Question

In the context of communication theory and health behavior change, how has media been used to positively affect health care and discuss how media can (or has) negatively affected health care?

Answer 1

Media has been used to positively affect Healthcare through many ways:

• Addresses large population: through Media large population can be reached out and can be motivated easily about the health issues that one faces in his life and ways to prevent themselves from health problems.
• Motivation: media plays a vital role to motivate people to take better care of one's health. Media has a deep impact on common peoples thinking. It becomes easy to motivate people through Media towards Better Health Care.
• Provides awareness: media aware people about health and health related issues. it provides knowledgeI to the common man as to how to maintain one's health. It gives all necessary information regarding health and educates common people about health.
• Changes behavior and attitude: media changes behaviour and attitude of persons toward health and make them health conscious.

How media negatively affect Healthcare:

• Number of commercial advertisement about those goods which are very harmful to human health, temptates common man to use those good.
• Commercials on cigarettes, alcohol and other harmful things attract youth.
• Many commercials lime lighted low quality products which are very harmful and have adverse effect on health.