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The science of a good childhood a review of Volume 2 of the Journal of Children's Services

The science of a good childhood a review of Volume 2 of the Journal of Children's Services This article reviews the contents of the previous year's editions of the Journal of Children's Services Volume 2, 2007, as requested by the Journal's editorial board. It draws out some of the main messages for how highquality scientific research can help build good childhoods in western developed countries, focusing on the need for epidemiology to understand how to match services to needs how research can build evidence of the impact of prevention and intervention services on child wellbeing what the evidence says about how to implement proven programmes successfully the economic case for proven programmes the urgency of improving children's material living standards how to help the most vulnerable children in society and, lastly, the task of measuring child wellbeing. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Children s Services Emerald Publishing

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Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
Copyright © Emerald Group Publishing Limited
ISSN
1746-6660
DOI
10.1108/17466660200800026
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Abstract

This article reviews the contents of the previous year's editions of the Journal of Children's Services Volume 2, 2007, as requested by the Journal's editorial board. It draws out some of the main messages for how highquality scientific research can help build good childhoods in western developed countries, focusing on the need for epidemiology to understand how to match services to needs how research can build evidence of the impact of prevention and intervention services on child wellbeing what the evidence says about how to implement proven programmes successfully the economic case for proven programmes the urgency of improving children's material living standards how to help the most vulnerable children in society and, lastly, the task of measuring child wellbeing.

Journal

Journal of Children s ServicesEmerald Publishing

Published: Jul 10, 2008

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