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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Poverty trajectories and child and mother well-being outcomes in Ireland: findings from an Irish prospective cohort76
Early-life death of a sibling and primary care utilisation during middle age: a population-wide cohort study63
Associations between cohort study participation and self-reported health and well-being: the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study62
Estimating the risk reduction in disability incidence by adhering to recommendation-based physical activity in older adults: a cohort study57
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of cardiometabolic risk factors among workers: results from the Japan Epidemiology Collaboration on Occupational Health study54
Prenatal and postnatal correlates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in midlife: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study50
Testing and refining middle-range theory in evaluations of public-health interventions: evidence from recent systematic reviews and trials48
Nucleus of fairness: epigenetic ageing, social determinants of health and the imperative for proactive preventive measures46
Health literacy by occupation in Korea45
Age, period and cohort-related trends in prescription opioid use in the USA, 1999–201845
Racial and ethnic trends in mental health service utilisation and perceived unmet need in the USA42
State-level association between income inequality and mortality in the USA, 1989–2019: ecological study41
Impact of informal caregiving on depressive symptoms among a national cohort of men40
Sex differences in adverse events following seasonal influenza vaccines: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials40
Early parental death and its association with children’s mental and economic well-being in adulthood: a nationwide population-based register study38
Downstream healthcare use following breast cancer screening: a register-based cohort study34
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the workforce: from psychological distress to the Great Resignation34
Bearing the burden of austerity: how do changing mortality rates in the UK compare between men and women?34
High long-term mortality in ischaemic heart disease accentuated among ethnic minorities in Eastern Europe: findings from a prospective all-comers percutaneous coronary intervention registry in Romania30
Association between democratic governance and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study29
Eligibility criteria for the UK Winter Fuel Payment: are we targeting the right people?28
Factors related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among middle-income and low-income adults in the USA28
Socioeconomic position at the age of 30 and the later risk of a mental disorder: a nationwide population-based register study28
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, 2001–201726
Principles and methods of global legal epidemiology26
Social capital-based mental health interventions for refugees: Ukraine and beyond25
Twenty-first century alienation and health: a research agenda25
Municipal social expenditures and maternal health disparities: a study of linked birth and hospitalisation records24
Employment status and self-rated health among Chinese middle-aged and older workers: results from a nationwide longitudinal study24
Population health, health equity and health system impacts of light vehicle electrification: a modelling study in Aotearoa/New Zealand23
Inequalities in mental health service utilisation by children and young people: a population survey using linked electronic health records from Northwest London, UK21
Mediating role of psychological distress and alcohol use in socioeconomic disparities in deaths of despair: a causal mediation analysis using record linkage data21
From policy to practice: assessing the impact of electronic gambling machine regulations on harmful gambling behaviour21
Impact of offspring and their educational level on readmission and death among older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a nationwide cohort study using multistate survival models21
Gender identity and sexual orientation: a glossary19
Lack of knowledge on where people die and potential to do better18
Do chronic diseases moderate the association between psychosocial working conditions and work exit? Longitudinal results from 55 950 Dutch workers18
Impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children and young people: perspectives on evidence synthesis18
Longitudinal associations between residential density and body mass index: the mediating role of walking for transport and the moderating effect of neighbourhood disadvantage17
Key considerations in understanding retirement’s health impact17
Accounting for time-varying exposures and covariates in the relationship between obesity and diabetes: analysis using parametric g-formula16
When the farm whispers, the world must listen16
Do adult children increase the chances of receiving the recommended hospital treatment among older adults with heart disease?16
