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Author:   Kim Walsh-Childers (University of Florida)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.725kg
ISBN:  

9781138925601

ISBN 10:   1138925608
Pages:   520
Publication Date:   29 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Preface Chapter 1: The media environment, U.S. health and the media-health effects matrix Section 1 Introduction Chapter 2: Health information online – Building a web to improve health behavior Chapter 3: Tobacco advertising – The paradox of marketing to shorten customers’ lives Chapter 4: Predictable negative effects – Marketing alcohol misuse and abuse Chapter 5: Take a pill for ""better health"" – Direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising Chapter 6: Fun and glamour through smoking, drinking and drugs – Entertainment media portrayals of substance use Chapter 7: Do the media make us fat? Advertising and entertainment portrayals of food, nutrition and exercise Chapter 8: Showing us what we should (and cannot) be – The mass media mirror and body image Chapter 9: Lust, love and romance with few consequences – Media portrayals of sex Chapter 10: The mean and scary media world – The impact of media violence Chapter 11: Reporting on health for better or worse – News media effects on knowledge, beliefs and behaviors Chapter 12: Peer-to-peer health – The good and bad news about Facebook, Instagram, blogs and other social media Section 2: Policy-level effects introduction Chapter 13: How health news can affect non-news consumers – News media and health policy Chapter 14: Focusing the spotlight on problems upstream – Media advocacy to influence policy Chapter 15: Big spenders in the marketplace of ideas – Political issue advertising effects on health policy Chapter 16: Media effects on health – What we still need to know"

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Dr. Kim Walsh-Childers is a former newspaper health reporter who teaches courses in mass media and health, along with courses in journalism and media ethics, at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. Her research focuses on news coverage of health issues, the effects of health news coverage on individual health and health policy, cancer communication, and individuals’ use of online health information. Her work has been published in Health Communication, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Newspaper Research Journal, Science Communication, Communication Research, Pediatrics, AIDS Education and Prevention, and the Journal of Adolescent Health Care, among others. Her research has been supported by grants from the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Cancer Institute, and the Department of Defense. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Ireland during the 2004-2005 academic year, studying the impact of news coverage on Irish health policy.

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