John Frank
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Canadian epidemiologist
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John Frank 's Degrees
- Masters Epidemiology McGill University
- PhD Epidemiology University of British Columbia
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Frank FRCPC, FCAHS, is a Canadian epidemiologist. Career He was trained in medicine and community medicine at the University of Toronto, in family medicine at McMaster University, and in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
John Frank 's Published Works
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Published Works
- Workplace-Based Return-to-Work Interventions: A Systematic Review of the Quantitative Literature (2005) (690)
- Determinants of duration of disability and return-to-work after work-related injury and illness: challenges for future research. (2001) (477)
- An overview of prevention of multiple risk behaviour in adolescence and young adulthood. (2012) (217)
- Fostering evidence-based decision-making in Canada: examining the need for a Canadian population and public health evidence centre and research network. (2005) (157)
- Measuring population health: a review of indicators. (2006) (153)
- Effect of motor vehicle emissions on respiratory health in an urban area. (2002) (137)
- Interventions to prevent substance use and risky sexual behaviour in young people: a systematic review. (2012) (125)
- Relationship between trying an electronic cigarette and subsequent cigarette experimentation in Scottish adolescents: a cohort study (2017) (105)
- Historical and cultural roots of drinking problems among American Indians. (2000) (102)
- The association between childhood physical abuse and heart disease in adulthood: findings from a representative community sample. (2010) (92)
- Birth outcomes by neighbourhood income and recent immigration in Toronto. (2007) (85)
- Will lowering population levels of serum cholesterol affect total mortality? Expectations from the Honolulu Heart Program. (1992) (84)
- The determinants of health from a historical perspective. (1994) (81)
- Trends in educational inequalities in smoking and physical activity in Canada: 1974–2005 (2009) (80)
- Asymptomatic hypercholesterolemia: a clinical policy review. (1990) (77)
- Do coronary heart disease risk factors measured in the elderly have the same predictive roles as in the middle aged. Comparisons of relative and attributable risks. (1992) (74)
- Using socioeconomics to counter health disparities arising from the covid-19 pandemic (2020) (69)
- Neighborhood context and infant birthweight among recent immigrant mothers: a multilevel analysis. (2009) (59)
- When aspirations and achievements don't meet. A longitudinal examination of the differential effect of education and occupational attainment on declines in self-rated health among Canadian labour force participants. (2005) (59)
- Promoting the Determinants of Good Health in the Workplace (2000) (57)
- Making health data maps: a case study of a community/university research collaboration. (2002) (55)
- Does cigarette smoking have an independent effect on coronary heart disease incidence in the elderly? (1991) (41)
- Do Changes in Job Control Predict Differences in Health Status? Results From a Longitudinal National Survey of Canadians (2008) (41)
- The impact of eliminating primary school tuition fees on child marriage in sub-Saharan Africa: A quasi-experimental evaluation of policy changes in 8 countries (2018) (38)
- Population Health and the Hardcore Smoker: Geoffrey Rose Revisited (2008) (37)
- Interventions for Promoting Early Child development for Health: an Environmental Scan with special reference to Scotland (2010) (35)
- Best practice guidelines for monitoring socioeconomic inequalities in health status: lessons from Scotland. (2011) (34)
- From places to flows. International secondary migration and birth outcomes. (2010) (32)
- Young people's exposure to point-of-sale tobacco products and promotions. (2016) (30)
- Factors associated with adverse childhood experiences in Scottish children: a prospective cohort study (2019) (30)
- Improving preconception health and care: a situation analysis (2017) (26)
- Preventing injury, illness and disability at work. (2006) (26)
- Screening for hypercholesterolaemia in primary care: randomised controlled trial of postal questionnaire appraising risk of coronary heart disease (1998) (25)
- Experiences of Knowledge Brokering for Evidence-Informed Public Health Policy and Practice: Three Years of the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy. (2012) (23)
- Determining the impact of smoking point of sale legislation among youth (Display) study: a protocol for an evaluation of public health policy (2014) (23)
- Public Health in Canada: What are the Real Issues? (2003) (22)
- Heterogeneities in Health Status and the Determinants of Population Health (2017) (22)
- Does Time Since Immigration Modify Neighborhood Deprivation Gradients in Preterm Birth? A Multilevel Analysis (2011) (21)
- [Reference birthweights for the Argentine population by multiplicity of birth, sex, and gestational age]. (2011) (21)
- Relationship between e-cigarette point of sale recall and e-cigarette use in secondary school children: a cross-sectional study (2016) (20)
- Introducing the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health (2006) (19)
- The Social Determinants of Health: Time to Re-Think? (2020) (19)
- A rapid review of key strategies to improve the cognitive and social development of children in Scotland. (2011) (18)
- “It Looks Like an Adult Sweetie Shop”: Point-of-Sale Tobacco Display Exposure and Brand Awareness in Scottish Secondary School Students (2016) (18)
- Minimum Wage and Overweight and Obesity in Adult Women: A Multilevel Analysis of Low and Middle Income Countries (2016) (18)
- Biological Pathways Linking the Social Environment, Development, and Health (2006) (18)
- Electromagnetic fields, 5G and health: what about the precautionary principle? (2021) (18)
- The EASY (Early Access to Support for You) sickness absence service: a four-year evaluation of the impact on absenteeism. (2015) (18)
- Seven key investments for health equity across the lifecourse: Scotland versus the rest of the UK (2015) (17)
- Bridging the academic and practice/policy gap in public health: perspectives from Scotland and Canada (2018) (17)
- Coordinating Canada's research response to global health challenges: the Global Health Research Initiative. (2006) (17)
- A cross-sectional pilot study of the Scottish early development instrument: a tool for addressing inequality (2013) (16)
- A mixture model to correct misclassification of gestational age. (2012) (14)
- Economic policy and the double burden of malnutrition: cross-national longitudinal analysis of minimum wage and women’s underweight and obesity (2017) (14)
- Cohort study of high maternal body mass index and the risk of adverse pregnancy and delivery outcomes in Scotland (2020) (13)
- Origins of the obesity pandemic can be analysed (2016) (13)
- Interventions in community settings that prevent or delay disablement in later life: an overview of the evidence (2012) (13)
- “Think Tank on the Future of Public Health in Canada” (2004) (13)
- Developing knowledge translation capacity in public health: the role of the National Collaborating Centres. (2007) (13)
- Strengthen Canada’s Public Health System Now (2004) (12)
- Coordinating Canada’s Research Response to Global Health Challenges (2006) (12)
- Human papilloma virus vaccination programs reduce health inequity in most scenarios: a simulation study (2012) (12)
- Large life-course cohorts for characterizing genetic and environmental contributions: the need for more thoughtful designs. (2006) (11)
- Selective opportunistic screening for hypercholesterolemia in primary care practice. (1998) (11)
- Causation revisited. (1988) (11)
- Environmental public health tracking/surveillance in Canada: a commentary. (2009) (11)
- Vision for a global registry of anticipated public health studies. (2007) (10)
- How has child growth around adiposity rebound altered in Scotland since 1990 and what are the risk factors for weight gain using the Growing Up in Scotland birth cohort 1? (2016) (10)
- Adolescent and Young Adult Health in Scotland - Interventions that address multiple risk behaviours or take a generic approach to risk in youth (2010) (10)
- Was Thomas McKeown right for the wrong reasons? (2010) (10)
- How community resources mitigate the association between household poverty and the incidence of adverse childhood experiences (2019) (9)
- MEASURING POPULATION HEALTH (2006) (9)
- Proceedings of the "Think tank on the future of public health in Canada" Calgary, May 10, 2003. (2004) (9)
- Public Health Policy and the Quality of Epidemiological Evidence: How Good is Good Enough? (1985) (9)
- Impact of abolishing prescription fees in Scotland on hospital admissions and prescribed medicines: an interrupted time series evaluation (2018) (9)
- Making Research Matter (2017) (8)
- Does exposure to cigarette brands increase the likelihood of adolescent e-cigarette use? A cross-sectional study (2016) (8)
- Credibility of subgroup analyses by socioeconomic status in public health intervention evaluations: An underappreciated problem? (2018) (8)
- The Monitoring and Surveillance of the Psychosocial Work Environment in Canada (2008) (8)
- Guest Editorial: Mental Health and the Workplace: Towards a Research Agenda in Canada. (2004) (7)
- Prediction of Occupational Disability (2008) (7)
- Multiple Maternities and Neighborhood Income (2007) (7)
- Workplace dietary improvement initiatives ought not to be discouraged by modest returns from low-intensity interventions. (2013) (7)
- Public Health Action to Control Hazards: How Good Should the Evidence Be? (2002) (7)
- Do minimum wages improve early life health? Evidence from developing countries. (2016) (6)
- SP3-68 A systematic review of interventions to prevent or reduce substance use and sexual risk behaviour in young people (2011) (6)
- Public Health Interventions to Reduce Inequalities: What Do We Know Works? (2012) (6)
- Evaluating the impact of applied prevention research centres: results from a modified Delphi approach (2017) (6)
- Failures in reproductive health policy: overcoming the consequences and causes of inaction (2018) (6)
- Protocol for a mixed-methods longitudinal study to identify factors influencing return to work in the over 50s participating in the UK Work Programme: Supporting Older People into Employment (SOPIE) (2015) (6)
- Contrasting socioeconomic gradients in small for gestational age and preterm birth in Argentina, 2003–2007 (2013) (5)
- Strengthen Canada's public health system now (Editorial) (2004) (5)
- International population-based health surveys linked to outcome data: A new resource for public health and epidemiology. (2020) (5)
- Randomized clinical trials in heart disease. (1989) (5)
- Controlling the obesity pandemic: Geoffrey Rose revisited (2022) (5)
- Developmental Health and the Wealth of Nations (2000) (5)
- Prevention: delivering the goods. (2003) (5)
- Obesity Prevention in Scotland: A Policy Analysis Using the ANGELO Framework (2015) (5)
- Age, health and other factors associated with return to work for those engaging with a welfare-to-work initiative: a cohort study of administrative data from the UK’s Work Programme (2018) (5)
- Environmental scan of adolescent and young adulthood health in Scotland: Interventions that address multiple risk behaviours or take a generic approach to risk in youth (2010) (4)
- Changing relative and absolute socioeconomic health inequalities in Ontario, Canada: A population-based cohort study of adult premature mortality, 1992 to 2017 (2020) (4)
- Two tales of cardiovascular risks—middle-aged women living in Sweden and Scotland: a cross-sectional comparative study (2017) (4)
- Revamp Canada's public health system — and do it quickly: think-tank (2003) (4)
- Experiences of knowledge brokering for evidence-informed public health, policy, and practice: 3 years of the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy (2012) (4)
- Intervention research on working conditions and mental health: persistent challenges, new directions and opportunities to integrate research agendas. (2011) (4)
- PARADOXIC PARADOXES. REPLY (1992) (3)
- Commentary: persistent social inequalities in health--insensitive outcomes, inadequate policies, or both? (2013) (3)
- Canadian report card on health equity across the life-course: Analysis of time trends and cross-national comparisons with the United Kingdom (2018) (3)
- Transformational Leadership and Moral Discourse in the Workplace and Civil Society (2002) (3)
- 'Lifting the ban on alcohol at Scottish football matches: an own goal for public health progress?'. (2014) (2)
- The impact of increasing the minimum legal age for work on school attendance in low- and middle-income countries (2019) (2)
- 21th European Congress on Obesity (ECO2014), Sofia, Bulgaria, May 28-31, 2014: Abstracts (2014) (2)
- Healthy behaviors: addressing chronic disease at its roots. (2004) (2)
- Translating research into practice: a cross-sectional study using the Early Development Instrument to assess early years interventions in local level public health practice (2014) (2)
- Public health may not be ready for health system change - but neither is the system ready to integrate public health. (2013) (2)
- Paradoxic paradoxes. (1992) (2)
- Beyond implementation research for improving maternal, newborn and child health globally (2017) (2)
- National monitoring systems for health inequalities by socioeconomic status – an OECD snapshot (2020) (2)
- Foreword from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2005) (1)
- 0260 Visualising the unemployment-to-employment transitions to explore factors influencing return to work in the work programme: results from the supporting older people into employment (sopie) cohort (2017) (1)
- Measuring early child development: the early child development instrument pilot in Scotland (2011) (1)
- New forms of data for understanding low- and middle-income countries’ health inequalities: the case of Tanzania (2018) (1)
- 5 Prediction of Occupational Disability Models , Factors , and Outcomes (1)
- Thoughts from Scotland on the challenge of equitable health improvement. (2009) (1)
- Environmental Public Health Tracking/Surveillance in Canada (2009) (1)
- High-Risk Versus Population Prevention Strategies for NCDs: Geoffrey Rose Revisited in the Twenty-First Century (2013) (1)
- Historical and Cultural Roots of Drinking (2000) (1)
- A simple tool for comparing benefits and ‘costs’ of COVID-19 exit strategies (2020) (1)
- Interventions in community settings that prevent or delay disablement and promote healthy ageing in later life (2011) (1)
- Book Review: Social Perspective: The Missing Element in Mental Health Practice by Richard U'Ren. University of Toronto Press, 2011 (219 pages) (2013) (1)
- External review : IDRC Governance for Equity in Health Systems Program (2015) (1)
- PP52 Obesity Prevention in Scotland: A Policy Analysis using the Angelo Framework (2013) (1)
- A response to Dr Michael Oakes: advancing research into SES mechanisms that affect health. (2012) (0)
- Foreword from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Population and Public Health (2006) (0)
- The Results and Challenges of Using Administrative Health Data Within a Natural Experimental Evaluation of the Abolition of Prescription Fees in Scotland (2018) (0)
- The Palestinian Economy -- Implications for Health System Design (1997) (0)
- Section 2Bi: Secular trends in job characteristics, job strain, and volume in work (2004) (0)
- Electronic cigarette use and smoking initiation in Scottish adolescents: a cohort study (2017) (0)
- Indicators for Monitoring Health Targets (2019) (0)
- and health status: a path analysis approach Examining the relationships between job control (2008) (0)
- Thoughts from Scotland on the Challenge of Equitable Health Improvement (2009) (0)
- Development of a critical appraisal tool for models predicting the impact of ‘test, trace, and protect’ programmes on COVID-19 transmission (2021) (0)
- Incentivising “healthier” workplace vending options using price discounting: A multi-site study in central Scotland (2014) (0)
- Prevention and Control Strategies for Non-Communicable Disease: Goldberger, Pellagra and Rose Revisited (2022) (0)
- Catching your breath: research efforts to analyze the negative effects of air pollution on human health. (2006) (0)
- Breast-feeding in a polluted world: uncertain risks, Breast-feeding in a poluted world: uncertain risks, clear benefits (2006) (0)
- NeighborhoodContextandInfantBirthweight AmongRecentImmigrantMothers:A MultilevelAnalysis (2009) (0)
- Bear Tales (2014) (0)
- II The Prologue (1972) (0)
- XII The Lessons Learned (1972) (0)
- P137 Establishment of a cohort to identify factors influencing return to work in the over 50s participating in the uk work programme: supporting older people into employment (SOPIE) (2016) (0)
- Challenges to implementation of population-level measurement of child development: the early development instrument pilot in Scotland (2012) (0)
- The changing nature of work in Canada and other developed countries: what do the trends over time tell us? (2009) (0)
- Evidence for community action: addressing inequality with the early development instrument in Scotland (2013) (0)
- Growth trajectories and their associated risk factors in Scotland. (2016) (0)
- Growth trajectories and their associated risk factors among children in Scotland (2016) (0)
- Setting research priorities for arthritis: the environmental perspective. (2005) (0)
- Advancing public health skills and structures: an interview with John Frank. (2014) (0)
- 260: Vision for a Global Registry of Anticipated Public Health Studies (GRAPHS) (2005) (0)
- study Scotland : a cross-sectional comparative middle-aged women living in Sweden and − − Two tales of cardiovascular risks (2017) (0)
- A qualitative inquiry describing the experience of teachers participating in the early development instrument (2011) (0)
- Parental belief in ‘healthy risk’ lead to fewer child accidents and injuries: fact or fiction? (2018) (0)
- Validity of Scottish predictors of child obesity (age 12) for risk screening in mid-childhood: a secondary analysis of prospective cohort study data—with sensitivity analyses for settings without various routinely collected predictor variables (2022) (0)
- Whose Education Is It? Developing Communities Left Out in Framing Higher Education (2015) (0)
- Authentic and Transformational Leadership Model of the Directors of Tambon Health Promoting Hospitals Effecting to the Effectiveness of Southern Tambon Health Promoting Hospitals: The Interaction and Invariance Tests of Gender Factor (2015) (0)
- P1-154 Guidelines for monitoring socioeconomic inequalities in health: lessons from Scotland (2011) (0)
- CIHR Research: Institute of Population and Public Health (2002) (0)
- Public health priority setting on a national scale: The Scottish experience (2022) (0)
- Public health programme and policy options for improving health equitably. (2011) (0)
- Nonprofits Advancing Public Dialogue about a “Culture of Peace” (2010) (0)
- PSY133 - LIVES SAVED FROM REDUCTIONS IN CO-PRESCRIBING OF OPIOIDS AND BENZODIAZEPINES (2018) (0)
- Public health interventions to reduce inequalities (2012) (0)
- A Public Health Perspective on Child Development - and on Scotland's Approach to Assessment at P1 (2020) (0)
- Developing a new cohort of children born to women who used opioids in pregnancy using administrative data: insights into cohort creation and early results (2019) (0)
- Minimum wage and overweight and obesity in adult women: a multi-level analysis of low and middle-income countries (2016) (0)
- Comparison of mortality hazard ratios associated with health behaviours in Canada and the United States: a population-based linked health survey study (2022) (0)
- Discussion Preventing injury, illness and disability at work (2018) (0)
- 848 The role of age and health in returning to work: results from the supporting older people into employment (sopie) cohort (2018) (0)
- A response to Dr Michael Oakes: advancing research into SES mechanisms that affect health (2012) (0)
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