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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Weekly pattern of alcohol-attributable male mortality before and after imposing limits on hours of alcohol sale in Lithuania in 201876
Contribution of age, gender and occupational group to the higher risk of disability retirement among Finnish public sector employees71
Health promoting schools and COVID-19: preparing for the future63
Parental income gradients in child and adolescent mortality: Norwegian trends over half a century44
How the Norwegian population was affected by non-pharmaceutical interventions during the first six weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown30
Solving the housing crisis in Nunavut, Canada28
Lifestyle factors as predictors of incident functional somatic disorder. Five-year follow-up of The DanFunD study28
The one-sided explanations of a multifactorial coronavirus disease26
Municipality-level differences in disability retirement in Finland: The contribution of local social characteristics26
Variation in use of Caesarean section in Norway: An application of spatio-temporal Gaussian random fields24
Smoking among immigrants in Norway: a cross-sectional study23
Depression, anxiety and stress among Swedish university students during the second and third waves of COVID-19: A cohort study23
The burden of disease due to COVID-19 in Sweden 2020–2021: A disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) study23
Beyond global health: Redefining the ‘public’ in public health20
The association between self-reported psychosomatic complaints and bullying victimisation and disability among adolescents in Finland and Sweden20
Major depressive disorders in young immigrants: A cohort study from primary healthcare settings in Sweden18
Overview of health research in Greenland from 2001 to 202018
High excess deaths in Sweden during the first wave of COVID-19: Policy deficiencies or ‘dry tinder’?17
Alienation: A useful concept for health inequality research17
Systematic reviews: A glossary for public health17
The relationship between online communication and adolescents’ mental health: Long-term evaluation between genders16
Heart failure describing the underlying cause of death: a misconception, lack of information on the true underlying causes, or both?16
Are changes in perceived physical workload and strenuousness of work among partial disability pensioners associated with full disability pension?16
Planning for health equity in the crossfire between science and policy16
Implementation of an integrated community approach in deprived neighbourhoods: a theory-based process evaluation using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)16
Occupational health patients’ parallel use of primary- and secondary-care services and linkage to work disability: A follow-up study in Finland15
Average lifespan variation among people with mental disorders in Denmark: a nationwide, register-based cohort study15
Correlation between country-level numbers of COVID-19 cases and mortalities, and country-level characteristics: A global study15
The road from knowledge to change – pandemics, diversity and social inequality declaration, Bergen 202215
Hazardous alcohol consumption and problem drinking in Norwegian and Russian women and men: The Tromsø Study 2015–2016 and the Know Your Heart study 2015–201815
Sex-specific deaths in Norway and Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic: Did mandates make a difference?14
Agribusiness and the COVID-19 syndemic: The unsustainable pathways14
Reflections on co-creating a model for the value assessment of artificial intelligence technologies14
Changes in maximum parental leave payment in Iceland and total fertility rates13
Time trends and predictors of difficulties in getting to sleep among adolescents from six Nordic countries 2002–201813
Challenges and lessons learnt from conducting a health survey in an ethnically diverse population13
Associations of breastfeeding duration with serum lipid values from infancy until age 20 years – the STRIP study13
Alcohol norms and alcohol intake among high school students12
Evaluating national guidelines for monitoring early growth using routinely collected data in Bergen, Norway12
Effects of the COVID-19-induced lockdown period on general well-being, perceived stress and activity levels in the Faroe Islands12
Assessing the long-term health impact of COVID-19: The importance of using self-reported health measures12
Change in cardiorespiratory fitness on self-rated health: prospective cohort study in 98 718 Swedish adults12
Trust in scientific institutions and experts during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland11
Recreational screen media use among Danish children aged 6–11 years: influence of parental screen media habits and attitudes11
A snapshot of an eCohort: A comparison of the LifeGene population at baseline with the Swedish general population11
Milder disease trajectory among COVID-19 patients hospitalised with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant compared with the Delta variant in Norway11
Using the Triangle of Human Ecology for understanding self-rated depression: a quantitative study based on the HUNT 3 cohort11
Influenza risk groups in Norway by education and employment status11
Increasing inequalities in disability-free life expectancy among older adults in Sweden 2002–201410
Adjustment for survey non-participation using record linkage and multiple imputation: A validity assessment exercise using the Health 2000 survey10
