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1. Healthy viewing: the reception of medical narratives

Author

Davin, Solange

Subjects
Human information processing -- Comparative analysis, Health education -- Social aspects, Health education -- Psychological aspects, Television viewers -- Surveys, Television viewers -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Health care industry -- Media coverage, Television programs -- Influence, Health care industry, Health, Sociology and social work
Abstract

Research indicates that television viewers affect a sophisticated interpretation and synthesis of televised health information that cannot be predicted solely by program content. Studies involved interviews with audiences who watched a medical drama, a soap opera, and/or a documentary.

Published
2003

2. Health and media: an overview

Author

Seale, Clive

Subjects
Health care industry -- Media coverage, Health care industry, Health, Sociology and social work
Published
2003

3. 'About a year before the breakdown I was having symptoms': sadness, pathology and the Australian newspaper media

Author

Rowe, Rob, Tilbury, Farida, Rapley, Mark, and O'Ferrall, Ilse

Subjects
Self-control -- Media coverage, Self-control -- Health aspects, Self-control -- Psychological aspects, Depression, Mental -- Media coverage, Depression, Mental -- Social aspects, Depression, Mental -- Care and treatment, Health care industry -- Media coverage, Health care industry, Health, Sociology and social work
Abstract

Media coverage of depression in Australia is analyzed and three primary discourses are explored: the psycho-social, the biomedical, and the administrative/managerial. These discourses present depression as beyond the scope of individual control, resulting in the portrayal of unhappiness as an individualized pathology requiring outside management.

Published
2003

4. Bio-phobias/techno-philias: virtual reality exposure as treatment for phobias of 'nature'

Author

Davidson, Joyce and Smith, Mick

Subjects
Virtual reality -- Usage, Virtual reality -- Psychological aspects, Virtual reality -- Health aspects, Patient education -- Information management, Phobias -- Care and treatment, Health care industry -- Media coverage, Company systems management, Virtual reality technology, Online health care service, Health care industry, Health, Sociology and social work
Abstract

The article explores the influence of new media on treating phobias based on natural objects such as snakes and spiders. Research involved interviewing members of the United KingdomEs National Phobics Society. Discussion includes whether complete cultural-based control can be asserted over unpredictable natural phenomena.

Published
2003

5. Popular media and 'excessive daytime sleepiness': a study of rhetorical authority in medical sociology

Author

Kroll-Smith, Steve

Subjects
Mass media criticism, Sleep disorders -- Media coverage, Sleep disorders -- Public opinion, Health behavior -- Comparative analysis, Health attitudes -- Comparative analysis, Health care industry -- Media coverage, Health care industry, Health, Sociology and social work
Abstract

The article examines the influence of magazines, newspapers and the Internet on public health beliefs and behaviors, using the emergence of problem sleepiness in the US as a medical condition. Discussion focuses on how norms and deviations in sleep parameters are presented by the media and how these are interpreted and adopted by the public.

Published
2003

6. Media activism and Internet use by people with HIV/AIDS

Author

Gillett, James

Subjects
Web sites -- Political aspects, AIDS patients -- Political activity, HIV patients -- Political activity, Health care industry -- Media coverage, Company systems management, Political issue, Company Web site/Web page, Web site/Web page development, Health care industry, Health, Sociology and social work
Abstract

Research reveals specific organizational themes in World Wide Web sites created by people living with HIV/AIDS. These include autobiography, dissent, expertise, and self promotion. It is posited that a link exists between Internet usage by people with HIV/AIDS and AIDS media activism.

Published
2003

7. 'Ignorance is bliss sometimes': constraints on the emergence of the 'informed patient' in the changing landscapes of health information

Author

Henwood, Flis, Wyatt, Sally, Hart, Angie, and Smith, Julie

Subjects
Patient education -- Information management, Patient education -- Social aspects, Patient education -- Psychological aspects, Physician and patient -- Social aspects, Physician and patient -- Psychological aspects, Online services -- Social aspects, Online services -- Psychological aspects, Information services -- Social aspects, Information services -- Psychological aspects, Health care industry -- Media coverage, Company systems management, Online information service, Health care industry, Health, Sociology and social work
Abstract

The article examines the correlation between healthcare information and resultant empowerment, and the influence of online services on this relationship. Findings show that einformation for choiceE can contribute to tension and conflict between layperson knowledge and expert knowledge in the clinical setting.

Published
2003

8. Going public: references to the news media in NHS contract negotiations

Author

Hughes, David and Griffiths, Lesley

Subjects
United Kingdom. National Health Service -- Labor relations, United Kingdom. National Health Service -- Media coverage, Health services administrators -- Management, Health services administrators -- Behavior, Labor relations -- Media coverage, Health care industry -- Media coverage, Health care industry -- Labor relations, Company business management, Health care industry, Health, Sociology and social work
Abstract

The article examines how media coverage influences midlevel managers in monitoring and negotiating clinical services contracts for the United KingdomEs National Health Service. Discussion includes maintaining organizational relationships and advantages in negotiation.

Published
2003

9. Narrativity and the mediation of health reform agendas

Author

Hodgetts, Darrin and Chamberlain, Kerry

Subjects
Television programs -- Influence, Television viewers -- Surveys, Television viewers -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Health care reform -- Media coverage, Health care industry -- Media coverage, Health care industry, Health, Sociology and social work
Abstract

The article examines how television coverage of health policy is interpreted and adopted by viewers in order to understand the reasons for and ramifications of healthcare reform. Studies were conducted on television viewers of lower socioeconomic status, who were shown television programs and then participated in focus group discussions.

Published
2003

10. 'Radical blueprint for social change'? Media representations of New Labour's policies on public health

Author

Davidson, Rosemary, Hunt, Kate, and Kitzinger, Jenny

Subjects
United Kingdom -- Social policy, Medical policy -- Media coverage, Health care industry -- Media coverage, Health care industry, Health, Sociology and social work
Abstract

The article examines news coverage of health inequalities in the United Kingdom, and how the New Labour government used these as a social policy agenda issue. Discussion includes how the emphasis on inequalities shifted between official documents and press coverage, and how this shifting emphasis produced negative coverage of the Labour government.

Published
2003

11. Nurses pay the price for media health scares

Author

Harteveldt, Rob

Subjects
Nurses -- Management, Nurses -- Media coverage, Health care industry -- Media coverage, Health care industry, Company business management, Health
Abstract

Sensible reporting of many health related issues is a rarity, passed over in favour of sensationalist, viewer-grabbing headlines that serve to clarify and to confuse or to provide false hope in the general press. Further, the nurses constantly pay the price for the misleading and contradicting inaccuracies of the media.

Published
2006

12. Seen but not heard

Author

Waters, Adele

Subjects
Nurses -- Public relations, Nurses -- Media coverage, Health care industry -- Public relations, Health care industry -- Media coverage, Health care industry, Company public relations, Health
Abstract

UK nurses do not speak to the media because of a fear of bosses and a concern about clarity.

Published
2002

13. Better understanding of health risks urged

Author

Busch, Linda

Subjects
United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- Social policy, Vaccination -- Public opinion, Medicine, Preventive -- Public opinion, Health care industry -- Media coverage, Health
Published
1985

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