Educación para la salud, media y drogas

Authors

  • Alfonso García Martínez

Keywords:

Media, Health, Habits, Simbolic Universe, Drugs, Adolescents, Health Education

Abstract

This article analyzes how mass media have an effect on the configuration of our Symbolic Universe and how they affect to individual and colectives healt behaviors. In a special way, it analyzes the influence of the publicity on legal drugs (tobacco and alcohol, in particular) to shape drug-dependence behaviors in adolescents and also to configure the tasks which follow from it in the development of health educational action, in order to permit an autonomous judgement and action competences, which counteract the advertising avalanche that adolescents are given in from the mass media.

Issue

Section

Art