Saturday, September 30, 10.30am Galerie Rabus

Susanne Bauer
Transparency or surveillance? Constructing population health in time and space

In the process of implementing health monitoring at a European level, comparable health statistics are generated across spaces. These data are increasingly available as virtual public use files on websites of the EU and member state agencies. Standardised (often explicitly gendered) indicators construct new spaces of risk/safety and zones of in/equality. The proposed paper draws on examples of health data gathering and develops a reflection on European public health databases. The recording practices, categorisation procedures and multiple uses of the data will be examined with respect to their enactment of surveillance as to population health.


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