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Developing a Critical Media Research Agenda for Health Psychology

Darrin Hodgetts

University of Waikato, New Zealand

Kerry Chamberlain

Massey University, New Zealand

This article outlines reasons why psychologists should concern themselves with media processes, noting how media are central to contemporary life and heavily implicated in the construction of shared understandings of health. We contend that the present research focus is substantially medicalized, privileging the investigation and framing of certain topics, such as the portrayal of health professionals, medical practices, specific diseases and lifestyle-orientated interventions, and restricting attention to social determinants of health as appropriate topics for investigation. We propose an extended agenda for media health research to include structural health concerns, such as crime, poverty, homelessness and housing and social capital.

Key Words: health • inequality • media • medicalization • poverty

Journal of Health Psychology, Vol. 11, No. 2, 317-327 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1359105306061190
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