Mass media and health : examining media impact on individuals and the health environment / Kim Walsh-Childers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walsh-Childers, Kim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health in mass media.

Physical Description:

xvi, 520 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Contents:

1 The Media Environment, U.S. Health and the Media-Health Effects Matrix 1

Part I Media Effects on Individuals and Health 23

2 Health Information Online: Building a Web to Improve Health Behavior 25

3 Tobacco Advertising: The Paradox of Marketing to Shorten Customers' Lives 64

4 Predictable Negative Effects: Marketing Alcohol Misuse and Abuse 110

5 Take a Pill for "Better Health": Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising 145

6 Fun and Glamor through Smoking, Drinking and Drugs: Entertainment Media Portrayals of Substance Use 179

7 Do The Media Make Us Fat? Advertising and Entertainment Portrayals of Food, Nutrition and Exercise 208

8 Showing Us What We Should (and Cannot) Be: The Mass Media Mirror and Body Image 240

9 Lust, Love and Romance with Few Consequences: Media Portrayals of Sex 274

10 The Mean and Scary Media World: The Impact of Media Violence 309

11 Reporting On Health for Better or Worse: News Media Effects on Knowledge, Beliefs and Behaviors 350

12 Peer-to-Peer Health: The Good and Bad News about Facebook, Instagram, Blogs and Other Social Media 386

Part II Media Effects on Health Policy 425

13 How Health News Can Affect Non-News Consumers: News Media and Health Policy 429

14 Focusing the Spotlight on Problems Upstream: Media Advocacy to Influence Policy 450

15 Big Spenders in the Marketplace of Ideas: Political Issue Advertising Effects on Health Policy 466

16 Media Effects on Health: What We Still Need to Know 489.

ISBN:

9781138925595

1138925594

9781138925601

1138925608

OCLC:

967761351