Play and playfulness for public health and wellbeing / Alison Tonkin & Julia Whitaker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Improving the public's health through playful endeavors / Julia Whitaker and Alison Tonkin -- Playing for a healthy brain / Alison Tonkin -- The science of public health / Alison Tonkin and Lisa Whiting -- The art of public health and the wisdom of play : articipation in the creative arts as a route to health and wellbeing / Eric Fleming and Julia Whitaker -- Playing together : the art and the science of relationships / Julia Whitaker and Alison Tonkin -- Play, attachment and the empathy-equity connection / Julia Whitaker -- Finding playfulness in the everyday : an antidote to the saturation of modern family life / Julia whitaker -- The playful pursuit of child public health / Jenni Etchells and Alison Tonkin -- Play, disability and public health / Claire Weldon and Alison Tonkin -- A playful working life and beyond / Christina Freeman and Alison Tonkin -- Playing in a digital world / Alison Tonkin -- A place for play : creating playful environments for health and wellbeing / Julia Whitaker and Alison Tonkin -- Playful policy / Rachel Bayliss and Alison Tonkin -- Playful endings : making meaning at the end of life / Julia Whitaker and Alison Tonkin.