The Fourth Estate of Health and Medicine
Journalists occupy an important, yet often unacknowledged, role in the health system by providing a dispassionate account of the system’s strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities to the public. It is...
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Risk communication in public health with Julie Leask If a health scare manifested itself in the world and there were no journalists to cover the story, what would the impact on the public be? That is a...
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The Toronto Star, Canada’s most widely read newspaper known for its investigative reporting gifted anti-vaccination audiences armament by using poor science to point to a spurious connection between...
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