Check out the cover of the November 2011 UAB magazine. “Sell it With Soap” which highlights how Connie Kohler, DrPH and President of the Media for Health Board of Directors, and Media for Health are working together to improve the health of … Read more »
News Articles
Media for Health addresses health problems in true soapy fashion
Thursday, September 08, 2011, 5:30 AM: By Hannah Wolfson — The Birmingham News Local radio soap operas address Alabama’s health problems in true soapy fashion Radio actors pose before recording ‘Staying Well in Camberwell,’ one of two radio soap operas created … Read more »
National Spotlight on Media for Health Programs
Health-inspired Latino Soap Plans Sequel: DENVER, 7/9/2011 2:09:18 PM ET, by Ivan Moreno, AP — The titillating twists and turns of this Spanish-language soap opera captivated Colorado Hispanics. But instead of stories of forbidden love and revenge, its plot twists involved … Read more »
A Healthy Dose of Drama Fills Birmingham’s Airwaves
Birmingham, AL, July 08, 2011 – Alabama has the nation’s highest rate of diabetes and is the second most obese state. Media for Health wants to change that. The Jefferson County, Ala. nonprofit is using old-fashioned radio soap operas to draw … Read more »
The Promesas y Traiciones in Latin News
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Promesas y Traiciones, new Spanish language radio drama, begins airing June 18th
New Spanish-language radio drama addresses public health, cultural issues Promesas y Traiciones will begin airing on La Jefa on Saturday, June 18 Birmingham, Ala. – According to the Department of Health and Human Services, Mexican- Americans are twice as likely … Read more »
The Economist looks at ‘Good Trash’: How Television and Radio Shows Can Improve Behavior
May 5th 2011 | from the print edition of The Economist: In the radio drama “Nau em Taim” (“Now is the time” in Pidgin) aired in Papua New Guinea, a widowed father takes up dynamite fishing—profitable but disastrous for the … Read more »
Jefferson County Health Action Partnership Grant
Media For Health receives grant from Jefferson County Health Action Partnership. Click here to download the brochure.
Southern image? Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle Often a Struggle in the South
The Love sisters struggle. They have kids to raise, hair to style and gossip to spin. Planning a healthy meal is at the end of their to-do lists. The fictional sisters, the subject of”Body Love,” a radio show produced by … Read more »
Dothan Radio Soap Opera Puts Focus on Health Issues
Peggy Ussery aussery@dothaneagle.com [July 1, 2008] Vanessa Love has a lot of worries. She works long hours at her family’s hair salon. Her husband, Sonny, has been laid off of work. A recovering alcoholic, the loss of his job has driven Sonny … Read more »