Health / Prevention
See also: Teaching Resources for Addressing Media and Health / News Stories
recommended books listed below
- Advertising & Healthy Decisions
- Advertising & Healthy Decisions
- Analyzing Internal/External Influences
- Analyzing Media
- Center on Media & Child Health (blog)
- Child-centered marketing causing kids to carry unhealthy food habits into adulthood
- Designing PSAs/Anti Drug Ads (Lesson plan)
- Developing a ‘healthy’ skepticism of media claims
- Entertainment Education and Health in the US- Issue Brief
- Glencoe Health Lesson Plans
- Health and Madison Avenue
- Helping Youth Navigate The Media Age (pdf)
- Integrating Media Literacy into Middle Grades Health
- Media and Health: A Health Ed Perspective
- Media Literacy & Health Lesson Plans (Kids Health In The Classroom)
- Media Literacy Lesson Plans (MS-HS, underage drinking related)
- Media Literacy For Drug Prevention-Middle Schools
- Media Literacy: Reading Between The Lines
- Media Literacy: Health & Medical Issues
- Media Literacy and Substance Abuse Virtual Library
- Media Matters- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Media messages (web quest)
- Media Revealed: Understanding Our Media Diet (curriculum)
- Mediascope
- Media Sharp-Analyzing Alcohol & Tobacco Messages (CDC)
- Media Smart Youth (NIH curriculum)
- Mind Over Media: Helping Kids Get the Message
- Nutrition, Media & The Family (Seeing Through The Hype; Becoming A Savvy Consumer; Tips For Healthy Living)
- Secrets Through The Smoke- (CDC)
- Setting Research Directions: Media Literacy & Health
- Sex on TV Study
- SmokeScreeners: helping young people decode smoking in the movies (CDC)
- Teen Health & The Media (Washington State)
- TV Taken to Task On Health News
- Understanding the role of media in substance abuse prevention
- Under the Influence? Educator’s Kit on Alcohol Advertising for Students in Grades 7 – 10
- Using Media Literacy Education for Health Promotion: A Qualitative Meta-analysis of Effective Program Components
- Web health info seekers tend not to check sources
