TELEVISION

TELEVISION
Television
A health education media

By: Suman Sapkota

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Contents
Meaning
Features of television
Functions of television
Advantages of television
Disadvantages of television
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Meaning
An electronic system
transmits transient images of fixed or
moving objects
together with sound
via a wire or through space
by apparatus that converts light and
sound into electrical waves and reconverts
them into visible light rays and audible
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Features of television
Television is a/an
Audio visual
Domestic
Live
Mass
Transitory
Expensive
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medium.
Strengt
hs

Limitatio
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Functions of television
Educates
Informs
Entertains

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Television can
Extend knowledge
Influence public opinion
Introduce new ways of life
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Advantages
Good media to inform people on
specific relevant topics within short
period to over all areas through
different channels

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Advantages (contd..)
Powerful media ( can broadcast lectures,
films, documentaries, video shows)

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Advantages (contd..)
Effective method to inform people on
specific subjects by experts of the
subject.

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Advantages (contd..)
Effective method for educated as well
as uneducated
ex: During an epidemic, methods to
control and prevent the disease can be
transmitted in local language.

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Disadvantages
Only 36.5% of Nepalese household
possess television because it is
expensive. So the required information
is less likely to reach the poorer and
rural communities.

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Disadvantages (contd)
As television is a transient medium,
people must be watching the television
to gain the information and knowledge
at the very time when the information
is being broadcasted.

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In a birds eye view

Television is the audio visual,
domestic, live, mass, transitory and
expensive communication media which
can inform, educate and entertain
and help to extend knowledge,
influence public opinions and
introduce new ways of life.
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REFERENCES
Role of television as a mass medium, National
Institute of Open Schooling
Sapkota Sp and Pahari DP (2013). A textbook of
Health promotion and education. Vidhyarthi
Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.
JE Park and K Park (2014). Parks Textbook of
Preventive and Social Medicine.M/S Banarasidas
Bhanot Publishers, Prem Nagar, Jabalpur, India.
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THANK
YOU
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