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The Role of a Medicalized Discourse in the Global Activities of the World Health Organization

Publication date: 2023

Teoria Polityki, 2021, No. 5/2021, pp. 173-191

https://doi.org/10.4467/25440845TP.21.012.13792

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Marta Hoffmann
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9501-2693 Orcid
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The Role of a Medicalized Discourse in the Global Activities of the World Health Organization

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This article presents selected results of a research project entitled Medicalization strategies of the World Health Organization1 in which the author analyzed and described three WHO policies characterized by a medicalizing approach. These three policies were compared with each other in terms of their conceptual (narrative) and institutional (practical) levels of medicalization and their effects. In order to better understand the role of a medicalized discourse in the global activities of the WHO, these three cases were also compared to one non-medicalizing policy. The aim of this article is twofold: firstly, to present two cases analyzed as part of the project, namely, the tobacco policy (a ‘medicalized’ one) and the ageing policy (a ‘non-medicalized’ one) and secondly, to consider the possible influence of WHO discourse on tobacco and ageing on public health policies in the European Union.

1 The project has been funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (grant no. 2017/25/N/HS5/00950).

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The Role of a Medicalized Discourse in the Global Activities of the World Health Organization

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Marta Hoffmann
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9501-2693 Orcid
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