Geographic and Longitudinal Trends in Media Framing of Obesity in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The media's framing of public health issues is closely linked to public opinion on these issues and support for interventions to address them. This study characterized geographic and temporal variation in the US media's framing of obesity across states from 2006 to 2015.

Methods

Newspaper articles that mentioned the term obesity were drawn from Access World News (NewsBank, Inc., Naples, Florida), a comprehensive online database (N = 364,288). This study employed automated content analysis, a machine learning technique, to categorize articles as (1) attributing obesity to individual-level causes (e.g., lifestyle behaviors), (2) attributing obesity to environmental/systemic causes (e.g., neighborhood walkability), (3) attributing obesity to both individual-level caus

SUBMITTER: Chiang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7311269 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature