Other sources of health information and misinformation

Synchronous Activities:

Live meeting of class

Asynchronous Activities:

Read:

  1. Moynihan, R., Heath, I., & Henry, D. (2002). Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 324(7342), 886–891. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.324.7342.886
  2. Woloshin S, Schwartz LM (2006) Giving Legs to Restless Legs: A Case Study of How the Media Helps Make People Sick. PLoS Med 3(4): e170. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030170
  3. Lubens, P. (2015). Journalists and Public Health Professionals: Challenges of a Symbiotic Relationship. Off-campus login required. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 9(1), 59-63. doi:10.1017/dmp.2014.127
  4. Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity (2019).  Increasing disparities in unhealthy food advertising targeted to Hispanic and Black youth. Read the Executive Summary. 
  5. Harris, J. L. (2020). Targeted Food Marketing to Black and Hispanic Consumers: The Tobacco Playbook.Off-campus login required. American Journal of Public Health, 110(3), 271–272. https://doi-org.ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305518
  6. Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (May 2021). A lifetime of damage. Read the Executive Summary.

Assignments (due online)

  1. Respond to the DB questions under DB 9, Other sources of health information and misinformation.
  2. Respond to at least one other student’s post.