The story frames the issue around a social model of health. For the most part it illustrates how race, according to some, is a factor that contributes to abortion. The fact that pro-life individuals are enticing a campaign against abortion by utilizing billboards as a tactic to turn individuals against abortion definitely points to a root cause of poor health awareness: not painting a clear picture of the different factors that contribute to abortion, and narrowing down this issue to race. Doing so misinforms the audience in an issue that is prevalent among different populations from diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, health problems, ect. Both pro-abortion/choice and pro-life views must be discussed and information must be ... More »

The story is framed in both a social and medical model. Social in the sense that it involves people and their urgency to get the swine flu shot, and medical in that it illustrates the lack of access there was to this shot when most people needed it. This give light to an issue that we have dealt with in the past, which is not so much the lack of access to medication, but the lack of effective treatment to unknown health problems that could arise. And as this article shows, after the vaccine was created to fight this virus, there was excess medication which has led to a waste of medical products and money as a result of the lack of immediate access to the shot. This can also be considered to be a root cause in poor health—not ... More »

The article frames the issue in both a medical and social model. By doing so, it addresses the causes of poor access to proper healthcare by LGBT individuals as a result of the lack of research there is regarding their needs. The ideas presented by this article to address this issue have definitely influenced my ideas about the root causes of poor health: not enough research to be able to address the needs of all people. Some of the ideas presented in this article that I found to be valuable in tackling this problem is that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services should establish, for example, an office that will solely be dedicated to LGBT health data collection. This would be an excellent approach to better tackling ... More »

To a certain extent, this article does not employ any type of stereotypes in relation to race or ethnicity nor in regards to gender. It does, however, make the generalization that low income families/individuals are the ones drinking the most soft drinks and the obese. It successfully minimizes this generalization by adding credibility to the article by using the new initiative the First Lady is taking to address the obesity epidemic as evidence for the need to cut down back on sugar, and providing a few statistics in regards to how much consumption of soda an individual intakes a year. This article can encourage erroneous attribution to readers who might know little or nothing about obesity—it might lead them to believe ... More »

This article does employ some stereotypes, and does not successfully avoid any obvious ones. The black community is not the only community facing obesity. In fact, obesity is more prevalent in the minority community as a whole, not just with black people. I don't necessarily think the article activates sterotypes, but I do feel it has to be more fair and include all ethnicities rather than just focusing on one. It avoids activating stereotypes in the sense that the article is focused primarily on the black community, and in the struggle black people are coping with in regards to obesity. It is an informative article of this situation, which is in fact a reality, and no something that is stereotypical in any way-- the article ... More »

In this article, the burden of responsibility for good health is on both smokers and those in charge of tightened smoking regulations to ban smoking in provincial capitals. This article uses persuasion to catch the readers attention emphasizing the fact that these regulations are indeed a sign of rising health awareness in china especially in terms of lung cancer and other health related factors. In terms of credibility, the article presents statistics to show the importance of reducing smoking in public spaces, including an interview with an official from the government's center of Disease Control and Prevention. An interesting issue that is raised in this article, and that could serve as an objection to the implementation ... More »

In this article, the burden of responsibility for good health rests on the relief efforts of people, security, and of course our government. Without outside assistance, the hunger of survivors would be left unaddressed and many more lives would be lost as a result. The article uses direct facts to grasp the attention of his readers. The article gets straight to the point, describes the situation, and what could result from this situation if help is not given. In a way this technique alarms the readers and persuades them to help, while providing a brief and concise documation of facts on the current condition in Haiti and of the survivors. Along with facts, the article seems to be a lot more credible when the interview of the ... More »

Some of the characteristics that make this article qualify as good quality journalism is the statistics it provides along with the evidence that show how this inititative would have a positive impact on the health of individuals without extensive limitations. What made this article engaging was the fact that the writer provided example of both sides of the story-- including how people who are used to their sodium will not notice a less taste on foods since the reduction of salt would not be extremely significant. One of the ethic issues that arise is the fact that people's voices are not being taken into consideration-- do they agree with the initiative and would they want to have it be implemented? Is everyone aware of the ... More »