Risky business: what primary care practitioners need to know about the influence of the media on adolescents.
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Abstract
Media can be powerfully prosocial, educational, and entertaining. Negative effects do exist, however, and they have been well documented. Despite the power of the new multinational media conglomerates and the intransigence of the entertainment industry,practitioners can make a difference in the future.
Medical subject headings
- Adolescent Medicine
- Health Education
- Mass Media
- Physician's Role
- Physicians, Family