title: [The health value in the daily press. El País (1976-90): the editorials].
abstract: The growing interest which the daily press in Spain has been showing in recent years on medical matters, health and public health in general is revealed when you study the number of articles which the daily newspaper El País has published on these subjects since its foundation in 1976 up until the end of 1990. During this time, the number of articles on this topic which have appeared have nearly quadrupled, rising from 1.8 in 1977 to 6.9 in 1990. The toxic syndrome and Aids seem to have been the main subjects which have fostered, at least quantitively, medical journalism and are topics on which El País has written several editorials. This study is in three sections: the first is a methodological introduction to the study of the "health" value via the daily press; the second classifies and quantifies the articles published en El País during the period in question; and the last studies, via the editorials, the position of this paper, which is in favour of individual freedoms as opposed to those of the state medical system.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Salud Pública e Historia de la Ciencia, UCM.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Casino
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history*; D011634:Public Health / Q000266:history*; D013030:Spain
vernacular_title: El valor salud en la prensa diaria. El País (1976-1990): los editoriales.