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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2023; 8: e585–993198
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2024; 9: e326–38657
Measles virus transmission patterns and public health responses during Operation Allies Welcome: a descriptive epidemiological study435
Hearing health and dementia – Authors' reply374
Helicobacter pylori infection and risk of gastric cancer – Authors' reply366
Placing a housing lens on neighbourhood disadvantage, socioeconomic position and mortality251
Accuracy for key parameters in modelling study240
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2025; 10: e189–202233
Reflections on the tobacco-free generation: methodological challenges and global implications216
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2024; 9: e684–99206
Demographic, socioeconomic, and social barriers to use of mobility assistive products: a multistate analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing192
Synthesising evidence of the effects of COVID-19 regulatory changes on methadone treatment for opioid use disorder: implications for policy188
Area-level socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in China: a nationwide cohort study based on the ChinaHEART project173
Health and cancer risks associated with low levels of alcohol consumption168
How lifestyle, social determinants of health, and sex shape life expectancy in China156
The effect of healthy lifestyles and social determinants on independent life expectancy and sex differences in China: evidence from a 13-year cohort study156
Disparities in stage at diagnosis for five common cancers in China: a multicentre, hospital-based, observational study155
Inequalities in cancer: a major public health concern155
Impact of the “when the fun stops, stop” gambling message on online gambling behaviour: a randomised, online experimental study150
Effect of a physical activity and behaviour maintenance programme on functional mobility decline in older adults: the REACT (Retirement in Action) randomised controlled trial150
The arts in public health policy: progress and opportunities135
Modelling the case for alcohol pricing policy in the USA135
New insights on risks associated with early adulthood BMI call for more evidence and earlier action135
Life expectancy and mortality among males and females with HIV in British Columbia in 1996–2020: a population-based cohort study126
100–100–100: a new, ambitious treatment target to end the HIV and hepatitis C epidemics122
Improving access to sexual and reproductive health care117
Cannabis use and public health: time for a comprehensive harm-to-others framework115
Considerations for maintaining functional mobility in older populations111
Updating estimated trends in dementia incidence: evidence of increases in England110
Homeless shelter contacts and suicide risk: a critical window for intervention109
Pregnancy, overweight, and obesity: time to invest in preventive strategies107
The natural history of DSM-5 alcohol-use disorder from late adolescence to middle adulthood in Australia: a prospective cohort study102
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 study102
Healthy lifestyles are key to improving life expectancy in China102
COP27 Climate Change Conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world101
Investigating associations between long-term poverty exposure and premature mortality: evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 prospective cohort99
Life course epidemiology and public health96
Effects of gender-transformative relationships and sexuality education to reduce adolescent pregnancy (the JACK trial): a cluster-randomised trial96
Housing interventions for women experiencing intimate partner violence: a systematic review95
Educational and social inequalities and cause-specific mortality in Mexico City: a prospective study94
Beyond statistics: health inequities in rural and remote communities of Australia85
Healthy workplaces for a healthy living84
Adolescent substance use patterns and subsequent risk of mental and behavioural disorders, substance use, and suicidal behaviour: a cohort study84
Disability inclusivity: time to step up84
Effect of comprehensive smoke-free legislation on neonatal mortality and infant mortality across 106 middle-income countries: a synthetic control study82
Compounded inequality: racial disparity and Down syndrome82
A public health perspective on assisted dying and its different modalities79
The path to Universal Health Coverage79
Effects of workplace interventions on sedentary behaviour and physical activity: an umbrella review with meta-analyses and narrative synthesis79
The 2022 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: leveraging climate actions for healthy ageing76
Association between influenza vaccination and risk of stroke in Alberta, Canada: a population-based study75
Outsourcing health-care services to the private sector and treatable mortality rates in England, 2013–20: an observational study of NHS privatisation74
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 study74
Is multimorbidity a useful concept for public health?72
Premature mortality and socioeconomic inequalities in Mexico72
The prevalence of gambling and problematic gambling: a systematic review and meta-analysis71
Tackling health inequalities in Indigenous Peoples71
Health care universalism in Italy: a debunked myth71
The connection between homelessness and dementia71
A missed opportunity to tackle health inequity in the USA?71
Social health—the neglected third pillar70
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2022; 7: e942–6569
Incorporating social environment data in infectious disease research69
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2022; 7: e718–2068
Do age-standardised dementia incidence rates really increase in England and Wales?67
Can slogans prevent gambling harm?66
The health impact of Scotland's Baby Box Scheme: a natural experiment evaluation using national linked health data66
A last taboo in public health64
Prevalence of stroke in China: overestimated?63
Implementation efforts to support transition to HPV-based cervical cancer screening63
Cancer risk and legalisation of access to cannabis in the USA: overview of the evidence62
Risk factors underlying racial and ethnic disparities in tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment outcomes, 2011–19: a multiple mediation analysis of national surveillance data61
The burden of cirrhosis mortality by county, race, and ethnicity in the USA, 2000–19: a systematic analysis of health disparities61
Carceral epidemiology: mass incarceration and structural racism during the COVID-19 pandemic61
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 pandemic60
Life-years lost in people experiencing homelessness and other high-risk groups in Denmark: a population-based, register-based, cohort study60
Immunisation status of UK-bound refugees between January, 2018, and October, 2019: a retrospective, population-based cross-sectional study59
Artificial intelligence in public health: promises, challenges, and an agenda for policy makers and public health institutions59
Cash transfers: addressing barriers for people living with disabilities59
Quantifying the effect of delaying the second COVID-19 vaccine dose in England: a mathematical modelling study58
Addressing equity gaps in fall-related injuries58
Extending a lifeline to people with HIV and opioid use disorder during the war in Ukraine58
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 study57
Integrating prevention and treatment: rethinking China's health financing54
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2022; 7: e492–9354
An effective pandemic treaty requires accountability53
Health and inequity in Australia52
One less dose of HPV vaccine to prevent cancer52
Denormalising alcohol industry activities in schools52
Accelerated partner therapy should be part of the suite of contact tracing options52
Linking police and health data for research52
Tackling the crisis of the Italian National Health Fund51
Association between childhood adversity and use of the health, social, and justice systems in Denmark (DANLIFE): a nationwide cohort study50
Mandatory salt targets: a key policy tool for global salt reduction efforts49
Mass incarceration as a driver of the tuberculosis epidemic in Latin America and projected effects of policy alternatives: a mathematical modelling study49
Effectiveness of nationwide programmatic testing and treatment for latent tuberculosis infection in migrants in England: a retrospective, population-based cohort study48
Educational and income inequalities across diseases in Denmark: a register-based cohort study47
Medical conditions and the risk of subsequent major depressive disorder: a nationwide, register-based, retrospective cohort study46
Adverse childhood experiences among children of parents who are refugees affected by trauma in Denmark: a register-based cohort study46
Achieving malaria elimination in China45
Health benefits of leisure-time physical activity by socioeconomic status, lifestyle risk, and mental health: a multicohort study45
Projecting prevalence of frailty and dementia and the economic cost of care in Japan from 2016 to 2043: a microsimulation modelling study45
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) trial45
Proactive surveillance for avian influenza H5N1 and other priority pathogens at mass gathering events44
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2024; 9: e432–4244
Safer opioid supply and health outcomes43
The health dividend of cash transfer programmes43
Reflections on daily steps and health outcomes42
Anyone can drown. No one should.42
The association between unpaid labour and mental health in working-age adults in Australia from 2002 to 2020: a longitudinal population-based cohort study41
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 data41
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 livin40
The effect of social deprivation on the dynamic of SARS-CoV-2 infection in France: a population-based analysis39
Investing in adolescent health and wellbeing39
China's public health system: time for improvement39
The HPV self-collection paradox: boosting cervical cancer screening, struggling with follow-up care39
Heavy prenatal alcohol exposure and overall morbidities: a Danish nationwide cohort study from 1996 to 201838
Cirrhosis incidence across socioeconomic and demographic groups in Sweden: a register-based cohort study37
Overdose mortality incidence and supervised consumption services in Toronto, Canada: an ecological study and spatial analysis37
National roll-out of social prescribing in England's primary care system: a longitudinal observational study using Clinical Practice Research Datalink data37
Economic costs of neurological and mental health care: implications for research and policy action37
Investing in bereavement care as a public health priority37
Exposure to work-related sexual violence and health37
Hepatitis A targeted vaccination in England: a system challenge37
The role of simulation modelling in public health policy evaluation36
Influenza vaccination and stroke risk: additional factors should be considered36
Linking police and health data for research – Authors' reply36
Screen no matter the risk?36
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2023; 8: e329–3836
Cities at the heart of the climate action and public health agenda35
Effect of extending PrEP initiation to primary care settings: a nationwide cohort study in France34
Universal health coverage in China part 2: addressing challenges and recommendations34
Addressing public health and health system challenges in Greece: reform priorities in a changing landscape33
Estimated health benefits, costs, and cost-effectiveness of implementing WHO's sodium benchmarks for packaged foods in India: a modelling study33
Digital mental health: a potential opportunity to improve health equity in China33
Thank you to The Lancet Public Health's reviewers in 202432
Associations of long-term nitrogen dioxide exposure with a wide spectrum of diseases: a prospective cohort study of 0·5 million Chinese adults32
Reflections on daily steps and health outcomes – Authors' reply32
Unsecured debt in early adulthood and premature mortality in adults in the USA: a longitudinal analysis of prospective national cohort data32
The ecosystem of health decision making: from fragmentation to synergy32
Public health interventions against childhood obesity in China32
Universal health coverage in the context of migration and displacement: a cosmopolitan perspective31
Family-wide effects of adverse childhood experiences31
Harnessing the opportunity to achieve health equity in China31
Estimating the effects of preventive and weight-management interventions on the prevalence of childhood obesity in England: a modelling study31
Comparing the effects of prescribed safer opioid supply and methadone in Ontario, Canada: a population-based matched cohort study31
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 experiment31
Mental health and lower adolescent HPV vaccine coverage31
COVID-19 surveillance in England: lessons for the next pandemic31
Housing at the intersection of health and climate change31
Determinants of childhood obesity in China30
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 202129
The adverse public health effects of non-medical cannabis legalisation in Canada and the USA29
The Sheffield model's influence in informing alcohol control policy28
Evaluating US county health-care system performance and key associated factors (2014–19): a Triple Aim framework analysis28
Reflections on the tobacco-free generation: methodological challenges and global implications – Authors’ reply28
Do we need a European Health Union?27
Abortion care in Alberta, Canada, from 2012 to 2023: a population-based, cross-sectional analysis of use and geographical access27
Strengthening public health for a Healthy China27
Australia's public health achievements and population health gains27
Effects of urban to regional emissions on the air pollution health burden in Europe27
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2021; 6: e598–60726
Promoting health beyond prison walls26
Changes in life expectancy and disease burden in Norway, 1990–2019: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 201926
Preventing suicide: a call to action26
Sex differences in the risk of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based immunoreactivity surveys26
Potential population-level effectiveness of one-dose HPV vaccination in low-income and middle-income countries: a mathematical modelling analysis25
National, regional, and global statistics on alcohol consumption and associated burden of disease 2000–20: a modelling study and comparative risk assessment25
Accelerated partner therapy contact tracing for people with chlamydia (LUSTRUM): a crossover cluster-randomised controlled trial25
Changes in use and utilisation patterns of drugs with reported shortages between 2010 and 2024 in Europe and North America: a network cohort study24
Cancer screening in China: a steep road from evidence to implementation24
The need to promote sleep health in public health agendas across the globe24
Men's mental health: we need systems, not symbols24
Public health interventions to address digital determinants of children's health and wellbeing24
Mortality risk from first shelter contact: rethinking exposure24
Community wealth building could address substance use disorders24
Prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in migrants in Europe in the era of universal health coverage24
Reducing the incidence and mortality from myocardial infarction23
The mental health needs of displaced people exposed to armed conflict23
For-profit health care might be damaging population health23
Forecasting the prevalence of dementia23
Integrating health responses to family adversity and intimate partner violence is crucial22
Child poverty and children entering care in England, 2015–20: a longitudinal ecological study at the local area level22
Clinical impact, costs, and cost-effectiveness of hospital-based strategies for addressing the US opioid epidemic: a modelling study22
Living a long life is a multi-step process22
