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Tang, Chris; Rundblad, Gabriella – Applied Linguistics, 2017
The mass media has an important role in informing the general public about emerging health risks. Content-based studies of risk communication in the media have revealed a tendency to exaggerate risks or simplify science, but linguistic studies in this area are still scarce. This paper outlines a corpus based investigation of media reporting on the…
Descriptors: Risk, Computational Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Biochemistry
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Nathanson, Constance A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2005
Cross-national comparative analysis of tobacco control strategies can alert health advocates to how opportunities for public health action, types of action, and probabilities for success are shaped by political systems and cultures. This article is based on case studies of tobacco control in the United States, Canada, Britain, and France. Two…
Descriptors: Smoking, Industry, Public Health, Foreign Countries