When Medicine Meets Media: How Health News is Co-produced Between Health and Media Professionals

Stroobant, Joyce; Bogaert, Sarah Van den; Raeymaeckers, Karin

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2018.1539344

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“…These patterns of source use suggest the importance of further research on the practices of reporter-source interaction and "co-production" of health news (Briggs and Hallin 2016;Stroobant et al 2019). The relation between production practices and the sourcing patterns reflected in content may in some cases be complex.…”

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Biomedicalization and Media in Comparative Perspective: Audiences, Frames, and Actors in Norwegian, Spanish, U.K. and U.S. Health News

Hallin

Figenschou

Thorbjørnsrud

2020

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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This study examines health news in Norwegian, Spanish, British, and U.S. newspapers. It seeks to fill a gap in journalism studies in the examination of health news as a genre, particularly in a comparative context, and with a focus on broader social and political roles and meanings of health news, rather than effects on individual behavior. It is rooted in literatures that seek to understand health journalism in sociological terms, considering the role of health journalism in relation to institutional relationships between biomedicine, the market, and the state. It departs, in particular, from the theory of biomedicalization, which holds that the field of biomedicine, increasingly transformed into a complex, commercialized “techno-service complex,” has deep cultural impact, including the spreading of a conception of an individualized patient-consumer who will actively seek information to control risk and pursue wellness. In this article, we ask whether research on health news centered around this model, mostly carried out in the United States, is generalizable to European countries where the health system is organized primarily according to a public service model. The study considers three aspects of health news content: the implied audience of news stories, distinguishing in particular between those that address readers as patient-consumers and those that address them as citizens; the distinction among biomedical, lifestyle, and social frames for understanding health issues; and the range of actors reflected in health news as sources and as story originators.

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Biomedicalization and Media in Comparative Perspective: Audiences, Frames, and Actors in Norwegian, Spanish, U.K. and U.S. Health News

Hallin

Figenschou

Thorbjørnsrud

2020

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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“…Birsen and Ozturk (2011) concluded that health news is trying to create a perception that encourages consumption. In the studies of Stroobant et al (2019) and Van Cappellen et al (2018), it was emphasised that health news has been described as having an impact on lifestyle and health behaviour changes. In his research with pharmacists, Karasneh et al (2021) investigated the perceived role of the media about COVID-19.…”

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Evaluation of Individuals’ Perception of Health News in the Period of COVID-19 Pandemic

Yeşilaydın

Donar

2022

Journal of Health Management

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the perceptions of individuals related to health news published in COVID-19 pandemic period in Turkey. It was also aimed to determine the factors that may affect this perception. The research population consisted of individuals in the 18–74 age range living in Turkey. Google survey method was used to collect data. A total of 1,073 people were reached from Turkey’s seven regions. ‘Health News Perception Scale’ developed by Cinar et al. (2018) was used to evaluate the perception of individuals about health news. Gender, generations, education level, marital status, the region where the city is located, number of children, time spent and trust in health news on internet, having chronic diseases, COVID-19 positive diagnosis of relatives, working status and frequency of following the health news during pandemic were variables that make a statistically significant difference in individuals’ perception of health news. As a result, it is thought that health news can make a significant difference on the health behaviour of individuals. It is important to pay attention to the quality of the news in this period, where the number of news reports on health and the interest of individuals in health news has increased.

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“…Mass media has been described as a key social institution in Western societies [24,25] and a central source for information on health [25,26]. Media coverage of cancer has been the subject of ample research, mainly in the USA and Canada [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36].…”

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Cancer-related stigma in the USA and Israeli mass media: an exploratory study of structural stigma

Soffer

2022

J Cancer Surviv

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Purpose Cancer is considered a stigmatized condition in many cultures. One key cultural site that produces illness-related structural stigma is mass media. This study explored the social construction of cancer-related stigma in mass media during the time of COVID-19. Specifically, we compared how cancer-related stigma is constructed in two contexts: American and Israeli mass media. Methods Two samples were drawn: all articles that mentioned cancer and published in a 4-month period in USA Today ( N = 117) and Israel Today ( N = 108). Inductive Thematic Analysis was used to analyze the articles. Results Three similar themes were identified in the samples: “the trivialization of cancer,” “cancer as metaphor,” and the “the war against cancer.” In both samples, people with cancer were depicted as heroic. Despite the similarities in themes, how each theme was constructed reflected sociocultural differences between the two samples. Conclusions There appear to be presented universal mechanisms of cancer-related stigma in the media, alongside cultural differences in how they are employed and constructed. Implications for Cancer Survivors The results stress the importance of debunking cancer-related stigma in the media and elsewhere. Cancer survivors and their families, reporters, researchers, and other stakeholders in the two studied countries should collaborate to devise culturally informed guidelines for reporting and writing about cancer.

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When Medicine Meets Media: How Health News is Co-produced Between Health and Media Professionals

Cited by 20 publications

References 56 publications

Biomedicalization and Media in Comparative Perspective: Audiences, Frames, and Actors in Norwegian, Spanish, U.K. and U.S. Health News

Biomedicalization and Media in Comparative Perspective: Audiences, Frames, and Actors in Norwegian, Spanish, U.K. and U.S. Health News

Evaluation of Individuals’ Perception of Health News in the Period of COVID-19 Pandemic

Cancer-related stigma in the USA and Israeli mass media: an exploratory study of structural stigma

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