In this chapter we draw on our work with young people and families to explore the utility of
poststructural theoretical resources in understanding engagement with health imperatives …

This paper reports on an exploratory study with low income young people that sought to
explore the discourses on which they drew their understandings about health and whether …

'Health'has become a major concern of policy makers internationally in recent years,
especially where and when it is reduced to a measurable and, therefore, comparable …

Health reportage in New Zealand's popular and professional media regularly features large,
avowedly inactive, indigenous and/or 'poor'people failing to nurture their children properly …

This chapter builds on recent theoretical developments in sociological and feminist theory to
pursue non-foundational or non-dualist approaches to studying the body beyond the 'human …

In recent years, approaches to school-based health policy in western society havemoved
ever closer to particular regimes of accountability and surveillance (Evans, Rich, Davies, & …

Recent work in human geography has begun to explore the fluidity of bodily boundaries and
to foreground the connectedness of bodies to other bodies/objects/places. Across multiple …

The topic of this article is the classed formation of health lifestyles in youth. Based on
longitudinal interview data (41 youths, 17 of their parents) from two contrasting class …

In this article, we discuss findings of an ethnographic exploring how Canadian youth frame
health within the context of their life situations. Seventy-one youth (12 to 19 years of age) …

Purpose–To explore the importance of joining up and making the links between different
topic areas within health education, as well as the importance of working effectively with key …