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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Associations between cohort study participation and self-reported health and well-being: the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study158
Testing and refining middle-range theory in evaluations of public-health interventions: evidence from recent systematic reviews and trials93
Age, period and cohort-related trends in prescription opioid use in the USA, 1999–201855
Racial and ethnic trends in mental health service utilisation and perceived unmet need in the USA54
Nucleus of fairness: epigenetic ageing, social determinants of health and the imperative for proactive preventive measures53
Poverty trajectories and child and mother well-being outcomes in Ireland: findings from an Irish prospective cohort53
Conceptual lessons for containing an epidemic of questionable COVID-19 counterfactual comparisons52
Prenatal and postnatal correlates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in midlife: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study46
Importance of population-based longitudinal studies to understanding the impact of COVID-1946
Impact of informal caregiving on depressive symptoms among a national cohort of men45
State-level association between income inequality and mortality in the USA, 1989–2019: ecological study44
Correction:Early-life social and health determinants of adult socioeconomic position: associations and trends across generations43
Downstream healthcare use following breast cancer screening: a register-based cohort study41
Early-life death of a sibling and primary care utilisation during middle age: a population-wide cohort study41
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of cardiometabolic risk factors among workers: results from the Japan Epidemiology Collaboration on Occupational Health study40
Bearing the burden of austerity: how do changing mortality rates in the UK compare between men and women?39
COVID-19 distribution in Bogotá, Colombia: effect of poverty during the first 2 months of pandemic39
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the workforce: from psychological distress to the Great Resignation39
Early parental death and its association with children’s mental and economic well-being in adulthood: a nationwide population-based register study37
Sex differences in adverse events following seasonal influenza vaccines: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials36
Principles and methods of global legal epidemiology33
Twenty-first century alienation and health: a research agenda31
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
Socioeconomic position at the age of 30 and the later risk of a mental disorder: a nationwide population-based register study29
Effectiveness of the population-based ‘check your health preventive programme’ conducted in a primary care setting: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial29
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, 2001–201728
Inequalities in mental health service utilisation by children and young people: a population survey using linked electronic health records from Northwest London, UK28
Employment status and self-rated health among Chinese middle-aged and older workers: results from a nationwide longitudinal study28
Gender identity and sexual orientation: a glossary27
Social capital-based mental health interventions for refugees: Ukraine and beyond27
Municipal social expenditures and maternal health disparities: a study of linked birth and hospitalisation records27
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 models27
Factors related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among middle-income and low-income adults in the USA26
Association between democratic governance and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study24
Cost-effectiveness of extending the HPV vaccination to boys: a systematic review24
Dietary patterns and birth outcomes in the ELSPAC pregnancy cohort24
Sociodemographic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Belgium: a nationwide record linkage study23
Estimated glucose disposal rate and risk of arterial stiffness and long-term all-cause mortality: a 10-year prospective study22
COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on social relationships and health22
Effect of a multicomponent school-based intervention with parental involvement on socioeconomic inequalities in smoking initiation: equity impact analysis of the TOPAS study21
Psychotherapy use among migrants: a register-based longitudinal study20
Longitudinal associations between residential density and body mass index: the mediating role of walking for transport and the moderating effect of neighbourhood disadvantage20
Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 during the first three waves in Scotland: a national record linkage study20
Do adult children increase the chances of receiving the recommended hospital treatment among older adults with heart disease?20
Need for better reporting of trials with surrogate endpoints: SPIRIT|CONSORT-SURROGATE extensions19
Impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children and young people: perspectives on evidence synthesis19
Key considerations in understanding retirement’s health impact19
Interactions between long-term ambient particle exposures and lifestyle on the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes: insight from a large community-based survey19
Effect of a conditional cash transfer programme on infant up-to-date and timely vaccination19
Increases in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in Nordic countries: growing controversies between the changing welfare state and public health?18
