'When the dog bites': What can we learn about health geography from newspaper coverage in a 'model city' for dog-bite prevention?
Despite calls for the adoption of 'One-Health' approaches, dog-bite injuries remain neglected in healthcare and public health, and our study may help to understand why. Media coverage can influence policy directions, including policies that address dogs. We collected articles (n = 65) published in t...
| Publicado en: | Health & Place Vol. 57; pp. 70 - 74 |
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| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Elsevier B.V.
May2019
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=137073540&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 137073540 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 13538292 GZ5 jtl: Health & Place issn: 13538292 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: May2019 vid: 57 pid: 467 pub: Elsevier B.V. place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 137073540 137073540 NLM30999259 137073540 10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.03.001 NLM30999259 137073540 ppf: 70 ppct: 4 formats: tig: atl: 'When the dog bites': What can we learn about health geography from newspaper coverage in a 'model city' for dog-bite prevention? aug: au: Mouton, M. Boulton, A. Solomon, O. Rock, M.J. affil: Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada sug: subj: Bites and Stings Behavior, Animal Communications Media Publishing Geographic Factors Public Health Hospitals Human Urban Health Standards Animal Studies Dogs Male Alberta Female Anthropology, Cultural Validation Studies Comparative Studies Evaluation Research Multicenter Studies Social Readjustment Rating Scale Male Female ab: Despite calls for the adoption of 'One-Health' approaches, dog-bite injuries remain neglected in healthcare and public health, and our study may help to understand why. Media coverage can influence policy directions, including policies that address dogs. We collected articles (n = 65) published in two local newspapers, 2012-2017, then carried out an ethnographically-informed discourse analysis of the dog-bite reports. The newspapers portrayed dog-bites mainly as matters of public disorder, as opposed to priorities for healthcare and public health. Even as our study took place in a city that has shown dog-bite reductions without recourse to 'breed bans' or restrictions (i.e., breed-specific legislation), journalists still tended to emphasize dog breed as a narrative element in explaining dog-bite incidents. Nonetheless, the news coverage did not reproduce a 'nature versus nurture' dichotomy. Rather, the journalists presented dog breed, and presumably associated aggressive behaviour, as entanglements with social, economic, and cultural contexts. Meanwhile, the news stories reduced contextual complexity to geographic locations, as codes for community reputation, in attributing causality and morality. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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