The future of regional airports in Australia: Policy challenges
Abstract Council‐owned regional airports in Australia face governance challenges that have caused significant financial unsustainability across the sector. Federal policy frameworks fail to address these challenges and risk exacerbating existing pressures by outlining ambitious visions for the adoption of new technologies and achieving net zero.
Linda Wasiela +2 more
wiley +1 more source
When Thriving for More Collapses the System: The Academic Reproduction of Uncaring Structures
Abstract This essay argues that the widening gap between aspirational aims and visionary orientations and the prevailing practices in neoliberal academia stems from deeper, historically rooted, market‐based logics shaping our institutions, increasingly governed by economic values and academic subjectivities therein.
Lara Pecis, Florian Bauer
wiley +1 more source
Ethnic Minority Representation After the 2024 General Election: Does Ethnicity No Longer Matter?
Abstract With a new record of ethnic minority MPs elected in 2024, Westminster is nearly fully representative of voters of ethnic minority origins. This outcome was not entirely dependent on Labour's landslide, with pre‐election analyses showing that diversity of MPs would have improved with all possible election results.
Maria Sobolewska
wiley +1 more source
Policy Points Negative vicarious health care experiences circulating within communities can significantly erode systemic trust, while positive experiences can help rebuild it. Health systems should actively monitor the narratives circulating within distinct community networks, treating patterns of negative shared experiences as early signals of eroding
SILVIA CANNAS, MARIA CUCCINIELLO
wiley +1 more source
The Carceral Shadow: Criminal Justice as a Determinant of Health and Challenges for Policymakers
Policy Points The criminal justice system functions as a primary social determinant of health in the United States, generating disproportionate physical, psychological, and chronic health burdens on Black communities and other marginalized groups. Policing structural barriers—including qualified immunity, police union contracts, and municipal financing
RASHAWN RAY, KEON GILBERT
wiley +1 more source
State Choices, Unequal Access: Policies Shaping Reproductive Health Care Across the United States
Policy Points State policies and programs play an outsized role in shaping availability and access to sexual and reproductive health services across the nation. This has a major impact on women's access to contraception, abortion, and maternity services.
ALINA SALGANICOFF +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Policy Points Community organizers addressing health issues use narrative strategy to shift public attitudes, build support for health‐affirming policies, and motivate collective action. Through a mixed methods research partnership with a power‐building organization, we evaluate how narrative power is leveraged to disrupt dominant ideas about the ...
YUSRA MURAD +5 more
wiley +1 more source
US Life Expectancy and Increasing Mortality Rates: An Analysis of the Crisis
Policy Points US life expectancy is shorter than in other high‐income countries and the gap has widened dramatically over time, driven in particular by rising mortality rates that threaten the probability that youth can survive to middle age, or even adulthood.
STEVEN H. WOOLF
wiley +1 more source
Stigma as a Social Determinant of Health: A Policy Classification Framework and Call to Action
Policy Points Stigma functions as a social determinant of health (SDOH), producing population health inequities through resource deprivation, social exclusion, constrained health care, physiological stress, and diminished agency—yet it lacks formal SDOH classification.
LISA CARTER‐BAWA
wiley +1 more source
Re-envisioning, Retooling, and Rebuilding Prevention Science Methods to Address Structural and Systemic Racism and Promote Health Equity. [PDF]
Murry VM +8 more
europepmc +1 more source

