Journal article
Meanings in policy: A textual analysis of Canada's “Achieving Health for All” document
Abstract
This paper presents a textual analysis of a key Canadian health policy document--Achieving Health for All (AHFA). It begins by establishing the importance of policy language and an interpretive approach to reveal dominant meanings and assumptions. This approach points out the significance of language and its contexts (text and intertext) and of developing a formal analytic strategy, based on semiotics. The paper concludes with a detailed, …
Authors
Iannantuono A; Eyles J
Journal
Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 44, No. 11, pp. 1611–1621
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
June 1997
DOI
10.1016/s0277-9536(96)00255-9
ISSN
0277-9536