advice-for-childrens-screen-and-social-media-use
Advice for children’s screen and social media use
On 7 February 2019, the Department of Health and Social Care posted a document to their website, in which the UK Chief Medical Officers’ (CMO) gives commentary on “Screen-based activities and children and young people’s mental health and psychosocial wellbeing: a systematic map of reviews”.[1]
Page 11 of that document gives some tips for balancing screen use with healthy living.
Sadly, that advice was published in PDF format only.
This repository holds a manually recreated HTML version of that advice in:
The copyright of the content in the web-pages is:
© Crown copyright 2019
Published to GOV.UK in pdf format only.
Office of the Chief Medical Officer www.gov.uk/dhsc
Licensed under the terms of [the Open Government Licence v3.0](https://nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/opengovernment-licence/version/3)
Cited as:
Davies S.C., Atherton F., Calderwood C., McBride M. United Kingdom Chief Medical
Officers’ commentary on ‘Screen-based activities and children and young people’s mental
health and psychosocial wellbeing: a systematic map of reviews’. Department of Health
and Social Care (2019).
Footnotes
[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/777026/UK_CMO_commentary_on_screentime_and_social_media_map_of_reviews.pdf