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Papers

(The median citation count of Population Health Metrics 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
MHQ: constructing an aggregate metric of population mental wellbeing	83
Collider and reporting biases involved in the analyses of cause of death associations in death certificates: an illustration with cancer and suicide	48
ASSeTS: a systematic review and development of the World Health Organization’s classification system for social isolation and loneliness interventions	37
NPR is an independent risk factor for predicting all-cause mortality in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: evidence from NHANES 2007–2020	25
Reassessing socioeconomic inequalities in mortality via distributional similarities	25
Socio-economic contextual determinants and behavioral changes during pregnancy: evidence from the "MAMI-MED" cohort	18
Longitudinal analysis of psychometric properties of the Seattle Angina Questionnaire among patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting in Serbia	17
Associations of socioeconomic status and healthy lifestyle with incident early-onset and late-onset hypertension: a nationwide prospective cohort study in the UK	16
Living arrangements and lonely life expectancy: a multistate life table based on Markov chains	15
The joint distribution of years lived in good and poor health	12
The assimilation affects research from three days’ social facilitation of eating by using whole network autocorrelation analysis plus multilevel linear modeling: a normative analysis based on prospect	12
Building a maternal and child cohort amidst Lebanon’s socioeconomic collapse: preliminary results and navigating research challenges	11
Methods for modelling composite indices of access to healthcare facilities: a systematic literature review	10
Automatic electronic reporting improved the completeness of AMI and stroke incident surveillance in Tianjin, China: a modeling study	9
Google trend analysis of the Indian population reveals a panel of seasonally sensitive comorbid symptoms with implications for monitoring the seasonally sensitive human population	9
Mortality before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Manhiça district, Southern Mozambique	8
Harmonizing measurements: establishing a common metric via shared items across instruments	8
Quantifying the magnitude of the general contextual effect in a multilevel study of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Ontario, Canada: application of the median rate ratio in population health research	8
Navigating the next surge: a perspective on Egypt’s preparedness and prospects for another COVID-19 outbreak	7
Forecasting life expectancy in São Paulo City, Brazil, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality and child mortality in a population cohort of Iganga Mayuge HDSS in Eastern Uganda (2015–2021)	7
The rural mortality penalty in U.S. hospital patients with COVID-19	7
Equity assessment of maternal and child healthcare benefits utilization and distribution in public healthcare facilities in Bangladesh: a benefit incidence analysis	7
Applying an ICD-10 to ICD-11 mapping tool to identify causes of death codes in an Alberta dataset	6
Analysis of multimorbidity compression using a latent variable in a mixed mixture model	6

