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Food for Thought: Television Food Advertising to Children in the United States
The study combines content analysis of TV ads with detailed data about children's viewing habits to provide an estimate of the number and type of TV ads seen by children of various ages. A webcast of the forum is also available.

Parents, Children & Media: A Kaiser Family Foundation Survey
Parents say they are gaining control over their own children’s exposure to sex and violence in the media, but they remain more broadly concerned about inappropriate content in the media, according to a new national survey of parents released by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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Children’s Media Use and Sleep Problems: Issues and Unanswered Questions -- June 2008
This research brief examines different aspects of how media use may impact children's sleep. It reviews and summarizes the limited body of research on this topic and highlights key unanswered questions that emerge from the prior studies

Kaiser Fast Facts -- May 2008
“Kaiser Fast Facts” features “QuickTakes” and “Kaiser Slides” – two tools that provide direct access to facts, data and slides about the nation's health care system and programs, in an easy-to-use format. “QuickTakes” presents an inventory of facts-at-a-glance and "Kaiser Slides" allows Web visitors to freely view, download and print graphics and tables of health policy statistics and trends.

Study Finds Television Stations Donate an Average of 17 Seconds an Hour to Public Service Advertising -- January 2008

The new and updated national study of public service advertising on broadcast and cable television was released at a forum in Washington, D.C.

The Digital Opportunity: Using New Media for Public Education Campaigns -- July 2007

The Ad Council and Kaiser Family Foundation hosted forum to explore how health-related and other nonprofits and government agencies can use new digital media. A webcast of the forum is available.

Parents Say They’re Gaining Control Over Their Children’s Exposure to Sex and Violence in the Media -- June 2007

The report, Parents, Children & Media: A Kaiser Family Foundation Survey, a national survey of 1,008 parents of children ages 2-17, explores how parents view the role of media in their children’s lives.

Children's Exposure to Food Advertising on Television: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Results from Recent Studies by the Federal Trade Commission and the Kaiser Family Foundation -- June 2007
This document compares two significant studies about food advertising to children on television.

New Study Finds That Food Is the Top Product Seen Advertised by Children -- March 2007

The study combines content analysis of TV ads with detailed data about children's viewing habits to provide an estimate of the number and type of TV ads seen by children of various ages. A webcast of the forum is also available.

Public Service Advertising in Great Britain: Lessons for U.S. Public Interests -- February 2007

This webcast forum explored the differences in public service advertising between Great Britain and the U.S.

The Teen Media Juggling Act: The Implications of Media Multitasking Among American Youth -- December 2006

A report, key findings and a webcast of a forum, hosted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, explore how pervasive media multitasking is among young people, potential cognitive and social development implications, and which teens are most likely to multitask.

Forum on The "Reality" of Health: Reality Television and the Public Health -- October 2006

This Kaiser Family Foundation forum examines the implications of reality TV serving as a health information resource. A webcast of the forum, a discussion paper, and related materials are available.

This research brief examines different aspects of how media use may impact children's sleep. It reviews and summarizes the limited body of research on this topic and highlights key unanswered questions that emerge from the prior studies

“Kaiser Fast Facts” features “QuickTakes” and “Kaiser Slides” – two tools that provide direct access to facts, data and slides about the nation's health care system and programs, in an easy-to-use format. “QuickTakes” presents an inventory of facts-at-a-glance and "Kaiser Slides" allows Web visitors to freely view, download and print graphics and tables of health policy statistics and trends.

The new and updated national study of public service advertising on broadcast and cable television was released at a forum in Washington, D.C.

The Ad Council and Kaiser Family Foundation hosted forum to explore how health-related and other nonprofits and government agencies can use new digital media. A webcast of the forum is available.

This document compares two significant studies about food advertising to children on television.

This webcast forum explored the differences in public service advertising between Great Britain and the U.S.

This Kaiser Family Foundation forum examines the implications of reality TV serving as a health information resource. A webcast of the forum, a discussion paper, and related materials are available.

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Study of Media and Health

The Foundation conducts research concerning the relationship between entertainment media and health, with a special focus on children and media. The purpose of the research is to provide data to help inform policymakers, journalists, the research community, healthcare providers, the media industry, and the public.

Major research projects include such topics as how teens use the Internet for health information; the amount of time children of all ages spend watching TV, playing video games, using computers, and reading; sexual messages on television; how health policy issues are portrayed on TV's medical dramas; what viewers learn from health information in entertainment shows; the role of media in childhood obesity; and the impact of media-based public health campaigns. The Foundation also studies public policies on related media topics, including public service advertising on television, TV ratings, the V-Chip, and the impact of Internet filtering.

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