Gender policies and advertising and marketing practices that affect women's health
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Gender policies and advertising and marketing practices that affect women's health
Background The three papers of this doctoral thesis are based on the social construction of reality through the analysis of communication relating to health issues. We have analysed the contents of parliamentary, institutional, and mass media to uncover whether their communications create, transmit, and perpetuate gender biases and/or stereotypes, which may have an impact on people's health, wi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Global Health Action
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1654-9716,1654-9880
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v6i0.20372