Overview
- Covers family influences on health in childhood and throughout the life course
- Explores early biosocial influences on health
- Addresses the interactive effects of psychological, family, and social and environmental processes on children's health ?
- Focuses on social programs and policies
Part of the book series: National Symposium on Family Issues (NSFI)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Bio-Social Influences on Early Childhood Health
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Role of Family Dynamics in Children’s Health
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Link to the Social Environment Through Families
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Impact of Social Policies and Programs on Children’s Health
Keywords
- Child and Family Health
- Developing Family-friendly Policies
- Developmental origins of disease
- Emotional Security Theory
- Emotional insecurity and child health
- Family discord and child health
- Family dynamics and children's health
- Family-focused Prevention Interventions
- Health Care for Children
- Health Care in the U.S.
- Health disparities
- Impact of social policies on children's health
- Perspectives on Child Health
- Social Class and Child Health
- Social Policies and Child Health
- Socioeconomic disparities in child health
- Work-Family Research
- Work-family strain
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Susan McHale, Ph.D., is Director of the Social Science Research Institute and The Children, Youth, and Family Consortium and Professor of Human Development at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on children's and adolescents' family roles, relationships, and daily experiences and how these family dynamics are linked to youth development and adjustment.
Alan Booth, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Human Development & Family Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He has been a senior scientist in Penn State's Population Research Institute since 1991. Dr. Booth has co-organized the university's National Symposium of Family Issues since its inception in 1993. He is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles, four books, and editor of 16 volumes. He was editor of Journal of Marriage and The Family from 1985-1991. Dr. Booth directed a 20 year study of marital instability in a national sample of 2000 married persons. The project has been the basis for many studies on the causes of divorce, the effects of divorce on children's well-being, remarriage and step families, as well as the effects on psychological distress, educational achievement, romantic relationships and family formation of having a non-resident parent.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Families and Child Health
Editors: Nancy S. Landale, Susan M. McHale, Alan Booth
Series Title: National Symposium on Family Issues
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6194-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-6193-7Published: 02 February 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0219-4Published: 06 March 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-6194-4Published: 03 February 2013
Series ISSN: 2192-9157
Series E-ISSN: 2192-9165
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 232
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Family, Health Psychology, Public Health, Social Policy