(Dis)entangling medicine and media: a qualitative analysis of the relationship between the fields of healthcare and journalism

Bogaert, Sarah Van den; Stroobant, Joyce; Bracke, Piet

doi:10.1080/14461242.2018.1537131

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“…By contrast, the biomediatization concept implies that biomedicine and the media are not two separate entities but are rather deeply intertwined. Both medicine and media contribute to the production of medical knowledge, the practice of medicine, and public health [6,7]. How media construct and communicate health knowledge affects perceptions of particular diseases, public health policies, clinic practices, and public reactions because the media frame health news through multiple social, economic, cultural, political, and moral lenses [6,28].…”

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“…However, authors of previous studies explored the relationship between health and media through the lens of certain professional domains. In most cases, they adopted either the media perspective [ 6 ] or a health care perspective [ 8 ] exclusively. Thus, it is evident that the current discourse on the relationship is divided into two lines of thought.…”

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“…They argued that news coverage of health issues plays a fundamental role in constructing wider cultural understandings of health and disease. Moreover, Stroobant et al [7] argued that health news is coproduced by health and media professionals. However, authors of previous studies explored the relationship between health and media through the lens of certain professional domains.…”

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Professional Relationship Between Physicians and Journalists in Bangladesh: Web-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Islam¹,

Rabbani²,

Rahaman³

et al. 2023

Interact J Med Res

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Background A health care system is intertwined with multiple stakeholders, including government institutions, pharmaceutical companies, patients, hospitals and clinics, health care professionals, health researchers and scientific medical experts, patients and consumer organizations, and media organizations. Physicians and journalists are the key actors who play a significant role in making health care services and health information accessible to the people of a country. Objective The aim of this study was to explore the tensions and alliances between physicians and journalists in Bangladesh, along with identifying strategies that could potentially improve the often contentious relationship and quality of medical journalism. Methods We conducted a web-based cross-sectional survey using the snowball sampling technique from September 2021 to March 2022. Adult Bangladeshi citizens belonging to the two selected professional groups (physicians and journalists), who understood the survey content, and agreed to participate in the survey were considered eligible for inclusion in the study. Both descriptive and logistic regression analyses, including the Mann-Whitney U test and Wilcoxon signed-rank test, were performed to determine the differences between groups concerning selected perception-related variables, and the associations of perceptions about lack of trust in each other’s knowledge, skills, and professional integrity with background characteristics. Results A total of 419 participants completed the survey, including 219 physicians and 200 journalists. Among physicians, 53.4% (117/219) reported lower trust toward journalists’ professional domain and expertise, whereas 43.5% (87/200) of journalists had lower trust toward physicians’ professional domain and expertise. In terms of perception about not having respect for each other, the median value for the physicians was 5 (strongly agree), whereas it was only 3 (agree) for the journalists. We also found that male physicians (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] 0.45, compared with female physicians) and medical officers (AOR 0.30, compared with specialists) had significantly higher odds of lacking trust in journalists’ knowledge, skills, and professional integrity. When rating the statement “Regular professional interaction between journalists and doctors may improve the relationship between the professional groups,” most physicians (186/219, 84.9%) chose “neither agree nor disagree,” whereas most journalists (106/200, 53.0%) stated that they “slightly agree.” Conclusions Both physicians and journalists in Bangladesh have negative perceptions of each other’s professions. However, physicians have a more negative perception of journalists than journalists have of the physicians. Strategies such as a legal framework to identify medical-legal issues in reporting, constructive discussion, professional interaction, and capacity-building training programs may significantly improve the relationship between physicians and journalists.

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Professional Relationship Between Physicians and Journalists in Bangladesh: Web-Based Cross-Sectional Study

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Rahaman³

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“…Research on power relations between these stakeholders, and on how they are successful in influencing health communication and information, is still in its infancy (e.g. Van den Bogaert et al 2018 ).…”

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Biltereyst¹

2020

Food, Nutrition and the Media

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This chapter tries to locate the contributions of the edited volume into the broader field at the intersections of media and health. It draws the wider horizon of this field in terms of its interdisciplinarity, the stakeholders involved and the various perspectives and issues at stake. The field is much wider than health communication, but also deals with issues of the representation of health, food and nutrition, which are central to this book. Other major approaches deal with research on media production processes, stakeholder analyses in relation to health news production, distribution and consumption, and audience’s engagements with health news with links to citizen’s health news literacy, trust and power.

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“…Bij de farmaceutische industrie analyseer ik hoe hun discours gelinkt is aan negatieve berichtgeving over de industrie (Van den Bogaert, Declercq, Christiaens, Jacobs & Bracke, 2018). In het vierde en laatste empirische hoofdstuk bestudeer ik de relatie tussen het gezondheidsveld en het journalistieke veld ( Van den Bogaert, Stroobant & Bracke, 2018). In elk van deze hoofdstukken doe ik beroep op kwalitatieve data zoals interviews, beleidsdocumenten en publieke communicatie (o.a.…”

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Bogaert¹

2019

Sociologos

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(Dis)entangling medicine and media: a qualitative analysis of the relationship between the fields of healthcare and journalism

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References 38 publications

Professional Relationship Between Physicians and Journalists in Bangladesh: Web-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Professional Relationship Between Physicians and Journalists in Bangladesh: Web-Based Cross-Sectional Study

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Laten we het (niet) over ziekte en gezondheid hebben: een kwalitatief onderzoek naar de stakeholders binnen de Belgische ziekteverzekering door middel van elite-interviews en discoursanalyse

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