Television and health communication: the meta-analysis of iranian and foeriegn health communication

Document Type : Tarviji

Authors
1 Islamic Azad university, central Tehran branch
2 communication department, Allame Tabtabaee university
3 communication department, Azad university
4 communication department, azad university
Abstract
Health communication is an interdisciplinary area which connects two different areas of media and healthcare. The relationship between these two areas are mutual and today the media cover the healthcare more than before. Television, as a widespread mass media, has an important role in promoting public health, because researchers believe that television is one of the most reliable resources of health information. it is documented that watching television is related with health promotion. Therefore, this research tries to analyze the relationship between television and healthcare. So that, meta-analysis is applied as methodology and the foreign and Iranian researches in health communication are systematically reviewed. these researches are extracted from iranian and foreign data base through searching key words.The findings suggest that Television addds a new dimension to health education and is a reliable resource for obtaining health and disease information, but there are some shortages in considering these topics that should be resolved.

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Volume 10, Issue 38
Spring 2021
Pages 11-29

  • Receive Date 26 September 2021
  • Accept Date 17 October 2021