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By Bianca Mitu; Valentina Marinescu; (eds.)
Health and wellbeing is a contested idea that has been outlined in different methods. The media is intensely robust in selling future health ideals and in developing position types for modern humans. The ways that well-being is outlined or understood could have wide-ranging implications and will influence matters akin to future health merchandising or overall healthiness literacy. health and wellbeing presentation within the media has an important social influence simply because this sort of message is critical in altering people's ideals, attitudes and behaviours on the subject of health and wellbeing and in selling health-related wisdom one of the audience. the current quantity offers an interdisciplinary and multicultural modern method of the debatable hyperlink among drugs and media. The authors that experience contributed to this quantity examine the media and drugs from assorted views and diversified nations (USA, united kingdom, Portugal, Turkey, Taiwan, Mexico, Estonia, Romania), therefore delivering a re-positioning of the examine of media and medication. the hot views provided by way of this quantity can be of curiosity to any future health verbal exchange or media reviews scholar or educational when you consider that they bring about to mild new rules, new methodologies and new effects.
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On 22 March, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that 49 people had contracted EVD in Guinea, West Africa, and 29 of them had died. As of mid-August, the virus had quickly spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. The Ebola virus that is circulating in West Africa is not new, but the current Ebola outbreak has infected and killed more people than all previous Ebola outbreaks combined. As of 20 August, 2014, the WHO reported that 2,615 people had contracted the disease, of whom over 1,427 have died, slightly less than the combined cases (2,387) and deaths (1,590) from previous outbreaks.
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In a content analysis of The Guardian and The Punch newspapers, based on AMPS 2010 newspaper readership data, a total of 554 health reports were found and analysed on the selected health issues (Uwom and Oloyede 2014). The single disease that garnered the most media attention was HIV/AIDS, and the most reported genre was the straight news story. The newspapers, however, did not give prominence to health issues and as a consequence it was recommended that newspapers should endeavour to give more coverage to health issues.