Mortality in Norway and Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic10
Life-course trajectories of working conditions and successful ageing10
Food insecurity in Norway: A cross-sectional study among patients visiting their general practitioner10
Return to work: does cardiac rehabilitation make a difference? Danish nationwide register-based study10
Swedish women reaching post-traumatic growth after an intimate partner violence relationship: A study of formal help and growth after trauma10
Young adults with depression: A registry-based longitudinal study of work-life marginalisation. The Norwegian GP-DEP study10
Low vitamin D levels among children and adolescents in an Arctic population10
Continued increasing social inequality in mortality in Denmark – a nationwide register-based follow-up on previous mortality studies9
A comparison of small-area deprivation indicators for public-health surveillance in Sweden9
Prevalence of parental mental health conditions among children aged 0–16 years in Denmark: A nationwide register-based cross-sectional study9
Different types of screen time are associated with low life satisfaction in adolescents across 37 European and North American countries9
A single-item measure of childhood relationship quality and association with adult health and health behaviours9
Underlying pathways of social inequality in tooth loss: The mediating role of sugary beverages and diabetes9
The West Jutland Tele-Electrocardiogram Registry (WEJU-tECG): content, data quality, and research potential9
Changes in mortality trends amongst common diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden9
Estimating the consequences of a COVID-19 super spreader: A stochastic model of a night on the town9
Norwegian adolescents’ use of energy drinks and painkillers and misuse of prescription drugs prior to and during the initial COVID-19 pandemic year: Evidence from the MyLife study9
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 care8
Family Partner: study protocol for a pilot randomised study of a home-visitation intervention in Norway8
Overall health impacts of a potential increase in cycle commuting in Stockholm, Sweden8
Pre-adolescents with multiple health complaints redeem more prescriptions: A follow-up study in the Danish National Birth Cohort8
Study design of ‘Move More’: Development and feasibility of a social-prescribing intervention to increase physical activity among inactive Danes8
Narcotic offences and drug use disorders among young refugees in Norway8
Meaningfulness and mortality: exploring the sense of coherence in Eastern Finnish men8
Why does youth unemployment lead to scarring of depressive symptoms in adulthood? The importance of early adulthood drinking8
Strict Danes or relaxed Swedes? Comparing health and daily activities in Sweden and Denmark during the Covid-19 pandemic8
Healthcare leaders’ perceptions of the contribution of artificial intelligence to person-centred care: An interview study7
How children in Sweden accessed and perceived information during the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic7
Children as next of kin’s experiences, practices, and voice in everyday life: a systematic review of studies with Norwegian data (2010–2022)7
Payment problems and suicide: life under financial strain7
The aftermath of COVID-19: Mortality impact of the pandemic on older persons in Sweden and other Nordic countries, 2020–20237
The protective effects of Swedish COVID-19 pandemic strategies on adolescents’ mental health: a longitudinal cohort study7
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 survey7
Prenatal and early childhood predictors of intelligence quotient (IQ) in 7-year-old Danish children from the Odense Child Cohort7
My 15-month rollercoaster ride with COVID-19: A social epidemiologist’s perspective7
Trust matters: The Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe Study7
Pedestrian wintertime slip and fall injuries—effectiveness of weather warning service in prevention7
Are dental care records in childhood associated with financial hardship in adulthood?7
Psychosomatic complaints are indicative of stress in young individuals: findings from a Swedish national cohort study6
Towards more comprehensive nationwide familial aggregation studies in Denmark: The Danish Civil Registration System versus the lite Danish Multi-Generation Register6
Prevalence of musculoskeletal pain and associated factors among professional orchestra musicians in Norway6
The age structure of cases as the key of COVID-19 severity: Longitudinal population-based analysis of European countries during 150 days6
Canadian Northern and Indigenous health policy responses to the first wave of COVID-196
Nationwide data on home care and care home residence: presentation of the Swedish Social Service Register, its content and coverage6
Effect of replacing television viewing with different intensities of physical activity on COVID-19 mortality risk: Short communication from UK Biobank6
Labour market status and depression in Russia: A longitudinal study, 2011–20176
The influence of selective mortality on poverty rates in later life: evidence from a Swedish cohort born in 19266
Health risks among long-term immigrants in Norway with poor Norwegian language proficiency6
Impacts of temperature and solar radiation changes in northern Europe on key population health behaviors: a scoping review of reviews6
Algorithm for forming hospital care episodes by combining attendance contacts in the Danish National Patient Register: A methodological consensus-driven study6
