title: [Health information in the daily local press].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To know how much health-related information is published in the daily local press, type of information; pathologies; practical help offered, and sources.
  
  
  METHODS
  Crossover descriptive study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Community.
  
  
  METHODS
  Health articles (events and publicity excluded) published in the newspapers of Bizkaia: Deia, Egin, Egunkaria, El Correo and El Mundo; sample included all issues from one fortnight of June and one fortnight of September of 1996.
  
  
  RESULTS
  501 articles, which occupied 1.57% of the impressed surface, were published. 90% of the issues had health articles. 19.8% appeared in once-weekly health sections. Subjects considered as health culture were 49.9% scientific and technical information and 9.8% health habits and vaccinations. When compared with the rest of the newspaper, health sections gave more explicit advice (p = 0.04) and diferred in sources of information (p < 0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Health articles are almost daily published. The most frequent type was the spread of scientific and technical information. Current information topics are dominant. A few articles give explicit advice or referred to health habits. Acknowledgement of the sources could be improved. It would be desirable to investigate the quality of contents.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Salud de Deusto (Bilbao), Unidad Docente de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria de Bizkaia.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Unzueta Zamalloa
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Najarro Ajuria
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mendíbil Crespo
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Galán Morales
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Garay Narvarte
mesh_terms: D018592:Cross-Over Studies; D018156:Journalism, Medical; D008402:Mass Media / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011634:Public Health; D013030:Spain
vernacular_title: Información sobre salud en la prensa diaria local.