Concepts of responsibility in the German media debate on sugar taxation: a qualitative framing analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Framing plays an important role in health-policy processes. Responsibility for health is a salient and contested concept in the framing around food policies, such as sugar taxes. To deepen the understanding of the sugar tax process in Germany and contribute to a better understanding of how responsibility frames are used in debates on health policies, this study investigated responsibility concepts underlying the German media debate on sugar taxation.

Methods

We analyzed 114 national German newspaper articles, published between January 2018 and March 2019, following an inductive thematic analysis approach with an additional deductive focus on responsibility. We identified important contested concepts around sugar taxation, analyzed their combination into narrative

SUBMITTER: Moerschel KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9090278 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature