Open AccessReporting diseases in the Pacific
Author(s) -
Trevor Cullen
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v6i1.675
Subject(s) - project commissioning , publishing , feature (linguistics) , disease , asia pacific , medicine , political science , advertising , business , history , pathology , ethnology , law , philosophy , linguistics
Heart disease, turberculosis, STDs and HIV/AIDS have one common feature: they are, with the correct information and application, all preventable diseases. Yet, throughout the Pacific, such diseases are on the increase. What should the media do?