OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Canadian Journal of Public Health-Revue Canadienne de Sante Publique 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Response to letter by Alain Braillon	73
Embracing Housing First as a continuum: A response to “Safeguarding against the degradation of Housing First”	36
Examining the Capacities of Municipal Governments to Reduce Health Inequities: A Survey of Municipal Actors’ Perceptions in Metro Vancouver	32
A scoping review of Indigenous community-based research practices, guidelines, and ethical standards	31
Relationships to land as a determinant of wellness for Indigenous women, two-spirit, trans, and gender diverse people of reproductive age in Toronto, Canada	31
Reimagining a population strategy for obesity control	30
HIV self-testing: what GetaKit can tell us about Canada’s $8 million one-time investment	30
COVID-19 vaccine uptake and intention during pregnancy in Canada	26
Should cannabis self-cultivation be part of a public health‒oriented legalization policy framework?	26
A comparison of perinatal outcomes associated with gestational diabetes mellitus testing practices in British Columbia: A population-based retrospective cohort study	25
Income inequality and life expectancy in Canada: New evidence from province-level panel regression, 1996–2019	25
Novel adulterants in unregulated opioids and their associations with adverse events	21
Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among people experiencing homelessness in Toronto during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic	21
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among young adults in Canada	20
Epistemic inclusion in the Qanuilirpitaa? Nunavik Inuit health survey: developing an Inuit model and determinants of health and well-being	20
Helping people access benefits: Millions of unclaimed federal dollars are available	20
SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen screening of asymptomatic employees: a pilot project	19
Soutien au réseau des services de garde montréalais dans la prévention et la gestion de la COVID-19 : un service à 3 pôles	19
Portrait of Montréal healthcare workers infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the first wave of the pandemic: a cross-sectional study	19
“They forgot about us”: experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic among people deprived of housing in an urban centre in Ontario, Canada	18
Evaluating the impact of the Community Helpers Program on adolescents 12–18 years old in Edmonton, Canada	18
Barriers and facilitators to knowledge and awareness around sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs)–related preventive measures among Black populations across Canada: a systematic rev	17
Nous sommes tous concernés par les violences au Moyen-Orient	17
COVID-19 vaccine wastage in Canada, a reason for concern?	16
Addressing human trafficking as a public health issue	16

“We are failing to act on the information we already have”: Family planning, abortion, and the Lalonde Report, 1969–1977	16
Transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in British Columbia’s largest school district during the second half of the 2020–2021 school year	15
Description and evaluation of a national humanitarian opioid poisoning education and naloxone distribution program	15
“I may be essential but someone has to look after my kids”: women physicians and COVID-19	15
Efficacy of calorie labelling for alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages on restaurant menus on noticing information, calorie knowledge, and perceived and actual influence on hypothetical beverage orde	13
Population Health and Health Promotion: What Do They Say to Each Other?	12
It’s time to make room for the next: a look back at the last ten years of the Canadian Journal of Public Health	12
Considerations of Nutrition in Relief work	12
Respiratory health and its determinants among Nunavimmiut: results from the Qanuilirpitaa? 2017 Nunavik Health Survey	12
An observational study of pain severity, cannabis use, and benefit expenditures in work disability	12
Everyday racism experiences, healthcare access, and self-rated health: A study of Black men in Ontario, Canada	12
Sensitivity and specificity of International Classification of Diseases algorithms (ICD-9 and ICD-10) used to identify opioid-related overdose cases: A systematic review and an example of estimation u	11
Inequities in dietary intake and eating behaviours among adolescents in Canada	11
Adolescent behavioural intentions: Secondary outcomes from a cluster randomized controlled trial of the Health4Life school-based lifestyle modification intervention	11
Public health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives of communication specialists, healthcare professionals, and community members in Quebec, Canada	11
Prevalence, incidence, and factors associated with pain-related disabilities, and experiences of limitations due to pain among First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples in Canada: A scoping review	11
Depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation in a population-based cohort of young adults before and during the first 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada	11
COVID-19 data and modeling: We need to learn from and act on our experiences	11
Multisectoral partnerships to tackle complex health issues at the community level: lessons from a Healthy Communities Approach in rural Alberta, Canada	10
“COP26: what is the message for public health?” Response from the Université de Montréal One Health initiative	10
Modernizing public health communication competencies in Canada: A survey of the Canadian public health workforce	10
Social mobility and mental health in Canada	10
Canada’s oral health and dental care inequalities and the Canadian Dental Care Plan	9
Taxing free sugar: the devil is in the resulting distribution of gains and pains	9
Recreational tobacco consumption and food insecurity among First Nations in Canada	9
