[Proposal for a media guideline to improve medical and health journalism]

Yakugaku Zasshi. 2012;132(5):555-9. doi: 10.1248/yakushi.132.555.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

A lot of healthcare professionals experienced annoyance with biased mass media news regarding medical and health issues. In this paper, I propose "news profiling method" and "media guideline" to improve the medical and health journalism.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Bias
  • Guidelines as Topic* / standards
  • Health Communication
  • Humans
  • Journalism, Medical* / standards
  • Risk Assessment