How Children Learn to Be Healthy

Klappentext This book explores the ways in which children learn to be healthy. Zusammenfassung This book explores the ways in which children learn to be healthy. The author examines children's understanding of health and how it affects their health behavior and physical health. The ways in which parents! other children! schools! media! and environment influence health attitudes and actual physical health are also scrutinized. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Mechanisms and consequences of socializing children to be healthy; 2. Children's health understanding and behavior; 3. Parents' health beliefs; 4. Parents' promotion of children's health; 5. Parents' promotion of children's sexual health; 6. Peers, schools, and children's health; 7. How television viewing and other media use affects children's health; 8. The social ecology of children's health socialization; 9. Summary and conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara J. Tinsley, Barbara J. (University of California Tinsley
• Assisted by: Candice Currie (Editor), Klaus Hurrelmann (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2002
• EAN: 9780521580984
• ISBN: 978-0-521-58098-4
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: International Studies on Child; Cambridge Studies on Child and; Cambridge Studies on Child and Adolescent Health; International Studies on Child
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General