scholarly journals SCIENCE AND HEALTH JOURNALISM IN CONTEXT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
D.C. SHARMA ◽  
ABHISHEK PATHAK ◽  
RAMESHWAR NATH CHAURASIA ◽  
DEEPIKA JOSHI ◽  
RAJESH KUMAR SINGH ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Journalism

Will improvements in health journalism improve health literacy?

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 27-40
Author(s):  
Ivan Oransky
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Quality Of Health Care ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Improve Health Care ◽  
Health Journalism ◽  
Improve Health

Today’s health care journalists work in a very different environment than those of yesterday. The demand for stories and broadcasts has grown exponentially, and the resources available have shrunk dramatically. While it may therefore be difficult to see how improvements in health care journalism are possible, let alone a way to improve health care literacy, there is an important connection that, if illuminated, could help both fields. To understand the literature on the quality of health care journalism, it is critical to understand the backgrounds of today’s health care journalists and the challenges they face. That literature also goes hand in hand with studies of the effects that news coverage has on the public’s understanding of health care issues. There are training and educational programs designed to help health care journalists do their jobs better, and this chapter concludes with a discussion of how cooperation between health journalists, physicians, and other stakeholders can lift all boats.

The State of Health Journalism

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Andrew Holtz
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Health Journalism

Citizen Health Journalism

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 319-335
Author(s):  
Stuart Davis
Keyword(s):  
Health Journalism

scholarly journals Health journalism: Health reporting status and challenges

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niko Yamani ◽  
Mahrokh Keshvari ◽  
Peyman Adibi ◽  
Hossein Shahnazi
Keyword(s):  
Health Reporting ◽  
Health Journalism

scholarly journals Health, news and ethical principlesSağlık, haber ve etik ilkeler

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 477-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asuman Kaya
Keyword(s):  
Life Quality ◽  
English Summary ◽  
Private Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Health News ◽  
Health Journalism ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

Health news has a special position due to both their corporate significance and being for the special/private areas of the readers. They also directly influence the health right, which is one of the fundamental, irreplaceable, nontransferable rights of the individual and based on the “value of being human”. The health news which is made inattentively or false can lead to ending an individual’s life or reducing the life quality of an individual.In this regard, in this study, which aims to reveal the ethical principles of health journalism in Turkey within the framework of social responsibility theory in relation to health journalism which requires a privileged responsibility and attention, a qualitative approach was adopted where the data was collected through document analysis and interviews.As a result, the health journalist needs to observe personal rights and act responsibly in order to avoid disrupting the body unity of a person, adversely affect the life quality of a person and avoid preventing the right to access to equal and quality health services in his professional journalist behaviors while producing news. Within this framework, the Ethical Principles of Health Journalism which should be taken into consideration by the journalist in the production process of the health news are as follows: Principle of not harming, principles of honesty and objectivity, principles of privacy and private life, principle of equity.Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetSağlık haberleri hem taşıdıkları kamusal önem hem de okuyucuların özel/mahrem alanlarına yönelik olmaları nedeniyle özel bir konuma sahiptir. Aynı zamanda kaynağını insanın “insan olma değeri”nden alan ve bireyin temel, vazgeçilemez, devredilemez haklarından biri olan sağlık hakkını doğrudan etkilemektedir. Özensiz, eksik veya yanlış yapılan bir sağlık haberi, bireyin yaşamının sonlanmasına veya yaşam kalitesinin düşmesine neden olabilmektedir.Bu bağlamda ayrıcalıklı bir sorumluluk ve özen gerektiren sağlık haberciliği ile ilgili olarak, Türkiye’de sağlık haberciliği etik ilkelerinin ortaya konulması amaçlandığı çalışmada, verilerin doküman incelemesi ve görüşme yoluyla toplandığı nitel yaklaşım benimsenmiştir.Sonuç olarak sağlık habercisinin haber üretiminde profesyonel gazetecilik davranışlarının gereğiyle, kişinin vücut bütünlüğünü bozmamak, yaşam kalitesini olumsuz etkilememek, eşit ve kaliteli sağlık hizmetine ulaşma hakkını engellememek adına, kişilik haklarını da gözeterek, sorumlu davranmasının gerekliliği ortaya çıkmaktadır. Bu çerçevede gazetecinin sağlık haberi üretim sürecinde göz önünde bulundurması gereken Sağlık Haberciliği Etik İlkeleri; zarar vermeme ilkesi, doğruluk ve objektiflik ilkesi, mahremiyet ve özel hayat ilkesi, hakkaniyet ilkesi olarak belirlenmiştir.

scholarly journals Modern Health Journalism and the Impact of Social Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (22) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keya Ganatra ◽  
Armen Yuri Gasparyan ◽  
Latika Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Health Journalism ◽  
The Impact

Biomedicalization and Media in Comparative Perspective: Audiences, Frames, and Actors in Norwegian, Spanish, U.K. and U.S. Health News

2020 ◽  
pp. 194016122096041
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Hallin ◽  
Tine Ustad Figenschou ◽  
Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
Health News ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Political Roles ◽  
Health Journalism ◽  
Institutional Relationships

This study examines health news in Norwegian, Spanish, British, and U.S. newspapers. It seeks to fill a gap in journalism studies in the examination of health news as a genre, particularly in a comparative context, and with a focus on broader social and political roles and meanings of health news, rather than effects on individual behavior. It is rooted in literatures that seek to understand health journalism in sociological terms, considering the role of health journalism in relation to institutional relationships between biomedicine, the market, and the state. It departs, in particular, from the theory of biomedicalization, which holds that the field of biomedicine, increasingly transformed into a complex, commercialized “techno-service complex,” has deep cultural impact, including the spreading of a conception of an individualized patient-consumer who will actively seek information to control risk and pursue wellness. In this article, we ask whether research on health news centered around this model, mostly carried out in the United States, is generalizable to European countries where the health system is organized primarily according to a public service model. The study considers three aspects of health news content: the implied audience of news stories, distinguishing in particular between those that address readers as patient-consumers and those that address them as citizens; the distinction among biomedical, lifestyle, and social frames for understanding health issues; and the range of actors reflected in health news as sources and as story originators.

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