Critical Public Health

Papers
(The median citation count of Critical Public Health is 0. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Mining through pandemic crisis: a systematic review of the impacts of COVID-19 management strategies on mining industries in West Africa and Western Australia39
E-cigarette flavours and vaping as a social practice: implications for tobacco control30
Silenced stories of illicit drug use in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico: experiences of healthcare providers, policymakers, and patients29
Attitudes of medical students towards LGBTQ+ individuals: a systematic review26
Factors contributing to strengths-based nutrition research in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health23
Can White allyship contribute to tackling ethnic inequalities in health? Reflections on the experiences of diverse young adults in England17
Hernia repair prevalence by age and gender among the Australian adult population from 2017 to 202117
Budgetary processes in medical organizations under a global budget payment system16
The health-physical activity entanglement in a neoliberal landscape: alternative possibilities for inquiry15
Social rights in relation to digitalization, mobile phone, and internet use – experiences of women in homelessness: a qualitative study14
“I drink tap water as it is convenient and quick” – a mixed methods evaluation of water only school policies in London13
Epidemiological analysis of adverse pregnancy events and associated risk factors in the border area of Guangzhou and Foshan, China12
The causal relationship between smoke and renal impairment: a two-sample Mendelian randomization and meta-analysis12
Comparison between the effects of guided and free museum visits on the physical demands and well-being of sedentary individuals over 50: an observational comparative study11
Exploring the political economy nexus of tobacco production and control: a case study from Zambia11
Blending de-implementation and implementation to promote adoption of universal PrEP guidelines: determinants, strategies, and outcomes11
Public health morality, sex, and COVID-19: sexual minority men’s HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) decision-making during Ontario’s first COVID-19 lockdown11
Transparency and accountability in healthcare: bridging antiracism and quality improvement to advance health equity11
Parallel vaccine discourses in Guinea: ‘grounding’ social listening for a non-hegemonic global health10
Association between systemic immune-inflammatory biomarkers (SII, NLR, PLR, LMR) and breast cancer9
Understanding compliance as multi-faceted: values and practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria9
Risky subjectivities and ‘risk’ as governance among key and priority populations in Canada: a foucauldian discourse analysis8
Knowledge, practices, and educational needs among Malaysian primary care physicians regarding childhood hearing loss8
Getting to the heart of the matter: a research partnership with Aboriginal women in South and Central Australia8
Field survey on the conformity of equipment and environment for audiometric test in South Korean hospital8
“Anticipate the need”: a narrative analysis of service providers’ experiences working with sexual and gender minority youth in British Columbia, Canada, during the COVID-19 pandemic8
Physical health conditions and occupational risks among piano students and teachers in Chengdu, China: prevalence, awareness, and prevention strategies8
The portrayal of food marketing policy by Canadian news media8
Supporting cancer screening uptake in South Asian women: the wise up to cancer public health intervention7
‘Ebola is a business’: an analysis of the atmosphere of mistrust in the tenth Ebola epidemic in the DRC7
The relationships between care burden and sleep quality in migrant care workers: an evaluation of the mediating factors7
Time, resourcing, and ethics: how the routinisation of organ donation after circulatory death in the NHS has created new ethical issues7
Engaging with communities and precarity theory to bring new perspectives to public mental health7
Mental health literacy in psychiatric nurses in China: a latent profile analysis6
Exploring the commercial determinants of health in the online food delivery sector: a case study of Uber Eats in Australia6
The myth of getting carried away: relationships between rape myth acceptance and disclosure of sexual violence among victims/survivors in university6
RELATIVES//Risks or, I am not your data: Ode to Delphrine’s walk, pt. II6
The (failed) promise of multimorbidity: chronicity, biomedical categories, and public health6
Discourses of COVID-19 vaccination in China: public response to government domination and the emergence of ‘vaccine citizenship’6
Realigning the global health ecosystem: an opportunity from a crisis5
Internally displaced people in Lagos: environmental health conditions and access to healthcare in the context of COVID-195
The relationship between resilience and cognitive load among college level students: a cross-sectional study5
Beyond condoms: unpacking the complex web of stigma, cost and gender disparities in STI healthcare-seeking among high-risk subgroups in Sub-Saharan Africa5
Determinants of improper healthcare waste segregation in a Tertiary Referral Hospital in Southern Rwanda: a cross-sectional study5
How work impacts health and smoking practices among sexuality and gender minority young adults5
“Help curb the hunger pangs”: news media frames of weight loss during the COVID- 19 lockdown4
The complexities of ‘trust’ in the context of COVID-19 vaccination choices among Black women in Alameda County, CA4
How should patients be selected for clinical clerkship cases: should they be young, middle-aged, or older?4
Biological citizenship through litigation: Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone and the suit to redefine corruption4
A mindful eating program improved home eating environment and reduced food insecurity among rural economically marginalized families4
Income inequality and COVID-19 in the USA4
Problematising the emergence of outbreak science in the governance of global health: making time for slow dis-ease4
Study on the relationship with knowledge, attitudes, and practices for prevention control of hepatitis B among university students in Hubei Province, China4
Healthcare governance in prisons in England: prisoners’ experiences of changes over time4
Un(ac)countable no-bodies: the politics of ignorance in global health policymaking4
Exploring Black civil society perspectives of drug decriminalization reforms in the Baltimore context: a participatory action qualitative study3
Identifying and managing fraudulent participants: critical commentary from a qualitative study with older adults3
‘I will play this tokenistic game, I just want something useful for my community’: experiences of and resistance to harms of peer research3
What do private providers of home care want? An analytical framework3
Missed SDG targets: from ‘trying harder’ to engaging critically with paradox and conflict3
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal health research: emerging trends and bibliometric analysis3
The association between early life access to communication and perceived mental health in a cross-sectional study of deaf Australian adults3
The 7.3 million Australians living with musculoskeletal conditions are not getting the support they deserve3
‘I didn’t feel safe inside’: navigating public health advice, housing and living with bushfire smoke3
The role of the market in health systems responsiveness3
Surviving together: social cohesion and Covid-19 infections and mortality across the world3
Perceptions and attitudes towards people with disabilities in Ghana: a qualitative study among healthcare providers3
Effect of calcium supplementation in reducing adverse obstetric and perinatal outcomes: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses2
Rethinking chronicity: public health and the problem of temporality2
Then and now: umbrella variables mask temporal mechanisms of structural racism in US urban environments2
Socialism as the way forward: updating a discourse analysis of the social determinants of health2
Policing and public health interventions into sex workers’ lives: necropolitical assemblages and alternative visions of social justice2
What’s the problem represented to be? A critical analysis of problem representation in news media and public health communication during a hepatitis A outbreak in San Diego, California, USA2
Rethinking and remaking “the social”: co-production, critical pedagogy, and mental health among university students in the USA2
A higher mortality in men compared to women with heart failure in primary care and ejection fraction equal to or more than 40%2
The psychological and behavioral impact of coronavirus outbreak on people living in the countries of the Levant: a cross-sectional study2
Ethnic disparities in health & social care workers’ exposure, protection, and clinical management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK2
Chronicity in/and cancer: a qualitative interview study of health professionals, patients, and family carers2
Disparities in primary cardiovascular risks and social determinants: multilevel analysis of national surveys2
The economic burden of obesity in 2024: a cost analysis using the value of a statistical life2
Predictive analytics in HIV surveillance require new approaches to data ethics, rights, and regulation in public health2
Individual consent in cluster randomised trials for non-pharmaceutical interventions: going beyond the Ottawa statement2
Trends and age-period-cohort effects on the incidence of hand, foot, and mouth disease among children younger than 10 years old from 2009 to 2023 in Quzhou, China2
The role of small, locally-owned businesses in advancing community health and health equity: a qualitative exploration in a historically Black neighborhood in the USA2
Using discursive approaches to examine the utility and functions of language in public health and health promotion: highlighting social constructions of e-cigarettes2
Antibiotics awareness: exploring the knowledge and attitude towards the usage and resistance among non-health professional students2
The ‘crisis’ of fat body in the neoliberal era: the case of obesity in Turkey2
Effects of family socioeconomic status on college students’ physical activity: chain-mediated effects of parental exercise habits and family sports climate2
Pain education program using games and online teaching: beyond the COVID-19 pandemic2
Abnormal lipid profile and its associated factors among chronically ill patients in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis1
Polarizing figures of resistance during epidemics. A comparative frame analysis of the COVID-19 freedom convoy1
Psychometric properties and diagnostic accuracy of the DUDIT and ASSIST-Y for cannabis use in adolescents in Sweden1
Revisiting the 8-syndrome of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) in 67257 Chinese school students1
More than one crisis: COVID-19 response actors navigating multi-dimensional crises in Flanders, Belgium1
Barriers and facilitators to sexual health help-seeking in patients with early-onset Parkinson’s disease: a qualitative study in Ethiopia1
Modifiable risk factors for hypertensive disorders in pregnancy1
Medical pluralism and ambivalent trust: pandemic technologies, inequalities, and public health in Ecuador and Argentina1
