Overview

The importance of the issues surrounding public health can never be underestimated, and the significance of child health within the overall public health framework is of particular note. Professionals working with the school-age population are faced with a multitude of challenges particular to that age group, making the effective planning and implementation of appropriate public health strategies especially important. This ground-breaking book presents a jargon-free analysis of the key issues facing practitioners, policy-makers and other decision-makers whose role involves the individual and public health needs of school age children in Britain today. Covering all the contemporary public health issues, the book is organized around the perspective of the child, giving a real insight into the needs of the child and how the professional can best attend to them. Written by highly-regarded experts in public health, this book is an essential reference text for school and community nurses, health visitors, social workers, service managers and policy makers, and will also prove invaluable to all students on courses with a child health element.

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This RCN-accredited text is the only book that addresses the public health needs of children and young people, and is an up-to-date resource on contemporary public health issues.Written by experts in the field, it is an essential resource for school and community nurses, health visitors, social workers, service managers, policy makers and, of course, students on child health programmes. It is an important, comprehensive and ground-breaking book, focusing on the child's perspective, with solutions for health and social care professionals. -- Susan Hopkins, Royal College of Nursing Newsletter (This) is an excellent book, well referenced with some very original perspectives on health practice for the school age population ... I do hope that this text will become compulsory reading in all schools of nursing. -- Dr Mitch Blair, Public Health The book is an engaging and motivating read, succintly summarising the challenges with which practitioners must grapple, the directions and principles indicated by research, and the consequences for young people and public health if they fail. -- Jennifer Gibb, Children & Society, 2008

This RCN-accredited text is the only book that addresses the public health needs of children and young people, and is an up-to-date resource on contemporary public health issues.Written by experts in the field, it is an essential resource for school and community nurses, health visitors, social workers, service managers, policy makers and, of course, students on child health programmes. It is an important, comprehensive and ground-breaking book, focusing on the child's perspective, with solutions for health and social care professionals. -- Susan Hopkins, Royal College of Nursing Newsletter (This) is an excellent book, well referenced with some very original perspectives on health practice for the school age population ... I do hope that this text will become compulsory reading in all schools of nursing. -- Dr Mitch Blair, Public Health The book is an engaging and motivating read, succintly summarising the challenges with which practitioners must grapple, the directions and principles indicated by research, and the consequences for young people and public health if they fail. -- Jennifer Gibb, Children & Society, 2008

Author Information

Diane DeBell, BA (Hons), MA, PhD, FRSA, is Director of the Centre for Research in Health and Social Care at Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford and Cambridge, UK.

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