DISPARITIES IN THE COVERAGE OF CANCER INFORMATION IN ETHNIC MINORITY AND MAINSTREAM MASS PRINT MEDIA

Background: Signi®cant disparities in cancer mortality exist as a function of ethnicity and race in North America. Little is known, how-ever, about the presentation of cancer infor-mation in mass media that targets ethnic mi-nority groups. Objectives: 1) To evaluate the volume and type of cancer cov...

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Cancer
Ethnic Minority
Mass Media
Mortality
Readability Laurie Hoffman-Goetz
PhD
MPH
Daniela B. Friedman
Msc
Indian
Laurie
First Nations
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.564.8963
http://www.hawaii.edu/hivandaids/Disparities_in_the_Coverage_of_Cancer_Information_in_Ethnic_Minority.pdf
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Summary:Background: Signi®cant disparities in cancer mortality exist as a function of ethnicity and race in North America. Little is known, how-ever, about the presentation of cancer infor-mation in mass media that targets ethnic mi-nority groups. Objectives: 1) To evaluate the volume and type of cancer coverage and the readability of cancer articles in Canadian mainstream and ethnic minority newspapers; and 2) to com-pare newspaper coverage of cancer with Ca-nadian cancer mortality. Design: Seven mainstream and 25 ethnic mi-nority (Jewish, First Nations, Black/Caribbean, East Indian) English-language newspapers were

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