Social health content analysis of local newspapers
Keywords:
communication media, health education, newspapersAbstract
Abstract: About 50% of population in Almería read general newspaper, especially local news, so the main objective of this study is a Social Health Contents analysis in newspaper in Almería, deepening in the space occupied, who writes and sources of information used.
Method: is a longitudinal study. The sample consisted of daily editions for a month the newspaper El Diario de Almería y La Voz de Almería.
Results: newspaper in Almería occupied a total space of 6, 97% of the social health contents, 27, 16% in the pages 8-16, the median is page 23. The most were written by journalist who used sources information, 41%. The most frequent topics were Gender Violence, Aborts, opening Health Centers, Home Care and Social Health Formation.
Conclusions: there is a need for health journalist to communicate effectively and ensure accuracy of social health information received by the population.
Downloads
Downloads
Published
-
Abstract466
-
PDF 269
Issue
Section
License
All articles published in this journal –unless otherwise stated- are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerives (CC-BY-ND 3.0 ES) Spain 3.0 License, which allows others to copy, distribute and transmit in a public way as long as they credit the author(s), journal and institution that publish these articles, and provided that they are not altered or modified. The complete license can be consulted in: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/deed/.es
The copyright belongs to the manuscript’s author just on the basis of creating this work:
- Moral rights are undeniable and inalienable.
- Economic or exploitation rights can be transferred to third parties, as it occurs when articles are published and authors partially or totally transfer their exploitation rights to publishers
Authors can archive their own articles in an institutional repository as long as their publications are cited in this journal.