Childhood, health, and illness: Beliefs and behaviors of Urban American schoolchildren

Korbin, Jill E.; Zahorik, Pamela M.

doi:10.1080/01459740.1985.9965942

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“…Previous studies on child health have demonstrated that children have clear ideas on physical body functions (Geissler, 1998; Mitchell, 2006), healthy and unhealthy behaviours (James and James, 2004; Oakley and others, 1995), illness (Almarsdottir and Zimmer, 1998; Bir and Podmore, 1990) and medical procedures (Alderson and others, 2006; Bluebond‐Langner, 1978). Child‐focused research has demonstrated that children take active roles in the maintenance of their own health by self‐medicalising, refusing or seeking medical treatment, and negotiating decisions with family members and healthcare professionals (Bluebond‐Langner, 1978; Korbin and Zahorik, 1985). Furthermore, children know how to make themselves and their surroundings safer (Mitchell, 2006) and properly care for other children and adults who are ill (Foster and others, 1996; Robson, 2000).…”

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The Everyday Lives of Children with Cancer in Argentina: Going beyond the Disease and Treatment

Vindrola‐Padros

2011

Children & Society

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Most of the literature on paediatric oncology treatment has provided descriptions of children’s everyday lives that are circumscribed to periods of hospitalisation. In this paper, I argue that the political and economic context where children receive oncology treatment as well as the particular trajectories of their families influence their experiences. The narratives from children receiving treatment in three public hospitals in Buenos Aires, Argentina, were collected. Their stories indicate that issues such as the interruption of school, the separation of family members, the expenses incurred during treatment, and barriers to care influence the everyday lives of children and should be included in paediatric oncology research. © 2011 The Author(s). Children & Society © 2011 National Children’s Bureau and Blackwell Publishing Limited

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The Everyday Lives of Children with Cancer in Argentina: Going beyond the Disease and Treatment

Vindrola‐Padros

2011

Children & Society

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“…The neglect of the child's perspective in the study of parental migration is commonplace in the context of social sciences (Cahill ; Korbin and Zahorik ). After decades of uneven history of anthropological attention to children and childhood (Bluebond‐Langner and Korbin :241), there has been an increasing interest over the last 20 years on the part of anthropologists and social scientists in children as anthropological subjects and social actors, and in their voices and experiences.…”

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Parental Migration in Colombia: Children's Voices in National and International Perspectives

Duque-Páramo

2012

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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Resumen Asumiendo que los niños son al mismo tiempo actores y sujetos de fuerzas sociales, y que los niños en circunstancias migratorias son agentes que, aunque comparten algunas realidades con otros miembros de sus familias, viven sus propias experiencias, este artículo se centra en la discusión sobre las experiencias relacionadas con la migración parental de un grupo de niños en Bogotá y en dos municipios del Departamento de Risaralda. Se abordan tres temas relevantes en las discusiones nacionales e internacionales sobre migración parental: sus razones e impactos, los significados de la separación familiar y de la migración de la madre y las diversas representaciones sobre los niños. El artículo concluye con algunas recomendaciones para hacedores de políticas públicas, medios de comunicación, instituciones educativas, padres de familia y niños que viven situaciones de migración parental.

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Greek children's perception of illness and drugs

Trakas

1990

Pharmaceutisch Weekblad Scientific Edition

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The way in which drugs are used is a result of structural factors, such as the pharmaceutical market and the system of professional health care, and of ideological ones, such as definitions of health and sickness, and perceptions about drugs and symbolic meanings attached to them. The foundations for ideological factors related to drug use are suspected to be created in childhood through personal and culturally shaped experiences related to health and sickness, with implications for adult health and illness behaviour. It is therefore important to explore the perceptions that children themselves have of medications, including the role that they play in children's ideas about therapeutic measures to be taken when they are sick. Sixty healthy Greek children, aged six and seven years, were individually interviewed about drawings they had made depicting themselves the last time they had been sick or not felt well. The content of their narratives was analysed for references to medications according to words which they used (e.g., by general description, by type of medication, by brand name), the spontaneity of their responses, attitudes expressed about the necessity of drugs for recovery, and descriptions of the process of being sick (ideas of causation, necessary behavioural changes, therapeutic measures etc.). Almost half of the children depicted and described themselves as alone while sick, often feeling isolated or denied access to regular activity; medications were seen as a way to resume normal activities and responsibilities.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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Childhood, health, and illness: Beliefs and behaviors of Urban American schoolchildren

Cited by 6 publications

References 31 publications

The Everyday Lives of Children with Cancer in Argentina: Going beyond the Disease and Treatment

The Everyday Lives of Children with Cancer in Argentina: Going beyond the Disease and Treatment

Parental Migration in Colombia: Children's Voices in National and International Perspectives

Greek children's perception of illness and drugs

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