Creating a market in workplace health promotion: the performative role of public health sciences and technologies
| Autor: | Agnes Meershoek, Klasien Horstman |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Metamedica, RS: CAPHRI - R4 - Health Inequities and Societal Participation |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
commodification Commodity Vitality STS Occupational safety and health 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Workplace health promotion medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology Marketing WORK 030505 public health Commodification business.industry Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Public relations market devices Health promotion Legitimation workplace health promotion 0305 other medical science business knowledge institutes |
| Zdroj: | Critical Public Health, 26(3), 269-280. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group |
| ISSN: | 0958-1596 |
| Popis: | The last 20years have seen the rise of a market' aiming to promote the vitality and health of employees. In this article, we use insights from Science and Technology Studies to analyze how this market developed, what side effects it has given rise to, and to what extent the market identifies and addresses these side effects. Drawing on an analysis of documents and interviews with stakeholders, we will show that knowledge institutes have played a major role in turning employee health into a commodity. Referring to the health sciences for legitimation, they have developed market devices' that turn employee health into a commodity. In this commodification process, employees are transformed into an object of care and do not constitute a market party themselves. Privatization of occupational health is accounted for by arguing that market mechanisms will adequately address the health of employees as a public goal. However, subtle mechanisms serve to discipline employees who already display a more or less rationalized lifestyle into vital and fit workers, while threatening to exclude unhealthy employees. These unintended side effects of the market of workplace health promotion are neither identified nor addressed in the market, which - for the time being at least - is thus failing to safeguard the public interest of employee health. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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