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Disruption, adaptation, and maintenance of domestic violence services during the COVID-19 pandemic Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Jennifer A. Horney, Annaliese Pena, Sarah E. Scales, Ruth E. Fleury-Steiner, Lauren C. Camphausen, Susan L. Miller
COVID-19 disrupted many aspects of domestic violence services including sheltering, in-person advocacy, and access to mental health, visitation, and legal services. Increased demand for services oc...
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Risk factors and predictive models for sequelae of heat stroke primarily involving cerebellar dysfunction Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Xiao-Xiao Ni, Gai-Ci Xue, Ye-Qun Guo, Xiao-Juan Xie, Jie Wang, Zhi-Feng Liu
The occurrence of sequelae is common after heatstroke. There is a lack of risk prediction data regarding the prevalence of sequelae. This study aims to develop a predictive model for the sequelae a...
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Self-reported physical activity and sedentary behaviour amongst UK university students: a cross-sectional case study Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Charlie J. Roberts, Declan J. Ryan, Jackie Campbell, Jack Hardwicke
This cross-sectional study investigated self-reported physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviour amongst UK university students.An online survey was completed by 590 students at a higher educat...
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Individual consent in cluster randomised trials for non-pharmaceutical interventions: going beyond the Ottawa statement Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Marissa LeBlanc, Jon Williamson, Francesco De Pretis, Jürgen Landes, Elena Rocca
This paper discusses the issue of overriding the right of individual consent to participation in cluster randomised trials (CRTs). We focus on CRTs testing the efficacy of non-pharmaceutical interv...
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The wages of peer recovery workers: underpaid, undervalued, and unjust Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Kenneth D. Smith
Peer-based recovery support services are evidence-based practices used to achieve long-term recovery. Fundamental to these services are peer recovery workers, who use their lived experience of long...
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The economic burden of obesity in 2024: a cost analysis using the value of a statistical life Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Nadia J. Sweis
In 2024, the economic burden of obesity remains a paramount global concern due to its escalating prevalence, which imposes substantial pressures on healthcare systems, hampers productivity, and det...
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Whiteout: a social history of sickle cell disease in Ontario, Canada Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Sinthu Srikanthan
What does it mean to develop health policies and services for diseases that are socially constructed as racialized in a country that continuously erases race? Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), the world’s...
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Toward decolonized fiscal relationships between universities and community organizations: lessons learned from the California community engagement alliance against COVID-19 Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Nancy J. Burke, Patricia Rodriguez Espinosa, Claudia C. Corchado, Evelyn Vázquez, Lisa G. Rosas, Kent J. Wooe, Monique LeSarre, Angela Gallegos-Castillo, Ann Cheney, David D. Lo, Rachel Hintz, Stefanie D. Vassar, Arleen F. Brown
In September 2020, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) allocated $12 million to support engagement with historically marginalized communities hardest hit by COVID-19. The award was designed ...
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What do private providers of home care want? An analytical framework Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Julien Mercille, Luciana Lolich
Private for-profit home care providers are key participants in European long-term care regimes. Yet, their policy preferences toward market making and market development remain under-researched. We...
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The portrayal of food marketing policy by Canadian news media Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Grace Gillis, Julia Soares Guimarães, Monique Potvin Kent
Unhealthy food marketing influences children’s food preferences, intake and rates of obesity. Currently, there is no mandatory national food marketing policy that restricts food marketing to youth ...
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A historical perspective on structural-based mental health approaches in Latin America: the Chilean and Brazilian cases Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Gabriel Abarca-Brown, Francisco Ortega
The growth of identity struggles and intersectional debates has presented challenges for public health services in Chile and Brazil. In this context, researchers, stakeholders, health practitioners...
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‘When I tried to explain, they shouted back at me!’: exploring how community pharmacists navigate tensions implementing antimicrobial stewardship in Vietnam Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Duy Trinh Hoang, Shannon McKinn, Dorothy Drabarek, Thao Thu Trieu, Van Thuy Pham, Yen Ngoc Pham, Thai Hung Cao, Hung Mai Tran, Greg J. Fox, Thu-Anh Nguyen, Sarah Bernays
Antimicrobial resistance is a major global and national health challenge, accelerated by ‘irrational’ antibiotic use. In response, Vietnam has been implementing a public health plan of antimicrobia...
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Discourses of COVID-19 vaccination in China: public response to government domination and the emergence of ‘vaccine citizenship’ Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Xu Liu
Using online discourse-centred ethnography and focus group discussions, this paper explores evolving discourses of COVID-19 vaccination in China and corresponding public responded. In addition to t...
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Moving on in uncertain times: a goodbye Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Judith Green, Lindsay McLaren, Christopher Colvin, Kevin Dew, Rebecca Haines-Saah, Ewen Speed, Kirsten Bell, Robin Bunton
Published in Critical Public Health (Vol. 33, No. 5, 2023)
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Which vaccine? Between evidence-based policy and symbolic politics Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Vesna Trifunović, Stuart Blume
Published in Critical Public Health (Vol. 33, No. 5, 2023)
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Hepatitis C data justice: the implications of data-driven approaches to the elimination of hepatitis C Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 kylie valentine, Emily Lenton, Kate Seear, Suzanne Fraser, Dion Kagan, Adrian Farrugia, Sean Mulcahy, Michael Edwards, Danny Jeffcote
The World Health Organization’s goal of achieving hepatitis C elimination by 2030 is inspiring the use of novel methods to find, diagnose and treat people living with the virus. Globally, rates of ...
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Income inequality and COVID-19 in the USA Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Ignacio Amate-Fortes, Almudena Guarnido-Rueda, Diego Martínez-Navarro, Francisco J. Oliver-Márquez
This study aimed to analyze the effects of inequality in income distribution, gender, race and education on incidence and mortality rates of COVID-19 in the USA. For this purpose, a cross-sectional...
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Polarizing figures of resistance during epidemics. A comparative frame analysis of the COVID-19 freedom convoy Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Mélissa Roy, Ari Gandsman
Using the 2022 Freedom Convoy in Canada as a case study, this article explores divisions between public understanding of resistance to health measures during epidemics and oppositional movements’ s...
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How work impacts health and smoking practices among sexuality and gender minority young adults Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Emily Kaner, Emile Sanders, Mark D. Fleming, Tamar M. J. Antin
While work has been established as an important social determinant of health, it remains understudied in health inequities research. Although work has the potential to both promote and harm health,...
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How pharmaceutical companies misappropriate fat acceptance Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Andrea Bombak
Pharmaceutical companies influence whether we perceive conditions as relevant to the medical sector and in need of pharmaceutical intervention (pharmaceuticalization). Recently, through coordinated...
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Critical posthuman ethnography: grappling with human-more-than-human interconnection for critical public health Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Kimberlee Collins
To address the intertwined health issues of our time, from climate change to colonialism, from mass extinction to mass consumption, this commentary argues that critical public health must grapple w...
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What’s the problem represented to be? A critical analysis of problem representation in news media and public health communication during a hepatitis A outbreak in San Diego, California, USA Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Jennifer K. Felner, Andrew Stieber, Nichole McCune, Elizabeth Reed, Jerel P. Calzo
Discourse regarding public health problems disproportionately affecting marginalized communities may shape and sustain health inequities. Analyses of news media and public health communications in ...
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Economies of resistance Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Michelle Peterie, Alex Broom, Katherine Kenny, Jennifer Broom, David Regan, Lise Lafferty, Angela Kelly-Hanku, Carla Treloar
The social organisation of economic life plays a pivotal role in assembling many emerging and enduring health problems. Yet throughout the recent history of global health challenges, an emphasis on...
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‘If you’re serious about losing weight, why are you drinking all those Cokes?’: a critical discourse analysis of interviews on sugar-sweetened beverages amongst residents of a middle to upper class neighborhood in Winnipeg, Manitoba Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Anne Waugh, Andrea Bombak, Patricia Thille, Kerstin Roger, Kelsey Mann, Natalie Riediger
Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) have been identified as a health policy target, due to their associations with weight gain. However, fatness or ‘obesity’ is associated with stigma, and for ‘obese’ ...
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‘I will play this tokenistic game, I just want something useful for my community’: experiences of and resistance to harms of peer research Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Lori E. Ross, Merrick Pilling, Jijian Voronka, Kendra-Ann Pitt, Elizabeth McLean, Carole King, Yogendra Shakya, Kinnon R. MacKinnon, Charmaine C. Williams, Carol Strike, Adrian Guta
Hiring peer researchers – individuals with lived experience of the phenomenon under study – is an increasingly popular practice. However, little research has examined experiences of peer research f...
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Rethinking and remaking “the social”: co-production, critical pedagogy, and mental health among university students in the USA Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Mikayla Syanne Alsopp, James Blair, William Minter, Mariah Sanders, Dominique Béhague
This paper presents findings from a qualitative study exploring how students at a university in the southern USA conceptualize, theorize, and attempt to influence the role ‘social factors’ play in ...
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Systematically omitting indoor air quality: sub-standard guidance for shelters, group homes and long-term care in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Amy Katz, Tianyuan Li, LLana James, Jeffrey Siegel, Patricia O’Campo
Public Health Ontario (PHO) is mandated by legislation to share scientific advice during infectious disease outbreaks and help reduce health inequities in Ontario, Canada. PHO was founded in part t...
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“Digging in”: stigma and surveillance in the lives of pregnant and breastfeeding mothers who consume cannabis Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Saara Greene, Mary Vaccaro, Alexe Bernier, Gabrielle Griffith, Allyson Ion, Rochelle Maurice, Chelsea Gabel, Marisa Blake
Since the shift to legalizing recreational cannabis use in Canada in 2018, there has been increased attention on the consequences of cannabis use on women’s reproductive and maternal health, with p...
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Two strategies used by local intersectoral networks to create healthier environments: a cross-case analysis in the Montreal urban setting Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Angèle Bilodeau, Catherine Chabot, Mélissa Di Sante, Nadine Martin, Louise Potvin
Action aimed at developing healthier living conditions requires intersectoral collaboration, both across sectors and between levels of government. It also calls for the commitment of political and ...
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From collaborator to colleague: a community-based program science approach for engaging Kenyan communities of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in HIV research Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Bernadette Kina Kombo, Matthew Thomann, Helgar Musyoki, Kennedy Olango, Samuel Kuria, Martin Kyana, Memory Otieno, Margaret Njiraini, Janet Musimbi, Pariniti Bhattacharjeea, Robert Lorway, Lisa Lazarus
Since the 1990s, researchers have used community-based participatory approaches to achieve outcomes relevant to local communities, to build collaborative and sustainable research infrastructures, a...
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“Anticipate the need”: a narrative analysis of service providers’ experiences working with sexual and gender minority youth in British Columbia, Canada, during the COVID-19 pandemic Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Sophie McKenzie, Cassandra Hesse, Anna Carson, Trevor Goodyear, Rod Knight
This study explores service providers’ accounts of working with sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth and the improvised and non-institutionalized adaptations to their delivery of care in response...
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The role of small, locally-owned businesses in advancing community health and health equity: a qualitative exploration in a historically Black neighborhood in the USA Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Shoba Ramanadhan, Sabrina Werts, Collin Knight, Sara Kelly, Justin Morgan, Lauren Taylor, Sara Singer, Alan Geller, Emma Louise Aveling
Multi-sector efforts to address the structural drivers of health inequities faced by racial and ethnic minority communities in the USA often ignore the potential of action by for-profit businesses,...
