"Clueless": Why do pediatricians underestimate the media's influence on children and adolescents?

Pediatrics

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1427-1431

  Strasburger, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; SILDENAFIL; TADALAFIL; VARDENAFIL;

ADOLESCENT; ADVERTIZING; CHILD; CONDOM; DRUG USE; EATING DISORDER; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOTE; OBESITY; PEDIATRICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SUICIDE; TELEVISION; VIOLENCE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; PARENT; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; PARENTS; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; SEX EDUCATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TELEVISION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646379608     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2005-2336     Document Type: Note

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