Tracing Early Interventions on Childhood Overweight: A Sociological Qualitative Study of Preventive Action on Overweight Among Pre-School Children of Diverse Ethnic Background in Denmark
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Tracing Early Interventions on Childhood Overweight : A Sociological Qualitative Study of Preventive Action on Overweight Among Pre-School Children of Diverse Ethnic Background in Denmark . / Ditlevsen, Kia.
Department of Food and Resource Economics, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 2015. 151 p.Research output: Book/Report › Ph.D. thesis › Research
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Tracing Early Interventions on Childhood Overweight
T2 - A Sociological Qualitative Study of Preventive Action on Overweight Among Pre-School Children of Diverse Ethnic Background in Denmark
AU - Ditlevsen, Kia
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This thesis presents results from a qualitative research project on early interventions to counter childhood obesity in Denmark. Overall, it was found that these interventions in families with preschool children were rarely performed. One barrier to the interventions is the structural setting in the Danish health care system, which was found to be insufficient to initiate and facilitate early interventions. In addition, cultural stereotypes were found to affect the health care practitioners who are performing early interventions, and this can create reluctance to address overweight problems in families with a non-western ethnic minority background and with low socioeconomic status. In families who participated in interventions, other social problems and a sense of insecurity caused by precarious living conditions of different kinds influenced the parents’ readiness to restrict children in order to enforce lifestyle changes.Overall, this thesis addresses issues of childhood obesity, inequality in health, health policy, individualization, racialized biases in health care, the role of health care practitioners and insecurity and health.
AB - This thesis presents results from a qualitative research project on early interventions to counter childhood obesity in Denmark. Overall, it was found that these interventions in families with preschool children were rarely performed. One barrier to the interventions is the structural setting in the Danish health care system, which was found to be insufficient to initiate and facilitate early interventions. In addition, cultural stereotypes were found to affect the health care practitioners who are performing early interventions, and this can create reluctance to address overweight problems in families with a non-western ethnic minority background and with low socioeconomic status. In families who participated in interventions, other social problems and a sense of insecurity caused by precarious living conditions of different kinds influenced the parents’ readiness to restrict children in order to enforce lifestyle changes.Overall, this thesis addresses issues of childhood obesity, inequality in health, health policy, individualization, racialized biases in health care, the role of health care practitioners and insecurity and health.
UR - https://soeg.kb.dk/permalink/45KBDK_KGL/fbp0ps/alma99122228699305763
M3 - Ph.D. thesis
BT - Tracing Early Interventions on Childhood Overweight
PB - Department of Food and Resource Economics, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen
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