OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Work in 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Coronavirus Pandemic Calls for an Immediate Social Work Response	97
Investigation of COVID-19 Fear, Well-Being and Life Satisfaction in Turkish Society	73
The Relationship between Anxiety Levels and Perceived Social Support during the Pandemic of COVID-19 in Turkey	72
Migrant Workers at Crossroads–The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Migrant Experience in India	62
Protective Behavior against COVID-19 among the Public in Kuwait: An Examination of the Protection Motivation Theory, Trust in Government, and Sociodemographic Factors	58
Effect of Covid-19 on Nigerian Socio-economic Well-being, Health Sector Pandemic Preparedness and the Role of Nigerian Social Workers in the War Against Covid-19	38
A Cross-Sectional Survey of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices (KAP) Toward Pandemic COVID-19 Among the General Population of Jammu and Kashmir, India	37
The effect of anxiety levels of elderly people in quarantine on depression during covid-19 pandemic	29
Effect of Air Pollution on Female Labor Supply: An Empirical Analysis Based on Data of Labor Force Dynamic Survey of China	22
COVID-19 in Nigeria: Knowledge and compliance with preventive measures	22
Social Workers Being Effective in Disaster Settings	19
Oncological Emergencies from Pathophysiology and Diagnosis to Treatment: A Narrative Review	17
Role of the Health System in Combating Covid-19: Cross-Section Analysis and Artificial Neural Network Simulation for 124 Country Cases	16
Risk and Protective Factors of Loneliness among Older Adults: The Significance of Social Isolation and Quality and Type of Contact	16
Ethics and Racial Equity in Social Welfare Policy: Social Work’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic	15
Risk Factors and Effects of the Morbus: COVID-19 through the Biopsychosocial Model and Ecological Systems Approach to Social Work Practice	15
Risk Reduction of COVID-19 Pandemic in Pakistan	14
Substance Use, Family Functionality, and Mental Health among College Students in Spain	14
Impacts of COVID-19 on Refugee Service Provision and Community Support: A Rapid Assessment during the Pandemic	13
This Is America: Systemic Racism and Health Inequities Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
Investigation of the Perceived Coronavirus Threat, E-Health Literacy, and Psychological Well-Being in Turkey	13
Inclusive education in the European Union: A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of education policy for autism	13
The Effects of Covid-19 Pandemic on Syrian Refugees in Turkey: The Case of Kilis	12
Impact of Environmental Pollution on Health—Evidence from Cities in China	12
Anxiety among the Vietnamese Population during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Social Work Practice	11

Investigation of Relationship between Family Social Support and the Level of Stigma Perceived by PLWHA in Iran	11
Relationship between Life Satisfaction and Sleep Quality and Its Dimensions among Older Adults in City of Qom, Iran	10
Social Determinants of Opioid Use among Patients in Rural Primary Care Settings	10
An Integrated Approach to COVID-19 Preventive Behaviour Intentions: Protection Motivation Theory, Information Acquisition, and Trust	10
Contact Tracing: An Opportunity for Social Work to Lead	10
On the Basis of Gender: A Medical-Legal Review of Barriers to Healthcare for Transgender and Gender-Expansive Patients	9
As we age: listening to the voice of LGBTQ older adults	8
Unmet Community Service Needs and Life Satisfaction Among Chinese Older Adults: A Longitudinal Study	8
COVID-19’s Social Ecological Impacts on Health and Human Services Worker Well-being	8
Preventive Community-Based Strategies of Cardiovascular Diseases in Iran: A Multi-Method Study	7
Precautionary Measures and Illness Attitudes toward COVID-19 among a Sample of the Kuwaiti Population	7
Turkish Health Policies: Past, Present, and Future	7
Self-Management of Chronic Diseases: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study	7
Risk Perception and Behavioral Response to COVID-19: A Survey of University Students and Staff in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region	7
Health-Related Quality of Life and Health Literacy among Mexican American and Black American Youth in a Southern Border State	7
COVID-19 in Homelessness: A Worldwide Scoping Review on Vulnerabilities, Risks, and Risk Management	7
The Quality of Life, Depression Levels and Coping Styles of Patients on Kidney Transplant Waiting List	6
Impacts of Economic Freedom, Health, and Social Expenditures on Well-Being Measured by the Better Life Index in OECD Countries	6
Social Work’s Response during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Literature Review—Balancing Telemedicine with Social Work Self-Care during A Pandemic	6
Prevalence of Suicidal Ideation in Multiple Sclerosis Patients: Meta-Analysis of International Studies	6
A Psychosocial Lens on an Indigenous Initiative to Address Menstrual Health and Hygiene in Indian Villages	6
