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New online first publication - for forthcoming special issue on 'Desirable/Undesirable Futures' - Claire Wendland on the unintended consequences of decision aids in #obstetric care. #metrics #maternalhealth #publichealth journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
Predictive tools in maternal health: Making futures for patients and populations | Journal of Critical Public Health journalhosting.ucalgary.caThis is a much-needed initiative to ensure a sustainable future for #diamondOA journals. Academics: if you care about a healthy, non-commercialised journal infrastructure, see if your library is supporting this!
Open Journals CollectiveWe're 61% of the way there! But we need the support of more libraries to get to 100% - please come and join the @ojcollective.bsky.social community! Have questions or want to arrange a video call? DM us, email info@openjournalscollective.org or visit openjournalscollective.org.
Solidarity with Editorial team of Semantics of Natural Languages, who left Springer Nature (pushing them to publish more papers) to retain academic control over journal. Authors: please, when considering where you submit/review, do support #diamondOA community-owned journals when you are able!
Open Library of HumanitiesOLH Interview with Semantics of Natural Languages Our Editorial Officer, @maddiesinclair.bsky.social, speaks with the SNL editors about their move to #diamondOA, community-led publishing, and leaving Springer Nature to launch SNL with OLH. Read full interview: www.openlibhums.org/news/977/
New online-first publication: Iveoma Udevi-Aruevoru on how LiST shapes the possibilities of intervention in child and maternal health #ReproHealth #maternalhealth journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
‘Imaginative captivity’ in modeling future maternal and child health outcomes: A critical analysis of the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) | Journal of Critical Public Health journalhosting.ucalgary.caNew online Research & Practice Note: Victory Angeli on what motivates young adults to get involved in advocacy journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
Diversifying outreach: Key practices for recruiting youth from equity-seeking communities into North American mental health advocacy movements | Journal of Critical Public Health journalhosting.ucalgary.caDo less 'behaviouralist' health promotion programs just offer more ways to fail? New paper online first from Mathilde Laursen & Sara Offersen journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
Lifestyle as living, or lifestyle as health behavior? A Danish case study of the contradictions and entanglements of contemporary health promotion in practice | Journal of Critical Public He...journalhosting.ucalgary.caNew online - Robert Lorway on 'crisis futurities' #STIs #publichealth journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
Crisis futurities in pathogen-responder relations in Kenya: A genealogical approach | Journal of Critical Public Health journalhosting.ucalgary.caWe agree: our mass resignation from a commercial publisher enabled us to carve a crucial space in scholarly publishing, controlled by the academic community, for the academic community. It's not about IFs.
Samuel MooreIt's easy to be sniffy about the impact of editorial board resignations on publishing but collective action in higher education is actually pretty rare and should be actively supported where possible.
New online first: Research & Practice note from Anne Trolard & colleagues describing 'hyperlocal' engagements needed for equitable vaccine program roll outs journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
‘Our Community Our Health St. Louis’: Learning from COVID-19 vaccine outreach | Journal of Critical Public Health journalhosting.ucalgary.caNew paper online first - Simon Pemberton, Mark Lucherini & Hannah Smith on 'sense of place' and smoking #publichealth journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
The importance of sense of place for understanding health-related behaviours | Journal of Critical Public Health journalhosting.ucalgary.caNew online first paper: Ally Brown on how the politics of devolution shape 'health inequalities' narratives in policy journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
Framing health inequalities to tell political stories: Devolution makes the difference | Journal of Critical Public Health journalhosting.ucalgary.caExcellent new paper from Emily Claypool & Aaron Neiman just out! Ethnographic insights from trials to critique the 'absorption' of institutional logics in implementation science journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
‘What are we doing here?’: Implementation science and the politics of research as context | Journal of Critical Public Health journalhosting.ucalgary.caLatest issue 3(2) now out! Read, download, share with your colleagues - and please do make sure they all know that JCPH is THE diamond #OA community owned-critical #publicheatlh journal. journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2026) | Journal of Critical Public Health journalhosting.ucalgary.caNew paper: Daniel Bradford, Denise Brown, @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social & colleagues identify austerity as well as COVID to blame for excess mortality journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
Excess mortality in England and Scotland in 2022: The long shadow of austerity and the return to an unacceptable pre-pandemic baseline | Journal of Critical Public Health journalhosting.ucalgary.caNew paper: Gowree Balendran & John Abraham's case study of how industry & regulatory system can curtail uncertainty in med technology journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
Synthetic certainization in medical controversy: Evidence synthesis, NICE recommendations and the drug-device complex in stroke prevention | Journal of Critical Public Health journalhosting.ucalgary.caHad a declined paper 'referred' to a 'sister' journal recently? Kirsten Bell reflects on 'bait & switch' in a new editorial journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
Bait and switches in academic publishing | Journal of Critical Public Health journalhosting.ucalgary.caNew paper! Published online first from @tamar-antin.bsky.social and colleagues: on drivers of inequalities in rural tobacco use journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
Drivers of rural inequities in nicotine and tobacco use: A qualitative study of emerging and early established adults in California’s North State in the USA | Journal of Critical Public Heal...journalhosting.ucalgary.caThis launch last week was fantastic news for the future of scholarly publishing, with hundreds of #diamondopenaccess journals listed - check them out at www.openjournalscollective.org/catalogue/ @cphjournal.bsky.social is proud to be included.
www.openjournalscollective.orgOpen Journals CollectiveWe've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...
Now out! Special Issue 'Competing Narratives in Decentred Health Systems', guest edited by @profkatsmith.bsky.social, Justin Waring & Mark Bevir, and PACKED with great papers from leading authors applying decentred theory to key issues in #publichealth journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2026) | Journal of Critical Public Health journalhosting.ucalgary.ca