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ArticleCanadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2024

Economic policy and public health: Insights from the history of the Canadian Journal of Public Health.

Lindsay McLaren, Eric Mykhalovskiy

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Article in Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Well-being approaches in public health … what's new?Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026
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  2. Income inequality and life expectancy in Canada: New evidence from province-level panel regression, 1996-2019.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2025
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  3. The roads not yet taken: 50 years after Lalonde, where does Public Health go from here?Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2025
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  6. Public health can no longer fence-sit politically.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Lindsay McLarenUniversity of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. lmclaren@ucalgary.ca.
Eric MykhalovskiyYork University, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nearly 115-year history of the Canadian Journal of Public Health (CJPH) provides an important opportunity to reflect on and learn from our past. In response to an invitation to members of the CJPH Editorial Board to curate historical articles around a theme, we undertook a historical examination of our field's engagement, as gleaned through the pages of CJPH, with economic policy. This was inspired by the now well-established connections among political economic policy, population well-being, and health equity. Our analysis of six historical volumes (1917, 1933, 1941, 1961, 1995, and 2013) led to three key findings. First, we found only a slim historical foundation for public health engagement with the economy overall. Second, we observed a strong and seemingly subconscious allegiance to dominant economic paradigms, despite their incompatibility with root causes of health inequities. Third, even though socio-economic inequalities in health are a long-standing preoccupation of CJPH authors, those inequalities are consistently and curiously divorced from their roots in political economic systems. Our findings provide a historical foundation for thinking about how our public health community could be encouraged to engage constructively towards an economic system that supports, rather than obstructs, population well-being and health equity.

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Periodicals as TopicPublic HealthCanadaHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHumansPublic PolicyEconomicsEquityHistoryPolicyPublic health

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PMID39436542
PMCPMC11535091

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