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Silenced stories of illicit drug use in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico: experiences of healthcare providers, policymakers, and patients Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Violeta Contreras, Sheilla R. Madera, Mark Padilla
This paper examines the experiences of healthcare providers (n = 10), policymakers (n = 5), and drug users (n = 5) in Puerto Rico (PR) after Hurricane Maria hit in September 2017. We draw upon ecos...
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‘We were called guardian angels; Was that sincere? I do not think so’: retention of certified nurse assistants during the COVID-19 crisis in long-term care facilities in Montreal, Quebec, Canada Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Saidou Sabi Boun, Gregory Moullec, Thomas Druetz
The COVID-19 pandemic in the Canadian province of Quebec has increased demand for labour in long-term care facilities, or ‘Centre d’hébergement de soins de longue durée (CHSLDs)’. This study explor...
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Engaging with communities and precarity theory to bring new perspectives to public mental health Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Heather Lynch, Caroline King
In this paper we explore the role of precarity theory in bringing new perspectives to public mental health. The paper draws on a qualitative, participatory research study carried out in Glasgow tha...
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Parallel vaccine discourses in Guinea: ‘grounding’ social listening for a non-hegemonic global health Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Leonardo W Heyerdahl, Frederic Le Marcis, ToTran Nguyen, Arsenii Alenichev, Bienvenu Salim Camara, Koen Peeters Grietens
Misinformation has been identified as a major threat to public confidence in vaccines, particularly during epidemics. As a response, social listening has become a popular and heuristic public healt...
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More than one crisis: COVID-19 response actors navigating multi-dimensional crises in Flanders, Belgium Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Tarun Kattumana, Leonardo W. Heyerdahl, ToTran Nguyen, Stef Dielen, Koen Peeters Grietens, Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Tamara Giles-Vernick, Heidi J. Larson, Nico Vandaele, Corinne Vandermeulen, Charlotte Gryseels, Carla Van Riet
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted societies globally. Public health institutions were tasked with responding to the pandemic in a dynamic and uncertain context. This paper sheds light on the expe...
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The law of diminishing returns? The challenge of using freedom of information legislation for health policy research Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Benjamin Hawkins, Eleanor Brooks, Rob Ralston, Kathrin Lauber, Nancy Karreman, Sarah Steele
Published in Critical Public Health (Vol. 33, No. 4, 2023)
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Problematising the emergence of outbreak science in the governance of global health: making time for slow dis-ease Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Kari Lancaster, Tim Rhodes
There is growing investment in the development of new methods, networks, and infrastructures of knowledge coordination to prepare for disease threats to come. ‘Outbreak science’ is an emerging fiel...
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Recovering political knowledge in public health: learning from sexual and reproductive health work Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Peter Keogh
Like many areas of public health, sexual and reproductive health is concerned with politically contentious matters such as abortion and LGBT+ rights. Global setbacks at the hands of the far right h...
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Surviving together: social cohesion and Covid-19 infections and mortality across the world Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Jimena Pacheco-Miranda, Sanchita Bakshi, Irene Van Staveren
Studies of the determinants of the spread and mortality of COVID-19 indicate that the quality of health care systems and government type and capacity have a negligent role in explaining the variati...
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“It’s different for heterosexuals”: exploring cis-heteronormativity in COVID-19 public health directives and its impacts on Canadian gay, bisexual, and queer men Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Emerich Daroya, Mark Gaspar, Cornel Grey, David Lessard, Ben Klassen, Shayna Skakoon-Sparling, Jad Sinno, Barry Adam, Amaya Perez-Brumer, Nathan J. Lachowsky, Jordan M. Sang, Trevor A. Hart, Joseph Cox, Darrell H.S. Tan, Daniel Grace
Critical scholarship has illustrated how COVID-19 public health policies can enact racism, classism, and cis-heteronormativity, perpetuating harms among vulnerable communities. We sought to examine...
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The Public-in-Waiting: Children’s representation and inclusion in Aotearoa New Zealand’s COVID-19 public health response Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Julie Spray, Samantha Samaniego
Scholars globally have noted children’s invisibility in public discourse about the COVID-19 pandemic, reflecting social constructions of childhood as a segregated and private world. Though children...