Interactions between long-term ambient particle exposures and lifestyle on the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes: insight from a large community-based survey15
Effect of a multicomponent school-based intervention with parental involvement on socioeconomic inequalities in smoking initiation: equity impact analysis of the TOPAS study15
Psychotherapy use among migrants: a register-based longitudinal study15
Estimated glucose disposal rate and risk of arterial stiffness and long-term all-cause mortality: a 10-year prospective study15
Need for better reporting of trials with surrogate endpoints: SPIRIT|CONSORT-SURROGATE extensions14
Impact of India’s nationwide supplementary nutrition programme for pregnant women on birth weight of their newborns: a quasi-experimental evaluation13
Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 during the first three waves in Scotland: a national record linkage study13
Sociodemographic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Belgium: a nationwide record linkage study13
Health-related quality of life associated with sensory impairment in Chinese middle-aged and older adults: a cohort study13
Survival among patients with cancer after a coalmine fire: analysis of registry data in regional Victoria, Australia13
Causal mediation approaches for understanding pathways to inequalities and policy entry points: examples from early years health and development13
Commonly cited approaches to reducing health inequalities: a call for more clarity around their definition and underlying assumptions13
The potential of intervening on childhood adversity to reduce socioeconomic inequities in body mass index and inflammation among Australian and UK children: A causal mediation analysis12
Precarious employment and the workplace transmission of COVID-19: evidence from workers’ compensation claims in Ontario, Canada12
Effect of a conditional cash transfer programme on infant up-to-date and timely vaccination12
Impact of social participation on frailty among older adults: a multinational cohort study from the USA, England, China and Mexico12
Association between housing damage, present bias and delayed-onset post-traumatic stress symptoms among older adults 9 years after a natural disaster12
Associations of area-level socioeconomic status and individual factors with mortality in China: a nationwide prospective cohort study12
Increases in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in Nordic countries: growing controversies between the changing welfare state and public health?12
Socioeconomic position, alcohol use and alcohol-attributable emergency department visits12
Projections of smoking-related cancer mortality in Australia to 204412
Assessment of census-tract level socioeconomic position as a modifier of the relationship between short-term PM2.5 exposure and cardiovascular emergency department visits in Missouri11
Assessing the relationship between community resilience and health outcomes: an observational local-authority level study in England11
Co-designed and co-delivered place-based community interventions to reduce inequity in early initiation of antenatal care: findings from the cluster randomised controlled community REACH trial11
Does lifestyle explain the relationship between socioeconomic position and multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases? A mediation analysis applied to the European Prospective Investigation11
Excess mortality among essential workers in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic: an updated analysis11
Does stress from incarceration of family and friends contribute to signs of early vascular ageing in African American women?11
Genetic contributions to the educational inequalities in coronary heart disease incidence: a population-based study of 32 000 middle-aged men and women11
Examining causal relationships between educational attainment and type 2 diabetes using genetic analysis: findings from the EPIC-InterAct study through Mendelian randomisation11
Associations between neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and body mass index: longitudinal evidence from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (2006–2021)11
Ambulatory blood pressure studies are needed to assess associations between blood pressure and work stressors11
Variability in perceived burden and health trajectories among older caregivers: a population-based study in Sweden10
Health characteristics and health behaviours in male former contact sports participants: comparison with general population controls in a Finnish cohort study10
Self-reported sleep duration and recurrent falls in people aged 50 and above: evidence from two prospective cohorts10
Complex associations between cognitive function and early stroke10
Occupation and COVID-19 diagnosis, hospitalisation and ICU admission among foreign-born and Swedish-born employees: a register-based study10
Excess mortality among essential workers in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic10
Diabetes and suicide: a nationwide longitudinal cohort study among the Japanese working-age population10
Association between sex work occupational stigma and inconsistent condom use: findings from a community-based cohort of women sex workers in Vancouver, Canada (2014–2022)10
