Public Health

Article	Citations
Vaccine hesitancy in the era of COVID-19	800
Socio-economic status and COVID-19–related cases and fatalities	320
The Dahlgren-Whitehead model of health determinants: 30 years on and still chasing rainbows	201
Workplace violence in the emergency department: a systematic review and meta-analysis	108
Psychological impact of infectious disease outbreaks on pregnant women: rapid evidence review	99
Attitudes and opinions on quarantine and support for a contact-tracing application in France during the COVID-19 outbreak	98
ANTi-Vax: a novel Twitter dataset for COVID-19 vaccine misinformation detection	92
Sharp increase in depression and anxiety among Brazilian adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the PAMPA cohort	79
The real-life impact of vaccination on COVID-19 mortality in Europe and Israel	72
Correlates of children's physical activity during the COVID-19 confinement in Portugal	71
Social distancing as a public good under the COVID-19 pandemic	69
Cervical cancer screening uptake in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis	69
Technostress: how does it affect the productivity and life of an individual? Results of an observational study	65
Sociodemographic predictors of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance: a nationwide US-based survey study	63
Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccination intentions and attitudes in France	61
Socio-economic inequalities and COVID-19 incidence and mortality in Brazilian children: a nationwide register-based study	59
The relationship between depressive symptoms and activity of daily living disability among the elderly: results from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)	55
Indoor air quality and COVID-19	55
Effect of front-of-package nutrition labeling on food purchases: a systematic review	54
An analysis of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and fear mongering on Twitter	51
Association between overcrowded households, multigenerational households, and COVID-19: a cohort study	50
Palliative care education and its effectiveness: a systematic review	50
A meta-analysis of COVID-19 vaccine attitudes and demographic characteristics in the United States	49
Sociodemographic factors associated with COVID-19 in-hospital mortality in Brazil	49
What can internet users' behaviours reveal about the mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic? A systematic review	45

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of the general population about Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a systematic review and meta-analysis with policy recommendations	44
Factors affecting patient adherence to publicly funded colorectal cancer screening programmes: a systematic review	44
Hospital admission rates, length of stay, and in-hospital mortality for common acute care conditions in COVID-19 vs. pre-COVID-19 era	43
Relationship between parent–child attachment and depression among migrant children and left-behind children in China	42
Estimating influences of unemployment and underemployment on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: who suffers the most?	42
Timeliness and completeness of laboratory-based surveillance of COVID-19 cases in England	40
COVID-19 preventive behaviours among people with anxiety and depressive symptoms: findings from Japan	39
The relationship between fever rate and telework implementation as a social distancing measure against the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	39
Is the COVID-19 vaccine effective on the US financial market?	39
Asymptomatic infection and transmission of COVID-19 among clusters: systematic review and meta-analysis	38
Does smoking have an impact on the immunological response to COVID-19 vaccines? Evidence from the VASCO study and need for further studies	38
Sampling strategy, characteristics and representativeness of the InGef research database	37
Structural racism, socio-economic marginalization, and infant mortality	37
Public sentiment on the global outbreak of monkeypox: an unsupervised machine learning analysis of 352,182 twitter posts	36
Relationship between smoking and the incidence of sarcopenia: The SarcoPhAge cohort	36
Survival in adult inpatients with COVID-19	35
Preliminary indications of the burden of COVID-19 among people who inject drugs in England and Northern Ireland and the impact on access to health and harm reduction services	35
COVID-19 media fatigue: predictors of decreasing interest and avoidance of COVID-19–related news	35
Gambling and online trading: emerging risks of real-time stock and cryptocurrency trading platforms	33
Effectiveness of contact tracing and quarantine on reducing COVID-19 transmission: a retrospective cohort study	32
Predictors of severe symptomatic laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 reinfection	32
Devolution of healthcare system in Kenya: progress and challenges	32
Online ‘anti-vax’ campaigns and COVID-19: censorship is not the solution	31
What is the evidence that advertising policies could have an impact on gambling-related harms? A systematic umbrella review of the literature	31
Predictors of laboratory-positive COVID-19 in children and teenagers	30
COVID-19 vaccine rollout: will it affect the rates of vaccine hesitancy in Africa?	30
Return to work after COVID-19 infection – A Danish nationwide registry study	30
Obesity during the COVID-19 pandemic: both cause of high risk and potential effect of lockdown? A population-based electronic health record study	30
Resistance to COVID-19 vaccination has increased in Ireland and the United Kingdom during the pandemic	30
Smoking and incidence of insomnia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies	29
Trends in maternal age and the relationship between advanced age and adverse pregnancy outcomes: a population-based register study in Wuhan, China, 2010–2017	29
Mitigation policies, community mobility, and COVID-19 case counts in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore	29
Social and psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with Parkinson's disease: a scoping review	29
COVID-19 vaccination acceptability in the UK at the start of the vaccination programme: a nationally representative cross-sectional survey (CoVAccS – wave 2)	28
Academic burnout among medical students: respective importance of risk and protective factors	28
Essential public healthcare services utilization and excess non-COVID-19 mortality in Greece	28
Workplace violence against healthcare workers: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses	27
Gout in China, 1990–2017: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017	27
Doubled mortality rate during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: quantifying what is not captured by surveillance	27
Young people, mental health and COVID-19 infection: the canaries we put in the coal mine	26
Machine learning for predicting chronic diseases: a systematic review	26
COVID-19 fatality in Mexico's indigenous populations	26
Child and adolescent COVID-19 vaccination status and reasons for non-vaccination by parental vaccination status	26
Knowledge and awareness of COVID-19 among Indonesian migrant workers in the Greater China Region	25
Household food insecurity before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile	24
Food insecurity associated with higher COVID-19 infection in households with older adults	24
Insomnia and multiple health outcomes: umbrella review of meta-analyses of prospective cohort studies	24
Factors associated with postponed health checkups during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany	24
Digital marketing of products with poor nutritional quality: a major threat for children and adolescents	23
Perceived changes in lifestyle behaviours and in mental health and wellbeing of elementary school children during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Canada	23

COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy among patients with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis	23
Psychological distress, low-income, and socio-economic vulnerability in the COVID-19 pandemic	23
Public attitudes and influencing factors toward COVID-19 vaccination for adolescents/children: a scoping review	22
Condition-specific mortality risk can explain differences in COVID-19 case fatality ratios around the globe	22
Community-based cardiovascular disease prevention programmes and cardiovascular risk factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis	22
Understanding and addressing vaccine hesitancy in the context of COVID-19: development of a digital intervention	22
Particulate matter and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy: systematic review and meta-analysis	21
Investigation of the prevalence of non-COVID-19 infectious diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic	21
Behavioural determinants of COVID-19 vaccination acceptance among healthcare workers: a rapid review	21
Impact of recurrent outbreaks of Ebola virus disease in Africa: a meta-analysis of case fatality rates	21
Factors associated with reported likelihood to get vaccinated for COVID-19 in a nationally representative US survey	21
The challenge of COVID-19 for adult men and women in the United States: disparities of psychological distress by gender and age	21
Vaccine hesitancy in American healthcare workers during the COVID-19 vaccine roll out: an integrative review	20
Recommendations on screen time, sleep and physical activity: associations with academic achievement in Swiss adolescents	20
Determinants of survival after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection in Mexican outpatients and hospitalised patients	20
Early mandated social distancing is a strong predictor of reduction in peak daily new COVID-19 cases	20
Responding to the new International Classification of Diseases-11 prolonged grief disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic: a new bereavement network and three-tiered model of care	20
Economic relationships and health inequalities: improving public health recommendations	20
Longitudinal effects of COVID-19-related loneliness on symptoms of mental distress among older adults in Austria	19
Where England's pandemic response to COVID-19 went wrong	19
Relationship between formaldehyde exposure, respiratory irritant effects and cancers: a review of reviews	19
Trajectories of depression, anxiety and stress among adults during the COVID-19 pandemic in Southern Switzerland: the Corona Immunitas Ticino cohort study	19
Concordances and correlations between anthropometric indices of obesity: a systematic review	19
Non–COVID-19 excess deaths by age and gender in the United States during the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on preterm birth: a systematic review and meta-analysis	19
Online singing groups for people with dementia: scoping review	19
Global disease burden of COPD from 1990 to 2019 and prediction of future disease burden trend in China	18
What can be done to encourage women from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds to attend breast screening? A qualitative synthesis of barriers and facilitators	18
