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      Media and health: A continuing concern for health psychology

      Hodgetts, Darrin; Chamberlain, Kerry
      DOI
       10.1177/1359105306061172
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      Hodgetts, D. & Chamberlain, K. (2006). Media and health: A continuing concern for health psychology. Journal of Health Psychology (11), 171-174.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/1732
      Abstract
      Take a moment and consider the last 24

      hours, reflecting on your interactions with any form of media. Very few of us would not have interacted with a variety of media within that timeframe. Our daily lives are punctuated with mediated experiences, communications via telephone, email or chat rooms and engagements with television, radio, magazines, newspapers, websites, digital games, billboards, packaging

      and advertising. Our engagements with media

      are not simple; we use the media for such things as communicating with others, maintaining social networks, accessing information, staying informed, sustaining a sense of self and place and gaining pleasure and entertainment. Much of the content of these media forms and experiences involve health, broadly defined. An obvious example is provided by public health campaigns, but there are many more general examples including encounters with advertisements

      promoting healthy food, news reports on

      the wonders of modern medicine, websites

      offering information on healthy lifestyles and Internet forums providing dialogue around

      healthy communities.
      Date
      2006
      Type
      Journal Article
      Publisher
      Sage Publications Ltd
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