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

Keywords:

Children and young people, Health and wellbeing, Parenting, Public health policy, Social policy, Sociology of health and illness, Inter-generational relations, Identity, Illness experiences, Health care practice, Risk, Patient/professional health relationships, Lay health understandings, Child development, Diagnosis, Mental health, Pregnancy, Obesity, Physical Activity, ADHD, Autism, HIV/Aids, Pain, Food allergy

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Children and young people, Health and wellbeing, Parenting, Public health policy, Social policy, Sociology of health and illness, Inter-generational relations, Identity, Illness experiences, Health care practice, Risk, Patient/professional health relationships, Lay health understandings, Child development, Diagnosis, Mental health, Pregnancy, Obesity, Physical Activity, ADHD, Autism, HIV/Aids, Pain, Food allergy

, Sociology of Health & Illness