PART 1: THE CHILD IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY BRITAIN
Background and Context
Diane DeBell
Children and Young People’s Health: A Legal Context
Leslie Gelling
Difference and Diversity as Determinants of Health: Ethnicity, Gender and Disability
Simon Forrest and Theresa Nash
The Changing Landscape of Child Protection
June Thoburn
PART 2: THE CHILD IN THE FAMILY
Foundation Years: The Foundations of Health
Sarah Cowley
Approaches to Parenting
Maggie Fisher and Diane DeBell
PART 3: THE CHILD IN SCHOOL
The School as Location for Health Promotion
Diane DeBell and Margaret Buttigieg
PART 4: THE CHILD IN THE COMMUNITY
Young People, Leisure and Health
Simon Bradford and Yvonne McNamara
Vulnerable Children
Jane V. Appleton
PART 5: HEALTH QUESTIONS
Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Dawn Rees and Dinah Morley
The Child’s Perspective and Service Delivery
Index
Biography
Diane DeBell, Emeritus Professor, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge UK
"This book brings together experts from a range of disciplines and shows how a deeper insight into societal problems can help us to make a difference both in public policy and in the lives of individual troubled children."
—From the Foreword by Sir David Hall, Emeritus Professor of Community Paediatrics, University of Sheffield; and Honorary Professor of Paediatrics, University of Cape Town
