Influence of Personal Responsibility Rhetoric on Public Health Outcomes in Judici

项目摘要 调查人员建议检查烟草、快餐和含糖饮料 行业在法律和监管论坛上使用个人责任修辞，其中许多 制定了积极和消极的公共卫生政策。作为对法律背景的回应， 烟草行业援引个人责任的言论来转移人们对其 在对伤害的反应中，行为和对个人的影响。当被用作 在司法程序中或在其他法律和政策论坛中的立法和监管监督 形成，个人责任的概念在修辞上被用来模糊或转移 关注更大的结构性决定因素--包括应受惩罚的行为者--这对 公众的健康。 调查人员将确定司法、监管、立法业务程序和 有关媒体的报道，促进了美国政府使用个人责任修辞 烟草行业和那些抵制这种言论而支持分析的过程 健康行为的结构性决定因素。烟草业的个人责任 花言巧语也可能成为其他商业利益的典范，因为他们认识到 他们的产品正在危害公众的健康。调查人员将检查 司法、监管、立法论坛和相关媒体对快餐和甜食 饮料行业在肥胖流行中所扮演的角色，并比较他们的言辞 与烟草业所部署的相同。 研究将围绕九个关键的法律和政策事件，它们将作为 调查人员的理论样本。该理论认为，使用个人责任修辞 在商业设计的司法、监管和立法论坛中屏蔽审查 健康行为的决定因素。除了传统的法律和政策研究外， 调查人员依靠人种学内容分析来检查包含内部 行业烟草文件，相关法律论坛生成的法律文件，新闻 媒体报道、行业公关文件和其他关于公司行为的文件 烟草、快餐和含糖饮料行业。调查人员将制定一份初步的 基于初步文献回顾和对文本样本的检查的编码方案 已识别的数据集。调查人员将对识别出的样本进行编码测试 数据集。 研究结果将以文章的形式发表在同行评议的出版物和 通过参加学术论坛积极传播。

Project Summary The investigators propose to examine the tobacco, fast food and sweetened beverage industries' use of personal responsibility rhetoric in legal and regulatory forums where many public health policies, both positive and negative, are created. As a response to legal context, the tobacco industry invokes personal responsibility rhetoric to focus attention away from its conduct and toward the individual in responding to the harm. When used as the basis of legislative and regulatory oversight, in judicial proceedings, or in other forums of law and policy formation, the concept of personal responsibility exploited rhetorically to obscure or shift attention from larger structural determinants - including culpable actors - that adversely affect the public's health. The investigators will identify the judicial, regulatory, legislative operational processes and related media coverage that have facilitated the use of personal responsibility rhetoric by the tobacco industry and those processes that have resisted such rhetoric in favor of analyses of structural determinants of health behaviors. The tobacco industry's personal responsibility rhetoric may also serve as a model for other commercial interests faced with the recognition that their products are harming the public's health. The investigators will examine rhetoric in the judicial, regulatory, legislative forums and related media by the fast food and sweetened beverage industries in their identified role in the obesity epidemic and compare their rhetoric with that deployed by the tobacco industry. Research will be oriented around nine key law and policy events, which will function as the investigators' theoretical samples. The theory is that the use of personal responsibility rhetoric shields from scrutiny in the judicial, regulatory and legislative forums commercially engineered determinants of health behavior. In addition to traditional law and policy research, the investigators rely on ethnographic content analysis to examine datasets containing internal industry tobacco documents, legal documents generated in the relevant legal forums, news media coverage, industry public relations documents and other documentation of conduct by the tobacco, fast food and sweetened beverage industries. The investigators will develop an initial coding scheme based on a preliminary literature reviews and examination of samples of text in the identified datasets. The investigators will test the coding on samples from the identified datasets. The study findings will be described in articles to be published in peer-reviewed publications and actively disseminated through participation in scholarly forums.