Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Papers
(The median citation count of Scandinavian Journal of Public Health is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
The COVID-19 International Student Well-being Study106
COVID-19 among immigrants in Norway, notified infections, related hospitalizations and associated mortality: A register-based study76
A comparison of COVID-19 epidemiological indicators in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland70
Anxiety and depressive symptoms of women in the perinatal period during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis62
The seventh survey of the Tromsø Study (Tromsø7) 2015–2016: study design, data collection, attendance, and prevalence of risk factors and disease in a multipurpose population-based health survey52
COVID-19 and the gender health paradox52
The Danish National Health Survey: Study design, response rate and respondent characteristics in 2010, 2013 and 201751
Locked and lonely? A longitudinal assessment of loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway47
Danish population health measured by the EQ-5D-5L44
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and health behaviors in Swedish adolescents43
Perceived consequences and worries among youth in Norway during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown36
COVID-19 and psychological distress in Norway: The role of trust in the healthcare system32
Factors associated with hospitalization, invasive mechanical ventilation treatment and death among all confirmed COVID-19 cases in Norway: Prospective cohort study32
Relational welfare: a socially just response to co-creating health and wellbeing for all31
The Corona crisis: a wicked problem30
Perceived stress among adolescents as a marker for future mental disorders: A prospective cohort study28
COVID-19 and suicide risk in the construction sector: preparing for a perfect storm27
Mortality in Norway and Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic26
Depression, anxiety and stress among Swedish university students before and during six months of the COVID-19 pandemic: A cohort study24
Compliance with recommendations limiting COVID-19 contagion among university students in Sweden: associations with self-reported symptoms, mental health and academic self-efficacy24
Prevalence, mental health and substance use of anabolic steroid users: a population-based study on young individuals23
Increase in sickness absence due to mental disorders in Finland: trends by gender, age and diagnostic group in 2005–201922
The Gender Pain Gap: gender inequalities in pain across 19 European countries22
Nationwide data on home care and care home residence: presentation of the Swedish Social Service Register, its content and coverage20
Levelling up: Global examples of reducing health inequalities20
Admissions to Norwegian Hospitals during the COVID-19 Pandemic20
Health-system equity, egalitarian democracy and COVID-19 outcomes: An empirical analysis19
The correlation between socioeconomic factors and COVID-19 among immigrants in Norway: a register-based study19
Seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies, risk factors for infection and associated symptoms in Geneva, Switzerland: a population-based study18
Subjective health complaints in early adolescence reflect stress: A study among adolescents in Western Sweden18
Education outside the classroom as upstream school health promotion: ‘adding-in’ physical activity into children’s everyday life and settings18
The double burden of COVID-1918
Social class and the risk of dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prospective longitudinal studies18
High excess deaths in Sweden during the first wave of COVID-19: Policy deficiencies or ‘dry tinder’?18
Association between educational level and smoking cessation in an 11-year follow-up study of a national health survey17
The challenges facing evidence-based decision making in the initial response to COVID-1917
Total patient load, regional disparities and in-hospital mortality of intubated COVID-19 patients in Greece, from September 2020 to May 202117
Geography of COVID-19 in Denmark16
Trends in adolescent psychosomatic complaints: a quantile regression analysis of Swedish HBSC data 1985–201716
Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic among migrants: An innovative, system-level, interdisciplinary approach is needed to improve public health16
Towards a syndemic public health response to COVID-1916
The association between perceived social support in adolescence and positive mental health outcomes in early adulthood: a prospective cohort study16
Intersectionality in informal care research: a scoping review16
Rainbows over the world’s public health: determinants of health models in the past, present, and future16
Balancing risks: Qualitative study of attitudes, motivations and intentions about attending for mammography during the COVID-19 pandemic15
Social inequalities in infectious diseases15
COVID-19 among young adults in Sweden: self-reported long-term symptoms and associated factors14
Public-health risks from tea drinking: Fluoride exposure14
COVID-19 healthcare policies in Ireland: A rapid review of the initial pandemic response14
Subjective mental well-being among higher education students in Finland during the first wave of COVID-1914
The moral responsibility of governments and individuals in the context of the coronavirus pandemic14
Time trends in schoolwork pressure among Dutch adolescents, 2001–2017: Gender and educational differences13
The relationship between substance use disorder and gambling disorder: A nationwide longitudinal health registry study13
Indigenous peoples and pandemics13
COVID-19 and disconnected youth: Lessons and opportunities from OECD countries13
SARS-CoV-2 infections and hospitalisations among immigrants in Norway-significance of occupation, household crowding, education, household income and medical risk: a nationwide register study13
Diving below the surface: A framework for arctic health research to support thriving communities13
Experiencing COVID-19 symptoms without the disease: The role of nocebo in reporting of symptoms13
Antidepressant use in Sweden: an intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA)13
The role of perceived loneliness and sociodemographic factors in association with subjective mental and physical health and well-being in Norwegian adolescents12
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the treatment of injuries during lockdown in Norway12
Social position and functional somatic disorders: The DanFunD study12
‘You should see a doctor’, said the robot: Reflections on a digital diagnostic device in a pandemic age12
Prevalence of parental mental health conditions among children aged 0–16 years in Denmark: A nationwide register-based cross-sectional study12
Depression and anxiety symptoms in pregnant women in Denmark during COVID-1911
Price elasticity of demand for cigarettes among youths in high-income countries: a systematic review11
Why do parents refuse childhood vaccination? Reasons reported in Finland11
The COVID-19 pandemic and war11
The Danish Health and Wellbeing Survey: Study design, response proportion and respondent characteristics11
Is there a link between all-cause mortality and economic fluctuations?11
Validation of the Danish version of the Second Victim Experience and Support Tool10
The epidemiology of muscle-strengthening activity among adolescents from 28 European countries10
Milder disease trajectory among COVID-19 patients hospitalised with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant compared with the Delta variant in Norway10
Trends in Disability-Free Life Expectancy (DFLE) from 1995 to 2017 in the older Norwegian population by sex and education: The HUNT Study10
Towards Tobacco-Free Generation: implementation of preventive tobacco policies in the Nordic countries9
Maternal depression symptoms during the first 21 months after giving birth9
Diffusion of innovations: a guiding framework for public health9
Depression, anxiety and stress among Swedish university students during the second and third waves of COVID-19: A cohort study9
Changing characteristics over time of individuals receiving COVID-19 vaccines in Denmark: A population-based descriptive study of vaccine uptake9
Health promoting schools and COVID-19: preparing for the future9
Migration health research in Norway: a scoping review8
Mortality trends for young adults in Sweden in the years 2000–20178
How the Norwegian population was affected by non-pharmaceutical interventions during the first six weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown8
Association between loneliness, self-esteem and outcome of life satisfaction in Norwegian adolescents aged 15–218
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Sweden and Italy: The role of trust in authorities8
Multimorbidity and health literacy: A population-based survey among 28,627 Danish adults8
Health literacy responsiveness: a cross-sectional study among pregnant women in Denmark8
Leisure time activities and biomarkers of chronic stress: The mediating roles of alcohol consumption and smoking8
Secular trends in functional abilities, health and psychological well-being among community-dwelling 75- to 95-year-old cohorts over three decades in Helsinki, Finland8
Loneliness, subjective health complaints, and medicine use among Finnish adolescents 2006–20188
Job strain and sense of coherence: Associations with stress-related outcomes among teachers8
Sleep deficit in COVID-19 health-care workers may increase the infection risk8
A comparison of small-area deprivation indicators for public-health surveillance in Sweden8
COVID-19: Opportunities for interdisciplinary research to improve care for older people in Sweden8
Fifteen years with patient choice and free establishment in Swedish primary healthcare: what do we know?8
The influence of parental age on timing of puberty: A study in the Danish National Birth Cohort8
The Danish National Youth Study 2019: study design and participant characteristics8
Changes in mortality trends amongst common diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden8
Health outcomes in young adulthood among former child refugees in Denmark, Norway and Sweden: A cross-country comparative study8
The effect of physical-activity intervention on children’s health-related quality of life8
Risk of SARS-CoV-2 exposure among hospital healthcare workers in relation to patient contact and type of care8
Integrating data from multiple Finnish biobanks and national health-care registers for retrospective studies: Practical experiences7
A snapshot of an eCohort: A comparison of the LifeGene population at baseline with the Swedish general population7
Mapping sociodemographic and geographical differences in human papillomavirus non-vaccination among young girls in Sweden7
Migration health research in the Nordic countries: Priorities and implications for public health7
Validity of self-reported educational level in the Tromsø Study7
Data from national health registers as endpoints for the Tromsø Study: Correctness and completeness of stroke diagnoses7
Challenges and lessons learnt from conducting a health survey in an ethnically diverse population7
Nordic research on health inequalities: A scoping review of empirical studies published inScandinavian Journal of Public Health2000–20217
Proficiency in the Norwegian language and self-reported health among 12 immigrant groups in Norway: A cross-sectional study7
The longitudinal relation between loneliness and perceived stress: A structural equation modelling analysis of 10,159 individuals7
Mask mandates for children during the COVID-19 pandemic: an international human rights perspective7
Young children’s voices in an unlocked Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic7
Prenatal and early childhood predictors of intelligence quotient (IQ) in 7-year-old Danish children from the Odense Child Cohort7
Paternal prescription medication before conception: A retrospective cohort study of all births in Denmark 1997–20176
35 Years of health surveys in Denmark: a backbone of public health practice and research6
Demographic characteristics, medical needs and utilisation of antenatal care among pregnant undocumented migrants living in Denmark between 2011 and 20176
The association between self-reported psychosomatic complaints and bullying victimisation and disability among adolescents in Finland and Sweden6
Which factors are associated with COVID-19 infection incidence in care services for older people in Nordic countries? A cross-sectional survey6
Sexual jokes at school and psychological complaints: Student- and class-level associations6
Intimate partner violence and its association with mental health problems: The importance of childhood violence – The SAMINOR 2 Questionnaire Survey6
Socio-demographic differences in polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate drug use among older people with different care needs and in care settings in Stockholm, Sweden6
Testing for COVID-19 regulates behavior in the general population: A qualitative study of experiences of awaiting test result for COVID-196
Work ability and psychological distress in a working population: results from the Stockholm Public Health Cohort6
Indicators and determinants of the years of working life lost: a narrative review6
‘Who is telling the truth?’ Migrants’ experiences with COVID-19 related information in Norway: a qualitative study6
Mental health symptoms during the first months of the COVID-19 outbreak in Norway: A cross-sectional survey study6
Contributions of childhood adversities to chronic pain among mid-life employees5
The prevalence of intimate partner violence among Iranian pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis5
Emergency department visits due to coronary artery disease during COVID-19 in Finland: A register-based study5
Association between maternal country of birth and preterm birth: A population-based register study of 910,752 deliveries5
Understanding adolescent males’ poor mental health and health-compromising behaviours: A factor analysis model on Swedish school-based data5
Validity and reliability of the Danish version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index5
Which illicit drugs are injected in Oslo? A study based on analysis of drug residues in used injection equipment and self-reported information5
Differences in labour market marginalisation between refugees, non-refugee immigrants and Swedish-born youth: Role of age at arrival and residency duration5
Childhood exposure to physical and emotional violence over a 57-year period in Sweden5
Challenges in obtaining accurate anthropometric measures for adults with severe obesity: A community-based study5
Recession and risk of suicide in Denmark during the 2009 global financial crisis: an ecological register-based study5
Socioeconomic disparities in adolescent anxiety and depression in Finland have not increased during the COVID-19 pandemic5
Designing an education intervention for understanding racism in healthcare in Sweden: development and implementation of anti-racist strategies through shared knowledge production and evaluation5
Educational differences in long-term care use in Sweden during the last two years of life5
Health risks among long-term immigrants in Norway with poor Norwegian language proficiency5
How children in Sweden accessed and perceived information during the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic5
Overall health impacts of a potential increase in cycle commuting in Stockholm, Sweden5
The rate of child restraint system use among children aged under six years in China5
Validity of chronic disease diagnoses in Icelandic healthcare registries5
Alcohol use among adolescents during the first pandemic lockdown in Denmark, May 20205
Change in cardiorespiratory fitness on self-rated health: prospective cohort study in 98 718 Swedish adults5
The organisation and responsibility for care for older people in Denmark, Finland and Sweden: outline and comparison of care systems5
Does physical performance and muscle strength predict future personal and nursing care services in community-dwelling older adults aged 75+?5
Psychometric properties of the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale in a sample of Danish schoolchildren5
Local public health projectification in practice: a qualitative study of facilitators and barriers to a public health plan implementation5
Normative values of short-term heart rate variability in a cross-sectional study of a Danish population. The DanFunD study5
Parental separation and offspring morbidity in adulthood: a descriptive study of the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 19665
Effects of rehabilitative psychotherapy on labour market success: Evaluation of a nationwide programme5
Increases in drug overdose deaths in Norway and the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic5
Return to work: does cardiac rehabilitation make a difference? Danish nationwide register-based study5
Being an older family caregiver does not impact healthcare and mortality: Data from the study ‘Good Aging in Skåne’4
Recommendations for ethnic equity in health: A Delphi study from Denmark4
Internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) for common mental disorders and subsequent sickness absence: a systematic review and meta-analysis4
Socio-economic deprivation and COVID-19 in Germany4
Poor health status before the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with unfavourable changes in health-related lifestyle4
Sports participation, body appreciation and life satisfaction in Norwegian adolescents: A moderated mediation analysis4
Objective health literacy skills among ninth graders in Finland: outcomes from a national learning assessment4
Broadening the reach of dementia risk-reduction initiatives: strategies from dissemination models4
Developing and promoting qualitative methods in general practice research: Lessons learnt and strategies convened4
Weekly pattern of alcohol-attributable male mortality before and after imposing limits on hours of alcohol sale in Lithuania in 20184
Life-course trajectories of working conditions and successful ageing4
Increasing inequalities in disability-free life expectancy among older adults in Sweden 2002–20144
Perceived changes in capability during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Swedish cross-sectional study from June 20204
One Health practices across key agencies in Sweden – Uncovering barriers to cooperation, communication and coordination4
Work exposure and associated risk of hospitalisation with pneumonia and influenza: A nationwide study4
From public health to public good: Toward universal wellbeing4
Development of the workplace inclusion questionnaire (WIQ)4
Immigrants’ perspectives on healthy life and healthy lifestyle counseling: a focus group study4
The role of community trust for compliance with the Swedish COVID-19 immunisation programme4
The COVID-19 pandemic and the timing of government response: A comparison of four Nordic countries March–June 20204
Sickness absence among migrant and non-migrant care workers in Finland: A register-based follow-up study4
Risk of stillbirth and preterm birth among undocumented pregnant migrant women in Denmark: A retrospective case-control study4
Variation in disease in children according to immigrant background4
Study design of ‘Move More’: Development and feasibility of a social-prescribing intervention to increase physical activity among inactive Danes4
Projections for obesity, smoking and hypertension based on multiple imputation4
The increasing significance of disease severity in a burden of disease framework4
Low prevalence of ideal cardiovascular health in the general Swedish population: Results from the Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study (SCAPIS)4
Municipal strategies and meeting minutes’ descriptions of the promotion of children’s mental health: a document analysis4
Nordic population-based study on internet use and perceived meaningfulness in later life: How they are linked and why it matters4
Examine the public health impacts of functional somatic disorders using the DanFunD study4
A decade of socioeconomic inequality in type 2 diabetes area-level prevalence: an unshakeable status quo?3
Comparing COVID-19 pandemic health responses in two high-income island nations: Iceland and New Zealand3
COVID-19 and the ecological crisis: What do they have in common?3
Trust matters: The Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe Study3
FarGen – participants in the genetic research infrastructure of the Faroe Islands3
The effects of long-term physical activity interventions in communities: Scoping review in the Nordic countries3
Influenza risk groups in Norway by education and employment status3
Contribution of smoking change to 45-year trend in prevalence of chronic bronchitis in Finland3
Trends in adolescent mental health problems 2004–2020: Do sex and socioeconomic status play any role?3
Promoting labour market inclusion of the chronically ill: a scoping review of Scandinavian countries’ efforts3
Canadian Northern and Indigenous health policy responses to the first wave of COVID-193
The Faroese Septuagenarians cohort: A comparison of well-being before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among older home-dwelling Faroese3
HUNT for better public health3
