Media Advocacy and Public Health: Power for Prevention

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SAGE, 1993 M10 7 - 226 pages
Using the media to promote public health is an innovative and valuable approach. Media Advocacy and Public Health develops the concept of media advocacy as a central strategy for the prevention of public health problems. How we think about health problems, and what we do about them, is largely determined by how they are reported on television, radio, and in the newspaper. Often, crucial issues of public health policy are discussed and decided only after they are made visible by the media. A traditional communication strategy like social marketing focuses on giving people a message. Media advocacy gives people a voice. The first book of its kind, Media Advocacy and Public Health lays out the theoretical framework and practical guidelines to successful media advocacy strategies. Eight case studies, ranging from alcohol to AIDS, vividly illustrate how media advocacy has been successfully applied.

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Contents

Public Health and Media Advocacy
1
The Advocacy Connection
26
The Media Connection
52
Thinking Media Advocacy
86
Doing Media Advocacy
121
Media Advocacy Case Studies
155
Summing Up
201
Organizational Acronyms
209
Index
218
About the Authors
225
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