Morgan, Julia ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-7593 and La Placa, Vincent (2025) Chapter 1. Introduction. In: Morgan, Julia ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-7593 and La Placa, Vincent, (eds.) Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Care Policy and Practice: A Comparative Introduction. Routledge - Taylor and Francis Group, London, UK. ISBN 978-1032381237; 978-1003343608 (In Press)

Morgan, Julia ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-7593 and La Placa, Vincent (2025) Chapter 17. Loneliness. In: Morgan, Julia ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-7593 and La Placa, Vincent, (eds.) Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Care Policy and Practice: A Comparative Introduction. Routledge - Taylor and Francis Group, London, UK. ISBN 978-1032381237; 978-1003343608 (In Press)

Morgan, Julia ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-7593 and La Placa, Vincent (2025) Chapter 18. Conclusion: Comparative perspectives on health and social care policy and practice across OECD countries. In: Morgan, Julia ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-7593 and La Placa, Vincent, (eds.) Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Care Policy and Practice: A Comparative Introduction. Routledge - Taylor and Francis Group, London, UK. ISBN 978-1032381237; 978-1003343608 (In Press)

La Placa, Vincent and Hackett, Lotta (2025) Chapter 2. Theories of social policy and welfare states. In: Morgan, Julia ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-7593 and La Placa, Vincent, (eds.) Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Care Policy and Practice: A Comparative Introduction. Routledge - Taylor and Francis Group, London, UK. ISBN 978-1032381237; 978-1003343608 (In Press)

La Placa, Vincent (2025) Chapter 4. Towards a definitional framework of wellbeing in health and social care research, policy, and practice. In: Morgan, Julia ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-7593 and La Placa, Vincent, (eds.) Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Care Policy and Practice: A Comparative Introduction. Routledge - Taylor and Francis Group, London, UK. ISBN 978-1032381237; 978-1003343608 (In Press)

Morgan, Julia ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-7593 and La Placa, Vincent (eds.) (2025) Contemporary issues in health and social care policy and practice: a comparative introduction. Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK. ISBN 978-1032381237; 978-1003343608 (In Press)

Morgan, Julia ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-7593 and La Placa, Vincent (2023) Loneliness is a major public health problem – and young people are bearing the brunt of it. The Conversation:218391. ISSN 2201-5639

La Placa, Vincent, Reiss, Lisa-Marie, Morgan, Julia ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-7593 and Jeavons, Charlotte (2023) Perceptions of COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy and health messages among undergraduate students. International Public Health Journal, 15 (2). pp. 187-196. ISSN 1947-4989 (Online)

La Placa, Vincent and Knight, Anneyce (2022) Globalisation and global public health. In: La Placa, Vincent and Morgan, Julia ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-7593 , (eds.) Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health. Routledge, London, pp. 17-28. ISBN 978-0367652098

La Placa, Vincent and Morgan, Julia ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-7593 (2022) Public health, theory, and application to policy and practice. In: La Placa, Vincent and Morgan, Julia ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-7593 , (eds.) Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health. Routledge, London, pp. 5-17. ISBN 978-0367652098

La Placa, Vincent and Morgan, Julia ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-7593 (eds.) (2022) Social science perspectives on global public health. Routledge - Taylor & Francis, London. ISBN 978-0367652098; 978-1003128373

La Placa, Vincent and Morgan, Julia ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-7593 (2022) The social construction of loneliness and global public health. In: La Placa, Vincent and Morgan, Julia ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-7593 , (eds.) Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health. Routledge, London, pp. 189-198. ISBN 978-0367652098

La Placa, Vincent and Knight, Anneyce (2017) The emergence of wellbeing in late modern capitalism: Theory, research and policy responses. International Journal of Social Science Studies, 5 (3). ISSN 2324-8033 (Print), 2324-8041 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v5i3.2207)

La Placa, Vincent and Smith, David (2016) The health and wellbeing of gypsies and travellers in settled housing: A narrative review of the evidence and policy. International Journal of Social Science Studies, 4 (9). pp. 87-96. ISSN 2324-8033 (Print), 2324-8041 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v4i9.1812)

Gritton, Jim, Stewart, Jill ORCID: 0000-0002-3031-8082 , Jeavons, Charlotte, Mehmet, Nevin and La Placa, Vincent (2016) Movies in the classroom: Lessons for curriculum design. Compass: Journal of Learning and Teaching, 8 (12). ISSN 2044-0073 (Print), 2044-0081 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.21100/compass.v8i12.272)

La Placa, Vincent and Corlyon, Judy (2015) Unpacking the relationship between parenting and poverty: Theory, evidence and policy. Social Policy and Society, 15 (1). pp. 11-28. ISSN 1474-7464 (Print), 1475-3073 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746415000111)

Gritton, James, Jeavons, C., Mehmet, Nevin, La Placa, Vincent and Stewart, Jill ORCID: 0000-0002-3031-8082 (2015) Movies in the classroom: lessons for curriculum design. In: SHIFT 2015: Sparking Ideas: Sharing Educational Innovation, 9 January 2015, Greenwich.

Knight, Anneyce, La Placa, Vincent and McNaught, Allan (eds.) (2014) Wellbeing: Policy and practice. Lantern Publishing Ltd., Banbury, UK. ISBN 9781908625229

La Placa, V. and Knight, A. (2014) Response to Dr Alain Braillon. Public Health, 128 (7). p. 679. ISSN 0033-3506 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2014.04.008)

La Placa, V. and Knight, A. (2014) Well-being: its influence and local impact on public health. Public Health, 128 (1). pp. 38-42. ISSN 0033-3506 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2013.09.017)

La Placa, Vincent and Corlyon, Judy (2014) Barriers to inclusion and successful engagement of parents in mainstream services: evidence and research. Journal of Children's Services, 9 (3). pp. 220-234. ISSN 1746-6660 (Print), 2042-8677 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1108/JCS-05-2014-0027)

La Placa, Vincent and Corlyon, Judy (2013) Social tourism and organised capitalism: research, policy and practice. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 6 (1). pp. 66-79. ISSN 1940-7963 (Print), 1940-7971 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2013.833934)

La Placa, Vincent, McVey, Dominic, MacGregor, Ewen, Smith, Amy and Scott, Malcolm (2013) The contribution of qualitative research to the Healthy Foundations life-stage segmentation. Critical Public Health, 24 (3). pp. 266-282. ISSN 0958-1596 (Print), 1469-3682 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2013.797068)

Knight, Anneyce and La Placa, Vincent (2013) Healthy Universities: taking the University of Greenwich Healthy Universities Initiative forward. International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, 51 (1). pp. 41-49. ISSN 1463-5240 (Print), 2164-9545 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2012.738877)

La Placa, Vincent, McNaught, Allan and Knight, Anneyce (2013) Discourse on wellbeing in research and practice. International Journal of Wellbeing, 3 (1). pp. 116-125. ISSN 1179-8602 (doi:https://doi.org/10.5502/ijw.v3i1.7)

Smith, Amy, Humphreys, Simon, Heslington, Lorna, La Placa, Vincent, McVey, Dominic and MacGregor, Ewen (2011) The healthy foundations life-stage segmentation. Research report no. 2: The qualitative analysis of the motivation segments. Project Report. Department of Health, London, UK.