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Health issues and adolescents : growing up, speaking out / Janet Shucksmith and Leo B. Hendry.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Shucksmith, Janet, 1953-
Other Authors: Hendry, Leo B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Series:Adolescence and society.
Subjects:
Health attitudes > Scotland.
Health attitudes.
Health behavior in adolescence > Scotland.
Health behavior in adolescence.
Teenagers > Attitudes.
Teenagers > Health and hygiene > Scotland.
Teenagers > Health and hygiene.
Teenagers > Scotland > Attitudes.
Scotland.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Young people's perceptions of their own health needs
  • 2. 'Giving a voice to children' : exploring young people's own agendas on health
  • 3. 'You look in all these magazines and you see all these supermodels.' : body image, appearance and health
  • 4. 'Down the Yoker' : the impact of localism on young people's health beliefs and actions
  • 5. 'I don't listen to everything she says.' : family influences on young people's health beliefs
  • 6. 'I sort of get pushed into things' : peer pressure and young people's beliefs in their own 'agency' with respect to health
  • 7. 'It's a balance' : young people speak out about health risk areas in their lives
  • 8. Conclusions : 'I'm not going to do anything stupid!'

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