Lancet Public Health

Papers
(The median citation count of Lancet Public Health is 6. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Accuracy for key parameters in modelling study3064
Hearing health and dementia – Authors' reply629
Helicobacter pylori infection and risk of gastric cancer – Authors' reply424
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2023; 8: e585–99364
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2024; 9: e326–38346
Measles virus transmission patterns and public health responses during Operation Allies Welcome: a descriptive epidemiological study244
Effect of a physical activity and behaviour maintenance programme on functional mobility decline in older adults: the REACT (Retirement in Action) randomised controlled trial226
Synthesising evidence of the effects of COVID-19 regulatory changes on methadone treatment for opioid use disorder: implications for policy212
The arts in public health policy: progress and opportunities211
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2025; 10: e189–202203
Demographic, socioeconomic, and social barriers to use of mobility assistive products: a multistate analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing194
Reflections on the tobacco-free generation: methodological challenges and global implications190
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2024; 9: e684–99177
Evaluation of a national smoke-free prisons policy using medication dispensing: an interrupted time-series analysis166
Impact of the “when the fun stops, stop” gambling message on online gambling behaviour: a randomised, online experimental study151
Placing a housing lens on neighbourhood disadvantage, socioeconomic position and mortality151
Inequalities in cancer: a major public health concern150
Area-level socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in China: a nationwide cohort study based on the ChinaHEART project149
Disparities in stage at diagnosis for five common cancers in China: a multicentre, hospital-based, observational study148
Life expectancy and risk of death in 6791 communities in England from 2002 to 2019: high-resolution spatiotemporal analysis of civil registration data146
Health and cancer risks associated with low levels of alcohol consumption144
Healthy lifestyles are key to improving life expectancy in China133
COP27 Climate Change Conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world130
Modelling the case for alcohol pricing policy in the USA119
100–100–100: a new, ambitious treatment target to end the HIV and hepatitis C epidemics118
New insights on risks associated with early adulthood BMI call for more evidence and earlier action115
Updating estimated trends in dementia incidence: evidence of increases in England115
Improving access to sexual and reproductive health care111
Homeless shelter contacts and suicide risk: a critical window for intervention107
Non-communicable disease mortality in young people with a history of contact with the youth justice system in Queensland, Australia: a retrospective, population-based cohort study104
Cannabis use and public health: time for a comprehensive harm-to-others framework103
Beyond statistics: health inequities in rural and remote communities of Australia102
Life expectancy and mortality among males and females with HIV in British Columbia in 1996–2020: a population-based cohort study101
Investigating associations between long-term poverty exposure and premature mortality: evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 prospective cohort99
The natural history of DSM-5 alcohol-use disorder from late adolescence to middle adulthood in Australia: a prospective cohort study95
Considerations for maintaining functional mobility in older populations94
Pregnancy, overweight, and obesity: time to invest in preventive strategies94
Housing interventions for women experiencing intimate partner violence: a systematic review93
Educational and social inequalities and cause-specific mortality in Mexico City: a prospective study91
Effects of gender-transformative relationships and sexuality education to reduce adolescent pregnancy (the JACK trial): a cluster-randomised trial91
Life course epidemiology and public health91
Disability inclusivity: time to step up90
Healthy workplaces for a healthy living84
The path to Universal Health Coverage81
Effect of comprehensive smoke-free legislation on neonatal mortality and infant mortality across 106 middle-income countries: a synthetic control study81
Adolescent substance use patterns and subsequent risk of mental and behavioural disorders, substance use, and suicidal behaviour: a cohort study76
Compounded inequality: racial disparity and Down syndrome76
Effects of workplace interventions on sedentary behaviour and physical activity: an umbrella review with meta-analyses and narrative synthesis75
The 2022 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: leveraging climate actions for healthy ageing75
Is multimorbidity a useful concept for public health?75
A public health perspective on assisted dying and its different modalities73
Association between influenza vaccination and risk of stroke in Alberta, Canada: a population-based study73
Premature mortality and socioeconomic inequalities in Mexico71
The prevalence of gambling and problematic gambling: a systematic review and meta-analysis71
Cancer incidence and mortality in Australia from 2020 to 2044 and an exploratory analysis of the potential effect of treatment delays during the COVID-19 pandemic: a statistical modelling study71
Outsourcing health-care services to the private sector and treatable mortality rates in England, 2013–20: an observational study of NHS privatisation70
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2022; 7: e942–6569
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2022; 7: e718–2068
A last taboo in public health68
Tackling health inequalities in Indigenous Peoples66
