400732 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Asperger Syndrome, Health Communication, Health Promotion
Document Summary
Using the entertainment industry as a platform for advocating health information and education is a communication strategy that has become increasingly popular. The most utilized strategy is for health communication professionals to create partnerships with storyline creators so that public health information can be incorporated into within the plot of a television show. The centres for disease control and prevention has formed a strong partnership with hollywood, health, and. Society, to continue to produce new storylines on television and in lm studios that will help to promote public health information. Some of the resources provided with this partnership include comprehensive "tip sheets" to provide writers with easy to access and trustworthy information on health issues, and meetings and panels to discuss new information and resources. Some of the most notable examples of this method of communication in recent years have been with the lms contagionand i. Asperger"s syndrome, and with the cw"sseries 90210 and spreading cancer awareness.
