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

支持 NVivo 文件和代码簿，用于文章《HERA：在健康领域实现更多一体化？考察欧洲委员会新健康紧急准备和应对机构（HERA）的语篇合法性》。文章摘要：背景：自 COVID-19 以来，欧洲委员会（EC）通过开发“欧洲健康联盟”及其内部的“健康紧急准备和应对机构”（HERA）来寻求扩大其在健康领域的活动。方法：我们对建立 HERA 的文件进行了话语分析，以探讨该机构的创建如何被 EC 正式认可。我们重点关注了其对健康紧急情况的界定；其对 HERA 附加价值的界定；以及其将 HERA 与现有欧盟活动和优先事项相联系的方式。发现：我们的分析表明，基于安全的逻辑一直是 EC 正式认可 HERA 的核心——这与近几十年来全球范围内发生的“健康安全化”趋势相一致。这种认可可以理解为 EC 在缺乏新权力的情况下促进未来健康一体化的努力的一部分。结论：安全化有助于 EC 在政治上提升其在健康领域的地位，而不需要额外的权力。因此，EC 正在为可能未来的一体化奠定基础。审视 HERA 的语篇合法性不仅揭示了 EC 是否正在扩大其健康权力，还揭示了其如何策略性地实现这一目标。尽管受到限制，HERA 仍允许 EC 进一步深化以安全为导向的健康一体化。以下文件被用于分析：介绍 HERA——欧洲健康紧急准备和应对机构，迈向完成欧洲健康联盟的下一步；建立健康紧急准备和应对机构的委员会决议；关于在欧盟层面公共卫生紧急情况发生时确保危机相关医疗应对措施供应措施的理事会法规提案；欧洲健康紧急准备和应对机构（HERA）：为未来健康紧急情况做好准备。