The specialty of social medicine and public health in Sweden: Challenges and future directions6
Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic among migrants: An innovative, system-level, interdisciplinary approach is needed to improve public health6
Early career demanding psychosocial work environment and severe back pain and neck/shoulder pain in experienced nurses: A cohort study6
Physical activity levels before and after the COVID-19 restrictions among Danish adolescents: a retrospective cohort study6
Local public health projectification in practice: a qualitative study of facilitators and barriers to a public health plan implementation6
Cardiovascular disease in people born to unmarried mothers in two historical periods: The Helsinki Birth Cohort Study 1934–19446
Awareness of having hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidaemia among US adults: The 2011–2018 NHANES data6
Factors related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Denmark: A national study in the autumn of 20216
Ten years’ of Healthy Life Centers – research and directions for future work6
SARS-CoV-2 infections and hospitalisations among immigrants in Norway-significance of occupation, household crowding, education, household income and medical risk: a nationwide register study6
Socioeconomic inequalities in sexual victimisation in a nationally representative sample of the Swedish population6
Are universal measures sufficient in reducing child poverty in the Nordic countries? An analysis of policies and political commitments5
Intimate partner violence and its association with mental health problems: The importance of childhood violence – The SAMINOR 2 Questionnaire Survey5
Production losses from morbidity and mortality by disease, age and sex in Norway5
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Swedish adults aged 77 years and older: Age differences in lifestyle changes5
The epidemiology of muscle-strengthening activity among adolescents from 28 European countries5
Intimate partner violence and negative health consequences: A cross-sectional study among women in a regional sample in Sweden5
Association of school neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and teaching staff’s risk of violence at work5
Health at age 17 in Norwegian adolescents: Mental and physical status in the national cohort born in 20015
Projected health benefits of air pollution reductions in a Swedish population5
Sweden’s excess mortality in 2020–2022 and reporting in the media5
Experiencing COVID-19 symptoms without the disease: The role of nocebo in reporting of symptoms5
Total patient load, regional disparities and in-hospital mortality of intubated COVID-19 patients in Greece, from September 2020 to May 20215
Discrimination and health: A cross-sectional study comparing Muslims with other-religious5
The influence of parental age on timing of puberty: A study in the Danish National Birth Cohort5
Health and social care staff’s recognition of elder abuse perpetrated by family members of persons with dementia: a mixed-method study5
Mental health problems among adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: a repeated cross-sectional study from Sweden5
Abstracts presented at the Norwegian Public Health Conference, 18–19 October 2022, Hamar, Norway5
Trauma-informed care for women who are forced migrants: a qualitative study among service providers5
Do adoption age and country of origin matter for non-kin adoptees’ risk of psychiatric contact and post-adoption out-of-home care placement?5
What is a sustainable diet in the Norwegian context?5
Occupational stress among Norwegian physicians: A literature review of long-term prospective studies 2007–20195
Comparing COVID-19 pandemic health responses in two high-income island nations: Iceland and New Zealand5
Anxiety and depressive symptoms of women in the perinatal period during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis5
Perceived social support and symptoms of depression and anxiety in emerging adulthood: A Swedish prospective cohort study5
Oral health promotion and labour market prospects of socially disadvantaged and unemployed people – a randomised controlled trial4
Work-retirement transitions and mental health: A longitudinal analysis of the role of social protection generosity in 11 countries4
Abstracts presented at the Norwegian Public Health conference, October 27-29, 2021, Trondheim, Norway4
COVID-19 and disconnected youth: Lessons and opportunities from OECD countries4
Validity of chronic disease diagnoses in Icelandic healthcare registries4
Trends in social inequality in breastfeeding duration in Denmark 2002–20194
The increasing significance of disease severity in a burden of disease framework4
Is being a refugee associated with increased 30-day mortality after visiting the emergency department? A register-based cohort study using Danish data4
The prevalence of intimate partner violence among Iranian pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis4
Young doctors’ attrition and retention in the GP scheme: a national cohort study from Norway4
Does who you live with matter for your health? The influence of partners’ socioeconomic characteristics on self-rated health in Norway4
Bridging discourses on health promotion and social sustainability towards healthy community development4
Between information campaign and controversy: a quantitative newspaper content analysis about COVID-19 vaccination in Switzerland and Austria4
Designing the first culturally-sensitive stigma survey tailored for adolescents: RN-CSS4
