The (mis)uses of community: a critical analysis of public health communication for COVID-19 vaccination in the United States

IF 5.4 3区材料科学 Q2 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL

ACS Applied Energy Materials Pub Date : 2023-03-23 DOI:10.1093/hcr/hqad018

S. Sastry, Bianca Siegenthaler, Parameswari Mukherjee, Sabena Abdul Raheem, A. Basu

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Abstract

Community engagement is heralded as a panacea for the inherent political challenges of public health governance. For COVID-19 vaccination planning in the United States, appeals for community engagement emerged in response to the disproportionate mortality and morbidity burdens on marginalized groups and as a bulwark against a political climate of vaccine hesitancy, scientific disinformation, and mistrust of public health. In this article, we use a culture-centered analytical framework to critique the discursive construct of “community” within public health documents that discuss community engagement strategies for COVID-19 vaccination. Through a critical-abductive analysis of more than 400 state public health department documents, we recognized the diverse axes on which appeals to the community are framed. Our findings show that the construct of “community” refers to both a material/tangible space marked by discursive struggle and one containing a moral economy of responsibility. We discuss the challenges and opportunities of conceptualizing community in these ways.

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社区的(错误)使用:对美国COVID-19疫苗接种公共卫生沟通的批判性分析

社区参与被誉为应对公共卫生治理固有政治挑战的灵丹妙药。对于美国的新冠肺炎疫苗接种规划，针对边缘化群体不成比例的死亡率和发病率负担，呼吁社区参与，并作为抵御疫苗犹豫、科学虚假信息和对公共卫生不信任的政治气候的堡垒。在这篇文章中，我们使用以文化为中心的分析框架来批评公共卫生文件中“社区”的话语建构，这些文件讨论了新冠肺炎疫苗接种的社区参与策略。通过对400多份州公共卫生部门文件的批判性绑架分析，我们认识到了向社区发出呼吁的不同轴心。我们的研究结果表明，“社区”的构建既指以话语斗争为标志的物质/有形空间，也指包含责任道德经济的空间。我们讨论了以这些方式将社区概念化的挑战和机遇。

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ACS Applied Energy Materials Materials Science-Materials Chemistry

CiteScore

10.30

自引率

6.20%

发文量

1368

期刊介绍： ACS Applied Energy Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of materials, engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to energy conversion and storage. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrate knowledge in the areas of materials, engineering, physics, bioscience, and chemistry into important energy applications.