Discourses in the European Commission’s 1996–2000 Health Promotion Programme

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ID7844201
AutoresCatherine Marie Sykes, Catherine Sykes (0000-0002-8518-5184), Carla Willig (0000-0001-9804-9141), David F Marks (0000-0002-4096-2883, Department of Psychology, City University, UK)
Año2004
Volumen9
Número1
Páginas131-141
Fecha de publicación2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1359105304036108
PMID14683575
OpenAlexW2028921814
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas5

This article is a discourse analysis of ‘The Community Action Programme on Health Promotion, Information, Education and Training 1996–2000’. The analysis uses six stages to discourse analysis. A religious discourse is used to construct the Programme and a military discourse is used to construct its implementation. These discourses are embedded in a scientific discourse. This analysis reveals that despite rhetorical endorsement of the concept of empowerment in health promotion, this Programme disempowers through vagueness, clear hierarchies of power and an emphasis on scientific methods of evaluation. The analysis also reveals that there has been a shift in blame in recent health promotion policy, the reflection is now on the collective as opposed to individual behaviour

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