Field epidemiological study on news reports that related to public health emergencies

All news reports (NR) that were related to public health emergency (PHE) were collected from the Southern Metropolis Daily (SMD) to explore the characteristics of epidemiology in the fields. Based on the theory of communication that including both case and text analysis, qualitative analysis on all...

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Published inZhōnghuá liúxíngbìng zázhì Vol. 34; no. 12; p. 1203
Main Authors Zhang, Shun-xiang, Li, Xue-mei, Luo, Nian-ci, Mei, Shu-jiang, Jiang, Li-juan
Format Journal Article
LanguageChinese
Published China 01.12.2013
Subjects
Disease Outbreaks
Emergencies
Epidemiologic Studies
Humans
Mass Media
Public Health
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Summary:All news reports (NR) that were related to public health emergency (PHE) were collected from the Southern Metropolis Daily (SMD) to explore the characteristics of epidemiology in the fields. Based on the theory of communication that including both case and text analysis, qualitative analysis on all the NR regarding PHE published in SMD from the years of 2008 to 2012, was carried out and input to database using the EpiData. Numbers of articles as indicators were compared to show the yearly change of different types of events. Various features of the NR including coverage, source of information, location of the incident, style and size of news, with or without editorials etc. were statistically analyzed by SPSS version 18.0. Among all the 998 reports related to PHE, higher proportion was found in the events of Infectious diseases (35.3%) and food safety (34.1%)respectively. Events on vaccines and drugs used for disease prevention and control (8.9%), environmental pollution caused incidents (8.0%)appeared to be
ISSN:0254-6450