Lifestyle versus social determinants of health in Dutch parliament: A text mining analysis

Although public health scholars increasingly recognize the importance of the social determinants of health (SDOH), political discourse on health tends to emphasize downstream lifestyle factors instead. We use a text mining approach to analyse a decade of health debate in the Dutch house of representatives, testing three specific causes of the lack of attention for SDOH: political ideology, by which members of parliament (MPs) from some political orientations may prioritize lifestyle factors over SDOH; lifestyle drift, by which early attention for SDOH during problem analysis is replaced by a l... Mehr ...