This book brings together new and leading scholars, who demonstrate the importance of research with children and from a child perspective, allowing for a fuller understanding of the meaning and impact of health and illness in children's lives.
Demonstrates the importance of research with children and research from a child perspective, in order to fully understand the meaning and impact of health and illness in children's lives Encourages critical reflection on contemporary health policy and its relationships to culturally specific ways of knowing and understanding children's health Brings together new and leading scholars in the field of children's health and illness Moves the highly important issue of children's health into the mainstream sociology of health and illness
Pages
168
Format
ebook
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Release
June 24, 2015
ISBN
111906953X
ISBN 13
9781119069539
Children, Health and Well-Being: Policy Debates and Lived Experience
This book brings together new and leading scholars, who demonstrate the importance of research with children and from a child perspective, allowing for a fuller understanding of the meaning and impact of health and illness in children's lives.
Demonstrates the importance of research with children and research from a child perspective, in order to fully understand the meaning and impact of health and illness in children's lives Encourages critical reflection on contemporary health policy and its relationships to culturally specific ways of knowing and understanding children's health Brings together new and leading scholars in the field of children's health and illness Moves the highly important issue of children's health into the mainstream sociology of health and illness