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What’S The Story? Framing Of Health Issues By The U.S. Centers For Disease Control And Prevention And Major Newspapers: A Qualitative Analysis, Kathryn O'Neill Karnes

Communication Theses

This qualitative analysis of the framing of health issues by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one of the world’s premier health organizations, and by major U.S. newspapers analyzes the frames present in a sample of the CDC’s press releases, and the frames present in the contemporaneous (and often resulting) press coverage. This study focuses on communication surrounding public health events that occurred in the six-year period 2002–2007.