Talking about obesity: News framing of who is responsible for causing and fixing the problem

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 359-376

  Kim, Sei Hill ^a   Willis, L Anne ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELEVISION VIEWING;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIBLIOMETRICS; CAUSALITY; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; NEWSPAPERS; OBESITY; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; TELEVISION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250176516     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: 10870415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10810730701326051     Document Type: Article

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