Multimodality: Examining Visual Representations of Dementia in Public Health Discourse

2021 ◽  
pp. 241-269
Author(s):  
Gavin Brookes ◽  
Emma Putland ◽  
Kevin Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Public Health Discourse ◽  
Health Discourse

The history and promise of holism in health promotion

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 824-832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Michaelson ◽  
William Pickett ◽  
Colleen Davison
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
Public Health Discourse ◽  
Health Discourse

AbstractHolism is an ancient theme concept that has resurfaced in recent literature, and that requires informed and intentional use in order to preserve its utility. This paper provides a historical and conceptual reintroduction of the notion of holism as it relates to health, with the hopes of informing the term's use in public health discourse. It also addresses the challenges that a lack of conceptual clarity about holistic health imposes on public health and health promotion discussions. It describes how the use and conceptualizations of holism are shifting in health promotion and argues that failing to accurately define and delineate its scope risks diluting its utility for future health promotion applications. We address these two problems, and build an argument for a rediscovery of the theory of holism in public health and health promotion, globally.

scholarly journals Normal Island: COVID-19, Border Control, and Viral Nationalism in UK Public Health Discourse

2021 ◽  
pp. 136078042110494
Author(s):  
Des Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Border Control ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Public Health Discourse ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Health Discourse ◽  
The Relationship

In this contribution, I present emergent analysis of a preoccupation with managing COVID-19 through border control, among non-Governmental public health actors and commentators. Through a reading of statements, tweets, and interviews from the ‘Independent Sage’ group – individually and collectively – I show how the language of border control, and of maintaining immunity within the national boundaries of the UK, has been a notable theme in the group’s analysis. To theorize this emphasis, I draw comparison with the phenomenon of ‘green nationalism’, in which the urgency of climate action has been turned to overtly nationalistic ends; I sketch the outlines of what I call ‘viral nationalism,’ a political ecology that understands the pandemic as an event occurring differentially between nation states, and thus sees pandemic management as, inter alia, a work of involuntary detention at securitized borders. I conclude with some general remarks on the relationship between public health, immunity, and national feeling in the UK.

scholarly journals "No Silver Bullet Solution": Cruel Optimism and Canada’s COVID-19 Public Health Messages

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Holmes ◽  
Udo Krautwurst ◽  
Kate Graham ◽  
Victoria Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Affective Response ◽  
Health Messages ◽  
Public Health Messages ◽  
Public Health Discourse ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
Health Discourse ◽  
Silver Bullet ◽  
Interaction Balance

Science twines through many of the discussions related to hope for a return to normalcy within public discussions of COVID‑19. The framings of techno-scientific solutions for COVID‑19 are similar to those that are presented to address many societal problems. The messy scientific and regulatory underpinnings of this desired silver bullet rarely make it fully into view. Technoscientific-related hope and its associated affects can operate as a kind of “cruel optimism” (Berlant 2010, 2011). It can be an affective response to return to life as “normal” that is psychologically soothing, even as its enactment may replicate destructive social, political, and economic structures. Hope and technoscience thread throughout the interactions between journalists and health officials in the health press briefings in the first wave of the COVID‑19 pandemic. Technoscientific complexity that challenges the desire to return to normal is rarely brought up in Ontario and Nova Scotia public health briefings. But when it is, health officials in this zone of interaction balance explanations of scientific reality and caution, while attempting to not crush hope for a techno-scientifically mediated return to normal. As such, public health discourse obscures or tempers cruel optimism rather than directly confronting it.

scholarly journals Strengthening health promotion practice: capacity development for a transdisciplinary field

2021 ◽  
pp. 175797592110617
Author(s):  
Stephan Van den Broucke
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Organizational Capacity ◽  
Capacity Development ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Prevention And Health Promotion ◽  
Public Health Discourse ◽  
Complementary Nature ◽  
Health Discourse

The growing burden of non-communicable and newly emerging communicable diseases, multi-morbidity, increasing health inequalities, the health effects of climate change and natural disasters and the revolution in communication technology require a shift of focus towards more preventive, people-centred and community-based health services. This has implications for the health workforce, which needs to develop new capacities and skills, many of which are at the core of health promotion. Health promotion is thus being mainstreamed into modern public health. For health promotion, this offers both opportunities and challenges. A stronger focus on the enablers of health enhances the strategic importance of health promotion’s whole-of-society approach to health, showcases the achievements of health promotion with regard to core professional competencies, and helps build public health capacity with health promotion accents. On the other hand, mainstreaming health promotion can weaken its organizational capacity and visibility, and bears the risk of it being absorbed into a traditional public health discourse dominated by medical professions. To address these challenges and grasp the opportunities, it is essential for the health promotion workforce to position itself within the diversifying primary care and public health field. Taking the transdisciplinary status of health promotion and existing capacity development systems in primary and secondary prevention and health promotion as reference points, this paper considers the possibilities to integrate and implement health promotion capacities within and across disciplinary boundaries, arguing that the contribution of health promotion to public health development lies in the complementary nature of specialist and mainstreamed health promotion.

scholarly journals Introduction: Public Health and the Promise of Palestine

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-26
Author(s):  
Danya M. Qato
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Racial Capitalism ◽  
Special Collection ◽  
Public Health Discourse ◽  
Health Discourse

This introductory essay contextualizes the special collection of papers on the pandemic and seeks to map the terrain of extant public health research on Palestine and the Palestinians. In addition, it is a contribution in Palestine studies to a nascent yet propulsive conversation that has been accelerated by Covid-19 on the erasure of structures of violence, including those of settler colonialism and racial capitalism, within the discipline of epidemiology. Using public health as an analytic, this essay asks us to consider foundational questions that have long been sidelined in the public health discourse on Palestine, including the implications for health and health research of eliding ongoing settler colonialism. Rather than ignoring and reproducing their violence, this essay seeks to tackle these questions head-on in an attempt to imagine a future public health research agenda that centers health, and not simply survivability, for all Palestinians.

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