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First Do No Harm : Reporting on Health and Healthcare / edited by John Lister.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Journalism, Medical.
- Medical care--Press coverage.
- Medical care.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Faringdon, England : Libri Publishing, [2014]
- Summary:
- The EU-funded HeaRT (Health Reporter Training) project 2010-2012 laid an important foundation by investigating the existing (very limited) provision of specialist education and training courses for health journalists throughout the EU and also in the USA, where the existence of a large professional body has influenced the availability of training resources. Their findings indicate a widespread - almost universal - lack of an institutional investment in health journalism.This is also borne out by the reports from journalists themselves, responding to the snapshot HeaRT survey of health journalists and journalists covering health stories in the six partner countries - Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, the UK and Romania. The lack of academic engagement in the training of journalists in this specialist field also helps to explain the shortage of literature on health journalism.This book is an effort to take this work further and to draw in experience from North America in order to ensure that the fight for improved quality of health reporting continues to be raised. The chapters are intended to offer more scope for health journalists to develop their understanding of the relevant issues, topics and skills, and test out a variety of potential sources of useful information.Throughout the book we idenitfy sources and useful contacts and information to enable health journalists to work more effectively and deliver more knowledgeable informative stories for their audience. The contributors welcome feedback and comment: we hope this is the start of a growing self-awareness of many who are working as health reporters and a lively debate on the best ways to deliver quality health journalism.
- Contents:
- Intro
- edited by John Lister
- Acknowledgements
- INTRODUCTION
- The State of Play in European Health Journalism
- John Lister
- CHAPTER ONE
- The Importance of Quality Health Journalism
- CHAPTER TWO
- Mid Staffordshire and the Impact of Local Journalism
- Shaun Lintern
- CHAPTER THREE
- The Media Role in the Selling and Unravelling of Obamacare
- Trudy Lieberman
- CHAPTER FOUR
- A Bridge between Patients and Policy Makers
- Anna Wagstaff
- Evidence-based Reporting
- CHAPTER FIVE
- Health Policy Journalism in Canada: Experiences from EvidenceNetwork.ca
- David M. Secko1 and Noralou Roos2
- 1 Department of Journalism, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada. Email: david.secko@concordia.ca
- 2 Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Email: Noralou_Roos@cpe.umanitoba.ca
- CHAPTER SIX
- Interpreting Medical Research Reports
- Alan Taman, BSc(Hons), MA
- Freelance health journalist and former NHS Press Officer
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- Pressing for Accuracy, Balance and Completeness in Health and Medical Journalism (Or, The Role of the Watchdog in Improving Health-care Journalism)
- Gary Schwitzer
- Publisher, HealthNewsReview.org
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- 'Testing Treatments Interactive': Promoting Critical Appraisal of Treatment Claims
- Iain Chalmers
- Co-ordinator, James Lind Initiative (ichalmers@jameslind.net)
- Ethics in Journalism and PR
- CHAPTER NINE
- Evaluating Conflicts of Interest
- CHAPTER TEN
- An Ethical Journalist is a Critical Journalist
- CHAPTER ELEVEN
- Public Relations and Health Reporting
- Alan Taman
- CHAPTER TWELVE
- Brave Child Victim Boosts Sales: Should Hospitals Use Children for Their Own Publicity?
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN
- Elder Abuse: What's the Story?
- Richenda Power.
- Member MJA &
- London Freelance Branch NUJ, PhD Sociology, 'Health and Illness'
- Illustrations © Andy Steward 2011
- Basic Building Blocks of Health Reporting
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN
- The Business and Economics of Health Care
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN
- Reporting on Health Policy
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN
- The Politics of Health Care
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
- Reporting on Consumer and Lifestyle Health Issues
- Authors: Afroditi Veloudaki, Dina Zota, Pania Karnaki and Athena Linou
- Edited by: Eleni Papadimitriou, Sam Nordland and Elise Baranousky
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
- Reporting on the Quality of Health Care
- Sue Lister Professor of Quality &
- Safety in Healthcare Education Advisor, 1,000 Lives Plus, Public Health Wales Honorary Teaching Fellow, Coventry University
- CHAPTER NINETEEN
- Reporting on Global Health and Inequalities
- CHAPTER TWENTY
- Reporting on England's New NHS
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
- Reporting on Mental Health
- Comment
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
- The English Teacher
- Roy Lilley
- Articles, Books and Chapters on Health or Medical Journalism
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lister, John First Do No Harm
- ISBN:
- 1-909818-35-6
- OCLC:
- 1411308928
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