Frameworks for online newspaper coverage of presidential health initiatives And its relationship to health awareness among Egyptian youth

Document Type : Original Article

Abstract

Health awareness is of the utmost importance in the lives of individuals and societies, as good health is one of the main goals that societies seek to achieve to provide comprehensive social development.
The health file has received great attention from President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, by placing the health file at the top of the priorities list. This was reflected in a series of various presidential initiatives. The press, as one of the most important media outlets, including electronic newspapers, which is one of the technologies imposed by the Internet, provides the public with truthful and accurate information about different issues and phenomena with the aim of achieving a greater degree of knowledge and awareness. This has led to the importance of studying the framework of electronic newspapers’ coverage of presidential health initiatives, to understand the characteristics of the coverage of these initiatives and their relation to health awareness among Egyptian youth. Data for this study were collected through content analysis, a questionnaire tool, and an awareness scale. The study analyzed the media content of the presidential health initiatives (the study sample) published in electronic ne
wspapers (Al-Ahram, Al-Wafd, Youm7). A field study was conducted with a sample of 600 Egyptian youth from the governorates of (Dakahlia, Cairo, Minya).
The main findings of the study are as follows:
 The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population came at the forefront of the information sources relied upon by the study's newspapers in covering the presidential health initiatives. 
 There was no statistically significant relationship between the intensity of the respondents' following of presidential health initiatives in electronic newspapers and their level of health awareness according to gender.
 There were statistically significant differences between the mean scores of respondents on the health awareness scale due to their following of presidential health initiatives in electronic newspapers, based on differences in educational level.

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