social and economic stressors among transgender veterans with alcohol and other drug use disorders10
Black and white differences in subjective survival expectations: An evaluation of competing mechanisms10
The effects of minimum unit pricing for alcohol on food purchases: Evaluation of a natural experiment10
A descriptive analysis of 2020 California Occupational Safety and Health Administration covid-19-related complaints10
Identifying temporal patterns of adherence to antidepressants, bisphosphonates and statins, and associated patient factors10
Variations in the association between education and self-reported health by race/ethnicity and structural racism10
Self-regulation and behavioral risk factors for obesity in youth facing multiple adversities10
Can early prenatal care initiation reduce racial inequalities in birth outcomes? A causal decomposition approach10
Erratum to “Increased number of live births by migrant mothers shows areal inequality in Japan: A descriptive study” [SSM - Population Health 23 (2023) 101447]10
Community social capital or health needs: What is driving hospital-community partnerships to address social determinants of health?10
The unequal burden of the Covid-19 pandemic: Capturing racial/ethnic disparities in US cause-specific mortality10
Age and gender differences in the relationship between obesity and disability with self-perceived employment discrimination: Results from a retrospective study of an Australian national sample10
Long-term effects of child nutritional status on the accumulation of health human capital10
Intergenerational educational trajectories and premature mortality from chronic diseases: A registry population-based study10
Trajectories of personal agency by gender and pubertal development among adolescents in Kinshasa: Longitudinal evidence from the GlobalEarly Adolescent Study10
Exploring the longitudinal associations between census division income inequality and BMI trajectories among Canadian adolescent: Is gender an effect modifier?10
Associations of socioeconomic status indicators and migrant status with risk of a low vegetable and fruit consumption in children10
Life course exposure to work strain and cognitive disparities by race and ethnicity10
Effectiveness of the Promising Neighbourhoods community program in 0-to 12-year-olds: A difference-in-difference analysis10
Trends in sleep duration in the U.S. from 2004 to 2018: A decomposition analysis10
The intergenerational transmission from adult Children's education to parents' health in China: Nonlinearity and mechanisms10
Associations between dimensions of the social environment and cardiometabolic risk factors: Systematic review and meta-analysis10
The association of unhealthy and healthy food store accessibility with obesity prevalence among adults in the Netherlands: A spatial analysis10
Home confinement and mental health problems during the Covid-19 pandemic among the population aged 50 and older: A gender perspective10
The association between reproductive rights and access to abortion services and mental health among US women10
Digital health literacy and trust in health information sources: A comparative study of university students in Japan, the United States, and India10
Impact of household decision makers’ hesitancy to vaccinate children against COVID-19 on other household members: A family-based study in Taizhou, China9
The effects of contemporary redlining on the mental health of Black residents9
Policies on dying: Assisted suicide in Germany9
Stigmatized for standing up for my child: A qualitative study of non-vaccinating parents in Australia9
Community-level social capital and polypharmacy among public assistance recipients in Japan: A multilevel cross-sectional study9
Sustaining planetary health through systems thinking: Public health's critical role9
Unpaid caregiving and stress among older working-age men and women in Sweden9
A cross-sectional analysis of work schedule notice and depressive symptoms in the United States9
Adverse childhood experiences and adolescent drug use in the UK: The moderating role of socioeconomic position and ethnicity9
Online on-demand delivery services of food and alcohol: A scoping review of public health impacts9
Policing sexuality: Sexual minority youth, police contact, and health inequity9
Effect of childhood proximity to lead mining on late life cognition9
RETRACTED: “Adolescents who feel depressed are rejected but do not withdraw: A longitudinal study of ethnically diverse friendship networks in England, Sweden, and Germany”9
Health disparities in past influenza pandemics: A scoping review of the literature9
Health persuasion through emoji: How emoji interacted with information source to predict health behaviors in COVID-19 situation9
Decomposing the gap in intimate partner violence between Scheduled Caste and General category women in India: An analysis of NFHS-5 data9
Empirical design of population health strategies accounting for the distribution of population health risks9
Patterns in health care use and intensity for diagnosed and undiagnosed cognitive impairment in the older australian community: Implications for primary care management9
Social inequalities in multimorbidity patterns in Europe: A multilevel latent class analysis using the European Social Survey (ESS)9
Fieldworker effects on quality of data collected on sensitive questions in National Family Health Surveys: An analysis based on intimate partner violence in India9
Engaging with community organizations to recruit and retain vulnerable adults: The Pathways Study9
Associations between existing and newly diagnosed chronic health conditions and change in subjective life expectancy: Results from a panel study9
The relationship between educational attainment and hospitalizations among middle-aged and older adults in the United States9
Identifying individual social risk factors using unstructured data in electronic health records and their relationship with adverse clinical outcomes9
Patterns of physical and mental co-occurring developmental health among Chinese elderly: A multidimensional growth mixture model analysis9
Does social participation foster social support among the older population in Japan? A three-year follow-up study from the Japan gerontological evaluation study9
Corrigendum to “Health disparities in past influenza pandemics: A scoping review of the literature” [SSM – Population Health (2023) 21C 101314]9
Does ‘Data fudging’ explain the autocratic advantage? Evidence from the gap between Official Covid-19 mortality and excess mortality9
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