Highlighting racial disparities increases coverage and effectiveness of health news

(University of Missouri-Columbia) As media researchers search for better methods to reach audiences, a new University of Missouri study published in Public Relations Review has found that highlighting racial disparities in news releases increases coverage of health stories in black newspapers, which can improve health outcomes in populations at-risk for disparities.

source : www.eurekalert.org

Related News:

• Health care system too broke to fix (comic)
• Heal yourself in 15 days with the Health Ranger’s living juice recipe (part five)
• Administration Issues Mental Health Parity Rule
• Mandatory policy boosts influenza vaccination rate among health care workers
• Grant To Study How Cells Sense Electric Fields
• American Academy Of Dermatology Lauds U.S. Federal Trade Commission For Protecting The Public From False Health And Safety Claims About Indoor Tanning
• A Cupful of Health Benefits
• Health Ranger is keynote speaker at Health Freedom Expo in Long Beach, CA, March 2628
• Health Ranger invites product companies to be interviewed at Expo West show in Anaheim
• Carlos Slim Institute Of Health To Fund Genomic Research On Cancer, Type 2 Diabetes, And A Form Of Kidney Disease

Details :
Submited at Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 7:00 pm on Cancer and Oncology by chuck
Comment RSS 2.0 - leave a comment - trackback