The connection between homelessness and dementia66
A missed opportunity to tackle health inequity in the USA?65
Health care universalism in Italy: a debunked myth64
Social health—the neglected third pillar64
Do age-standardised dementia incidence rates really increase in England and Wales?64
Life-years lost in people experiencing homelessness and other high-risk groups in Denmark: a population-based, register-based, cohort study62
Implementation efforts to support transition to HPV-based cervical cancer screening61
Immunisation status of UK-bound refugees between January, 2018, and October, 2019: a retrospective, population-based cross-sectional study61
The health impact of Scotland's Baby Box Scheme: a natural experiment evaluation using national linked health data61
Incorporating social environment data in infectious disease research61
Prevalence of stroke in China: overestimated?60
Can slogans prevent gambling harm?59
The burden of cirrhosis mortality by county, race, and ethnicity in the USA, 2000–19: a systematic analysis of health disparities58
Carceral epidemiology: mass incarceration and structural racism during the COVID-19 pandemic57
Risk factors underlying racial and ethnic disparities in tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment outcomes, 2011–19: a multiple mediation analysis of national surveillance data57
The SARS-CoV-2 test scale-up in the USA: an analysis of the number of tests produced and used over time and their modelled impact on the COVID-19 pandemic57
Artificial intelligence in public health: promises, challenges, and an agenda for policy makers and public health institutions57
Cancer risk and legalisation of access to cannabis in the USA: overview of the evidence57
Accelerated partner therapy should be part of the suite of contact tracing options56
Cash transfers: addressing barriers for people living with disabilities56
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2022; 7: e492–9355
Linking police and health data for research55
One less dose of HPV vaccine to prevent cancer55
Mass incarceration as a driver of the tuberculosis epidemic in Latin America and projected effects of policy alternatives: a mathematical modelling study54
Quantifying the effect of delaying the second COVID-19 vaccine dose in England: a mathematical modelling study54
Tackling the crisis of the Italian National Health Fund53
Integrating prevention and treatment: rethinking China's health financing53
Denormalising alcohol industry activities in schools53
Medical conditions and the risk of subsequent major depressive disorder: a nationwide, register-based, retrospective cohort study52
Projecting prevalence of frailty and dementia and the economic cost of care in Japan from 2016 to 2043: a microsimulation modelling study52
Educational and income inequalities across diseases in Denmark: a register-based cohort study51
An effective pandemic treaty requires accountability51
Effectiveness of nationwide programmatic testing and treatment for latent tuberculosis infection in migrants in England: a retrospective, population-based cohort study50
Health and inequity in Australia50
COVID-19 vaccine coverage and factors associated with vaccine uptake among 23 247 adults with a recent history of homelessness in Ontario, Canada: a population-based cohort study49
Tracking progress on health and climate change in Europe49
Adverse childhood experiences among children of parents who are refugees affected by trauma in Denmark: a register-based cohort study48
Association between childhood adversity and use of the health, social, and justice systems in Denmark (DANLIFE): a nationwide cohort study48
Cost-effectiveness of a physical activity and behaviour maintenance programme on functional mobility decline in older adults: an economic evaluation of the REACT (Retirement in Action) trial47
Extending a lifeline to people with HIV and opioid use disorder during the war in Ukraine47
Mandatory salt targets: a key policy tool for global salt reduction efforts45
Addressing equity gaps in fall-related injuries45
Health benefits of leisure-time physical activity by socioeconomic status, lifestyle risk, and mental health: a multicohort study44
Achieving malaria elimination in China44
The HPV self-collection paradox: boosting cervical cancer screening, struggling with follow-up care43
Exposure to work-related sexual violence and health43
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2024; 9: e432–4243
China's public health system: time for improvement42
Safer opioid supply and health outcomes42
Proactive surveillance for avian influenza H5N1 and other priority pathogens at mass gathering events42
Investing in adolescent health and wellbeing42
Heavy prenatal alcohol exposure and overall morbidities: a Danish nationwide cohort study from 1996 to 201841
The health dividend of cash transfer programmes41
Anyone can drown. No one should.41
National roll-out of social prescribing in England's primary care system: a longitudinal observational study using Clinical Practice Research Datalink data38
The association of a disability-targeted cash transfer programme with disability status and health-care access: a quasi-experimental study using a nationwide cohort of 4·3 million Chinese adults livin38
Cirrhosis incidence across socioeconomic and demographic groups in Sweden: a register-based cohort study38
Reflections on daily steps and health outcomes38
Overdose mortality incidence and supervised consumption services in Toronto, Canada: an ecological study and spatial analysis37
Changes in incarceration and tuberculosis notifications from prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe and the Americas: a time-series analysis of national surveillance data37
The association between unpaid labour and mental health in working-age adults in Australia from 2002 to 2020: a longitudinal population-based cohort study37
Economic costs of neurological and mental health care: implications for research and policy action36
The role of simulation modelling in public health policy evaluation36
Investing in bereavement care as a public health priority36
Effect of extending PrEP initiation to primary care settings: a nationwide cohort study in France36
Linking police and health data for research – Authors' reply36
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2023; 8: e329–3836
The effect of social deprivation on the dynamic of SARS-CoV-2 infection in France: a population-based analysis36
Influenza vaccination and stroke risk: additional factors should be considered35
Addressing public health and health system challenges in Greece: reform priorities in a changing landscape35
Hepatitis A targeted vaccination in England: a system challenge35
Screen no matter the risk?34
Digital mental health: a potential opportunity to improve health equity in China33
Unsecured debt in early adulthood and premature mortality in adults in the USA: a longitudinal analysis of prospective national cohort data32
Universal health coverage in China part 2: addressing challenges and recommendations32
Cities at the heart of the climate action and public health agenda32
Estimated health benefits, costs, and cost-effectiveness of implementing WHO's sodium benchmarks for packaged foods in India: a modelling study32
Public health interventions against childhood obesity in China32
Reflections on daily steps and health outcomes – Authors' reply31
The ecosystem of health decision making: from fragmentation to synergy31
Associations of long-term nitrogen dioxide exposure with a wide spectrum of diseases: a prospective cohort study of 0·5 million Chinese adults31
Thank you to The Lancet Public Health's reviewers in 202430
Effect of alcohol health warning labels on knowledge related to the ill effects of alcohol on cancer risk and their public perceptions in 14 European countries: an online survey experiment30
Mental health and lower adolescent HPV vaccine coverage30
COVID-19 surveillance in England: lessons for the next pandemic30
Family-wide effects of adverse childhood experiences30
Determinants of childhood obesity in China30
Universal health coverage in the context of migration and displacement: a cosmopolitan perspective29
Estimating the effects of preventive and weight-management interventions on the prevalence of childhood obesity in England: a modelling study29
Comparing the effects of prescribed safer opioid supply and methadone in Ontario, Canada: a population-based matched cohort study29
Housing at the intersection of health and climate change29
Public health approaches to gambling: a global review of legislative trends29
Forecasting the effects of smoking prevalence scenarios on years of life lost and life expectancy from 2022 to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 202128
Do we need a European Health Union?28
The adverse public health effects of non-medical cannabis legalisation in Canada and the USA28
Harnessing the opportunity to achieve health equity in China28
Australia's public health achievements and population health gains27
Evaluating US county health-care system performance and key associated factors (2014–19): a Triple Aim framework analysis27
Effects of urban to regional emissions on the air pollution health burden in Europe27
National, regional, and global statistics on alcohol consumption and associated burden of disease 2000–20: a modelling study and comparative risk assessment27
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2021; 6: e598–60727
The Sheffield model's influence in informing alcohol control policy27
Promoting health beyond prison walls26
Sex differences in the risk of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based immunoreactivity surveys26
Cancer screening in China: a steep road from evidence to implementation26
Reflections on the tobacco-free generation: methodological challenges and global implications – Authors’ reply26
The need to promote sleep health in public health agendas across the globe26
Changes in life expectancy and disease burden in Norway, 1990–2019: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 201925
Abortion care in Alberta, Canada, from 2012 to 2023: a population-based, cross-sectional analysis of use and geographical access25
Adverse childhood experiences and homelessness: advances and aspirations25
Strengthening public health for a Healthy China25
Prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in migrants in Europe in the era of universal health coverage24
Preventing suicide: a call to action24
For-profit health care might be damaging population health24
Potential population-level effectiveness of one-dose HPV vaccination in low-income and middle-income countries: a mathematical modelling analysis24
Public health interventions to address digital determinants of children's health and wellbeing24
Accelerated partner therapy contact tracing for people with chlamydia (LUSTRUM): a crossover cluster-randomised controlled trial24
Living a long life is a multi-step process23
The mental health needs of displaced people exposed to armed conflict23
Men's mental health: we need systems, not symbols22
Estimated effects of opioid agonist treatment in prison on all-cause mortality and overdose mortality in people released from prison in Norway: a prospective analysis of data from the Norwegian Prison22
Reducing the incidence and mortality from myocardial infarction22
Community wealth building could address substance use disorders22
Changes in use and utilisation patterns of drugs with reported shortages between 2010 and 2024 in Europe and North America: a network cohort study22
Integrating health responses to family adversity and intimate partner violence is crucial22
Mortality risk from first shelter contact: rethinking exposure22
Child poverty and children entering care in England, 2015–20: a longitudinal ecological study at the local area level22
