Using media to impact health policy-making: an integrative systematic review

Media interventions can potentially play a major role in influencing health policies. This integrative systematic review aimed to assess the effects of planned media interventions—including social media—on the health policy-making process. There is currently a lack of reliable evidence to guide decisions on the use of media interventions to influence health policy-making. Additional and better-designed, conducted, and reported primary research is needed to better understand the effects of media interventions, particularly social media, on health policy-making processes, and the circumstances under which media interventions are successful. This systematic review protocol is currently registered in PROSPERO.

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Bou-Karroum L, El-Jardali F, Hemadi N, Faraj Y, Ojha U, Shahrour M et al. Using media to impact health policy-making: an integrative systematic review. Implementation Science. 2017;12(1):52. doi: 10.1186/s13012-017-0581-0