{"id":520,"date":"2010-12-20T00:36:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T04:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg-development\/?p=520"},"modified":"2011-11-20T23:38:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T03:38:51","slug":"mandatory-influenza-vaccinations-an-example-of-health-promotion-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/2010\/12\/20\/mandatory-influenza-vaccinations-an-example-of-health-promotion-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory Influenza Vaccinations: An Example of Health Promotion Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/files\/2011\/11\/Miko-and-Miller_Mandatory-Influenza-Vaccinations_Fall-2010.pdf\">Mandatory Influenza Vaccinations: An Example of Health Promotion Theater<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anita Miko and Monica K. Miller<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, New York became the first state to issue a policy requiring health care personnel to obtain influenza vaccinations. This law can be described as \u201chealth promotion theater,\u201d a term introduced to describe health policies that have good intentions but carry negative outcomes. Moral panics have produced crime control policies with similar characteristics; called \u201ccrime control theater.\u201d The proposed notion of \u201chealth promotion theater\u201d is derived from and compared to \u201ccrime control theater.\u201d In this article, moral panic over the H1N1 virus is introduced as the policy\u2019s catalyst, \u201chealth promotion theater\u2019s\u201d components are defined, and alternative solutions are offered to more effectively achieve the policy\u00b4s ultimate intent. Finally, educating policymakers is offered as a way to avoid laws that are essentially \u201chealth promotion theater.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandatory Influenza Vaccinations: An Example of Health Promotion Theater Anita Miko and Monica K. Miller In 2009, New York became the first state to issue a policy requiring health care personnel to obtain influenza vaccinations. This law can be described as \u201chealth promotion theater,\u201d a term introduced to describe health policies that have good intentions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":585,"featured_media":1038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[51,53,52],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pandemic-response","tag-h1n1","tag-influenza","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}