Mass media barriers to social marketing interventions: the example of sun protection in the UK
Open Access
- 16 August 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Health Promotion International
- Vol. 26 (1), 37-45
- https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daq048
Abstract
The role of the mass media in communicating health-related information to the wider population is the focus of this paper. Using the example of sun protection within the UK, we highlight some of the major challenges to raising awareness of steadily increasing melanoma rates and of effective sun protection strategies. The implications of potential barriers to official sun protection messages via conflicting messages in the media are discussed in terms of editorial on sun protection and in the way in which television programme content portrays the issues. Implications for public policy and future research conclude the paper.Keywords
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