Hiding women healthcare workers in the media spotlight: How the Chinese state media represented women HCWs in response to the Covid-19-engendered crises

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Hao Cao
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
The Media ◽  
Chinese State

scholarly journals Fostering ethical biomedical and health research in India during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nandini K Kumar ◽  
Vasantha Muthuswamy
Keyword(s):  
Health Research ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Ethical Review ◽  
Fake News ◽  
National Guidelines ◽  
The Media ◽  
Collaborative Efforts ◽  
Indian Perspective

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented, major challenges to the ethical conduct of research including challenges for the rapid and robust ethical review of biomedical research. The Indian Council of Medical Research’s “National Guidelines for Ethics Committees Reviewing Biomedical and Health Research during COVID-19 Pandemic” aim to assist ethics committees in this time of crisis, whilst simultaneously protecting researchers and research participants. Whilst ethics committees are encouraged to approve studies rapidly, the Indian guidelines also make clear that no shortcuts will be taken. Informed consent must be obtained innovatively, but cannot be dispensed with. Vulnerable people should only be involved in clinical research that is relevant to their health needs. Approaching communities for research also requires new, trust-building methods, given that healthcare workers and researchers have been assaulted during their COVID-19 research. Importantly, the media must carry their share of responsibility and avoid spreading fake news. From an Indian perspective, the question of whether we are sitting on a volcano that might erupt at any time causing more damage than we ever expected is currently unclear. Only global collaborative efforts will help to tide over in the present crisis.

Violations of Suicide-Prevention Guidelines in US Media Coverage of Physician's Suicide Death During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Crisis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika E. Lynn-Green ◽  
Klaudia Jaźwińska ◽  
Adam L. Beckman ◽  
Stephen R. Latham
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Worker ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Reporting Guidelines ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Practices

Abstract. Background: Healthcare workers are at elevated risk for suicide; though it has yet to be studied, this risk may be exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. News media coverage of high-profile suicide is associated with an increased risk of subsequent suicides. No analysis has yet been published of US media practices for reporting on healthcare worker suicides during the pandemic. Aims: The researchers aimed to evaluate pandemic-era media practices by investigating adherence to best-practice suicide reporting guidelines in coverage of Dr. Lorna Breen's death. Methods: The researchers conducted a content analysis of all unique articles by top outlets reporting Dr. Breen's death between April 26 and 29, 2020, and scored them based on their adherence to the 15 best-practice suicide reporting guidelines. Results: Every media outlet violated an average of at least 5 of 15 suicide guidelines in reporting on Dr. Breen's death; some abided by as few as 2 of 15 recommended guidelines. Seven of 15 guidelines were adhered to by fewer than one third of articles. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline number, notably easy to include, appeared in only 75% of articles. Limitations: The researchers were limited to reviewing media coverage of one specific instance of COVID-era healthcare worker suicide, making these findings applicable as a prominent case study rather than forming a generalizable claim about suicide reporting during the pandemic or about reporting on healthcare suicides. Conclusion: These violations highlight a range of opportunities to improve suicide prevention in the media, which has a responsibility to ensure reporting does not exacerbate the risk of suicide. Improved adherence to these guidelines could reduce harm for healthcare workers during the pandemic.

scholarly journals How do Nigerian newspapers report COVID-19 pandemic? The implication for awareness and prevention

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 471-480
Author(s):  
Oberiri Destiny Apuke ◽  
Bahiyah Omar
Keyword(s):  
Disease Control ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Death Rates ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Sources ◽  
The Media

Abstract This study examined media coverage of COVID-19 in Nigeria with attention to the frequency and depth of coverage, story format, news sources, media tone and themes. Four widely read newspapers were content analysed between February 2020 and April 2020. Focus was on Daily Sun, Vanguard, Daily Trust and Leadership. Results indicated that the Nigerian media performed well in terms of covering the pandemic, which in turn created awareness. However, the coverage was not in-depth as most of the reported stories were short and were predominantly straight news. It was also observed that the media cited more of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and government officials. Further findings disclosed that most of the stories were alarming and induced panic. Most common topics were coverage of cases in Nigeria, death rates and concerns about Nigeria’s preparedness. Public sensitization and education were sparingly covered. Ethics healthcare workers could adhere to received minimal attention. The media should focus more on sensitizing and educating the public on the necessary steps to take in curbing the virus. They should refrain from over usage of alarming and panic tone in presenting the stories of COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria.

