Vol. 3 No. 2 (2026)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.55016/swgthr27

Published: 2026-03-27

Editorial

Bait and switches in academic publishing

Kirsten Bell

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Articles

Becoming embedded: A process evaluation of weight management services developed with, not for, communities

Hannah Newman, Louca-Mai Brady, Elspeth Mathie, Kathryn Almack, Wendy Wills

5-21
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Continuity of biopolitics in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia: What policy documents can tell us

Olga Temina, Olga Zvonareva, Klasien Horstman

22-37
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Synthetic certainization in medical controversy: Evidence synthesis, NICE recommendations and the drug-device complex in stroke prevention

Gowree Balendran, John Abraham

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Excess mortality in England and Scotland in 2022: The long shadow of austerity and the return to an unacceptable pre-pandemic baseline

Daniel R. R. Bradford, Denise Brown, Gerry McCartney, Margaret Douglas, Ruth Dundas, David Walsh

57-76
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Commentary

Is there a place for hope in the imagined future of public health? A commentary building on Freire’s sociology of hope.

Paul Ward, Belinda Lunnay

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Research & Practice Notes

Challenges of researching racism in healthcare

Hannah Bradby, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Beth Maina Ahlberg, Sarah Hamed

85-91
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