Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on social relationships and health121
Unequal impact of the COVID-19 crisis on minority ethnic groups: a framework for understanding and addressing inequalities110
Low assets and financial stressors associated with higher depression during COVID-19 in a nationally representative sample of US adults100
Estimating the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, life expectancy and lifespan inequality in England and Wales: a population-level analysis95
Nationwide seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 and identification of risk factors in the general population of the Netherlands during the first epidemic wave79
Social inequality and the syndemic of chronic disease and COVID-19: county-level analysis in the USA76
Tuberculosis in times of COVID-1976
Body dissatisfaction predicts the onset of depression among adolescent females and males: a prospective study68
Socioeconomic inequalities associated with mortality for COVID-19 in Colombia: a cohort nationwide study58
How does vulnerability to COVID-19 vary between communities in England? Developing a Small Area Vulnerability Index (SAVI)58
Patterns of compliance with COVID-19 preventive behaviours: a latent class analysis of 20 000 UK adults52
Changes in the behavioural determinants of health during the COVID-19 pandemic: gender, socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities in five British cohort studies52
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the workforce: from psychological distress to the Great Resignation47
Monitoring sociodemographic inequality in COVID-19 vaccination uptake in England: a national linked data study45
Do people reduce compliance with COVID-19 guidelines following vaccination? A longitudinal analysis of matched UK adults44
Health trends, inequalities and opportunities in South Africa’s provinces, 1990–2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study43
Food insecurity is associated with mental health problems among Canadian youth40
Prescription of anxiolytics, sedatives, hypnotics and antidepressants in outpatient, universal care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal: a nationwide, interrupted time-series approach38
Social deprivation as a risk factor for COVID-19 mortality among women and men in the UK Biobank: nature of risk and context suggests that social interventions are essential to mitigate the effects of37
Does thinking make it so? Differential associations between adversity worries and experiences and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic37
How does income affect mental health and health behaviours? A quasi-experimental study of the earned income tax credit37
Job loss and lower healthcare utilisation due to COVID-19 among older adults across 27 European countries37
Gender-inclusive writing for epidemiological research on pregnancy36
Sociodemographic determinants of intraurban variations in COVID-19 incidence: the case of Barcelona35
Electromagnetic fields, 5G and health: what about the precautionary principle?34
After the bell: adolescents’ organised leisure-time activities and well-being in the context of social and socioeconomic inequalities31
Frequent police stops, parental incarceration and mental health: results among US non-Hispanic Black and White adolescent girls and boys31
Sex and gender terminology: a glossary for gender-inclusive epidemiology30
Biological ageing and the risks of all-cause and cause-specific mortality among people with diabetes: a prospective cohort study30
Occupational differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection: analysis of the UK ONS COVID-19 infection survey30
Household and area-level social determinants of multimorbidity: a systematic review29
Incidence of psychological illness after coronavirus outbreak: a meta-analysis study28
Framework for understanding health inequalities over the life course: the embodiment dynamic and biological mechanisms of exogenous and endogenous origin27
Stigma: the social virus spreading faster than COVID-1927
Deaths from ‘diseases of despair’ in Britain: comparing suicide, alcohol-related and drug-related mortality for birth cohorts in Scotland, England and Wales, and selected cities27
Structural racism, racial inequities and urban–rural differences in infant mortality in the US26
Suicide risk with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and other new-generation antidepressants in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies25
Trends in healthy life expectancy in the age of austerity24
Socioeconomic position and SARS-CoV-2 infections: seroepidemiological findings from a German nationwide dynamic cohort24
Gender-based violence and its association with mental health among Somali women in a Kenyan refugee camp: a latent class analysis24
Medication adherence in community-dwelling older people exposed to chronic polypharmacy24
Bearing the burden of austerity: how do changing mortality rates in the UK compare between men and women?24
Housing and health inequities during COVID-19: findings from the national Household Pulse Survey24
National movement patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand: the unexplored role of neighbourhood deprivation23
Effects of depression on employment and social outcomes: a Mendelian randomisation study22
Long COVID-19, persistent somatic symptoms and social stigmatisation22
Building health equity through housing policies: critical reflections and future directions for research21
Excess mortality among essential workers in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic21
Health of people experiencing co-occurring homelessness, imprisonment, substance use, sex work and/or severe mental illness in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis21
Is area deprivation associated with greater impacts of COVID-19 in care homes across England? A preliminary analysis of COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths21
Association of sleep duration with all-cause and disease-specific mortality in US adults21
Association between community-level social capital and frailty onset among older adults: a multilevel longitudinal study from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES)21
Causal inference and effect estimation using observational data21
Social inequalities and the pandemic of COVID-19: the case of Rio de Janeiro20
Religious affiliation and COVID-19-related mortality: a retrospective cohort study of prelockdown and postlockdown risks in England and Wales20
COVID-19 infection and outcomes in a population-based cohort of 17 203 adults with intellectual disabilities compared with the general population20
Life course socioeconomic position and DNA methylation age acceleration in mid-life19
Type 2 diabetes mellitus and antibiotic-resistant infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis19
Goldilocks Days: optimising children’s time use for health and well-being19
Characteristics of those most vulnerable to employment changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationally representative cross-sectional study in Wales18
Association between neighbourhood deprivation and hypertension in a US-wide Cohort18
Completeness and representativeness of small area socioeconomic data linked with the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)18
Housing and health: an updated glossary18
COVID-19 related health inequality exists even in a city where disease incidence is relatively low: a telephone survey in Hong Kong18
Changes in health and social well-being in the COVID-19 clinically vulnerable older English population during the pandemic18
Linking physical and social environments with mental health in old age: a multisensor approach for continuous real-life ecological and emotional assessment17
Knowing the goal: an inclusive economy that can address the public health challenges of our time17
Effectiveness of social prescribing for chronic disease prevention in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials17
Impact of cuts to local government spending on Sure Start children’s centres on childhood obesity in England: a longitudinal ecological study17
Intersectorality and health: a glossary16
Economic burden of low physical activity and high sedentary behaviour in Finland16
Trends in inequalities in disability in Europe between 2002 and 201716
Suicide attempt and intentional self-harm during the earlier phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Washtenaw County, Michigan15
Disentangling contributions of demographic, family, and socioeconomic factors on associations of immigration status and health in the United States15
Under the spotlight: understanding the role of the Chief Medical Officer in a pandemic15
Adverse employment histories and allostatic load: associations over the working life15
Cost-effectiveness of extending the HPV vaccination to boys: a systematic review15
Does persistent precarious employment affect health outcomes among working age adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis15
Inequitable impact of infection: social gradients in severe COVID-19 outcomes among all confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases during the first pandemic wave in Sweden15
Dental attendance and behavioural pathways to adult oral health inequalities15
Does the timing and duration of mental health problems during childhood and adolescence matter for labour market participation of young adults?14
Substitutions of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep: associations with mental health in middle-aged and elderly persons14
Association of socioeconomic deprivation with opioid prescribing in primary care in England: a spatial analysis14
Estimating patterns in the under-reporting of suicide deaths in India: comparison of administrative data and Global Burden of Disease Study estimates, 2005–201514
Impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on hospital presentations and admissions in the context of low community transmission: evidence from time series analysis in Melbourne, Australia14
Impact of lockdown on key workers: findings from the COVID-19 survey in four UK national longitudinal studies14
