Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health is 3. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
The COVID-19 pandemic and health inequalities580
Mental health and health behaviours before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown: longitudinal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Study172
Importance of collecting data on socioeconomic determinants from the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak onwards133
Efficacy of contact tracing for the containment of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19)116
Harnessing behavioural science in public health campaigns to maintain ‘social distancing’ in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: key principles101
Unequal impact of the COVID-19 crisis on minority ethnic groups: a framework for understanding and addressing inequalities97
COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on social relationships and health93
COVID-19: exposing and amplifying inequalities91
Estimating the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, life expectancy and lifespan inequality in England and Wales: a population-level analysis88
Low assets and financial stressors associated with higher depression during COVID-19 in a nationally representative sample of US adults85
Are we all in this together? Longitudinal assessment of cumulative adversities by socioeconomic position in the first 3 weeks of lockdown in the UK72
Nationwide seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 and identification of risk factors in the general population of the Netherlands during the first epidemic wave71
Social inequality and the syndemic of chronic disease and COVID-19: county-level analysis in the USA66
Tuberculosis in times of COVID-1959
How does vulnerability to COVID-19 vary between communities in England? Developing a Small Area Vulnerability Index (SAVI)54
Socioeconomic inequalities associated with mortality for COVID-19 in Colombia: a cohort nationwide study54
Racial inequity in fatal US police shootings, 2015–202052
Body dissatisfaction predicts the onset of depression among adolescent females and males: a prospective study51
Unequal burdens: assessing the determinants of elevated COVID-19 case and death rates in New York City’s racial/ethnic minority neighbourhoods49
Changes in the behavioural determinants of health during the COVID-19 pandemic: gender, socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities in five British cohort studies48
Patterns of compliance with COVID-19 preventive behaviours: a latent class analysis of 20 000 UK adults46
Do people reduce compliance with COVID-19 guidelines following vaccination? A longitudinal analysis of matched UK adults41
Excess mortality in England and Wales during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic36
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the workforce: from psychological distress to the Great Resignation36
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 of36
Monitoring sociodemographic inequality in COVID-19 vaccination uptake in England: a national linked data study34
Job loss and lower healthcare utilisation due to COVID-19 among older adults across 27 European countries33
Combined lifestyle factors, all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies33
Does thinking make it so? Differential associations between adversity worries and experiences and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic33
How does income affect mental health and health behaviours? A quasi-experimental study of the earned income tax credit33
Prescription of anxiolytics, sedatives, hypnotics and antidepressants in outpatient, universal care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal: a nationwide, interrupted time-series approach30
Sociodemographic determinants of intraurban variations in COVID-19 incidence: the case of Barcelona29
Electromagnetic fields, 5G and health: what about the precautionary principle?28
Food insecurity is associated with mental health problems among Canadian youth28
Frequent police stops, parental incarceration and mental health: results among US non-Hispanic Black and White adolescent girls and boys27
Incidence of psychological illness after coronavirus outbreak: a meta-analysis study27
It depends on how you ask: measuring bias in population surveys of compliance with COVID-19 public health guidance27
After the bell: adolescents’ organised leisure-time activities and well-being in the context of social and socioeconomic inequalities26
Stigma: the social virus spreading faster than COVID-1924
Structural racism, racial inequities and urban–rural differences in infant mortality in the US23
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 cities23
Gender-inclusive writing for epidemiological research on pregnancy23
Framework for understanding health inequalities over the life course: the embodiment dynamic and biological mechanisms of exogenous and endogenous origin23
Occupational differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection: analysis of the UK ONS COVID-19 infection survey22
A glossary of theories for understanding power and policy for health equity22
Glossary for public health surveillance in the age of data science22
Suicide risk with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and other new-generation antidepressants in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational22
Health trends, inequalities and opportunities in South Africa’s provinces, 1990–2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study22
Socioeconomic position and SARS-CoV-2 infections: seroepidemiological findings from a German nationwide dynamic cohort22
Sex and gender terminology: a glossary for gender-inclusive epidemiology21
Religious affiliation and COVID-19-related mortality: a retrospective cohort study of prelockdown and postlockdown risks in England and Wales20
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-analysis20
National movement patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand: the unexplored role of neighbourhood deprivation20
Social inequalities and the pandemic of COVID-19: the case of Rio de Janeiro20
Housing and health inequities during COVID-19: findings from the national Household Pulse Survey20
A first estimation of the impact of public health actions against COVID-19 in Veneto (Italy)19
Gender-based violence and its association with mental health among Somali women in a Kenyan refugee camp: a latent class analysis19
Medication adherence in community-dwelling older people exposed to chronic polypharmacy19
Long COVID-19, persistent somatic symptoms and social stigmatisation18
Trends in healthy life expectancy in the age of austerity18
Is area deprivation associated with greater impacts of COVID-19 in care homes across England? A preliminary analysis of COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths18
Does changing to brighter road lighting improve road safety? Multilevel longitudinal analysis of road traffic collision frequency during the relighting of a UK city17
Characteristics of those most vulnerable to employment changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationally representative cross-sectional study in Wales17
Life course socioeconomic position and DNA methylation age acceleration in mid-life17
Association of sleep duration with all-cause and disease-specific mortality in US adults17
Bearing the burden of austerity: how do changing mortality rates in the UK compare between men and women?17
Widening income inequalities in life expectancy? Analysing time trends based on German health insurance data16
Building health equity through housing policies: critical reflections and future directions for research16
Effectiveness of providing university students with a mindfulness-based intervention to increase resilience to stress: 1-year follow-up of a pragmatic randomised controlled trial16
COVID-19: we need randomised trials of school closures16
Knowing the goal: an inclusive economy that can address the public health challenges of our time15
Effects of depression on employment and social outcomes: a Mendelian randomisation study15
Intersectorality and health: a glossary15
COVID-19 infection and outcomes in a population-based cohort of 17 203 adults with intellectual disabilities compared with the general population15
Suicide attempt and intentional self-harm during the earlier phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Washtenaw County, Michigan15
Goldilocks Days: optimising children’s time use for health and well-being14
Linking physical and social environments with mental health in old age: a multisensor approach for continuous real-life ecological and emotional assessment14
Trends in inequalities in disability in Europe between 2002 and 201714
COVID-19 related health inequality exists even in a city where disease incidence is relatively low: a telephone survey in Hong Kong14
Under the spotlight: understanding the role of the Chief Medical Officer in a pandemic14
Household and area-level social determinants of multimorbidity: a systematic review14
Does the timing and duration of mental health problems during childhood and adolescence matter for labour market participation of young adults?14
Excess mortality among essential workers in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic14
How can we adapt complex population health interventions for new contexts? Progressing debates and research priorities14
Loneliness and self-rated physical health among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Vancouver, Canada14
Association between community-level social capital and frailty onset among older adults: a multilevel longitudinal study from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES)13
Working while sick in context of regional unemployment: a Europe-wide cross-sectional study13
Impact of cuts to local government spending on Sure Start children’s centres on childhood obesity in England: a longitudinal ecological study13
Disentangling contributions of demographic, family, and socioeconomic factors on associations of immigration status and health in the United States13
Importance of population-based longitudinal studies to understanding the impact of COVID-1913
Socioeconomic inequalities in physical and cognitive functioning: cross-sectional evidence from 37 cohorts across 28 countries in the ATHLOS project13
Association between obesity and the risk of uterine fibroids: a systematic review and meta-analysis13
Impact of lockdown on key workers: findings from the COVID-19 survey in four UK national longitudinal studies13
Scaling COVID-19 against inequalities: should the policy response consistently match the mortality challenge?12
Mortality disparities and deprivation among people with intellectual disabilities in England: 2000–201912
Effectiveness of community interventions for protecting and promoting the mental health of working-age adults experiencing financial uncertainty: a systematic review12
Type 2 diabetes mellitus and antibiotic-resistant infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis12
Association between democratic governance and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study12
Dental attendance and behavioural pathways to adult oral health inequalities12
Changes in health and social well-being in the COVID-19 clinically vulnerable older English population during the pandemic12
Testing the socioeconomic determinants of COVID-19 pandemic hypothesis with aggregated Human Development Index12
