Transvaginal mesh in Australia: An analysis of news media reporting from 1996 to 2021.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Transvaginal mesh (mesh) surgeries have been used to treat stress urinary incontinence (incontinence) and/or pelvic organ prolapse (prolapse). In Australia, as in many other countries, the harms caused by mesh eventually prompted individual and collective attempts to achieve redress. The rise of mesh surgery as a procedure, the experience of mesh-affected women and the formal inquiries and legal actions that followed all occurred in social, cultural and discursive contexts. One strategy to understand these contexts is to track how the mesh and key actors in the mesh stories have been portrayed in mass media sources. We conducted a media analysis of the most highly read Australian newspapers and online news media platforms, focusing on how mesh and the interaction of st

SUBMITTER: Motamedi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10154800 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature