Dr Frank Houghton

Research output

Research output per year 1999 2001 2002 2003 2006 2013 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2024

• 91 Letter
• 60 Article
• 12 Comment/debate
• 6 Review article
• 4 More
  • 2 Chapter
  • 1 Conference contribution
  • 1 Editorial

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2023

  Brand sharing between alcoholic drinks and non-alcoholic offerings: a challenge to Ireland’s restrictions on alcohol advertising

  Critchlow, N., Moodie, C. & Houghton, F., Aug 2023, In: Irish Journal of Medical Science. 192, 4, p. 1975-1977 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access
  10 Citations (Scopus)

• The importance of continued and full implementation of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act: a comment on Barry and Lyne (2023)

  Critchlow, N. & Houghton, F., 18 May 2023, In: Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine. 40, 3

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2022

  Folic acid fortification in Ireland: The absence of government leadership

  Houghton, F., 1 Sep 2022, In: Journal of Public Health (United Kingdom). 44, 3, p. E423

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Ireland’s inadequate alcohol warning labelling legislation

  Houghton, F. & O’Mahony, C., Oct 2022, In: Irish Journal of Medical Science. 191, 5, p. 2263-2265 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
  1 Citation (Scopus)
• 2021

  Minimizing Assessments of Alcohol Advertising in the Six Nations Rugby Championship

  Houghton, F., 1 Sep 2021, In: Alcohol and Alcoholism. 56, 5, p. 621-622 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Re: 'The elephant in the room? Why spatial stigma does not receive the public health attention it deserves'

  Houghton, F., 1 Mar 2021, In: Journal of Public Health (United Kingdom). 43, 1, p. E121-E122

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
• 2020

  Re: Environmental health in Australia: Overlooked and underrated

  Houghton, F., 2020, In: Journal of Public Health (United Kingdom). 42, 2

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• RE: Infiltrating history into the public health curriculum

  Houghton, F., 2020, In: Journal of Public Health (United Kingdom). 42, 2

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Response to Assumption of Risk and the Role of Health Warnings Labels in the United States

  Houghton, F., 1 Jun 2020, In: Nicotine and Tobacco Research. 22, 6, p. 1059-1060 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Response to removing the last billboard for the tobacco industry: Tobacco standardized packaging in Ireland

  Houghton, F., Jan 2020, In: Health Policy. 124, 1, p. 113-114 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Tobacco control and cigarette vending machines in Ireland: time to quit!

  Houghton, F., 1 May 2020, In: Irish Journal of Medical Science. 189, 2, p. 449-450 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Tobacco control and ‘plain packaging’: performativity, cigarettes and the semiotics of brand names

  Moran Stritch, M. J., Houghton, F., O’Doherty, D., McInerney, D. & Duncan, B., 1 Feb 2020, In: Irish Journal of Medical Science. 189, 1, p. 405-407 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
  2 Citations (Scopus)
• 2019

  An investigation into nature and extent of errors within the Irish Vital Statistics mortality database

  Houghton, F. & Houghton, S., 1 Aug 2019, In: Irish Journal of Medical Science. 188, 3, p. 1069-1070 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Belgium's anti-smoking combined warnings: Language primacy, language order and historical artefacts

  Doherty, D. O., Houghton, F., McInerney, D., Houghton, S. & Duncan, B., 1 Mar 2019, In: Journal of Public Health (United Kingdom). 41, 1, p. E51-E52

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Ethnic and racial blindness in EU anti-smoking campaigns, slogans and images

  O’Doherty, D., Houghton, F., Mc Inerney, D., Houghton, S. & Duncan, B., 1 May 2019, In: Irish Journal of Medical Science. 188, 2, p. 727-729 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• EU anti-smoking graphic warnings on cigarette packets: semiotics and the issue of gender under-representation

  O Doherty, D., Houghton, F., McInerney, D., Duncan, B. & Houghton, D., 1 Aug 2019, In: Irish Journal of Medical Science. 188, 3, p. 1075-1077 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• European Union antismoking combined warnings: language dominance and health communication in Åland and Ostrobothnia

  Houghton, F. T., O'Doherty, D., McInerney, D. P. A., Duncan, B. M. & Houghton, S., Jul 2019, In: Public Health. 172, p. 81-82 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Geography, global pandemics & air travel: Faster, fuller, further & more frequent

  Houghton, F., 1 May 2019, In: Journal of Infection and Public Health. 12, 3, p. 448-449 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access
  7 Citations (Scopus)

• Room 101: are gender-specific cigarette packets the way forward?

  Houghton, F., O’Rourke Scott, L., Houghton, S., O’Doherty, D., McInerney, D. & Duncan, B., 1 Aug 2019, In: Irish Journal of Medical Science. 188, 3, p. 1081-1083 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• The thorny issue of alcohol control in Aotearoa/New Zealand: developments in Ireland

  Houghton, F., 26 Jul 2019, In: New Zealand Medical Journal. 132, 1499, p. 80-82 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  1 Citation (Scopus)
• 2018

  Commentary on: Predatory publishing; pressures, promotions and perils

  Houghton, F. & Houghton, S., 1 Sep 2018, In: Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare. 27, 3, p. 218-219 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Credibility, integrity, transparency & courage: The Haitian Cholera outbreak and the United Nations (UN)

  Houghton, F. & Norris, A., Jan 2018, In: Journal of Infection and Public Health. 11, 1, p. 140-141 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access
  6 Citations (Scopus)

• Ireland’s new sugar tax: A step in the right direction

  Houghton, F. & Houghton, S., 23 Feb 2018, In: New Zealand Medical Journal. 131, 1470, p. 97-98 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Isolationism, populism, and infectious disease: Uncertainty over international emergency response under the Trump regime

  Houghton, F., 1 May 2018, In: Journal of Infection and Public Health. 11, 3, p. 444-445 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Re: ‘History in health: health promotion's underexplored tool for change’

  Houghton, F., Jun 2018, In: Public Health. 159, p. 150-151 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• The tobacco endgame: the importance of targets and geography

  Houghton, F., Houghton, S., O’Doherty, D., Inerney, D. M. & Duncan, B., 1 Dec 2018, In: Canadian Journal of Public Health. 109, 5-6, p. 900-901 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access
  8 Citations (Scopus)

• Zika, the Olympics, and golden opportunities

  Houghton, F., Jan 2018, In: Journal of Infection and Public Health. 11, 1, p. 138 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• ‘Asleep at the helm? Language and Malta's new combined tobacco control warnings’

  O Doherty, D., Houghton, F. & Mc Inerney, D., Oct 2018, In: Public Health. 163, p. 155-157 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
  1 Citation (Scopus)
• 2017

  Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the United Nations (UN)

  Houghton, F., 1 Jan 2017, In: Journal of Infection and Public Health. 10, 1, p. 139-140 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Learning from the ‘muslim ban’: Implications of the trump presidency for international public health

  Houghton, F., 3 Mar 2017, In: New Zealand Medical Journal. 130, 1451, p. 75-77 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Re: Letter to the Editor of Public Health in response to ‘Much ado about nothing? Legacy tobacco advertising and the role of public health’

  Houghton, F., Nov 2017, In: Public Health. 152, p. 180-181 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• The consequences of courage: The US surgeon general, the national rifle association (NRA) and the trump regime

  Houghton, F., 16 Jun 2017, In: New Zealand Medical Journal. 130, 1457, p. 89-92 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
• 2016

  De-normalising smoking: tackling supply via major grocery retailers

  Houghton, F., 1 Nov 2016, In: Irish Journal of Medical Science. 185, 4, p. 929-930 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Ghosts in the machine: Just how accurate is PubMed?

  Houghton, F., 19 Aug 2016, In: New Zealand Medical Journal. 129, 1440, p. 139-142 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Lessons in courage from the past: Lest we forget

  Houghton, F., 8 Jan 2016, In: New Zealand Medical Journal. 129, 1428, p. 85-86 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  1 Citation (Scopus)

• New Zealand's voice at the World Health Organization (WHO)

  Houghton, F., 2 Dec 2016, In: New Zealand Medical Journal. 129, 1446, p. 109-110 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Riding in cars with boys, and girls, while smoking...in New Zealand

  Houghton, F., Duncan, B. & O' Doherty, D., 9 Sep 2016, In: New Zealand Medical Journal. 129, 1441, p. 91-93 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Standardised EU cigarette warnings: One size or colour does not fit all

  Houghton, F. & Hopkins, E., 19 Feb 2016, In: New Zealand Medical Journal. 129, 1430, p. 98-99 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Time to establish a New Zealand/Aotearoa twin registry?

  Houghton, F., Toms, J. & Duncan, B., 11 Mar 2016, In: New Zealand Medical Journal. 129, 1431, p. 95-97 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Zombie pandemic preparedness: A cautionary observation

  Houghton, F., Monte, K. D., Glessner, D., Goff, J., Hopkins, E., Loney, K., Meratnia, G. & Toms, J., 1 Apr 2016, In: New Zealand Medical Journal. 129, 1432, p. 97-99 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  6 Citations (Scopus)
• 2015

  Biostatistics, ASPPH, and privileged knowledge

  Houghton, F., 30 Jun 2015, In: Public Health Reports. 130, 4, p. 300 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2013

  Avoiding action: Ireland, alcohol, intoxication and workplace safety

  Houghton, F., Sep 2013, In: Irish Journal of Medical Science. 182, 3, p. 529-530 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Smokers need not apply

  Houghton, F., Jul 2013, In: Irish Medical Journal. 106, 7

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• The quest for an ethnic identifier in Ireland

  Houghton, F., Sep 2013, In: Irish Journal of Medical Science. 182, 3, p. 531-532 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
• 2012

  Exploring health in census 2011

  Houghton, F. & Houghton, S., 28 Sep 2012, In: Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine. 29, 2, p. 139 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Smoking & public transport

  Houghton, F., Jun 2012, In: Irish Medical Journal. 105, 6

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
• 2011

  12 Month prevalence of drug use among third-level students in Limerick City

  Houghton, F., Keane, N., Murphy, N., Houghton, S. & Dunne, C., May 2011, In: Irish Medical Journal. 104, 5

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Cost of commercial protectionism in child health research

  Houghton, F., Aug 2011, In: British Journal of Psychiatry. 199, 2, p. 164 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2010

  A missed opportunity: Alcohol excise duty, RSA and trace-back

  Houghton, F., 2010, In: Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine. 27, 1, p. 49 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Psychiatry, hegemony and the myth of mental illness

  Houghton, F., Jun 2010, In: Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine. 27, 2, p. 103 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access