Titre : | The Polarizing Effect of News Media Messages About the Social Determinants of Health. (2009) |
Auteurs : | GOLLUST (Sarah-E) : USA. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. ; LANTZ (Paula-M) : USA. Department of Health Management and Policy and the Institute for Social Research. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor. ; UBEL (Peter-A) : USA. Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine. Veteran Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System. And the Division of General Internal Medicine. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor. |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of public health (vol. 99, n° 12, 2009) |
Pagination : | 2160-2167 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Média ; Homme ; Message |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS 9J98R0x7. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Framing health problems in terms of the social determinants of health aims to shift policy attention to nonmedical strategies to improve population health, yet little is known about how the public responds to these messages. We conducted an experiment to test the effect of a news article describing the social determinants of type 2 diabetes on the public's support for diabetes prevention strategies. We found that exposure to the social determinants message led to a divergence between Republicans'and Democrats'opinions, relative to their opinions after viewing an article with no message about the causes of diabetes. These results signify that increasing public awareness of the social determinants of health may not uniformly increase public support for policy action. |