Helberg-Proctor Alana, Meershoek Agnes, Krumeich Anja, Horstman Klasien
a Department of Health, Ethics and Society, CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care , Maastricht University , Maastricht , The Netherlands.
Ethn Health. 2016 Oct;21(5):480-97. doi: 10.1080/13557858.2015.1093097. Epub 2015 Oct 15.
A growing body of work is examining the role health research itself plays in the construction of 'ethnicity.' We discuss the results of our investigation as to how the political, social, and institutional dynamics of the context in which health research takes place affect the manner in which knowledge about ethnicity and health is produced.
Qualitative content analysis of academic publications, interviews with biomedical and health researchers, and participant observation at various conferences and scientific events.
We identified four aspects related to the context in which Dutch research takes place that we have found relevant to biomedical and health-research practices. Firstly, the 'diversity' and 'inclusion' policies of the major funding institution; secondly, the official Dutch national ethnic registration system; a third factor was the size of the Netherlands and the problem of small sample sizes; and lastly, the need for researchers to use meaningful ethnic categories when publishing in English-language journals.
Our analysis facilitates the understanding of how specific ethnicities are constructed in this field and provides fruitful insight into the socio-scientific co-production of ethnicity, and specifically into the manner in which common-sense ethnic categories and hierarchies are granted scientific validity through academic publication and, are subsequently, used in clinical guidelines and policy.
越来越多的研究正在探讨健康研究本身在“种族”建构中所起的作用。我们讨论了我们的调查结果，即健康研究开展的背景中的政治、社会和制度动态如何影响有关种族与健康的知识的产生方式。
对学术出版物进行定性内容分析，采访生物医学和健康研究人员，并在各种会议和科学活动中进行参与观察。
我们确定了与荷兰研究开展的背景相关的四个方面，我们发现这些方面与生物医学和健康研究实践相关。首先，主要资助机构的“多样性”和“包容性”政策；其次，荷兰官方的国家种族登记系统；第三个因素是荷兰的规模以及样本量小的问题；最后，研究人员在英文期刊上发表文章时使用有意义的种族类别的必要性。
我们的分析有助于理解该领域中特定种族是如何建构的，并为种族的社会科学共同生产提供了富有成效的见解，特别是对于通过学术出版物赋予常识性种族类别和等级制度科学有效性的方式，以及随后在临床指南和政策中的使用方式。
