Tag: society
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What makes Media credible?
The abundance of accessible information means that consumers have the opportunity and capability to navigate and obtain news information whenever and wherever they want (Peters and Broersma, 2013). This communication revolution has enabled billions of people to both consume and produce news information in an active and informal ideas-and-knowledge-exchange marketplace (Bertino and Matei, 2015). Though…
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Reflection: The relationship between economic growth and the health of societies
The idea of economic growth as central to development or the precursor for health, is fundamentally flawed. For example, globalization and the expansion of technology, especially where there are wage inequalities between different industries, has led to increases of income inequality (Birn et al. 2017). Rather than defaulting to mainstream approaches of disease control and…
April Marie Canillo 