Culture and health reporting: a comparative content analysis of newspapers in the United States and China. Academic Article

abstract

• Health reporting has the potential to educate the public and promote health behaviors. Culture influences the style of such communication. Following the theorization of national cultures by Hofstede and Hofstede (2005) and Wilber (2000), this study compares health reporting in the United States and China through a content analysis of leading newspapers. The authors discover significant differences in health reporting in terms of controllability attribution, temporal orientation, citation of authority sources, and use of statistics. As one of the first comparative content analysis studies of health reporting in Eastern and Western cultures, this study provides a unique cultural lens for health communication scholars to better understand health information in the news media.

authors

• Tang, Lu

published proceedings

• J Health Commun

author list (cited authors)

• Tang, L. u., & Peng, W.

citation count

• 15

complete list of authors

• Tang, Lu||Peng, Wei

publication date

• February 2015

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Health Communication: international perspectives  Journal

keywords

• China
• Culture
• Health Communication
• Humans
• Newspapers As Topic
• United States

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/10810730.2014.920060

start page

• 187

end page

• 195

volume

• 20

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2014.920060