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E-cigarette flavours and vaping as a social practice: implications for tobacco control Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Mei-Ling Blank, Janet Hoek
E-liquid flavours are perhaps the most materially disruptive aspect of vaping compared with smoking, especially for people who smoke tobacco and who wish to quit. A better understanding of whether ...
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Do you see the problem? Visualising a generalised ‘complex local system’ of antibiotic prescribing across the United Kingdom using qualitative interview data Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Rebecca E. Glover, Nicholas B. Mays, Alec Fraser
ABSTRACT Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is often referred to as a complex problem embedded in a complex system. Despite this insight, interventions in AMR, and in particular in antibiotic prescribing, tend to be narrowly focused on the behaviour of individual prescribers using the tools of performance monitoring and management rather than attempting to bring about more systemic change. In this paper
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The quest for diffusible community health worker projects and the pitfalls of scaling culture Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Luis Aue, Tine Hanrieder
ABSTRACT Researchers of community health worker (CHW) models in many countries are looking for ways to scale without losing one of their main advantages, their context-sensitivity. This paper looks at one research strategy to make CHW projects scalable, namely by developing a generic notion of culture-sensitivity. Based on in-depth qualitative analysis, we reconstruct how ‘culture’ has been enshrined
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Changing school cultures for mental wellbeing in Hong Kong: the potential of pedagogic practices that take power into account Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 L. Tang, P. F. Tsui, Angie K. Y. Shum, W. G. Leung, Daniel W. M. Lung, P. S. Ng, Kenus P. Y. Leung, Paul S. F. Yip
ABSTRACT School-based programs are recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) to promote mental health for young people. However the effectiveness of such programs varies, and there are multi-level challenges to embedding mental health education in schools. Further, critical scholarship has focused on the ways in which such programs can contribute to neoliberal goals, rather than empowering
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“A change in the narrative, a change in consensus”: the role of Deep End networks in supporting primary care practitioners serving areas of blanket socioeconomic deprivation Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Josephine M Wildman, Sarah Sowden, Claire Norman
ABSTRACT England’s primary care crisis threatens the ability of general practice to play its role in the latest attempts to address the nation’s stubbornly persistent health inequalities. The primary care crisis is particularly acute in areas of blanket socioeconomic deprivation, where need is greatest. Deep End networks of general practitioners (GPs) are being established in the UK, and internationally
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Using Habermas’ theory of communicative action to transform sociological analyses of evidence-based policy Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Chris Bonell, G. J. Melendez-Torres
ABSTRACT Many sociological analyses of evidence-based policy frame it as contributing to the rationalisation of social relations, and being constructed through and implicated in systems of knowledge/power. These analyses are based on social theory placing insufficient emphasis on the emancipatory potential of evidence, and the possibility of rational adjudication of truth claims. We argue sociological
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Using discursive approaches to examine the utility and functions of language in public health and health promotion: highlighting social constructions of e-cigarettes Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Georgia Louise Wilson, Joseph Keenan, Lorna Porcellato, Ivan Gee, Brendan Gough, Sarah Grogan
ABSTRACT This article uses discursive approaches to examine the utility and functions of language in public health, focusing on social constructions of e-cigarettes. Due to the ambiguity surrounding the use of e-cigarettes, understanding may be negotiated collaboratively through co-construction in talk. Ten participants, three men and seven women aged 26–47 years, took part in two focus groups in Manchester
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Patient engagement in drug development: configuring a new resource for generating innovation Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Olga Zvonareva
This paper focuses on the recent interest in patient engagement (PE) in drug development, expressed in the growing number of calls for engagement, novel organizations dedicated to changing the cult...
