The Content and Effect of Politicized Health Controversies
The Content and Effect of Politicized Health Controversies
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DOI：
10.1177/0002716214555505
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发表时间：
2015-03-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Gollust, Sarah E.
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作者：
Fowler, Erika Franklin;Gollust, Sarah E.
健康问题日益政治化，但人们对政治化如何在新闻中形成及其对公众的影响知之甚少。我们分析了两个健康争议的新闻报道中政治化的演变：2009年乳房X光检查筛查指南的喧嚣和2006-2007年关于强制要求HPV疫苗作为中学适龄女孩的要求的辩论。然后，我们研究了公众对HPV案件政治化的反应，使用来自所有50个州的新闻报道的调查嵌入式实验的原始数据。我们发现，现实世界的政治化与对HPV疫苗要求，国家免疫计划以及对医生和政府的信心的支持减少有关。此外，在那些不太可能遇到现实世界政治化的人中，我们发现了边缘证据表明，政治冲突会减少对国家免疫计划的支持，而明确的证据表明，政治化会降低对医生的信心。我们讨论了这些研究结果的影响，并建议未来的研究途径。
Health issues are increasingly becoming politicized, but little is known about how politicization takes shape in the news and its effect on the public. We analyze the evolution of politicization in news coverage of two health controversies: the uproar over the 2009 mammography screening guidelines and the 2006-2007 debate over mandating the HPV vaccine as a requirement for middle school-aged girls. We then examine the public response to politicization in the HPV case, using original data from a survey-embedded experiment that was linked with news coverage in all fifty states. We find that real-world politicization is associated with decreases in support for HPV vaccine requirements, state immunization programs, and confidence in doctors and in government. In addition, among those less likely to have encountered real-world politicization, we find marginal evidence that exposure to political conflict decreases support for state immunization programs and clear evidence that politicization reduces confidence in doctors. We discuss the implications of these findings and suggest future avenues of research.