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What is School Health

Chapter 13
Handbook of Research on Representing Health and Medicine in Modern Media
Counseling, psychological, and social services that promote healthy social and emotional development and remove barriers to students' learning.
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Could There Be an Alternative Method of Media Literacy in Promoting Health in Children and Adolescents?: Media Literacy and Health Promotion
Funda Aslan (Çankırı Karatekin University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6825-5.ch013
Abstract
It is stated that the media is the most influential social tool on creation/shaping of health behaviors of children and adolescents. Most of the individuals that pose into the media tools are misinformed about numerous facts that are either wrong or manipulated about health, and this information adversely affects the health behaviors. In this study, a compilation was conducted with the aim of both raising the awareness of media literacy approach in health promotion concept and emphasizing that the usage of educational methods implemented in the media literacy might also be used by nurses.
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