“East” in Europe—Health Dimension through the Lens of the UK Daily Mail and Statistical Facts

Izabella Lecka, Viktoriya Pantyley, Liudmila Fakeyeva and Alexandrina Cruceanu
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Izabella Lecka: Centre for Health Care Management, Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, 02-678 Warsaw, Poland
Viktoriya Pantyley: Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
Liudmila Fakeyeva: University of Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh EH8 9JS, UK
Alexandrina Cruceanu: Faculty of History and Geography Ştefan cel Mare, University of Suceava, 720229 Suceava, Romania

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 7, 1-24

Abstract: The study concerns the relationship between health and geopolitics in the United Kingdom (UK). To demonstrate this relationship, we examined the subject and tone of articles published in the popular media (on the example of tabloid the Daily Mail ) in 2006–2020 concerning health and medical care, and the health and health care practice of Eastern European immigrants belonging to and not belonging to the European Union (EU). There was an increase in media criticism of the behaviour of immigrants in the years 2014–2017, in the period around the referendum in favour of the UK leaving the EU (Brexit). Attention was drawn to the media’s use of a Belief in a Zero-Sum Game (BZSG) narrative at that time. On both sides, “hosts” and the “guests”, a progressive anomy process was observed, degrading the behaviour of individuals and social groups.

Keywords: geography of health; health care management; UK; Eastern Europe; Poland; Romania; Belarus; Ukraine; Brexit; newspapers; tabloid; immigration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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