Iona Heath

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Iona Heath is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Iona Heath has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in General Health Professions, 19 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 14 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Iona Heath's work include Primary Care and Health Outcomes (21 papers), Healthcare cost, quality, practices (19 papers) and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (15 papers). Iona Heath is often cited by papers focused on Primary Care and Health Outcomes (21 papers), Healthcare cost, quality, practices (19 papers) and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (15 papers). Iona Heath collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Iona Heath's co-authors include Jenny Doust, Juan Gérvas, Paul Glasziou, Bárbara Starfield, Trisha Greenhalgh, Shannon Brownlee, Vikas Saini, Kalipso Chalkidou, Somil Nagpal and Kelsey Chalmers and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and BMJ.

In The Last Decade

Iona Heath

86 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Evidence for overuse of medical services around the world

2017 604 citations Shannon Brownlee, Kalipso Chalkidou et al. The Lancet profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Iona Heath United Kingdom	23	1.4k	806	346	209	170	93	2.2k
Mark Hann United Kingdom	30	1.7k 1.2×	616 0.8×	469 1.4×	593 2.8×	75 0.4×	132	3.3k
George Freeman United Kingdom	27	2.0k 1.4×	943 1.2×	445 1.3×	502 2.4×	61 0.4×	74	2.7k
Deborah A. Taira United States	23	1.6k 1.1×	716 0.9×	386 1.1×	325 1.6×	128 0.8×	80	2.8k
Tom Delbanco United States	33	2.5k 1.8×	277 0.3×	1.0k 3.0×	254 1.2×	275 1.6×	68	4.4k
Stéphane Turcotte Canada	24	2.6k 1.8×	404 0.5×	1.3k 3.7×	251 1.2×	136 0.8×	83	3.8k
Beth Bloom United States	6	1.5k 1.0×	500 0.6×	624 1.8×	198 0.9×	151 0.9×	9	2.7k
Kimberly J. Rask United States	29	1.2k 0.8×	559 0.7×	338 1.0×	556 2.7×	102 0.6×	78	3.0k
Thomas Blakeman United Kingdom	29	1.5k 1.0×	406 0.5×	330 1.0×	872 4.2×	88 0.5×	96	2.7k
Shannon Brownlee United States	15	1.2k 0.9×	904 1.1×	289 0.8×	84 0.4×	179 1.1×	39	1.9k
John Furler Australia	31	1.7k 1.2×	677 0.8×	589 1.7×	866 4.1×	133 0.8×	144	3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Iona Heath

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Fields of papers citing papers by Iona Heath

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Iona Heath

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Iona Heath. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Iona Heath based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Iona Heath. Iona Heath is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Heath, Iona, et al.. (2025). What is society doing to young doctors?. BMJ. 391. r2448–r2448.

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Heath, Iona. (2023). Quality of mind. Canadian Family Physician. 69(12). 821–826. 1 indexed citations

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Johansson, Minna & Iona Heath. (2020). Can covid-19 help us deal with the pandemic of defensive medicine?. BMJ. 371. m4544–m4544. 1 indexed citations

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Swinglehurst, Deborah, Christopher Dowrick, Iona Heath, et al.. (2020). ‘Bad old habits’ … and what really matters. British Journal of General Practice. 70(699). 485.3–486. 5 indexed citations

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Thompson, Michael R., D P O'Leary, Iona Heath, et al.. (2020). Have large increases in fast track referrals improved bowel cancer outcomes in UK?. BMJ. 371. m3273–m3273. 12 indexed citations

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Brownlee, Shannon, Kalipso Chalkidou, Jenny Doust, et al.. (2017). Evidence for overuse of medical services around the world. The Lancet. 390(10090). 156–168. 604 indexed citations breakdown →

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Heath, Iona. (2016). How medicine has exploited rationality at the expense of humanity: an essay by Iona Heath. BMJ. 355. i5705–i5705. 24 indexed citations

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Heath, Iona. (2014). Role of fear in overdiagnosis and overtreatment--an essay by Iona Heath. BMJ. 347(aug06 2). g6123–g6123. 51 indexed citations

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Heath, Iona. (2013). Not safe in their hands. BMJ. 346(feb20 1). f1004–f1004. 1 indexed citations

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Mezzich, Juan E., Jón Snædal, Chris van Weel, & Iona Heath. (2010). Toward Person‐Centered Medicine: From Disease to Patient to Person. Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine A Journal of Translational and Personalized Medicine. 77(3). 304–306. 61 indexed citations

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Gérvas, Juan, Iona Heath, A. Durán, & Joan Gené Badía. (2009). Clinical prevention: patients' fear and the doctor's guilt. European Journal of General Practice. 15(3). 122–124. 4 indexed citations

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Thompson, Michael R., Iona Heath, E T Swarbrick, Lynn F. Wood, & B.G. Ellis. (2009). Earlier diagnosis and treatment of symptomatic bowel cancer: can it be achieved and how much will it improve survival?. Colorectal Disease. 13(1). 6–16. 22 indexed citations

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Heath, Iona. (2007). Let's get tough on the causes of health inequality. BMJ. 334(7607). 1301–1301. 8 indexed citations

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Mangin, Dee, Kieran Sweeney, & Iona Heath. (2007). Preventive health care in elderly people needs rethinking. BMJ. 335(7614). 285–287. 74 indexed citations

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Heath, Iona & Kieran Sweeney. (2005). Medical generalists: connecting the map and the territory. BMJ. 331(7530). 1462–1464. 26 indexed citations

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Heath, Iona. (2003). A wolf in sheep's clothing: a critical look at the ethics of drug taking. BMJ. 327(7419). 856–858. 30 indexed citations

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Heath, Iona. (1999). William Pickles Lecture 1999: 'Uncertain clarity': contradiction, meaning, and hope. British Journal of General Practice. 49(445). 651–657. 18 indexed citations

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Heath, Iona. (1997). Managing Scarcity: Priority Setting and Rationing in the National Health Service. BMJ. 314(7076). 313.1–313.1. 104 indexed citations

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Heath, Iona, et al.. (1996). Commentary: Freedom of expression should be preserved. BMJ. 313(7068). 1323.1–1323.1. 2 indexed citations

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Heath, Iona. (1995). What is Good General Practice?. BMJ. 310(6983). 881.1–881.1. 7 indexed citations

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