Play and playfulness for public health and wellbeing

ISBN-13: 9781138541689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 214 str.

Alison Tonkin; Julia Whitaker

Opis

This innovative book makes a case for the role of play and playfulness in public health, focusing on the health and wellbeing benefits it confers. Drawing on a broad range of research evidence and practice experience, this book explores creative approaches for drawing society’s more vulnerable members in and for application across the lifespan.

Spis treści

1. Improving the public’s health through playful endeavours 2. The science of public health 3. Playing for a healthy brain 4. Playful connections: attachment at the start of life and beyond 5. Playful endings: making meaning at the end of life 6. Playing together: the art and science of relationships 7. Playful families 8. A playful childhood for all 9. The playful workplace 10. Playing in a digital world: the good, the bad and the possibilities 11. The playful environment 12. The art of public health 13. Playful policy 14. Inclusive play as means of accessing public health 15 Playful participation, engagement and empowerment