Media Coverage Impact on Health and Social Care: A Report

This report examines the role of media in shaping public understanding and perception of health and social care issues in the UK. It begins by outlining how health-related information reaches the public through various media channels, including television, newspapers, and the internet, with a focus on the increasing importance of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The report then delves into the sources of media used to disseminate health information, emphasizing the significance of accurate and reliable data. It analyzes the impact of media coverage on public attitudes, thoughts, and behaviors, particularly concerning issues like diabetes, and explores the ways in which media can influence these aspects. Furthermore, the report addresses the crucial topic of how the public can assess the reliability and validity of media information, concluding that both factors are essential for informed decision-making. The report references key academic sources to support its findings.

Contemporary Issue In
Health and Care

Covered content
• Introduction
• Information relating to health and social to the public domain.
• Sources of Media used to disseminate information.
• Impact or Influence had on attitudes, thoughts and behaviour
of people.
• Ways in which media used to influence the attitude and
behaviour of people.
• Public assess the reliability and validity of media.
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
It is observed that social media has played an important role in the
development of health and social care in United Kingdom. This
presentation covers the role of media for the improvement of
health condition in different part of UK. The unique ways by
which media publish and consider about the health care issue will
be discussed.

Information relating to health and social
care to public domain.
There are various mass media that are always displaying
information related to health issue for general public these media
are T.V, newspaper and even Internet. Beside the mass media,
social media had also played an important role in providing
information related to different health issue, some basic social
media are Facebook, twitter etc. that have contributed a lot in this
respect.

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Sources of Media used to disseminate
information
Disseminating information is related to spread out the right data
related with health and social care to the individual in the society.
Nowadays diabetes is most common health issue in UK so
disseminate information related with diabetes properly, as the
source of information is important.

Influence on attitudes, thoughts and
behaviour of people.
Presenting of proper information is important that will gain
attention of people living in the society on the diabetes. If there is
any gap by the health and social in providing information to
people, they will not influence the attitude, thoughts and
behaviour of the people.

Ways in which media used to influence the
attitude and behaviour.
The media has played an important role to present
information to the public that depends on how the media
represent the news to the public. So it is observed that media
has positive and negative influence on the presentation of
information relating to the social and health care.

Public assess the reliability and validity of
media.
It can be said that reliability and validity are two important
factors for showing information related with diabetes.
Reliability is consider to be the accuracy and consistency
where as validity is the process by the exact information is
figure out.

CONCLUSION
From the above report, it is concluded that health and social
care plays an important role in our society to provide
medical care services to the sick people.

References
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