What makes African American health disparities newsworthy? An experiment among journalists about story framing

Health Education Research

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 937-947

  Hinnant, Amanda ^a   Oh, Hyun Jee ^b   Caburnay, Charlene A ^c   Kreuter, Matthew W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWSPAPERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82155197508     PISSN: 02681153     EISSN: 14653648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/her/cyr086     Document Type: Article

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