Canadian Journal of Public Health - Editor's Choice Articles / Choix de la rédactrice
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The Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Public Health acknowledges the quality of papers by choosing in each issue one to two articles that are outstanding with respect to scientific quality and public-health relevance.
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La rédactrice en chef de la Revue canadienne de santé publique atteste de la qualité des articles en choisissant dans chaque numéro un ou deux articles qui sont exceptionnels en ce qui concerne la qualité scientifique et la pertinence pour la santé publique.
Volume 115 (2024)
Preconception health disparities among reproductive-aged women with and without disabilities in Canada (Free Access until July 31, 2024).
Racial and sociodemographic distribution of colorectal cancer screening in Canada: A cross-sectional study (Free Access until July 31, 2024).
The Slip and Fall Index: Assessing the risk of slipping and falling on ice (Free Access until May 31, 2024).
Breast (female), colorectal, and lung cancer survival in people with intellectual or developmental disabilities: A population-based retrospective cohort study (Free Access until May 31, 2024).
Inequality in COVID-19 mortality in Quebec associated with neighbourhood-level vulnerability domains (Free Access until March 30, 2024).
How environments can promote active aging: results from a case study of two municipalities in Quebec, Canada (Free Access until March 30, 2024).
Volume 114 (2023)
Strong community belonging moderates poor mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals living in Canada: an intersectional analysis of a national population-based survey (Free Access until January 26, 2024).
Addressing overdose risks and fatalities in public bathrooms: insights from the development of a Safer Bathroom Toolkit in British Columbia, Canada (Free Access until January 26, 2024).
Operating an overdose prevention site within a temporary emergency shelter during the COVID‑19 pandemic (Free Access until October 31, 2023)
COVID‑19 case rates, spatial mobility, and neighbourhood socioeconomic characteristics in Toronto: a spatial–temporal analysis (Free Access until October 31, 2023)
Updating normative cross-sectional values and secular trends in body mass, body height and body mass index among Québec children and adolescents (Free Access until August 30, 2023)
The political and fiscal determinants of public health and curative care expenditures: evidence from the Canadian provinces, 1980–2018 (Free Access until August 30, 2023)
The availability and distribution of vaping retailers across Ontario neighbourhoods, 2016–2019 (Free Access until June 30, 2023)
Trends in population characteristics associated with mental health service use among youth and emerging adults in Canada from 2011 to 2016 (Free Access until June 30, 2023)
Economic burden of excessive sedentary behaviour in Canada (Free Access until May 30, 2023)
Housing as a determinant of Inuit mental health: associations between improved housing measures and decline in psychological distress after rehousing in Nunavut and Nunavik (Free Access until May 30, 2023)
Defining the “local public health unit” for public health systems and services research in Canada (Free Access until February 28, 2023).
Suboptimal oral health and the risk of cardiovascular disease in the presence of competing death: a data linkage analysis (Free Access until February 28, 2023).
Volume 113 (2022)
“It reflects the society in which we live, except now everything is accentuated”: youth, social inequities, and the COVID-19 pandemic (Free Access until December 30, 2022).
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the socioeconomic composition of emergency department presentations (Free Access until December 30, 2022).
Recreational tobacco consumption and food insecurity among First Nations in Canada (Free Access until November 30, 2022).
Factors associated with intention to receive vaccines for bacterial sexually transmitted infections among young HPV-vaccinated Canadian women (Free Access until November 30, 2022)
A novel home- and community-based mobile outreach detoxification service for individuals identifying problematic substance use: implementation and program evaluation (Free Access until August 31, 2022)
Disease outbreaks linked to pasteurized and unpasteurized dairy products in Canada and the United States: a systematic review (Free Access until August 31, 2022)
Development and implementation of a Heat Alert and Response System in rural British Columbia (Free Access until June 30, 2022)
Examining differences in diet quality between Canadian Indigenous and non-Indigenous adults: results from the 2004 and 2015 Canadian Community Health Survey Nutrition Surveys (Free access until June 30, 2022).
An updated reference for age-sex-specific birth weight percentiles stratified for ethnicity based on data from all live birth infants between 2005 and 2014 in Alberta, Canada (Free access until May 31, 2022)
“They look at you like you’re contaminated”: how HIV-related stigma shapes access to care for incarcerated women living with HIV in a Canadian setting (Free access until May 31, 2022)
Delay in childhood vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic (Free access until March 31, 2022)
Practice report: an Alberta Métis model for COVID-19 vaccine delivery (Free access until March 31, 2022)
Volume 112 (2021)
Estimates of future cancer mortality attributable to modifiable risk factors in Canada (Free access until January 31, 2022)
Nowhere to go: exploring the social and economic influences on discharging people experiencing homelessness to appropriate destinations in Toronto, Canada (Free access until January 31, 2022)
Housing conditions and adverse birth outcomes among Indigenous people in Canada (Free access until December 31, 2021)
Black-white racial disparities in household food insecurity from 2005 to 2014, Canada (Free access until December 31, 2021)
Small-area contextual effects on children’s dental caries in Alberta: a multilevel analysis (Free access until September 30, 2021)
Vers une décolonisation des ressources de soins et services sociaux : les travailleurs communautaires locaux au Nunavik (Free access until September 30, 2021)
Identifying gaps in COVID-19 health equity data reporting in Canada using a scorecard approach (Free access until June 30, 2021)
Consumption of ultra-processed foods is associated with obesity, diabetes and hypertension in Canadian adults (Free access until June 30, 2021)
Manitoba First Nation peoples’ use of hospital-based mental health services: trends and solutions (Free access until April 30, 2021)
The impact of an alcohol policy change on developmental trajectories of youth alcohol use: examination of a natural experiment in Canada (Free access until April 30, 2021)
Associations between the traditional and novel neighbourhood built environment metrics and weight status among Canadian men and women (Free access until March 31, 2021)
Social determinants of playing outdoors in the neighbourhood: family characteristics, trust in neighbours and daily outdoor play in early childhood (Free access until March 31, 2021)
Volume 111 (2020)
Requirement for Meaningful Engagement of First Nations, Inuit, Métis, and Indigenous Peoples in Publications About Them (Free access until March 31, 2021)
Neighbourhood climate resilience: lessons from the Lighthouse Project (Free access until March 31, 2021)
Communicating risks to drinkers: testing alcohol labels with a cancer warning and national drinking guidelines in Canada (Free access until November 26, 2020)
Health claim regulations on foods: impacts on life expectancy in Canada and the United States (Free access until November 26, 2020)
The cost and affordability of growing and feeding a baby in Nova Scotia (Free Access until October 27, 2020)
The influence of low social support and living alone on premature mortality among aging Canadians (Free Access until October 27, 2020)
Identifying visible minorities or racialized persons on surveys: can we just ask? (Free Access until August 28, 2020)
Disparities in the hospital cost of cardiometabolic diseases among lesbian, gay, and bisexual Canadians: a population-based cohort study using linked data (Free Access until August 28, 2020)
Implementation of the Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA) tool in a local public health setting: challenges, facilitators, and impacts (Free Access until May 22, 2020)
Single-parent status and smoke-free home rules among daily smokers (Free Access until May 22, 2020)
A “health in all policies” review of Canadian public finance (Free Access until April 28, 2020)
Making sense of what exactly public health does: a typology of public health interventions (Free Access until April 28, 2020)
Volume 110 (2019)
Trends in socio-economic inequalities in bladder cancer incidence in Canada: 1992–2010 (Free Access until January 27, 2020)
Translation of school-learned health behaviours into the home: student insights through photovoice (Free Access until January 27, 2020)
The role of structural violence in family homelessness (Free Access until December 27, 2019)
Health-related quality of life and economic burden to smoking behaviour among Canadians (Free Access until December 27, 2019)
Is social assistance boosting the health of the poor? Results from Ontario and three countries (Free Access until October 15, 2019)
Postpartum depression prevalence and risk factors among Indigenous, non-Indigenous and immigrant women in Canada (Free Access until October 15, 2019)
In defense of a population-level approach to prevention: why public health matters today (Free Access until August 19, 2019)
“It''s not a food issue; it''s an income issue”: using Nutritious Food Basket costing for health equity advocacy (Free Access until August 19, 2019)
Supervised inhalation is an important part of supervised consumption services (Free Access until April 26, 2019)
Assessing the strength of secondary school tobacco policies of schools in the COMPASS study and the association to student smoking behaviours (Free Access until April 26, 2019)
The effects of cigarette price and the amount of pocket money on youth smoking initiation and intensity in Canada (Free Access until March 15, 2019)
Consumption of ultra-processed foods and obesity in Canada (Free Access until March 15, 2019)
Volume 109 (2018)
HPV vaccination discourses and the construction of “at-risk” girls (Free Access until January 20, 2019)
Supporting Indigenous families in the Cree territory: lessons from the  Mashkûpímâtsît Awash initiative (Free Access until January 20, 2019)
Assessing a ban on the use of UV tanning devices among adolescents in Ontario, Canada: first-year results (Free Access until December 10, 2018)
Population-level trends in the distribution of body mass index in Canada, 2000–2014 (Free Access until December 10, 2018)
Lived experience of a record wildfire season in the Northwest Territories, Canada(Free Access until November 27, 2018)
Comparing individual and area-based income measures: impact on analysis of inequality in smoking, obesity, and diabetes rates in Canadians 2003–2013(Free Access until November 27, 2018)
The “Lac-Mégantic tragedy” seen through the lens of the EnRiCH Community Resilience Framework for High-Risk Populations (Free Access until August 14, 2018)
Prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection in Syrian refugees to Canada (Free Access until August 14, 2018)