A decade of socioeconomic inequality in type 2 diabetes area-level prevalence: an unshakeable status quo?4
The Parent Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ-Parent). Adaptation and validity testing with parents of children with epilepsy4
The Children of Risk Communication4
COVID-19 mortality among immigrants by duration of residence in Sweden: a population-based cohort study4
National and education-specific trends in life and health expectancies in Denmark 2004–20154
Human health risk assessment of heavy metals from meat and offal of reindeer and cow in the Far North of European Russia4
The Danish Health and Wellbeing Survey: Study design, response proportion and respondent characteristics4
Arts and culture engagement and mortality: A population-based prospective cohort study4
Social class and the risk of dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prospective longitudinal studies4
20-Year trends in the social participation of the oldest old4
Mental-health profiling with person-centred analysis: A study of adolescents in Sweden4
‘Everything turned upside down’: A thematic analysis of adolescents’ experiences of everyday life during COVID-19 restrictions4
The relation between economic stressors and higher education students’ mental health during the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic4
Compositional characteristics of neighbourhoods and of schools as correlates of youths’ mental health: A cross-sectional study among Swedish adolescents4
The organisation and responsibility for care for older people in Denmark, Finland and Sweden: outline and comparison of care systems4
Contribution of smoking change to 45-year trend in prevalence of chronic bronchitis in Finland4
Defining and distinguishing early life stress, trauma, adversity, toxic and chronic stress and allostatic load: a descriptive review4
Changes in loneliness prevalence in Denmark in the 21st century: Age-period-cohort analysis4
Data from national health registers as endpoints for the Tromsø Study: Correctness and completeness of stroke diagnoses4
Migration health research in the Nordic countries: Priorities and implications for public health3
Couple similarity with respect to physical and mental disabilities3
Examine the public health impacts of functional somatic disorders using the DanFunD study3
Which illicit drugs are injected in Oslo? A study based on analysis of drug residues in used injection equipment and self-reported information3
Working conditions and mental health functioning among young public sector employees3
Validity of self-reported educational level in the Tromsø Study3
The influence of the multifactorial falls prevention programme on mortality3
Socioeconomic, medical and demographic characteristics of early adopters of digital primary care3
Emergency department visits due to coronary artery disease during COVID-19 in Finland: A register-based study3
Towards Tobacco-Free Generation: implementation of preventive tobacco policies in the Nordic countries3
Boys perpetrating sexual harassment on peer girls in secondary school: A focus group study about pupils’ experiences3
The correlation between socioeconomic factors and COVID-19 among immigrants in Norway: a register-based study3
Experiences of access to healthcare among newly arrived immigrants in Denmark: Examining the role of residence permit3
Cervical human papillomavirus prevalence according to socioeconomic and demographic characteristics in a large Danish screening population3
Shushing the press shortens lives: cross-national evidence of the impact of press freedom on life expectancy3
Work ability trends 2000–2020 and birth-cohort projections until 2040 in Finland3
Subjective mental well-being among higher education students in Finland during the first wave of COVID-193
Election promises on children’s wellbeing and health 2015 to 2021 – a study of Finnish voting advice applications database3
The concept of disease in the Norwegian National Insurance Court3
Validity and reliability of the Danish version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index3
Changes in smoking due to COVID-19 pandemic among persons of migrant origin compared with the general population: a population-based study3
Life-course socioeconomic circumstances in acute, chronic and disabling pain among young employees: a double suffering3
Promoting labour market inclusion of the chronically ill: a scoping review of Scandinavian countries’ efforts3
Immigrants’ perspectives on healthy life and healthy lifestyle counseling: a focus group study3
Compliance with recommendations limiting COVID-19 contagion among university students in Sweden: associations with self-reported symptoms, mental health and academic self-efficacy3
Incidence of atrial fibrillation and flutter in Denmark in relation to country of origin: a nationwide register-based study3
Trajectories of depressive symptoms in early to mid-adolescence: associations with school pedagogical and social climate3
Validity of the Finnish Care Register for Social Welfare in a nationwide cohort of people with Alzheimer’s disease3
Association between loneliness, self-esteem and outcome of life satisfaction in Norwegian adolescents aged 15–213
The impact of stress and lifestyle factors on short-term sickness absence in a large Danish industrial company3
Social sustainability in local communities in Norway: which factors are associated with people’s satisfaction with their local community as a place to live now and in the future?3