Racial disparities in COVID-19 hospitalizations do not lead to disparities in outcomes	18
Epidemiology of post-COVID conditions beyond 1 year: a cross-sectional study	18
Linking national public services data to estimate the prevalence of intellectual disabilities in The Netherlands: results from an explorative population-based study	18
How well do area-based deprivation indices identify income- and employment-deprived individuals across Great Britain today?	18
Curating wellness during a pandemic in Singapore: COVID-19, museums, and digital imagination	17
Ukraine refugee crisis: evolving needs and challenges	17
COVID-19 survey burden for health care workers: literature review and audit	17
Home-made masks with filtration efficiency for nano-aerosols for community mitigation of COVID-19 pandemic	17
Joint trajectories of disability and related factors among older adults in China	17
Vulnerable migrants’ access to healthcare in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK	17
Determinants of health-related quality of life among homeless individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Adverse childhood experiences and co-occurring psychological distress and substance abuse among juvenile offenders: the role of protective factors	17
Delays in polio vaccination programs due to COVID-19 in Pakistan: a major threat to Pakistan's long war against polio virus	17
Developing a conceptual framework for flexible surge capacity based on complexity and collaborative theoretical frameworks	17
Temporal trends in voluntary behavioural changes during the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak in Japan	16
Clinical characteristics, attendance outcomes and deaths of homeless persons in the emergency department: implications for primary health care and community prevention programmes	16
Important factors affecting COVID-19 transmission and fatality in metropolises	16
Biomass fuel use and acute respiratory infection among children younger than 5 years in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	16
How survey mode affects estimates of the prevalence of gambling harm: a multisurvey study	16
Building health-promoting sports clubs: a participative concept mapping approach	16
Successful interruption of seasonal influenza transmission under the COVID-19 rapid response in Zhejiang Province, China	16
Socio-economic inequalities in health among older adults in China	16
Enhanced surveillance of COVID-19 in Scotland: population-based seroprevalence surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 during the first wave of the epidemic	16
Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on smoking and vaping: systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Effectiveness of contact tracing to reduce fatality from COVID-19: preliminary evidence from Colombia	15
Effects of Zentangle art workplace health promotion activities on rural healthcare workers	15
Does vitamin D deficiency increase the risk of obesity in adults and the elderly? A systematic review of prospective cohort studies	15
Routine testing of close contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases – National COVID-19 Contact Management Programme, Ireland, May to August 2020	15
Even Mists Have Silver Linings: Promoting LGBTQ+ Acceptance and Solidarity through Community-Based Theatre in India	15
Cold indoor temperatures and their association with health and well-being: a systematic literature review	15
Malnutrition and nutritional deficiencies in children with cerebral palsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis	15
First COVID-19 case in the Rohingya camp in Bangladesh: needs proper attention	15
Global burden of gastric cancer in adolescents and young adults: estimates from GLOBOCAN 2020	15
Effects of social participation and physical activity on all-cause mortality among older adults in Norfolk, England: an investigation of the EPIC-Norfolk study	15
The association between patient activation and healthcare resources utilization: a systematic review and meta-analysis	14
COgnitive enhancement and consumption of psychoactive Substances among Youth Students (COSYS): a cross-sectional study in France	14
Trends and disparities in diabetes and prediabetes among adults in the United States, 1999–2018	14
Incidence and determinants of catastrophic health expenditures and impoverishment in Pakistan	14
Legalisation of e-scooters in the UK: the injury rate and pattern is similar to those of bicycles in an inner city metropolitan area	14
Identification of potential lockdown areas during COVID-19 transmission in Punjab, Pakistan	14
The relation between the social and the biological and COVID-19	14
Climate anxiety in Germany	14
Changes in fears and worries related to COVID-19 during the pandemic among current employees in Japan: a 5-month longitudinal study	14
COVID-19 vaccine dilemmas	14
Factors influencing the COVID-19 daily deaths' peak across European countries	14
The prevalence of non-communicable diseases among Syrian refugees in Syria's neighbouring host countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Life expectancy inequalities in Wales before COVID-19: an exploration of current contributions by age and cause of death and changes between 2002 and 2018	13
Community-based response to the COVID-19 pandemic: case study of a home isolation centre using flexible surge capacity	13
Prevalence and factors associated with sexual violence among women aged 15–49 years in rural Uganda: evidence from the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey 2016	13
