Summary
Contents
Subject index
Using a life course approach, the main chapters in this truly original and enlightening text focus on health and well-being during each of our life stages. A wide range of contemporary literature from disciplines such as public health, sociology, epidemiology and social policy are drawn upon to examine key health and well-being issues in these stages, and to illustrate how health effects can accumulate across the life course. Interactive activities based on the text and on extracts from primary sources are used to encourage critical reflection and debate. Mary Larkin's book will be essential reading for students on the many courses that need an understanding of health and well-being across all age groups. It will also be an invaluable resource for those in the health and social care sector as well as practitioners working in the field.
Health and Well-Being in Childhood
Health and Well-Being in Childhood
Overview
- Introduction
- Children's health and well-being
- Life before childhood
- Risks to health and well-being during childhood
- Is it all down to the parents?
- Improving health and well-being in childhood
- Conclusions
- Summary
- Further study
Introduction
The concept of childhood is contestable; many point to the way that childhood varies historically, socially and culturally and argue that it is socially constructed. The complexity of such arguments is further compounded by the fact that ‘childhood’ can refer to a varying range of years in terms of cognitive, physical, social and emotional development (Beckett, 2009; Larkin, 2009). Whilst recognising these arguments as well as the sequential and critical nature of the developmental stages that take place in childhood, for the purposes of exploring health and well-being in childhood in this ...
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