Excess risk of COVID-19 infection and mental distress in healthcare workers during successive pandemic waves: Analysis of matched cohorts of healthcare workers and community referents in Alberta, Cana	9
Examining the role of industry lobbying on Canadian front-of-pack labelling regulations	9
Developing an alcohol strategy for the Northwest Territories: Evaluating global research evidence against rural and remote realities	9
Exploring communication by public health leaders and organizations during the pandemic: a content analysis of COVID-related tweets	9
Recreational water illness in Canada: a changing risk landscape in the context of climate change	9
Vaping control in Nova Scotia: using research to catalyze change	8
The promises and perils of a free rural inter-city transportation scheme: A mixed-methods study from Northern Saskatchewan	8
Correction: Oral healthcare disparities in Canada: filling in the gaps	8
Canada’s provincial COVID-19 pandemic modelling efforts: A review of mathematical models and their impacts on the responses	8
Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis	8
What can be done to address the expanding epidemics of bacterial sexually transmitted infections and their complications?	8
A call for upstream solutions to the unregulated drug crisis in British Columbia, Canada: Locked up or locked out	8
Workplace and non-workplace cannabis use and the risk of workplace injury: Findings from a longitudinal study of Canadian workers	8
Hand sanitizers with possible risks: problems and recommendations	7
Expanding supervised consumption services in rural Canada: Bridging gaps	7
Impact of Ontario’s Harmonized Heat Warning and Information System on emergency department visits for heat-related illness in Ontario, Canada: a population-based time series analysis	7
Correction: Routine vaccination coverage at ages 2 and 7, before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from the STARVAX surveillance system	7
Trends in population characteristics associated with mental health service use among youth and emerging adults in Canada from 2011 to 2016	7
Factors associated with the development, severity, and resolution of post COVID-19 condition in adults living in Canada, January 2020 to August 2022	7
Changes in health service use due to alcohol during the COVID-19 pandemic among individuals with and individuals without pre-existing alcohol-related medical diagnoses	7
The effect of take-home naloxone kits on opioid-related deaths in Alberta, Canada: An ecological analysis	7
Let’s outlive, not just live with, the COVID-19 virus using a ‘glocal’ health equity lens	7
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among blood donors in Québec: an update from a serial cross-sectional study	7
Tracking emergency response actions during COVID-19 leads to development of an innovative public health evaluation tool	7
Improving attribution of extreme heat deaths through interagency cooperation	6

The epidemiology of benzodiazepine-related toxicity in Ontario, Canada: a population-based descriptive study	6
The working conditions for personal support workers in the Greater Toronto Area during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study	6
Provincial and territorial results and recommendations from the Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation project: Room for improvement	6
Housing as a determinant of Inuit mental health: associations between improved housing measures and decline in psychological distress after rehousing in Nunavut and Nunavik	6
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on health-related quality of life of adults visiting emergency departments and primary care settings in Alberta	6
Cost analysis of COVID-19 test result notification using an automated messaging system compared to a staff caller practice in Alberta	6
Our health counts: In our voices	6
Response to Zhong and Rahman’s letter to the editor	6
‘You definitely choose struggling over humiliation’: Experiences of food insecurity in Nova Scotia, Canada, for LGBTQ + individuals	6
British Columbia’s COVID-19 surveys on population experiences, action, and knowledge (SPEAK): methods and key findings from two large cross-sectional online surveys	6
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on opioid toxicity mortality rates in Nova Scotia: An interrupted time series analysis (2009–2023)	6
Pathways of association between disordered eating in adolescence and mental health outcomes in young adulthood during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Key considerations for applying intersectionality theory to partner and stakeholder engagement in public health	6
Multimorbidity prevalence and chronic disease patterns among tuberculosis survivors in a high-income setting	6
Controlling the obesity pandemic: Geoffrey Rose revisited	6
Canada’s approach to SARS-CoV-2 sero-surveillance: Lessons learned for routine surveillance and future pandemics	6
Increase in alcohol outlets by neighbourhood socioeconomic status following the expansion of alcohol sales into convenience stores in Ontario, Canada	6
Contraceptive practices in Québec in relation to immigration: A cross-sectional analysis of data from the Québec Population Health Survey	6
First Nations and Inuit mental health and the Non-Insured Health Benefits program: Urgent priorities for evaluation	6
A comparison of the COVID-19 response for urban underserved patients experiencing healthcare transitions in three Canadian cities	6
Adolescent mental health in military families: Evidence from the Canadian Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study	5
Correction: Unmasking population undercounts, health inequities, and health service access barriers across Indigenous populations in urban Ontario	5
Working group engagement as a precondition of successful community engagement in an expert-led social marketing public health intervention: Learning from the footprints	5
Northwest Territories illicit drug trade and toxic drug crisis response	5
An assessment of federal alcohol policies in Canada and priority recommendations: Results from the 3rd Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation Project	5
