'Disease, Disaster and Despair'? The Presentation of Health in Low- and Middle-income countries on australian television

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Imison, Michelle ^a   Chapman, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISASTER; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; HOPELESSNESS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MASS COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MIDDLE INCOME GROUP; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL STATUS; TELEVISION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STATISTICS;

AUSTRALIA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISASTERS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; TELEVISION;

EID: 78649662614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014106     Document Type: Article

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