Media

The polarizing effect of news media messages about the social determinants of health.

October 15, 2009
BY: Gollust SE, Lantz PM, Ubel PA. University of Pennsylvania, 3641 Locust Walk, Room 302, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6218, USA. sgollust@wharton.upenn.edu Am J Public Health. 2009 Dec;99(12):2160-7. Epub 2009 Oct 15.

Framing health problems in terms of the social determinants of health aims to shift policy attention to nonmedical strategies to improve population health, yet little is known about how the public responds to these messages. We conducted an experiment to test the effect of a news article describing the social determinants of type 2 diabetes… Read More »»

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Communicating population health: print news media coverage of type 2 diabetes.

August 8, 2009
BY: Gollust SE, Lantz PM. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, 3641 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6218, USA. sgollust@wharton.upenn.edu Soc Sci Med. 2009 Oct;69(7):1091-8. Epub 2009 Aug 8.

The public learns much about health and health policy from the news media. The news media can shape the public’s opinions about issues by emphasizing certain features in their coverage, such as the causes of a problem, who is responsible for addressing it, and what groups are affected. This study examines media framing of the… Read More »»

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