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

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• Language: English
• Subjects: Key Words; 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

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...