Hidden Hegemony in Public Health: A Qualitative Approach to a Comparative Discourse Analysis of How Colonial and Post-Colonial Discourses Shaped the Calgary IODE’s Approach to Child and Family Public Health
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE) is a Canadian women’s auxiliary founded in 1900 that aligned with British colonial values. This study explores colonial and post-colonial discourses within the IODE to understand how these dynamic ideologies produced power effects that influenced the Calgary IODE’s child and family public health work. Calgary IODE colonial discourse between 1930 and 1970 reveals that public health resources used to sustain the English-Canadian population were employed as assimilation tools for non-English speaking immigrants and the Indigenous. However, texts produced after 1970 show a shift in ideological positions, which is apparent in the Calgary IODE post-colonial discourse of its texts between the 1970s and the early 2000s, and the shift from family to community public health. This research is on the impact of historical, social conditions and can be expanded to help mitigate systemic practices, improving health outcomes for all Canadians.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.017 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".