Geography of Health and Healthcare
Assignment 3: News Content Analysis
Due in TA mailbox by 5PM on Friday, March 7”’.

For this assignment, you will find a newspaper article that discusses a health and/or disease

event from current events or the past 5 years. You will then provide an analysis, including your

informed opinion, on the event discussed in the article using the frameworks and analytical tools
you have learned in the course.

You will attach the news article to your paper. Your paper should be ~3 pages long,

double spaced.

In aIDition, you will find at least two academic articles to support your claims.

You need to:

1. Provide a brief summary of the newspaper article and issue. Remember, your summary and
description is always best used in the body of your paper as evidence to support your
argument.

2. Deconstruct the newspaper article and its argument(s):

Think about: Are you satisfied with the argument(s) in the news article? Why? Why
not? Does the author focus too much on anything, or overlook any important points?
As you do the analysis consider the following:

0 How is the health and disease event presented in the news article?

0 Are any issues / ideas of: affordability responsibility, accessibility, access, ethics, choice,
and quality/ quantity of treatment and/ or prevention… aIDressed? How?

0 Is there a problem defined in the article and, if so, how is that problem FRAAIED?

0 Do you know of different ways of describing or approaching this issue based on what
you have learned from lecture or readings or other experiences you’ve had?

0 How would you extend or critique the news’ analysis of the event with concepts you
have learned in this class? These might include space, history, interconnections, scale,
and/or social/political/ecologic context?

Provide concrete evidence from your two scholarly articles to support your claims
Provide a bibliography, choose a standard citation style and be consistent
throughout!
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