Newspaper coverage of maternal health in Bangladesh, Rwanda and South Africa: a quantitative and qualitative content analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine newspaper coverage of maternal health in three countries that have made varying progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG 5): Bangladesh (on track), Rwanda (making progress, but not on track) and South Africa (no progress).

Design

We analysed each country's leading national English-language newspaper: Bangladesh's The Daily Star, Rwanda's The New Times/The Sunday Times, and South Africa's Sunday Times/The Times. We quantified the number of maternal health articles published from 1 January 2008 to 31 March 2013. We conducted a content analysis of subset of 190 articles published from 1 October 2010 to 31 March 2013.

Results

Bangladesh's The Daily Star published 579 articles related to maternal health from 1 January 2008 to 31 March 2013,

SUBMITTER: Gugsa F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4735195 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature