Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Papers
(The median citation count of Scandinavian Journal of Public Health is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Life-course socioeconomic circumstances in acute, chronic and disabling pain among young employees: a double suffering71
Solving the housing crisis in Nunavut, Canada59
The COVID-19 pandemic and the timing of government response: A comparison of four Nordic countries March–June 202050
How children in Sweden accessed and perceived information during the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic43
The one-sided explanations of a multifactorial coronavirus disease37
Municipality-level differences in disability retirement in Finland: The contribution of local social characteristics33
Shared decision-making in healthcare: development and assessment of the translated Finnish version of the SDM-Q-928
Health promoting schools and COVID-19: preparing for the future28
Changes in smoking due to COVID-19 pandemic among persons of migrant origin compared with the general population: a population-based study27
The protective effects of Swedish COVID-19 pandemic strategies on adolescents’ mental health: a longitudinal cohort study27
Modeling impacts of traffic, air pollution, and weather conditions on cardiopulmonary disease mortality26
How to protect people in response to COVID-19 economic downturns: Insights from past economic crises25
Validity and reliability of the Danish version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index25
Examine the public health impacts of functional somatic disorders using the DanFunD study24
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and health behaviors in Swedish adolescents23
Antidepressant use in Sweden: an intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA)23
Effects of screening for anxiety and depression in patients with ischaemic heart disease – a nationwide Danish register study21
Loneliness, subjective health complaints, and medicine use among Finnish adolescents 2006–201821
Pedestrian wintertime slip and fall injuries—effectiveness of weather warning service in prevention21
A cross-sectional study of variations in schoolwork stress in academic upper secondary school classes in Mid-Norway20
Depression, anxiety and stress among Swedish university students during the second and third waves of COVID-19: A cohort study20
Risk factors for loneliness among older informal caregivers in regions of Finland and Sweden: a longitudinal study20
Parental socio-economic position and the risk of type 1 diabetes in children and young adults in Denmark: A nation-wide register-based study20
Experiences of access to healthcare among newly arrived immigrants in Denmark: Examining the role of residence permit20
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 survey19
Cervical human papillomavirus prevalence according to socioeconomic and demographic characteristics in a large Danish screening population18
The association between self-reported psychosomatic complaints and bullying victimisation and disability among adolescents in Finland and Sweden18
Validity of the Finnish Care Register for Social Welfare in a nationwide cohort of people with Alzheimer’s disease18
Trajectories of depressive symptoms in early to mid-adolescence: associations with school pedagogical and social climate17
Uncovering sociodemographic disparities in temporal trends of osteoarthritis incidence and age-at-diagnosis, 2006–201916
Role of social support in culturally sensitive diabetes self-management education among an ethnic minority population in Denmark16
Couple similarity with respect to physical and mental disabilities16
Young children’s voices in an unlocked Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic16
Does the suddenness matter? Antidepressant use before and after a spouse dies suddenly or expectedly of stroke15
Subjective health complaints in early adolescence reflect stress: A study among adolescents in Western Sweden15
History of working conditions and the risk of old-age dependency: a nationwide Swedish register-based study15
Danish population health measured by the EQ-5D-5L15
Parental income gradients in child and adolescent mortality: Norwegian trends over half a century14
Variation in use of Caesarean section in Norway: An application of spatio-temporal Gaussian random fields14
Perceived stress is related to lower blood pressure in a Swedish cohort14
Weekly pattern of alcohol-attributable male mortality before and after imposing limits on hours of alcohol sale in Lithuania in 201814
Is there a link between all-cause mortality and economic fluctuations?14
How the Norwegian population was affected by non-pharmaceutical interventions during the first six weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown14
Nordic population-based study on internet use and perceived meaningfulness in later life: How they are linked and why it matters14
Educational inequalities in blood pressure across the adult life course: Evidence from a 20-year follow-up study13
My 15-month rollercoaster ride with COVID-19: A social epidemiologist’s perspective13
Connecting cohorts of Finnish biobanks creates a research resource for the study of healthy ageing13
Migration health research in the Nordic countries: Priorities and implications for public health13
The aftermath of COVID-19: Mortality impact of the pandemic on older persons in Sweden and other Nordic countries, 2020–202313
Trust matters: The Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe Study13
Diffusion of innovations: a guiding framework for public health13
Normative values of short-term heart rate variability in a cross-sectional study of a Danish population. The DanFunD study12
Abstracts presented at the Norwegian Public Health conference, October 24-25, 2024, Tønsberg, Norway12
Ethical dilemmas in conducting qualitative, public health research on social media: using a study on Facebook as a case12
Lifestyle factors as predictors of incident functional somatic disorder. Five-year follow-up of The DanFunD study12
COVID-19: systematic learning across boundaries requires a conceptual agreement12
Testing for COVID-19 regulates behavior in the general population: A qualitative study of experiences of awaiting test result for COVID-1911
Mental health symptoms during the first months of the COVID-19 outbreak in Norway: A cross-sectional survey study11
Development of healthcare use across contemporary retirement pathways: results from a register based cohort study11
Incidence of atrial fibrillation and flutter in Denmark in relation to country of origin: a nationwide register-based study11
Socioeconomic, medical and demographic characteristics of early adopters of digital primary care11
Community-based palliative care in two primary care settings – nursing homes and home care: a national survey11
Indigenous peoples and pandemics10
What is wellness? Investigating the importance of different domains of wellness among laypeople and experts: A survey study10
Design of a prospective follow-up study on early parenthood and smoking behaviour during pregnancy in Finnish primary healthcare10
Secular trends in functional abilities, health and psychological well-being among community-dwelling 75- to 95-year-old cohorts over three decades in Helsinki, Finland10
Smoking among immigrants in Norway: a cross-sectional study10
The Danish National Youth Study 2019: study design and participant characteristics10
The burden of disease due to COVID-19 in Sweden 2020–2021: A disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) study10
Social well-being and problematic school absence among Danish adolescents: A nationwide cross-sectional study10
Differences in postpartum mental healthcare among women with identified needs: the role of migration status10
Preventing smoking initiation in adolescents living in vulnerable socioeconomic conditions: Study protocol of the KickAsh!-intervention10
Demographic characteristics, medical needs and utilisation of antenatal care among pregnant undocumented migrants living in Denmark between 2011 and 201710
Contribution of age, gender and occupational group to the higher risk of disability retirement among Finnish public sector employees9
Mortality trends for young adults in Sweden in the years 2000–20179
Socio-demographic differences in polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate drug use among older people with different care needs and in care settings in Stockholm, Sweden9
Are dental care records in childhood associated with financial hardship in adulthood?9
Determinants of transition from partial to full disability pension: A register study from Finland9
Trends in Disability-Free Life Expectancy (DFLE) from 1995 to 2017 in the older Norwegian population by sex and education: The HUNT Study9
Self-rated health in preadolescent children as a predictor for hospital contacts and redeemed prescriptions: the Danish National Birth Cohort 1996–20029
Diving below the surface: A framework for arctic health research to support thriving communities9
Extended access to general practice services during weekends in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic9
Evaluating mammography screening in observational cohort designs: the importance of avoiding lead time bias9
Obesity diagnoses in children and adolescents in Norway by immigrant background8
Mask mandates for children during the COVID-19 pandemic: an international human rights perspective8
Intimate partner violence and negative health consequences: A cross-sectional study among women in a regional sample in Sweden8
Canadian Northern and Indigenous health policy responses to the first wave of COVID-198
Abstracts presented at the 23rd IAAH European Regional Conference “Adolescent health and well-being - Hope in a time of uncertainty” October 10th-11th, 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark8
Psychometric properties of the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale in a sample of Danish schoolchildren8
Adult offspring and their socioeconomic resources for development and survival of stroke: A Swedish and Danish nationwide register-based study8
Socioeconomic differences in the association between maternal age and maternal obesity: a register-based study of 707,728 women in Finland8
Children as next of kin’s experiences, practices, and voice in everyday life: a systematic review of studies with Norwegian data (2010–2022)8
Social inequalities in infectious diseases8
Systematic reviews: A glossary for public health7
Impact of Omicron on sick leave across industries: A population-wide study7
Low prevalence of ideal cardiovascular health in the general Swedish population: Results from the Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study (SCAPIS)7
Discrimination and health: A cross-sectional study comparing Muslims with other-religious7
COVID-19 and suicide risk in the construction sector: preparing for a perfect storm7
Norwegian policies to reduce social inequalities in health: Developments from 1987 to 20217
Heart failure describing the underlying cause of death: a misconception, lack of information on the true underlying causes, or both?7
Impacts of temperature and solar radiation changes in northern Europe on key population health behaviors: a scoping review of reviews7
Major depressive disorders in young immigrants: A cohort study from primary healthcare settings in Sweden7
Information on Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccine in the Copenhagen School Health Records Register7
Psychosocial and economic impact of COVID-19 pandemic by sex among migrant populations compared with general Finnish population: a population-based study7
Association between childhood family structure and health-related quality of life at middle age: A longitudinal study of Northern Finland Birth Cohort 19667
Prevalence of musculoskeletal pain and associated factors among professional orchestra musicians in Norway7
The influence of selective mortality on poverty rates in later life: evidence from a Swedish cohort born in 19266
Promoting labour market inclusion of the chronically ill: a scoping review of Scandinavian countries’ efforts6
The influence of the multifactorial falls prevention programme on mortality6
Immigrants’ perspectives on healthy life and healthy lifestyle counseling: a focus group study6
Overview of health research in Greenland from 2001 to 20206
Psychometric properties of a short self-report measure of rule-breaking behaviour among adolescents: findings from the Ungdata survey6
Ten years’ of Healthy Life Centers – research and directions for future work6
Effect of replacing television viewing with different intensities of physical activity on COVID-19 mortality risk: Short communication from UK Biobank6
Socioeconomic inequalities in self-rated health in Japan, 32 European countries and the United States: an international comparative study6
Comparing COVID-19 pandemic health responses in two high-income island nations: Iceland and New Zealand6
Alienation: A useful concept for health inequality research6
The social medicine specialty in southern Sweden6
Change in country-level COVID-19 lethality is associated with improved testing: no apparent role of medical care or disease-specific knowledge6
Psychosomatic complaints are indicative of stress in young individuals: findings from a Swedish national cohort study6
The diagnosis of cerebral palsy in two Danish national registries: a validation study6
Economic recession and cardiovascular disease among women: a cohort study from Eastern Finland6
The COVID-19 pandemic and war6
Broadening the reach of dementia risk-reduction initiatives: strategies from dissemination models6
The impact of stress and lifestyle factors on short-term sickness absence in a large Danish industrial company6
Main activity trajectory clusters of unemployed people with partial work ability and cluster features6
Work ability trends 2000–2020 and birth-cohort projections until 2040 in Finland6
Abstracts presented at the Norwegian Public Health conference, September 21–22, 2023, Tromsø, Norway6
Local public health projectification in practice: a qualitative study of facilitators and barriers to a public health plan implementation6
The specialty of social medicine and public health in Sweden: Challenges and future directions6
Tackling physical inactivity in Scandinavia: a narrative review of reviews supplemented by expert interviews5
Boys perpetrating sexual harassment on peer girls in secondary school: A focus group study about pupils’ experiences5
Awareness of having hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidaemia among US adults: The 2011–2018 NHANES data5
Early career demanding psychosocial work environment and severe back pain and neck/shoulder pain in experienced nurses: A cohort study5
Participatory developed school-based interventions targeting physical activity and sedentary behaviour among children and adolescents: A scoping review5
The double burden of COVID-195
Tension between local, regional and national levels in Norway’s handling of COVID-195
Socio-economic differences in smoking among adolescents in a school-based smoking intervention: The X:IT II study5
Is duration of residence a proxy for acculturation? The case of health risk behaviors among international immigrants5
Physical activity levels before and after the COVID-19 restrictions among Danish adolescents: a retrospective cohort study5
Nationwide data on home care and care home residence: presentation of the Swedish Social Service Register, its content and coverage5
The effect of improving psychosocial stressors on psychological distress: a quasi-experiment of Finnish health and social care workers5
Factors associated with general practitioners’ contacts with sick-listed patients’ employers: A Swedish nationwide questionnaire study5
Association between maternal country of birth and preterm birth: A population-based register study of 910,752 deliveries5
The influence of parental age on timing of puberty: A study in the Danish National Birth Cohort5
A natural experiment: Assessment of Danish high-school students’ alcohol drinking patterns from 2014 and 2019 after the introduction of a common alcohol policy5
Revisiting the conceptualization of social sustainability from a health promotion perspective: a scoping review5
Tobler’s law and wavefront patterns in the spatial spread of COVID-19 across Europe during the Delta and Omicron waves5
Labour market status and mortality risk: The Finnmark cohort study 1987–20175
Educational differences in long-term care use in Sweden during the last two years of life5
A critical reflection on the use of improvement science approaches in public health5
The relationship between online communication and adolescents’ mental health: Long-term evaluation between genders4
Working conditions and mental health functioning among young public sector employees4
National health registries – a ‘goldmine’ for studying non-communicable disease occurrence in Norway – the NCDNOR project4
Parental alienation – a valid experience?4
Beyond global health: Redefining the ‘public’ in public health4
Association between educational level and smoking cessation in an 11-year follow-up study of a national health survey4
Mental health problems among adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: a repeated cross-sectional study from Sweden4
Socioeconomic inequalities in sexual victimisation in a nationally representative sample of the Swedish population4
Determinants of a sense of insecurity among home-dwelling older people4
Anxiety and depressive symptoms of women in the perinatal period during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis4
Mapping sociodemographic and geographical differences in human papillomavirus non-vaccination among young girls in Sweden4
Nordic research on health inequalities: A scoping review of empirical studies published in Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 2000–20214
Resources and strategies young people use and need to promote mental health – a qualitative study from a salutogenic perspective4
Algorithm for forming hospital care episodes by combining attendance contacts in the Danish National Patient Register: A methodological consensus-driven study4
Exposure to parental smoking and cardiac structure and function in adulthood: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study4
Complex emergencies: overcoming barriers to health care4
Cardiovascular disease in people born to unmarried mothers in two historical periods: The Helsinki Birth Cohort Study 1934–19444
Investigating municipal and company influences on employment of people with chronic health conditions4
Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic among migrants: An innovative, system-level, interdisciplinary approach is needed to improve public health4
Occupational-related risk of testing SARS-CoV-2 positive for publicly employed medical doctors in Sweden: A nationwide cohort study4
Associations between mental health and sociodemographic characteristics among schoolchildren. A cross-sectional survey in Denmark 20194
Compliance with recommendations limiting COVID-19 contagion among university students in Sweden: associations with self-reported symptoms, mental health and academic self-efficacy4
The prevalence of potentially traumatic events in the seventh survey of the population-based Tromsø study (Tromsø 7)4
Factors related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Denmark: A national study in the autumn of 20214
Multiple psychosocial work exposures and well-being among employees: prospective associations from the French national Working Conditions Survey4
Occupational stress among Norwegian physicians: A literature review of long-term prospective studies 2007–20194
The epidemiology of muscle-strengthening activity among adolescents from 28 European countries4
The economic burden of diseases in the Nordic countries: A systematic review4
Emergency department visits due to coronary artery disease during COVID-19 in Finland: A register-based study4
Geographical variation in quality-adjusted life expectancy in the North Denmark Region4
Labour market status and depression in Russia: A longitudinal study, 2011–20174
Mid-life alcohol consumption and survival to age 90 in men: The Tromsø Study 1979–1980 with follow-up to 20194
Election promises on children’s wellbeing and health 2015 to 2021 – a study of Finnish voting advice applications database4
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Swedish adults aged 77 years and older: Age differences in lifestyle changes4
Towards more comprehensive nationwide familial aggregation studies in Denmark: The Danish Civil Registration System versus the lite Danish Multi-Generation Register4
Preschool-level socio-economic deprivation in relation to emotional and behavioural problems among preschool children in Sweden4
Public-health risks from tea drinking: Fluoride exposure3
Agribusiness and the COVID-19 syndemic: The unsustainable pathways3
The correlation between socioeconomic factors and COVID-19 among immigrants in Norway: a register-based study3
One Health practices across key agencies in Sweden – Uncovering barriers to cooperation, communication and coordination3
Development of non-communicable disease risk factors in Finland: projections up to 20403
On the feasibility of country-specific and country-general explanations for the increase over time in psychosomatic complaints among Nordic adolescents3
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on mental health in Danish school children in 5th to 7th grade3
To prevent sexual violence against women, we need to know more about those who become victims3
Opportunities for transitional care and care continuity following hospital discharge of older people in three Nordic cities: A comparative study3
‘Who is telling the truth?’ Migrants’ experiences with COVID-19 related information in Norway: a qualitative study3
Government interventions and control policies to contain the first COVID-19 outbreak: An analysis of evidence3
Mental health among unaccompanied refugee minors after settling in Norway: A matched cross-sectional study3
Public health, surveillance policies and actions to prevent community spread of COVID-19 in Denmark, Serbia and Sweden3
The lived experience of healthcare workers in quarantine: Findings of a systematic review, meta-synthesis and meta-summary3
The emergence of international comparisons of health inequalities as reflected in the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health during its five decades3
Linking climate change adaptation and public health: perspectives of Norwegian policymakers3
