Lancet Public Health

Papers
(The TQCC of Lancet Public Health is 23. 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
The effect of healthy lifestyles and social determinants on independent life expectancy and sex differences in China: evidence from a 13-year cohort study156
How lifestyle, social determinants of health, and sex shape life expectancy in China156
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
Effects of gender-transformative relationships and sexuality education to reduce adolescent pregnancy (the JACK trial): a cluster-randomised trial96
Life course epidemiology and public health96
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
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
Healthy workplaces for a healthy living84
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
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
A public health perspective on assisted dying and its different modalities79
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
Implementation efforts to support transition to HPV-based cervical cancer screening63
Prevalence of stroke in China: overestimated?63
Cancer risk and legalisation of access to cannabis in the USA: overview of the evidence62
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
Risk factors underlying racial and ethnic disparities in tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment outcomes, 2011–19: a multiple mediation analysis of national surveillance data61
Life-years lost in people experiencing homelessness and other high-risk groups in Denmark: a population-based, register-based, cohort study60
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
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
Immunisation status of UK-bound refugees between January, 2018, and October, 2019: a retrospective, population-based cross-sectional study59
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
One less dose of HPV vaccine to prevent cancer52
Accelerated partner therapy should be part of the suite of contact tracing options52
Health and inequity in Australia52
Linking police and health data for research52
Denormalising alcohol industry activities in schools52
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
Mass incarceration as a driver of the tuberculosis epidemic in Latin America and projected effects of policy alternatives: a mathematical modelling study49
Mandatory salt targets: a key policy tool for global salt reduction efforts49
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
Adverse childhood experiences among children of parents who are refugees affected by trauma in Denmark: a register-based cohort study46
Medical conditions and the risk of subsequent major depressive disorder: a nationwide, register-based, retrospective cohort study46
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
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
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2024; 9: e432–4244
Proactive surveillance for avian influenza H5N1 and other priority pathogens at mass gathering events44
The health dividend of cash transfer programmes43
Safer opioid supply and health outcomes43
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 HPV self-collection paradox: boosting cervical cancer screening, struggling with follow-up care39
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
Heavy prenatal alcohol exposure and overall morbidities: a Danish nationwide cohort study from 1996 to 201838
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
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
Correction to Lancet Public Health 2023; 8: e329–3836
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
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
Digital mental health: a potential opportunity to improve health equity in China33
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
The ecosystem of health decision making: from fragmentation to synergy32
Public health interventions against childhood obesity in China32
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
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
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
Determinants of childhood obesity in China30
The adverse public health effects of non-medical cannabis legalisation in Canada and the USA29
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
Reflections on the tobacco-free generation: methodological challenges and global implications – Authors’ reply28
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
Australia's public health achievements and population health gains27
Effects of urban to regional emissions on the air pollution health burden in Europe27
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
Sex differences in the risk of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based immunoreactivity surveys26
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
Accelerated partner therapy contact tracing for people with chlamydia (LUSTRUM): a crossover cluster-randomised controlled trial25
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
Community wealth building could address substance use disorders24
Cancer screening in China: a steep road from evidence to implementation24
Prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in migrants in Europe in the era of universal health coverage24
Changes in use and utilisation patterns of drugs with reported shortages between 2010 and 2024 in Europe and North America: a network cohort study24
Public health interventions to address digital determinants of children's health and wellbeing24
The need to promote sleep health in public health agendas across the globe24
Men's mental health: we need systems, not symbols24
Mortality risk from first shelter contact: rethinking exposure24
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
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