The socioeconomic patterning of physical activity among middle-aged and older adults in Canada using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) data	5
The association between medical fitness facility attendance and incident mental disorders	5
Canada’s Census of Environment and public health	5
Canadian healthcare workers’ mental health and health behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from nine representative samples between April 2020 and February 2022	5
Delay in childhood vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
How environments can promote active aging: results from a case study of two municipalities in Quebec, Canada	5
Nats’eji (healing): Examining patient and provider experiences with hospital-based Indigenous wellness services in Northwest Territories, Canada	5
The availability and distribution of vaping retailers across Ontario neighbourhoods, 2016–2019	5
Understanding and attenuating pandemic-related disruptions: a plan to reduce inequalities in child development	5
Navigating inequities in the delivery of youth mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives of youth, families, and service providers	5
Correction to: Suboptimal oral health and the risk of cardiovascular disease in the presence of competing death: a data linkage analysis	5
Do Canadians have favourable attitudes towards reintroducing mask mandates?	5
Exploring factors associated with the physical, mental, and financial health of unpaid caregivers: An analysis of the Canadian National Caregiving Survey	5
The need for an expanded, evidence-based public health response to the overdose crisis and the toxic drug supply in Canada	5
Menstrual health inequities and “period poverty” in Canada	5
Lessons from an evaluation of an urban Indigenous food sharing initiative in Southwestern Ontario: “I feel like I’m nourishing my spirit”	5
Neonatal abstinence syndrome hospitalizations in Canada: a descriptive study	5
A cautionary tale: university institutes of public health must “walk the talk”	5
Decolonizing urban Indigenous healthcare: The potential of urban reserves	5
Associations of Indigenous language knowledge and physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual balance among First Nations living on reserve in British Columbia, Canada	4
Acute gastrointestinal illness burden associated with water recreation in high-income countries: A scoping review	4
TV time, physical activity, sedentary behaviour and cardiometabolic biomarkers in pregnancy—NHANES 2003–2006	4
Correction: Response to: Beyond hunger: The health costs of Canada’s charitable food model	4
Predictors of reported alcohol intake during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada among middle-aged and older adults: results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CL	4
The association between neighbourhood marginalization and SARS-CoV-2 outcomes in patients presenting to emergency departments	4
Public health systems and services research: an emerging field of research for CJPH to promote	4
Enablers and barriers to public health practice during COVID-19: Perspectives from local public leadership from across Canada	4
Geographical narcissism and Ontario’s opioid crisis	4
Why Canadians deserve to have mandated health and standard drink information labels on alcohol containers	4
Nuts'a'maat shqwaluwun — Knitting ways of life with Indigenous research principles to examine preterm birth in Quw'utsun	4
Factors associated with low self-compassion in young adults	4
Breast (female), colorectal, and lung cancer survival in people with intellectual or developmental disabilities: A population-based retrospective cohort study	4
Mental health and cultural continuity among an urban Indigenous population in Toronto, Canada	4
Emerging use of oral nicotine pouches among Canadian adolescents: Findings from the COMPASS-Quebec study	4
Drivers of medicalization in the Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines	4
Mental health and neurocognitive disorder–related hospitalization rates in immigrants and Canadian-born population: a linkage study	4
Occupational patterns of opioid-related harms comparing a cohort of formerly injured workers to the general population in Ontario, Canada	4
Promise and peril: how health system reforms impacted public health in three Canadian provinces	4
Defining the “local public health unit” for public health systems and services research in Canada	4
Integrating Afrocentric praxis in intimate partner violence and HIV care for African, Caribbean, and Black women: Navigating disclosure and access to services	4
Hospital burden of influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, and other respiratory viruses in Canada, seasons 2010/2011 to 2018/2019	4
Investigating the early impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on modifiable risk factors for cancer and chronic disease: a repeated cross-sectional study in Alberta, Canada	4
Willingness to disclose sexual orientation and gender identity on federal government surveys: A community-based research study with gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer men and nonbinary and Two-Spir	4
Sociocultural factors in relation to mental health within the Inuit population of Nunavik	4
Childcare use and the social-emotional and behavioural outcomes of late-preterm and early-term born children at age 5: An analysis of the All Our Families longitudinal cohort	4
Authors’ response: Re: Reifferscheid et al., “COVID-19 vaccine uptake and intention during pregnancy in Canada”	4
The association between chronic back problems and poor sleep quality among Ontarian adults aged 60 years and older: A cross-sectional study analyzing the Canadian Community Health Survey 2015–2016	4
Equity-oriented food supports: Learnings from the Nova Scotia COVID-19 pandemic response	4
The association between public health unit funding and vegetable and fruit intake in Ontario: A multilevel analysis of the 2013–2014 Canadian Community Health Survey	4
Making sense of recurrent boom and bust cycles in Canadian public health systems	4