Fruit and vegetable consumption and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease among Korean adults: a prospective cohort study12
Completeness and representativeness of small area socioeconomic data linked with the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)12
Housing and health: an updated glossary12
Indigenous Peoples, concentrated disadvantage, and income inequality in New Mexico: a ZIP code-level investigation of spatially varying associations between socioeconomic disadvantages and confirmed C12
Association between neighbourhood deprivation and hypertension in a US-wide Cohort12
Inequitable impact of infection: social gradients in severe COVID-19 outcomes among all confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases during the first pandemic wave in Sweden12
Interrogating structural inequalities in COVID-19 mortality in England and Wales11
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
Levels of economic growth and cross-province spread of the COVID-19 in China11
Impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on hospital presentations and admissions in the context of low community transmission: evidence from time series analysis in Melbourne, Australia11
Overview of retrospective data harmonisation in the MINDMAP project: process and results11
Biological ageing and the risks of all-cause and cause-specific mortality among people with diabetes: a prospective cohort study11
Low-income neighbourhood was a key determinant of severe COVID-19 incidence during the first wave of the epidemic in Paris11
Causal inference and effect estimation using observational data11
Multimorbidity: the case for prevention11
Cost-effectiveness of extending the HPV vaccination to boys: a systematic review11
Hospital readmission among people experiencing homelessness in England: a cohort study of 2772 matched homeless and housed inpatients11
Complex systems models for causal inference in social epidemiology10
Violent victimisation trajectories from adolescence through adulthood: consequences for sleep problems10
Hospitalisation and mortality from COVID-19 in Mexican indigenous people: a cross-sectional observational study10
Effectiveness of social prescribing for chronic disease prevention in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials10
Adverse employment histories and allostatic load: associations over the working life10
Disability pension and mortality in individuals with specific somatic and mental disorders: examining differences between refugees and Swedish-born individuals10
Characterising variability and predictors of infant mortality in urban settings: findings from 286 Latin American cities10
Longitudinal effects of perinatal social support on maternal depression: a marginal structural modelling approach10
Association between neighbourhood characteristics and antidepressant use at older ages: a register-based study of urban areas in three European countries10
Purposes and duties in scientific modelling10
Deprivation and exposure to public activities during the COVID-19 pandemic in England and Wales10
Relationship between loneliness, social isolation and modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease: a latent class analysis10
Associations between vision, hearing and tooth loss and social interactions: the JAGES cross-sectional study10
Estimating patterns in the under-reporting of suicide deaths in India: comparison of administrative data and Global Burden of Disease Study estimates, 2005–201510
Occupation and COVID-19 diagnosis, hospitalisation and ICU admission among foreign-born and Swedish-born employees: a register-based study10
Self-report of chronic diseases in old-aged individuals: extent of agreement with general practitioner medical records in the German AugUR study9
Economic burden of low physical activity and high sedentary behaviour in Finland9
Trauma and violent offending among adolescents: a birth cohort study9
Long-term exposure to ambient fine particulate matter originating from traffic and residential wood combustion and the prevalence of depression9
Why does Russia have such high cardiovascular mortality rates? Comparisons of blood-based biomarkers with Norway implicate non-ischaemic cardiac damage9
Substitutions of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep: associations with mental health in middle-aged and elderly persons9
Prospective association between receipt of the economic impact payment and mental health outcomes9
Socioeconomic determinants of depression amid the anti-extradition bill protests in Hong Kong: the mediating role of daily routine disruptions9
Role of presymptomatic transmission of COVID-19: evidence from Beijing, China9
Roles of allostatic load, lifestyle and clinical risk factors in mediating the association between education and coronary heart disease risk in Europe8
Influence of childhood socioeconomic position and ability on mid-life cognitive function: evidence from three British birth cohorts8
Work-related and personal predictors of COVID-19 transmission: evidence from the UK and USA8
Comparing population-level mental health of UK workers before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study using Understanding Society8
Social and physical neighbourhood characteristics and loneliness among older adults: results from the MINDMAP project8
Interpretation of COVID-19 case fatality risk measures in England8
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 Netherl8
Occupational health, frontline workers and COVID-19 lockdown: new gender-related inequalities?8
Mental distress among young people in inner cities: the Resilience, Ethnicity and AdolesCent Mental Health (REACH) study8
Individual-level and area-level socioeconomic inequalities in hearing impairment among Chinese adults: a population-based study8
