Implications for alcohol minimum unit pricing advocacy: What can we learn for public health from UK newsprint coverage of key claim-makers in the policy debate?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 102, Issue , 2014, Pages 157-164

  Hilton, Shona ^a   Wood, Karen ^a   Patterson, Chris ^a   Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Media advocacy; Media representations; Minimum unit pricing; Newspapers; Newsprint coverage; Policies

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; MEDIA ADVOCACY; MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS; MINIMUM UNIT PRICING; NEWSPAPERS; NEWSPRINT COVERAGE; POLICIES;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; COMMERCE; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; ETHANOL; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; NEWSPAPERS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCOTLAND;

EID: 84894236709     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.11.041     Document Type: Article

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