El crimen en los programas informativos de la TV española

El objetivo principal de este artículo es analizar la forma en que los medios de comunicación españoles y, específicamente, los informativos de televisión, construyen aquellas noticias relativas al campo de la inseguridad ciudadana. Con este fin, se han recogido un total de 299 noticias emitidas en 105 programas informativos de cuatro cadenas de televisión, a cuyos contenidos se han aplicado, fundamentalmente, técnicas cualitativas de análisis. Así, desde una perspectiva descriptiva, se han ordenado, codificado y clasificado los textos, buscando discursos comunes y divergentes en torno a tres grandes dimensiones: importancia concedida y presencia en la agenda mediática, descripción de efectos y consecuencias para la población, así como posibles explicaciones y exposición de soluciones o medidas.

A public-professional web-bridge for vaccines and vaccination: User concerns about vaccine safety

Vacunas.org (http://www.vacunas.org), a website founded by the Spanish Association of Vaccinology offers a personalized service called Ask the Expert, which answers any questions posed by the public or health professionals about vaccines and vaccination. The aim of this study was to analyze the factors associated with questions on vaccination safety and determine the characteristics of questioners and the type of question asked during the period 2008–2010. A total of 1341 questions were finally included in the analysis. Of those, 30% were related to vaccine safety. Questions about pregnant women had 5.01 higher odds of asking about safety (95% CI 2.82–8.93) than people not belonging to any risk group. Older questioners (>50 years) were less likely to ask about vaccine safety compared to younger questioners (OR: 0.44, 95% CI 0.25–0.76). Questions made after vaccination or related to influenza (including H1N1) or travel vaccines were also associated with a higher likelihood of asking about vaccine safety. These results identify risk groups (pregnant women), population groups (older people) and some vaccines (travel and influenza vaccines, including H1N1) where greater efforts to provide improved, more-tailored vaccine information in general and on the Internet are required.