Adolescent Health

Policy, Science, and Human Rights

William Boyce, Jennifer Roche, Diane Davies (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2009
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7735-3511-4 (ISBN)

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Uses the contemporary Canadian setting to illustrate the intersection of evidence and ethics in policy making. This book describe the social determinants of youth health (chronic conditions, ethnicity, family income, school and peer relationships) and youth health behaviours and outcomes (substance use, violence, sexual and physical activity).

Current policy initiatives that address the health of youth, a group where more than one set of developmental standards may apply, often are based on conflicting evidence. At the same time, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has provided an over-arching ethical framework with the goal of ensuring that all children and youth have equal human rights, regardless of their personal or family circumstances. How do these approaches coincide and are they working? In Adolescent Health a contemporary setting is used to illustrate the intersection of evidence and ethics in policy making. Individual chapters describe the social determinants of youth health (chronic conditions, ethnicity, family income, school and peer relationships) and youth health behaviours and outcomes (substance use, violence, sexual and physical activity). Within this broad landscape of youth health issues, the authors apply the human rights principles of the Convention to their research to illustrate the often competing frameworks of evidence and ethics. The underlying question is whether social policy, in the real world, depends on science or human rights.
Current knowledge translation practices are examined to detect the pathway most likely to influence youth health policy.

William Boyce is professor of community health and epidemiology and education and director of the Social Program Evaluation Group, Queen's University. Jennifer Roche, a writer and freelance consultant in Kingston, has been associated with producing a num

Contributors include Andy Anderson (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education), Emily Boyce (Simon Fraser), William Boyce (Queen's), Wendy Craig (Queen's), Lori J. Curtis (Waterloo), Louis Hugo Francescutti (University of Alberta), Ellen Jamieson (McMaster University), Angus MacMillan (McMaster), Harriet MacMillan (McMaster), Elaine Murkin (Canadian Institute of Child Health), Aileen Murphy (McCreary Centre), Debra Pepler (York), Colleen S. Poon (McCreary Centre), Christiane Poulin (Dalhousie), Irving Rootman (University of Victoria), Trevor Strome (University of Alberta), Roger S. Tonkin (McCreary Centre), Dawn Walker (Canadian Institute of Child Health), Christine Walsh (McMaster), and Cornelia Wieman (McMaster)

Zusatzinfo	28 tables
Verlagsort	Montreal
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	570 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-7735-3511-X / 077353511X
ISBN-13	978-0-7735-3511-4 / 9780773535114
Zustand	Neuware