Print media coverage of primary healthcare and related research evidence in South Africa
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...volume that is prioritized by the news media [35]....
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...The gatekeeping literature suggests that news media coverage does not necessarily reflect the salience of issues in the real world, but that media organizations prioritize items for publication based on what they consider newsworthy [35-37]....
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...Implications for research Our finding that some issues, such as accountability of the state sector’s role in financing and delivery, received prominent coverage in the print media, while others, such as rape, received limited coverage is consistent with the literature on gatekeeping [35-37]....
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...Potential news items are moved along, halted or discarded as they pass through news channels from the source to a reporter to a number of editors [35-37]....
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...CHWs also helped reduce waiting times in clinics, streamline patient flow and reduce the workload of health workers [13]....
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...Our finding of an increase in the total number of news stories that mentioned PHC from 2006–2012 (with a peak in 2011) is consistent with the literature documenting a significant growth in the number of, and state support for, non-profit organizations providing home- and community-based care, as well as increased funding of vertical healthcare initiatives by international funders [13,15,17,19,39]....
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...PHC has been shown to improve access to healthcare services and population health outcomes [10,11]....
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...A number of LMICs that have adopted the PHC approach on a national scale, such as Thailand and Brazil, have achieved remarkable improvements in population health [10,11]; Thailand was able to achieve universal coverage of immunisation and skilled birth attendance [9]....
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