MacKian Sara C
Geography--School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
Health Place. 2008 Mar;14(1):106-15. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2007.05.005. Epub 2007 Jun 2.
The Ugandan Ministry of Health emphasises the pivotal position of women in securing the nation's health. Drawing on the concept of therapeutic landscapes, this paper explores media constructions of health in Uganda in order to question what role these may play in creating or undermining a 'therapeutic landscape' which supports women's empowerment in a health context. The paper argues for the importance of understanding discursively constructed notions of health in order to ground the promotion of a health care strategy in the everyday lives and discourses of the users implicated. Given the Ugandan government's current drive to both empower women and push an agenda of formally provided health care, this paper provides an exploratory analysis of how far newspapers facilitate or hinder this vision.
乌干达卫生部强调妇女在保障国家健康方面的关键地位。本文借鉴治疗性景观的概念，探讨乌干达媒体对健康的建构，以质疑这些建构在创造或破坏支持妇女在健康背景下增强权能的“治疗性景观”中可能发挥的作用。本文认为理解话语建构的健康观念很重要，以便将医疗保健战略的推广建立在相关使用者的日常生活和话语基础之上。鉴于乌干达政府目前推动妇女赋权并推进正式提供医疗保健议程，本文对报纸在多大程度上促进或阻碍这一愿景进行了探索性分析。
