Lifestyle versus social determinants of health in the Dutch parliament: An automated analysis of debate transcripts

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作者
van Baar, Jeroen M. [1 ,5 ]
Shields-Zeeman, Laura [1 ,2 ]
Stronks, Karien [3 ]
Hagenaars, Luc L. [3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Netherlands Inst Mental Hlth & Addict, Trimbos Inst, Utrecht, Netherlands
[2] Univ Utrecht, Fac Social & Behav Sci, Utrecht, Netherlands
[3] Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Univ Med Ctr, Dept Publ & Occupat Hlth, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[4] Univ Calif San Francisco, Philip R Lee Inst Hlth Policy Studies, San Francisco, CA USA
[5] Da Costakade 45, NL-3521 VS Utrecht, Netherlands
关键词
Social determinants of health; Lifestyle; Political discourse; Health policy; Corpus research; POLICY; POLITICS;
D O I
10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101399
中图分类号
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
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1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要
Although public health scholars increasingly recognize the importance of the social determinants of health (SDOH), health policy outputs tend to emphasize downstream lifestyle factors instead. We use an automated corpus research approach to analyse fourteen years of health policy debate in the Dutch House of Representatives' Health Committee, testing three potential causes of the lack of attention for SDOH: political ideology, by which members of parliament (MPs) from some political orientations may prioritize lifestyle factors over SDOH; lifestyle drift, by which early attention for SDOH during problem analysis is replaced by a lifestyle focus in the development of solutions as the challenges in addressing SDOH become clear; and focusing events, by which political or societal chance events, known to the public and political elites simultaneously, bolster the lifestyle perspective on health. Our analysis shows that overall, the committee spent most of its time discussing neither SDOH nor lifestyle: healthcare financing and service delivery dominated instead. When SDOH or lifestyle were referenced, left-leaning MPs referred significantly more to SDOH and right-leaning MPs significantly more to lifestyle. Temporal effects related to election cycles yielded inconsistent evidence. Finally, peak attention for both lifestyle and SDOH coincided with ongoing political debate instead of exogenous, unforeseen focusing events, and these peaks were rendered relatively insignificant by the larger and more consistent attention for health care. This paper provides a first step toward automated analysis of policy debates at scale, opening up new avenues for the empirical study of health political discourse.
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