Association of education levels with the risk of hypertension and hypertension control: a nationwide cohort study in Chinese adults14
Occupation and COVID-19 diagnosis, hospitalisation and ICU admission among foreign-born and Swedish-born employees: a register-based study14
Association between democratic governance and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study14
Importance of population-based longitudinal studies to understanding the impact of COVID-1914
Hospital readmission among people experiencing homelessness in England: a cohort study of 2772 matched homeless and housed inpatients13
Socioeconomic inequalities in physical and cognitive functioning: cross-sectional evidence from 37 cohorts across 28 countries in the ATHLOS project13
Effectiveness of community interventions for protecting and promoting the mental health of working-age adults experiencing financial uncertainty: a systematic review13
Drug prescriptions and dementia incidence: a medication-wide association study of 17000 dementia cases among half a million participants13
Roles of allostatic load, lifestyle and clinical risk factors in mediating the association between education and coronary heart disease risk in Europe13
Self-report of chronic diseases in old-aged individuals: extent of agreement with general practitioner medical records in the German AugUR study13
Impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children and young people: an umbrella review13
Working while sick in context of regional unemployment: a Europe-wide cross-sectional study13
Mortality disparities and deprivation among people with intellectual disabilities in England: 2000–201913
Indigenous Peoples, concentrated disadvantage, and income inequality in New Mexico: a ZIP code-level investigation of spatially varying associations between socioeconomic disadvantages and confirmed C13
Purposes and duties in scientific modelling13
Interrogating structural inequalities in COVID-19 mortality in England and Wales12
Complex systems models for causal inference in social epidemiology12
Uterine fibroids and incidence of depression, anxiety and self-directed violence: a cohort study12
Low-income neighbourhood was a key determinant of severe COVID-19 incidence during the first wave of the epidemic in Paris12
Scaling COVID-19 against inequalities: should the policy response consistently match the mortality challenge?12
Overview of retrospective data harmonisation in the MINDMAP project: process and results12
Income and neighbourhood deprivation in relation to obesity in urban dwelling children 0–12 years of age: a cross-sectional study from 2013 to 201912
Deprivation and exposure to public activities during the COVID-19 pandemic in England and Wales12
Longitudinal effects of perinatal social support on maternal depression: a marginal structural modelling approach12
The inter-relationship between depressed mood, functional decline and disability over a 10-year observational period within the Longitudinal Urban Cohort Ageing Study (LUCAS)12
Violent victimisation trajectories from adolescence through adulthood: consequences for sleep problems12
Hospitalisation and mortality from COVID-19 in Mexican indigenous people: a cross-sectional observational study12
Prevalence of type 2 diabetes by age, sex and geographical area among two million public assistance recipients in Japan: a cross-sectional study using a nationally representative claims database12
Comparing population-level mental health of UK workers before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study using Understanding Society11
Occupational socioeconomic risk associations for head and neck cancer in Europe and South America: individual participant data analysis of pooled case–control studies within the INHANCE Consortium11
Childhood adversity and trajectories of multimorbidity in mid-late life: China health and longitudinal retirement study11
Influence of childhood socioeconomic position and ability on mid-life cognitive function: evidence from three British birth cohorts11
Disability pension and mortality in individuals with specific somatic and mental disorders: examining differences between refugees and Swedish-born individuals11
Levels of economic growth and cross-province spread of the COVID-19 in China11
BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic): the ‘new normal’ in collective terminology11
Adverse childhood experiences and adult health: the need for stronger study designs to evaluate impact11
Testing the socioeconomic determinants of COVID-19 pandemic hypothesis with aggregated Human Development Index11
Mental distress among young people in inner cities: the Resilience, Ethnicity and AdolesCent Mental Health (REACH) study11
Multimorbidity pattern and risk of dementia in later life: an 11-year follow-up study using a large community cohort and linked electronic health records11
Work-related and personal predictors of COVID-19 transmission: evidence from the UK and USA11
Relationship between loneliness, social isolation and modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease: a latent class analysis11
