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From obesity to steroids to violence and crime, public health concerns provide opportunities for introducing and integrating media literacy skills into both K-12 health education and community-based educational campaigns.

•    Addicted to Violence: Has the American Dream Become a Nightmare?
•    Alcohol and Television: And Now for Some Mixed Messages
•    Alcohol in Prime Time: 10 Guidelines for Writers
•    Beyond Blame: Media Literacy as Violence Prevention
•    Blowing Smoke: Can Media Literacy Impact Youth Smoking?
•    Cancer is an Equal Opportunity Disease
•    Challenging the Myths of Media Violence
•    CHILDREN: Helping Children Challenge Male Stereotypes
•    CML Pilots Media Literacy Unit for Obesity, Nutrition Education
•    Deadly Persuasion: 7 Myths Alcohol Advertisers Want You to Believe
•    Gullible Statistics Exercise
•    Healthcare in the Media Age
•    Landmarks in the Media Violence Debate: Decade by Decade
•    Making Connections: Media's Role in our Culture of Violence
•    Marcus Welby Speaks: Health Messages on TV
•    Media Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship
•    Our Culture of Addiction
•    Selling Addiction to Women
•    Six Kinds of Screen Violence — and How Children Respond
•    STARTING POINT: Just Say 'Yes' to Media Literacy
•    Testimony Reveals Complexity of Sexual Violence Issue in Media
•    YOUTH: Media Models Say Muscles Make Men