scholarly journals Reporting Strategy and Gender Perspective in Chinese Media Coverage of COVID-19 News

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-360
Author(s):  
Yi Yang ◽  
Xunqian Liu
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
And Gender

This article examines the reporting strategy and gender perspective in Chinese media coverage of COVID-19 news. The article employs a mixed-method approach to analyze news reports, using quantitative statistics and qualitative semantic materials that complement each other. The study found that the media construct a stereotypical image of female healthcare workers absent from public participation. Media reports on the actual number of female healthcare workers involved in treating COVID-19 patients are lower than those about men. Reports focusing exclusively on female staff tend to focus on their private affairs, that is, on their non-professional identities and characteristics, and show an excessive gaze on the female body. To understand this phenomenon prevailing in Chinese media, it is necessary to highlight the predicament of Chinese women in society as well as acknowledge the work of contemporary Chinese feminism in raising awareness on Chinese women’s experiences.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and Italian Healthcare Workers From the Initial Sacrifice to the mRNA Vaccine: Pandemic Chrono-History, Epidemiological Data, Ethical Dilemmas, and Future Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Nioi ◽  
Pietro Emanuele Napoli ◽  
Jessica Lobina ◽  
Maurizio Fossarello ◽  
Ernesto d'Aloja
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Epidemiological Data ◽  
World Health ◽  
First Case ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Therapeutic Measures ◽  
The Media ◽  
Health Organization

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak a pandemic. Simultaneously, in Italy, in which the first case had occurred on February 18, the rigid phase of the lockdown began. The country has attracted worldwide attention, becoming at the same time a field of study both concerning the spread of the pandemic and advanced assessments of the effectiveness of political, public health, and therapeutic measures. The protagonists of the Italian crisis were the healthcare workers (HCWs) who were exposed to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) without having any perception of what they were facing, courageously contributing to the containment of the epidemic to be defined by the media as “heroes.” However, in the first phase of the pandemic (March–May 2020), the price that the Italian Public Health System had to pay both in terms of the number of positive virus cases and deaths among the HCWs was beyond and represented a peculiarity compared to what happened in other countries. In the current study, after a summary of the evolution of the pandemic in Italy, we offer an analysis of the statistical data concerning contagions and deaths among healthcare workers (physicians in particular). In conclusion, we describe the critical issues that still need to be resolved and the future challenges facing healthcare workers and the general population.

scholarly journals Psychological Aspects of Media Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from Healthcare and Pharmacy Specialists in Lithuania

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1297
Author(s):  
Nida Žemaitienė ◽  
Milda Kukulskienė ◽  
Vilma Miglinė ◽  
Loreta Kubilienė ◽  
Gabrielė Urbonaitė ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Subjective Effects ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Related Information ◽  
The Media ◽  
Search For Information ◽  
Effects Of Media

In the setting of disasters, people seek information as they hope that knowledge will provide security. This makes the media a critical source of crisis exposure. The aim of the study described in this article was to analyze COVID-19 pandemic-related psychological aspects of media use by healthcare and pharmacy workers in Lithuania and to reveal the subjective effects of media consumption on their psychological well-being. 967 healthcare workers and pharmacists in Lithuania completed an electronic survey, which consisted of questions about the changes in well-being experienced since the beginning of the lockdown and media use in the search for information on COVID-19. It was found that communication might have ambiguous effects on psychological well-being. Excessive, unreliable, misleading, contradictory information and “catastrophizing” were subjectively related to impaired psychological well-being. Objective and reliable, relevant, clear, timely, hopeful and supportive information had a subjective positive effect. Seeking COVID-19-related information many times a day was associated with increased fear of becoming infected with COVID-19, feeling unable to control the risk of contracting COVID-19, fear of infecting relatives with COVID-19 and feeling that other people would avoid interaction with healthcare workers and pharmacists because of their job. General browsing was not consistently associated with COVID-19-related fears.

scholarly journals ‘Healthcare Heroes’: problems with media focus on heroism from healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (8) ◽  
pp. 510-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitríona L Cox
Keyword(s):  
Social Contract ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
The Media ◽  
Normal Work

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the media have repeatedly praised healthcare workers for their ‘heroic’ work. Although this gratitude is undoubtedly appreciated by many, we must be cautious about overuse of the term ‘hero’ in such discussions. The challenges currently faced by healthcare workers are substantially greater than those encountered in their normal work, and it is understandable that the language of heroism has been evoked to praise them for their actions. Yet such language can have potentially negative consequences. Here, I examine what heroism is and why it is being applied to the healthcare workers currently, before outlining some of the problems associated with the heroism narrative currently being employed by the media. Healthcare workers have a clear and limited duty to treat during the COVID-19 pandemic, which can be grounded in a broad social contract and is strongly associated with certain reciprocal duties that society has towards healthcare workers. I argue that the heroism narrative can be damaging, as it stifles meaningful discussion about what the limits of this duty to treat are. It fails to acknowledge the importance of reciprocity, and through its implication that all healthcare workers have to be heroic, it can have negative psychological effects on workers themselves. I conclude that rather than invoking the language of heroism to praise healthcare workers, we should examine, as a society, what duties healthcare workers have to work in this pandemic, and how we can support them in fulfilling these.

Extending Liberalization from the Press to the Internet

2019 ◽  
pp. 104-128
Author(s):  
Ya-Wen Lei
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Technological Properties ◽  
News Service ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Chinese State

This chapter examines the connection between the press and the Internet sectors. It discusses how and why the major Internet companies providing news service and social media in China became a thorn in the side of the Chinese state, despite the state's efforts to control them. Existing studies of rising public opinion in China tend to focus on how technological properties of the Internet can empower citizens to bring about social change and how the Chinese state has attempted to forestall such change. Such work tends to pay less attention to the ways in which particular contexts mediate and moderate the technological effects of the Internet. The chapter traces the restructuring of the media field in China, especially the development of the online news market, following the state's decision to connect the country to the Internet. As the chapter demonstrates, preexisting conditions in the newspaper market played a key—but often neglected—role in shaping China's online news market and discursive arena.

scholarly journals A koronavírus elleni védőoltással kapcsolatos vélekedések – az egészségügyi dolgozók szerepe az ismeretek átadásában 2020 decemberében

2021 ◽  
Vol 162 (24) ◽  
pp. 931-937
Author(s):  
Veronika Mészáros ◽  
Zsuzsanna Mirnics ◽  
Zsuzsanna Kövi ◽  
Judit Arató ◽  
Zoltán Vass ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Social ◽  
Vaccination Acceptance ◽  
The Media ◽  
Longitudinal Examination ◽  
Social Usefulness

Összefoglaló. Bevezetés: A koronavírus elleni védőoltással kapcsolatos vélekedések igen aktuális, társadalmi szempontból fontos területét adják az egészségmagatartással foglalkozó kutatásoknak. Célkitűzés: Vizsgálatunk a védőoltásról különbözőképpen vélekedő (oltást elutasító, oltást választó, oltáson nem gondolkodó, valamint bizonytalan) csoportok elemzését tűzte ki célul az oltás előnyeinek és hátrányainak, valamint az információforrások használatának tekintetében. Módszer: A mintát „A koronavírus-járvány okozta lelki tényezők utánkövetéses vizsgálatának” 2020 decemberében felvett adatai adják; a vizsgálat során 1009 fő válaszait egyszempontos varianciaanalízissel elemeztük. Eredmények: Eredményeink azt mutatják, hogy a budapestiek és a Közép-Magyarországon élők, az idősebbek, a férfiak, a magasabb iskolai végzettségűek, valamint a házasok választják nagyobb eséllyel a védőoltást. Az oltásról különbözőképpen vélekedő csoportokat az oltás előnyei jobban elkülönítik egymástól, mint az oltás hátrányai. Az előnyök közül a csoportokat főképp a társas, társadalmi érdekekre fókuszáló tételek differenciálják, melyek a járvány megfékezéséről, a fertőzés átadásáról szólnak. A használt információforrásokat elemezve pedig elmondható, hogy mind a négy csoport jobban támaszkodik a személyes (család, barátok) és az orvosi, egészségügyből érkező információkra, mint a médiából érkező hírekre. Következtetés: Az oltási csoportok véleménye az oltás pozitív hozadékait, különösképp társadalmi hasznosságát illetően tér el, mely vélemények a leginkább a személyes kapcsolatokon, így az egészségügyi dolgozók álláspontján keresztül formálódnak. Tehát az egészségügyben dolgozóknak kiemelkedő szerepük van a hozzájuk tanácsért fordulók differenciált megértésében, szakértői tájékoztatásában és megfelelő tanácsokkal való ellátásában. Orv Hetil. 2021; 162(24): 931–937. Summary. Introduction: Beliefs regarding coronavirus vaccination provide very actual and socially important area in mental health research. Objective: The aim of our study was to differentiate the opinions related to coronavirus vaccination (acceptance, refusal, ignorance, hesitation). We analyzed advantages and disadvantages of vaccination, and the different channels in getting information about the vaccine. Method: Our study is part of the “Longitudinal examination of mental factors caused by the coronavirus epidemic” research project, wave of December 2020. We analyzed the responses of 1009 people by one-way analysis of variance tests. Results: Our results show that elder people, males, and those who have higher education are more likely to accept the vaccine. In addition, those who live in Budapest and Cental Hungary are more likely to choose vaccination against the coronavirus than those living in other areas. The groups with different opinions on vaccination are better discriminated by benefit-related than risk-related opinions. Those benefit-related items showed the largest variance between groups, which focused on social usefulness on curbing the epidemics, preventing the spread of the infection. Analyzing the sources of information, we found that all groups rely more on personal (family, friends) and medical health information than on news from the media. Conclusion: The opinions of the vaccination groups differ mostly regarding the positive benefits of vaccination, especially the social usefulness. Opinions are mostly formed through personal relationships including relations with healthcare workers. Healthcare professionals therefore have a key role in providing a differentiated understanding of those seeking advice, providing expert information and appropriate advice. Orv Hetil. 2021; 162(24): 931–937.

scholarly journals Factors Associated with Burnout among Healthcare Workers during an Outbreak of MERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 674-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yae Eun Seo ◽  
Hyun Chung Kim ◽  
So Young Yoo ◽  
Kang Uk Lee ◽  
Hae Woo Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Chart Review ◽  
Prior Experience ◽  
Retrospective Chart Review ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
General Hospitals ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Hospital Employees ◽  
Oldenburg Burnout Inventory ◽  
The Media

Objective Although healthcare workers (HCWs) experienced significant stress during the 2015 outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), the factors associated with this stress remain unknown. Thus, the present study assessed burnout among HCWs during the MERS outbreak to identify the influential factors involved in this process.Methods This study was a retrospective chart review of the psychological tests and questionnaires completed by 171 hospital employees from two general hospitals that treated MERS patients. The tests included the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory, Positive Resources Test, the questionnaires assessed exposure to the MERS outbreak event and perceptions about MERS.Results Of the 171 HCWs, 112 (65.5%) experienced disengagement and 136 (79.5%) suffered from exhaustion. Disengagement was associated with lower levels of purpose and hope, a higher perception of job risk, and exposure to the media. Exhaustion was associated with lower levels of purpose and hope, a higher perception of little control of the infection, a higher perception of job risk, prior experience related to infections, and being female.Conclusion Our results revealed the risk and protective factors associated with burnout among HCWs during an outbreak of MERS. These findings should be considered when determining interventional strategies aimed at ameliorating burnout among HCWs.

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