Investigating the impact of a 20 miles per hour speed limit intervention on road traffic collisions, casualties, speed and volume in Belfast, UK: 3 year follow-up outcomes of a natural experiment10
Estimated effect of age of marriage on utilisation of India’s Integrated Child Development Service programme10
Occupational health, frontline workers and COVID-19 lockdown: new gender-related inequalities?10
Geographical variability in cancer incidence explained by the socioeconomic environment: an example of lung cancer in northwestern France10
Financial strain, schooling modality and mental health of US adults living with children during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Response to: 'Small numbers, big impact: making a utilitarian case for the contribution of inclusion health to population health in England' by Zhang et al9
Stimulant treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and risk of first and repeat juvenile criminal offending: a population-based cohort study9
Education-related inequalities in disability during the last years of life: a full population register-based study9
Income and economic productivity loss associated with comorbidity: longitudinal analysis of linked individual-level data for a whole country9
Predictive capacity of self-rated health on all-cause mortality in Spain: differences across sex, age and educational level9
Widening of inequalities in COVID-19 years of life lost from 2020 to 2021: a Scottish Burden of Disease Study9
Triglyceride-glucose index and risks of suicide mortality in young adults: a nationwide population-based study9
Invited commentary on “Interactions between long-term ambient particle exposures and lifestyle on the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes: insight from a large community-based survey”9
Longitudinal relationships between early-life homelessness and school-aged asthma and wheezing8
Chronic postsurgical pain increases postoperative depression risk8
Impact of family childhood adversity on risk of violence and involvement with police in adolescence: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study8
Does persistent precarious employment affect health outcomes among working age adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis8
Impact of early childhood infection on child development and school performance: a population-based study8
Educational gradients in all-cause mortality in two cohorts in the Czech Republic during the early stage of the postcommunist transition8
2008 economic crisis impact on perinatal and infant mortality in Southern European countries8
Using agent-based modelling to test hypotheses on the role of neighbourhood social mechanisms in the development of small-area health inequalities8
Short-term effect of colorectal cancer on income: analysis of an Italian cohort8
Has COVID-19 increased inequality in mortality by income in the Netherlands?8
Residential mobility and potentially avoidable hospitalisations in a population-based cohort of New Zealand children8
oriGen cohort: a Mexican population-based epidemiological and genomic research platform8
Neighbourhood risk factors of recurrent tuberculosis in Cape Town: a cohort study using geocoded notification data8
Housing and health: an updated glossary8
Impacts of SNAP benefit increases on US child food insufficiency during the COVID-19 pandemic8
Characteristics of enrolment in an intensive home-visiting programme among eligible first-time adolescent mothers in England: a linked administrative data cohort study8
Association between spatial social polarisation and high blood pressure in older adults8
Does (re-)entering the labour market at advanced ages protect against cognitive decline? A matching difference-in-differences approach7
Association between long working hours and physical inactivity in middle-aged and older adults: a Korean longitudinal study (2006–2020)7
Causal inference and effect estimation using observational data7
Intergenerational relationship between parental famine exposure and offspring’s obesity risks7
Causal links between socioeconomic status, leisure sedentary behaviours and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: a multivariable two-sample Mendelian randomisation study7
Risk of severe mood and anxiety disorders in the adult children of parents with alcohol use disorder: a nationwide cohort study7
Flourishing and the scope of medicine and public health7
Social inequalities in child development: the role of differential exposure and susceptibility to stressful family conditions7
Evaluating the impact on physical inactivity of Together an Active Future, a partnership approach to physical activity promotion. A difference-in-differences study7
Perceived discrimination at work: examining social, health and work-related factors as determinants among breast cancer survivors – evidence from the prospective CANTO cohort7
Income inequality and ‘hospitalisations of despair’ in Canada: a study on longitudinal, population-based data7
Sociodemographic disparities in COVID-19 burden: changing patterns over four pandemic waves in Israel7
Associations between adolescent psychiatric disorders and adulthood payment problems: a Norwegian register study of complete birth cohorts of 1995–19977
