Print news coverage of cancer: What prevention messages are conveyed when screening is newsworthy?

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 434-441

  Smith, Katherine Clegg ^a   Kromm, Elizabeth Edsall ^a,b   Klassen, Ann Carroll ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Howard County Health Department   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatalism; News media; Qualitative text analysis; Screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; COMMUNITY; CONTENT ANALYSIS; HEALTH PROMOTION; MASS MEDIUM; PERCEPTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY; ADVERTIZING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PUBLICATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS MEDIA; NEOPLASMS; NEWSPAPERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955086922     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2010.02.006     Document Type: Article

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