Newspaper coverage of emergency response and government responsibility in domestic natural disasters: China-US and within-China comparisons

Health, Risk and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 71-85

  Fu, King wa ^a   Zhou, Ling ^b   Zhang, Qiang ^b   Chan, Yuen ying ^a   Burkhart, Ford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; comparative study; crisis communication; Hurricane Katrina; media reporting; risk; Sichuan earthquake; USA

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; EARTHQUAKE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; MASS COMMUNICATION; POLICY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860811601     PISSN: 13698575     EISSN: 14698331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13698575.2011.641521     Document Type: Article

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