Alcohol intake and cause-specific mortality: conventional and genetic evidence in a prospective cohort study of 512 000 adults in China22
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 Prison21
Three decades of population health changes in Japan, 1990–2021: a subnational analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 202121
Health conditions among women in prisons: a systematic review21
Social determinants of health and premature death among adults in the USA from 1999 to 2018: a national cohort study20
Burden of hepatitis B and C in Europe calls for political impetus to accelerate elimination efforts20
Time trends in the epidemiology of food allergy in England: an observational analysis of Clinical Practice Research Datalink data20
Medicaid expansion and variability in mortality in the USA: a national, observational cohort study20
Climate disasters and mental health: directions for research, practice, and policy20
E-cigarettes in people with substance use disorder20
Leveraging health taxation for public health gains in China20
State of health and inequalities among Italian regions from 2000 to 2021: a systematic analysis based on the Global Burden of Disease Study 202120
Health outcomes and psychosocial determinants in young carers: a systematic review20
68th Society for Social Medicine & Population Health Annual Scientific meeting20
Access to abortion in Canada20
Health impact and economic evaluation of the Expanded Program on Immunization in China from 1974 to 2024: a modelling study20
Prevalence of dementia among people experiencing homelessness in Ontario, Canada: a population-based comparative analysis19
Nowcasting and forecasting the care needs of the older population in China: analysis of data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)19
Early adulthood BMI and cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study from the China Kadoorie Biobank19
Cost-effectiveness of population-based screening for diabetes and hypertension in India: an economic modelling study19
Acceptability and perceptions of personalised risk-based cancer screening among health-care professionals and the general public: a systematic review and meta-analysis19
New-generation pneumococcal vaccines for children18
Targeting alcohol use in high-risk population groups: a US microsimulation study of beverage-specific pricing policies18
Homelessness, psychiatric disorders, and risks of suicide and self-harm: a population-based cohort study18
Alcohol's health burden: secondhand harms matter18
COVID-19 and social inequalities: a complex and dynamic interaction18
Socioeconomic inequalities in life expectancy in Australia, 2013–22: an ecological study of trends and contributions of causes of death18
Clustering of adverse health and educational outcomes in adolescence following early childhood disadvantage: population-based retrospective UK cohort study18
Policies and interventions to reduce harmful gambling: an international Delphi consensus and implementation rating study17
Cancer screening participation and outcomes among people with an intellectual disability in the Netherlands: a cross-sectional population-based study17
The effect of devolution on health: a generalised synthetic control analysis of Greater Manchester, England17
Ending tuberculosis in China: health system challenges17
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2022; 7: e537–4817
Tackling the growing burden of nitrous oxide-induced public health harms17
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)16
Forthcoming challenges for COVID-19 data collection16
Hearing health and dementia16
Addressing health inequalities in gender diverse people16
Innovative methods needed to understand links between gambling and self-harm16
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2025; 10: e160–6416
State care in childhood and adult mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies16
Will dementia hamper healthy ageing?16
Hearing health and dementia16
COVID-19 pandemic: what's next for public health?16
Our environment, our health16
Challenges in screening and general health checks in China16
Risks of using taxation as a public health measure to reduce gambling-related harms16
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 registry16
The 2022 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: towards a climate resilient future15
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
The Lancet Public Health Commission on gambling15
The 2024 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: launching a new low-carbon, healthy journey15
Closing the mortality gap for people with disabilities15
Acute COVID-19 severity and mental health morbidity trajectories in patient populations of six nations: an observational study15
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
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2024; 9: e834–3515
Reflections on daily steps and health outcomes14
Using administrative data to assess early-life policies14
Reviving action on child health—now!14
Effectiveness of contact tracing in the control of infectious diseases: a systematic review14
The burden and trend of diseases and their risk factors in Australia, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 201913
Nitazenes represent a growing threat to public health in Europe13
Trends in alcohol-specific deaths in England, 2001–22: an observational study13
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