Industrial legacies: a population survey study of mental health disparities across generations in post-coal Wales7
Childhood adversity and COVID-19 outcomes in the UK Biobank7
Effect of Universal Credit on young children’s mental health: quasi-experimental evidence from Understanding Society7
Impact of Peru’s women’s emergency centres on the reporting of physical, psychological and sexual intimate partner violence7
Comorbidity patterns, family history and breast cancer risk: a latent class analysis7
Population frailty trends by education and income levels over a period of 30 years: findings from Swedish registry data7
Exploring the role of blood pressure in the black-white disparity in cardiovascular disease mortality: a causal mediation analysis7
Closing the health inequity gap during the pandemic: COVID-19 mortality among racial and ethnic groups in Connecticut, March 2020 to December 20217
Inequalities in children’s mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study7
Multimorbidity pattern and risk of dementia in later life: an 11-year follow-up study using a large community cohort and linked electronic health records6
School performance and educational achievement in children exposed to maternal cancer in utero6
Maternal cigarette smoking before or during pregnancy increases the risk of severe neonatal morbidity after delivery: a nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study6
Cumulative poverty across early adulthood and midlife cognition: findings from the national longitudinal survey of youth6
Injured worker outcomes after compensation system overhaul: an interrupted time series study6
Gender-related factors and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest incidence in women and men: analysis of a population-based cohort study in the Netherlands6
Loneliness and social isolation in transitions to adverse health conditions and mortality: an analysis of data from the UK Biobank study6
Response to: 'Impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children and young people: perspectives on evidence synthesis' by Hossain et al6
Indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its containment measures on social inequalities in hospital utilisation in Italy6
Trends in psychological distress in Great Britain, 1991–2019: evidence from three representative surveys6
Social security cuts and life expectancy: a longitudinal analysis of local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales6
Universal Credit receipt among working-age patients who are accessing specialist mental health services: results from a novel data linkage study6
Race disparities in dental care use from adolescence to middle adulthood in the USA6
Global inequity of COVID-19 diagnostics: challenges and opportunities6
Short-term exposure to ambient air pollution and readmissions for heart failure among 3660 post-discharge patients with hypertension in older Chinese adults6
Syndemic processes between non-communicable diseases and HIV within the Kingdom of Eswatini6
Associations of schooling type, qualification type and subsequent health in mid-adulthood: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study6
Studying adolescent social isolation in school-based social networks: implications for health research6
Heterogeneity in associations between food insecurity and diabetes outcomes5
Reflecting on the year passed and the year ahead5
Stair-related falls in the USA: traumatic brain injury and the role of alcohol intoxication5
Determinants of depressive symptoms increase in older persons during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from Czech cohort study using repeated assessments5
Glossary: economics and health5
Are housing circumstances associated with faster epigenetic ageing?5
Association of national smoke-free policies with per-capita cigarette consumption and acute myocardial infarction mortality in Europe5
Prescribing by level of deprivation in Wales: an investigation of selected medicine groups5
Marxism on Musk: reflections on Baum et al’s ‘Twenty-First Century Alienation and Health’5
Association between a pro-inflammatory dietary pattern during pregnancy and type 1 diabetes risk in offspring: prospective cohort study5
Maternal health-related quality of life at 1 year after a preterm birth: role of socioeconomic status at birth5
Long echo of sociopolitical upheaval: life events and health in East Germany5
Health trends, inequalities and opportunities in South Africa’s provinces, 1990–2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study5
Impact evaluation of the TAMANI project to improve maternal and child health in Tanzania5
Physical illness and changes in spousal mental health: a register-based study on Finnish couples aged 30–705
Examining the hospital costs of children born into relative deprivation in England5
Correction: How to create healthier places: a multi-disciplinary qualitative study exploring the complex system of urban development decision-making5
Maternal psychiatric and somatic illness, and the risk of unintentional injuries in children: variation by type of maternal illness, type of injury and child age5
