Health Communication About Hospice Care in Chinese Media: Digital Topic Modeling Study

Qian Liu   ^{1, 2 *} , MSc, PhD ;   Zequan Zheng   ^{3 *} , MBBS ;   Jingsen Chen   ³ , MBBS ;   Winghei Tsang   ³ , MBBS ;   Shan Jin   ^{3, 4} , BSc ;   Yimin Zhang   ³ , MBBS ;   Babatunde Akinwunmi   ^{5, 6} , MPH, MMSc, MD ;   Casper JP Zhang   ⁷ , PhD ;   Wai-kit Ming   ^{3, 8} , MPH, MMSc, MD, PhD

¹ School of Journalism and Communication, National Media Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

² Department of Communication, University of Albany, State University of New York, New York, NY, United States

³ Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

⁴ School of Materials and Energy, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

⁵ Maternal-Fetal Medicine Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

⁶ Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States

⁷ School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

⁸ Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

*these authors contributed equally