Mental health and behavioural factors involved in road traffic crashes by young adults: analysis of the Raine Study18
Health-related quality of life associated with sensory impairment in Chinese middle-aged and older adults: a cohort study18
Do chronic diseases moderate the association between psychosocial working conditions and work exit? Longitudinal results from 55 950 Dutch workers18
Association between housing damage, present bias and delayed-onset post-traumatic stress symptoms among older adults 9 years after a natural disaster18
Accounting for time-varying exposures and covariates in the relationship between obesity and diabetes: analysis using parametric g-formula18
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 analysis17
Assessment of census-tract level socioeconomic position as a modifier of the relationship between short-term PM2.5exposure and cardiovascular emergency department visits in Missouri17
Early adulthood socioeconomic trajectories contribute to inequalities in adult cardiovascular health, independently of childhood and adulthood socioeconomic position16
Excess mortality among essential workers in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic: an updated analysis16
Precarious employment and the workplace transmission of COVID-19: evidence from workers’ compensation claims in Ontario, Canada16
Examining causal relationships between educational attainment and type 2 diabetes using genetic analysis: findings from the EPIC-InterAct study through Mendelian randomisation16
Projections of smoking-related cancer mortality in Australia to 204416
Associations between age of menarche and genetic variation in women of African descent: genome-wide association study and polygenic score analysis16
Exposure to unhealthy food and beverage advertising during the school commute in Australia15
Socioeconomic position, alcohol use and alcohol-attributable emergency department visits15
Natural history of mental health competence from childhood to adolescence14
Cardiovascular diseases in rural South Asia: the story of one billion people14
Estimated effect of age of marriage on utilisation of India’s Integrated Child Development Service programme13
Variability in perceived burden and health trajectories among older caregivers: a population-based study in Sweden13
Does stress from incarceration of family and friends contribute to signs of early vascular ageing in African American women?13
Occupational health, frontline workers and COVID-19 lockdown: new gender-related inequalities?13
Complex associations between cognitive function and early stroke13
Ambulatory blood pressure studies are needed to assess associations between blood pressure and work stressors13
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 into and within immigrant households: nationwide registry study from Norway12
Excess mortality among essential workers in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic12
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)12
Genetic contributions to the educational inequalities in coronary heart disease incidence: a population-based study of 32 000 middle-aged men and women12
Marked and widening socioeconomic inequalities in type 2 diabetes prevalence in Scotland12
Diabetes and suicide: a nationwide longitudinal cohort study among the Japanese working-age population11
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 experiment11
Occupation and COVID-19 diagnosis, hospitalisation and ICU admission among foreign-born and Swedish-born employees: a register-based study11
Healthy cities after COVID-19 pandemic: the just ecofeminist healthy cities approach11
Health characteristics and health behaviours in male former contact sports participants: comparison with general population controls in a Finnish cohort study11
Geographical variability in cancer incidence explained by the socioeconomic environment: an example of lung cancer in northwestern France11
Framework for understanding health inequalities over the life course: the embodiment dynamic and biological mechanisms of exogenous and endogenous origin11
Income and economic productivity loss associated with comorbidity: longitudinal analysis of linked individual-level data for a whole country10
Education-related inequalities in disability during the last years of life: a full population register-based study10
Short-term effect of colorectal cancer on income: analysis of an Italian cohort10
Widening of inequalities in COVID-19 years of life lost from 2020 to 2021: a Scottish Burden of Disease Study10
Intersectorality and health: a glossary10
Financial strain, schooling modality and mental health of US adults living with children during the COVID-19 pandemic10
Predictive capacity of self-rated health on all-cause mortality in Spain: differences across sex, age and educational level10
Response to: 'Small numbers, big impact: making a utilitarian case for the contribution of inclusion health to population health in England' by Zhanget al10
Has COVID-19 increased inequality in mortality by income in the Netherlands?10
Educational gradients in all-cause mortality in two cohorts in the Czech Republic during the early stage of the postcommunist transition9
Does persistent precarious employment affect health outcomes among working age adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis9
Impact of family childhood adversity on risk of violence and involvement with police in adolescence: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study9
Socioeconomic position and SARS-CoV-2 infections: seroepidemiological findings from a German nationwide dynamic cohort9
