Author: Marsha Lee BunkerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Preventive Health Behaviors in Families
Author: Marsha Lee BunkerPreventive Health Behaviors in the Family
Author: Keith NeergaardFamily Health Behaviors
Author: Itzik FadlonPublisher:
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Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This paper studies how health behaviors and investments are shaped through family spillovers. Leveraging administrative healthcare data, we identify the effects of health shocks to individuals on their family members' consumption of preventive care and health-related behaviors. Our identification strategy utilizes the timing of shocks to construct counterfactuals for affected households using households that experience the same shock but a few years in the future. We find that spouses and adult children immediately increase their health investments and improve their health behaviors in response to family shocks, and that these effects are both significant and persistent. Notably, we show that these spillover effects are far-reaching and cascade to siblings, stepchildren, sons and daughters in-law, and even "close" coworkers. While some responses are consistent with learning new information about one's own health, evidence from cases where shocks are likely uninformative points to salience as a major operative explanation. Our results underscore the importance of one's family and social network for models of health behaviors and have potential implications for policies that aim to improve population health.
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in the Family
Author: Karl BergmannPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110179316
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Our health system resembles a repair service which treats illness and suffering. But in many cases it would seem much simpler to avoid health problems. Why do we wait until the illnesses have developed? Young and expectant families are particularly interested in maintaining the health of their children and their whole family. Since prevention must begin long before the emergence of illness, there can be no better time to start than the beginning of life. This book presents a range of contributions that not only encourage theoretical reflection about the topics discussed but also provide practical suggestions.
Family Structure and Effective Health Behavior
Author: Lois VerVeer PrattPublisher:
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Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This book successfully closes the gap between two important systems whose relationship has as yet escaped a systematic analysis. The family has a major responsibility for its member’s health but due to both dysfunctional processes in its own functioning and that of the medical system its health activities are often ineffective. In this text--both theoretically and through a field study of families—the author assesses various factors that enable the family unit to organize and effectively carry out health care of its members. This thorough examination of health practices and the family points out practical ways in which the medical care system can be reorganized to make health care more constructive for both systems.
Family Energization and Preventive Health Behavior
Author: Samuel A. OyegbilePublisher:
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Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Parenting Matters
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309388570
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.
The Effects of Family and Public Health Education on Preventive Health Behavior
Author: David George McKeeFamily Lifestyle
Author: Amanda SmithPublisher: Independently Published
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Human behavior plays a central role in the maintenance of health and the prevention of disease. Growing evidence suggests that effective programs to change individual health behavior require a multifaceted approach to helping people adopt, change, and maintain behavior. For example, strategies for establishing healthy eating habits in children and adolescents might be quite ineffective for changing maladaptive eating behaviors-that is, when they are used to substitute one pattern for another-in the same population Health behaviors are actions individuals take that affect their health. They include actions that lead to improved health, such as eating well and being physically active, and actions that increase one's risk of disease, such as smoking, excessive alcohol intake, and risky sexual behavior. Family influences on the development of emotion can be seen in parenting practices, emotional family climate, and different emotional learning experiences. Particularly, supportive parenting and parental involvement play an important role in the development of emotional competence in adolescents. Family Health: "a state of positive interaction between family members which enables each members of the family to enjoy optimum physical, mental, social and spiritual well being." Models of behavior change have been developed to guide strategies to promote healthy behaviors and facilitate effective adaptation to and coping with illness. Several models for individual behavior change are reviewed here. 'Family Lifestyle' is written for parents who want to increase their health behavior in their marriage or relationship. For parents who believe and are committed to change their own behaviour in order to see a change in their life. For parents who want to be a better partner, to be a better parent, but most of all to be the best person they want to be. This book will give you insights and exercises to improve health behavior while being the best parent possible. To be a happier parent, to be a happier partner, to be in a happy 'Family' but ultimately to be the happiest person you want to be. Awareness is the first step to CHANGE.
Author: Andreas P. Kucher