12 solutions to overcome screen challenges
In his latest book, Full Professor Miguel Ángel Martínez-González offers advice on how to prevent the damage caused by screens in young people.
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17 | 01 | 2025
Miguel A. Martínez-González, Full Professor of Preventive Medicine at the University of Navarra and Full Professor attachment of Harvard, has published with Planeta the book 12 soluciones para superar los retos de las pantallas (12 solutions to overcome the challenges of screens). The book offers practical resources to alleviate the damage caused by entertainment screens with Internet connection in children and young people.
It also addresses how to prevent addictions and pornography use, as well as how to avoid mental health problems in young people. "This is a public health problem given the unfortunate rampant increase of mental illness in youth. There is a great demand from parents and teachers on how to remedy and prevent these harms," stresses the researcher.
The expert states that "there is no parent of children today who is not concerned about the threats and damage that Internet-connected screens can cause to their children's mental health". This book provides, from scientific evidence, twelve concrete solutions and provides numerous resources to address these risks from the domestic daily life.
Among the advice, the author highlights the importance of gaining moral authority by being exemplary and leading by example; talking to children face to face about sexuality, etc.; agreeing on clear rules in families about the use of technology, and delaying the gift of a smartphone as long as possible, "without ambiguity or half measures".
Authorities must intervene
In this sense, he asks the authorities to "prohibit the use of cell phones under the age of 16", as thousands of signatures from parents and many experts have already demanded. It also proposes that minors receive training and pass a test to be able to access a mobile with Internet connection.
Author of several best-sellers such as Salmones, hormones and screens, Salud a ciencia cierta or ¿Qué come?, Miguel Ángel Martínez-González leads large Spanish preventive trials such as Predimed, Predimed-Plus or UNATI, on the effects of the Mediterranean per diem expenses . He received the Gregorio Marañón National award , from research médica, in 2022.
The profits from this new book, like the previous ones, will be used to finance new projects at research.
