Children, health and well-being : policy debates and lived experience /

• Other Authors: Brady, Geraldine M. (Editor), Lowe, Pam (Editor), Olin-Lauritzen, Sonja (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Sociology of health and illness monographs.
• Subjects: Child welfare.; Children > Health and hygiene.; Child health services.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.; Electronic books.

"The book furthers theoretical understandings of the sociology of children's health and illness and encourages productive debate amongst a wide audience, including academics, policy makers, and health-care professionals"--

Table of Contents:

• Connecting a sociology of childhood perspective with the study of child health, illness and wellbeing: introduction
• Where is the child? A discursive exploration of the positioning of children in research on mental-health-promoting interventions
• Biologising parenting: neuroscience discourse, English social and public health policy and understandings of the child
• Obesity in question: understandings of body shape, self and normalcy among children in Malta
• 'You have to do 60 minutes of physical activity per day...I saw it on TV': Childrens constructions of play in the context of Canadian public health discourse of playing for health
• Parents experiences of diagnostic processes of young children in Norwegian day-care institutions
• The meaning of a label for teenagers negotiating identity: experiences with autism spectrum disorder
• What am I 'living' with? Growing up with HIV in Uganda and Zimbabwe
• Food, risk and place: agency and negotiations of young people with food allergy
• Negotiating pain: the joint construction of a child's bodily sensation
• Understanding inter-generational relations: the case of health maintenance by children.