Modeling chronic disease risk across equity factors using a population-based prediction model: the Chronic Disease Population Risk Tool (CDPoRT)5
Gender-specific aspects of socialisation and risk of cardiovascular disease among community-dwelling older adults: a prospective cohort study using machine learning algorithms and a conventional metho5
Self-report of chronic diseases in old-aged individuals: extent of agreement with general practitioner medical records in the German AugUR study4
Socioeconomic gradients in 24-hour movement patterns across weekends and weekdays in a working-age sample: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study4
Poor child oral health and school absences: a population-wide data linkage study4
Impact of the Finnish Maternity Grant on infant mortality rates in the 20th century: a natural experimental study4
Income inequality and adherence to 24-hour movement guideline recommendations among adolescents: a multilevel growth curve analysis using longitudinal data from three waves of the Cannabis, Obesity, M4
Chronic disease prevalence and preventive care among Ontario social housing residents compared with the general population: a population-based cohort study4
Work incapacity among family caregivers: a record linkage study4
Association between social activity frequency and overall survival in older people: results from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS)4
Health inequalities in post-COVID-19 outcomes among adults aged 50+ in Europe: has COVID-19 exposed divide between postcommunist countries and Western Europe?4
Socioeconomic position over the life course and impaired lung function of older adults in Central and Eastern Europe: the HAPIEE study4
Association between sleep quality and seat belt use: a nationwide Korean study4
Incorporating an equity perspective in systematic reviews of interventions: potential methodological approaches4
How infodemic intoxicates public health surveillance: from a big to a slow data culture4
Investigating the association between income inequality in youth and deaths of despair in Canada: a population-based cohort study from 2006 to 20194
Frailty index is an independent predictor of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in Eastern Europe: a multicentre cohort study4
Prior incarceration and food insecurity trajectories through older adulthood: findings from the Health and Retirement Study4
Trajectories in physical functioning by occupational class among retiring women: the significance of type of retirement and social and health-related factors4
Effect of same-sex marriage legalisation on the health of ethnic minority lesbian, gay and bisexual people: a quasi-experimental study4
Association between socioeconomic disadvantage and severe maternal morbidity and mortality in high-income countries: a systematic review4
Inequalities in adolescent mental health and allocation of students to selective classes in comprehensive schools in Finland: a longitudinal study4
Impact of built environment change on all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a novel longitudinal method and study4
Correction: Geographical variability in cancer incidence explained by the socioeconomic environment: an example of lung cancer in northwestern France4
Estimation of effects of extreme temperature on the risk of hospitalisation in Taiwan4
Building health equity through housing policies: critical reflections and future directions for research4
Contribution of causes of death to changing inequalities in life expectancy by income in Finland, 1997–20204
Changing prevalence of psychosocial occupational stressors and their impact on employee mental health across birth cohorts4
Association between matched chronotype and poor mental health among shift workers: a systematic review and meta‐analysis4
Protecting children’s health through universal and sustainable school meals: European and US urban policy experiences4
Changing relationship between income inequality and mortality4
Completeness and representativeness of small area socioeconomic data linked with the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)4
Estimated changes in free sugar consumption one year after the UK soft drinks industry levy came into force: controlled interrupted time series analysis of the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (20114
Would the now shelved congestion tax narrow or widen the health equity gap if brought back to NYC?4
Invited commentary on ‘Population health, health equity and health system impacts of light vehicle electrification: a modelling study in Aotearoa/New Zealand’4
Household income, fetal size and birth weight: an analysis of eight populations3
Effect of smoking on physical function in older adults: a Mendelian randomisation analysis3
Relationship between multiple unemployment spells and cardiovascular disease mortality in South Korean workers3
Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies over 18 months following infection: UK Biobank COVID-19 Serology Study3
Does the ‘right to request’ flexible work policy influence men’s and women’s uptake of flexible working and well-being: findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study3
