Tag Archives: new media

New media +Indigenous musicians = funky tobacco control

October 2, 2009 – 11:24 am

These clips are worth checking out – part of the funkiest anti-smoking campaign I’ve seen in a while.
This one is called Cough N Rap
And, I don’t know about you, but this one just makes me want to dance… (if it doesn’t stop people smoking, it might at least get them moving…)
The clips (and there are [...]

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New media is a health tonic

July 17, 2009 – 11:57 am

For those with an interest in health and new media, a new book has just landed: Health Communication in the New Media Landscape, by two academics from the University of Missouri-Columbia (one from the health sciences side of things and the other from the journalism school).
It takes a broad look at how new media is [...]

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From The Wire to Good Times, Bad Times

June 26, 2009 – 9:31 am

I like the saying that you so often hear in health – that each system is perfectly designed to produce the results that it does. It’s often used to account for the evidence that the health system itself causes an enormous toll of health problems, known in the jargon as “adverse events”.
Dr Tom Keating, who [...]

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