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How does the media use health psychology to influence people nowadays? For example plastic surgeries?

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1. By bombarding us with medication commercials, catering to all the hypochondriacs and creating new illnesses and diseases with all their "miracle" cures.
2. By telling woman and men ; but especially woman to look 20 when they are 80 ; which is a non sense ; but it work very well for the industry of cosmetic
3. The media tend to twist everything to support the point they are trying to make. So you can go from scare tactics 'plastic surgery goes wrong' right over to adverts for why plastic surgery can make those little insecurities go away and make your life amazing. The fact is: by influencing peoples opinions about health matters, peoples opinions being the most important part of health belief (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Belief_Model) you will certainly have an effect on their behaviour.