Vol. 3 No. 1 (2026)

Competing Narratives in Decentred Health Systems. Special Issue of Journal of Critical Public Health with Guest Editors Katherine Smith, Justin Waring, and Mark Bevir.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.55016/ojs/jcph.v3i1

Published: 2026-01-23

Editorial

Decentring health systems: Narratives, agency and resistance in critical public health

Mark Bevir, Katherine Smith, Justin Waring

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Articles

An interpretive discourse network analysis of post-pandemic economic recovery across EU institutions

Charlotte Godziewski, Tim Henrichsen

7-23
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Unpacking the ideas that shape the health policy process: A genealogy of the EU’s Better Regulation agenda

Eleanor Brooks

24-39
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The post-politics of partnership: Understanding corporate power in multistakeholder governance

Rob Ralston

40-56
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Negotiating the dilemmas of health system governance: A decentred analysis of integrating care systems

Justin Waring, Simon Bishop, Bridget Roe

57-72
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Disrupted rituals and relational ruptures: A decentred approach to integrated working in the English National Health Service

Jenelle Clarke

73-86
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‘You tried your best, but we suffered enormously’: A decentred analysis of the contested narratives surrounding COVID-19 policy implementation in the British prison system

Laura Sheard, Lucy Wainwright, Sarah Senker, Paula Harriott, Krysia Canvin

87-102
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Housing as a social determinant of health: System perspectives from lived experience, policy and evidence

Lisa Garnham, Katherine Smith, Ellen Stewart, Clementine Hill O'Connor

103-122
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Articulating place: Towards a conjunctural analysis of public health

Colin Lorne, Michael Lambert

123-139
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