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Duncan Cooper @duncancooper10.bsky.social · 22d

Really interesting look at placed based approaches to reducing #healthinequalities

Supporting the reduction of power imbalances at a community level , that can increase health inequalities

and the need to .....
"catalyse emancipation of currently disempowered and alienated communities"

Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 23d

Journal of Critical Public Health. Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025)

Are Place-Based Approaches to Reducing Health Inequalities a Highway to Success or a Policy Dead-End?

Gerry McCartney & Jennie Popay

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Are place-based approaches to reducing health inequalities a highway to success or a policy dead-end? | Journal of Critical Public Health

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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 23d

Journal of Critical Public Health. Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025)

Critical Metabolism: Towards a Metabolic Justice?

Stephen Hinchliffe et al

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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 23d

Journal of Critical Public Health. Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025)

Are Place-Based Approaches to Reducing Health Inequalities a Highway to Success or a Policy Dead-End?

Gerry McCartney & Jennie Popay

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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 23d

Journal of Critical Public Health. Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025)

"Unionization Rates and Health in Canadian Provinces, 2000–2020"

Anupam Das, Ian Hudson &Mark Hudson

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Unionization rates and health in Canadian provinces, 2000 - 2020 | Journal of Critical Public Health

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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 28d

Latest issue now out! Editorial here from editors @judegreen.bsky.social & @lindsaymclaren.bsky.social
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Public health in peril? Critical scholarship in times of crisis | Journal of Critical Public Health

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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · Aug 29

Online first! New paper from @kat-lauber.bsky.social, Nason Maani, Olivia Brown & @rebeccaglover.bsky.social on the pros and cons of 'crisis' framings journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

(Re)Acting (to) the crisis: A comparative analysis of crisis framing in obesity, climate change, antimicrobial resistance, and the UK cost-of-living crisis | Journal of Critical Public Healt...

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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · Aug 5

Congratulations to the editors of diamond OA Theory & Social Inquiry on their 1st issue - exciting to see so many excellent journals escaping coporate control! www.theoryandsocialinquiry.org/issue/1706/i...

Theory and Social Inquiry | Issue: Issue: 1(1) (2025)

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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · Jul 25

We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Critical Public Health is now included in the Directory of Open Access Journals! #DOAJ @doaj.bsky.social

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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · Jul 25

Solidarity to the editors resigning in protest at sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members

“GR Stocks” auf unsplash It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Franc...

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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · Jul 19

We are delighted to publish @colinlorne.bsky.social & Michael Lambert's paper on place-based reform, Wigan, & rejecting the politics of responsibilisation for 'left-behind'places - now on online first:
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Articulating place: Towards a conjunctural analysis of public health | Journal of Critical Public Health

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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · Jul 19

We are delighted to publish @colinlorne.bsky.social & Michael Lambert's paper on place-based reform, Wigan, & rejecting the politics of responsibilisation for 'left-behind'places - now on online first:
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Articulating place: Towards a conjunctural analysis of public health | Journal of Critical Public Health

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Judith Green @judegreen.bsky.social · Jun 18

This paper is a much-needed critique of place based approaches in public health- noting problems of scale and sidelining of power relations

Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · Jun 18

Just published online first: super useful new paper from @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social and Jennie Popay on limits to 'place-based approaches' for addressing health inequalities:
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Are place-based approaches to reducing health inequalities a highway to success or a policy dead-end? | Journal of Critical Public Health

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Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) @adphuk.bsky.social · Jun 18

Only by putting prevention at the centre of all policy and funding decisions can we create the conditions for improvements in population health.

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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · Jun 18

Just published online first: super useful new paper from @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social and Jennie Popay on limits to 'place-based approaches' for addressing health inequalities:
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Are place-based approaches to reducing health inequalities a highway to success or a policy dead-end? | Journal of Critical Public Health

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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · Jun 10

We now have 'on line first' listings! And first up, a great paper from Ian Hudson, Anupam Das & Mark Hudson on how higher unionisation rates are associated with lower mortality rates in Canada
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Unionization rates and health in Canadian provinces, 2000 - 2020 | Journal of Critical Public Health

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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · May 15

Thanks to Somatosphere for adding relevant JCPH papers to their ever useful 'In the Journals' round up!
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In the Journals, April 2025

The website of Somatosphere

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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · Mar 27

Our apologies: there will be no access to journal content over weekend of 29th/30th March while we tidy up a few things on the website - should be back up by 14.00 GMT on Monday.

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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · Mar 19

The #BSA Medical #Sociology Annual Conference 2025, 10-12 September 2025, Northumbria University, UK, *CALL FOR PAPERS* is now open www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Medical Sociology Conference 2025

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BSA Medical Sociology Annual Conference @bsa-medsoc.bsky.social · Mar 25

Our MedSoc 2025 call for abstracts is now open. Visit www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... to find out more and submit your abstract. Closing date, 2nd May. We look forward to receiving your abstracts!

Medical Sociology Conference 2025

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Center for Critical Public Health @criticalpublichealth.org · Mar 21

For more context, we posted about this here:
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Resisting Attacks on Science - Center for Critical Public Health

So it happened. We have officially withdrawn a paper accepted for publication in a scientific journal because of editorial requests to remove language deemed out of compliance with executive orders.

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Center for Critical Public Health @criticalpublichealth.org · Mar 21

@alt-hhs.altgov.info @altnih4science.bsky.social We recently got a paper back from a journal published by the US Surgeon General + US Public Health Service, where they asked us to change language and remove data "to comply with the Executive Order."

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Judith Green @judegreen.bsky.social · Mar 10

A piece from NZ, but likely to be useful elsewhere

Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · Mar 10

New Commentary from @heathercame.bsky.social & colleagues on excuses for racism (& how to counter them)
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Linguistic enablers of Pākehā racism: Excuses from the health sector in Aotearoa New Zealand | Journal of Critical Public Health

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Stephanie M Topp @globalstopp.bsky.social · Mar 11

#Culturalsafety / #antiracism programming for #healthsystems *everywhere* must address these racism-enabling…narratives:
i) resource allocation,
ii) responsibility,
iii) (Māori) blaming, iv) too hard, and
v) we tried.

Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · Mar 10

New Commentary from @heathercame.bsky.social & colleagues on excuses for racism (& how to counter them)
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Linguistic enablers of Pākehā racism: Excuses from the health sector in Aotearoa New Zealand | Journal of Critical Public Health

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Tamar Antin @tamar-antin.bsky.social · Mar 11

Our latest editorial is now live! We were worried about rural health before, and now the evidence is rolling in—sadly, it seems that rural communities will, in fact, be left behind again... Read more ⬇️ and a link to the article published by @cphjournal.bsky.social

Center for Critical Public Health @criticalpublichealth.org · Mar 10

Critical Public Health Perspectives on Rural Outrage
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Critical Public Health Perspectives on Rural Outrage - Center for Critical Public Health

Our new editorial, “Left behind again: Rural America and the hypocrisy of populism,” has just been published in the Journal of Critical Public Health. In it, we explore the sources … Critical Public H...

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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · Mar 10

We are pleased to announce that our new issue has just been published! Vol 2 (1). Read, enjoy, let your colleagues know!
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Journal of Critical Public Health

The journal is published by the international Critical Public Health Network in Edinburgh, UK (https://cphn.net/), ISSN 3033-3997.

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