Announcements

  • Volume 4

    2016-01-09

    CFP – “Health’s Borders”, Health Tomorrow, Volume 4 (2016)

    Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2016

    Borders are constructed to regulate the movement of people, resources, and information, as well as to structure and appraise different forms of knowledge. They can also be used to isolate the causes of adverse health effects, protect equitable standards, recognize different health needs, and preserve the right to self-determination and privacy.

    The creation and maintenance of borders is key to shaping individual access to health services, the nature and costs of these services, the power dynamics involved in their provision, and the political categories that structure our understandings of health.

    Recent examples of how the creation of borders has affected health access and outcomes include calls to ban refugees over concerns of contagious illnesses; the Trans-Pacific Partnership and its impact on the pharmaceutical industry; the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the travel restrictions that ensued; the refusing of blood donations from men who have sex with men; shifts from hospital births to home births; and Japan’s requirement that all visa applicants test negative for HIV.

    In view of these heightened concerns, the fourth volume of Health Tomorrow seeks to gather research that addresses how various forms of borders in health are brought into being, structured, legitimated, shifted, contested, and crossed, as well as their implications.

    Possible topics may include but are in no way limited to:

    • regimes of health: health as coercion, monitoring, and control.
    • barriers to access: discrimination in service provision and structuring
    • borders around health professions and disciplines: “scientific” vs. “non-scientific medicine”
    • legitimacy / social epistemology: who decides what counts as health knowledge?
    • guarding geographical borders: epidemics, travel, and migration
    • borders and free trade
    • technologies that break down or maintain barriers to health services
    • borders between health service providers and recipients and between institutionalized operations and everyday life
    • borders within demography (race, age, gender, class, and sexuality, among other identity markers)
    • borders between research and practice that require knowledge translation

    Please send completed manuscripts to htii@yorku.ca by May 15th

     

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  • Welcome to Volume 3: Health Equity

    2015-12-12

    We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 3 of Health Tomorrow: Interdisciplinarity and Internationality (HTII).

    The theme for this volume is Health Equity and authors approach this topic from a number of disciplinary perspectives, engaging with current issues in areas such as health care delivery, environmental degradation, and perceptions of health.    

    The link to the online journal can be found here

    http://ht.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/ht/issue/view/2302/showToc

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  • Health Tomorrow Volume 3 (2015)

    2015-08-26

    The call for submissions for Volume 3 is now closed.

    We thank all authors who submitted for this volume. The peer-review process is now underway and all authors will be contacted in September.

    Please stay tuned for the call for submissions for Volume 4, which will be circulated and posted on our website in November. In the meantime, interested authors are invited to write us at htii@yorku.ca for more information or to discuss potential submissions. 

    Sincerely,

    The Health Tomorrow Editorial Team

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  • Health Tomorrow Volume 3 (2015)

    2015-04-01

    The Health Tomorrow journal is now accepting article submissions for its third volume from graduate students, as well as from researchers and practitioners with a keen interest in health and health-related issues until June 30th 2015.

     

    The theme of Volume 3 is Health Equity and we seek manuscripts dealing with the differentiation of health and healthcare across populations. We welcome insights from empirical, theoretical, and practical perspectives that address health disparities within social contexts. We give particular emphasis tothe socially mediated dynamics between identity and health.

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