“A change in the narrative, a change in consensus”: the role of Deep End networks in supporting primary care practitioners serving areas of blanket socioeconomic deprivation1
Dilemmas in diagnosing advanced HIV disease: a case report of repeatedly false negative rapid HIV tests in a patient with epidemic Kaposi sarcoma in Tanzania1
‘Open’ relationships: reflections on the role of the journal in the contemporary scholarly publishing landscape1
‘If you’re serious about losing weight, why are you drinking all those Cokes?’: a critical discourse analysis of interviews on sugar-sweetened beverages amongst residents of a middle to upper class ne1
Healthy landscapes, healthy people: living landscapes as sites for the integration of heritage and modern health knowledges1
Combating substandard and falsified medicines in China: policy barriers and the role of pharmaceutical track-and-trace systems1
Two strategies used by local intersectoral networks to create healthier environments: a cross-case analysis in the Montreal urban setting1
Healthcare professionals’ perspectives on sex and gender documentation in electronic health records: an exploratory qualitative study of Sweden and China1
From self- to other- surveillance: a critical commentary on the English policy framework for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)1
The Public-in-Waiting: Children’s representation and inclusion in Aotearoa New Zealand’s COVID-19 public health response1
Association between long-term consumption trajectories of various foods and the risk of anxiety and depression in Chinese children1
“It’s different for heterosexuals”: exploring cis-heteronormativity in COVID-19 public health directives and its impacts on Canadian gay, bisexual, and queer men1
Always interested, always in motion: shaping discursive practices and material conditions in the pursuit of public health transformation0
Prevalence of corneal injuries among Halabja populations exposed to chemical weapons: a cross-sectional study0
Recovering political knowledge in public health: learning from sexual and reproductive health work0
Does ’class count’? The evolution of health inequalities by social class in early 21st century China (2002–2013)0
Self-identified fat people’s understanding of the need for, and use of, long needles when being vaccinated against COVID-19: findings from a international online exploratory survey0
Who keeps us safe? A critical examination of the role of contextual dimensions in lethal outcomes of police involvement in mental health crises response among Indigenous peoples in Canada0
Changing school cultures for mental wellbeing in Hong Kong: the potential of pedagogic practices that take power into account0
Exploring the pharmacist’s role in pregnancy care: perceptions, practices, competencies, and barriers0
#DiabetesOnAPlate: the everyday deployment and contestation of diabetes stigma in an online setting0
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Adopting vulnerability and power-sensitive pluralism for a pragmatist turn in policy-advice. Impulses from a critical framework of public health0
COVID-19 and techno-solutionism: responsibilization without contextualization?0
Association between prescription medication and erectile dysfunction: results from NHANES dataset and mendelian randomization study0
What you should know about RACISM-20 in the U.S.: a fact sheet in the time of COVID-190
Using Habermas’ theory of communicative action to transform sociological analyses of evidence-based policy0
Organizational agility and job performance: exploring emotional and behavioral mediators in healthcare management0
A retrospective analysis of physical and mental disorders before and after tic disorders diagnosis0
Obesity has causal effects on chronic hepatitis B but CHB has no causal effect on obesity: evidence from a Mendelian randomization study0
Co-opting the ‘public’ in public health: homelessness and the specious logic of discretionary displacement in a mid-sized US city0
Whiteout: a social history of sickle cell disease in Ontario, Canada0
Factors influencing the adoption and acceptance of eHealth in Malaysia: a systematic review0
Impact of COVID-19 on the food safety practices of food insecured individuals: interruption of the interdependence food safety and food security association0
Empirical study of the effects of a systematic approach adopted by emergency life-saving technicians on prehospital time0
Do you see the problem? Visualising a generalised ‘complex local system’ of antibiotic prescribing across the United Kingdom using qualitative interview data0
Economies of resistance0
Abortion provision in Australian public hospitals0
Can adaptation to ‘extraordinary’ times teach us about ways to strengthen community-based chronic disease prevention? Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic0
Liquor and loyalty: ownership structure, market institutionalization, authoritative hierarchy, and Chinese occupational drinking0
Does One Health need an ontological turn?0
The usefulness of healthcare resources for people with mental and physical health concerns: a systematic review using co-design principles0
Antibiotic ‘entanglements’: health, labour and everyday life in an urban informal settlement in Kampala, Uganda0
Future research directions on physicians in Polish primary healthcare: workforce challenges and policy considerations0
“We’re open to all”: The paradox of diversity in the U.S.-based free fitness movement0
Australian burden of disease study: health equity through data disaggregation0
Risk factors and predictive models for sequelae of heat stroke primarily involving cerebellar dysfunction0
The law of diminishing returns? The challenge of using freedom of information legislation for health policy research0
Navigating health system constraints and risks for childbirth care in rural Guinea: the role of women’s agency0
A commentary on forging a path for CHANGE: culturally focused HIV training for the next generation in pursuit of equity0
Development and validation of a critical health literacy scale0
The double burden of maldistribution: a descriptive analysis of corporate wealth and income distribution in four unhealthy commodity industries0
From collaborator to colleague: a community-based program science approach for engaging Kenyan communities of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in HIV research0
Factors influencing patients’ engagement with ChatGPT for accessing health-related information0
How pharmaceutical and diagnostic stakeholders construct policy solutions to a public health ‘crisis’: an analysis of submissions to a United Kingdom House of Commons inquiry into antimicrobial resist0
Who should mark the homework? Concussion, conflicts of interest, and the constitution of expertise0
Factors associated with micronutrient intake of low-income overweight or obese young mothers0
Epidemiology of piroplasm infections in humans, animals, and tick vectors in China (1982–2022): a One Health systematic review0
An investigation of structural violence in the lived experience of food insecurity0
Mapping the global landscape of task shifting and sharing: trends, geographic disparities, and terminology from 1970 to 20220
The wages of peer recovery workers: underpaid, undervalued, and unjust0
The quest for diffusible community health worker projects and the pitfalls of scaling culture0
The intersection of structure and agency within charitable community food programs in Toronto, Canada, during the COVID-19 pandemic: cultivating systemic change0
Towards a theoretically grounded, social democratic public health0
Inequities in maternal stressful life events between Indigenous and non-Indigenous women – evidence from a prospective cohort study in New Zealand0
From fear to hope: representations of dementia in the Australian news media0
Patient engagement in drug development: configuring a new resource for generating innovation0
‘COVID-19 vaccines are safe’: however, the issues of vaccine equity and data equity remain0
Exploring healthcare personnel’s knowledge, barriers, and innovative approaches in personalised oncology medicine: a scoping review0
Astronomical cost of living: challenging housing, transportation and commuting experiences among care workers0
Challenging times: disconnects between patient and professional temporalities in chronic condition management0
Which vaccine? Between evidence-based policy and symbolic politics0
Red tape, slow emergency, and chronic disease management in post-María Puerto Rico0
Assessment of physical activity levels among undergraduate medical students at a southwestern college in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study0
The publics of public health: learning from COVID-190
Entangled evidence: epistemic injustice, and systemic neglect in the assessment of menstrual disorders following COVID-19 vaccines0
A new conceptualization of the professional practice of environmental health: an Australian qualitative study0
Well-being of Ukrainian and Polish college students during the Russo-Ukrainian war and coping strategies as predictors of mental health disorders0
The global burden of blindness and vision loss caused by type 2 diabetes mellitus from 1990 to 2021 and projections to 2050: findings from global burden of disease 20210
New introductions to the same conclusions: a textual analysis of health inequalities in Dutch policy0
Hurdles in the personalized medicine implementation path: public’s literacy and misconceptions of whole genomic sequencing test0
Smellscape perceptions in hospital waiting areas: influential factors and semantic dimensions0
Association between menopause and occupational burnout in healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study0
Toward decolonized fiscal relationships between universities and community organizations: lessons learned from the California community engagement alliance against COVID-190
Hepatitis C data justice: the implications of data-driven approaches to the elimination of hepatitis C0
Pandemics, infection control and social justice: challenges for policy evaluation0
A historical perspective on structural-based mental health approaches in Latin America: the Chilean and Brazilian cases0
Recognizing the demand for emergency medical services during the Songkran Festival, Thailand’s intangible cultural heritage: an approach for healthcare policy development0
Falling down the rabbit hole? Methodological, conceptual and policy issues in current health inequalities research0
A critical commentary of the paradoxical ‘success’ of Making Every Contact Count (MECC)0
Exploring the interplay: obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and intestinal microbial ecology in Wuhan0
The art of medicine: myth or reality? A narrative review0
Influencing practices of civil society-led intersectoral networks to improve living environments in the Montreal setting0
Mental coaching through crisis: digital technologies and psychological governance during COVID-190
‘We were called guardian angels; Was that sincere? I do not think so’: retention of certified nurse assistants during the COVID-19 crisis in long-term care facilities in Montreal, Quebec, Canada0
Advancing culturally competent medical education: decolonizing approaches to Indigenous health as a human rights imperative0
Global research on cognitive function for Schizophrenia from 2014 to 2024: a bibliometric and visual analysis0
Women’s early reproductive behaviors and postpartum depression: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study0
“Digging in”: stigma and surveillance in the lives of pregnant and breastfeeding mothers who consume cannabis0
Disruption, adaptation, and maintenance of domestic violence services during the COVID-19 pandemic0
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Evidence-based medicine and physicians’ institutional agency in Russian clinical settings0
Examining the consequences of government information insufficiency during the COVID-19 public health emergency: a cross-sectional study in China0
Self-reported physical activity and sedentary behaviour amongst UK university students: a cross-sectional case study0
Behind the white coat: the effects of substance use and alcohol among South African medical students0
Weighing up the future: a meta-ethnography of household perceptions of the National Child Measurement Programme in England0
Critical posthuman ethnography: grappling with human-more-than-human interconnection for critical public health0
An emergency of circulation: entry screening in the UK during the 2014 Ebola epidemic0
Enriching the evidence base of co-creation research in public health with methodological principles of critical realism0
Re-evaluating national suicide prevention month: strategic timing and enhanced impact0
Assessing the associations of inflammatory bowel disease and hepatitis B virus infections with two-sample bidirectional mendelian randomization0
Bayesian Accelerated Failure Time modelling of maternal mortality during pregnancy0
Gaps in health research related to sex work: an analysis of Canadian health research funding0
Alcohol industry corporate social responsibility as structural coupling: analysis of CSR communications from Polish alcohol producers0
‘When I tried to explain, they shouted back at me!’: exploring how community pharmacists navigate tensions implementing antimicrobial stewardship in Vietnam0
Viewing young men’s online wagering through a social practice lens: implications for gambling harm prevention strategies0
Pathways for sexual and gender-based violence migrant survivors in France: a single-center retrospective cohort study0
Research on innovative design of medical bottle opening device based on fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)0
Royal Society report: what would a comprehensive evaluation suggest about non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19?0
Beyond Asian ‘mask culture’: understanding the ethics of face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic in Singapore0
From uncertain diseases to uncertain vaccines. Experts’ failure in the light of policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic—the case of Poland0
Policing the pandemic: estimating spatial and racialized inequities in New York City police enforcement of COVID-19 mandates0
Agent-based modelling in active commuting research: a scoping review0
On epidemiology as racial-capitalist (re)colonization and epistemic violence0
The quest for health and the unhealthy ‘others’. A critical case study of Syrian women newcomers’ meeting with health promotion and civic integration discourses upon arrival in Denmark0
Emotions of burden, intensive mothering and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy0
Local government policymaking environment for Health in All Policies: a case study research investigation0
Intersectionality and eco-social theory: a review of potentials for public health knowledge and social justice0
Indian dance (Bharatanatyam) to ease social loneliness and isolation in older adults0
Community health workers: not ‘if’ but ‘how’. Critically analyzing the WHO guideline through the WPR method0
Exploring students’ health awareness of personal hygiene and dietary behaviors in primary education in Qatar0
A preliminary exploration of ChatGPT’s potential in medical reasoning and patient care0
Doing (and undoing) privilege: evaluating how public policy drives health inequities0
The work of waste during COVID-19: logics of public, environmental, and occupational health0
Pathways of less healthy diets. An investigation of the everyday food practices of men and women in low income households0
Moving on in uncertain times: a goodbye0
Frailty goes viral: a critical discourse analysis of COVID-19 national clinical guidelines in the United Kingdom0
How pharmaceutical companies misappropriate fat acceptance0
The impact of COVID-19 related job stress on presenteeism among Egyptian police health care workers: the moderating role of affective organizational commitment0
Vulnerability and antimicrobial resistance0
Climate change, education, and malaria at African universities: a scoping review to assess education provision on the effects of climate change on malaria in the curricula of African universities0
Systematically omitting indoor air quality: sub-standard guidance for shelters, group homes and long-term care in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic0
One health governance of antimicrobial resistance seen through an Urban Political Ecology lens: a critical interpretive synthesis0
Advocating for an integrated healthcare model for women of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries0
Seasonal patterns of infectious diseases in Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia: a retrospective analysis0
An interprofessional approach to code stroke: a pilot study on integrating paramedics in the pre-clerkship medical simulation curriculum0
Identifying early adopters of drone food delivery services to inform public health policy0
Framing health, behavior, and society: a critical content analysis of public health social and behavioral science textbooks0
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