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?
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 362.10835/0971
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
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- 9780773575738 9780773535114
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- RJ103.C3
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- A36 2009eb
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- 1 electronic text (xiv, 289 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00225569 (OCoLC)713186594 (CaOOCEL)432786
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Tables and figures 10
- Preface 14
- Acknowledgments 16
- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION 18
- 1 Background to Health Policy-making 20
- 2 Principled Policy-making: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 30
- 3 Evidence-based Policy-making: Adolescent Health Research 38
- PART TWO: KEY EXAMPLES OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH RESEARCH AND POLICY 50
- 4 Socio-economic Status and the Health and Well-being of Youths in Canada 52
- 5 Health Promotion through School Improvement 84
- 6 The Health and Well-being of Aboriginal Youths in Canada 111
- 7 Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Adolescence: Policy Implications of Early Age of Sexual Debut 143
- 8 Substance Use: Harm Reduction and the Rights of the Canadian Adolescent 169
- 9 Responding to Bullying and Harassment: An Issue of Rights 190
- 10 Injury and Youth: Scope of the Injury Problem and Implications for Policy 214
- PART THREE: POLICY PROBLEMS, ANALYSIS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS 238
- 11 Improvements to the Policy Process to Increase Use of Evidence: Research Translation Examined 240
- 12 Improvements to Research to Benefit Policy 257
- 13 Application of the Convention on the Rights of the Child to Adolescent Health Policy 266
- 14 Recommendations for Developing Adolescent Health Policy 294
- Index 304
- A 304
- C 304
- D 305
- E 305
- F 305
- G 305
- H 305
- I 305
- M 305
- N 305
- O 305
- P 305
- S 306
- U 306
