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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gmcr.2020(V-II).01 10.31703/gmcr.2020(V-II).01 Published : Jun 2020Healthcare Service Delivery News in Pakistani Print Media: A Comparative Analysis of Daily Jang and Daily Dawn
Health conditions in Pakistan are very bad. Government and non-governmental organizations are trying to meet international standard of health services. Some healthcare providers are educated, trained and certified from the government but some are unqualified and not certified. In this research two national newspapers are analyzed the daily Jang Urdu and the daily Dawn English. These newspapers cover healthcare services such as indoor patient, outdoor patient maternity and other health services in news stories. These services are also seen in the Literature Review. The researcher analyzed on coverage of healthcare in newspapers the daily Jang and the daily Dawn. This research has been performed by using content analysis technique under quantitative methodology. Media agenda setting theory was adopted in the theoretical framework as in the literature review. The statistical analyses of data analysis have been done in the form of frequency distribution and correlation analysis. SPSS is used to analyze the content of data. The results show that daily Jang is giving more coverage to health-related news stories than daily Dawn.
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Healthcare Service Delivery News in Pakistani Print Media.
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(1) Abid Mehmood
M.Phil Scholar, Department of Mass Communication, Lahore Leads University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Sajjad Ali
Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Malakand, KP, Pakistan.
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APA : Mehmood, A., & Ali, S. (2020). Healthcare Service Delivery News in Pakistani Print Media: A Comparative Analysis of Daily Jang and Daily Dawn. Global Mass Communication Review, V(II), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.31703/gmcr.2020(V-II).01
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CHICAGO : Mehmood, Abid, and Sajjad Ali. 2020. "Healthcare Service Delivery News in Pakistani Print Media: A Comparative Analysis of Daily Jang and Daily Dawn." Global Mass Communication Review, V (II): 1-10 doi: 10.31703/gmcr.2020(V-II).01
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HARVARD : MEHMOOD, A. & ALI, S. 2020. Healthcare Service Delivery News in Pakistani Print Media: A Comparative Analysis of Daily Jang and Daily Dawn. Global Mass Communication Review, V, 1-10.
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MHRA : Mehmood, Abid, and Sajjad Ali. 2020. "Healthcare Service Delivery News in Pakistani Print Media: A Comparative Analysis of Daily Jang and Daily Dawn." Global Mass Communication Review, V: 1-10
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MLA : Mehmood, Abid, and Sajjad Ali. "Healthcare Service Delivery News in Pakistani Print Media: A Comparative Analysis of Daily Jang and Daily Dawn." Global Mass Communication Review, V.II (2020): 1-10 Print.
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OXFORD : Mehmood, Abid and Ali, Sajjad (2020), "Healthcare Service Delivery News in Pakistani Print Media: A Comparative Analysis of Daily Jang and Daily Dawn", Global Mass Communication Review, V (II), 1-10
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TURABIAN : Mehmood, Abid, and Sajjad Ali. "Healthcare Service Delivery News in Pakistani Print Media: A Comparative Analysis of Daily Jang and Daily Dawn." Global Mass Communication Review V, no. II (2020): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.31703/gmcr.2020(V-II).01