Heart disease and gender in mass print media

Clarke, Juanne N.

doi:10.1016/j.maturitas.2009.11.019

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“…However, to advance our understanding of gender differences in health outcomes, studies should be designed with adequate statistical power to detect clinically significant gender differences, and both positive and negative findings need to be reported. 2,5 Evidence from other specialties demonstrates how gender-specific differences in health exist on a molecular level, are shaped by environment, and extend beyond the obvious reproductive and hormonal dissimilarities. [1][2][3] For an in-depth review of gender differences in nonreproductive biology, see the 2001 Institute of Medicine Report, Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health: Does Sex Matter?…”

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“…[1][2][3] Yet, concern persists as to whether investigators are routinely analyzing research data in terms of gender-specific outcomes. 4,5 Emergency physicians have the opportunity to inform the study of gender-specific clinical care and are uniquely positioned to translate these types of new data into lifesaving outcomes. While there have been remarkable changes in the progress of academic emergency medicine (EM) over the past 40 years, it is not known if the specialty has embraced the National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative introduced in 1993 to advance research by ensuring the inclusion of women in clinical research and analyzing health outcomes by gender.…”

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Inclusion of Gender in Emergency Medicine Research

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McGregor

McKee

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Academic Emergency Medicine

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Inclusion of Gender in Emergency Medicine Research

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McGregor

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Academic Emergency Medicine

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“…Though no studies have looked specifically at how women's magazines frame heart disease in terms of problem and remedy frames or in terms of its risk factors alone, several have looked broadly at how media cover heart disease (Clarke, 1992;Clarke & Binns, 2006;Clarke, van Amerom & Binns, 2007;Clarke & van Amerom, 2008;Wharf-Higgins et al, 2006). Studies of heart disease coverage in consumer and news magazines in Canada identified medical, social-structural, and lifestyle frames as those used most frequently (Clarke, 1992;Clarke & Binns, 2006;Clarke & van Amerom, 2008).…”

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Women's Magazine Coverage of Heart Disease Risk Factors: Good Housekeeping Magazine, 1997 to 2007

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2010

Women & Health

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Women, who often turn to magazines for health information, continue to underestimate their risk for heart disease, though it remains the leading cause of death among women in the United States. This textual analysis considered the portrayal of women's risk factors for heart disease as problem and remedy frames within articles published by the highest circulation women's magazine in the U.S., Good Housekeeping, from 1997 to 2007. These findings were then compared with corresponding information endorsed by the American Heart Association. Far from underestimating a woman's risk for heart disease, GH articles seemed to target women at low risk for heart disease, while emphasizing risk factors unique to women. The magazine coverage was largely consistent with American Heart Association information, yet offered a broader range of treatment and prevention strategies that were sometimes contradictory or vague. One significant risk factor, race, was not mentioned in the magazine articles. This review calls for future research to determine the pervasiveness and possible effects of such coverage.

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“…Media representation of disease is important in understanding the perceived causes of illness and the people who are 'usual candidates' for particular diseases, as well as, associated health and social policy initiatives. [10][11][12] In fact, the majority of the population relies on mass media for all sorts of health-related information. 13 Health information is sometimes portrayed in a gender-biased manner in the mass media.…”

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Heart disease and gender in mass print media

Clarke

2008

Menopause International

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Heart disease is a major cause of death, disease and disability in the developed world for both men and women. Nevertheless, the evidence suggests that women are under-diagnosed both because they fail to visit the doctor with relevant symptoms and because doctors tend to dismiss the seriousness of women's symptoms of heart disease. This study examines the way that popular mass print media present the possible links between gender and heart disease. The findings suggest that the 'usual candidates' for heart disease are considered to be high achieving and active men for whom the 'heart attack' is sometimes seen as a 'badge of honour' and a symbol of their success. In contrast, women are less often seen as likely to succumb, but they are portrayed as if they are and ought to be worried about their husbands. Women's own bodies are described as so problematic as to be perhaps useless to diagnose, because they are so difficult to understand and treat.

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Heart disease and gender in mass print media

Cited by 11 publications

References 31 publications

Inclusion of Gender in Emergency Medicine Research

Inclusion of Gender in Emergency Medicine Research

Women's Magazine Coverage of Heart Disease Risk Factors: Good Housekeeping Magazine, 1997 to 2007

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