What is it about?
Mass media made little impact in health challenges or outbreak in Nigeria compared to the success recorded during Ebola outbreak. The perspectives the mass media present Ebola case were found to be effective as members of the public adhered strictly to the suggestion, recommendations and health guides in the media reports. These resulted to the early containment of the Ebola outbreak in Nigeria when compared to other affected countries. The media contribution is considered a welcome development and assumed could be apply in future health outbreak or challenges
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Why is it important?
It address the new dimension through which the mass media can report health challenges to ensure public compliance and commendable results
Perspectives
This work focuses more on unique way that African media could employ while reporting health related issue to meet the peculiar information need of the Africans.
Dr Lateef Adekunle Adelakun
University of Malaya
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This page is a summary of: Communicating Health: Media Framing of Ebola Outbreak in Nigerian Newspapers, Jurnal Komunikasi Malaysian Journal of Communication, December 2016, Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM Press),
DOI: 10.17576/jkmjc-2016-3202-19.
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