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A discussion on how health journalism -- as a growing field with great promise and potential in the future as new media continues to make content more accessible to an interested audience -- may well require a further branching out into psychology research. When it comes to health and well-being, the general audience pool is actually quite wide, but so too is the scope of the topic as reporting on health subjects can sometimes necessitate branching out into other areas, including family psychology research, in order to present a compelling and worthwhile overview of a disease and its impact not only on the person but also those in proximity who are affected by the various challenges of said disease.

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How health journalism and psychology research interact when discussing diseases (specifically chronic conditions).

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When it comes to growing paradigm of health journalism, a lot can be examined when it comes to its potential for growth and scope of coverage.

A good topic that can help elucidate this point would be the subject of cancer, one of the leading umbrellas of chronic disease and mortality in the world, there tends to be considerable interest in the journalism and media sphere. People are eager to read about the topic due to its foreboding nature and the fact that a good portion of the population are at risk of contracting some form of cancer in their life time. As such, there's a lot of content for media outlets and journalists to cover, analyse and report on, making for a topic that - despite all the alarm and associated negativity - rarely gets dull. Readers want to know about the nature of one of our primary killer diseases and how to stave it off as and where possible. However, one aspect of ...

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