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Media coverage and public reaction to a celebrity cancer diagnosis

Author(s) -

David Metcalfe,

Charlotte Price,

John Powell

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdq052

Subject(s) - public health , cervical cancer , medicine , newspaper , family medicine , cervical screening , condom , health information national trends survey , gynecology , advertising , cancer , health information , pathology , political science , health care , business , syphilis , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , law

Celebrity diagnoses can have important effects on public behaviour. UK television celebrity Jade Goody died from cervical cancer in 2009. We investigated the impact of her illness on media coverage of cervical cancer prevention, health information seeking behaviour and cervical screening coverage.

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