What Are the Roles and Responsibilities of the Media in Disseminating Health Information?

Background to the debate: In December 2004 three news stories in the popular press suggested that the side effects of single-dose nevirapine, which has been proven to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, had been covered up. Many HIV experts believed that the stories were unwarranted and tha...

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Autores principales: Schwitzer, Gary, Mudur, Ganapati, Henry, David, Wilson, Amanda, Goozner, Merrill, Simbra, Maria, Sweet, Melissa, Baverstock, Katherine A
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2005
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The PLoS Medicine Debate
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1181881/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16033311
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020215
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author Schwitzer, Gary
Mudur, Ganapati
Henry, David
Wilson, Amanda
Goozner, Merrill
Simbra, Maria
Sweet, Melissa
Baverstock, Katherine A
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description Background to the debate: In December 2004 three news stories in the popular press suggested that the side effects of single-dose nevirapine, which has been proven to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, had been covered up. Many HIV experts believed that the stories were unwarranted and that they would undermine use of the drug, leading to a rise in neonatal HIV infection. The controversy surrounding these stories prompted the PLoS Medicine editors to ask health journalists, and others with an interest in media reporting of health, to share their views on the roles and responsibilities of the media in disseminating health information.
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spelling pubmed-11818812005-09-23 What Are the Roles and Responsibilities of the Media in Disseminating Health Information? Schwitzer, Gary Mudur, Ganapati Henry, David Wilson, Amanda Goozner, Merrill Simbra, Maria Sweet, Melissa Baverstock, Katherine A PLoS Med The PLoS Medicine Debate Background to the debate: In December 2004 three news stories in the popular press suggested that the side effects of single-dose nevirapine, which has been proven to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, had been covered up. Many HIV experts believed that the stories were unwarranted and that they would undermine use of the drug, leading to a rise in neonatal HIV infection. The controversy surrounding these stories prompted the PLoS Medicine editors to ask health journalists, and others with an interest in media reporting of health, to share their views on the roles and responsibilities of the media in disseminating health information. Public Library of Science 2005-07 2005-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC1181881/ /pubmed/16033311 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020215 Text en Copyright: © 2005 Schwitzer et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16033311
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