Association between social activity frequency and overall survival in older people: results from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS)11
Exploring the associations of daily movement behaviours and mid-life cognition: a compositional analysis of the 1970 British Cohort Study11
Time trend analysis of social inequalities in psychological distress among young adults before and during the pandemic: evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study COVID-19 waves11
Long-term exposure to ambient fine particulate matter originating from traffic and residential wood combustion and the prevalence of depression10
Associations between modifiable risk factors and frailty: a Mendelian randomisation study10
Prospective association between receipt of the economic impact payment and mental health outcomes10
Educational disparities in ischaemic heart disease among 0.5 million Chinese adults: a cohort study10
Inequalities in COVID-19 deaths by migration background during the first wave, interwave period and second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a closed cohort study of 17 million inhabitants of the Netherl9
Accuracy of the Veterans Health Administration COVID-19 (VACO) Index for predicting short-term mortality among 1307 US academic medical centre inpatients and 427 224 US Medicare patients9
Research priorities for mental health in schools in the wake of COVID-199
Association of education level with diabetes prevalence in Latin American cities and its modification by city social environment9
Income and outcomes of patients with incident atrial fibrillation9
Occupational health, frontline workers and COVID-19 lockdown: new gender-related inequalities?9
Impact of the national home safety equipment scheme ‘Safe At Home’ on hospital admissions for unintentional injury in children under 5: a controlled interrupted time series analysis9
Measuring older people’s socioeconomic position: a scoping review of studies of self-rated health, health service and social care use9
Association of US state policy orientation with adverse birth outcomes: a longitudinal analysis9
Treatment gaps, 1-year readmission and mortality following myocardial infarction by diabetes status, sex and socioeconomic disadvantage9
Exposure to unhealthy food and beverage advertising during the school commute in Australia9
Peptic ulcer as mediator of the association between risk of gastric cancer and socioeconomic status, tobacco smoking, alcohol drinking and salt intake8
Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 during the first three waves in Scotland: a national record linkage study8
Social and physical neighbourhood characteristics and loneliness among older adults: results from the MINDMAP project8
Investigating the association between income inequality in youth and deaths of despair in Canada: a population-based cohort study from 2006 to 20198
Psychosocial work factors and blood pressure among 63 800 employees from The Netherlands in the Lifelines Cohort Study8
Tobacco and alcohol consumption and the risk of frailty and falling: a Mendelian randomisation study8
Patterns of intimate partner violence against women in Europe: prevalence and associated risk factors8
Reversals in past long-term trends in educational inequalities in life expectancy for selected European countries8
Healthy cities after COVID-19 pandemic: the just ecofeminist healthy cities approach8
Socioeconomic status during youth and risk of car crash during adulthood. Findings from the DRIVE cohort study8
Green spaces, subjective health and depressed affect in middle-aged and older adults: a cross-country comparison of four European cohorts8
Interpretation of COVID-19 case fatality risk measures in England8
Global DNA hypermethylation in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and cardiovascular disease risk: a population-based propensity score-matched cohort study7
Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among older recipients of public welfare assistance in Japan7
War in Nagorno-Karabakh highlights the vulnerability of displaced populations to COVID-197
Association of census tract-level incarceration rate and life expectancy in New York State7
Subjective social position and cognitive function in a longitudinal cohort of older, rural South African adults, 2014–20197
Self-care, social norms and anomie during COVID-19: from contestation of the greater good to building future normative resilience in the UK7
Not belonging where others do: a cross-sectional analysis of multi-level social capital interactions on health and mental well-being in Wales7
Trends in disability-free life expectancy at age 50 years in Australia between 2001 and 2011 by social disadvantage7
Behavioural interventions for CVD risk reduction for blue-collar workers: a systematic review7
Association between maternal employment status during pregnancy and risk of depressive symptomatology 1 month after childbirth: the Japan Environment and Children’s Study7
Socioeconomic position at the age of 30 and the later risk of a mental disorder: a nationwide population-based register study7
