An Exploratory Study of Health Inequality Discourse Using Korean Newspaper Articles: A Topic Modeling Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to explore the health inequality discourse in the Korean press by analyzing newspaper articles using a relatively new content analysis technique.

Methods

This study used the search term "health inequality" to collect articles containing that term that were published between 2000 and 2018. The collected articles went through pre-processing and topic modeling, and the contents and temporal trends of the extracted topics were analyzed.

Results

A total of 1038 articles were identified, and 5 topics were extracted. As the number of studies on health inequality has increased over the past 2 decades, so too has the number of news articles regarding health inequality. The extracted topics were public health policies, social inequalities in health,

SUBMITTER: Kim JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6893224 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature