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_id: '28343'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "<jats:title>Summary</jats:title>\r\n               <jats:p>As health concepts
    develop through exposure to, and experience with particular contexts, and as health
    concepts influence health behaviour, it is important for actors in health promotion
    programmes to understand an individual’s health concepts. This study focussed
    on health concepts among socially disadvantaged children in France, Germany, Italy
    and Switzerland—a hitherto less researched population group. We conducted focus
    groups with a total of 167 children aged 7–11 years (mean=8.76 years, SD=0.68).
    The aim of this study was to explore if the life situation across four different
    countries leads to similar health concepts, and how the particular, national health
    discourses are reflected in the children’s health concepts. The data were analysed
    through a structured qualitative content analysis and revealed four categories:
    ‘Symbols/symptoms of health/illness’, ‘Emotionality’, ‘Healthy/unhealthy practices’,
    and ‘Consequences of health problems’. The children’s health concepts are linked
    to concrete events and objects, and they are able to think in logical sequences.
    However, the children’s causal argumentation is uni-dimensional; they do not cover
    the complexity of the development of health problems. In particular, overweight
    stands for illness and is exclusively the result of unhealthy practices. In their
    concepts, the children reflect the national health promotion programme discourses
    about overweight. They seem to understand the messages of health education as
    ‘behaving well means being healthy’; however, such a health education message
    initiates accusations of ‘unhealthy persons’. In consequence, challenges for sensitive
    health education programmes (at school) are discussed.</jats:p>"
author:
- first_name: Elke
  full_name: Grimminger-Seidensticker, Elke
  id: '85816'
  last_name: Grimminger-Seidensticker
- first_name: Monica
  full_name: Aceti, Monica
  last_name: Aceti
- first_name: Sandrine
  full_name: Knobé, Sandrine
  last_name: Knobé
- first_name: Gilles
  full_name: Vieille Marchiset, Gilles
  last_name: Vieille Marchiset
citation:
  ama: Grimminger-Seidensticker E, Aceti M, Knobé S, Vieille Marchiset G. Health concepts
    among socially disadvantaged children in France, Germany and Switzerland. <i>Health
    Promotion International</i>. 2020;35:17-26. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/day099">10.1093/heapro/day099</a>
  apa: Grimminger-Seidensticker, E., Aceti, M., Knobé, S., &#38; Vieille Marchiset,
    G. (2020). Health concepts among socially disadvantaged children in France, Germany
    and Switzerland. <i>Health Promotion International</i>, <i>35</i>, 17–26. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/day099">https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/day099</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Grimminger-Seidensticker_Aceti_Knobé_Vieille Marchiset_2020, title={Health
    concepts among socially disadvantaged children in France, Germany and Switzerland},
    volume={35}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/day099">10.1093/heapro/day099</a>},
    journal={Health Promotion International}, author={Grimminger-Seidensticker, Elke
    and Aceti, Monica and Knobé, Sandrine and Vieille Marchiset, Gilles}, year={2020},
    pages={17–26} }'
  chicago: 'Grimminger-Seidensticker, Elke, Monica Aceti, Sandrine Knobé, and Gilles
    Vieille Marchiset. “Health Concepts among Socially Disadvantaged Children in France,
    Germany and Switzerland.” <i>Health Promotion International</i> 35 (2020): 17–26.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/day099">https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/day099</a>.'
  ieee: 'E. Grimminger-Seidensticker, M. Aceti, S. Knobé, and G. Vieille Marchiset,
    “Health concepts among socially disadvantaged children in France, Germany and
    Switzerland,” <i>Health Promotion International</i>, vol. 35, pp. 17–26, 2020,
    doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/day099">10.1093/heapro/day099</a>.'
  mla: Grimminger-Seidensticker, Elke, et al. “Health Concepts among Socially Disadvantaged
    Children in France, Germany and Switzerland.” <i>Health Promotion International</i>,
    vol. 35, 2020, pp. 17–26, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/day099">10.1093/heapro/day099</a>.
  short: E. Grimminger-Seidensticker, M. Aceti, S. Knobé, G. Vieille Marchiset, Health
    Promotion International 35 (2020) 17–26.
date_created: 2021-12-06T14:54:53Z
date_updated: 2024-08-13T13:28:23Z
department:
- _id: '17'
- _id: '174'
- _id: '320'
doi: 10.1093/heapro/day099
extern: '1'
intvolume: '        35'
language:
- iso: eng
page: 17-26
publication: Health Promotion International
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 0957-4824
  - 1460-2245
publication_status: published
status: public
title: Health concepts among socially disadvantaged children in France, Germany and
  Switzerland
type: journal_article
user_id: '85816'
volume: 35
year: '2020'
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