Children's Perceptions of Health
Author: Joanne Amelia Shaughnessy
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 114
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Author: Joanne Amelia Shaughnessy
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 114
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Valerie Michaelson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-08-21
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 3319648314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the results of the Canadian Holistic Health in Children project. Rooted in an ancient concept, this study addresses some novel thinking surrounding the assessment of health and its determinants in adolescent populations. Holism refers to the assessment of complex systems as composite wholes, instead of or in addition to their constituent parts. This idea is rarely applied to the study of health in children, and its application to adolescent populations represents a potentially important gap in knowledge. It fills this gap by conducting a series of analyses in a mixed methods paradigm. Quantitatively, it develops new measures and analytic strategies to be used in the assessment of health and its determinants in adolescents, and then applied these a series of national and cross-national studies. Qualitatively, it explores the origins and models of health inferred from existing theory as well as quantitative findings with groups of young people, and captures the richness of their stories in recurrent themes and metaphor. This book outlines the basic elements of theory that underlie holistic understandings of adolescent health, quantitative and qualitative findings, and then presents and interprets the results and translates them into a series of practical recommendations.
Author: Karen Lutz
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2004-10-18
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0309166608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChildren's health has clearly improved over the past several decades. Significant and positive gains have been made in lowering rates of infant mortality and morbidity from infectious diseases and accidental causes, improved access to health care, and reduction in the effects of environmental contaminants such as lead. Yet major questions still remain about how to assess the status of children's health, what factors should be monitored, and the appropriate measurement tools that should be used. Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health provides a detailed examination of the information about children's health that is needed to help policy makers and program providers at the federal, state, and local levels. In order to improve children's health-and, thus, the health of future generations-it is critical to have data that can be used to assess both current conditions and possible future threats to children's health. This compelling book describes what is known about the health of children and what is needed to expand the knowledge. By strategically improving the health of children, we ensure healthier future generations to come.
Author: Peggy L. Neubeck
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jennifer J. Wright
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Barbara J. Tinsley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780521524186
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe goal of this book is to explore the ways in which health behavior develops in childhood, in the context of childhood socialization processes. The book reviews the historical and contemporary perspectives utilized in portraying the dynamics of children's physical health, a developmental analysis of children's and parents' attitudes and behavior concerning children's health, the role of parents, schools, and the media in influencing children's health attitudes and behavior, and how health attitudes, behaviors, and outcomes are affected by the social ecology of children's rearing environments.
Author: Terri L. Johns
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Keith J. Petrie
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2013-12-19
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 113440154X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1997. The study of how individuals perceive and make sense of health and illness is a new and rapidly developing area in health psychology. The field has seen important recent theoretical developments and applications to a wide range of health threats and illnesses. The first section of this book examines the current theoretical and measurement issues in the field and includes issues related to illness perceptions across the lifespan, disability, and the assessment of illness representations in chronic illness. The second section addresses the role of illness perceptions in health screening and prevention and includes work on perceptions of genetic disease, cancer screening, and how individuals process health risk information. The third section is concerned with the application of the illness perceptions approach to patients with chronic illness and those undergoing treatment. Illnesses examined using this approach include chronic fatigue syndrome, breast cancer, diabetes, and myocardial infarction.
Author: Myrtle J. Scott
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 0
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