Lifestyle versus social determinants of health in the Dutch parliament: An automated analysis of debate transcripts.

ABSTRACT: Although public health scholars increasingly recognize the importance of the social determinants of health (SDOH), health policy outputs tend to emphasize downstream lifestyle factors instead. We use an automated corpus research approach to analyse fourteen years of health policy debate in the Dutch House of Representatives' Health Committee, testing three potential causes of the lack of attention for SDOH: political ideology, by which members of parliament (MPs) from some political orientations may prioritize lifestyle factors over SDOH; lifestyle drift, by which early attention for SDOH during problem analysis is replaced by a lifestyle focus in the development of solutions as the challenges in addressing SDOH become clear; and focusing events, by which political or societal chance event

SUBMITTER: van Baar JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10127107 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature