Health contents in the national newspapers

  • V. Márquez Hernández Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud. Universidad de Almería
Keywords: Health education, Newspaper, Mass media

Abstract

Objective: The increasing interest of the public's health, has prompted the press increasingly offering health content in their publications. This paper aims to conduct a descriptive analysis of health content have been published in the national newspaper El Pais.

Methods: This is a descriptive study, which analyzed for the publications of the newspaper El Pais for 15 days.

Results: We found that of 880 pages analyzed, only 35 had medical content, the section appeared more content was the Culture, and the average number of pages devoted to such content was 1 page.

Conclusions: El País offers daily health content, but it has shortcomings, mainly in the section on authors and their grieving offers information on its editors we must analyze the information that reaches us, and we must know who offers it to us.

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Published
2016-11-17
How to Cite
Márquez Hernández, V. (2016). Health contents in the national newspapers. Revista Española De Comunicación En Salud , 1(2), 164-171. Retrieved from https://e-revistas.uc3m.es/index.php/RECS/article/view/3416
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