Does subjective social status predict depressive symptoms in Chinese elderly? A longitudinal study from Hong Kong8
Association of socioeconomic deprivation with opioid prescribing in primary care in England: a spatial analysis8
Adverse childhood experiences and adult health: the need for stronger study designs to evaluate impact8
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 patients8
Alcohol consumption and internalising disorders in young adults of ALSPAC: a population-based study8
Socioeconomic status during youth and risk of car crash during adulthood. Findings from the DRIVE cohort study8
The inter-relationship between depressed mood, functional decline and disability over a 10-year observational period within the Longitudinal Urban Cohort Ageing Stu8
Income and neighbourhood deprivation in relation to obesity in urban dwelling children 0–12 years of age: a cross-sectional study from 2013 to 20198
The epidemiology of gynaecologic health: contemporary opportunities and challenges8
Association between industry payments for opioid products and physicians’ prescription of opioids: observational study with propensity-score matching8
Association of education levels with the risk of hypertension and hypertension control: a nationwide cohort study in Chinese adults8
Psychosocial work factors and blood pressure among 63 800 employees from The Netherlands in the Lifelines Cohort Study7
Research priorities for mental health in schools in the wake of COVID-197
Self-care, social norms and anomie during COVID-19: from contestation of the greater good to building future normative resilience in the UK7
Uterine fibroids and incidence of depression, anxiety and self-directed violence: a cohort study7
Green spaces, subjective health and depressed affect in middle-aged and older adults: a cross-country comparison of four European cohorts7
How do early-life adverse childhood experiences mediate the relationship between childhood socioeconomic conditions and adolescent health outcomes in the UK?7
Evaluating the effect of change in the built environment on mental health and subjective well-being: a natural experiment7
Association of education level with diabetes prevalence in Latin American cities and its modification by city social environment7
Exposure to unhealthy food and beverage advertising during the school commute in Australia7
Multimorbidity pattern and risk of dementia in later life: an 11-year follow-up study using a large community cohort and linked electronic health records7
Childhood adversity and trajectories of multimorbidity in mid-late life: China health and longitudinal retirement study7
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 database7
Subjective social position and cognitive function in a longitudinal cohort of older, rural South African adults, 2014–20197
Austerity, not influenza, caused the UK’s health to deteriorate. Let’s not make the same mistake again7
Deprivation is associated with anxiety and stress. A population-based longitudinal household survey among Chinese adults in Hong Kong7
Drug prescriptions and dementia incidence: a medication-wide association study of 17000 dementia cases among half a million participants7
Patterns of intimate partner violence against women in Europe: prevalence and associated risk factors7
Investigating the association between income inequality in youth and deaths of despair in Canada: a population-based cohort study from 2006 to 20197
SARS-CoV-2 infection in London, England: changes to community point prevalence around lockdown time, March–May 20206
Peptic ulcer as mediator of the association between risk of gastric cancer and socioeconomic status, tobacco smoking, alcohol drinking and salt intake6
Global DNA hypermethylation in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and cardiovascular disease risk: a population-based propensity score-matched cohort study6
Mathematical modelling and projecting the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Europe6
Effects on alcohol consumption of announcing and implementing revised UK low-risk drinking guidelines: findings from an interrupted time series analysis6
Primary care use and cardiovascular disease risk in Russian 40–69 year olds: a cross-sectional study6
How bad are life expectancy trends across the UK, and what would it take to get back to previous trends?6
Risk of major cardiovascular events according to educational level before and after the initial COVID-19 public lockdown: a nationwide study6
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
Is socioeconomic position associated with bronchiolitis seasonality? A cohort study6
Does persistent precarious employment affect health outcomes among working age adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis6
Association of US state policy orientation with adverse birth outcomes: a longitudinal analysis6
Exploring multilevel social determinants of depressive symptoms for Tanzanian adolescents: evidence from a cross-sectional 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
Closing the health inequity gap during the pandemic: COVID-19 mortality among racial and ethnic groups in Connecticut, March 2020 to December 20216
Do men avoid seeking medical advice? A register-based analysis of gender-specific changes in primary healthcare use after first hospitalisation at ages 60+ in Denmark6
Association between social activity frequency and overall survival in older people: results from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS)6
Sociodemographic profiles, educational attainment and physical activity associated with The Daily Mile™ registration in primary schools in England: a national cross-sectional linkage study6
Measuring older people’s socioeconomic position: a scoping review of studies of self-rated health, health service and social care use6
Healthy cities after COVID-19 pandemic: the just ecofeminist healthy cities approach6
Effects of social vulnerability and heat index on emergency medical service incidents in San Antonio, Texas, in 20186
Behavioural interventions for CVD risk reduction for blue-collar workers: a systematic review6
War in Nagorno-Karabakh highlights the vulnerability of displaced populations to COVID-196
The link between unemployment and opioid prescribing. An instrumental variable approach using evidence from England6
Educational disparities in ischaemic heart disease among 0.5 million Chinese adults: a cohort study6
Spillover effects of adult children’s schooling on parents’ smoking cessation: evidence from China’s compulsory schooling reform6
Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among older recipients of public welfare assistance in Japan5
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
COVID-19 distribution in Bogotá, Colombia: effect of poverty during the first 2 months of pandemic5
Racial inequality, racial discrimination and obesity incidence in adults from the ELSA-Brasil cohort5
Advancing health equity by integrating intersectionality into epidemiological research: applications and challenges5
Treatment gaps, 1-year readmission and mortality following myocardial infarction by diabetes status, sex and socioeconomic disadvantage5
Association between socioeconomic status and incident stroke in China5
Traumatic brain injury, collision sports participation, and neurodegenerative disorders: narrative power, scientific evidence, and litigation5
Dietary patterns and birth outcomes in the ELSPAC pregnancy cohort5
Interactions between environmental pollutants and dietary nutrients: current evidence and implications in epidemiological research5
Association of census tract-level incarceration rate and life expectancy in New York State5
Socioeconomic position at the age of 30 and the later risk of a mental disorder: a nationwide population-based register study5
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 Consortium5
A life course approach to elucidate the role of adiposity in asthma risk: evidence from a Mendelian randomisation study5
Impact of breastfeeding, maternal antiretroviral treatment and health service factors on 18-month vertical transmission of HIV and HIV-free survival: results from a nationally representative HIV-expos5
Finding the missing link: when community-based outreach in public space is key to engage migrants in health prevention programmes in Paris, France5
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 into and within immigrant households: nationwide registry study from Norway5
The paradox of success and public perspective: COVID-19 and the perennial problem of prevention5
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: analysis5
Prevention of COVID-19 among populations experiencing multiple social exclusions5
Ageing trajectories of health—longitudinal opportunities and synergies (ATHLOS) Healthy Ageing Scale in adults from 16 international cohorts representing 38 countries worldwide5
Association between air pollution and lung development in schoolchildren in China5
Socioeconomic gaps over time in colorectal cancer survival in England: flexible parametric survival analysis5
Sociodemographic disparities in COVID-19 burden: changing patterns over four pandemic waves in Israel5
Not belonging where others do: a cross-sectional analysis of multi-level social capital interactions on health and mental well-being in Wales5
Association between matched chronotype and poor mental health among shift workers: a systematic review and meta‐analysis5
Intervention to address homelessness and all-cause and suicide mortality among unstably housed US Veterans, 2012–20165
Cultural participation and all-cause mortality, with possible gender differences: an 8-year follow-up in the HUNT Study, Norway5
Every month matters: longitudinal associations between exclusive breastfeeding duration, child growth and obesity among WIC-participating children5
Trends in disability-free life expectancy at age 50 years in Australia between 2001 and 2011 by social disadvantage5
Gender, marital and educational inequalities in mid- to late-life depressive symptoms: cross-cohort variation and moderation by urbanicity degree5
Indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its containment measures on social inequalities in hospital utilisation in Italy5
Will it work here? A realist approach to local decisions about implementing interventions evaluated as effective elsewhere5
State or market? How to effectively decrease alcohol-related crash fatalities and injuries5
Exploring the associations of daily movement behaviours and mid-life cognition: a compositional analysis of the 1970 British Cohort Study5
Trajectories of work ability from mid-life to pensionable age and their association with retirement timing5
Childhood adversity is associated with hospitalisations and survival following external causes and non-communicable diseases: a 46-year follow-up of a Stockholm birth cohort5
Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 during the first three waves in Scotland: a national record linkage study5
Recovery from work: testing the effects of chronic internal and external workload on health and well-being5
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
Relationship between socioeconomic status and incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is dependent on age5
Effectiveness of a motivational intervention based on spirometry results to achieve smoking cessation in primary healthcare patients: randomised, parallel, controlled multicentre study5
Glossary on free trade agreements and health part 2: new trade rules and new urgencies in the context of COVID-195
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