Children's lives or garden aesthetics? A case study in public health advocacy
作者:
Victor Carey,
Simon Chapman,
Daniel Gaffney,
期刊:
Australian Journal of Public Health
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 18,
issue 1
页码: 25-32
ISSN:1035-7319
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1994.tb00190.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Abstract:Following a decade of accumulating clinical reports on child drowning in domestic swimming pools, paediatricians began advocating legislation that would require all pools to be ‘isolation' fenced. In 1990, the New South Wales Government introduced and then repealed such legislation following intense lobbying and media advocacy from a group of pool owners. This paper reviews the ways in which isolation fence advocates and opponents framed their public arguments. Five main areas of competing public discourse are identified: why pool drownings occur; the effects of fencing; expert views and community support; the role of the state in prevention; and personalised references to the value systems of those involved in the debate. Two factors seem likely to have contributed most to the overthrow of the legislation: fence opponents inhabiting the same noninterventionist ideological frame of reference as the government; and fence advocates' refusal to compromise on retrospective fencing seems likely to have inspired a commitment in opposition which would have been absent if an incrementalist, prospective fencing policy had been adopte
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