Health and Radio: an Analysis of Journalistic Practice

The generalist radios, public and private, broadcast informative news and spreading products that approach the topic of the health. The article summarize the main results of a research on the treatment and diffusion of these contents in the radio. The information about topics of health have a direct influence in the daily life of the citizenship. That’s the reason why the radio broadcasters must design responsible policies in order to promote habits and healthy guidelines of behaviour.