Children, Health And Well-Being eBook

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