Dr. Des Spence is a full-time family physician in Scotland; Julia Belluz, a Canadian journalist focused on healthcare policy. They discuss sexually transmitted infections of main concern in public health, the risks, and how the risks are described by public health authorities and journalists to families, families, family caregivers and family physicians,www.ow.ly/mCZ67. They explain the harmful effects on family relationships of overblown public health information about these infections. They describe how such information is gauged in journalism for newsworthiness, timeliness and trustworthine
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