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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"public health discourse"”.
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Yellow, in Peril: How public health discourse on tuberculosis (TB) reveals, refines, and reinforces the racial stigmatization of Asian Americans
In this paper, I argue that while public health discourse on tuberculosis may reveal existent epidemiological trends in and among particular social groups, the discursive framing of this data unnecessarily racializes the disease. More specifically, public health discourse uses frameworks of …
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Turning the light on : the negotiation and representation of condom use
… to social inequalities, and examining how public health discourse is taken up and reformulated in everyday talk about sex. It takes a feminist, discursive rhetorical approach, combining this with an exploration of how particular discourses about condom use can be understood to be …
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Mass Political Discourse During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach
… and social media, specifically complicating public health initiatives to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus and generally affirming the potentially toxic "post-truth" paradigms of the social media era. This pandemic provides an opportunity for observing counterproductive discourses from …
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A safer and more civilized country : gun control, public health, and the state monopoly on force
… aspects of the idea that gun ownership is a "public health problem". The strategy is to reinterpret modern public health in terms of its relationship to the modern State. Public health is located in a milieu of beliefs and values associated with discourses on "civilization" and the "social …
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TALKING ABOUT 'PUBLIC HEALTH' An exploration of the public health roles of primary care practitioners in England
… since 1997, have placed a strong emphasis on public health and the reduction of health inequalities. Alongside this, they have progressed a major reform of the NHS which aims to 'shift the balance of power' to the frontline. Primary care is an increasingly important aspect of the Government's …
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What are we missing? a qualitative exploration of sexual agency and the related behaviours of AGYW in two HIV interventions in South Africa.
… for AGYW in the world. Methods: I used Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to conduct a document review of programmatic documents of the two interventions outlining specific details of the background of the programme, its programme design, implementation, service delivery and monitoring and …
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Constructing UK obesity policy: discourse, framing, and politics
… system, and the production and promotion of less healthy, heavily processed foods pose significant public health challenges. Decades of economic policies that have enabled the concentration of food production and retail among a small number of large, multinational corporations, and the powerful …
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Water fluoridation: A contest of control; An analysis of social discourses in the New Zealand fluoride debate
… addition of an artificial fluoride compound to public drinking water supplies. This is done under the scientific principle that fluoride, ingested in small amounts, results in significant improvement in the incidence of tooth decay. Dental health remains a major issue for much of the New Zealand …