New media platform’s understanding of Chinese social workers’ anti-epidemic actions: an analysis of network public opinion based on COVID-19	6
The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Caregiver’s Quality of Life	6
Association between Fear of COVID-19 with Self-care Behaviors in Elderly: A Cross- Sectional Study	6
Social Support, Activities of Daily Living, and Depression among Older Japanese and Koreans Immigrants in the U.S	5
African Americans’ and Black Caribbeans’ Religious Coping for Psychiatric Disorders	5
Detecting the Relationship between the Stress Levels and Perceived Burnout in Law-enforcement Officers during the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Cross-sectional Study	5
The Politics of Health Care: Health Disparities, the Affordable Care Act, and Solutions for Success	5
Relationships Between Perceived Neighborhood Disorder and Depressive Symptomatology: The Stress Buffering Effects of Social Support Among Older Adults	5
Outpatient and Inpatient Service Use by Chinese Adults Living in Rural Low-Income Households	5
At the Intersection of Homeless Encampments and Heroin Addiction: Service Use Barriers, Facilitators, and Recommendations from the City of Philadelphia’s Encampment Resolution Pilot	5
Identifying Lockdown Relaxation Strategies and Policy Implications to Fight against COVID-19: Medical Experts Perspective from Pakistan	5
Examining the Family Support Role of Older Hispanics, African Americans, and Non-Hispanic Whites and Their Breast Cancer Screening Behaviors	5
Does Cyberchondria Mediate the Effect of COVID-19 Fear on the Stress?	5
Developing HIV prevention online using a habermasian ‘lifeworld’ approach with young men who have sex with men from Bali	5
Impact of COVID-19 on Adolescents’ Smartphone Addiction in South Korea	5
More than a Great Idea: Findings from the Profiles in Public Health Social Work Study	5
An Investigation of the Relationship between Health Literacy Levels of Pregnant Women and Their Perceptions of Traumatic Childbirth	4
Racial Disparities in Healthcare: How COVID-19 Ravaged One of the Wealthiest African American Counties in the United States	4
Awareness about Gynecologic Cancers and Related Factors among Healthy Women: A Cross-Sectional Study	4
The Relation between Levels of Media Literacy and Attitudes and Beliefs Concerning Obesity in University Students	4
“Treat Me like Your Family”: Positive Factors that Influence Patient-Provider Relationships for Native American Women	4
Empowerment through Accessibility: Community Needs Assessment Data for LGBTQ Communities	4
The DNA of Social Work as a Partner in Primary Health Care	4
Social Network Typology and Serious Psychological Distress: Findings from the National Survey of American Life	4
Correlates of Incarceration of Fathers, Socioeconomic Influences, and Mental Illness	4
Social Work Services at Dakto District Health Center, Kon Tum Province, Vietnam: Challenges and Policy Recommendations	4
Ending the HIV Epidemic: One Southern Community Speaks	4
Pica Disorder among African American Women: A Call for Action and Further Research	4
Supporting Primary Care Access and Use among Homeless Persons	4

Social Work Responses and Household-level Determinants of Coronavirus Preparedness in Rural Ethiopia	3
Experiences of LGBTQ Adults Who Have Accessed Emergency Shelters in a Large Urban City in Canada	3
The effect of experiencing discrimination on the life satisfaction of people with disabilities in South Korea: The mediating role of disability acceptance	3
Forecasting future HIV infection cases: evidence from Indonesia	3
Health seeking behaviors of women living with obstetric fistula in Zimbabwe: A qualitative cross sectional study	3
Transgender Rights & the Urgent Need for Social Work Advocacy	3
Families’ Health Behavior: Validity and Reliability of the Turkish Version of the Family Health Climate Scale	3
Effects of Health Beliefs on Flu Vaccination and Physical Health among Under/Graduate Students in the U.S.: Racial Differences (Whites, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians)	3
The relationship between Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak related perceptions and health anxiety	3
Beyond Groceries: An Analysis of Referral Needs to Address Underlying Causes of Child Hunger among Households Accessing Food Pantries	3
Did the Medicare Prescription Drug Program Lead to New Racial and Ethnic Disparities? Examining Long-term Changes in Prescription Drug Access among Minority Populations	3
“There is a Balm in Gilead”: Black Social Workers’ Spiritual Counterstory on the COVID-19 Crisis	3
Subtypes of Bullying and Types of Substance Use among Urban African American Adolescents: Who Is Likely to Use What?	3
Dating Violence Heterogeneity in University Couples. The Cases of Spain and South Korea	3
Bridging the Gap: Investigating the Role of Social Workers in Supporting Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients in Nigeria	3
Pharmacists’ Attitudes to and Perceptions of Pseudoscience: How Pseudoscience Operates in Health and Social Communication	3
Domestic Violence: Rehabilitation Programme for the Victim and Violent / Predator	3
It Is a Hoax: Attitude of South-eastern Nigerian Toward COVID-19 and Vaccine: The Need for Social Workers	3
COVID-19 Prevention Measures Targeting Homeless People in Japan: A Cross-sectional Study	3
The Insomnia and Loneliness of Elderly Individuals and Affecting Factors During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Turkey	3
Physical Violence against Children by Parents among Primary School Students from a Rural Area in Shandong Province, China	3
Lived Experiences of Adult Burn Survivors with Post-Burn Contractures	3
“Our Unified Voice to Implement Change and Advance the View of Young Carers and Young Adult Carers.” An Appreciative Evaluation of the Impact of a National Young Carer Health Champions Programm	3
What Do EHRs Tell Us about How We Deploy Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health	3
Do health infrastructure and services, aging, and environmental quality influence public health expenditures? Empirical evidence from Pakistan	3
Understanding Mississippi’s Current Practices Concerning Autism Screening at 18 & 24 Months	2
Challenges and Enhancement of Medical Social Workers in Public Health Facilities in Nigeria	2
Non-Dietary Factors Associated with Glycemic Status among Adults Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Malawi	2
Issues behind the Utilization of Community Mental Health Services by Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong	2
“Any Reason is Valid:” How an Unexpected Abortion Disclosure is Received by an Online Community	2
Sexual Risk Behaviors among African Americans Who Use MDMA (Molly/Ecstasy): Implications for HIV Prevention	2
Health beliefs as a predictor of screening behaviors among college students	2
The Effectiveness of Health Belief Model Initiative in Breast Cancer Screening Behaviors among Women Health Volunteers	2
Apparently We Cannot Live, We are like Infectious Zombies: A Qualitative Research on Personal and Familial Experiences of Health Workers in the Filiation Teams in Turkey during the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Ethnic and Neighborhood Differences in Poverty and Disability among Older Asian Americans in New York City	2
Using an Integrated Conceptual Framework to Clarify Health Problems and Assess A Community Health Planning Process: A Mid-Western USA Case Study	2
An Ecological Theory Application and Expansion to the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on African Americans and Contributors to Vaccine Hesitancy	2
Exploring the Efficacy of Social Work Interventions in Hospital Settings: A Scoping Review	2
Domestic Violence and Healthcare Utilization in Turkey	2
Sleep Health Education to Promote Public Health: Attitudes and Desired Learning Goals among Social Work Students	2
“This Research Is Cool”: Engaging Youth Experiencing Homelessness in Research on Reproductive and Sexual Health	2
Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) regarding the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Post-lockdown in Trinidad and Tobago	2
Social Workers’ Knowledge and Ability in Crisis Intervention in Kuwait– A Case of COVID-19	2
African American Ethnicity, Hypertension, Diabetes, and Arthritis Independently Predict Co-occurring Depression and Obesity among Community-dwelling Older Adult Alabamians	2
Health and Social Constraints for Elderly Chinese Women Who Lose Their Only Child and Spouse: A Perspective of Resilience	2
Is Vaccine Hesitancy Affected by Distrust in the Healthcare System? A Study in Turkish Population	2
Epidemiology of Sleep Disturbances Among Primary School Students in Kerman, Iran, in 2019	2
Associations of Sociodemographic Factors With Health-Related Social Networks Among Pre-migration Filipinos	2
The Relationship between Adverse Family Experiences during Childhood and Self-rated Health Outcome in Adulthood	2
Assessment of Have Problems and Care Burdens of Mothers with Handicapped Children in COVID-19 Pandemic	2
The Use of Telehealth in Depression Treatment during the Crisis Caused by COVID-19	2
Planning and Implementing the Protocol for Psychosocial Interventions by Social Workers in Iranian Healthcare Centers against COVID-19	2
Troubling Childhood: The Physical and Health Issues Experienced by Child Labourers	2
Community Asset Mapping in Public Health: A Review of Applications and Approaches	2
Antisocial Behavior and Attitudes Towards Antisocial Behavior after a Five-Year Municipal Youth and Family Master Plan in Pomona, California, USA	2
The Compounded Burden of Poverty on Mental Health for People with Disabilities	2
Factors of Social Public Crisis Caused by Sudden Major Epidemic–The Enlightenment of “SARS” on Prevention and Control of COVID-19	2
Unincorporated Health: Understanding Residents’ Perspectives on Factors Impacting Their Health and Emergent Place-Based Solutions	2
The Comparison of China and Iran Response to COVD-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learn for Health Policy	2
A Comparative Study of Cohorts for Children’s Body Mass Index Changes	2
A Qualitative Study on the Knowledge and Opinions of Syrian Women regarding Family Planning	2