Trends and instigators among young adolescent suicide in the United States	13
Workplace violence among healthcare workers, a multicenter study in Italy	13
Public discourse and sentiment during Mpox outbreak: an analysis using natural language processing	13

Frozen food: is it safe to eat during COVID-19 pandemic?	13
Length of stay, hospitalisation costs and in-hospital mortality of methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in Japan	13
The public health community's use of social media for policy advocacy: a scoping review and suggestions to advance the field	13
Cyberbullying and problematic social media use: an insight into the positive role of social support in adolescents—data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study in Italy	13
Excess deaths from COVID-19 in Japan and 47 prefectures from January through June 2021	13
Role of non–face-to-face social contacts in moderating the association between living alone and mental health among community-dwelling older adults: a cross-sectional study	13
‘Why are you not dead yet?’ – dimensions and the main driving forces of stigma and discrimination among COVID-19 patients in Sri Lanka	13
Increases in ‘deaths of despair’ during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and the United Kingdom	13
Natural disasters: a comprehensive study using EMDAT database 1995–2022	13
Economic burden of public health care and hospitalisation associated with COVID-19 in China	13
COVID-19 incidence in border regions: spatiotemporal patterns and border control measures	13
Arts on prescription: observed changes in anxiety, depression, and well-being across referral cycles	13
Multiple deprivation and geographic distance to community physical activity events — achieving equitable access to parkrun in England	12
Parental perceptions of COVID-19–like illness in their children	12
The economic burden of overweight and obesity in Brazil: perspectives for the Brazilian Unified Health System	12
Long-term trends in the incidence of congenital anomalies in Central China from 1997 to 2019	12
Teachers’ emotional well-being during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic with long school closures: a large-scale cross-sectional survey in Northern Italy	12
Home participation, support and barriers among children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Comparative efficacy of respiratory personal protective equipment against viral respiratory infectious diseases in healthcare workers: a network meta-analysis	12
Regulation of gambling in Sub-Saharan Africa: findings from a comparative policy analysis	12
Cervical cancer screening utilization, and associated factors, in Nepal: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Acceptability of childhood screening: a systematic narrative review	12
Role of social responsibility in prevention of the COVID-19 outbreak from systems thinking perspective	12
Health literacy and behavioral health factors in adults	12
Vaccination, life expectancy, and trust: patterns of COVID-19 and measles vaccination rates around the world	11
Do members of the public think they should use lateral flow tests (LFT) or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests when they have COVID-19-like symptoms? The COVID-19 Rapid Survey of Adherence to Interv	11
Self-reported health behaviors and risk perceptions following the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in the USA: an online survey study	11
Mental health and resilience: Arts on Prescription for children and young people in a school setting	11
Healthcare indicators associated with COVID-19 death rates in the European Union	11
Fear of falling and associated factors among older adults in Southeast Asia: a systematic review	11
Prevalence of eviction, home foreclosure, and homelessness among low-income US veterans: the National Veteran Homeless and Other Poverty Experiences study	11
Prevalence of central obesity in Nigeria: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Compassionate communities – What does this mean for roles such as a death doula in end-of-life care?	11
“I didn't know I have the capacity to be creative”: children's experiences of how creativity promoted their sense of well-being. A pilot randomised controlled study in school arts therapies	11
Wellbeing among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review of longitudinal studies	11
Impact of COVID-19 on birth rate trends in the Italian Metropolitan Cities of Milan, Genoa and Turin	11
Living with endemic COVID-19	11
Non-adherence to COVID-19 lockdown: who are they? A cross-sectional study in Portugal	11
Is the pandemic leading to a crisis of trust? Insights from an Italian nationwide study	11
Childhood immunization appointment reminders and recalls: strengths, weaknesses and opportunities to increase vaccine coverage	11
Estimating COVID-19 recovery time in a cohort of Italian healthcare workers who underwent surveillance swab testing	11
An exploration of the impact of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) restrictions on marginalised groups in the UK	11
Racial/ethnic and income disparities in neighborhood-level broadband access in 905 US cities, 2017–2021	11
Evaluation of the allocation efficiency of medical and health resources in China's rural three-tier healthcare system	11
Association between chronic disease and depression among older adults in China: the moderating role of social participation	11
What do young adults know about palliative care? A cross-sectional survey	11
Evolution of social mood in Spain throughout the COVID-19 vaccination process: a machine learning approach to tweets analysis	11
