Children, health and well-being: policy debates and lived experiences

Geraldine Brady; Pam Lowe; Sonja Olin Lauritzen

doi:10.1002/9781119069522

Children, health and well-being: policy debates and lived experiences

Geraldine Brady^* (Editor), Pam Lowe (Editor), Sonja Olin Lauritzen (Editor)

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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

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Chirchester (UK)
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Number of pages	168
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-119-06952-2
ISBN (Print)	978-1-119-06951-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119069522
Publication status	Published - Sept 2015

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Name	Sociology of health and illness monographs
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
No.	2
Volume	37

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