How Children Learn to be Healthy

This book explores the ways in which children learn to be healthy.

Barbara J. Tinsley (Author)

9780521580984, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 November 2002

198 pages
23.6 x 15.7 x 1.9 cm, 0.426 kg

"A concise yet comprehensive review of the literature related to children's development of health beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.... For anyone interested in improving the health of children and thus, the nation. Recommended." Choice

The 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.

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.

Subject Areas: Psychiatry [MMH], Child & developmental psychology [JMC]