Are there any sociodemographic factors associated with non-uptake of HPV vaccination of girls in high-income countries with school-based vaccination programmes? A systematic review3
Multistate survival modelling of multimorbidity and transitions across health needs states and death in an ageing population3
Exploring the associations of daily movement behaviours and mid-life cognition: a compositional analysis of the 1970 British Cohort Study3
Navigating the shifting Mendelian randomisation landscape: some observations and suggestions for editors, reviewers and investigators3
Associations of municipality-level income and racial segregation with individual-level tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Brazil: a nationwide cohort study (2010–2019)3
Height, social position and coronary heart disease incidence: the contribution of genetic and environmental factors3
Lack of consistency in measurement methods and semantics used for network measures in adolescent health behaviour studies using social network analysis: a systematic review3
Public health unit funding per capita and seasonal influenza vaccination among youth and adults in Ontario, Canada in 2013/2014 and 2018/20193
Syndemic approach to chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease and educational level: a longitudinal cohort study in northwest Italy3
Mental health inequalities in times of crisis: evolution between 2005 and 2021 among the Spanish salaried population3
Cross-sectional study of the associations between circulating vitamin D concentrations and insulin resistance in children aged 9–10 years of South Asian, black African Caribbean and white European ori3
SARS-CoV-2 vaccine uptake and risks of severe COVID-19 disease among people prescribed opioid agonist therapy in Scotland3
Intersectional inequalities in advanced stage diagnosis of colorectal cancer in England: a cross-sectional study of National Cancer Registry data from 2013 to 20193
Direct and indirect effects of socioeconomic status on sepsis risk and mortality: a mediation analysis of the HUNT Study3
Purposes and duties in scientific modelling3
Employment quality and mortality in Canada3
Early adulthood socioeconomic trajectories contribute to inequalities in adult diet quality, independent of childhood and adulthood socioeconomic position3
Body mass index trajectories and all-cause mortality in older Chinese adults: Hong Kong’s Elderly Health Service Cohort3
Associations between type of childhood adversities and labour market participation and employment conditions in young adults3
Frailty or sarcopenia: which is a better indicator of mortality risk in older adults?3
Parental education and occupation in relation to childhood type 1 diabetes: nationwide cohort study3
Monitoring sociodemographic inequality in COVID-19 vaccination uptake in England: a national linked data study3
Impacts of a medical-legal partnership on clinical capacity to address social determinants of health3
Relative deprivation and human flourishing: how do upward income comparisons affect health, happiness and life satisfaction?3
Coevolution of education and income inequalities in mortality: is the double burden of basic education and low income becoming more lethal in Finland and Sweden over time?3
Differential use of antidiabetic medication related to income, cohabitation and area of residence: a Swedish nationwide cohort study3
Overall and race-specific associations between state-level minimum wage policy and food insecurity in the United States3
Insights on health policies from a political philosophy perspective3
Predictive value of metabolic profiling in cardiovascular risk scores: analysis of 75 000 adults in UK Biobank3
Invited commentary on: Does the ‘right to request’ flexible work policy influence men’s and women’s uptake of flexible working and well-being: findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study3
Diverging mental health trends in the postpandemic era: results from the HUNT Study, Norway3
Evaluating bias with loss to follow-up in a community-based cohort: empirical investigation from the CARRS Study3
Clinical gynaecological perspectives to improve validity in clinical research: comment on the article by Chiuve et al3
Prevalence of maternal substance use problems during pregnancy and the first 2 years of life: a whole-population birth cohort of 970 470 Australian children born 2008–20172
Coming to terms with climate change: a glossary for climate change impacts on mental health and well-being2
Religion and mental health in young adulthood: a register-based study on differences by religious affiliation in sickness absence due to mental disorders in Finland2
Do we need consent to obtain consent? Public and participant feedback to using personal health data for recruitment2
Redlining in New York City: impacts on particulate matter exposure during pregnancy and birth outcomes2
How socio-political change is associated with the number of individually reported negative life events: a population-based study using the German reunification 1989/1990 as an example2
Associations between modifiable risk factors and frailty: a Mendelian randomisation study2
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