Journal article
Telling stories: News media, health literacy and public policy in Canada
Abstract
Mass media are very influential in shaping discourses about health but few studies have examined the extent to which newspaper coverage of such stories reflect issues embedded in health policy documents. We estimate the relative distribution of health stories using content analysis. Nine meta-topics are used to sort stories across a range of major influences shaping the health status of populations adapted from the document Toward a Healthy …
Authors
Hayes M; Ross IE; Gasher M; Gutstein D; Dunn JR; Hackett RA
Journal
Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 64, No. 9, pp. 1842–1852
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
5 2007
DOI
10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.01.015
ISSN
0277-9536