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The Journal of Critical Public Health (JCPH) is devoted to disseminating critically engaged research in public health, health promotion & related fields. Diamond Open Access.
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New 'online first' publication from Jenny Trinitapoli & Gertrude Finyiza on the value of listening in to 'population chatter': part of our forthcoming special issue on critical perspectives on #reproductive vulnerabilities
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Population chatter for clearer and broader thinking about fertility | Journal of Critical Public Health
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October 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
New commentary published 'online first' from Paul Ward & Belinda Lunnay on drawing on sociology of hope in public health
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Is there a place for hope in the imagined future of public health? A commentary building on Freire’s sociology of hope. | Journal of Critical Public Health
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October 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
New 'online first' publication from Uzair Amjad on male infertility in Pakistan - part of an exciting forthcoming special issue on critical perspectives on reproductive vulnerabilities!
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Conceiving strife: Relational vulnerabilities in couples with male infertility in Pakistan | Journal of Critical Public Health
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October 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
New online first Research & Practice Note from Hannah Bradby, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Beth Maina Ahlberg & Sarah Hamed:
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Challenges of researching racism in healthcare | Journal of Critical Public Health
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October 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Anti-abortion politics & changes in abortion, miscarriage & stillbirth across time and social strata in Turkey
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Paper in @cphjournal.bsky.social by @selinkoksal.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow Francesco Billari & Fellow @aksoyundan.bsky.social
Anti-abortion politics and changes in abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth across time and social strata in Turkey | Journal of Critical Public Health
Abortion has been legal without restriction in Turkey since 1983. However, the government’s anti-abortion campaign in 2012 has resulted in significant restrictions on abortion services, particularly…
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October 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Just published online first: paper from Hannah Newman, Louca-Mai Brady, Elspeth Mathie, Kathryn Almack & Wendy Wills on co-designing services with diverse communities
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Becoming embedded: A process evaluation of weight management services developed with, not for, communities | Journal of Critical Public Health
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October 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Good luck to the team setting up a new population health journal! Excellent news that the opportunities to publish public health research in scholarly community-managed journals is set to expand.
We are in the process of creating a new journal for our community, the Population Health Journal, and we are now inviting applications for editors:
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Login | Population Health Journal
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October 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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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. 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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September 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Journal of Critical Public Health. Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025)

Critical Metabolism: Towards a Metabolic Justice?

Stephen Hinchliffe et al

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September 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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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September 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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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September 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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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August 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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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August 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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
July 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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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July 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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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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July 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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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July 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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This paper is a much-needed critique of place based approaches in public health- noting problems of scale and sidelining of power relations
June 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Only by putting prevention at the centre of all policy and funding decisions can we create the conditions for improvements in population health.
June 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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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June 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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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June 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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
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May 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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.
March 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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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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March 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM