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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="#993300" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Critical Perspectives in Public Health</span></font></b></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Judith Green, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK and Ronald Labonte, University of Ottawa, Canada
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This book explores the concept of 'critical' public health, at a point when many of its core concerns appear to have moved to the mainstream of health policy. Issues such as addressing health inequalities and their socioeconomic determinants, and the inclusion of public voices in policy-making, are now emerging as key policy aims for health systems across Europe and North America.
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Combining analytical introductory chapters, edited versions of influential articles from the journal
<i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Critical Public Health</span></i> and specially commissioned review articles, this volume examines the contemporary roles of 'critical voices' in public health research and practice from a range of disciplines and contexts. The book covers many of the pressing concerns for public health practitioners and researchers including:
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><i><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Critical Perspectives in Public Health
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>1. </span></font><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">social inequalities; </span>
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evidence for practice; </span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>3. </span></font><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
globalization; </span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>4. </span></font><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
technologies and the environment. </span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">By Judith Green and Ronald Labonté</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ronald Labonte - Presentations </span></font></b></strong><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2">
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<font color="#333399"><span style="COLOR: #333399">Domestic Politics and Global Health: Getting Inside the Black Box of G8 Policies?</span></font></a> with Ted Schrecker and David Sanders, International Association of Sociology Conference 2007, pp/ 1-30.
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<font color="#333399"><span style="COLOR: #333399">Globalization and social determinants of health: A diagnostic overview and agenda for innovation</span></font></a>, with Ted Schrecker, Prepared for WIDER Conference on Advancing Health Equity, Helsinki, 29-30 Sept 2006.
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ronald Labonté, Canada Research Chair, Globalization/Health Equity, Institute of Population Health
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