The Mass Media Influence on the Impact of Health Policy
<p>The theme of this study is a distinct examination of the issues regarding health policy, social representations and mass media. The analysis of the mass media influence on the impact of health policy leads to a portrayal of the related programs and the way they are received by citizens thro...
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Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
2007-02-01
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| author | Cătălin BABA Răzvan M. CHERECHEŞ Olimpia MOŞTEANU |
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| description | <p>The theme of this study is a distinct examination of the issues regarding health policy, social representations and mass media. The analysis of the mass media influence on the impact of health policy leads to a portrayal of the related programs and the way they are received by citizens through mass media. Owing to the mass media quality to be an indicator of democracy it is very important to study its role in setting people daily agenda considering how it is able to maintain and create trends merely through recurrent messages. The issues frequently conveyed by media industry influences citizens’ interest with regard to community, producing effects on public policy. We must bear in mind that the more persistent in media they are, the more relevant for community this issues will be. The authors of the study put forward a method through which diverse programmes can be analysed. A comparative analysis of mass media and citizens’ social representations and its findings provide information about the influence between them. According to agenda setting theory and many international studies on health policy the authors conclude that mass media institution highly influence the impact of the health policy in health. Moreover, it is important to mention that the impact refers to all the stages of a policy-making: beginning with the problem identification and ending with the evaluation of the implementation process.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1660237b88424a998bacd5eebc3d1d322024-03-14T07:28:36ZengBabes-Bolyai University, Cluj-NapocaTransylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences1842-28452007-02-013191520362The Mass Media Influence on the Impact of Health PolicyCătălin BABA0Răzvan M. CHERECHEŞ1Olimpia MOŞTEANU2Associate professor, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, RomaniaResearch assistant, Center for Health Policy and Public Health, Institute for Social Research, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj Napoca, Romaniastudent, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania<p>The theme of this study is a distinct examination of the issues regarding health policy, social representations and mass media. The analysis of the mass media influence on the impact of health policy leads to a portrayal of the related programs and the way they are received by citizens through mass media. Owing to the mass media quality to be an indicator of democracy it is very important to study its role in setting people daily agenda considering how it is able to maintain and create trends merely through recurrent messages. The issues frequently conveyed by media industry influences citizens’ interest with regard to community, producing effects on public policy. We must bear in mind that the more persistent in media they are, the more relevant for community this issues will be. The authors of the study put forward a method through which diverse programmes can be analysed. A comparative analysis of mass media and citizens’ social representations and its findings provide information about the influence between them. According to agenda setting theory and many international studies on health policy the authors conclude that mass media institution highly influence the impact of the health policy in health. Moreover, it is important to mention that the impact refers to all the stages of a policy-making: beginning with the problem identification and ending with the evaluation of the implementation process.</p>https://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/346mass mediapublic health, policy |
| spellingShingle | Cătălin BABA Răzvan M. CHERECHEŞ Olimpia MOŞTEANU The Mass Media Influence on the Impact of Health Policy Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences mass media public health, policy |
| title | The Mass Media Influence on the Impact of Health Policy |
| title_full | The Mass Media Influence on the Impact of Health Policy |
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| title_short | The Mass Media Influence on the Impact of Health Policy |
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| topic | mass media public health, policy |
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