Abstract:

Many health information rebuilt through the media is presented as the realities of today. A traditional means of communication is that the programs broadcast on television, especially for women, are brought to a variety of criticisms in the axis of the forms of treatment of health, directly or indirectly, and the program content. At the beginning of the criticism, a complex subject such as health and the treatment in the medical science and the methods are transformed into an ideological object by fetishing nutrition and beauty through aesthetic concern. The study is based on these criticisms based on the concept of "there is no illness" and aims to reveal the opinions of health scientists about the information transmitted in women/health programs, the way the doctors are placed in the media, the presentation of health information in the program content, the language used during the presentation and the recommendations transmitted. In this study, one of the most followed women’s programs was selected as a sample and referred to the opinions of the students of the “Food and Nutrition” and “Nursing” department, which was evaluated as the experts of the future through discussions. As a result of deep discussions, it was found that the perspectives of the programs vary according to the fields of learning. In addition, when the findings were evaluated in general, the findings were found that the students did not regularly follow the women/health programs, that the majority of the negative views of such programs were presented, that the information that should be individual, such as nutrition and diet, was presented as applicable to everyone without individual supervision, that such programs could have negative effects on the audience, and that the public had a high probability of implementing such information.