Risk of major cardiovascular events according to educational level before and after the initial COVID-19 public lockdown: a nationwide study7
Has COVID-19 increased inequality in mortality by income in the Netherlands?6
Exploring multilevel social determinants of depressive symptoms for Tanzanian adolescents: evidence from a cross-sectional study6
Excess mortality among essential workers in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic: an updated analysis6
Are housing circumstances associated with faster epigenetic ageing?6
Glossary on free trade agreements and health part 2: new trade rules and new urgencies in the context of COVID-196
Childhood adversity is associated with hospitalisations and survival following external causes and non-communicable diseases: a 46-year follow-up of a Stockholm birth cohort6
Gender, marital and educational inequalities in mid- to late-life depressive symptoms: cross-cohort variation and moderation by urbanicity degree6
Socioeconomic gaps over time in colorectal cancer survival in England: flexible parametric survival analysis6
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 into and within immigrant households: nationwide registry study from Norway6
Mathematical modelling and projecting the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Europe6
Associations between household air pollution and early child development among children aged 36–59 months in Bangladesh6
Indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its containment measures on social inequalities in hospital utilisation in Italy6
Intervention to address homelessness and all-cause and suicide mortality among unstably housed US Veterans, 2012–20166
Sociodemographic disparities in COVID-19 burden: changing patterns over four pandemic waves in Israel6
Spillover effects of adult children’s schooling on parents’ smoking cessation: evidence from China’s compulsory schooling reform6
Association between matched chronotype and poor mental health among shift workers: a systematic review and meta‐analysis6
Early impact of the DREAMS partnership on young women’s knowledge of their HIV status: causal analysis of population-based surveys in Kenya and South Africa6
Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies over 18 months following infection: UK Biobank COVID-19 Serology Study6
Equity impact of participatory learning and action community mobilisation and mHealth interventions to prevent and control type 2 diabetes and intermediate hyperglycaemia in rural Bangladesh: analysis6
Racial inequality, racial discrimination and obesity incidence in adults from the ELSA-Brasil cohort6
Closing the health inequity gap during the pandemic: COVID-19 mortality among racial and ethnic groups in Connecticut, March 2020 to December 20216
Effect of smoking on physical function in older adults: a Mendelian randomisation analysis6
Evidence of disparities in the provision of the maternal postpartum 6-week check in primary care in England, 2015–2018: an observational study using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)6
High levels of high-sensitivity C reactive protein to albumin ratio can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease6
Joint association between education and polygenic risk score for incident coronary heart disease events: a longitudinal population-based study of 26 203 men and women6
Effectiveness of a motivational intervention based on spirometry results to achieve smoking cessation in primary healthcare patients: randomised, parallel, controlled multicentre study5
Social capital and geographical variation in the incidence of COVID-19: an ecological study5
Epidemiological observations on breaking COVID-19 transmission: from the experience of Taiwan5
Do partnership dissolutions and living alone affect systemic chronic inflammation? A cohort study of Danish adults5
Trends in psychological distress in Great Britain, 1991–2019: evidence from three representative surveys5
Trajectories of work ability from mid-life to pensionable age and their association with retirement timing5
Does a physical activity supportive environment ameliorate or exacerbate socioeconomic inequities in incident coronary heart disease?5
Multimorbidity as assessed by reporting of multiple causes of death: variations by period, sociodemographic characteristics and place of death among older decedents in England and Wales, 2001–20175
Psychiatric consequences of a father’s leave policy by nativity: a quasi-experimental study in Sweden5
COVID-19 distribution in Bogotá, Colombia: effect of poverty during the first 2 months of pandemic5
Intimate partner violence and social connection among married women in rural Bangladesh5
Non-response and attrition in longitudinal studies5
Agreement between self-reported diseases from health surveys and national health registry data: a Danish nationwide study5
What are the mental health consequences of austerity measures in public housing? A quasi-experimental study5
The association between housing cost burden and avoidable mortality in wealthy countries: cross-national analysis of social and housing policies, 2000-20175
