The coverage of dengue and zika in selected Malaysian newspapers: an analysis of Berita Harian, Utusan Malaysia and The Star

• Main Authors: Sedu, Nerawi, Mohamad Diah, Nurazzura
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: Centre for General Studies & Co-curricular Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia 2017
• Subjects: BP174 The Practice of Islam; BP188 Islamic religious life; RA643 Public Health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine - Communicable Diseases and Public Health
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/61608/1/61608_The%20coverage%20of%20dengue%20and%20zika.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/61608/; https://www.insan.uthm.edu.my/

This study is aimed to analyze the coverage of news on dengue and zika in three mainstream daily Malaysian newspapers i.e. Berita Harian, Utusan Malaysia and The Star. The data for this study were collected from the print version of these newspapers for a period of a month i.e. November 2016. The ne...