HEALTH OBSERVATORY, scientific medicine, traditional medicines and health communication
BACKGROUND Medicine and psychology through the media became very important in the 20th century, when radio, television, the INTERNET, and cell phones, that is, electronic communication, entered people's daily lives. The media, in addition to transmitting information about medicines, treatments, and diseases, became the cause of diseases such as smoking, alcoholism, drug addiction, violence, depression, the transmission of venereal diseases through the change of sexual behavior, or the use of firearms. During the Covid pandemic, the media helped to deal with the disease through recommendations such as social distancing, the use of masks, home isolation, vaccination, diagnostic tests, and timely treatment. but at the same time, they altered the psychological behavior of people, increasing depression, intrafamily violence, and domestic violence in people who could not leave their homes, they were agitators of social violence such as the protests of blacks in the United States and Euro...