Trajectories of phenotypical frailty over a decade in young–old community-dwelling adults: results from the Lc65+ study5
Factors related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among middle-income and low-income adults in the USA5
Status and disparities of diabetes among urban and rural residents aged 40 years and older: insight from a population-based study in northeast China, 2017–20195
Dietary patterns and oesophageal cancer: a multi-country latent class analysis5
Widening of inequalities in COVID-19 years of life lost from 2020 to 2021: a Scottish Burden of Disease Study5
Psychotherapy and change in mental health-related work disability: a prospective Finnish population-level register-based study with a quasi-experimental design5
Natural history of mental health competence from childhood to adolescence5
Early adulthood socioeconomic trajectories contribute to inequalities in adult cardiovascular health, independently of childhood and adulthood socioeconomic position5
Association of infection withToxoplasma gondiiandToxocaraon cognitive function among US adults aged 60 and over, NHANES 2011–20145
Traumatic brain injury, collision sports participation, and neurodegenerative disorders: narrative power, scientific evidence, and litigation5
Prediction models of diabetes complications: a scoping review5
Exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) during landscape fire events and the risk of cardiorespiratory emergency department attendances: a time-series study in Perth, Western Australia5
Prevention of COVID-19 among populations experiencing multiple social exclusions5
Inequalities persist in Europe—and COVID-19 does not help4
Direct and indirect effects of socioeconomic status on sepsis risk and mortality: a mediation analysis of the HUNT Study4
The role of perceived discrimination in predicting changes in health behaviours among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study4
Development and validation of a predictive algorithm for risk of dementia in the community setting4
Children’s right to the city and their independent mobility: why it matters for public health4
Comparison of urban and rural mortality rates across the lifespan in Aotearoa/New Zealand: a population-level study4
Causal links between socioeconomic status, leisure sedentary behaviours and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: a multivariable two-sample Mendelian randomisation study4
Social inequalities in child development: the role of differential exposure and susceptibility to stressful family conditions4
Early parental death and its association with children’s mental and economic well-being in adulthood: a nationwide population-based register study4
Residential mobility and potentially avoidable hospitalisations in a population-based cohort of New Zealand children4
Non-pharmaceutical interventions and COVID-19 cases in US summer camps: results from an American Camp Association survey4
Food insecurity and its association with health and well-being in middle-aged and older adults in India4
Glossary: economics and health4
Psychosocial consequences of invitation to colorectal cancer screening: a matched cohort study4
Effect of a conditional cash transfer programme on infant up-to-date and timely vaccination4
Short-term exposure to ambient air pollution and readmissions for heart failure among 3660 post-discharge patients with hypertension in older Chinese adults4
Trends in social inequality in mortality in Denmark 1995–2019: the contribution of smoking- and alcohol-related deaths4
Adverse effects related to tattoos in the community setting: a systematic review4
Testing and refining middle-range theory in evaluations of public-health interventions: evidence from recent systematic reviews and trials4
Association between long working hours and physical inactivity in middle-aged and older adults: a Korean longitudinal study (2006–2020)4
Systems science methods in public health: what can they contribute to our understanding of and response to the cost-of-living crisis?4
Association between sleep quality and type 2 diabetes at 20-year follow-up in the Southall and Brent REvisited (SABRE) cohort: a triethnic analysis4
Widening educational inequalities in mortality in more recent birth cohorts: a study of 14 European countries4
Creative leisure activities, mental health and well-being during 5 months of the COVID-19 pandemic: a fixed effects analysis of data from 3725 US adults4
Do chronic diseases moderate the association between psychosocial working conditions and work exit? Longitudinal results from 55 950 Dutch workers4
Need for better reporting of trials with surrogate endpoints: SPIRIT|CONSORT-SURROGATE extensions4
Strategy for primary prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCD) and mitigation of climate change in Italy4
Could diabetes prevention programmes result in the widening of sociodemographic inequalities in type 2 diabetes? Comparison of survey and administrative data for England4
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