Characteristics of enrolment in an intensive home-visiting programme among eligible first-time adolescent mothers in England: a linked administrative data cohort study9
Housing and health: an updated glossary9
Association between long working hours and physical inactivity in middle-aged and older adults: a Korean longitudinal study (2006–2020)9
2008 economic crisis impact on perinatal and infant mortality in Southern European countries9
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
Residential mobility and potentially avoidable hospitalisations in a population-based cohort of New Zealand children8
Association between spatial social polarisation and high blood pressure in older adults8
Correction: Religious affiliation and COVID-19-related mortality: a retrospective cohort study of prelockdown and postlockdown risks in England and Wales8
Impact of Peru’s women’s emergency centres on the reporting of physical, psychological and sexual intimate partner violence8
Effect of Universal Credit on young children’s mental health: quasi-experimental evidence from Understanding Society8
Using agent-based modelling to test hypotheses on the role of neighbourhood social mechanisms in the development of small-area health inequalities8
Neighbourhood risk factors of recurrent tuberculosis in Cape Town: a cohort study using geocoded notification data8
Housing and health inequities during COVID-19: findings from the national Household Pulse Survey8
Impact of early childhood infection on child development and school performance: a population-based study8
Longitudinal relationships between early-life homelessness and school-aged asthma and wheezing8
Chronic postsurgical pain increases postoperative depression risk8
Causal inference and effect estimation using observational data8
Intergenerational relationship between parental famine exposure and offspring’s obesity risks7
Flourishing and the scope of medicine and public health7
Inequalities in children’s mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study7
Associations between adolescent psychiatric disorders and adulthood payment problems: a Norwegian register study of complete birth cohorts of 1995–19977
Global inequity of COVID-19 diagnostics: challenges and opportunities7
Trajectories of work ability from mid-life to pensionable age and their association with retirement timing7
Causal links between socioeconomic status, leisure sedentary behaviours and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: a multivariable two-sample Mendelian randomisation study7
Closing the health inequity gap during the pandemic: COVID-19 mortality among racial and ethnic groups in Connecticut, March 2020 to December 20217
Does (re-)entering the labour market at advanced ages protect against cognitive decline? A matching difference-in-differences approach7
Evaluating the impact on physical inactivity of Together an Active Future, a partnership approach to physical activity promotion. A difference-in-differences study7
Economic inequality and depressive symptoms: an individual versus aggregate-level analysis using Mexican survey data7
Exploring the role of blood pressure in the black-white disparity in cardiovascular disease mortality: a causal mediation analysis7
Epidemic of ischaemic heart disease and the educational disparities in China7
Population frailty trends by education and income levels over a period of 30 years: findings from Swedish registry data7
Comorbidity patterns, family history and breast cancer risk: a latent class analysis7
Risk of severe mood and anxiety disorders in the adult children of parents with alcohol use disorder: a nationwide cohort study7
Income inequality and ‘hospitalisations of despair’ in Canada: a study on longitudinal, population-based data7
Childhood adversity and COVID-19 outcomes in the UK Biobank7
Social inequalities in child development: the role of differential exposure and susceptibility to stressful family conditions7
Short-term exposure to ambient air pollution and readmissions for heart failure among 3660 post-discharge patients with hypertension in older Chinese adults7
Sociodemographic disparities in COVID-19 burden: changing patterns over four pandemic waves in Israel7
Perceived discrimination at work: examining social, health and work-related factors as determinants among breast cancer survivors – evidence from the prospective CANTO cohort7
How does income affect mental health and health behaviours? A quasi-experimental study of the earned income tax credit6
Trends in psychological distress in Great Britain, 1991–2019: evidence from three representative surveys6
Are housing circumstances associated with faster epigenetic ageing?6
School performance and educational achievement in children exposed to maternal cancer in utero6
Ethnic disparities in preventable hospitalisation in England: an analysis of 916 375 emergency admissions6
Maternal cigarette smoking before or during pregnancy increases the risk of severe neonatal morbidity after delivery: a nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study6
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
Race disparities in dental care use from adolescence to middle adulthood in the USA6
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 metho6
Health trends, inequalities and opportunities in South Africa’s provinces, 1990–2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study6
Associations of schooling type, qualification type and subsequent health in mid-adulthood: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study6
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 analysis6
Violent victimisation trajectories from adolescence through adulthood: consequences for sleep problems6
