Escalating coverage of obesity in UK newspapers: The evolution and framing of the obesity epidemic from 1996 to 2010

Obesity

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1688-1695

  Hilton, Shona ^a   Patterson, Chris ^a   Teyhan, Alison ^a  

^a MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CONTENT ANALYSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MASS COMMUNICATION; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; OBESITY; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; TREND STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM;

BIBLIOMETRICS; CHILD; EPIDEMICS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH POLICY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; NEWSPAPERS; OBESITY;

EID: 84864371890     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2012.27     Document Type: Article

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