“We invited the disease to come to us”: neoliberal public health discourse and local understanding of non-communicable disease causation in Fiji
“We invited the disease to come to us”: neoliberal public health discourse and local understanding of non-communicable disease causation in Fiji
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“我们邀请疾病来到我们身边”:新自由主义公共卫生话语和斐济当地人对非传染性疾病因果关系的理解
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10.1080/09581596.2017.1329521
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2018
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M. O’Keefe
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Tarryn Phillips;C. McMichael;M. O’Keefe
Abstract Rates of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are increasing globally, particularly amongst low- and middle-income countries. Critical public health scholars have argued that while political and socio-economic factors shape health outcomes within particular environments, neoliberal public health efforts tend to emphasise individual responsibility to avoid behavioural risks and ‘choose’ health. Yet there is little analysis of how these discourses about personal responsibility for NCDs are internalised, resisted or adapted by target populations in the Global South. This paper does so by examining local understandings of causal attribution for NCDs in Fiji. Data are drawn from qualitative research with outpatients, villagers and health care staff on the island of Ovalau (n = 68). Residents deem individual choices to be the principal cause of poor health outcomes. While they mention some social, historical and spiritual determinants of NCDs, community members have internalised a neoliberal governmentality, in which individuals are held morally accountable for preventing disease. Moreover, these messages about NCDs intersect with other discourses that promote personal responsibility in Fijian society – such as colonial legacies, traditional gender roles and Christianity. This local adaptation of neoliberalism reproduces historically entrenched stereotypes about Indigenous Fijians as irresponsible citizens, and obscures community recognition and response regarding the structural determinants of the NCD problem.
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2016
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安藤至大,大内伸哉,川口大司,佐野晋平,島田陽一;水島朋則
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水島朋則
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2013
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Shirakawa;H;Tatsuro Fujikura
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Tatsuro Fujikura