Aldrich Rosemary, Zwi Anthony B, Short Stephanie
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
Soc Sci Med. 2007 Jan;64(1):125-37. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.08.034. Epub 2006 Oct 11.
This paper reports research undertaken as part of a larger project in which we examined whether and how values and beliefs communicated by Australian politicians have shaped decades of health policy and influenced health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia. To first characterise those values and beliefs we analysed the public statements of the politicians responsible nationally for the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples 1972-2001, using critical discourse analysis. We found that four discourses, communicated through words, phrases, sentences and grammatical structures, dominated public statements over the study period. These four discourses focused on the competence and capacity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to "manage"; matters of control of and responsibility for the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as "Other"; and the nature of the "problem" concerning the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Analysis of the discursive elements contributing to shaping these four discourses is reported in this paper.
本文报告了作为一个更大项目一部分所开展的研究。在该项目中，我们考察了澳大利亚政治家所传达的价值观和信念是否以及如何塑造了数十年来的卫生政策，并影响了澳大利亚原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民的健康状况。为了首先描述这些价值观和信念，我们运用批判性话语分析，分析了1972年至2001年期间在全国范围内负责原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民健康事务的政治家的公开声明。我们发现，在研究期间，通过词汇、短语、句子和语法结构传达的四种话语主导了公开声明。这四种话语聚焦于原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民“管理”的能力；对原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民健康的控制和责任问题；将原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民视为“他者”；以及与原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民健康相关的“问题”的性质。本文报告了对促成这四种话语形成的话语元素的分析。