Deaths involving COVID-19 by self-reported disability status during the first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in England: a retrospective, population-based cohort study21
Clinical impact, costs, and cost-effectiveness of hospital-based strategies for addressing the US opioid epidemic: a modelling study21
Three decades of population health changes in Japan, 1990–2021: a subnational analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 202121
Social determinants of health and premature death among adults in the USA from 1999 to 2018: a national cohort study21
Health conditions among women in prisons: a systematic review21
Health outcomes and psychosocial determinants in young carers: a systematic review21
The effect of devolution on health: a generalised synthetic control analysis of Greater Manchester, England20
Alcohol intake and cause-specific mortality: conventional and genetic evidence in a prospective cohort study of 512 000 adults in China20
Forecasting the prevalence of dementia20
Climate disasters and mental health: directions for research, practice, and policy20
68th Society for Social Medicine & Population Health Annual Scientific meeting19
Prevalence of dementia among people experiencing homelessness in Ontario, Canada: a population-based comparative analysis19
Socioeconomic inequalities in life expectancy in Australia, 2013–22: an ecological study of trends and contributions of causes of death19
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2022; 7: e537–4819
New-generation pneumococcal vaccines for children19
Access to abortion in Canada19
Cost-effectiveness of population-based screening for diabetes and hypertension in India: an economic modelling study19
E-cigarettes in people with substance use disorder19
State of health and inequalities among Italian regions from 2000 to 2021: a systematic analysis based on the Global Burden of Disease Study 202118
Policies and interventions to reduce harmful gambling: an international Delphi consensus and implementation rating study18
Homelessness, psychiatric disorders, and risks of suicide and self-harm: a population-based cohort study18
Ending tuberculosis in China: health system challenges18
Alcohol's health burden: secondhand harms matter17
Health impact and economic evaluation of the Expanded Program on Immunization in China from 1974 to 2024: a modelling study17
Clustering of adverse health and educational outcomes in adolescence following early childhood disadvantage: population-based retrospective UK cohort study17
Acceptability and perceptions of personalised risk-based cancer screening among health-care professionals and the general public: a systematic review and meta-analysis17
Targeting alcohol use in high-risk population groups: a US microsimulation study of beverage-specific pricing policies17
Cancer screening participation and outcomes among people with an intellectual disability in the Netherlands: a cross-sectional population-based study17
Tackling the growing burden of nitrous oxide-induced public health harms17
Medicaid expansion and variability in mortality in the USA: a national, observational cohort study17
Time trends in the epidemiology of food allergy in England: an observational analysis of Clinical Practice Research Datalink data17
Burden of hepatitis B and C in Europe calls for political impetus to accelerate elimination efforts17
COVID-19 and social inequalities: a complex and dynamic interaction17
Nowcasting and forecasting the care needs of the older population in China: analysis of data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)16
Innovative methods needed to understand links between gambling and self-harm16
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2025; 10: e160–6416
Our environment, our health16
Early adulthood BMI and cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study from the China Kadoorie Biobank16
Risks of using taxation as a public health measure to reduce gambling-related harms16
Forthcoming challenges for COVID-19 data collection16
Addressing health inequalities in gender diverse people16
Hearing health and dementia16
Hearing health and dementia16
Alcohol rehabilitation and cancer risk: a nationwide hospital cohort study in France16
Incidence, process of care, and outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in China: a prospective study of the BASIC-OHCA registry15
Identification of factors associated with opioid-related and hepatitis C virus-related hospitalisations at the ZIP code area level in the USA: an ecological and modelling study15
Initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual and reproductive health service use and unmet need in Britain: findings from a quasi-representative survey (Natsal-COVID)15
State care in childhood and adult mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies15
Dementia incidence trend in England and Wales, 2002–19, and projection for dementia burden to 2040: analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing15
The 2022 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: towards a climate resilient future15
Will dementia hamper healthy ageing?15
Challenges in screening and general health checks in China15
The 2024 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: launching a new low-carbon, healthy journey15
The Lancet Public Health Commission on gambling15
COVID-19 pandemic: what's next for public health?15
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2024; 9: e834–3514
Sex workers health: time to act14
Acute COVID-19 severity and mental health morbidity trajectories in patient populations of six nations: an observational study14
Estimating antimicrobial resistance burden in Europe—what are the next steps?14
Nitazenes represent a growing threat to public health in Europe14
Closing the mortality gap for people with disabilities14
Reviving action on child health—now!14
Behind elevated hospitalisation rates: addressing racism in the medical system14
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