"East" in Europe-Health Dimension through the Lens of the UK Daily Mail and Statistical Facts.

Izabella Lecka,Liudmila Fakeyeva,Alexandrina Cruceanu,Viktoriya Pantyley

doi:10.3390/ijerph18073705

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.

Highlights

With the COVID-19 pandemic dominating the global biopolitical situation, many other links between health and geopolitics remain in the shadows
These concerns regarded the effects on health and medical care in the old European Union (EU) countries after the enlargement in 2004 (Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia), in 2007 (Romania, Bulgaria) and 2013 (Croatia)
Studies considering just health and the use of the National Health Service (NHS) by Eastern Europeans in the United Kingdom (UK) are rare to find in the literature [43]

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With the COVID-19 pandemic dominating the global biopolitical situation, many other links between health and geopolitics remain in the shadows. Similar concerns could be seen in Europe due to the increasing wave of migration from outside the EU, as well as the migration from the poorer to the richer countries within the EU following the 2008 economic crisis. These concerns regarded the effects on health and medical care in the old EU countries after the enlargement in 2004 (Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia), in 2007 (Romania, Bulgaria) and 2013. As a result of a massive migration wave, there was an increase in media criticism of immigrants and their behaviors, which emerged during the UK’s exit from the EU (Brexit) (Appendix A)

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