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

  • Funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Total publications:3 publications

Grant number: 77645

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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.

3 Publications linked via Europe PMC

Last Updated:4 days ago

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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.