Multiple psychosocial work exposures and well-being among employees: prospective associations from the French national Working Conditions Survey3
Identifying individuals with complex and long-term health-care needs using the Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Groups System: A comparison of data from primary and specialist health care3
Ten years’ of Healthy Life Centers – research and directions for future work3
The prevalence of chronic diseases in international immigrants: a systematic review and meta-analysis3
Determinants of transition from partial to full disability pension: A register study from Finland3
‘Everything turned upside down’: A thematic analysis of adolescents’ experiences of everyday life during COVID-19 restrictions3
Contribution of age, gender and occupational group to the higher risk of disability retirement among Finnish public sector employees3
Oral health promotion and labour market prospects of socially disadvantaged and unemployed people – a randomised controlled trial3
Cannabis use disorder in relation to socioeconomic factors and psychiatric comorbidity: A cluster analysis of three million individuals born in 1970–20003
COVID-19 vaccination rates among healthcare workers by immigrant background: A nation-wide registry study from Norway3
Sickness absence and disability pension after carpal tunnel syndrome diagnosis: A register-based study of patients and matched references in Sweden3
Associations between children’s diagnosed mental disorders and educational achievements in Sweden3
Socioeconomic inequalities in self-rated health in Japan, 32 European countries and the United States: an international comparative study3
Factors associated with initiation and use of snus among adolescents3
Perceived group discrimination based on one’s gender and the gender gap in depression in Europe3
Cervical cancer (over-)screening in Europe: Balancing organised and opportunistic programmes3
The impact of stress and lifestyle factors on short-term sickness absence in a large Danish industrial company3
Lifestyle factors and obesity in young adults – changes in the 2000s in Finland3
Factors related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Denmark: A national study in the autumn of 20213
Stressful life events, psychological symptoms, and social support of children and young asylum-seekers in Iceland3
Development of healthcare use across contemporary retirement pathways: results from a register based cohort study3
Young adults with depression: A registry-based longitudinal study of work-life marginalisation. The Norwegian GP-DEP study3
Using an urban child health index to detect intra-urban disparities in Sweden3
Impact of a manager-oriented intervention on occupational exposures and well-being among pregnant hospital and day-care employees: A cluster randomised trial3
Social inequality in type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Faroe Islands: a cross-sectional study3
Associations between COVID-19-related changes in the psychosocial work environment and mental health3
Public health, surveillance policies and actions to prevent community spread of COVID-19 in Denmark, Serbia and Sweden3
The age structure of cases as the key of COVID-19 severity: Longitudinal population-based analysis of European countries during 150 days3
Tension between local, regional and national levels in Norway’s handling of COVID-193
Study design: Pathways to Independence – A study of unaccompanied minor refugees settled in a Norwegian city municipality3
Family factors predicting self-rated health during early adolescence3
Population-based epidemiology: The Glostrup Population Studies 1964–20213
Impact of Omicron on sick leave across industries: A population-wide study3
Labour market status and depression in Russia: A longitudinal study, 2011–20172
A critical reflection on the use of improvement science approaches in public health2
Should a patient’s socioeconomic status count in decisions about treatment in medical care? A longitudinal study of Norwegian doctors2
Socio-economic differences in smoking among adolescents in a school-based smoking intervention: The X:IT II study2
Life-course socioeconomic circumstances in acute, chronic and disabling pain among young employees: a double suffering2
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Swedish adults aged 77 years and older: Age differences in lifestyle changes2
Alienation: A useful concept for health inequality research2
Social inequality in parent–infant relations: Epidemiological study of community nurse records2
Systematic reviews: A glossary for public health2
Parental alienation – a valid experience?2
My 15-month rollercoaster ride with COVID-19: A social epidemiologist’s perspective2
Socioeconomic differences in the association between maternal age and maternal obesity: a register-based study of 707,728 women in Finland2
Associations between mental health and sociodemographic characteristics among schoolchildren. A cross-sectional survey in Denmark 20192
Major depressive disorders in young immigrants: A cohort study from primary healthcare settings in Sweden2
Complex emergencies: overcoming barriers to health care2
Investigating municipal and company influences on employment of people with chronic health conditions2
Variation in use of Caesarean section in Norway: An application of spatio-temporal Gaussian random fields2
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