Adolescent health
Subtitle: policy, science, and human rights
By: edited by William Boyce, Jennifer Roche, and Diane Davies
Contributors: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Social Program Evaluation Group
Publisher: Published for the Social Program Evaluation Group, Queen's University by McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780773535114; 9780773535251
Subjects: Human Rights; Youth; Health and hygiene; Government policy; Adolescent; Teenagers; Research; Policy Making; Health Policy; Santé et hygiène; Recherche; Politique gouvernementale; Health Status; Jeunesse; Adolescents
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Introduction; title: 1. Background to Health Policy-making / William Boyce; title: 2. Principled Policy-making: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child / Emily Boyce; title: 3. Evidence-based Policy-making: Adolescent Health Research / Irving Rootman and William Boyce; title: Pt. 2. Key Examples of Adolescent Health Research and Policy; title: 4. Socio-economic Status and the Health and Well-being of Youths in Canada / Lori J. Curtis; title: 5. Health Promotion through School Improvement / Andy Anderson and William Boyce; title: 6. Health and Well-being of Aboriginal Youths in Canada / Harriet MacMillan, Cornelia Wieman, Ellen Jamieson, Angus MacMillan and Christine Walsh; title: 7. Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Adolescence: Policy Implications of Early Age of Sexual Debut / Roger S. Tonkin, Aileen Murphy and Colleen S. Poon; title: 8. Substance Use: Harm Reduction and the Rights of the Canadian Adolescent / Christiane Poulin; title: 9. Responding to Bullying and Harassment: An Issue of Rights / Debra Pepler and Wendy Craig; title: 10. Injury and Youth: Scope of the Injury Problem and Implications for Policy / Trevor L. Strome and Louis Hugo Francescutti; title: Pt. 3. Policy Problems, Analysis, and Recommendations; title: 11. Improvements to the Policy Process to Increase Use of Evidence: Research Translation Examined / William Boyce; title: 12. Improvements to Research to Benefit Policy / William Boyce and Irving Rootman; title: 13. Application of the Convention on the Rights of the Child to Adolescent Health Policy / Emily Boyce and William Boyce; title: 14. Recommendations for Developing Adolescent Health Policy / William Boyce.