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How children learn to be healthy / Barbara J. Tinsley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International studies on child and adolescent healthPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2003.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 181 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511499807
  • 0511499809
  • 0511065787
  • 9780511065781
  • 0511181094
  • 9780511181092
  • 9780511067914
  • 0511067917
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: How children learn to be healthy.DDC classification:
  • 613/.0432 22
LOC classification:
  • RA776.9 .T54 2003eb
NLM classification:
  • 2003 B-083
  • WS 105
Online resources:
Contents:
Mechanisms and consequences of socializing children to be healthy -- Children's health understanding and behavior -- Parents' health beliefs -- Parents' promotion of their children's health -- Parents' promotion of their children's sexual health -- Peers, schools, and children's health -- How television viewing and other media use affect children's health -- The social ecology of children's health socialization -- Summary and conclusions.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mechanisms and consequences of socializing children to be healthy -- Children's health understanding and behavior -- Parents' health beliefs -- Parents' promotion of their children's health -- Parents' promotion of their children's sexual health -- Peers, schools, and children's health -- How television viewing and other media use affect children's health -- The social ecology of children's health socialization -- Summary and conclusions.

Print version record.

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.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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