Defining diabetes and assigning responsibility: how print media frame diabetes in New Zealand

Gounder, Farzana; Ameer, Rashid

doi:10.1080/00909882.2017.1409907

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“…When examining how the media present health topics, researchers have replied on the theoretical construct of framing, which refers to the channels and content used to describe issues [18][19][20]. Numerous viewpoints from the high-income countries extend framing analysis of many kinds of themes to develop a framing typology of disease risks; it includes frames of medical, behavioral, or structurally focused; gain vs. loss frames; risk-amplifying vs. risk-attenuating frames; or episodic vs. thematic frames [21][22][23][24][25].…”

Section: Health and Risks Coveragementioning

confidence: 99%

Online Newspaper Framing of Non-Communicable Diseases: Comparison of Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao

Chang

Schulz

Cheong³

2020

IJERPH

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As non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are now well recognized as the leading cause of mortality among adult populations worldwide, they are also increasingly the focus of media coverage. As such, the objective of this study is to describe the framing of NCDs in the coverage of newspapers, with the understanding that it says something about the society producing it. Automatic content analysis was employed to examine disease topics, risks, and cost consequences, thus providing lay people with a chance of learning the etiology of NCDs and information available for fighting diseases. The result of the computational method identified a total of 152,810 news articles with one of the seven supra-categories of NCDs. The category of metabolic diseases was covered most frequently in the past ten years. Three health risks received ample attention in all 11 newspapers: stress burden, tobacco use, and genetic predispositions. The results evidenced how media framed risk information of illnesses would distort the way in which diseases were selected, interpreted, and the outcome communicated. Future research building on our findings can further examine whether news framing affects the way the readers perceive and prevent NCDs.

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Section: Health and Risks Coveragementioning

confidence: 99%

Online Newspaper Framing of Non-Communicable Diseases: Comparison of Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao

Chang

Schulz

Cheong³

2020

IJERPH

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“…108-109). The research implemented the three-phase methodological approach developed by Gounder and Ameer (2018), and modified the codes to the requirements of this study. The researcher and research assistant conducted the research in three consecutive phases of content analysis.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For cancer, causal ambiguity and a fatalistic perspective influenced people's personal abilities and inclination to take risk-reducing behaviours (Han et al, 2007). This is in contrast to diabetes, with its association with lifestyle factors, where more concrete steps are provided to prevent diabetes (Gounder & Ameer, 2018). HIV is an illness that challenges societal norms about what can be said in public, and this societal attitude has, until recently, been a barrier to HIV information uptake.…”

Section: Cause Solution and Responsibility Attributionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Suva Residents’ Views on Cancer, Diabetes and HIV in The Fiji Times

Gounder¹

2020

JPACS

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The burden of preventable diseases is increasing in the South Pacific Island Countries and Territories. In Fiji, significant media attention and national finances are spent on public dissemination of the modifiable risk factors of chronic illnesses. However, little is known about lay societal perceptions of chronic illnesses and of people living with these illnesses. This preliminary study takes an area-situated approach to lay knowledge and examines Suva residents’ moral evaluations associated with socially significant health concerns in Fiji. Using the case studies of HIV, cancer, and diabetes, the research employs content analysis to examine 144 Suva residents’ Letters to the Editor, published between 2000 and 2019 in The Fiji Times. The findings indicate that letter writers on chronic illnesses are power sensitive, interested in governmental responsibility, and aware of the role of stigma in creating inequitable health outcomes. The study’s findings locate chronic illness as not only a medical responsibility but also a social justice and human rights concern that requires a multisectoral approach, with community-tailored responses at the heart of all discussions. The lay-societal recognition of the three illnesses as being socially relevant suggests grassroots support for policies directed towards structural reforms for the prevention and management of these illnesses.

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“…In general, the media influences what is considered important and worth reporting ('agenda setting'; see [11]), as well as how an issue is reported ('framing'; see [12]). In the context of diabetes, the media can influence who is seen as responsible, both in cause and solution [13]. Further, health news coverage can affect public policy agendas, policy makers, and the policy process [14][15][16][17], with potential effects for funding and research.…”

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Invisible or high-risk: Computer-assisted discourse analysis of references to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people(s) and issues in a newspaper corpus about diabetes

Bednarek

2020

PLoS ONE

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This article employs computer-assisted methods to analyse references to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people(s) and issues in a newspaper corpus about diabetes. The objectives are to identify both the frequency and quality of social representation. The dataset consisted of 694 items from 12 Australian newspapers in a five-year period (2013-2017). The quantitative analysis focused on frequency (raw/normalised) and range (number/percentage of texts). The qualitative analysis focused on the identification of semantic prosody (co-occurrence with negative/positive words and phrases) and on selective social actor analysis. The qualitative analysis also compared choices made by the press to language practices recommended in relevant reporting guidelines. Key results include that references to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people(s) or matters appear to be extremely rare. In addition, newspapers' language choices only partially align with guidelines. References that do occur can be classified into four categories: a) references to [groups of] people and other references to identity; b) names of services, institutions, professions, roles etc; c) nonhuman nouns related to health; d) non-human nouns related to culture. Qualitative analysis of the word COMMUNITY suggests that newspapers for the most part do recognise the existence of different communities at a national level. However, analysis of all references to [groups of] people shows that the vast majority occur in contexts to do with negativity, therefore having a negative semantic prosody. More specifically, there is a strong association with mentions of a higher risk, likelihood, or incidence of having or developing diabetes (or complications/effects). In sum, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people(s) and issues lack in visibility in Australian diabetes coverage, and are associated with deficit framing, which can be disempowering. To change the discourse would require both an increased visibility as well as changing the deficit lens.

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Defining diabetes and assigning responsibility: how print media frame diabetes in New Zealand

Cited by 26 publications

References 44 publications

Online Newspaper Framing of Non-Communicable Diseases: Comparison of Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao

Online Newspaper Framing of Non-Communicable Diseases: Comparison of Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao

Suva Residents’ Views on Cancer, Diabetes and HIV in The Fiji Times

Invisible or high-risk: Computer-assisted discourse analysis of references to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people(s) and issues in a newspaper corpus about diabetes

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