Children, Health and Well–being – Policy Debates and Lived Experience
Policy Debates and Lived Experience
Samenvatting
This book brings together new and leading scholars, who demonstrate the importance of research
with children and from a child perspective, allowing for a fuller understanding of the meaning and impact of health and illness in children s lives.
Demonstrates the importance of research with children and research from a child perspective, in order to fully understand the meaning and impact of health and illness in children s lives
Encourages critical reflection on contemporary health policy and its relationships to culturally specific ways of knowing and understanding children s health
Brings together new and leading scholars in the field of children s health and illness
Moves the highly important issue of children s health into the mainstream sociology of health and illness
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
<p>1 Connecting a sociology of childhood perspective with the study of child health, illness and wellbeing: introduction 1<br />Geraldine Brady, Pam Lowe and Sonja Olin Lauritzen</p>
<p>2 Where is the child? A discursive exploration of the positioning of children in research on mental health–promoting interventions 13<br />Disa Bergnehr and Karin Zetterqvist Nelson</p>
<p>3 Biologising parenting: neuroscience discourse, English social and public health policy and understandings of the child 27<br />Pam Lowe, Ellie Lee and Jan Macvarish</p>
<p>4 Obesity in question: understandings of body shape, self and normalcy among children in Malta 41<br />Gillian M. Martin</p>
<p>5 You have to do 60 minutes of physical activity per day . . . I saw it on TV : Children s constructions of play in the context of Canadian public health discourse of playing for health. 55<br />Stephanie A. Alexander, Caroline Fusco and Katherine L. Frohlich</p>
<p>6 Parents experiences of diagnostic processes of young children in Norwegian day–care institutions 69<br />Terese Wilhelmsen and Randi Dyblie Nilsen</p>
<p>7 The meaning of a label for teenagers negotiating identity: experiences with autism spectrum disorder 83<br />Lise Mogensen and Jan Mason</p>
<p>8 What am I living with? Growing up with HIV in Uganda and Zimbabwe 98<br />Sarah Bernays, Janet Seeley, Tim Rhodes and Zivai Mupambireyi</p>
<p>9 Food, risk and place: agency and negotiations of young people with food allergy 112<br />Marie–Louise Stjerna</p>
<p>10 Negotiating pain: the joint construction of a child s bodily sensation 126<br />Laura Jenkins</p>
<p>11 Understanding inter–generational relations: the case of health maintenance by children 140<br />Berry Mayall</p>
<p>Index 153</p>