In today’s digital world, people routinely turn to the internet for health or medical information. In addition to actively searching online, they often come across health-related information on social media or receive it through emails or messages from family or friends. It can be tempting to share such messages with loved ones – often with the best of intentions.
Tag: health communication
Health Media Literacy is a 21st Century Essential Skill
Optimal health is not just the absence of illness or disease; it is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. I can’t think of anything more challenging right now, as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on. While we may be locked down temporarily, we must not lock ourselves in to the status quo of formalized schooling—including what constitutes core curriculum. Disparate times call for disparate measures, so to speak.
Fighting the Good (Food) Fight
One-third of children and over fifty-percent of adults in the United States are either overweight or obese. Each day 3,000 Americans die from heart disease…
Change, Change, and More Change
Baked antibiotic-free chicken, fresh sautéed kale, and sweet potato salad sounds like a recipe for deliciously good health, which can be a rare occasion for…
The Link between Health & Media Literacy
The significant increase in mass mediated messages about health over the past two decades has generated an increased sense of urgency for media literacy—not just among healthcare…
Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools: How Media Literacy Can Renew Education in the United States
My second book, Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools: How Media Literacy Can Renew Education in the United States (in press, Rowman & Littlefield) is intended for educators…