***PLEASE RESPOND TO THE FOLLOWING 2 POSTS SEPARATELY*** ***REFERENCES TO BE NO OLDER THAN 5 YEARS*** 1. With the technological innovation of the web, there are limitations and advancements. A major limitation is the two-way relationship of who provides the data and the receiver’s interpretation of the data. Does the receiver accept the information at face value ? Is the information considered one hundred percent correct? We are not take every information given to us via the web but have to do our investigation to validate the information. So, the presenter of the information needs to thoroughly identify, research, provide solutions to the problem before sharing the information on the website. I assert this is not always the best practice. According to Bou-Karroum et al. (2017) in a systematic review of 13,674 studies, only twenty-one studies were extracted that meet the criteria of how media impact on health policy. From the twenty-one studies, 10 studies were categorized as evaluation studies and 11 as case studies. Of some the topics of the twenty-one studies were Maternal Newborn Health by Pakistan Initiative for Mothers and Newborns, Road Safety by the state, Water Fluoridation/Dental hygiene by Mid-Western Regional Council; and Alcohol Control by Stockholm. The platforms for these studies were advertisements, media interviews, talk shows, videos, website lunches etc. These studies were from 2000 to 2017 and is the first systematic review. There is a need for more studies to be done of media and health policy to assess the validity of how it impacts health policy. I would recommend for the key players: the personnel of the health organization and the media to be organized with their agenda prior to sharing to the public. For example, if any new commentators are interviewing a health agency personnel via video, the personnel should prepare prior getting interviewed and the new commentators should ensure that the health personnel is not misunderstood. The web has allowed for the transfer of news to become accessible to individuals living in the remote areas of the world. Traditional media: such as television news, radio, newspaper take times for everyone to get the information in a specific time frame or may not. The advanced media such news via internet, Facebook, Twitter are some efficient and accessible to large population who have access to the internet. As healthcare professionals, the advanced media can be used as a tool to benefit the targeted populations: public, policymakers, or other stakeholders. So, any professional organizations whose’s agenda setting is to have a positive impact on health policy for problems: disease prevention and health promotion can use the social media to influence the populations of their health concerns, which allow the public to respond to the policymakers. Walsh (2021) shares how the National Association of Student of Nurses (NASH)is able to influence the public and targeted population of health issue: COVID-19 and has direct effect on health policymaking. The NASH has different platforms to communicate with the public of health issue that are impacting policy. References Bou-Karroum, L., El-Jardali, F., Hemadi, N., Faraj, Y., Ojha, U., Shahrour, M., Darzi, A., Ali, M., Doumit, C., Langlois, E. V., Melki, J., AbouHaidar, G., & Akl, E. A. (2017). Using media to impact health policy-making: An integrative systematic review. Implementation Science, 12(1). Retrieved December 2, 2021, from https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-017-0581-0 Walsh, C. (2021). NASN Supports Pediatric Vaccination Against COVID-19. National Association of School Nurses. Retrieved December 2, 2021, from https://www.nasn.org/nasn/blogs/nasn-inc/2021/11/03/nasn-supports-pediatric-vaccination-against-covid 2. Policies affect us directly or indirectly and the media plays a major role in influencing healthcare policies. They are the intermediary or the driven force between policy proposing and policy making. We use the media to put pressure on our policy makers to change or advocate for new ones, and we also use it to win the mind and soul of the viewers. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) uses the media to promote cigarette smoking cessation, by making the correlation between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer. According to Ginexi & Vollinger “Still, tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable, premature death in the USA, including mortality from lung and other cancers” (2016). The NCI has helped raise the alarm about the dangers of smoking cigarettes. Despite the growing evidence of damage caused by cigarettes, people continue to smoke. Our policy makers and public regulations policies play a very critical role on how it will affect the general population, thinking about cigarette smoking cessations. Their messages did not quite work, because while they are promoting smoking cessation on one hand on television (TV), there are some advertisements from powerful companies promoting their products, or some other shows endorsing smoking on their programs. So, which one is the consumer going to believe? Some organizations are still catering to smokers, by having a dedicated smoking room in their organization, while some make their buildings smoke free. Not that you cannot smoke, but you must leave their building to smoke and come back, while some people will get second-hand smoking from it. Reference: Ginexi, E. M., & Vollinger, R. E. (2016). National cancer institute's leadership role in promoting state and community tobacco control research. Tobacco Control, 1, i4–i5. https://doi.org/ 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2016-053153 2.