This article aims to study the main scientific, international and national contributions produced in health area, on subject "violence in the media and its effect on children and adolescents". Through the international and national bibliographical databases of health area, had been accessed the scientific production, in its great majority from the United States, review articles, protocols and documents produced which had synthesized the conclusions of these studies. It is also considered the scarcity of Brazilian research on violence in the media at the health side and also the necessity to adjust theories and methods to the national context. It is also stressed the importance to investigate violence in the media under the optics of public health in order to contribute to violence prevention and preserve children and adolescents health.
Violence; Media; Adolescent; Public health
