The public's health is intimately linked to politics and policy. But political science has yet to
make a major contribution to understanding the political economy of health (as distinct from …

Accompanied by false information, mass media content is hindering efforts to cope with the
current outbreak. Although the World Health Organization and other concerned bodies are …

This study assesses attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination and the predictive value of
COVID-VAC, a novel scale, among adults in the four largest US metropolitan areas and …

Social media has been one of the main information consumption sources for the public,
allowing people to seek and spread information more quickly and easily. However, the rise …

Negativity bias predicts that individuals will attend to, learn from, and prioritize negative
news more than positive news. Drawing from the addiction components model, this cross …

COVID-19 vaccines have been largely debated by the press. To understand how
mainstream and alternative media debated vaccines, we introduce a paradigm …

Despite growing concerns and rapidly expanding research about health misinformation,
answers to some fundamental questions remain unclear. Among the open questions are the …

Background The lack of a comprehensive understanding of the role of mass media in
perpetuating weight stigma hinders policy formulation. We reviewed the influence of mass …

Renewed COVID-19 outbreaks, stemming from the highly infectious Delta and Omicron
variants, prompted rising fears of a 'pandemic among the unvaccinated'. To address this …

Around the world, there are increasing concerns about the accuracy of media coverage. It is
vital in representative democracies that citizens have access to reliable information about …