Media Coverage of Public Health Epidemics: Linking Framing and Issue Attention Cycle Toward an Integrated Theory of Print News Coverage of Epidemics

Media Use and Health Behavior in H1N1 Flu Crisis: The Mediating Role of Perceived Knowledge and Fear

“…Under framing and issue attention cycle frameworks, scholars have examined how media frame public health epidemics, including mad cow disease, West Nile virus, and avian flu (Shih, Wijaya, & Brossard, 2008). The study found that the print media (the New York Times) coverage of public health epidemics centered on important events, such as newly identified cases and governmental actions (Shih et al, 2008).…”

“…The study found that the print media (the New York Times) coverage of public health epidemics centered on important events, such as newly identified cases and governmental actions (Shih et al, 2008). Dudo and his colleagues (2007) analyzed the coverage of avian flu in four major U.S. newspapers.…”

“…For emerging pandemics, media tend to frame them negatively. For example, media cover most health issues with the number of deaths, the number of cases worldwide, and possible negative consequences for a community (Shih et al, 2008).…”

Survey of Antiretroviral Drug Resistance Pattern Among HIV-Infected Patients with Treatment Failure in Iran

“…The phylogenetic tree represented highest similarly between our RT sequence and CRF-AD35 and this study correlated with other study was done in Iran [23] exempt subtype C that this sample belonged east of Iran(Mashhad). Subtype C is prevalence in India [24] and historical of patient represented that he had traveled to India. In the final one of the advantages of drug resistance assay in HIV-infected patients is that this assay consequently causes to detect the mutations that occurred in circulated viruses and as a consequence caused treatment failure in patients.…”

Insights into How HIAs are Characterized in the Press: Findings from a Media Analysis of Widely Circulated United States Newspapers

“…Golden & Moreland-Russell (2016) explain that it does so by focusing public attention on issues as well as "raising awareness of a problem, stimulating coverage of issues, generating support for proposed policy solutions, and communicating information regarding the implementation of a policy" (p. 34). Shih, Wijaya, & Brossard (2008) have found that how issues are framed in the media impacts ways in which audiences perceive them and can "activate certain thoughts or feelings in readers' minds that make them more likely to react in a somewhat predictable manner" (p. 142); media helps readers form heuristics to process complex issues (Shih, Wijaya, & Brossard, 2008).…”