Panel urges journalists to reframe US public health crises as 'missing Americans' early death epidemic
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A panel at the HJ26 conference urged journalists to reframe America's overlapping public health crises — including obesity, opioid use, gun violence, and climate-related illness — as components of a broader epidemic of "missing Americans," referring to the hundreds of thousands of early deaths occurring each year. The piece reports on expert calls for media to acknowledge the scale and interconnectedness of these preventable deaths.
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· 1 pulledA panel of experts urged reporters to reframe these public health emergencies as pieces of an epidemic of 'missing Americans,' one causing the early deaths of hundreds of thousands.
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