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Can White allyship contribute to tackling ethnic inequalities in health? Reflections on the experiences of diverse young adults in England Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Stephanie Ejegi-Memeh, Sarah Salway, Victoria McGowan, Nazmy Villarroel-Williams, Sara Ronzi, Matt Egan, Katja Gravenhorst, Daniel Holman, Chiara Rinaldi
ABSTRACT Ethnic diversity and racism have not featured strongly in English research, policy or practice centred on understanding and addressing health inequalities. However, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement have shone fresh light on deep-rooted ethnic inequalities and mobilised large segments of the population into anti-racist demonstration. These recent developments suggest
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Evidence-based medicine and physicians’ institutional agency in Russian clinical settings Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Ekaterina Borozdina
ABSTRACT In 1990s’ Russia, a wave of internationalization brought an evidence-based medical paradigm to Russian healthcare. Whilst there has been considerable critical commentary on the consequences of adopting this paradigm for medical decision-making, much of this relates to specific contexts in Europe, north America and Australasia, with little research addressing post-Soviet clinical practice.
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Socialism as the way forward: updating a discourse analysis of the social determinants of health Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Dennis Raphael, Toba Bryant
ABSTRACT In 2011 Raphael identified seven discourses on the social determinants of health (SDH). These discourses ranged from ‘SDH as identifying those in need of health and social services’ to ‘SDH and their distribution result from the power and influence of those who create and benefit from health and social inequalities’. Developments since then have led us to identify an eighth: ‘SDH and their
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Weighing up the future: a meta-ethnography of household perceptions of the National Child Measurement Programme in England Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Meredith K. D. Hawking, Carol Dezateux, Deborah Swinglehurst
ABSTRACT The English National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) is a nationally mandated public health programme. It provides data for child excess weight indicators in the Public Health Outcomes Framework, part of the government’s approach to reducing childhood obesity. Drawing on a meta-ethnographic synthesis of household members’ experiences of the programme, we conceptualise the NCMP as a ‘technique
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Self-identified fat people’s understanding of the need for, and use of, long needles when being vaccinated against COVID-19: findings from a international online exploratory survey Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 George Parker, Cat Pausé, Ashlea Gillon, Lesley Gray
ABSTRACT This short report presents the findings of an online survey of self-identified fat people in eight countries identified as having guidelines for the use of long needles in SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination programmes. The survey captures fat people’s understanding of the need for, and knowledge about the use of, a long needle when being vaccinated against COVID-19. Our findings
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Getting to the heart of the matter: a research partnership with Aboriginal women in South and Central Australia Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Katharine McBride, Christine Franks, Vicki Wade, Veronica King, Janice Rigney, Nyunmiti Burton, Anna Dowling, Julie Anne Mitchell, Gisela Van Kessel, Natasha Howard, Catherine Paquet, Susan Hillier, Stephen J. Nicholls, Alex Brown
ABSTRACT Within the vast majority of qualitative health research involving Indigenous populations, Indigenous people have been marginalised from research conceptualisation and conduct. This reflects a lack of regard for Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing, has served to perpetuate deficit narratives of Indigenous peoples’ health and wellbeing, and contributes to failure in addressing inequities
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Towards a theoretically grounded, social democratic public health Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Ewen Speed, Lindsay McLaren
Published in Critical Public Health (Vol. 32, No. 5, 2022)
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Policing and public health interventions into sex workers’ lives: necropolitical assemblages and alternative visions of social justice Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Pippa Grenfell, Rachel Stuart, Janet Eastham, Aisling Gallagher, Jocelyn Elmes, Lucy Platt, Maggie O’Neill
ABSTRACT While extensive literature documents how criminalisation harms sex workers’ health and rights, limited research has critically examined how interactions between criminal-justice, health, and other systems shape support and justice for and by people who sell sex. We attend to this question by drawing on participatory, qualitative research with a diverse group of sex workers and other stakeholders
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RELATIVES//Risks or, I am not your data: Ode to Delphrine’s walk, pt. II Crit. Public Health (IF 3.265) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Ryan Petteway
Published in Critical Public Health (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2023)