NVivo supporting data files for 'HERA-lding more integration in health? Examining the discursive legitimation of the European Commission’s new Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority'

Supporting NVivo files and codebook for the article 'HERA-lding more integration in health? Examining the discursive legitimation of the European Commission’s new Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority'.ARTICLE ABSTRACT:Context: Since COVID-19, the European Commission (EC) has sought to expand its activities in health through the development of a 'European Health Union' and within it, the Health Emergencies Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA).Methods: We applied a discourse analysis on documents establishing HERA to investigate how the creation of this institution was legitimated by the EC. We focused on how it framed health emergencies; how it framed the added value of HERA; and how it linked HERA to existing EU activities and priorities.Findings: Our analysis demonstrates that security-based logics have been central to the EC’s legitimation of HERA – in alignment with a ‘securitization of health’ occurring worldwide in recent decades. This legitimation can be understood as part of the EC’s effort to promote future integration in health in the absence of new competencies.Conclusions: Securitization has helped the EC raise its profile in health politically, without additional competencies. The EC is thereby laying the groundwork for potential future integration. Looking at the discursive legitimation of HERA sheds light not only on whether the EC is expanding its health powers, but also how it strategizes to do so. HERA, while constrained, allows the EC to further deepen security-driven integration in health.The following documents were used for analysis:Introducing HERA, the European Health Emergency preparedness and Response Authority, the next step towards completing the European Health UnionCommission Decision establishing the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response AuthorityProposal for a Council Regulation on a framework of measures for ensuring the supply of crisis-relevant medical countermeasures in the event of a public health emergency at Union level.European Health Emergency preparedness and Response Authority (HERA): Getting ready for future health emergencies

本数据集包含支持论文《“筑牢”卫生领域一体化？探析欧盟委员会（European Commission, EC）全新卫生紧急准备与响应局（Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority, HERA）的话语合法性建构》的NVivo文件与代码本（codebook）。

论文摘要：
研究背景：自新冠疫情（COVID-19）以来，欧盟委员会一直致力于通过构建“欧洲卫生联盟”拓展其在卫生领域的职能，并在此框架下设立了卫生紧急准备与响应局。
研究方法：本研究对设立HERA的相关文件展开话语分析（discourse analysis），以探究欧盟委员会如何通过话语赋予该机构合法性。分析聚焦于三个维度：其一，文件如何界定卫生紧急事件；其二，文件如何阐释HERA的附加价值；其三，文件如何将HERA与欧盟现有活动及优先事项相联结。
研究结果：分析结果显示，基于安全的逻辑是欧盟委员会为HERA赋予合法性的核心路径，这与近几十年来全球范围内出现的“卫生安全化（securitization）”趋势相一致。此种合法性建构可被视为欧盟委员会在未获得新职权的前提下，推动未来卫生领域一体化的举措之一。
研究结论：安全化路径帮助欧盟委员会在未获得额外职权的情况下，提升了其在卫生领域的政治影响力。欧盟委员会借此为未来潜在的卫生领域一体化奠定了基础。通过探析HERA的话语合法性建构，不仅可以洞察欧盟委员会是否在扩张其卫生职权，还能揭示其实现这一目标的战略逻辑。尽管HERA存在诸多约束，但它仍为欧盟委员会进一步深化以安全为导向的卫生领域一体化提供了可能。

本研究分析所用文件如下：
1. 《引入欧洲卫生紧急准备与响应局HERA：迈向完善欧洲卫生联盟的新一步》
2. 《关于设立卫生紧急准备与响应局的欧盟委员会决定》
3. 《关于建立欧盟层面公共卫生紧急事件下危机相关医疗对策供应措施框架的理事会条例提案》
4. 《欧洲卫生紧急准备与响应局（HERA）：为未来卫生紧急事件做好准备》