We have a winner! Best article award on “Market-driven forces and public health”
International Journal of Public Health
by International Journal of Public Health
3y ago
We are happy to announce the winner of our recent call for paper on Market-driven forces and Public Health. Congratulations to the first author Adriana Ardila-Sierra and her co-author César Abadía-Barrero for their paper “Medical labour under neoliberalism: an ethnographic study in Colombia” and you can access it for free here. Adriana Ardila-Sierra was born in Bogotá, Colombia. She holds a Medical Doctor and Master and Ph.D. degrees in Public Health from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. You can read more information about her here. The runner up of the competition is the paper entitled ..read more
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IJPH to soon become open access!
International Journal of Public Health
by International Journal of Public Health
4y ago
The news is already out since May 1st…but we are excited not to reshare them! What changes? As you might have read, we will be transitioning to a Gold Open Access model from 1st January 2021. That means that all IJPH published articles will be immediately free to access, read and download for all. Yay! At the same time, we will be moving from Springer Nature to Frontiers. More information on dates, fees and processes will follow soon! What stays the same? The Swiss School of Public Health + is still the owner of IJPH and we will be proudly be celebrating together! SSPH+ is celebrating their 1 ..read more
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Words matter! Social versus spatial distancing
International Journal of Public Health
by International Journal of Public Health
4y ago
“Social distancing” is a term that most of us have not used or given it a second thought until recently. Nowadays, it seems every second phrase we use or hear is that. Social distancing during shopping. Social distancing while we stroll through a forest. Social distancing in everything. It has become such a common term to use that many of us might not even given a second thought about what exactly the “social” part of the phrase means or refers to. We recently published an editorial by Thomas Abel and David McQueen on the need to emphasise spatial instead of social distancing and to promote s ..read more
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Meet the (new) Editor: Vasilis Nittas!
International Journal of Public Health
by International Journal of Public Health
4y ago
We are happy to host an interview with Vasilis Nittas, the new Editor in Chief of our Young Researcher Editorials (YRE) series! Any comments? Share them below or directly with Vasilis on twitter ( @vasilis_nittas) Tell us a bit about yourself! I am Vasilis; Greek, or German (depending on the context and my mood), but mostly a healthy Greek-German mix. I am a (very) keen traveler, often solo and with a respectable level of sensation (I have been to North Korea), and passionate advocate social equity and LGBTQ+ rights. I love writing; academically or not – and even more so while traveling ..read more
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A journey of the Young Researcher Editorials
International Journal of Public Health
by International Journal of Public Health
4y ago
This post is written by Apolline Saucy. Apolline is a PhD candidate in environmental epidemiology at SwissTPH. Her research focuses on the health effects of aircraft noise in Switzerland. In parallel, she contributes to the creation of new air pollution models in Switzerland. This research area allows her to work with many different data sources and to look at health issues from a geographical perspective. Two years ago, the IJPH “Young Researcher Editorials” (YRE) series was born from a concept imagined by Mahmoud Hassan, first Editor in Chief. I was lucky enough to be part of th ..read more
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Call for papers – submit for your chance to win an award!
International Journal of Public Health
by International Journal of Public Health
4y ago
We are happy to announce a call for papers (and an award* for the best one!) on market-driven forces and public health. The call relates to the 4th Latin American Public Health Meeting that will be held from 5th to 7th August 2020 in Cali, Colombia. Successful submissions will be published online by the start of the meeting. The best submission will receive USD 500 as well as permanent free online access. You can find all the information and related deadlines here Please send your abstracts as soon as possible and no later than October 31st 2019! On behalf of our Editor Lyda Oso ..read more
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Meet the Editor! Interview with Olaf von dem Knesebeck
International Journal of Public Health
by International Journal of Public Health
4y ago
We are happy to host an interview with our new Editor in Chief, Professor Dr. Olaf von dem Knesebeck. If you have any messages for him, comment below and we’ll make sure he gets them! Tell us a bit about yourself and your background I am a sociologist and the director of the Institute of Medical Sociology at the University Medical Center Hamburg, Germany. My research interests are social determinants of health and health care (especially socioeconomic position, social relations, gender, migration), stigma, prevention, evaluation research, international comparisons, and survey research ..read more
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