Analyzing the health equity implications of local media messaging and federal public service announcements about COVID-19 | Pandemic PACT Tracker

Key facts

Disease
COVID-19
Start & end year
2020
2021
Known Financial Commitments (USD)
$281,872
Funder
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Principal Investigator
Erika Franklin Fowler, Jeffrey D Niederdeppe
Research Location
United States of America
Lead Research Institution
Wesleyan University
Research Priority Alignment
N/A

Research Category
Policies for public health, disease control & community resilience
Research Subcategory
Approaches to public health interventions
Special Interest Tags
N/A
Study Type
Non-Clinical
Clinical Trial Details
N/A
Broad Policy Alignment
Pending
Age Group
Unspecified
Vulnerable Population
Unspecified
Occupations of Interest
Unspecified

Abstract

Health Disparities. To support a research project that will analyze local news media's messaging about COVID-19 from a health equity lens.

Publicationslinked via Europe PMC

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Television airings of U.S. federal COVID-19 public service announcements in 2020 were associated with market-level political orientation, not COVID-19 rates.

Serving the public? A content analysis of COVID-19 public service announcements airing from March - December of 2020 in the U.S.

Local TV News Coverage of Racial Disparities in COVID-19 During the First Wave of the Pandemic, March-June 2020.