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Values predict attitudes toward nuclear power

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Concerns about climate change and energy independence have led to renewed calls for the resurgence of nuclear power. Therefore, it is important to understand the level of and bases for public attitudes, both supporting and ...





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Diabetes support -- actions speak louder than words

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

For physicians treating patients with diabetes, practical support is important in improving glycemic control. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health found that setting goals and pro-active follow ...


White House rhetoric is important in forming foreign policy opinions

White House rhetoric is important in forming foreign policy opinions

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Surveys have shown that the public pays little attention to foreign policy, but politicians regularly cite the importance of public support for military actions overseas. Now, a new study has found that these ...


Lessons for Obama in study of Bush efforts to 'frame' Iraq war

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created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Wartime leaders have long sought to sway public opinion by "framing" bad news from the frontlines. They present inconvenient facts in an altered format in order to generate support for their policies. A new study from North ...


Falling public support for health-care reform can be turned around

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Survey results published this week in the journal Health Affairs show that while only 27 percent of adults currently support the U.S. Senate Finance Committee's proposed healthcare legislation, an amended bill could gain ...


Public expresses need for government intervention to reduce socio-economic disparities in health

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created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As Congress debates the public health care option, a recent study reveals greater public support for reducing health care disparities among socio-economic groups (i.e. by income or education) than among racial groups. The ...


News in red and blue: Messages about social factors and health can backfire

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created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Here's a health idea that Democrats and Republicans agree on: when given information on the genetic factors that cause diabetes, both parties equally supported public health policies to prevent the disease.


Obama gets conflicting tips on health care speech (AP)

Obama gets conflicting tips on health care speech

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created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- President Barack Obama is getting no shortage of advice on what to say in his health care speech to Congress, and much of it conflicts.


Deaths to local soldiers matter in shaping war opinion

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created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Americans think locally when they consider whether the loss of U.S. troops overseas warrants troop withdrawals, a new nationwide study suggests.


59 percent support Massachusetts' Landmark 2006 health reform law

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created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new poll by the Harvard School of Public Health and The Boston Globe finds 59% of Massachusetts residents who are aware of the state's health reform legislation, which was enacted in 2006, support it. A little more than ...


Iraqi police and army survey a destroyed home following a car bomb

Public opinion a good predictor of terror attacks: study

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created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Public opinion polls are good predictors of terrorist attacks, according to a study published Thursday which argues that terrorists do not act independently of their countrymen's attitudes.



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