QALY loss associated with unhealthy behaviors: evidence from a multi-center cross-sectional study in Iran	5
Estimated disability weights for the severity of health outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Completeness, agreement, and representativeness of ethnicity recording in the United Kingdom’s Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and linked Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)	5
Flexible parametric methods for calculating life expectancy in small populations	5
Validation of the consumer health activation index (CHAI) among community-dwelling adults in primary care clinics in Singapore	5
Population health and population health metrics	5
Quality of routine health data at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia, Haiti, Laos, Nepal, and South Africa	5
Estimates of non-communicable disease expenditure by disease phase, sex, and age group for all OECD countries	4
Deriving and comparing healthy longevity distributions by gender and health prevalence measures: a statistical moments and maximum entropy approach	4
Comparing health gains, costs and cost-effectiveness of 100s of interventions in Australia and New Zealand: an online interactive league table	4
Disability weight measurement for the severity of different diseases in Wuhan, China	4
The fraction of life years lost after diagnosis (FLYLAD): a person-centred measure of cancer burden	4
Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nutritional status of infants and toddlers: insights from China	4
The future burden of type 2 diabetes in Belgium: a microsimulation model	4
Correction to: A demographic assessment of the impact of the war in the Gaza Strip on the mortality of children and their parents in 2023	4
Socio-economic inequalities in all-cause mortality during the COVID-19 period in north-western Tanzania, 2018–2021	4
Characteristics of hemoglobin distributions in preschool children and non-pregnant women of reproductive age and their implications for establishing quality control criteria for hemoglobin data in fie	4
Towards a burden of disease research agenda	4
Evaluation of four gamma-based methods for calculating confidence intervals for age-adjusted mortality rates when data are sparse	3
Excess and reduced work absence during COVID-19 in Poland: insights from cause-specific time-series models	3
Measuring unequal distribution of pandemic severity across census years, variants of concern and interventions	3
Modelling excess mortality from non-communicable diseases during wartime: application to the Gaza Strip, occupied Palestinian territories	3
The quality of routine data for measuring facility-based maternal mortality in public and private health facilities in Kampala City, Uganda	3
Quantifying the association of Life’s Crucial 9 with cardiovascular diseases among elderly hypertensive patients managed in primary care settings	3
Health dynamics in war-torn Yemen: insights from 32 years of epidemiological data (1990–2021)	3
Socio-demographic, behavioral, and biological risk factors of hypertension in Kazakhstan: results of a national study	3
Prevalence of mental illness, substance use disorder, and dual diagnosis among adults in custody	3
Enabling the examination of long-term mortality trends by educational level for England and Wales in a time-consistent and internationally comparable manner	3
Correction to: Adapting and validating the log quadratic model to derive under-five age and cause-specific mortality (U5ACSM): a preliminary analysis	3
Improving the validity of estimates of mortality inequalities by education in England & Wales	3
Analytical reference framework to analyze non-COVID-19 events	2
Reducing inequalities using an unbiased machine learning approach to identify births with the highest risk of preventable neonatal deaths	2
Population age structure dependency of the excess mortality P-score	2
When the technical is also normative: a critical assessment of measuring health inequalities using the concentration index-based indices	2
The confidante method to measure abortion: implementing a standardized comparative analysis approach across seven contexts	2
Non-housing assets and all-cause mortality in middle-aged and older Chinese adults: a National cohort study	2
Multilevel regression and poststratification interface: an application to track community-level COVID-19 viral transmission	2
Feasibility of caregiver-administered anthropometric measurements of children under age 5: evidence from Zambia	2
Reimagining COVID vaccine distribution: reflecting on waste and equity	2
Constructing synthetic populations in the age of big data	2
Design, develop, and implement the strategic information system on health, dependence, and healthy aging: an analysis of the Mexican experience	2
Age and sex-specific disability-free life expectancy in urban and rural settings of Bangladesh	2
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality and life expectancy in northern Ghana: findings from the Navrongo Health and Demographic Surveillance System	1
Perspectives from the new co‑Editor‑in‑Chief of Population Health Metrics	1
A retrospective assessment of COVID-19 vulnerability index indicators and mortality rates pre-COVID-19 (2018–2020) and during COVID-19 (2020–2022) in a health and demographic surveillance site, Soweto	1
Association of loneliness and social isolation with excess risk of mental disorders in people with obesity: a prospective cohort study	1
Attacks on healthcare in conflict-affected countries: a comparison of temporal trends in ongoing conflicts in Lebanon, Myanmar, occupied Palestinian territory, Sudan and Ukraine using WHO SSA and SHCC	1
The effect of follow-up on the blood pressure control: a longitudinal study in rural areas of China	1
Prevalence of unmet health care need in older adults in 83 countries: measuring progressing towards universal health coverage in the context of global population ageing	1
The mediating role of family functioning between childhood adversity and adult Health- related risk behaviors: a moderated mediation analysis of generational gap in Chinese migrant workers	1

The role of education composition in shaping the burden of obesity and diabetes in Indonesia: a microsimulation-based projection study	1
Examining morbidity and mortality trajectory profiles of hypertension, diabetes and dementia across healthcare systems: an analysis of Catalan and German administrative medical data for the years 2010	1
Patient-centred estimation of multimorbidity in chronic disease populations: a novel approach integrating global burden of disease metrics and healthcare administrative data	1
Spatiotemporal epidemiology and associated risk factors of tuberculosis incidence and mortality in Indonesia 2017–2022: a nationwide space-time hierarchical analysis	1
The impact of different imputation methods on estimates and model performance: an example using a risk prediction model for premature mortality	1
Models for analyzing territorial inequalities in hospitals for health sustainability: evidence from Italian regions	1
Disaggregated level child morbidity in Zambia: an application of small area estimation method	1
An evaluation of truncated birth histories for the rapid measurement of fertility and child survival	1
Methods used to construct disability indicators in linked administrative datasets: a systematic scoping review	1
Conflict-attributable mortality in Tigray Region, Ethiopia: Evidence from a survey of the Tigrayan diaspora	1
Regional and educational disparities in inaccurately coded deaths in Sweden, 1997–2023: a systematic analysis	1
Development of a comprehensive mortality database in Japan through data linkage of population census and vital statistics	1
Estimation and probabilistic projection of age- and sex-specific mortality rates across Brazilian municipalities between 2010 and 2030	1
Measuring economic lifespan inequality: a new indicator of poverty-free lifespan across Europe	1
Country-specific determinants for COVID-19 case fatality rate and response strategies from a global perspective: an interpretable machine learning framework	1
Comparing two data collection methods to track vital events in maternal and child health via community health workers in rural Nepal	1
The global prevalence of single-child families with emphasis on influential factors: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis	1
A new method for estimating recent adult mortality from summary sibling histories	1
Beyond the underlying cause of death: an algorithm to study multi-morbidity at death	1
An innovative visual approach to the simultaneous study of two dimensions of progress in longevity: an application to French and German regions	1
From raw data to a score: comparing quantitative methods that construct multi-level composite implementation strength scores of family planning programs in Malawi	1
Cause of death diversity in multi-group settings: an application to Latin America and the Caribbean	1
Employment status and cardiometabolic multimorbidity: results from China health and retirement longitudinal study	1