Educational differences in long-term care use in Sweden during the last two years of life3
Exposure to physical, sexual and emotional violence and health-related factors among the adult population in the Faroe Islands3
Validation of the short version of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for adolescents in Norway3
Danish population health measured by the EQ-5D-5L3
Loneliness, subjective health complaints, and medicine use among Finnish adolescents 2006–20183
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, Denmark3
Psychometric properties of a short self-report measure of rule-breaking behaviour among adolescents: findings from the Ungdata survey3
Labour market status and mortality risk: The Finnmark cohort study 1987–20172
Interpreter services for immigrants in European healthcare systems: a systematic review of access barriers and facilitators2
Trends of fully alcohol-attributable mortality rates before and during COVID-19 in the Baltic and other European countries2
Emergency hospital admissions, prognosis, and population mortality in Norway during the first wave of the Covid-19 epidemic2
The prevalence of chronic diseases in international immigrants: a systematic review and meta-analysis2
Rudolf Virchow as a pioneer of both biomedicine and social medicine2
Job strain and sense of coherence: Associations with stress-related outcomes among teachers2
Evidence in public health: An integrated, multidisciplinary concept2
Trust and easy access to home care staff are associated with older adults’ sense of security: a Swedish longitudinal study2
Gunnar Inghe: A founding father of Scandinavian social medicine and still highly relevant2
Social cohesion and COVID-19 mortality in different periods of the pandemic: variable efficacy of trust in civil services2
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on mental health in Danish school children in 5th to 7th grade2
Workplace gender composition and sickness absence: A register-based study from Sweden2
Tackling physical inactivity in Scandinavia: a narrative review of reviews supplemented by expert interviews2
Psychiatric disorders, diagnosed in psychiatric clinics, in patients with back pain: A cohort study2
Does the socioeconomic positioned neighbourhood matter? Norwegian adolescents’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators for physical activity2
Impact of a manager-oriented intervention on occupational exposures and well-being among pregnant hospital and day-care employees: A cluster randomised trial2
Co-creating public health measures with adolescents in municipalities: Municipal actors’ views on inhibitors and promoters for adolescent involvement2
The Faroese Septuagenarians cohort: A comparison of well-being before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among older home-dwelling Faroese2
Jeremy Morris as a pioneer of behavioural epidemiology, social medicine and public health2
Trends in adolescent psychosomatic complaints: a quantile regression analysis of Swedish HBSC data 1985–20172
Associations between children’s diagnosed mental disorders and educational achievements in Sweden2
Experiences of migrant parents of children with special health and welfare needs in Nordic countries: a scoping review2
Correlates of active commuting to school across two generations: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study2
The longitudinal relation between loneliness and perceived stress: A structural equation modelling analysis of 10,159 individuals2
Mental health among unaccompanied refugee minors after settling in Norway: A matched cross-sectional study2
Cause and place of death in Norwegian nursing home residents2
Co-use of smokeless nicotine products and marijuana among youth in Denmark: a cross-sectional population-based study2
Temporal trends in cause-specific mortality in a rural-provincial area of Denmark, Lolland-Falster, 1970–20182
Social inequalities in health in the Arctic region: from observing to serving2
The COVIDPregDK Study: A national survey on pregnancy during the early COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark2
Risk of stillbirth and preterm birth among undocumented pregnant migrant women in Denmark: A retrospective case-control study2
An in-depth analysis of 10 epidemiological terminologies used in the context of COVID-192
Use of benzodiazepine and related drugs in migrants and Finnish-born persons: a nationwide register-based study2
The Danish National Health Survey 2023: study design and participant characteristics2
Navigating financial coverage of healthcare to undocumented migrants at two hospitals in Oslo: a qualitative study2
‘Who is telling the truth?’ Migrants’ experiences with COVID-19 related information in Norway: a qualitative study2
Patterns of physical activity over 34 years in a large sample of adults: The HUNT study, Norway2
Disability level and use of long-term care services in Norway: a nation-wide registry study2
The Norwegian Counties Public Health Survey (NCPHS): a design study2
Voices from the margins: A qualitative study exploring components influencing psychosocial health and wellbeing among gender minority forced migrants2
Lower levels of physical activity volume are beneficial, and it’s never too late to start: Results from the HUNT Study, Norway2
Norwegian policies to reduce social inequalities in health: Developments from 1987 to 20212
Inequality in smoking and related risk factors for smoking in expectant mothers – a nationwide Danish register-based study2
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