How Children Learn to be Healthy (Cambridge Studies on Child and Adolescent Health)

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. Exploring the ways in which children learn to be healthy, this book examines children's understanding of health, from early childhood through adolescence, and how it affects their behavior and actual physical health. The study scrutinizes the ways in which parents, other children, schools, media, and children's home and neighborhood influence children's health, attitudes and behavior. 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 Heart disease and cancer are the first and second leading causes of death in the United States.

this Book Explores The Ways In Which Children Learn To Be Healthy.