Response to: 'Impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children and young people: perspectives on evidence synthesis' by Hossainet al6
Universal Credit receipt among working-age patients who are accessing specialist mental health services: results from a novel data linkage 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
Social security cuts and life expectancy: a longitudinal analysis of local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales6
Tuberculosis in times of COVID-196
The case for planetary health prevention6
Trajectories of phenotypical frailty over a decade in young–old community-dwelling adults: results from the Lc65+ study6
Injured worker outcomes after compensation system overhaul: an interrupted time series study6
Indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its containment measures on social inequalities in hospital utilisation in Italy6
Glossary: economics and health5
Trajectories of alcohol consumption up to 30 years before and after the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases: a longitudinal case–control study of 12 502 participants5
Long echo of sociopolitical upheaval: life events and health in East Germany5
The role of perceived discrimination in predicting changes in health behaviours among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study5
Examining the hospital costs of children born into relative deprivation in England5
Behavioural interventions for CVD risk reduction for blue-collar workers: a systematic review5
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
Maternal health-related quality of life at 1 year after a preterm birth: role of socioeconomic status at birth5
Correction:How to create healthier places: a multi-disciplinary qualitative study exploring the complex system of urban development decision-making5
Prospective association between receipt of the economic impact payment and mental health outcomes5
Association of national smoke-free policies with per-capita cigarette consumption and acute myocardial infarction mortality in Europe5
Living in a block group with a higher eviction rate is associated with increased odds of preterm delivery5
Impact evaluation of the TAMANI project to improve maternal and child health in Tanzania5
Association between parents’ socioeconomic conditions and nutritional status during childhood and the risk of cardiovascular disease in their adult offspring: an intergenerational study in south India5
Prescribing by level of deprivation in Wales: an investigation of selected medicine groups5
Modeling chronic disease risk across equity factors using a population-based prediction model: the Chronic Disease Population Risk Tool (CDPoRT)5
Association between annual household income and adverse outcomes in patients who had ischaemic stroke4
Association between social activity frequency and overall survival in older people: results from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS)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
Association between socioeconomic disadvantage and severe maternal morbidity and mortality in high-income countries: a systematic review4
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
Prevention of COVID-19 among populations experiencing multiple social exclusions4
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
Self-report of chronic diseases in old-aged individuals: extent of agreement with general practitioner medical records in the German AugUR study4
Case–control study to estimate odds of death within 28 days of positive test for SARS-CoV-2 prior to vaccination for residents of long-term care facilities in England, 2020–20214
Stair-related falls in the USA: traumatic brain injury and the role of alcohol intoxication4
How infodemic intoxicates public health surveillance: from a big to a slow data culture4
Socioeconomic position over the life course and impaired lung function of older adults in Central and Eastern Europe: the HAPIEE study4
Chronic disease prevalence and preventive care among Ontario social housing residents compared with the general population: a population-based cohort study4
Impact of the Finnish Maternity Grant on infant mortality rates in the 20th century: a natural experimental study4
Would the now shelved congestion tax narrow or widen the health equity gap if brought back to NYC?4
Knowing the goal: an inclusive economy that can address the public health challenges of our time4
Changing prevalence of psychosocial occupational stressors and their impact on employee mental health across birth cohorts4
Job loss and lower healthcare utilisation due to COVID-19 among older adults across 27 European countries4
Marxism on Musk: reflections on Baumet al’s ‘Twenty-First Century Alienation and Health’4
Subjective social position and cognitive function in a longitudinal cohort of older, rural South African adults, 2014–20194
Socioeconomic gradients in 24-hour movement patterns across weekends and weekdays in a working-age sample: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study4
Heavy alcohol consumption before and after negative life events in late mid-life: longitudinal latent trajectory analyses4
Impact of built environment change on all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a novel longitudinal method and study4
Investigating the association between income inequality in youth and deaths of despair in Canada: a population-based cohort study from 2006 to 20194
Completeness and representativeness of small area socioeconomic data linked with the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)4
Frailty index is an independent predictor of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in Eastern Europe: a multicentre cohort study4
Characteristics of those most vulnerable to employment changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationally representative cross-sectional study in Wales4
Psychosocial work factors and blood pressure among 63 800 employees from The Netherlands in the Lifelines Cohort Study4
Estimation of effects of extreme temperature on the risk of hospitalisation in Taiwan4
Changes in the behavioural determinants of health during the COVID-19 pandemic: gender, socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities in five British cohort studies4
Determinants of depressive symptoms increase in older persons during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from Czech cohort study using repeated assessments4
Effect of same-sex marriage legalisation on the health of ethnic minority lesbian, gay and bisexual people: a quasi-experimental study3
Work incapacity among family caregivers: a record linkage study3
Brief intervention using the PaperWeight Armband to identify older people at risk of undernutrition in the community: a preliminary evaluation3
Height, social position and coronary heart disease incidence: the contribution of genetic and environmental factors3
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health3
Frailty or sarcopenia: which is a better indicator of mortality risk in older adults?3
Syndemic approach to chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease and educational level: a longitudinal cohort study in northwest Italy3
Sociodemographic determinants of intraurban variations in COVID-19 incidence: the case of Barcelona3
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, M3
Low-income neighbourhood was a key determinant of severe COVID-19 incidence during the first wave of the epidemic in Paris3
Public health unit funding per capita and seasonal influenza vaccination among youth and adults in Ontario, Canada in 2013/2014 and 2018/20193
Impacts of a medical-legal partnership on clinical capacity to address social determinants of health3
Associations between type of childhood adversities and labour market participation and employment conditions in young adults3
Parental education and occupation in relation to childhood type 1 diabetes: nationwide cohort study3
Lack of consistency in measurement methods and semantics used for network measures in adolescent health behaviour studies using social network analysis: a systematic review3
Do people reduce compliance with COVID-19 guidelines following vaccination? A longitudinal analysis of matched UK adults3
Trajectories in physical functioning by occupational class among retiring women: the significance of type of retirement and social and health-related factors3
Inequalities in adolescent mental health and allocation of students to selective classes in comprehensive schools in Finland: a longitudinal study3
Substitutions of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep: associations with mental health in middle-aged and elderly persons3
Clinical gynaecological perspectives to improve validity in clinical research: comment on the article by Chiuveet al3
Evaluating bias with loss to follow-up in a community-based cohort: empirical investigation from the CARRS Study3
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
Deprivation and exposure to public activities during the COVID-19 pandemic in England and Wales3
Changing relationship between income inequality and mortality3
Association between matched chronotype and poor mental health among shift workers: a systematic review and meta‐analysis3
Joint associations of depression, genetic susceptibility and the area of residence for coronary heart disease incidence3
Type 2 diabetes mellitus and antibiotic-resistant infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis2
Risk assessment and stratification of mild cognitive impairment among the Chinese elderly: attention to modifiable risk factors2
Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies over 18 months following infection: UK Biobank COVID-19 Serology Study2
Māori work-related fatal injury in Aotearoa-New Zealand, 2005–2014: a decade of continued inequities for Indigenous Māori2
Maternal educational inequalities about adverse pregnancy outcomes observed in a rural area of a province of China during a time period (2010–2018)2
Poor housing conditions in adolescence and adult health outcomes: an outcome-wide longitudinal approach2
Measuring older people’s socioeconomic position: a scoping review of studies of self-rated health, health service and social care use2
Association between neighbourhood deprivation and hypertension in a US-wide Cohort2
Under the spotlight: understanding the role of the Chief Medical Officer in a pandemic2
Embodiment of discrimination: a cross-sectional study of threats, humiliating treatment and ethnic discrimination in relation to somatic health complaints among Sámi in Sweden2
Assessment of the proposed intellectual property waiver as a mechanism to address the COVID-19 vaccine scarcity problem2
Book Review: Social Murder? The Effects of Austerity on Population Health in the UK2
Longitudinal bidirectional link between socioeconomic position and health: a national panel survey analysis2
Patterns of compliance with COVID-19 preventive behaviours: a latent class analysis of 20 000 UK adults2
An unequal health policy landscape? Examining socioeconomic differences in acceptability and preferences for policies that aim to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health2
Ageing accounts for much of the association between decreasing grip strength and subsequent loneliness: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing2
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