Intergenerational learning about keeping health
A qualitative regional Australian study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22945225 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Judy Taylor (0000-0002-6761-095X, University of South Australia, corresponding author), Kay Price (0000-0002-3161-422X, University of South Australia), Annette Braunack-Mayer (0000-0003-4427-0224, The University of Adelaide), Matthew T Haren (0000-0003-2464-4364, University of South Australia), Ray Mcdermott (0000-0002-8952-4315, University of South Australia) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 361-368 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Promotion International (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-4824 • E-ISSN: 1460-2245 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/heapro/das068 |
| PMID | 23232088 |
| OpenAlex | W2163036443 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 18 |
Understanding the conditions under which families try to influence members' health-related practices can provide information to build concepts adding to models of health promotion. This paper reports on an exploratory qualitative study examining the influences of intergenerational relationships in shaping beliefs, knowledge and practices about health and illness in a regional Australian city. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 27 adults with family members of other generations living in the city, all of whom had experience of asthma. We found that overall people's experience of health and illness, particularly in childhood, was taken for granted and not reflected upon. It was in the face of serious illness or death of a family member that objective knowledge about health and illness was sought and integrated within the family leading, in most cases, to significant lifestyle changes or 'doing things differently'. We drew on Bourdieu's concept of the three forms of theoretical knowledge in analysing our findings. We found the concept of knowledge as 'primary taken-for-granted experience', and the concept of praxeological knowledge as the knowledge created by the dialectical relationships between an individual subject and objectives structures were helpful. To influence individual health practices, we need to acknowledge how the family context confirms the taken-for-granted health practices of an individual and the family circumstances that might lead families to seek objective knowledge and make lifestyle changes to promote health.
Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Aging and Gerontology Research · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Interpreting qualitative data
Health promotion and cervical cancer in South Africa
The Impact of Maternal Intergenerational Risk Factors on Adverse Developmental Outcomes
Values Expressed Through Intergenerational Family Food and Nutrition Management Systems Among African American Women
African American Women's Retrospective Perceptions of the Intergenerational Transfer of Gynecological Health Care Information Received From Mothers
Monitoring Inequities in Self-Rated Health Over the Life Course in Population Surveillance Systems
The influence of maternal intergenerational education on health behaviors of women in peri-urban Bolivia
Approaches to and Outcomes of Dyadic Interview Analysis
The impact of early twentieth century illegitimacy across three generations. Longevity and intergenerational health correlates
The three forms of theoretical knowledge
Social Space and Symbolic Power
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2020 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |