Talking about health care: News framing of who is responsible for rising health care costs in the United States

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 123-133

  Kim, Sei Hill ^a   Tanner, Andrea H ^a   Foster, Caroline B ^b   Kim, Soo Yun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG INDUSTRY; ECONOMICS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INSURANCE; PATIENT; PUBLICATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DRUG INDUSTRY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INSURANCE CARRIERS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; NEWSPAPERS; PATIENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84924866808     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: 10870415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2014.914604     Document Type: Article

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