Media Analysis and Public Health: Contemporary Issues in Critical Public Health

ISBN-13: 9780367335984 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 132 str.

Lesley Henderson; Shona Hilton; Judith Green

Opis

This book showcases new approaches to studying public health in the media, suggesting that we need to further analyse the production of media, power dynamics, and audience reception of media messages. It was originally published as a special issue of Critical Public Health.

Spis treści

Preface: Media, Evidence and Debate  Introduction – The media and public health: where next for critical analysis?  1. How the food, beverage and alcohol industries presented the Public Health Responsibility Deal in UK print and online media reports  2. Public engagement and the role of the media in post-marketing drug safety: the case of Eltroxin® (levothyroxine) in New Zealand  3. How alcohol marketing engages users with alcohol brand content on Facebook: an Indian and Australian perspective  4. ‘To drink or not to drink’: media framing of evidence and debate about alcohol consumption in pregnancy  5. Working up a lather: the rise (and fall?) of hand hygiene in Canadian newspapers, 1986–2015  6. Diet, exercise…and drugs: social constructions of healthy lifestyles in weight-related prescription drug advertisements  7. ‘I cannot explain it. I knew it was wrong’: a public account of cigarette smoking in pregnancy  8. Perception and translation of numbers: the case of a health campaign in Denmark  9. Newspaper coverage of childhood immunisation in Australia: a lens into conflicts within public health  10. Is social isolation a public health issue? A media analysis in Aotearoa/New Zealand