Women's concepts, beliefs and practices related to the health of their infants and young children: a sociological study

人们经常争辩说，父母应该负起责任，促进孩子的最佳健康和发展。然而，关于婴幼儿的父母是如何定义与孩子相关的“健康”概念的，他们采取了哪些步骤来促进最佳的健康和发展，他们是如何对这些步骤做出决定的，他们使用了什么信息来源，他们可能会遇到什么困难，他们需要什么帮助，人们对此知之甚少。从拟议的项目中得出的对这些现象的见解有可能为旨在促进和保持早年健康的政策和方案提供信息。

It has been frequently argued that parents should take responsibility for promoting optimal health and development in their children. Little is known, however, about how parents of infants and young children conceptualise 'good health' in relation to their children, what steps they take to promote optimal health and development, how they make decisions about these steps, what sources of information they use, what difficulties they may encounter and what help they need. Insights into these phenomena derived from the proposed project have the potential to inform policy and programs directed at promoting and maintaining good health in the early years of life.