Population Health and Social Governance

Analyzing the Mainstream Incorporation of Ethnography

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5454939
AutoresPatrick O’byrne (0000-0002-0587-1409, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume22
Fascículo6
Páginas859-867
Data de publicação2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732311425049
PMID22068040
OpenAlexW2121519121
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas20

Recently, health care workers (researchers, academics, policy writers, clinicians) have begun to view ethnography as an acceptable research methodology for informing public health work. This corresponds with a change in public health practice toward population health, wherein identifiable groups are examined to identify the group-level and contextual factors that affect their health statuses. Although population health-based methodological and outcomes-focused examinations have already occurred regarding ethnography, no extant literature scrutinizes the incorporation of ethnography into mainstream public and population health work from a sociopolitical viewpoint. Consequently, such an investigation occurs here using Foucault's concepts of discipline and Lupton's advancement of Foucault's ideas about the imperative of health. The outcome of this investigation is the assertion that ethnography is a strategic method for disciplining populations that do not respect the imperative of health. In other words, ethnography helps generate the data that can be used to normalize large groups of people

Assertion · Critical ethnography · Ethnography · Extant taxon · Health care · Mainstream · Political science · Population · Public health · Public relations · Sociology · Anthropology · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Public Health Policies and Education