Setting a New Agenda

Agenda Setting and the "New" News

This study examines whether readers of the paper and online versions of a national newspaper acquire different perceptions of the importance of political issues. Using data from a weeklong experiment in which subjects either read the print version of the New York Times, the online version of that paper, or received no special exposure, this study finds evidence that people exposed to the Times ...

HIV/AIDS policy agenda setting in Iran

Background: HIV/AIDS control are one of the most important goals of the health systems. The aim of this study was to determine how HIV/AIDS control was initiated among policy makers’ agenda setting in Iran.   Methods: A qualitative research (semi-structured interview) was conducted using Kingdon’s framework (problem, policy and politics streams, and policy windows and policy...

Setting the Agenda for a New Discipline: Population Health Science.

Imagine a typical interaction between a patient and a doctor 20 or 50 years from now, if a patient is complaining of chest pain. What are the questions that will be asked? On the one hand, we could envision a future in which vast amounts of biological data predict the probability that the patient has a number of clinical conditions. But we could also imagine a future in which the questions that...

AIDS: Setting a Feminist Agenda

In this volume, the editors bring together writings aimed at a crucial link between feminism and HIV/AIDS work. The criticismoffered ofconventionalHIV/AIDS work is thatmuch of the attention to the AIDS epidemic has been rooted in the ideological agendaofWestern scientific medicinewhich problematically reflects the hierarchical nature of a patriarchal medical profession that marginalizes the hea...

Setting a research agenda for medical overuse