Profile

Alberto Pellai is a researcher in Public Health at the Department of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine of the Medical School of Milano State University.
Professor at  the Scuola di Specialità in Igiene e Medicina Preventiva of the Milan State University, dr Pellai is an expert in children’s and teenagers’  lifestyles.
Since 1996 he has been studying how TV affects children's life and his studies' results have been published in three books for parents and teachers. He became an advocate for a better TV-system in Italy and is working in many media education projects addressing families, schools and children.

alberto.pellai@unimi.it

Relevant Publications

Articles

Pellai A., Sancini S. (2003) Eating attitudes and Behaviours in a sample of teenage Italian Students in Pamela I. S (edited by) Focus on Eating Disorders Research. Nova Biomedical Books, New York: 57-68, 2003

Pellai, A, Media Education: An Urgent Tool For Health Education Addressing Teenagers, Newsletter on Children, News, Media in the World, No. 2, 2004, The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media

Books

A.Pellai (1996): "Il bambino che addomesticò la televisione. Come crescere bambini felici e tele-educati" Franco Angeli Editore - Collana Le Comete.

M.Lodi, A.Pellai, V.Slepoj (1997)“Cara TV con te non ci sto più” Franco Angeli Editore

A.Pellai (1999) “Teen Television. Gli adolescenti davanti e dentro la TV” Franco Angeli Editore

G.Coari, G.Dinota, M.Modarelli, A.Pellai, G.Rizzi (1999) Io TV, Tu bambino Comune di Pioltello

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