Independent Study on Exploring Highest Circulated Newspaper’s Coverage on Health Issues in Bangladesh
Md. Saiful Islam
Abstract
Newspapers have a significant role in health promotion through information dissemination, opinion sharing, behavior change communication, awareness and knowledge building and policy advocacy. News coverage on health influences peoples attitudes and behavior as well as policy progression towards adoption of new programmes to reduce mortality, morbidity and human sufferings all over the world. Thus the importance of news media in health promotion is now well recognized and established. As a result, the media advocacy, which include advocacy through newspaper articles, has now become an important tool in knowledge dissemination and policy influence to combat communicable and non-communicable diseases. Bangladesh is not an exception to it. But little research attempts has so far been made to understand the role of media, especially how the print media has been responding to health issues.