Influence of malaria endemicity and tuberculosis prevalence on COVID-19 mortality	11
Insight the data: Wikipedia's researches and real cases of arboviruses in Italy	11
Association of multimorbidity of non-communicable diseases with mortality: a 10-year prospective study of 0.5 million Chinese adults	11
Adverse childhood experiences during childhood and academic attainment at age 7 and 11 years: an electronic birth cohort study	10
Housing instability and mental health among renters in the michigan recession and recovery study	10
Cost of treating metastatic colorectal cancer: a systematic review	10
COVID-19 deaths in children: comparison with all- and other causes and trends in incidence of mortality	10
Vaccines for COVID-19: learning from ten phase II trials to inform clinical and public health vaccination programmes	10
Investigating the relationship between reopening the economy and implementing control measures during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Trends in sexually transmitted infection screening during COVID-19 and missed cases among adolescents	10
Evaluation of work resumption strategies after COVID-19 reopening in the Chinese city of Shenzhen: a mathematical modeling study	10
Are we suffering from the Peltzman effect? Risk perception among recovered and vaccinated people during the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel	10
Understanding the societal factors of vaccine acceptance and hesitancy: evidence from Hong Kong	10
Mortality comparisons of COVID-19 with all-cause and non-communicable diseases in Cyprus, Iceland and Malta: lessons learned and forward planning	10
Long-term particulate matter 2.5 exposure and dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine: need of a reasoned and effective vaccine campaign	10
Long-term quality of life among breast cancer survivors eligible for screening at diagnosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Trajectories of loneliness, depressive symptoms, and anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria	10
Science communication in the media and human mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic: a time series and content analysis	10
Inter-relationship of risk factors and pathways associated with chronic kidney disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a structural equation modelling analysis	10
Physical activity, sedentary behaviour and cannabis use in 15,822 US adults: cross-sectional analyses from NHANES	10
Feasibility, satisfaction, acceptability and safety of telehealth for First Nations and culturally and linguistically diverse people: a scoping review	10
Urban–rural disparities in old-age mortality vary systematically with age: evidence from Germany and England & Wales	10
Socio-economic inequalities in physical activity among Japanese adults during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Insurance status and risk of suicide mortality among patients with cancer: a retrospective study based on the SEER database	10
The lagged effect of state gun laws on the reduction of state-level firearm homicide mortality in the United States from 1999 to 2017	10
Low uptake of COVID-19 lateral flow testing among university students: a mixed methods evaluation	9
At-risk population for COVID-19: multimorbidity characteristics of a European small Island state	9
First-generation BNT162b2 and AZD1222 vaccines protect from COVID-19 pneumonia during the Omicron variant emergence	9
Global, regional, and national trends in osteoarthritis disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) from 1990 to 2019: a comprehensive analysis of the global burden of disease study	9
Tetanus vaccination in pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the global literature	9
Understanding the impact of an intergenerational arts and health project: a study into the psychological well-being of participants, carers and artists	9
Indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of non–COVID-19 infectious diseases: a region-wide, patient-based database study in Japan	9
Correlations between control of COVID-19 transmission and influenza occurrences in Malaysia	9
Contextualising gender intersectionality with the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Word cloud analysis of historical changes in the subject matter of public health practice in the United Kingdom	9
In pursuit of the right tail for the COVID-19 incubation period	9
Does fact-checking habit promote COVID-19 knowledge during the pandemic? Evidence from China	9
Trends in negative emotions throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	9
The Philippine HIV crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic: a worsening crisis	9
COVID-19 incidence, hospitalizations and mortality trends in Croatia and school closures	9
Factors influencing the effective management of diabetes during humanitarian crises in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review	9
Reasons for participation and non-participation in colorectal cancer screening	9
Community preferences for the allocation of scarce healthcare resources during the COVID-19 pandemic: a review of the literature	9
Trends and predictors of birth weight in Chilean children	9
Predicting the trend of infectious diseases using grey self-memory system model: a case study of the incidence of tuberculosis	9
COVID-19 vaccination amongst persons experiencing homelessness: practices and learnings from UK, Canada and the US	9
COVID-19 transport restrictions in Ireland: impact on air quality and respiratory hospital admissions	9