The association between non-parental childcare intensity and parental mental health across Europe3
Health risks among long-term immigrants in Norway with poor Norwegian language proficiency3
High excess deaths in Sweden during the first wave of COVID-19: Policy deficiencies or ‘dry tinder’?3
Associations between commute mode use and self-rated health and work ability among Finnish public sector employees3
The road from knowledge to change – pandemics, diversity and social inequality declaration, Bergen 20223
From questionnaire to practical application: A quality of life profile for populations with diverse disabilities3
Projected health benefits of air pollution reductions in a Swedish population3
Hazardous alcohol consumption and problem drinking in Norwegian and Russian women and men: The Tromsø Study 2015–2016 and the Know Your Heart study 2015–20183
Towards Tobacco-Free Generation: implementation of preventive tobacco policies in the Nordic countries3
Promoting health equity in the health-care system: How can we identify potentially vulnerable patients?3
Exposure to physical, sexual and emotional violence and health-related factors among the adult population in the Faroe Islands3
Historical trends in daily smoking and quitting by relationship status in Norway, 1973–20223
Planning for health equity in the crossfire between science and policy3
Should a patient’s socioeconomic status count in decisions about treatment in medical care? A longitudinal study of Norwegian doctors3
The age structure of cases as the key of COVID-19 severity: Longitudinal population-based analysis of European countries during 150 days3
SARS-CoV-2 infections and hospitalisations among immigrants in Norway-significance of occupation, household crowding, education, household income and medical risk: a nationwide register study3
The need for health equitable climate adaptation policies in Northern Europe3
Perceived social support and symptoms of depression and anxiety in emerging adulthood: A Swedish prospective cohort study3
Study design of National Surveillance of the Work Environment of Employees in Denmark (NASWEED): Prospective cohort with register follow-up3
Sports participation, body appreciation and life satisfaction in Norwegian adolescents: A moderated mediation analysis3
Rural–urban and geographical differences in prognosis of atrial fibrillation in Finland: a nationwide cohort study3
Do adoption age and country of origin matter for non-kin adoptees’ risk of psychiatric contact and post-adoption out-of-home care placement?2
Correlation between country-level numbers of COVID-19 cases and mortalities, and country-level characteristics: A global study2
The relationship between substance use disorder and gambling disorder: A nationwide longitudinal health registry study2
Voices from the margins: A qualitative study exploring components influencing psychosocial health and wellbeing among gender minority forced migrants2
Standing alone: experiences of vaccine-hesitant Danish healthcare professionals during COVID-192
Experiencing COVID-19 symptoms without the disease: The role of nocebo in reporting of symptoms2
What is a sustainable diet in the Norwegian context?2
Disability level and use of long-term care services in Norway: a nation-wide registry study2
Trust in science, medicine and medical providers and its relations to vaccine beliefs: A latent class analysis2
Social prescribing initiatives connecting general practice patients with community-based physical activity: A scoping review with expert interviews2
Designing an education intervention for understanding racism in healthcare in Sweden: development and implementation of anti-racist strategies through shared knowledge production and evaluation2
Total patient load, regional disparities and in-hospital mortality of intubated COVID-19 patients in Greece, from September 2020 to May 20212
Motivation, development and use of Ungdata Junior: An annual general survey among children in Norway2
Socioeconomic differences in children’s victimization to maternal and paternal violence: a register-based study2
Intimate partner violence and its association with mental health problems: The importance of childhood violence – The SAMINOR 2 Questionnaire Survey2
Sociodemographic characterisation of antibiotic heavy users in the Danish elderly population2
Perceived consequences and worries among youth in Norway during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown2
Does the socioeconomic positioned neighbourhood matter? Norwegian adolescents’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators for physical activity2
Human health risk assessment of heavy metals from meat and offal of reindeer and cow in the Far North of European Russia2
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the treatment of injuries during lockdown in Norway2
Production losses from morbidity and mortality by disease, age and sex in Norway2
Abstracts presented at the Norwegian Public Health Conference, 18–19 October 2022, Hamar, Norway2
Health and social care staff’s recognition of elder abuse perpetrated by family members of persons with dementia: a mixed-method study2
Association of school neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and teaching staff’s risk of violence at work2
Increased risk of child maltreatment and mental health problems among adolescents with restrictions regarding choice of future partner: Results from a Swedish school-based survey2
Characteristics associated with non-initiation and non-completion of human papillomavirus vaccination among Danish girls: a nationwide register-based cohort study2
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