Media Depictions of Health Topics: Challenge and Stigma Formats

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 233-249

  Smith, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; CANCER; CIGARETTE SMOKING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEART DISEASE; HEPATITIS; MASS MEDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SCOLIOSIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STIGMA; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIODICALS; PILOT PROJECTS; PUBLISHING; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; STEREOTYPING; TEXAS; UNIVERSITIES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 34248582598     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: 10870415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10810730701266273     Document Type: Review

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