women as half of human societies have different roles in different areas of social life. so content analysis of the media is necessary in the about of women. this study uses two methods: content analysis and semiotics. so content analyzed a statistical week from the first six months of 1393 kayhan, iran and shargh newspapers. then by using semiotics, printed images of women in these newspapers ...

On May 24th 2012, Scotland passed the Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) Bill. Minimum unit pricing (MUP) is an intervention that raises the price of the cheapest alcohol to reduce alcohol consumption and related harms. There is a growing literature on industry's influence in policymaking and media representations of policies, but relatively little about frames used by key claim-makers in the public MUP...

BACKGROUND Exposure to mass media provides increased awareness and knowledge, as well as changes in attitudes, social norms and behaviors that may lead to positive public health outcomes. Birth preparedness (i.e. the preparations for childbirth made by pregnant women, their families, and communities) increases the use of skilled birth attendants (SBAs) and hence reduces maternal morbidity and m...

Appendectomy is one of the most common surgical procedures. The surgical techniques to perform appendectomy are various, ranging from the open technique, first described by Mac Burney in 1894 and which has been the gold standard for the management of acute appendicitis for more than a century, to the standard three ports laparoscopic approach described by Semm In 1983 [1]. The Port exteriorizat...

The epidemic spread of fake news is a side effect the expansion social networks to circulate news, in contrast traditional mass media such as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television. Human inefficiency distinguish between true false facts exposes threat logical truth, democracy, journalism, credibility government institutions. In this paper, we survey methods for preprocessing data natural...

This study explores contemporary newspaper narratives on the devastation caused by earthquake of 1926 in Padang Panjang, West Sumatra. These become crucial amid difficulty finding historical statistical data for disaster studies that depict chaotic situation natural disasters past. Historical methods and methodologies were used this to combine fragments information found newspapers, especially ...

BACKGROUND Poor self-rated health (SRH) is socially patterned with health communication inequalities, arguably, serving as one mechanisms. This study investigated the effects of health information seeking on SRH, and its mediation effects on disparities in SRH. METHODS We conducted probability-based telephone surveys administered over telephone in 2009, 2010/11 and 2012 to monitor health info...

The sharing of information between the lay public and medical professionals is crucial to the conduct of personalized medicine using genomic information in the near future. Mass media, such as newspapers, can play an important role in disseminating scientific information. However, studies on the role of newspaper coverage of genome-related articles are highly limited. We investigated the covera...