Rare diseases in the media. Report April-June 2014, Observatory for Rare Diseases FEDER (OBSER)
Journal Title: Textos en Proceso - Year 2015, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
This report presents the analysis of how Spanish mass media dealt with the so-called rare deseases during the months of April, May and June of 2014. The report has the same general objective of the first one for the previous three months: understand how rare diseases are presented in the Spanish media and, correspondingly, how that media representation evolves. In this report, the data of the first trimester is compared to the second one.
Authors and Affiliations
Josep Solves Almela, Antonio Miguel Bañón Hernández
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