Based on an ethnographic study of health promotion and risk prevention in two public schools in Denmark, in this article I explore how schoolteachers carried out health risk work in the context of health promotion initiatives. I found that in order to manage the high degree of uncertainty that this kind of work entails, schoolteachers relied upon understandings of the relationship between social class, gender and ethnicity and of health outcomes which were based on their experience as well as the norms and stereotypical beliefs about the characteristics of specific social groups. This relationship between the social identities of the students and their future health took on an almost deterministic character among the teachers. Consequently, they perceived students’ future health as determined by factors that were largely beyond their control, making risk work seem like an impossible task.

基于对丹麦两所公立学校的健康促进和风险预防的民族志研究，在本文中，我探讨了学校教师如何在健康促进举措的背景下开展健康风险工作。我发现，为了管理这种工作带来的高度不确定性，学校教师依赖于对社会阶级、性别和种族之间的关系以及健康结果的理解，这些理解基于他们的经验以及规范和陈规定型观念。对特定社会群体特征的信念。学生的社会身份与其未来健康之间的这种关系在教师中呈现出几乎确定性的特征。因此，他们认为学生未来的健康是由他们无法控制的因素决定的，