The capacity of children to act as agents is being increasingly recognized and has important
implications for health research and practice. However, there are various discrepancies in …

The idea that children are active and influential agents in family life, has slowly gained
acceptance since the 1970Ls when researchers recognized that the causal effects of …

We examine children's perceptions of the strategies they would use to resolve community
health problems. Qualitative analysis using a grounded theory approach showed that 9-to …

Background We know that the social conditions in which children live exert a strong
influence on their health; yet, we do not know how children's experience of these conditions …

Although participation is not a new issue, it would be fair to say that consequential
participation, which implies young people engaging in meaningful dialogue with adults and …

Traditional perspectives in the study of childhood health and illness emphasize the child as
a subject 'acted upon by others'. 1 Most research interests have primarily considered adults' …

Background In the UK, there is a growing recognition of the need to include children's
accounts in research on paediatric health care. This paper seeks to examine ways in which …

There is growing recognition amongst child health care practitioners of children's rights to be
informed about their condition and treatment, and to be actively involved in decisions …

This chapter focuses on concepts and theoretical points of departure found in child health
and wellbeing studies. Firstly, seeing children as a social group draws attention to the ways …

This book critically reviews the innovative approach to health education known as Child-to-
Child, now being used in over 80 countries. This approach advocates children being seen …