Television/Screen Time and Health
Resources
Organizations:
Kaiser Family Foundation sites:
Media and Health: http://www.kff.org/entmedia/.
Reports and fact sheets: http://www.kff.org/entmedia/entmediafactsheetseries.cfm
American Academy of Pediatrics, Media Matters
campaign http://www.aap.org/advocacy/
mediamatters.htm
Information about Media Matters, a national public education
campaign of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
American Academy of Pediatrics, Children’s Health
Topics: Internet/Media Use http://www.aap.org/
healthtopics/mediause.cfm
Articles, Q and A’s and links to featured websites help parents
understand media's impact on children, establish guidelines
for media use, learn about rating systems, and become
educated media consumers.
Active Bodies Active Minds – Screen-time Reduction
(Resources for Early Childhood Professionals):
http://depts.washington.edu/tvhealth/index.htm
Connect for Kids http://www.connectforkids.org/taxonomy/term/357
Connect for Kids provides the information and tools needed to learn about issues and to take action to improve policies and
programs affecting children, families, and communities.
Center for Media Literacy http://www.medialit.org/
Largest producer and distributor of media literacy education
materials in North America.
Program for the Study of Media and Health, Kaiser Family Foundation http://www.kff.org/
about/entmediastudies.cfm
Highlights research of the Kaiser Family Foundation concerning the relationship between
entertainment media and health, with a special focus on children and media. Also features a series of
fact sheets titled Children, Health, and the Media.
Center for SCREEN-TIME Awareness www.screentime.org
An international non-profit organization whose focus is on empowering people to use technology
responsibly. The Center encourages people to take time for themselves, their families and their
communities by taking control of the electronic media in their lives, not allowing it to control them.
The Center is best known for its annual campaign TV-Turnoff Week. .
Programs and Curricula:
WE CAN!
Visit the We Can! Website to explore a variety of Tools and Resources to help reduce screen time. To go directly to the Reduce Screen Time Tools and Resources please visit: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/wecan/tools-resources/tools-reduce-screen-time.htm.
Eat Well and Keep Moving http://www.eatwellandkeepmoving.org/
A school-based intervention to improve activity and dietary behaviors among 4th and 5th grade students, focusing on four behavioral changes: reducing television viewing; increasing physical activity; decreasing consumption of high-fat foods; and increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables. Consists of age-appropriate classroom lesson plans and classroom-based campaigns as well as home activities for family members.
Planet Health http://www.planet-health.org/
A school-based intervention to improve activity and dietary behaviors among 7th and 8th grade students, focusing on four behavioral changes: reducing television viewing; increasing physical activity; decreasing consumption of high-fat foods; and increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables. The primary goal was a reduction in the prevalence of obesity.
Kaiser Family Foundation Screen-time toolkit (pdf/12pgs 4.42mb) (also available in Spanish (pdf/10pgs 3.35mb))
Active Bodies Active Minds – Screen-time Reduction
(Resources for Families):
http://depts.washington.edu/tvhealth/index.htm
Web sites of interest:
The problem with children watching television
A research blog to improve outcomes for children, youth and families.http://blog.childtrends.org/2011/06/06/the-problem-with-children-watching-television/
Parent Further, a Search Institute resource for families, discusses "E-parenting." http://www.parentfurther.com/technology-media
